Thread by @nekojitayoongi

a short #yoonjinau where campus sweetheart kim seokjin is paired with loner min yoongi on their shared creative writing class—only for seokjin to find out he is actually agust d, his favorite musician who he's followed for years

profiles:

yoongi (24) is an indie musician who started out as an underground rapper but has since delved into genres other than hip hop. he is getting a degree in music theory and modern composition just because he wanted to study under one of the professors at this one college

seokjin (25) university junior. he's still in college because he did his military service after graduating high school, then spent a whole year undecided on what to declare as his major. has been a fan of agust d since he performed as gloss in small bars in hongdae circa 2016

pretty sure this will be a socmed ans threadfic mix!

prompted by this tweet because i've got ✨️over 300 followers✨️

https://twitter.com/teteshoppe/status/1649485483053928468?t=8km7-VD-2FgvJm9e4F0v6w&s=19

starting soon!

okay let's get it

1. seokjin is not really a low profile person.

he has known, ever since he was in middle school and his peers started actually paying attention to others' physical appearances, that he is not average looking.

he's way beyond "average" in looks, actually, even if he says so himself.

but he has always been extremely shy. it wasn't until he started college that his social skills properly flourished—even if just slightly, and a lot thanks to his acting ability.

but being a drama major in an arts-focused university means he attracts a lot of attention.

𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 of attention.

so seokjin, despite his inner awkwardness and his introverted nature, is one of the popular guys™.

and now that he has his hair dyed platinum blonde (don't ask, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 don't ask), he has literally zero chance of 𝘯𝘰𝘵 standing out in a crowd.

he doesn't really mind, though. being with his friends out in public means that he will attract attention no matter what, so he has learned to just—roll with it.

(sometimes he finds it ironic that he's majoring in drama and aims to act in theatre, literally being the center of attention on stage, but it makes 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 to him, alright?)

also, for some reason seokjin can't fully comprehend, he is considered the school's #1 heartthrob. and his status is only ever blown out of proportion because—well. seokjin doesn't really date.

so he knows people fawn over him. he knows there are literal dozens of them who would readily jump at the opportunity to take him on a date.

he knows he's handsome, and he doesn't have a 𝘣𝘢𝘥 personality, and he always tries to be nice. someone even asked him once if he was aiming to become an idol.

but really, he doesn't understand the hype around himself.

he's just a guy.

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4. [the next morning]

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6. he kinda....

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8. yoongi!

9. he doesn't talk to people !!!

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11. oddly specific

12. oh shit

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15. the guy sitting next to him is making seokjin nervous.

not in a bad way, really.

it's just—he's really hot.

which is 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 to say, considering he can't see half his face because of the black mask he's wearing.

he thought he looked like a cat because of the shape of his eyes, which blinked sleepily up at him when seokjin first approached the seat. he didn't see the usual heat behind his eyes he so often does, but whether or not it's because the guy was half asleep—well, he doesn't know.

he 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 know he has a thin build but broad shoulders just because of his hoodie. the skinny jeans he's wearing have twin rips right above the knee, and the pale skin attracts seokjin's eyes like a magnet.

the hands, though—it's the hands that won him over. the guy doesn't look much taller than seokjin himself, if even, but the hands could easily engulf seokjin's own.

seokjin isn't usually like this.

there's something about this stranger, dressed in all black, with a black mask covering his face and long-ish dark messily pulled back, that's drawing him in. inexplicably.

he doesn't even know what his voice sounds like.

seokjin is not the type to feel this kind of attraction towards a stranger, which is pretty much the number one reason why he's been single since forever.

he doesn't feel the "spark" people describe so easily, and if he does it's someone he already knows. someone he's close to.

people usually don't 𝘨𝘦𝘵 that close to him, though. not really.

he has his friends, of course, but jungkookie is his baby and taehyungie and jiminie are—seokjin doesn't even know. he just knows he would never feel that way towards them.

and—why is he even thinking about this again?

the professor's voice pulls seokjin out of his thoughts, and he realizes he has been ignoring her for at least the past thirty minutes. (oops.)

"you'll have to pick someone to pair up with, and that person will be your partner for the collaborative projects during the whole semester."

seokjin gulps. curses his life and all his personal, professional and educational choices that led him to this very moment. then curses some more.

he doesn't know anyone in this class.

he's pretty sure they know 𝘩𝘪𝘮, though, and he doesn't want to risk his entire semester by accidentally picking someone with less-than-innocent ulterior motives.

then he remembers his seat neighbor's cat eyes, and makes a snap decision.

"hey," he says. tries to. his voice comes out scratchy from the lack of use (and lack of coffee), which makes his ears burn. he clears his throat and tries again. "hey."

"... hey," the stranger says. his voice is much deeper than seokjin expected, even though he doesn't know what he expected in the first place. he's turned his head to face him properly, and seokjin can now appreciate his delicately sharp eyes better.

(god, he sounds like a creep.)

"um."

"do you want to partner up?" the stranger beats him to it. "i don't know anyone in this class."

"oh, me neither." the stranger's voice makes his skin tingle. (why does it sound so familiar?) seokjin wants to cringe and disappear from the face of earth. "uh, i'm kim seokjin."

"min yoongi."

"nice to meet you, min yoongi."

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19. another day

20. omg

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25. (translation is from: doolsetbangtan.wordpress.com/2018/06/01/the…)

i also want to say that the agust d in this au has released the albums with their names and overall the same ~concepts~ but obviously not all the lyrics etc are the same

26. also also this au happens in march bc they literally just started the semester in uni

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28. seokjin replies!

29. worth a shot

30. thank you tae ur a real one

31. attempter m*rder

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33. can u feel their awkwardness bc i can

34. seokjin doesn't think about messaging min yoongi (a.k.a. agust d) at all during the following days.

of course not.

(haha.)

just kidding. he has to mentally fight the urge to open their conversation and send him a new text at least fifteen times a day. once he even left his phone in another room because the temptation was too big.

he doesn't have any reason to text min yoongi. they don't have any projects assigned yet and it's not like they hit it off when they first talked (because apparently neither is that good with people? seokjin doesn't know) so it would be out of left field and come off as weird.

seokjin doesn't want agust d to think he's a weirdo.

so he determinedly doesn't text him (and doesn't get a text from him either) and tries to psych himself up before his next creative writing class so he's ready to woo min yoongi and become his friend.

seokjin isn't really good at making friends either.

acquaintances, yeah, and casual 'friends' are also alright, but he wants a more meaningful connection with min yoongi, and not just because he's agust d.

he wants to know what got him studying in this university, of all the universities with music programs he could've attended. or none at all, since he has already proven himself to be able to make beautiful music without the help of traditional institutions.

he feels like he knows a lot about min yoongi thanks to agust d and his lyrics, but he also doesn't know him at all.

and he wants to.

seokjin just hopes he 𝘤𝘢𝘯.

———

walking in the classroom the second time is way worse than the first time, last week.

despite being only 7:20, half the people in there are extremely chipper.

and extremely eager to talk to him.

seokjin spots yoongi in the back corner of the classroom, just like last time, and mentally prepares himself to sort through the dozen people starting to form a small crowd in front of him.

he greets them all, they introduce themselves, and seokjin curses the professor for not being in time because he has to excuse himself without a plausible excuse.

or, maybe he does have one.

"sorry, i'd love to keep chatting but my friend is waiting for me," he says, smiling apologetically. he waves in the general direction of yoongi and shurgs, making his way between the people in front of him.

if he power walks until he's reached the row of seats yoongi is sitting at, well, no one has to know.

"hi," he says, voice coming louder than he intended. seokjin cringes when he realizes he's speaking in his 'people-pleasing' voice still.

min yoongi looks half-startled, half-asleep when he looks at him, blinking owlishly. there's a thermos sitting on his desk, and seokjin would bet it's filled with coffee and not water despite being about 500ml.

he's once again wearing a black face mask, also dressed in all black, but this time he lets his hair fall messily down to his eyes instead of pushing it back like the week before.

(he really shouldn't look that good at 7:30 in the morning while half-asleep, but seokjin is the last person who should be saying that.)

"hi," yoongi says back, his voice sounding even deeper than seokjin remembered. seokjin smiles at him as he sits down on the seat next to him.

he's once again surprised that the look yoongi gives him is just that—a look. seokjin has become really good at spotting people who just want to sleep with him, and it's usually the eyes that give them away. the heat behind their gaze as they look at him.

he doesn't notice anything such as that in yoongi's eyes, which only cements his decision of befriending him.

he knows it may not be the best idea, considering he's half in love with his musician persona already, but seokjin doesn't care.

"how was your week?" he asks, dropping any formality in his speech. he's older than him, he can do that.

"uh... busy," yoongi replies. "but not more than normal."

seokjin hums, trying to think of something to keep the conversation going. it's not usually this hard for him.

"did you perform this saturday? i usually have the time to go to live bars on the weekends but i couldn't this time."

"you do?" yoongi sounds surprised. seokjin raises an eyebrow at him.

"yes, i've told you. i would be your personal groupie if i could."

yoongi makes a choking noise. seokjin smiles victoriously.

"sorry. i don't mean to, uh, make assumptions, but you don't look like—" he gestures vaguely with one of his hands. "like i'd find you in that crowd."

"don't be sorry, i get that a lot," seokjin says, shrugging. "and i get that—my hair really stands out in a crowd."

seokjin is 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 yoongi just laughed.

"that's what i was thinking, too. i really would remember if i saw you."

"ah, i usually go full disguise mode when i'm at the live bars. i don't really want people hitting on me," he admits. seokjin is surprised he even did that, most of the time you would have to rip personal confessions from his cold, dead hands.

yoongi hums, and it makes seokjin's chest vibrate. they're way closer than he thought they were sitting.

"does that happen to you a lot?"

"only every time i step outside." seokjin tries to joke, but his smile feels more like a grimace to him.

"that sucks when you don't want that kind of attention."

yoongi grabs his thermos then, pulling down his face mask.

seokjin chokes on air, but does his best to hide it.

"please warn a guy next time," he says weakly when yoongi puts the thermos back down.

"what?" yoongi asks. he looks criminally cute when he's confused.

"please think of my heart, please, mr. d."

yoongi cringes so much it makes seokjin laugh.

"please never call me that again."

35. gasp they're tweeting while in class

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38. now yoongi's side

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41. someone said they couldn't wait for seokjin's contact for yoongi to be changed to 'mr. D' but i'll just say . there is Not a single universe in which seokjin changes people's contact in his phone 😭

he still has the boys as "bighit [name]" irl as far as im concerned !

42. also we're skipping a lot okay u should know how it is by now

[saturday]

43. bribery

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47. we're still moving forward!

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49. this is an accidental wordplay im not rly proud of but WE ROLL

50. you remember when i said this would be a short au? yeah me neither

51. oho?

52. also just for the record yoonjin don't Like like each other yet . it's a budding (friendly) relationship!

53. more days go by

54. ...

55. another creative writing class

56. sap

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61. it's been a month and a half since seokjin and yoongi have known each other, and for the first time ever they're meeting for something other than a creative writing assignment.

(not even the few times seokjin went to see him perform live were an actual hangout—at first because seokjin got 𝘸𝘢𝘺 too hammered and had to leave early, then because yoongi was whisked away by some acquaintances who dragged him to an after party.

seokjin has never heard so many complaints about a lighting fixture in his life, which is what high-yoongi texted him about the entire night.)

today, they're hanging out together at the little café seokjin likes.

it's a saturday afternoon, and they're just studying together because midterms are coming and they both are taking theorerical classes this semester.

seokjin has just wrapped rehearsals thirty minutes ago, and he texted yoongi out of habit. but, turns out, yoongi was already in the area (more specifically, at the campus library) and desperately needed a reason to ditch his sorry excuse for a study partner.

he then spent the first ten minutes they were together, waiting in line to order their coffees, bitching about this one classmate who glued himself to him as soon as he saw him at the library earlier, and just—wouldn't take a hint.

"seriously, hyung, if someone doesn't even look at you and barely even hums in response to whatever nonsense you're saying you 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 realize they don't want to talk to you. and 𝘸𝘩𝘰 even tries to hold a conversation in a 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 of all places!

i hate people. he's from a first year class i'm taking, too. he's a 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥!"

even the girl behind the bar let out a laugh at that.

seokjin could only think about how cute yoongi looked during his angry tirade. his lips were pouty the entire time, and the best part is that he didn't even seem to realize.

so now here they are, sitting at a table tucked in one of the corners, the soft afternoon sun pouring through the window next to them.

seokjin has been trying to read a paragraph of the book he has to learn for his exam for the past ten minutes, with no luck. he periodically lifts his gaze to watch yoongi for a second, and every time he does he sees him immersed in his own notes.

seokjin admires that, and is also extremely jealous.

(he's also acutely aware of the fact that yoongi sticks his tongue out when he's focused.)

he still wills himself into paying attention to what he has to study. it somehow works the tenth time around, and he makes considerable progress in his reading.

his concentration is broken, however, when he feels a gaze on him. he looks up, confused, and sees yoongi staring at him with his mouth hanging sligthly open.

the look in his eyes is not one seokjin has ever seen, and he can't start deciphering it right now.

"uh..." he says, feeling heat climbing up his neck, to his ears. "what's—is something wrong?" he asks.

this has to be one of his least eloquent moments.

yoongi takes a few minutes to reply, but his eyes never leave seokjin. they're way more intense than what he's used to. seokjin is used to soft, sleepy yoongi, maybe annoyed sometimes. this is a completely different beast.

seokjin has never been on the front row of an agust d performance before, always preferring to hang out in the back or by the bar, but he's almost positive the intensity must be quite similar.

"your voice..." yoongi says, then stops. he seems to go back to himself, even if slightly. seokjin can see a lot more of the emotions behind his eyes, but doesn't know if he 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥.

"you have a really nice voice," he ends up saying. seokjin turns even redder, if possible.

"i was singing?" seokjin cringes. he hadn't even realized. but he's not really surprised—he usually studies with music.

𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘥'𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤.

"um... you were singing so far away," yoongi says. the expression on his face is a mix of awed, touched, embarrassed... and something seokjin can't quite figure out.

"oh my god." is the first thing seokjin manages to say. "please forget my entire existence."

yoongi smiles at that, part of his gums showing. seokjin's heart does something 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦.

"i think i'd rather not."

his chest does yet another weird thing. so seokjin decides to play his trump card: deflection.

"i should've known you were a brat the moment i met you, yah, how dare you go against your very own 𝘩𝘺𝘶𝘯𝘨'𝘴 wishes?" he exclaims, indingnant. he really hopes his ears aren't as red anymore, because that's a deae giveaway of just how embarrassed he actually is.

but yoongi is not having any of it.

"hyung," he says. he's still smiling, but it has turned into a smaller, shier smile. "you don't have to be embarrassed." (so he 𝘩𝘢𝘥 seen right through him—not that is was hard, but still.) "i'm just... i know you like my music, but—"

he huffs slightly, one hand busy playing with the dangling earring on his pierced ear. "hearing you sing one of my songs... even if it eas under your breath and you probably didn't even mean to do it... it just made me really happy."

seokjin's heart decidedly backflips off his chest.

𝘰𝘩.

he's eally, truly, in love with min yoongi.

62. i'd say i'm sorry but i'm not really 🤪

63. gotta confess , i'm the kind of person who types words like that (arg twt's fault)

64. i probably should've put a cw for mentions of alcohol & recreational drugs at the beginning but IN MY DEFENSE i didnt even know i'd include that in the story

65. i did namjoon so dirty in this au, apologies

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68. ooop

69. hehe

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71. out with it !

72. the reactions

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76. okay . FINALLY .

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78. we love a self aware man !

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82. o h

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86. 💙💛 (momento boke)

bonus:

bonus bonus (a week later):

this is officially DONE 🤩

also a little easter egg for everyone here .... yoonjin are both aro/acespec coded in this au lol idk if u noticed ! it was sort of accidental but not really at first so i just rolled with it

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