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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 27, 2020 19:06:31 GMT -8
Elena clapped excitedly, "unnie, you dance like a fairy! So pretty!" she grabbed Hayun's hands and spun her around.
"You have a ballet-ish background right?" she asked. She could tell their styles were very different but she was slowly coming to realize that this was probably going to make their group even more dynamic.
"Bring on the random competitions, we all know so much about a huge range of things JBN will be amazing!" she bounced up and down.
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 27, 2020 19:37:00 GMT -8
Hayun nodded and said, "Yeah, I did some ballet, mostly modern, and some jazz and pop dance. But my main background in all of them was training for figure skating."
She didn't want to think about that too hard, and she made a little face, but shook it off. She'd found this, and she loved this, and it's not like figure skating was something that she could go back to.
She asked, trying to bring back her amused mood, "Have you ever seen the competition that gets done on variety shows sometimes where they have people do the splits with their feet touching the next person's and see how much distance they can cover? JBN's going to be really good at that, Seojin-unnie and Anya and I can all do the splits, and I've got really long legs, if you can too, that will be two people with really long legs who can do the splits."
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 27, 2020 19:43:52 GMT -8
Elena nodded, "I can do the splits too, so we're gonna do great!"
"Figure skating? Is that where you got the scar on your wrist?" she asked casually, only realizing after she asked that this might be one of those questions Seojin had been talking about that she shouldn't just ask.
"Sorry, that came out wrong," she rolled up her pant legs, showing her knees and the scars there, "I used to do gymnastics and tore my ACL two different times. I had to get knee replacements, which is why I almost never wear shorts or dresses without tights or something on underneath."
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 27, 2020 19:58:38 GMT -8
Hayun was starting to smile as Elena confirmed that she could do the splits, but as the conversation veered not just to figure skating, but the scars, her face fell.
She replied in a small voice, trying to keep it steady, "Yeah, I... I broke a lot of bones, and stopped being able to skate. It was a few years ago now. I'd been on the national novice team before that."
She figured that it would be better if Elena knew, but it was hard not to think about it now. Things were intense with getting ready for debut, and it meant that her emotions were a little less steady in general. She closed her eyes and thought really hard about all the good things, getting in to Dreams Ent, singing, having friends like Shieon-unnie and Seojin-unnie to work with, that she'd found something else to do and love doing. She felt her breath steadying a little bit as she did that.
After it did, she opened her eyes and gave Elena an attempt at a smile. She said, "I should probably get better about talking about it. Someone's going to ask me about it in an interview at some point."
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 27, 2020 20:06:33 GMT -8
Elena's eyes widened, she hadn't known it was going to be such a tender subject for Hayun. She wrapped the older girl in a hug, "I'm sorry, I'm really not good at keeping my mouth shut. I ask things that are fairly inappropriate, I'm sorry."
She squeezed Hayun tighter, "I'm glad you're here with us now. JBN is lucky to have you. And if someone asks, I can jump in and show off my scars instead. I don't like them, but I don't have the same reaction as you, so I'll definitely take some of the attention off you if it ever comes up."
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 27, 2020 20:36:50 GMT -8
Hayun sniffled a little bit, hugging Elena back, not entirely sure that she understood the other girl's thought process, but grateful that she seemed to understand that a topic like this was hard. She said softly, "It could come up too much, I hope. Anyone who's really curious could go look up the news articles, or even the video footage if they really wanted, but I don't know why they would."
She had made that mistake once, wondering if it was really as bad as she'd remembered. It had been. She'd not done that again.
She added softly, "And that's really nice of you, but you don't have to distract from my discomfort with something with your own discomfort. I'm sure that there are many other ways that you could distract from something like that, even just by being you. And I should probably let Seojin-unnie and the manager know that I'm worried about questions about it so that that can something that they screen for when looking at interview questions."
She gave Elena a little smile, slightly better this time, and said, "But we're here to practice singing. We should do more of that. Maybe something like a little game? Just to get us back on track. Something that we might get asked to do on variety shows like seeing how high we can go, or singing songs without warning what we're going to get."
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 27, 2020 20:45:04 GMT -8
Elena waited until Hayun seemed like she wanted to be let go before letting go. "I don't mind distracting them. I'm very distracting," she laughed at herself.
"I'm a little worried that Koreans might think I'm an attention hog or something though. I know I can be a little... much," she said, chewing on her lip. "I think telling the manager and Seojin-unnie is a good plan though."
At the suggestion of playing a game, Elena perked right up. "Can I use your phone? I know a song generator we could use."
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 27, 2020 20:54:44 GMT -8
Hayun shook her head and said, "I think that most groups need someone who can always manage being outgoing and cheerful and full of energy. The rest of us all have things that we're shy about. I mean, maybe you do too, but it's hard to see them."
Hayun grabbed her phone again and unlocked it, offering it to Elena. She was curious, attention diverted from her own emotions for the time being. She said, "Show me this song generator then? I like ways of finding new singing practice, especially fun singing practice."
She was pleased that Elena seemed so considerate despite sometimes talking before she thought.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 27, 2020 21:07:41 GMT -8
Elena gave a half-shrug, "I mean I don't think I've ever had much to be shy about. My family is huge and very loving. When you make a mistake, even if you're laughed at, you're laughing with them. I was always taught not to take myself too seriously. So I don't mind making mistakes."
She turned to Hayun, "I guess I could worry about letting people down, but my mama told me I could never let her down. So I guess I'm not worried about that either..."
She took her phone and went to the website she had in mind. You could select a language or multiple languages and it would generate popular song titles sung in the language. "Let's try this."
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 27, 2020 21:34:52 GMT -8
Hayun said thoughtfully, "That sounds like it would be nice."
She didn't say anything about her own mom and the way she had been with the shattered expectations of Hayun's career. She wanted to focus on the positives here.
She glanced over Elena's shoulder at the website that the other girl had pulled up on her phone and said, "That looks interesting! I probably know Kpop the best, but I know some English songs and some Chinese and Japanese songs. I don't know things in a lot of other languages though, so maybe I should try to learn more about those at some point."
She hoped that maybe Elena would be OK with focusing on languages that Hayun was comfortable in for songs, though she was game to try anything.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 27, 2020 21:40:51 GMT -8
"For sure, do K-pop. Though on my turns I might switch it to English and Spanish songs because I'm not as familiar with K-pop, is that okay?" Elena asked, showing that you could set up multiple profiles for different people and turns.
"I think this'll be fun," she said, hitting shuffle on Hayun's profile. It landed on "Kill This Love" by Blackpink.
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 27, 2020 22:19:36 GMT -8
Hayun hesitated for a bit, knowing that she recognized the song, but not immediately placing it. Finally it clicked and she mumbled her way through the opening rap bits. At least she knew the vocal bits and the chorus enough to get through them, though she was sure that she messed up the lyrics in several places. She did hit the high notes though, so there was that.
She laughed when the song finished and said, "You managed to get a popular group that I haven't paid a huge amount of attention to learning the songs of because they're kind of rap heavy, and well, that's not by strong point. Hopefully the next one that comes up for me is a song that I know."
She looked at the website over Elena's shoulder again and asked, "What do we do for your turn?"
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 27, 2020 22:31:26 GMT -8
Elena smiled, "you did awesome, unnie. I couldn't have sang it either, way too much rap."
She pressed shuffle on her own profile and Beyonce's 'Halo' came up as her song choice. "At least it's a belty song, I do enjoy belting," she laughed.
She focused on putting emotion into the words as well as hitting those high notes. She also did what she enjoyed doing, belting notes, though she knew they were in a smaller space so she tried to rein them in at least a little.
"How was that?" she asked when she finished. She passed the phone to Hayun, "your turn."
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 27, 2020 23:41:17 GMT -8
Hayun grinned and said, "Your belts are so good!"
She reached out and tentatively poked at the phone for it to give her another song. This time she grinned when it was an older song that she was very familiar with, Sistar's "I Swear." She said, "I listened to this one so much a few years ago, even though it was a few years old then."
It was one of the songs that she did at noraebang all the time before she became a trainee too, so she knew the lyrics by heart, even well enough to kind of do the rap, though she knew that she sounded more like she was trying to sing it than anything else. There was a smile on her face as she finished the song, pleased with herself. It was a song that always made her smile too, so she hoped that Elena would be happy with how she sang it.
She said, "This is fun! I wonder what it will give you next!"
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 28, 2020 8:53:01 GMT -8
"Thank you unnie!" Elena was happy being praised.
She didn't know the next song that was chosen for Hayun but was very impressed with how she performed it. "I liked the way you did the rap! You made it very melodic and it sounded so good. Have you practiced that song before?"
Elena hit shuffle on on her profile again and it landed on "Hair" by Little Mix. "Oh, that's a British band. It's fine, I know it anyways."
It was a playful but sassy song with strong vocals, so it definitely fell within her range. She definitely had fun as she sang it. "How was that?" she asked.
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