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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 18, 2020 22:35:39 GMT -8
Elena stared at the clothes in her closet, "unnie, I have nothing to wear," she complained. Her eyes zeroed in on the green crop top Seojin had picked out for her on their previous shopping trip. She liked the idea of wearing something that had a bit of a secret behind it. "I've never live streamed before, is it weird I'm nervous?" she asked, slipping into a pair of jeans. She'd debated the leather pants, but the colors didn't match and she wasn't sure what she'd be asked to do for the stream, so non-leather seemed the way to go. "Is the crop top okay?" she realized that maybe it wasn't the best choice. She did twenty jumping jacks and ran in place with high knees for about a minute, trying to get out her excess nervous energy, "make up..." she muttered to herself, rummaging through her things for some eyeliner and mascara. If she could find it, she'd probably add some lip gloss too. Woo Seojin
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Idol (leader and main dancer of J.B.N.).
Lesbian.
Single, very closeted.
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Post by Woo Seojin on Aug 18, 2020 22:47:36 GMT -8
Seojin was weirdly amused that this was something that she was more comfortable with than Elena. She'd had more practice since they'd done some live streams while they were trainees, but Elena hadn't gotten that chance yet. She said, "It's not weird to be nervous, but don't worry too hard. It will be pretty relaxed. We'll probably sing some or dance some for the fans, and then we'll talk and answer questions that we pick from the ones that fans post in the stream. We'll have lots of international fans because this has been advertised as that, and hopefully you'll get some Spanish speaking fans in the stream."
She glanced over at Elena and the crop top that she'd helped choose and said, with a tiny smile and blush, "A crop top is fine."
She grabbed the shorts and overshirt that she'd bought on her shopping trip with Elena along with a bright green tank top to match with the crop top and and went to change in the bathroom quickly, hoping that Elena would be done changing by the time she got back out so that she wouldn't be still completely flustered by the time they started the stream.
It was exciting to be getting to do her first live stream since debut that wasn't super scripted and with the whole group, especially since it was something that she was getting to do with Elena. She was secretly glad that the company seemed to have gone with her and Elena as a pair up for many things and Hayun and Shieon as a pair up for many things.
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Dreams Ent Trainee.
Bisexual.
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04/13/2005.
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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 18, 2020 22:53:26 GMT -8
Elena was glad that her nerves were normal and she was glad she was doing this with Seojin. Not that she didn't get along with the other members or others in the company, the only person she'd had trouble with so far had been Taehoon, but she was most comfortable with Seojin.
She changed as Seojin ducked into the bathroom. She'd been reminded several times to not go between the bathroom and bedroom naked but old habits were hard to overcome. She only ever felt embarrassment when Seojin was around, not because she was embarrassed of her body but because being around her felt different.
"Will we be here in the dorm or in a smaller dance studio?" she said loud enough so Seojin would be able to hear her.
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Idol (leader and main dancer of J.B.N.).
Lesbian.
Single, very closeted.
04/04/2002.
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Post by Woo Seojin on Aug 18, 2020 23:13:40 GMT -8
Seojin was efficient, but she was relieved that Elena had already changed as she emerged and answered, "Small dance studio. We can head over now if you're ready. It sounds like the manager had it all set up."
She hoped that it wouldn't get too overwhelming now that they'd debuted and their debut MV was garnering quite a lot of views. She said, "Did you get a chance to go over the common types of questions and questions to skip over sheet that the managers gave us when they were assigning live streams?"
She figured if Elena hadn't, she'd be able to do a quick run down, but if there were any questions in Spanish or one of the other languages that Elena spoke and Seojin didn't, she'd have to rely on Elena's judgement about whether it was a reasonable question or not. She hoped that it leaned more towards requests for the two of them to dance or sing or say sweet things to the fans or answer silly things like their favorite foods and colors and less towards personal questions.
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Dreams Ent Trainee.
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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 18, 2020 23:31:00 GMT -8
"Let me put some sort of make up on," Elena said, heading into the bathroom. She settled on just eyeliner and returned to Seojin's side.
"No, I don't think I ever got that sheet," she said. "I'm a little convinced the manager doesn't know who I am and continually forgets me. He seems genuinely surprised whenever I greet him, and not just because I do it with a hug."
She reached out and brushed a strand of hair out of Seojin's face, "you should probably also give me a run down of what contact I can have with you during the live stream, that way I don't overstep or make you blush too much."
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Idol (leader and main dancer of J.B.N.).
Lesbian.
Single, very closeted.
04/04/2002.
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Post by Woo Seojin on Aug 21, 2020 4:53:57 GMT -8
Seojin thought it over and said, "Actually, considering it's in the shared files drive, the manager might just have updated the old one. It got mentioned that we should go look at it in one of the meetings before debut, but it was one of the ones that had a lot going on, and honestly this might have been one of those places where they were using Korean terms that you wouldn't have known. I can run through the basics on our way to the studio and make sure that you have access to it after so you can look before the next live stream."
Seojin didn't know what to say to the idea that the manager might not like Elena or forget that she was there. Seojin was pretty sure that Elena startled some of the older staff members, including the manager who had mostly been handling the trainees, though still did some stuff with Yuseong as well, but the CEO had selected her as an addition to the group, and people would get used to her. Seojin was happy with how Elena fit into the group as well. She said gently, "Maybe working on not hugging the manager would help a little with him remembering to tell you things. I think that it stresses him out."
Seojin was in business mode, but she paused to smile slightly at Elena brushing the hair out of her face. She said, "As far as what we can do on screen. Like hugging and cuddling is fine, so's hand holding. Those are all normal skinship things. Basically we stay in the realm of skinship as long as there's no kissing or groping or more than that."
She blushed at saying that, but she figured that it would be pretty clear what she meant, and it would at least give Elena a reasonable idea. She said, trying to get herself to feel less flustered, "Basically, we're expected to be close, and from what's been shown so far since debut, I'm the member you're closest to. I think that the company is trying to push the image of the two of us as best friends and Hayun and Shieon as best friends because it's at least approaching accurate and connections between the members to latch onto is something that the fans like, and also leads to shipping, which means us being cuddly is both fine because skinship and fanservice. There's just a very fine line of plausible deniability."
This was of course getting close to a conversation that they'd not fully had yet, but Seojin was feeling a little bit more sure of herself around it now, especially because she knew that Elena had her own uncertainties and some of what had been overwhelming the first day had just been cultural confusion.
She continued, "As far as what is and isn't OK to talk about, in general, we should keep it to harmless, casual sorts of topics. Things like favorite foods and colors and sports and types of clothes we like, those are easy questions because the fans are really still starting to learn about us. We probably will get questions about ideal type at some point, and the general guideline for dealing with that if we get one in a situation that we have to answer is keep it vague. Talk about a personality trait you like or something to that extent. But in a live stream, we should just skip over any questions about romantic relationships and all that. We might get asked questions about training, and those are generally fine to answer, though not in a complaining sort of way, or at least, beyond something like we train for a long time every day and it's tiring."
Seojin hesitated, trying to think over the list. She said, "Things like musicians and dancers that you look up to are great questions to go for, or a song that you like in general or recently. We're totally OK to even sing a few lines of something or get up and do some dancing. That's the sort of stuff that the fans will eat up."
She glanced over at Elena and asked, "Does that all make sense? Did I leave you with any questions?"
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Dreams Ent Trainee.
Bisexual.
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04/13/2005.
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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 21, 2020 10:12:50 GMT -8
Elena was certain she must have missed information about files on a shared drive. "My Korean is very conversational. Anything tech related will go over my head so if something was put on a driving share, I would have missed that." She hadn't quite remembered the word Seojin had used and tried to make do with what she'd understood.
She scrunched up her face at the idea of not hugging people. "How many people do I have to not hug? I already leave Jane alone, I don't want to not hug the manager," she said with a pout. "He'll warm up to me eventually, right?"
"When have I kissed or intentionally groped you?" Elena said, eyes wide. "And I wouldn't want the first time to be on camera," she said with a slight blush on her cheeks. "But I'm happy pretty much everything else is on the the table," she offered her hand to Seojin to head towards the studio.
"I think I get it with the questions. Just give me a tap or a squeeze if it's a question I should be careful with, or feel free to jump in if I start saying something weird. You know my mouth reacts a little faster than my brain does, except when it comes to names. Felix is mi hermano, right?" She asked. It'd been more than a month since their debut and she was now only starting to get a grasp on some people's names outside of her band.
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Idol (leader and main dancer of J.B.N.).
Lesbian.
Single, very closeted.
04/04/2002.
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Post by Woo Seojin on Aug 24, 2020 13:28:41 GMT -8
Seojin laughed and said, "That was my point, it shouldn't be too hard to stay within reasonable bounds."
She blushed and looked away as she added, "I wouldn't want it to be on camera either, that would be weird."
She didn't add, but I wouldn't mind it happening at some point, maybe in the not too distant future, but she wondered if it showed on her face and in her posture.
She shook off her momentary discomfort and said, "I can definitely choose questions in English or Korean to start with, but I'm going to have to rely on you for comments in any languages that you know and I don't. Because it's been promoted by the company that you speak multiple languages, we will probably get some fans asking you things in those languages. If you feel safer with it though, you can always read the question and translate it for me before you answer, if you'd rather."
She pulled out her phone and dug up the link to the shared drive, then put the link to it in her messages with Elena. She said, "There, that's the link to the drive. I'll try to remember to remind you to look at it when stuff comes up. It looked like it was already shared to you, but I'm not sure you ever got told to look at it in a context that it wouldn't have been easy to miss if you didn't know what was being talked about."
She looked thoughtful for a second, considering Elena's struggle with names, and said, "Yeah, Felix you have the right name for. Honestly, people might ask who your favorite Yuseong member is, but you can always give a non-answer like that you've not been here long enough to get to know them very well, and you respect all of them as seniors or something. The most important thing at this point is knowing the J.B.N. members names."
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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 24, 2020 16:55:08 GMT -8
Elena checked her phone, confirming that she'd received the text, "I'll look into this thing and see what I've been missing," she said. She noticed Seojin acting a little strange, "what are you thinking about?" she asked with narrowed eyes.
"I think I'll read any question in a different language aloud then translate it for you. I think it'd be weird to answer something I didn't translate for you first, so hopefully the fans will be lenient with me." She opened the door to the practice studio and held it for Seojin. She was surprised to see a whole set up with a tripod mounted camera and a laptop for responding to comments all ready to go.
"They're serious about this, aren't they?" she asked, starting to stretch. She wanted to be stretched enough to dance and warmed up enough to sing if either of those requests came up. That, and she needed to be calm enough to not be a babbling mess.
"I don't have a favorite member of Yuseong. I don't know them that well," she decided to not include the fact that she did indeed have a least favorite member of Yuseong, especially because most of JBN seemed to refer to him as oppa instead of sunbae. Elena always made it a point to call him sunbae, with her overly friendly personality, it made a clear distinction.
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Idol (leader and main dancer of J.B.N.).
Lesbian.
Single, very closeted.
04/04/2002.
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Post by Woo Seojin on Aug 30, 2020 1:35:25 GMT -8
Seojin shook her head and said, "Something for us to talk about later unless you want me to embarrassed when we start this thing."
She nodded at Elena's suggestion and said, "And translating first then answering is solid."
She saw Elena starting to warm up a little bit, and they had a little bit of time before the stream started, so she joined in and said, "I think that you've got the right idea. There's a real chance that we'll end up doing a little bit of dancing or singing, though we've got limited space. I'm glad that they got this all set up instead of having us try to do it though."
She ran through basic vocal warm-ups as she was stretching, watching Elena, trying to figure out how the other girl was feeling about the whole stream. She also kept an eye on the time, and with about five minutes to go, she said, "We should get set up. I'm warmed-up and ready. I'm excited even if I'm kind of nervous."
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Dreams Ent Trainee.
Bisexual.
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04/13/2005.
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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 30, 2020 21:43:02 GMT -8
"I love it when you blush, but I'll be good," Elena said, poking her tongue out quickly.
She ran through her own vocal warm ups and did her basic stretches then some jumping jacks and running in place to get out some excess energy. "I think I'm as ready as I'm ever going to be. My stomach is in knots because I'm nervous but I think once we get going I'll feel better." She reached over and squeezed Seojin's hand, "I'm glad I get to do this with you."
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Idol (leader and main dancer of J.B.N.).
Lesbian.
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04/04/2002.
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Post by Woo Seojin on Oct 5, 2020 0:30:47 GMT -8
Seojin gave Elena a little smile and said, "I'm glad I'm doing this with you too."
She settled on one of the chairs at the little table where the computer and live stream equipment had been set up at the very end of the room so that they'd be able to get up and dance and stay on screen. She looked over the computer and what still needed to happen for them to get started.
She was surprised to see that there were a few hundred people waiting for the stream to start, and there were already comments popping up on the side scroll. She looked over at Elena, waiting for her to get situated and said, "It's just about time and it looks like a bunch of people are waiting for us. You ready?"
She reached over and gave Elena's hand a quick squeeze, hoping that her own nervousness wasn't showing too much, or was at least masked by the excitement.
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Post by Elena Moon on Oct 6, 2020 17:52:14 GMT -8
Elena moved to sit down but felt herself freeze when Seojin said there were a bunch of people waiting for them. "How many is a lot?" she squeaked, peeking at the screen to check the numbers. She let out a shaky breath and held out a finger to her unnie.
She went into the corner and shook herself out, trying to release tension. After a few seconds she'd recomposed herself and joined Seojin at the table. "I'm as ready as I'll ever be," she said. She checked her reflection on the computer screen and nodded, satisfied enough. "Ready!"
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Idol (leader and main dancer of J.B.N.).
Lesbian.
Single, very closeted.
04/04/2002.
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Post by Woo Seojin on Oct 21, 2020 13:51:12 GMT -8
Seojin glanced at the viewer count, seeing that it had gone up even since she last said anything and replied, "A little over 200 now, but it's been going up pretty quickly. I'm surprised!"
She was a tiny bit surprised that Elena seemed as nervous as she did. Seojin realized that this was something that she might at this point be a little bit more confident in. When Elena came back, she wrapped and arm around Elena's shoulders and gave the other girl a quick squeeze before turning her attention to the computer and getting the last set up step finished. She told Elena, "Here we go."
She waited for the stream to go live, holding her breath during the lag between when she told it to start and when it actually started. When it started though, she let out the breath subtly and said to the viewers with a wave, speaking first in Korean, "Hello, we are Jebi Byulbit eso Nalda, J.B.N., please help us fly in the starlight! I'm leader, Seojin, and I am really excited to be here with you to chat and answer some fan questions! We're very excited to see so many of you already here!"
She repeated herself in English, and then she turned slightly towards Elena, giving the other girl a little nod to go ahead and do her introduction. She watched as there was a flurry of hearts that popped up on the side from people liking the stream, and there was a flurry of comments in the stream chat. People were excited that they were there!
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Dreams Ent Trainee.
Bisexual.
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04/13/2005.
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Post by Elena Moon on Oct 22, 2020 9:20:35 GMT -8
Elena smiled and squeezed Seojin's knee when she was hugged. She held her breath with her leader as the stream started up.
Elena grinned and waved to the screen and repeated Seojin's introduction with her own name in Spanish, French, and Portuguese, then slipped back into Korean and couldn't help but say, "sorry everyone, I'm super nervous right now." She covered her mouth and hid her face behind Seojin's shoulder.
She had known she was nervous and she had never been great at holding her tongue but she'd hoped she could at least pretend to keep to together. She felt her ears getting red and took a calming breath before turning back to the camera and crinkling her nose at herself.
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