ALTWSS Chapter 1: Sources + Links
Apr. 5th, 2023 01:40 pmBaby's first dreamwidth post! I've never used this site, but I was an avid livejournal user back in the day so hopefully I'll be able to figure this out.
Like I said in the author's note for ALTWSS, this fic is idolverse and I don't know much of any Korean, so I relied very heavily on translations and want to showcase them here! Plus, I thought it could be fun for anyone interested in seeing the actual content, because I went on quite the journey while looking up things for this fic. Everything in this post will have a link attached, but since twitter is literally falling apart as we speak, I will also be putting screenshots of tweets in case the site totally breaks or something.
The first scene sets up Jihoon's relationship with Ailee. I've loved Ailee since her debut in 2012, so putting her in this fic was an opportunity that I wasn't going to pass up, and I was glad that I got to make her a character! I found out about their relationship from episode 4 of 17 Project, but what really cemented having her as a character for me was this radio interview, where she talks about what it's like to write music with Jihoon, with how witty he is and how much fun they have hanging out together (she refers to him as "Jihoon" instead of "Woozi" and "my baby" and calls him on the phone, he does aegyo with her and it's adorable), and this KCon NY interview. (bonus clip of Ailee winning an award at MAMA 2016, her name is announced and all of SVT get to their feet to clap, Woozi yelling "noona!" and grooving along to her song lol) I find their relationship really lovely and I am in love with her so... she will show up again. Many times. (also shout out to the person in my twt mentions talking about them who said "uji had a natural interaction with a woman Once and decided that was enough for the rest of his career" bc i think about it every single day lmao) They're playing and singing along to Beyonce partially because Ailee does really love her (and has been referred to as "Korea's Beyonce") and partially because Jihoon is also a genuine fan of Beyonce lol
The whole bit about Jihoon secretly watching Soonyoung's Pledis audition came from this predebut film where... Jihoon talks about secretly watching Soonyoung's audition. He says he was surprised and impressed by Soonyoung's skills. The bit about Soonyoung mistaking Jihoon for a girl comes from this video (that link has a direct timestamp to the moment, but the entire video talks about when many of the members joined Pledis so spoilers? I guess? If you continue to watch it) and Jihoon admitted that part of the reason for the mistake was because he had long hair at the time.
That same video is also where I got the bit of info about Soonyoung crying when he signed his trainee contract, and how Mingyu thought he was older than Jihoon and Soonyoung (and they thought he was older too) when they first met. Seungcheol picking Mingyu up from the train station came from this tweet:


I don't think that this is quite when it actually happened irl (he's alluded to it occurring closer to debut) but having it take place here fit better for the storyline (the lead up to debut was already an incredibly busy time in the fic, and I wanted this to have it's deserved emotional weight) so I put it here instead.
And that's it so far! Other Seventeen members begin to show up more in chapter 2, so there will be more to say when that happens. Ch. 2 be posted on Friday!! Thank you for reading ❤️
Like I said in the author's note for ALTWSS, this fic is idolverse and I don't know much of any Korean, so I relied very heavily on translations and want to showcase them here! Plus, I thought it could be fun for anyone interested in seeing the actual content, because I went on quite the journey while looking up things for this fic. Everything in this post will have a link attached, but since twitter is literally falling apart as we speak, I will also be putting screenshots of tweets in case the site totally breaks or something.
The first scene sets up Jihoon's relationship with Ailee. I've loved Ailee since her debut in 2012, so putting her in this fic was an opportunity that I wasn't going to pass up, and I was glad that I got to make her a character! I found out about their relationship from episode 4 of 17 Project, but what really cemented having her as a character for me was this radio interview, where she talks about what it's like to write music with Jihoon, with how witty he is and how much fun they have hanging out together (she refers to him as "Jihoon" instead of "Woozi" and "my baby" and calls him on the phone, he does aegyo with her and it's adorable), and this KCon NY interview. (bonus clip of Ailee winning an award at MAMA 2016, her name is announced and all of SVT get to their feet to clap, Woozi yelling "noona!" and grooving along to her song lol) I find their relationship really lovely and I am in love with her so... she will show up again. Many times. (also shout out to the person in my twt mentions talking about them who said "uji had a natural interaction with a woman Once and decided that was enough for the rest of his career" bc i think about it every single day lmao) They're playing and singing along to Beyonce partially because Ailee does really love her (and has been referred to as "Korea's Beyonce") and partially because Jihoon is also a genuine fan of Beyonce lol
The whole bit about Jihoon secretly watching Soonyoung's Pledis audition came from this predebut film where... Jihoon talks about secretly watching Soonyoung's audition. He says he was surprised and impressed by Soonyoung's skills. The bit about Soonyoung mistaking Jihoon for a girl comes from this video (that link has a direct timestamp to the moment, but the entire video talks about when many of the members joined Pledis so spoilers? I guess? If you continue to watch it) and Jihoon admitted that part of the reason for the mistake was because he had long hair at the time.

(probably something like this?)
That same video is also where I got the bit of info about Soonyoung crying when he signed his trainee contract, and how Mingyu thought he was older than Jihoon and Soonyoung (and they thought he was older too) when they first met. Seungcheol picking Mingyu up from the train station came from this tweet:

Since I didn't know where the information came from/couldn't verify it very well, it was just a throwaway line.
Soonyoung's home life and financial situation are relatively well-known in the fandom now, but the official instances of him talking about it are the last episode of One Fine Day Japan, episode 679 of Radio Star, and a 2022 livestream, which I mostly drew from this twitter thread.

And that's it so far! Other Seventeen members begin to show up more in chapter 2, so there will be more to say when that happens. Ch. 2 be posted on Friday!! Thank you for reading ❤️