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hiraethtae · 6 years

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Previous Parts: Prologue, Pt1, Pt 2 (1/2)

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Synopsys:

Kim Taehyung runs an army twitter and is much active in the fandom. He’s known by all the fandom by his internet alias Teaberry and yet none of ARMY know his gender, name or have ever seen his face and is a mystery persona who is known mostly for spreading positivity. What happens when He decides to take drastic measures by buying 300 BTS world tour tickets and giving them away to ARMY, as a move against the resllers?

by doing so, Taehyung aquires the attention of the the world and the boys he stans, while changing the meaning of ARMY altogether.

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notes: Vante. Teaberry. Kim Taehyung. 3 people, one person. But who are you really?

Part 2 : Who are you ? ( pt 1\2)

22 may 2017, 6:30

Holly got 47 different burn accounts up and running and Taehyung was impressed. His eyebrows moved higher and higher as he read over her following texts and grimaced at the time they were sent. Having a best friend hacker and a workaholic had its perks but it also meant she wouldn't sleep till the job was done.

Sent 6:35 To: Holly Moses

Hot drink on me?

Sent 6:41 To: You

Only if it's not coffee

He grinned around the toothbrush in his mouth and wiped off the access toothpaste running down his chin. Taehyung met Holly in 2013 at a kpop music shop, while gaping at BTS's first debut and dance routine on the small screen of his phone. "No more dream" blasted out of his headphones in a relatively low volume as they hung around their neck, but he was so entranced by the dark theme and movements he didn't notice when she sidled up to his side.

"Bad boy vibe. That's adorable."

Taehyung started, fumbling with his phone. The music cut off abruptly having the cord of the headphones pulled from the phone and the stranger grabbed the device before it could touch the ground. She straightened and gave him a wry smile.

"Sorry about that. Didn't mean to scare you." She had golden eyes and crow's feet on their edges. Taehyung stared and her grin grew wider.

"So BTS, huh?"

They have been inseparable since. His best friend led a life known only from movies, and Taehyung was most inclined to take her out on his normal life escapades. Mostly including him stanning the boys which led to their meeting all those years ago. When she was overcome with exhaustion he would take her out on his photography trips and show her the places the boys visited, and the views he loved. She would listen, and eventually joke around and smile. Her dark circles were a constant reminder of the type of life she led, and Taehyung's makeup on his eyes, poker face he used when recognized, and the camera around his neck were like a noose.

He loved taking photographs, yet his job over the years became suffocating. Demands for pictures he did not wish to take made him drown in the same views of models and gray skies again and again. BTS was a means of escape. Teberry, the twitter account that army across the web know him by, especially by his "I purple you" posts and his #TeaShallBeSpilled hashtags as well edits and saxophone covers and beautiful photographs were what he wished to create. He would often take pictures that reminded him of BTS's songs and Army's would crowd his twitter page in excitement. Holly helped Taehyung with her occasional hacker skills to give his gratitude back to Army. Taehyung was always grateful to have her by his side. He felt less pressure on his chest when he could take pictures of views he truly loved. Vante was slowly returning to his origins.

Taehyung rolled around on his bed, stretching his limbs and groaning at the stretch of his muscles. Huffing, he straightened and skipped to the washroom to spit out the toothpaste and rinse his face.

He grinned widely at his reflection. Dark circles winked at him from under his bloodshot eyes and his hair needed to be redyed. As much as he felt like shit, smiling and convincing oneself everything is great usually did the trick. Taehyung's worst habit was lying to himself, but doing it so often had caused the lie to change into a simplified truth. He was fine, not great, but he was happy. Not the happiest, but if Taehyung could laugh at his shitty reflection then he was good for today.

He padded across the wooden floor of his flat and opened the closet while inhaling the smell of olden wood and freshly cleaned clothes. The simple black pants and white shirt were the first pick. It was his day off so no fancy clothes were needed.

Kim Taehyung ran a double life. His true persona, teaberry, had his identity hidden with only his bright personality to shine out. Vante, the photographer and part time coffee model was his outside world mask. Cool and collected, polite and handsome, a walking art with a bland personality was the perfect business card. No one really tried to dig into a person's secrets if he was boring. The photographs he took revealed the opposite actually. That's why while Teaberry was fascinating just for the mystery; Vante was fascinating for being understandably confusing.

"Kim Taehyung, you are unknowable." Holly once said in one of their evenings out. Her golden eyes, crowned by the dark bags beneath them, seemed almost like the streetlamps around them. Her smile was fond. Taehyung wondered how she could say that while being an underground mystery hacker and being the bigger 'Unknowable' out of the pair.

Taehyung leans against the wall as he props his shoes on. Saint Laurent, simple, white. He doesn't like them. Putting on his dark sunglasses and looking back into his bland apartment everything seems much grayer, the sunlight doesn't shine through the curtains and makes it appear almost abandoned. He flicks the sunglasses up on his head and the flat immediately seems more colorful. It's all in the perspective.

He locks the door on the way out and doesn't look back.

Holly is the opposite of Vante's bland outside persona. She's beaming with colors and makes him a rainbow by just being in Taehyung's presence. She brings out the inner colors of Teaberry into the outside world and makes him feel himself. Her hacker persona on the other hand is much crueler then his blandness. Her words often are described "as a sharp knife twisting in ones chest. ", At least that’s how the world views the hacker X.

Taehyung shows his boxy smile in reply to her grin and plops down in the seat across of her. Holly's crow's feet are hidden begin her glasses but the wrinkling in her nose reveal that they were truly there. In moments like these she's more alive than him. Her hair is an orange flame.

"Hobi mood?" Taehyung doesn't even touch the menu and instead bumps his knuckles against her hand on the table. Holly grabs one of his long fingers and shakes it in hello, her hand much smaller than his.

"I always thought red was the best color for him." She retreats to her own menu and hums in thought.

"It suits you." Taehyung leans his chin in his hand and looks across the Hongdae district, watching the passerby's with no real interest. When he had only arrived to the city of Seoul seeing the hunger drawn out of faces of every person passing by had startled him and made him curious. It was not hunger for food but for success that drew the people of Seoul to its center. But not every person succeeded and drew high above the flock. Success in Seoul is either being original or copying the masses. The tide of people, wearing different types of garments with only two colors black and white, were the best example for that. Taehyung was no exception. Holly was.

Taehyung smiles when a woman walks by in a yellow dress and red heels, leaving a citrus smell of perfume in her wake. Exceptions were all around them, one only had to look.

"Would you like to order?"

The waiter's face blurs in Taehyung's perception. He rattles of his usual and Holly orders a strawberry chocolate cake and hot chocolate. The menus disappear off the table and Taehyung stares blankly at the gray table.

"Hey." Holly says.

Taehyung forces himself to zone back into the present and blinks at Holly's expression. Her red hair is blinding. Her face was thoughtful, "It's pretty colorful today no?"

"Colorful?" Taehyung repeats and blinks. He stares at the now blue sky and the people walking by in different assortments of colorful clothes. Black and white is still present in the masses but the colors are more vivid. The sound grows around him from the faint hum it was before and crashes on his eardrums.

Holly watches him. "It's just a matter of perception."

She smiles.

Taehyung looks at the bright brown eyes of the waiter when he brings their order. His hair has blue streaks and his name is spelled in a willowy scrawl on a gold nametag.

"Thank you Jeonhyun."

The waiter smiles and clears out the table next to them. Holly sips from her hot chocolate and watches him with her bright gold eyes. Taehyung steals a bite of her cake. Strawberry and chocolate flavor burst in his mouth and he breathes in deeply.

It's just a matter of perception.

#( Q's words )#my writing #i purple\need you #i purple you not #Taekook twitter au #bts #au #social media au

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yujachachacha · 7 years

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HiHi! same anon who asked you about Yakkai hehe (how did you know my true intentions? jk!) Just to cut you some slack I did try googling it myself before asking again but all I got were results for knb character songs(?) and a bollywood film(???) Frankly, I really do want to know because I've heard the term used in passing. Particularly from reports about the 2nd live Kobe leg. I heard about people doing it in KoiAqua?? To the point where someone got strangled in the Korean LV?? Is it that bad??

Hey there! Not gonna lie, I’m still lowkey pouting in the corner because you did that, but I’m glad to see that you’re genuinely curious. Thanks for trying your best! (☞ >ω･)☞

I have no idea what schools are teaching y’all these days, but research doesn’t mean typing a single word into Google! Also, if you’re gonna look up a Japanese term, you’re not gonna get the right results if you type the word in English without any additional parameters. Here are three methods you should try using when Googling a Japanese term you don’t know:

1. Write it in Japanese, i.e. “やっかい”. The first Google result is in Japanese, but let’s assume that we’re not so good at reading Japanese (since if we were, we’d probably be able to figure out the meaning of “yakkai” pretty quickly), and skip over this one. The second result gives you a Wiktionary link, which is in English and perfect for our purposes. It defines the word 厄介 (yakkai) as “troublesome” or a “burden”. This is literally what “yakkai” means, but for the purposes of idol fan culture, we’ll be adding a bit more meaning to this.

2. If you’re doing your search in English, add the word “Japanese” to your search term. After all, if we’re not so good at reading Japanese, who’s to say that we’ll be able to type something in Japanese? Try Googling the phrase “yakkai japanese”. This guarantees that what you’re typing won’t be mistaken for a word from another language (which is why you got results for a Bollywood film). The Google results are almost the same as in method #1, except that there are a lot more links in English rather than Japanese. So in short, this is basically an alternative to the first method for those of you who can’t read Japanese so well.

3. Include context for your term, i.e. add things like “Love Live” and “idol”. We can now try to figure out what the word means in the context of the LL fandom by googling “yakkai love live”. A bunch of the image results are Bollywood-related (because of yakkai + love, lol), but the top two links give us threads from the /r/LoveLive subreddit. The very first link in particular, “Aqours 2nd Love Live Discussion [Kobe]”, actually contains exactly what we’re looking for.

If you use the “find” function (“ctrl + f”, or “cmd + f” if you’re on a Mac like me) and search for “yakkai”, you’ll eventually see that someone on this thread asked what people meant by yakkai calls in the discussion about the live. /u/MasterMirage himself (a mod of the LL subreddit and a member of Team ONIBE) gives a great explanation:

Um, so if you’re aware of the standard “Fu fu”, “fuwa fuwa” and “hai” chants, these are the standard go to chants to do at lives.

The Koi Aqua Yakkai (troublesome/burden) calls are out of place calls that you normally don’t do at lives since they interrupt the flow of the concert and are considered disruptive by many people.

I guess this video explains it pretty well since the calls here are what you should not do at a live:

https://twitter.com/dan_chii/status/882024909995556864

A common call “IE TAIGA” is something that people are getting annoyed at because people think it’s funny.

Sat from Fripside even called out on these alternative/disruptive calls:

https://twitter.com/Jsan_san/status/896918057397829634

I highly recommend you check out those Twitter links to give you a better understanding of what yakkai calls are (video in the first link) and why you shouldn’t be doing them (translated quote in the second link). For the first link, the yakkai isn’t too bad, at least until you get to the rap portion of the master mix at about 55 seconds in. But just imagine how annoying it would be if the fans were screaming that during a live rather than at a casual wota session at a convention. :’)

Also, I’m gonna go ahead and write down a part of the material in the second link here, because it’s really important:

“That part was made with the idea that the silence could be felt before the hook, you know? It has a purpose. I didn’t want [it] to be destroyed!”

Keep in mind that this was said by Satoshi of fripSide about his own song, while on stage during a concert tour. That’s how annoying these calls are. Instead of respecting the mood that the artists worked so hard to create for the song, yakkai concertgoers try to be as disruptive as possible for their own amusement.

So yeah, “ie taiga” (for those of you who aren’t familiar with this term, here’s my explanation from a previous ask) and similar calls/wota are the essence of yakkai. If you’re wondering why it enrages people so much, consider the following:

After spending a lot of money and praying to the gods for luck, a fan manages to score a seat at an Aqours live. At the concert, the fan is enjoying the fact that they’re listening to the Aqours seiyuu singing and dancing in front of them, live. Holy crap! :D But then comes along some asshole who thinks it’s funny to ruin the mood by screaming in the middle of a song. Opportunities to attend an Aqours live aren’t common, so it’s understandable that someone would end up getting very upset.

The same goes for a live viewing. A live viewing is an opportunity to see the seiyuu perform in real-time, and it’s a precious one at that. Footage shown at screenings differs slightly from the more polished versions we get in Blu-rays, so you get to see the raw performance at a viewing. Plus, you’re cheering and jumping and screaming along with the audience like you would at the actual live. “Ie taiga” distracts you from recreating the atmosphere of the performance, and is a huge sign of disrespect towards the other attendees.

Korean LL fans in particular have a deep-seated hatred for “ie taiga” (I’m not quite sure why it’s so intense - perhaps it has to do with the nature of the LLer culture over there?). For example, popular YouChika artist GamGam (@gamjolno on Twitter) has complained heavily about it happening during lives, and even resorted to plugging their ears at the pivotal moment in KoiAqua just to avoid hearing the phrase. As many Korean LLers were at a live viewing for the 2nd Live tour, the combined murderous rage they held for yakkai LLers exploded when they heard it actually happen during the screening.

Of course, I don’t approve of them trying to strangle (or physically harm in general) a yakkai LLer. What I will say, however, is that I can at least see why someone reacted that way.

If you need another example to understand why they went that far: I assume you’re familiar with “Snow halation”, and the famous part of the song where the µ’s members stand still before the audience cracks their UOs. There’s a brief moment, before Honoka’s emotional solo and the explosion of bright orange filling up the concert venue, where everything is silent save for the jingling of bells leading up to the climax (3:08~3:09). It’s a beautiful, almost holy silence, revered by many for this sacred and beloved performance.

Now, imagine if someone suddenly screamed “YEAH TIGERRRR!!!” right at that moment.

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

Understand now? It’s not funny. It’s not impressive. It’s downright infuriating.

First, yakkai LLers took away the enjoyment of the “I miss you~” You solo line in KoiAqua and the build-up to the chorus (see ~1:22 in this video for an audio demonstration). Then, someone decided to ruin the dramatic silence before the final chorus of “Aozora Jumping Heart” (~3:30 in the song). And now, there’s been reports of someone at the Saitama live screaming “IE TAIGAAA” right as the song slows down before the “la la la~” ending portion (~3:33 in the song).

I would hesitantly say that the “ie taiga” for KoiAqua is on the borderline of being tolerable. The song is full of chants anyway, and that part after You’s line does sound like it could accommodate some kind of call - but still, you should save it for a fan mix rather than a live. It’s the kind of thing that’ll make some people giggle at the weirdness, while others roll their eyes and mutter about the newest generation of LLers being yakkai af.

But for AoJump and MiraTicke, the yakkai incidents have been happening at solemn, quieter portions of the song rather than the cheerful and noisy sections. I have seen various posts by LLers claiming that they’re proud to “ie taiga” at a live as the ultimate expression of their wota skills, plus they’re doing it just for teh lulz. Again - it’s highly inappropriate, and disrespectful to both the audience members who are trying to enjoy the performance and the performers who are trying to make the performance enjoyable. If you want to prove that you’re a devoted LLer, your actions shouldn’t be damaging to the community.

To wrap things up: if you happen to search for “yakkai idol” instead, the first result that Google gives you is a blog post that talks about the concept of yakkai at idol events. The author includes some sound wisdom at the end:

What people really mean when they say “don’t be yakkai” is just that don’t go crazy and enjoy being annoying, and taking your entertainment at the cost of the enjoyment of others. Like, it’s fun to troll people, but that’s not good if the other party doesn’t enjoy it. It might be fun to go nuts, but don’t do it when it’s inappropriate.

Basically, it’s okay to go crazy during karaoke sessions or casual wota sessions with friends. Take that tweet in the first link from MasterMirage’s comment. I happen to know one of the people in that video, and he’s an awesome guy who knows a lot about concert calls. These wota bros were being “yakkai” for sure, but they were doing it at the Lumica booth at Anime Expo rather than a live. It was actually pretty amusing, and was almost like a free ad for the booth: “See these LLers partying with their lightsticks? You too can join in on the fun by purchasing a Lumica blade and/or UOs at this booth!” But for the sake of other fans, make sure you keep it clean during actual lives and public screenings.

tl;dr: “Yakkai” literally means “burdensome/troublesome”, and refers to antics of this nature by fans during performances. Notable examples include particularly annoying fans who scream “IE TAIGA” not only during KoiAqua, but also in highly inappropriate moments from other songs. Don’t be like this during a live unless you want to be heavily criticized for disrespecting the performers and lacking common decency for the people around you.

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