UNIVERSE / BTS.

70: can call me artist (can call me idol!) / namseok

by now, everyone more or less knew of hoseok's admiration and love for the pretty famous korean rapper, kim namjoon. hoseok has been following him since his rookie days as a pretty hated idol rapper, who was shunned by a lot of k-pop fans and told that he didn't fit with the genre, until now, where he's one of the biggest hits in korea, with his own company co-created with min yoongi (aka agust d, another idol rapper and namjoon's best friend), with four albums albums and multiple awards. he even has a UNICEF campaign and is rumoured to be speaking at the 2018 UN summit, much to hoseok's excitement.

hoseok didn't even like k-pop before he found RM. sure, he listened to BIGBANG and SHINee because everyone was listening to them, and he knew the odd iKON or 2NE1 dance routine from when he was practicing to get into ilsan college of arts, but he hadn't loved it the way he did when he listened to RM's music for the first time. the lyrics that namjoon writes, the feeling that goes into everything he does, it gives hoseok some sort of strange love and hope. he really adores everything namjoon does, and hopes to one day see him live, or even meet him, but he knows he'll have no such luck.

the backing track starts up, and hoseok holds the mic to his lips, readying himself, getting into his mindset he goes to when he dances or raps. he takes a deep breath, brushes his shoulder-length hair away from his face and begins.

when he finishes, breathing heavily, professor boo is clapping, his dance class are clapping, hyuna's smiling a big red-lipstick smile at him, and soonyoung's holding two thumbs up. professor boo nods, smoking dazzlingly at hoseok.

"very good, hoseok. take your pendrive and sit back down, please. lee seokmin, it's your turn!"

hoseok's filled with pride as he sits back down, hyuna clapping him on the back and whispering a 'well done mate!', while hoseok grins widely, tying his runaway strands of hair back into the man bun he's been sporting for a while now. seokmin does a solo cover of bad boy, by red velvet, rapping quite impressively for someone who hoseok's only heard sing before, and his voice actually suits the song a lot. professor boo smiles and congratulates him, and on go the rest.

hoseok sits back comfortably in his seat, knowing that hyuna is taking his hair from it's scrunchie and putting small braids into it, waiting for her turn, as prof boo is picking people at random. vernon's blushing like a schoolgirl when he goes up, before breaking into a very impressive cover of a logic song, despite his reddish cheeks.

hyuna does a cover of dean's bonnie & clyde, soonyoung very sheepish a capella's a rap song hoseok's never heard before, but both get applause and a congratulations. hoseok ends up half-listening, hiding his phone in his lap because he's pretty sure taehyung — his roommate and best friend — has texted him.

TATA 🎈: me & some of the art majors are making mexican food for dinner at their dorms, you fancy coming over? the neo culture dance group is gunna be there

hoseok smiles. the self-named neo cultures are the school's current dance mascot, holding a the collegiate dance championship trophy for two years. they're really nice guys. but hoseok has a lot of homework (read: watching namjoon's new vlive and catching up on what agust d's been doing), so he texts tae back a negative, with an apology and a smiley emoji.

"alright, i'm done," hyuna says, sneakily taking a picture of hoseok's amazing french braid that's taken her twenty minutes, and hoseok sighs, feeling around for the braid. well then; guess he's going to his dance class with a french braid in his hair.

later that day, hoseok crashes down onto the bed on his side of the dorm room, groaning tiredly and groping around under the bed for his laptop. his earbuds are a tangled mess of wires, so he grabs his bluetooth headphones and opens the vlive app once his laptop turns on. quickly, he finds RM's account, smiling when he sees the latest one, getting a chocolate bar from his sweet stash as it loads up.