Noumenon: a thing as it is in itself, as distinct from a thing as it is knowable by the senses through phenomenal attributes. 

In Platonic pilosophy, the noumenal realm was equated with the world of ideas known to the philosophical mind,

in contrast to the phenomenal realm, which was equated with the world of sensory reality, known to the uneducated mind.

Zitao frowned at this sentence. How was he supposed to figure out what any of this meant? Wasn't the phenomenal world phenomenal for a reason? It was only his first day and his head hurt. What did philosophy have to do with martial arts anyway?  

"Yo, Edison," Kris began, but quickly stopped as Zitao shot him a glare. "Geez, it's just a nickname. I'm gonna go do laundry. Don't blow out that lightbulb of yours so easily."

Zitao frowned, and spoke to himself. "Edison, huh? What kind of bad guy is this if he wears galaxy print leggings and nicknames everyone anyway?"

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Hi everyone! Mars here. This is my first EXO fic (or fic in general for a while) and was harassed encouraged by my friend to put my convoluted thoughts about Kris and Tao (as well as my newfound love for cheesy kdrama plotlines) into words. There will be eventual taoris, as well as eventual kaisoo and suchen (is that the right ship name oh god). Please be easy on me since I just got into EXO a few weeks before Overdose was leaked to the masses. 

Basically, the arts program is loosely based off of a boarding school, four years, all boys  (JK THERE ARE BABES TOO), uniforms (but does kris even wear his), and all that good stuff. Most of my knowledge from boarding school does come from kdrama so please bear with me. Tao, Kai, Chen and D.O are juniors and Kris, Suho, and Sehun are seniors in this fic so there's that. (Xiumin is a sophomore and not even in the US oops lmao). 

The fic will not be updated regularly. I usually have a lot of personal things going on (especially during the beggining of the year) and sometimes cannot find the time or ability to write. Hopefully the longest wait between updates is two weeks, but since I'm trying to branch out and make really long chapters I can't promise anything. I'm very sorry! 

Happy reading then! ~Mars