REPLY 2012! (FANS, SASAENGS and IDOLS)

Sooo, I recently finished my short story with Baekhyun as a lead, and now, I'm moving forward to present another story with Jongin and Sehun as my mains! This is an OC x EXO fic btw. I've been actually starting to plot this story for the past year and a half when I watched a documentary about sasaengs then I wondered to myself, what could be their life be? We should always know that there would be two sides of the story, the story of our idols and the story of these sasaengs. And that made me curious on how their life really is, if it was just a simple obsession or a severe sickness.

As I tried to plot this out, I asked myself that 'What if, they do communicate with our idols?', because, lets face it, sasaengs could basically do anything they want as long as they got what they really want. But how were they able to, we ask? Well, first of all, they have the CONNECTIONS. It's basically everything that every sasaeng would need, to get closer to these idols, to enter a specific premises without permission, and ect. How do they get it? Sasaengs who are taking a job in different companies are the best example. For one, a sasaeng could work in a telephone company then the other working in a internet portal sites, then maybe some know some hackers around. With those, they share the information together in order to follow their 'beloved idols'.

Second, they should have the MONEY. Who says money can't buy happiness? But for few fans and sasaengs, money is a total go go. It's where they could buy their tickets, albums, *ehem* bazookas *ehem*, so on and so forth. But the question is, how about those poor sasaengs? How do they get money? It's either they scam people, beat up other fans, or go into ion. This is legit guys, they follow idols by riding a cab, and cabs in Korea costs a fortune especially for a long trips. But you know what's worst? These few sasaengs are only in high school. They skip school without their parents knowing and follow these idols throughout their schedule.

Sasaengs are mostly deliquents. Meaning, normal fans can't touch them. Unless they wanted to be ganged up by them. One more fact, you guys believe it or not, most of those fansites you're following in social media? Most of them are basically sasaengs. Wonder why they could give several gifts to the idols themselves? That's where normal fans money comes in. Those photobooks, dolls, banners, and other more we buy from them basically. Though there are those good fansites who usually donate with their idol's name in exchange.

Oh no, I think I got too overwhelmed to the point that I kind of ranted about these sasaengs when I'm just supposed to introduce my new story. In this story fiction though, the main original character is somewhere in between a normal fan and a sasaeng. I couldn't make her as a total sasaeng because, that'll just be a real no no. There is a big difference between love and obsession, so in this story, I wanted to show where the lines of those things end at. EXO's characters are hafly based on who they are in real life and the other half coming from my imagination world. I'll be posting the prologue later this same night so please do look forward to it. I'll be linking the stories below, so yeah, I think that's it for now.

 

Toodles!

 

p.s. Correct me if I'm wrong with all of these sasaeng stuff, but I was just stating what I really do know about them.

 

xoxo, raine.

 

 

mahnameisraine's STORIES: (click the titles)

JUST A FAN (chanyeol- ongoing) | EMPTINESS (sehun- completed)| REPLY 2012 (jongin- new) | YOU&I (baekhyun- coming soon)

 

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