'We Can Make You Understand' Author's Commentary (Q & A)

Time for the much anticipated (on my part) Question and Answer! You lovely readers had questions, so I am willing to provide as insightful and thorough answers to them! A lot of you were curious about the same things, which made answering, much easier! So I have decided, I will put each of your question's into categories to make it easy for you guys to navigate to what you want to know most about without having to read everything you could care less about! At the end of the question and answer, I will provide you with Trivia Answer's or Fun Facts that you may have overlooked in the story. (Haven't read the story yet? Click Here)


 

So, here we go!

 

 

 

 

Questions about Nana:

 

 

 

Does Nana have anything to do with After School's Nana?

 

Answer: No. Nana is an actual OC with that character Name assigned to her. She is not based off of any Idol at all. The same goes for Amber. She is not F(x)'s Amber but an OC from my imagination who looks nothing like the Idol.

 

 

 

How was Nana like before she created Agit?

 

Answer: Nana was a regular person with big dreams. Initially, she worked in a males institution, 'Lounge, Strip Club, Exotic Dancer' Etc.Where ever your imagination decides to put her. She had the idea that if men can be entertained that way, then so can women. (This is from my own brain when thinking about the famous American restaurant Hooter's where only women with big are waitresses. Why don't we have a Pecker's where guys with big chest can be waiters? Hooter's have their Owl as the mascot and Pecker's can have the Wood Pecker as a mascot.)

 

 

 

How did Jaejoong and Nana meet each other?

 

Answer: This was touched upon in the story, but in more detail, Jaejoong was actually a bartender at the establishment Nana was working at. They met each other that way. However, as was mention in previous chapters, Jaejoong comes from an esteemed family and went to school for business and finance.

 

 

 

How did Nana start in the business and set up Agit Night?

 

Answer: She had the dream of men pleasing woman rather that the other way around since she worked in that industry and couldn't stand it. The business was her idea but she lacked the necessary knowledge to get it off the ground. Jaejoong was the one who actually made the business come alive, since he had the business degree and knowledge. Anything slightly business related was handled by Jaejoong (Mastermind) with Nana as the face.

 

 

 

 

Questions about Miss Dinner Time (Sorata)

 

 

 

Does Sorata mean Thick Sky?

 

Answer: Yes it does. Some of my OC's names do have meaning that describe them as a person or physically. This will be brought out in the Trivia Answer's section.

 

 

 

Can you describe Miss Dinner Time's appearance?

 

Answer: Yes I can. She is 5'5 in height, 175 pounds – about 50 lbs overweight – however she is curvy. Her weight fills in the desired spots of , , hips, thighs. No, this does not mean she is flat in other places. She had thick legs and arms, and a fluffy face and neck area that would be more delicate if she were her healthy size. She has round, open eyes, light brown iris, a button nose, and full lips. She was inspired by a friend's wife, so she does have this skin color I applied to her, but I allow you all to put your own skin color on this Original Character.

 

 

 

What is Miss Dinner Time's Background story?

 

Answer: She is a financially well off woman. I haven't thought of what business I wanted her to run, but whatever it is, has her content financially making her single-handedly the biggest investor in Agit Night, and the third biggest share holder after Nana and Jaejoong. I put her age between 30 and 35, so the best age is 33 years old. She wasn't always rich, but comes from a middle class background. She strongly believes in education because she feels that is what got her where she is in her own life.

 

 

 

What attracted Miss Dinner Time to Xiumin?

 

Answer: Imagine a fluffy Xiumin walking into your room, big pretty and nervous filled cat eyes finding their way to you, along with his other adorable features. Imagine his speaking voice (I really like his speaking voice!) Now physically, I would ask for him back as did Miss Dinner Time after talking and getting to know him. However, her seeing his obvious attraction to her made her feel good inside as it would any girl, so she decided that his genuine nature was enough to ask for him back.

 

 

 

Question's about Amber, Lyn, Kris's mom, and Dewei (Luhan's baby)


 

How did Amber find a job at Agit Night?

 

Answer: Nana is all about helping and empowering women. And Amber, as is Diamond, Lonno, and Addi, are acquaintances of Nana. So when she found they need help or she needed a position filled, she would contact her acquaintances who have the same ambition as her's in their own trade to see if they would like the job.

 

What is Lyn's Background Story?

 

Answer: She is one of the younger clients. Only 23 years old. I assume you want to know her character and not her appearance. So character wise, she comes from a wealthy family background who has emotional issues. Mainly because she is naturally a sensitive person and easily affected, she was the type of person to act out and go against her parent's wishes. When she was younger, she hung out with her wild cousin, the one that ually scarred her. Lyn accidentally walked in on her cousin ravaging and being ravaged by a male in their shed, thus scarring the younger Lyn mentally. Since then she was never comfortable with males and since she liked going against her parents, she used the two to her advantage. Namely, playing games with her suitor's mental state to keep them away and fighting her parents on getting married. That was the mindset she met Jongdae with.

 

 

 

How long was Kris's mom sick before she died?

 

Answer: 2 years.

 

 

 

What illness did Kris's mom have?

 

Answer: I didn't think to in depthly about what illness I wanted her to have, so the answer is a mysterious disease that could kill her in two years.

 

 

 

How does Luhan's kid, Dewei, turn out when he is a teen/young adult?

 

Answer: I didn't pre think of this EVER while writing the story so I had to come up with an answer as I read this question. Honestly, if I wrote that far, I wouldn't make Dewei quite like his mother or father, but instead, I'd have him mark a learned – rather than inherited – behavior after Sehun. I would have him admire Sehun, his uncle, and think he is cool in the way his uncle deals with him and his father eccentric (because this is WCMYU Luhan, we are talking about, so yes, he is still eccentric) father. Besides, Sehun did have a hand in raising him almost as much as Luhan.

 


 

 

Question's about the Main Characters


 

How did Jongdae get into Agit, specifically? Did Nana come to him or did he share the same story as the others?

 

Answer: After Jongdae was made homeless because of his mother's actions against his aunt, he was looking for a place to stay. He was 17 when went out on his own, landing him in foster care until he, shortly after, turned a legal age to be out on his own. He went to Agit Night himself and applied. He had to go through Jewel for testing, but because of the ual training he received from his aunt, he was promoted to Red Brief level, his learned skills from ages 6 to 17 made him Red Brief ready.

 

 

 

What is Kris Background Story?

 

Answer: He grew up in a single parent household. His mom was the only one there to raise him and he was a major momma's boy. Everything he did was to please his mom from his grades to house work cause he recognized she was alone in providing for him. So when he got older and entertained notions of becoming someone, so he could take care of her and allow her to rest, she fell sick. From there his life revolved around working odd jobs to pay her medical bills and constantly stay by her side. His dreams of success was pushed aside for this purpose and landed him homeless once he sold all his belongings to pay for his mother's surgery, yet she still died.

 

 

 

What is Xiumin's Background Story?

 

Answer: His parents were killed in the cliche, yet very realistic, “car accident” so his father's mother took care of him from the age of 2 years old on up. He was always a smart and hardworking student, so he got accepted into a prestigious college. However, he did have to pay for tuition himself since the school was privately funded. He held down a common job to pay until the fees got too much for him. Hence, him working at Agit Night. Yes, once his professor's found out, it was hard for him to deal with them, but they came around. That one professor still got a little stiff around Xiumin, but he didn't cause him issues. If he did, I would have wrote about it.

 

 

 

Did Tao have any friends?

 

Answer: No. He didn't. He was a loner at school and really depressed, so him making friends, besides the normal socializing at school, was not something he did.

 


 

Question's about Cameo Characters


 

Why didn't you introduce Chanyeol and Kyungsoo?

 

Answer: Reader's, let's direct our attention to the quite thorough character list:

 

Main (Most Important) Characters: Kris, Jongdae, Luhan, Xiumin, Tao, and Yixing.

 

Supporting (to give assistance to) Characters: Sehun, and Jaejoong.

 

Original (created directly and personally by a particular artist) Characters: Nana, Amber, Diamond, Lyn, Jewel, Lonno, Addi, Vanika, Luhan's family, Yixing's family, Tao's family, Jongdae's mother, Dewei, etc.

 

Cameo (brief appearance) Characters: Exo K and Infinite's Myungsoo (L)

 

Went through all that to say: the reason why Chanyeol and Kyungsoo wasn't fully introduced was because I only briefly needed their descriptions, who you assumed was Kyungsoo and Chanyeol, to make an appearance. I could have easily named them Chancelor and Koby and it wouldn't have made a difference to the story because they are brief (cameo) characters who have limited importance to the story. Joonmyun was briefly introduced as a teasing college buddy and roommate who introduced Agit to Xiumin and he disappeared shortly after. Kai was a brief character written to cause Xiumin turmoil before he too disappeared. Myungsoo came as moral support to Jaejoong before he vanished, and Baekhyun was the briefly mentioned, mysterious love interest turn husband to the OC Lyn. To sum it up, this story was made with Exo M in mind as main characters not Exo K unless otherwise stated in the character list found in the foreword, like Sehun, who was blatantly mentioned as a Supporting Character.

 

 

 

Question's about the Author?

 

 

 

What was your motivation/inspiration for writing this fiction?

 

Answer: When I first saw Exo M Ceci BTS, I was smitten with he idea of male entertainers/es, since I am a hormonal girl, of course that is the first thing that comes to mind when I see my bias (Chen) looking like he looked in that video! However, I don't want to write rated fics for uality, because I believe a story can be great without it, so for months I avoided the idea. Until one day! I came up with the angsty idea of having them as es, but not letting that be the main focus of the story. Hence, you have what I came up with. However, I wanted everything to be as realistic as possible. I enjoyed writing my own story, but my motivation to continue was my own want to see the ending, my family and friends interest, plus the comments I received. All of this combined made me eager to type (because I honestly HATE being on the computer) and updating until completion.

 

 

 

How or what did you do to keep going all the way to the end – with a pinch of everything – romance, drama, and what not?

 

Answer: I was already excited about my own story and I write for myself, so I wasn't going to stop by no means. However, the knowledge of knowing people was keeping up with my story (family, friends, commentators) kept me going as well. This story was mainly an angst/drama, however, every good story has a little bit of romance in it, so that of course, had to be included. I also had some really good music to listen to.

 

 

 

Do you have any writing tips?

 

Answer: Do I have any writing tips? I don't think I have any good ones...I am not, NOT, the best writer AT ALL. So I can't even began to approach that one. I guess you would need to be more specific? I probably STILL wouldn't be able to answer, because I don't think my talent really lies in my writing. I think what manages to catch people (or so I have been told) is my dialog. The conversation's between one character to another, is my favorite thing to do, adverse to describing what is being said and how it's being said, I like you to be a fly on the wall. I want you to feel like you're in the room listening to them exchange words and getting your own understanding of what may happen, and how they feel, adverse to me telling you.

 

 

 

Can you tell me who you are by giving a brief summary of your life experiences, your beliefs, your philosophy and your thoughts about God? Basically, give any insight you can provide into what sort of person you are that would write a story such as WCMYU – that have such a grasp of human emotions to be able to describe them so beautifully.

 

Answer: Ummm, I don't even know how to start...

 

Well, I am not one to divulge personal information, you can see from my profile, there is nothing about me on there, but for those of you who take the time to PM me, I do not mind letting you all know who I am and other personal things, because I know you all are genuine for even searching me out. But there are a few of you who will read these answers, who never talked to me period, and I don't feel comfortable sharing personal information with people like that.

 

My username is Renzei27 – renzei is my nickname in Japanese, Lynci. 2 and 7 are my favorite numbers. I am 19 years old. So I am not much of an adult, if that is what you all thought.

 

I have never, ever experienced anything these characters have. I have a supporting family, both father and mother still married 24 years now, with two other sisters, one older and the other one younger. So how did I manage to write a story like this when my life has been smooth sailing for 19 years?

 

It's not because I am crazy, like my younger sister asked me one day if I was mental. I took that psycho test, and I am low in all categories and moderate in Narcissism and OCD. So I am pretty normal. However, I do pay attention to the world around me. Just simply watching movies, counseling people around me who liked to tell me their problems, and living day to day, allowed me to relate enough to each character and put myself in their shoes. How would I react if I was them? Would I cry? Would I get mad? Would I give up on life? I asked myself these questions and realized people would react differently to many things, so I tried to incorporate many reactions in this story, but allow all of the characters to still be their own person without it seeming like something they wouldn't do.

 

My beliefs actually don't have much to do with this story. I was conscious of not adding anything I want to happen in the story if it wasn't something that wouldn't realistically happen. When people ask, “Author, why would you do this?” I can say I didn't do it. I wrote only what naturally would happen, not what I wanted to see happen. The reason why God was introduced in this story is because when people are in jail, they do have bible studies, they request such so they can receive comfort and knowledge about the one who created us all. Most people don't think of turning to God until they are suffering or going through problems, but when everything is good, they don't want to have anything to do with God. So I wanted to incorporate this attitude into the story as well because it is another real aspect of day to day life with people who suffer or not.

 

I don't have any philosophies at all, but I do believe in God. He is one of the reasons why I can relate to people and have working answers to everyone's problems. I think the thing that you all loved the most about this story is that I took the craziest of everything the world did to these characters and then undid them by giving the characters a semblance of purpose and a real life, not this fairytale, barely getting by, life. The reason why you see the wisdom in each of these characters that you guys enjoyed so much is because I do read the bible and all answers to everyone's problems are found in the book. It's really that simple. The thing about Jongdae, is that I decided to make him one of the rare people in the world who tries to apply what he learns in the bible by changing his personality, working on his own thoughts, and being honest with himself.

 

So this is my life experience that made me qualified to write about these human emotions in such a way. The bible is filled with such emotions, you just have to take the time out to read it. Other than that, I am an everyday 19 year old who doesn't act like any other 19 year old you may know. I'm not foolish, I'm not immature, and I am not ignorant. I hope this answers your question, I did the best I could when it came to it!

 

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Trivia Answers (Fun Facts)

 

This section is strictly so you readers can see some things that you might have missed during the story and some other little facts!

 

 

 

YES, my mom reads my story. She is the one that made me mark certain chapters as 'M' lol

 

Nana, Amber, Diamond, Lonno, Jewel, and Addi are based off my actual friends. Nana is my friend's nickname. Lonno is my little sister's nickname. Addi is the first half of my friends whole name. Amber, Diamond, and Jewel are the Gem crew, but these are their real life names though they are spelled differently.

 

There is no concept of time in this story. You don't know what season, month, or day it is period. The whole story is based off of Vanika's 9 month pregnancy.

 

No one used a cell phone to contact one another. Every conversation was had face to face.

 

Jongdae (Chen) is my bias, but I didn't want to make his life easier because of it. Hence, his issues. I was on a mission to convert a lot of you to becoming Jongdae biased...I think I succeeded. 

 

All the main characters have mother issues. ALL OF THEM in some form or fashion.

 

Sorata, Vanika, and Lyn names all mean something. Sorata means Thick Sky. Vanika means Vanity or a vain person. Lyn is actually based off my nickname (Lynci)

 

Sister Andrews is a real person I know who studies the bible with people in jail.

 

Agit Night is not located in any particular country. Did you notice? And it has men of all races that work there. Many readers put the business in Korea or China, but it's only located there  if you, the reader, lives there. To me, Agit is located in the country I live and the native language everyone speaks is English. However, if you live in Africa, then Agit is located there, and the language can be any language you speak there. Same if you live in Mexico, India, Russia, Norway, Scotland, America, Etc. This was done on purpose, so you dream girls can dream!

 

That's all I have for you guys! I hope you enjoyed this little segment of Q & A! I also hope you got to know me a little bit better! For those of you who want to know more personal information, don't be afraid to PM me! For those of you who plan on sending Friend Request, read my status first, cause I don't just add anybody!

 

Thank you guys again for your support! Very soon you will start to receive your treats I have in stored for you all!

 

Have a good day, till next time!

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jjangah
#1
oh my god i feel like i'm missing a big point here but what was the reason behind the "we can make you understand" part at the end of all of the updates?
love_D
#2
weeeww,,,, i just read it LOL
freshvanillacinnamon #3
Wow you've answered it!! Haha once again, I really love the incorporation of religion in the story. Not specifically because I'm a christian but really because it's so true with others. So once again, thanks for answering all our questions!
leaderblankkymp #4
You answered this! Woot woot my curiousity flew away! Create more beautiful stories, ne? I will be waiting! A+++++++ with stars and rainbows and nyan cats for this story! Love yaaa
builtbymachines
#5
Yay, the answers are out~ I did notice that all the characters have mommy issues... They all have absent, useless, or antagonizing dads, too. I didn't know where to place Agit, so in the end I chose Vegas where there's legal brothels. I didn't even realize the lack of cellphone use - was there any specific reason for them not to have any? I loved WCMYU! ^^ It's definitely one of the better fanfictions I've read (and I've read a ton), so you totally get an A++++