Pairing: Samuel/ Daehwi

Companies: Brave/ Brand New Music

Genre: Hurt/ Comfort

Word Count: 729

Requested by: 강마루 (Kookienism) (AO3)

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It was meant to be a happy time, the broadcast of 'Nayana' had aired and initially he had seen all the positive comments about being the centre. Everyone was questioning who he was and praising him for being so enthusiastic during the performance. Those comments hadn't lasted long, they didn't disappear but Daehwi realised how much one single hate comment could outweigh hundreds of positive ones. An even bigger problem was that there wasn't just one, or two. There were hundreds. The comments calling him 'ugly' or unworthy flooded social media and the comments section of the video that he was scrolling through.

At first he had tried to ignore the comments but was soon agreeing with them, he knew he wasn't good looking especially when placed next to the visuals in the show, in fact he happily commented on it before meaning no harm as he himself was not ugly. Hearing the netizens compare him with Jihoon, Jinyoung, Haknyeon or one of the other countless visual males hurt and affected him more than he realised, he soon found himself distressed at the comments talking about his lack of visuals.

Daehwi felt tears prick in the corner of his eyes as he continued to scroll, his eyes not even noticing the countless beautiful comments people had written about him. Seeing another hateful judgement about his appearance finally made the tears drip down his face, throwing the phone, he crouched over, curling in on himself as his body shook with tears. He didn't even hear when someone walked towards him hastily.

Samuel had walked into the room only to see the blonde shaking with tears, he was surprised but quickly moved towards him, p