Stargirl

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Irene's a hopeless romantic, Seulgi's her Stargirl.

A story inspired by The Weeknd's Starboy.

 

Volume I of the Red Velvet x The Weeknd Collection

 

Irene's okay.

That's what she is. Just okay. She's got a good group of friends, a steady job, a university degree behind her.

Then she meets Seulgi. Seulgi's like no one she's ever seen before. She's rich, she's popular, she's a terrible influence. She drinks too much, she sleeps around, she doesn't care about anyone but herself.

 

Irene can't help it. She's always been a hopeless romantic. She's always been looking for love. And she falls for Seulgi hard. But Seulgi's different. She doesn't fall in love. She doesn't settle down. That's not who she is. She does what she wants. She lives life on the edge. Because that's what she is. She's free and careless.

She's a Stargirl.

 

Foreword

Author's Notes

Okay so, since I actually am addicted to writing at the moment and I seem to be putting out work at a fast speed that people still seem to very much like, I thought I'd start yet another story (lol, this is like my 8th since March). It's going to have quite a lot of angst and some down the line but - gasp - it's going to have some fluff, too! I know, I know. That's crazy for me. But my actual piece of writing I'm working on (my novel) is very dark, as is my other fanfic, Babel, so I figured I'd write something a little less so for now :)

If you enjoyed Lust, you'll probably enjoy this, although it'll have less drugs, about the same amount of , and quite a bit more fluff :)

Note:

This story will have 18 chapters - one for every song on Starboy, including the Interlude. I figured the whole purpose of this story was to challenge myself to write something while staying in the confines of a certain theme, so that's why I'm trying.

Anyways, enjoy!

If you haven't read any of my other stories yet, you can find them here:

 

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sagingnirene #1
Chapter 6: i wanna flick irene’s forehead as an “advice”
Sir_Loin #2
Chapter 16: I found a better analogy than old tv shows. It’s like anime.
Makes sense too if i were to read this in real time and not binge read it. So I apologise for the previous rant.
Sir_Loin #3
Chapter 15: Loopidy loop. It’s almost like… you know old tv series that you need to wait to watch for a week for the next episode? So in that next episode, 10-15 mins of it is recapping the previous episode. It feels like that tbh. I’m all for it if you’re trying to get the readers to feel as frustrated; stuck; sad; hopeless; like the Irene and Seulgi in this. But really, for me, because of the long words, it’s just… too long. In the end the only new part of that next episode is just another 15-20 mins. The rest of the one hour show is adverts. And you kinda have that too. I get creating a setting. A mood as you will. But a few sentences would suffice. Not a whole paragraph and a half. But honestly, i can tell you’re super good at english and you’re creative with how you describe things. This is super dramatic. But hey, i was lucky enough to get myself out of the slump, but i know some ppl have it bad and maybe this is just making me realise or help me be more sensitive to ppl like irene and seulgi.
Sir_Loin #4
Chapter 10: I’m blaming Yeri 🤣🤣🤣
Sir_Loin #5
Chapter 9: It’s a loopy loop. They’re having the same conversations.. i’m guessing you want the readers to be as frustrated as Irene at this point 😂
Sir_Loin #6
Chapter 1: Sudden Seulgi appearing to talk to Yeri? Maybe it is really her but it just came out of the blue so i got a bit confused. It’s whatever tho
seulgitops #7
Chapter 18: god this was amazing you are amazing I don't know a better dark writer we as a seulrene shipper are so lucky to have you. thank you for writing
Aseulhyun #8
Chapter 9: <span class='smalltext text--lighter'>Comment on <a href='/story/view/1340690/9'>Sidewalks.</a></span>
Just finished reading and I got some tip for you!

1. As a non native English speaker, the extremely long paragraphs were really confusing, there’s a lot of irrelevant details that got me a little bored.

2. In my perspective there was no feeling development at all, Seulgi was supposed to be someone who doesn't fall in love but after sleeping with Irene twice she’s in love?? Also no development for Irene, she saw Seulgi once and said she loved her (?)

3- Wendy, Joy and Yeri were kinda shallow, I know this is a seulrene story but would be nice to see some character development for them

4. Would’ve been great to see some angst as well. Seulgi push and pulling Irene, while Irene is trying to figure out her feelings, Seulgi ghosting her cause she realized she was catching feelings and stuff like that.



I just feel like this had so much potencial. When I started reading I saw the comments saying this was a clumsy story, I didn’t get why at the beginning, but after reading more I understood.



Anyways, I don’t regret reading this. even though I didn’t really enjoy the romance and angst parts, there’s some life advices there that I got really touched by. Thanks for the story!
Infamoux #9
Chapter 6: I saw a comment talking about how this is a 'clumsy story' and how he/she didn't like Irene's character.

1. Nobody cares about your opinion, and if it's offensive, don't even say it.
2. This story is way more realistic than the others. In real life, Irene's character is quite common among all of us. People stalk, people go back, it's normal so why tf are you making a big deal out of it?

I just want to say I actually love this story for what it is.
BooneTB #10
Chapter 18: After finishing Seoul City Vice I kinda took a break for a while to catch up on stuff before I started reading this one, because I knew that once I started I wouldn't be able to focus on anything else until I finished it. And that assumption was very much correct.
I knew you usually write more angst and drama heavy fics so when I saw a "fluff" tag alongside it I chose Stargirl as a bit of a lighter introduction to your other works. And boy oh boy was it a ride.

Stargirl actually kinda touched me on a personal level, like, big time. Irene's character in this story feels like a goddamn carbon copy of myself. Almost halfway through 20s (correct me if I'm wrong but I believe she's 24 in this story, which is scarily accurate), business degree but doesn't enjoy it, lost in life, feeling lonely all the time... everything just fits (except I unfortunately critically lack in the friend department as well ㅜㅜ). It fits to the point where while reading Irene and Seulgi's conversation in the first part of last chapter I had to start laughing, cause it felt like you had a camera on my life and then somehow travelled back in time to 2018 and wrote a story about it. Throughout the whole part beginning with "Irene was quiet for a while..." and ending with "...and I don't know what to do about it." I felt like the meme of Joey Tribbiani from Friends pointing at himself in the TV. Especially the line "I feel so directionless and everyone around me has their fully figured out and I feel like they're all just leaving me in the dust." That one hit me like a truck, cause honestly, same.
I kinda have a problem with expressing my thoughts in words, be it spoken or written (which most likely shows in these comments I'm leaving :D) so to see a significant part of my concerns written so thoughtfully like this honestly felt quite enlightening. I wanted to thank you for that.
It also put into perspective the fact that, in reality, me or my concerns aren't really that special. As in, I'm most definitely not the only person feeling like this, or who has felt like this before. Which is quite obvious, since there's 7,5 billion people on Earth. And that fact has somewhat of a soothing effect on my mind. Because if others got through this phase, I have hope I can do the same. And I really needed that hope.
Another line I really liked was from chapter 16: "I want to be able to help you, and I want you to be able to help me. But I don't want to have to lean on you and pretend that all my problems aren't problems and hope that because I'm with you they'll just go away." While it doesn't have an immediate impact on my life since I'm not in a relationship, it kinda made something click in me. Like new neural pathways forming to connect things that previously weren't connected. I'll definitely remember that message, cause I can already see myself needing it down the line.

So yeah, another great story, another feeling of hollowness incoming. This was the first time I related to a character this much. Thank you for introducing a bit of much needed hope into my life. Because if a fictional character can do it, surely I can as well. Right? RIGHT?! :D
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