Tao:

Pre debut: Tao seems much older pre debut. He takes a lot of photos of himself taken by friends or other people. Tao seems insecure, he’s depressed and sad. When he was 16, he got a job at Starbucks, not to earn money for himself but to be able to buy things for his mum and dad. I don’t think Tao’s dad was close to him, I think his mum would have cared for him but I don’t think he had a good relationship with his dad. In one of Pre debut Tao’s photos, one of my anons pointed out a cigarette box and lighter next to him. Because of the rumours the former SM trainee revealed, he said that Tao wasn’t loved and would resort to alcohol and smoking, but only a little bit. Tao was probably a badass chinese boy, he probably smoked with his friends and that’s how he found his escape for his sadness. The rumour about him dating 8 girls at once could be true. He could have used girls as an escape for his emptiness and loneliness. In 2009 and 2010, he realised his dream was to sing and that he loved to sing. He posted on his blog telling people to believe him and that he will do well that he knows what he is doing. He was sad as nobody would listen or believe him, basically, everyone abandoned him but being Tao, he still loved his friends and wanted them to believe him. I think Tao was really depressed, he was also a hard worker but he probably wasn’t academic. He tried to believe that he wasn’t a failure and he believed in himself while his friends didn’t. He wanted to pr