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this_peculiar_power

Lee Tae-gun. Korea's first and, currently, only S-rank. There are A-rankers who could get the promotion to S-rank, if they wanted to, if they revealed enough of their powers—or, at least, there is one, in Kang Jaeha himself—but this flash in the pan boy was the first one to decide to just go for it and now he's probably learning about how much it sucks to be the center of attention.

Not that you'd know from just looking at him. He's always gorgeous, stepping out of dungeons, and that's genuinely impressive in itself, but it's even more impressive if Quasar is right that they might be compatible. This implies things about the shape of Lee Tae-gun's backlash, things that suggest he's quite good at self-control, and that he must be holding quite a lot in, to be able to look like that. So that piques Jaeha's curiosity, and he looks into the boy.

Lee Tae-gun is 21; manifested really late, about a year and a half ago; has had three partners so far, none of them particularly impressive in their own rights, each lasting a handful of months and ending in the normal way these things do, with them finding partners they're more compatible with. As far as Jaeha can tell, there's nothing particularly out of the ordinary in the boy's history. He's really just very straightforwardly boring.

And, well, Jaeha is also between partners right now. The story with him is also usually the same: he's never found anyone he had great compatibility with, and they'd all eventually leave, even if they never found someone else. Better alone than with Kang Jaeha. But he doesn't take it personally. He knows they probably want more out of a partnership than he can give. This boy will be no different, they'll spend a while together and help each other survive and eventually the boy will move on and Jaeha won't take it personally either.

So Kang Jaeha is in a meeting room, reading some files and waiting for Lee Tae-gun to arrive so they can figure out whether they'll do business together or not.

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Lee Juheon

"It's his birthday. That's what it's for."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"I thought that was to spend time with people you like."

Park Yoo-min

yoo_min_max

"Are you saying you don't like us?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Strongly considering it."

this_peculiar_power

"Alright, alright, let's take the spotlight off him for a moment. What are all your powers? I confess I did not do my homework of looking all of you up online before coming here."

Park Yoo-min

yoo_min_max

"Ooh, me first, me first! I do lightning—"

this_peculiar_power

"That was fun. Your friends are a lively bunch."

neither_rest_nor_peace

They've low-key turned Jaeha's place into a shared silo slash home. It's bigger than both Tae-gun's place and their actual silo—Jaeha comes from money so he had a nice big house even prior to becoming an esper—and they're definitely in the honeymoon phase of their relationship where they want to spend all their time with each other. "They're loud," Tae-gun complains while he's taking his shoes off.

this_peculiar_power

"And yet you still hang out with them," Jaeha observes, following suit.

neither_rest_nor_peace

"...yeah. 'Cause I'm a dumbass."

this_peculiar_power

"Didn't really peg you for the type to hang out with the queer group. Doesn't seem like your style."

neither_rest_nor_peace

He starts making his way upstairs to their bedroom and ensuite bathroom. "It was kind of a coincidence, really," he sighs.

this_peculiar_power

He follows Tae-gun up. "Oh?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Juheon was my first partner, and he was part of the queer group and introduced me to everyone, and—um. I don't remember if I told you, but I was homeless before joining Quasar?"

this_peculiar_power

"You didn't," though Jaeha did dig around a bit and figured it out from reading between the lines before they were partners.

...

"But, ah, I actually knew?"

neither_rest_nor_peace

this_peculiar_power

Why is he doing this. Why is he saying this.

"Ah... Before we were partners, officially, I kind of... dug around, about you. It's not written anywhere but—there were things that weren't said." He gets ready to erase Tae-gun's memory—

this_peculiar_power

—no, actually. He doesn't. He's not sure why. This could backfire spectacularly. Tae-gun could feel pretty betrayed by this, especially that it took Jaeha this long to tell him.

He will turn the shower water on rather than look at Tae-gun, how about.

neither_rest_nor_peace

"...ah."

this_peculiar_power

Tae-gun is feeling... unstable, and confused, and a little bit vulnerable, and a little bit upset—

neither_rest_nor_peace

"W-well. I suppose it's not really a secret. Um."

this_peculiar_power

Argh. What does he—Kang Jaeha stop being stupid. "I'm sorry. I—shouldn't have." What's he going to say? That he didn't realise it could've upset Tae-gun? Of course he did; he just didn't care.

That's a state of mind he can't really inhabit right now, though. At all. Not caring about Tae-gun? Insane.

neither_rest_nor_peace

"...no, it's... fine."

this_peculiar_power

He blinks and turns to look at Tae-gun again.

neither_rest_nor_peace