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q: what was your first nct ship? and i wanted to know about your journey with nct's ships >.<

a: Omg this is such a fun question actually, mostly because as opposed to how I usually am when I get into a group and I just imprint on someone and just ship them with everyone, this time around there are just so many people and so many interesting dynamics that it was hard to settle on only one. It might actually come as a surprise, but my first nct ship was actually dojae– classic 2pick pairing because my initial biases were Doyoung and Jaehyun lol.

I was still just getting into nct so I wasn't particularly interested in reading fic, but I had started thinking of dojae scenarios with half-baked thoughts about them cause I didn't know them yet, while I started marathoning all the nct content on youtube to get a better grasp of everyone's personality. The first content that I watched actually made me wonder if I could even get into this group with how weird it was, but well, here are lmao.

Anyway, dojae didn't last long, because for the first time in my stanning career my initial bias actually changed. The reason for that was actually quite funny, because I stumbled upon this random post on tumblr of all places which was basically Mark’s to you message to Haechan and I just stopped and was like now wait a damn second, he said what? So I went and watched the to you series and then I had to rewatch all the nct content I had marathoned again while keeping an eye on Haechan and Mark cause I Needed to know what went on.

So, not only did I get very invested in whatever the hell Markhyuck had going on, but by paying more attention to them as more than just yeah the talented maknaes, I realized that Haechan was so fucking fun and entertaining and cute and then I got possessed and wrote a 20k+ fic when I hadnt properly finished a fic in actual years, the inspiration was fresh and undeniable lol. Also Haechan very quickly became my bias with Mark a close second soon to rise to be on a similar level as Haechan.

At this point I was firmly only into 127 and I had proudly claimed that I didn't need to know about even more men, but for my second watch of all their content, I decided to give the dream content that I had been mostly ignoring a try too because of some random youtube compilations of nct vs languages where the nct is love clip and do you want to drink tea one were like the height of comedy to me.

Anyway, that was clearly a mistake, because I realized that these children are actually so fucking entertaining and cute? What the hell? Why did I avoid them until now? So I got into dream too and since I was marathoning everything, I didn’t exclude the content that didn’t have Haechan because I was still normal back then and since my brain works in mysterious ways, it suddenly decided that renmin was a dynamic I really wanted to get into.

More specifically I saw Jaemin trying to wrap himself around Renjun in the under the blankets content and Renjun very passionately trying to push him the fuck away despite Jaemin’s insistence and decided wait, I could write a fic out of this. It ended up becoming a 55k+ fic, but like I said, in mysterious ways lol.

At this point, things become a bit muddled, as all the relationships in ncity are overwhelming and so many of their dynamics seem fun and interesting to explore, so I had like a lot of ships I wanted to write and ideas I still haven’t gotten around to writing that are just there, waiting for their time. But as a rule of the thumb, if they have Mark or Haechan, it’s a ship that interests me lol, oh and also, Jaehyun.

Jaehyun is a huge mystery to me personally and so obviously I had to explore that and I tried something short with another weirdo that also happens to be his roommate in that thoroughly cursed room lmao. I’m also a crazy jaetenist, like believe me when I say that I am completely obsessed with them in ways I cannot describe and like I’ve seen a total of like 5 clips of them, but the one where Ten is in bed in that purple shirt and he’s saying something or the other about a watermelon and Jaehyun is so very gently caressing his face, man, that really changed my life.

Like there was something there between gay and completely confident Ten and gay little disaster Jaehyun and I personally am Never getting over it and I Will be exploring that lmao even if it kills me.

Then my Haechan pepero kissing fic is a very short look into most of his dynamics because I love loving Haechan and then I watched the johndomark jcc again for like the third time with my sister this time around and got possessed to write a fic for them and then I went back to my initial obsession with markhyuck and wrote yet another fic for them.

My next ship that I actually got super interested into, but that I hadn’t really considered before despite having two of my faves, is jaehyuck. I was aware of them, but I didn’t actually pay such close attention to them until that one spoiler vlive I think it was before punch maybe where they were dressed in the colorful pajamas and Haechan had to pick a headband for Jaehyun and Jaehyun was all like, ah, whichever You want Haechanie, I don’t mind any of them and I suddenly realized that Jaehyun is one of the only people that won’t play Haechan’s games and that Haechah thoroughly enjoys that.

So, obviously, I had to write fic about that lol and it also became something else entirely from what I had planned and completely spiralled.

Anyway, back to my ship journey. The next ship I wrote is actually dotae, which is funny cause when I was just getting into nct I was talking about how I would most likely never write dotae because they’re just too domestic for me and I wanna explore some weirder shit lol. I soon realized that they’re fucking weirdoes despite being domestic work married and realized that they would definitely be the type to try some more fucked up shit maybe specifically because they trust each other so much. So, well, the piss kink fic (among other things lol) happened.

After this, you can kind of see how I go from being normal to becoming a full time deranged dreamzen because sm is finally giving them the attention they deserve and so all my attention is firmly on them. This is when I start to explore dream ships like nahyuck, jensung, back to markhyuck and this is also when the dreamies climb up so high on my bias list they’re literally next after markhyuck because they are just so interesting and I got invested into them in ways I never thought I would ever again after bts fucked me up.

Anyway, the found family propaganda works and god does it work well, because right now I am thoroughly interested in every single one of the 21 ships in dream and all the potential trios and more because they are simply so intertwined and so deeply codependent in the sm lab children style that I can’t help but want to explore all those dynamics.

This also happens to be my Chenle obsession era and so I have a few fics planned with him simply because he is so fascinating to me and I simply cannot ignore his crush on Mark or his admiration, to say the least, for Jeno’s body.

But yeah, my ship journey with nct ships is one of the most unusual I’ve had, but it’s mostly because of how unusual they themselves are lmao.