'Midas Touch' | Aespa Winter x Male Reader

Act 4 | Year 2024: Raising Funds

May 2024,

Three months had passed since the reunion of IZ*ONE. It made headlines about how WIZ*ONE were grateful from the simple gesture. ANGELs also showed support to the artists by streaming their MVs voting on music show etc.. It's a heartwarming gesture where two fandoms got united.

Rather, our fandoms had made a lot of new friends ranging: CARATs, MYs, DIVEs, REVELUVs, SONEs and now the newer fandoms that made friends are FEARNOTs, WIZ*ONEs, NEIGHBOURs and NSWERs. Our group realized that most fandoms that we befriend were girl groups.

Because it's harder to befriend other boy group fandoms since we are 'competition' in their eyes. Scratch that, the reason why we're friends with BOYNEXTDOOR's fandom was because they looked up to us and how they see ANGELs treated them.

Even when ANGELs treated them with care, some of them just spit back at them. It's not worth the time. Other fandom such as ATINYs, TREASURE MAKERs at least respected ANGELs and did not harbour any ill feelings compare to ENGENEs and STAYs who are public enemy number one for ANGELs.

They did say that we are not 'talented' speaks how they viewed us. I wrote the lyrics, AJ helped with the choreography and Tobio is now producing our songs. I confessed, that some of us are better in different aspects. 

We do not have any specific positions since everyone was good enough to be in every position, but if I have to rank based on positions, it will be like this:

Killian: Leader, Main Vocalist, Main Dancer, Lead Rapper, Visual, Face of the Group

Muchen: Main Vocalist, Lead Dancer, Sub Rapper, Visual, Center

AJ: Main Vocalist, Main Rapper, Main Dancer

Tobio: Lead Vocalist, Lead Dancer, Sub Rapper

Jaewoo: Main Dancer, Lead Vocalist, Sub Rapper, Maknae

Our main strength always lies in our vocals. Babylon Garden was nominated as the 4th Gen Vocal Kings. The five of us were tested with trained professionals and they said our vocals are very powerful to the point where everyone can be main vocalists. But the most powerful one will be Muchen.

Then, our strength also lies in our dancing skills. Under PLEDIS Entertainment, we were mainly focusing on perfecting our dancing synchronization. More so it was harder since we only have five members. But we prevailed and trained hard up to the point that everyone here was able to showcase during all of our dance break.

The only weakness we have as a group was our rapping skills. Besides AJ, I was the only one who passed to be the Lead Rapper. The other three managed to pass the Sub Rapper part. But it was discuss in the online community that our rap line was not bad at all. 

Some said it was the same level with some of the Lead Rapper from other groups. They discuss with evidence showing that most of our songs, everyone has at least rapped once. Concreting the evidence that our group don't need any set positions.

It was proved more that our group was the group with the most fair line distributions across our discography. Proving that everyone can do everything and not relying on just one person. Our group also proved to be the fairest in bias members picked by the community.

It just showed that our group was not a one biased member group and everyone shined perfectly. Thus, Babylon Garden earned the nickname: 4th Gen Demons.

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It was the end of May. One more month before our comeback. Promotions were made, heavily invested this time since we want to target the western media. Hopefully we can finally debut at the Billboard Music Awards and be the first kpop group to do so.