Vmin Oneshots [A03 Collection] ⋆.˚ ᡣ𐭩 .𖥔˚

when the kiss strikes midnight ✅

Author—strawberryyhobi

Summary:
princes aren’t usually perceived as insecure, highly self conscious, and anxious balls of awkwardness.

but, that’s park jimin — and that’s his charm.

because with the kingdom’s harsh standards and a judgmental society that always crowds him for not looking how traditional is supposed to look like, he develops these worries over time that he’s just simply not good enough — and that he needs a change and needs it now.

so when the palace disco rolls around and he’s panicking last minute with exercise routine after exercise routine, his fairy godfather shows up at just the right place and the right time to give him exactly what he wishes for.

which is, nothing else than to be tall, hot, and ripped.

it’s only when jimin starts considering whether to make these changes permanent that his best friend, taehyung, starts to panic — realizing he has to step in before it’s too late.

Notes:
In response to a prompt by lucid_dreamer_247 in the BTS_Fairytale_Fic_Fest collection.
Prompt:

Okay hear me out... Prince Cinders x Dynamite AU???

Jimin is a prince who's always been small, looked down on, feeling particularly Not Special. So he asks his fairy godperson to make him tall and muscly and "sexy" for one night; he wants to go to the Palace Disco and be /seen/, to rollerblade with the other royals and be admired and Special.

But his childhood best friend, Taehyung, doesn't understand. He's always admired Jimin for who he is. He's beautiful, no matter how big or small or muscly or skinny he is. When Jimin meets a handsome new suitor at the disco and tells Tae he's gonna ask his fairy godperson to make the change /permanent/, Taehyung decides he needs to step in. He can't allow Jimin to change for some stupid, handsome prince.

Not when Taehyung has loved him for all of these years.

Once upon a time, in a land far far away, there lived a prince.

An incredibly diffident, highly insecure, over the top self conscious prince, but a prince.

Even with all the endless luxuries that came his way without the need to wish on a shooting star, even with every lavish gift he (surprisingly) received on his birthday ever single year ever since he came upon the world in a swaddling cloth, even with everything he could’ve wanted and much, much more — he was still left with this reverted image of himself that never lived up to anyone’s expectations.

Because whether it be a cash prize or lottery withdrawal for some material item worth thousands, gold is still gold — and gold, regardless of its value, is utterly useless when it comes to restoring people’s lost happiness that was taken by others around them.

Jimin’s innocence and childhood joys weren’t stolen from money, therefore money couldn’t repair those holes in his heart. There was nothing money could redeem itself for because it simply wasn’t the villain in this situation, and although it did provide some satisfaction in the moment, it could never make up for the way the royal family, townspeople, and practically everyone else he had ever come into contact with, did to him.