Staegma ✧ taejin

Thank you

Thanks for reaching this far into the story. And for voting, commenting, and everything else that you do for support. It means a lot, so thank you.

To be honest, I never really intended the story to be romantic. I just wanted the characters to have a deep connection, and that connection isn't necessarily "love." It could be something else. Moreover, I'm bad at writing romance, and the main "genre" was finalized to be angst (I think the angst build-up is horrible too). So, if you think the romantic build-up is not that good, it's fine. I think so too.

Here's a list of the previous ideas I had but decided to place out:

1. RM/Namjoon was supposed to be an antagonist (not like a love triangle kind of way!) he's a beautiful human being in real life, but I wanted an edgy Namjoon, inspired from the Run era look he had.

2. The story was (originally) supposed to be around 5-10 chapters at a "one-time setting" and the main focus would be Jin meeting up with Taehyung's virtual family.

It wasn't supposed to be angst, it was initially comedy. But I lost my humor and there you have it.

3. Seokjin was supposed to go crazy, but I thought insanity as an ending is too overused.

4. JK was supposed to know something about the other universe, which was why he had a textbook on the chapter he was introduced, and why he tweeted something about universes.

5. I wanted to make minjoon a thing, but I thought I had too many subplots then. I know I don't do romance, but it's a cute ship.

6. There was a point wherein I decided to make Yoongi some kind of time/universes manipulator (see chapter 23 wherein Yoongi smirked about the red room/murder thing) but then I valued sin's relationship more

so that's a no

7. Also Hoseok was supposed to be the first one to know about Jin's dark secret of playing the game (aside from Yoongi), but writing had brought me somewhere else I apologize for not giving him a bigger role. And yes, it was intended he would have a straightforward personality, as seen at the beginning.

I had thoughts of Hoseok as an actor and how I envisioned him to play a role that is so different from his playful side in real life. I'm sorry, I love him.

8. For the ending, Tae and Jimin were supposed to come back in the real world and go to a museum date or something and Jin would see them and lose his shit

I wrote it and it seemed boring. You can agree with me.

9. For the ending, Hoseok, Yoongi, and Jin were supposed to get drunk together and that's where the good action would begin. I didn't know what the "good action" was so I decided to abandon the idea.

10. For the ending, Tae was supposed to do the gory process and live with a physical injury. And then he'd start over again with Jin

But I couldn't write a love story to save my life so it was abandoned. Though, I did intend yoonseok to be a slight romantic story, but as you can see Hobi was his hater and they had a past with a girl who cheated and stuff

11. For the ending, I asked one of my friends what would be one and this friend suggested that there was one person who was controlling everything, like a game.

Meaning, Jin is a game character as well. But I ran out of characters to use, and I wanted to keep it within the limits of Bangtan since it is a taejin story.

12. Again, it wasn't supposed to be a romance story, but since a lot had seen it that way, I decided to make it like that. (Also because I keep on seeing So What taejin videos on my timeline, so I kind of forgot how I would write my initial objective, seeing as all of the So What taejin videos are. . . like that.)

I think that was all the ideas I had crossed off.

Also, here are a few notes, in case you don't know (but you probably do):

- user prdsdef is GOT7's leader, Im Jaebum. He's a mutual friend of namseok, as it was seen

- I mentioned that Yoongi was commenting on idols' account(s) (specifically GOT7) but I made Yugyeom a cashier register at a convenience store

- The song inspiration for this as I wrote is is Block B's Toy. Go listen to the song and check out the lyrics if you want!! It's really amazing.

- and that is why you may have read Block B's B-Bomb (Minhyuk) here. Yoongi saw him when he looked out the window

- VIXX Ken/Jaehwan is Jin's closest friend at the cafe. I wanted to make their friendship seem deeper, but I think the story would be too long and all.

- Okay I forgot to add I never reread a chapter I've just written, which explains the grammatical errors and everything. Sorry!

Anyway, thanks once again for reading this story. I hope you liked it.