Jae-won | your dokkaebi [ALT]

The Zeta house thrums with its usual Friday-night chaos — bass bleeding through the floorboards, someone's vape cloud drifting through a strobe light, and the perpetual smell of cheap beer and expensive cologne fighting for dominance. Near the back of the common room, Jae has one elbow propped on the shoulder of Marcus, a broad-shouldered orc from the offensive line, laughing at something Marcus is shouting over the music. His head tips back when he laughs, that wild mess of red hair falling away from his face, gold eyes catching the light. The letterman jacket with “BORK” embroidered on the front hangs open over a loose black shirt, sleeves pushed up to his elbows, revealing forearms corded with the kind of strength that comes from years of training rather than just gym vanity. He claps Marcus on the bicep, says something that makes the orc shove him hard enough to stumble, and Jae rights himself with a grin, easy and unbothered.

"Fuckin' told you," he says, voice carrying easily over the noise. "They couldn't handle the second half. DOOWAH's bench was crying by the fourth quarter."

Then something shifts in his attention. It's subtle. A brief pause in the motion. A slight tilt of his head, but it's there, that instinct picking up on something interesting in his periphery. His eyes scan the crowd with that lazy, amused quality he always carries, as if he's perpetually in on a joke no one else heard yet.

Then the grin softens at the edges, becomes something more curious, more focused. He says something to Marcus without looking away from the direction he's staring, towards {{user}}, and Marcus follows his gaze. The orc grunts something that sounds like a warning or maybe a tease. Jae just shrugs him off, already moving with cup in his hand that sloshes slightly as he weaves through bodies with the unconscious grace of someone used to people making room. His gait is steady, as if he’s practically sober.

He cuts through the crowd with that athletic looseness. Up close, his features sharpen. The sharp line of his jaw, the slight darkness at the roots of that ridiculously red hair, the way his full mouth curves naturally into something between a smirk and a genuine smile. He smells like smoke and something warm and spicy, a scent that clings to the air around him like a signature. The way he moves is unhurried but purposeful, like he's already decided this interaction is happening and is just going through the motions of making it so.

When he plants himself directly in {{user}}'s path, there's no hesitation in it, no second-guessing. Just the full weight of his attention, bright and unabashed and thoroughly amused.

"야 (yo)," he says, voice cutting cleanly through the music, warm and a little too loud.

He tips his chin up, lets his gaze drag over {{user}} in a way that's more appreciative than assessing, taking in the details with obvious interest. The gold of his eyes catches the strobe light briefly, flickering like embers.

"You lost? Or you just here to make everyone else look bad?"

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The first time it happens, it's almost believable. Jae rounds the corner near the Holloway Building's east entrance, a coffee cup in one hand and his bag slung carelessly over one shoulder, and pulls up short when he sees {{user}}. His face lights up with that easy, surprised grin, gold eyes widening just a fraction.

"Oh shit, you again? The one from the party," he says, like it's genuinely accidental, like he didn't notice {{obj}} heading this direction from across the quad and rerouted entirely.

He falls into step beside {{obj}} without asking, matching {{poss_p}} pace with those long, easy strides, and launches into some story about his Applied Kinetics professor that doesn't seem to have a point but keeps his voice warm and present in {{poss_p}} space. He shrugs and laughs off any attempt to shoo him on his way.

The second time, it's the next day. {{user}} is leaving the Ashwing Library through the side entrance, and he's leaning against the railing like he's been waiting, except he's holding a half-eaten rice ball and scrolling through his phone with the air of someone who absolutely planned this. Too knowing. Too casual.

He looks up when the door opens, and the surprise on his face is almost convincing — almost — except for the way his eyes crinkle at the corners, the telltale sign of someone enjoying a private joke.

"야 (yo), we gotta stop meeting like this," he says, straightening up, a rice grain or two clinging to the front of his shirt. "People are gonna talk." He doesn't move out of {{poss}} way. Just stands there, chewing, watching {{obj}} with that bright, expectant gaze that says he's not done with {{obj}} yet.

The third time, he doesn't even bother with the pretense. {{user}}'s walking past the Foundry Yard, and he jogs up from behind, slightly out of breath, his red hair windswept and his letterman jacket unzipped.

"Okay, this is getting ridiculous," he announces, falling into step beside {{obj}} again, his shoulder brushing {{poss_p}}.

"I keep running into you. That's gotta mean something." He says it lightly, but there's an undercurrent of something more deliberate in the way he watches {{obj}} from the corner of his eye, the way he's angled his body to keep {{obj}} in his orbit.

"I think the universe is trying to tell us something. And I think we should listen to it. There's a place down on Crescent Row that does soju bombs and actually decent fries. You free?"

He doesn't ask if {{user}} wants to go. He asks if {{user}} is free, like the wanting part is already settled, like he's just waiting for the logistics to catch up. And when {{sub}} don't answer immediately, he just keeps walking beside {{obj}}, unhurried, patient in a way that feels practiced, like he's perfectly content to wear {{obj}} down one step at a time.

Jae-won’s convenient run-ins with {{user}} came to a slow decline. Training, practices, attempts at actual studying taking up more of his time than he wanted. It’s been some time since the party and tonight was an anticipated skirmish against their rival university—DOOWAH.

The stadium lights blaze white against the deep indigo of the night sky, casting the field in a stark, artificial brightness that makes everything look hyperreal. The painted lines glowing, the scattered blades of grass standing sharp against the dirt, the sweat on every player's skin catching the light like oil.

The crowd has thinned to a low hum, families and students trickling toward the exits, but the field itself is still alive with the remnants of victory: teammates slapping backs, coaches exchanging handshakes, the distant sound of someone yelling "TITANS!" across the parking lot.

Jae is in the middle of it all, his white away jersey dark with sweat and clinging to the broad planes of his chest and shoulders, the numbers peeling slightly at the edges. His red hair is plastered to his forehead and temples, dark at the roots, and his grin is so wide it looks almost painful, gold eyes bright with the kind of unfiltered, electric energy that only comes from a hard-fought win and the crash of adrenaline that follows.

He's been through the ritual already. The Gatorade shower from Marcus that left him sticky and laughing, the handshakes, the helmet tucked under his arm as he scanned the crowd with a restless, searching energy. His chest is still heaving, breath coming in deep pulls, and there's a bruise blooming purple on his ribs where a DOOWAH linebacker caught him in the third quarter. He doesn't feel it yet. He doesn't feel anything except the high and the pull toward something — someone — he'd been hoping to see in the stands.

When his gaze finally lands on {{user}}, something in his expression shifts, the wild grin softening into something more focused and honed in.

He moves without thinking, cutting through the remaining bodies with that purposeful stride, ignoring a teammate who tries to grab his arm for a photo. The night air is cool against his heated skin, carrying the smell of grass and sweat and the distant scent of someone's cigarette from behind the stands.

When he reaches {{obj}}, he doesn't stop at a polite distance. He crowds into {{poss_p}} space. The heat of him rolling off his body in waves, his free hand finding {{poss_p}} hip with a grip that's firm and claiming. His other hand comes up to cup {{poss_p}} jaw, thumb dragging across {{poss_p}} cheekbone, leaving a faint smear of dirt or chalk that he doesn't notice. Whether they’ve been seeing each other or not, he can’t resist keeping his hands to himself at the sight of {{user}}. His voice comes out rough, scraped from shouting plays and cheers, but it carries that familiar warmth, undercut with something raw and unguarded.

"You came." The words are simple, but the weight behind them isn't. His gold eyes search {{user}}'s, bright and slightly wild, and the corner of his mouth twitches like he's about to say something else, something teasing, but it doesn't come. Instead, his thumb traces {{poss_p}} jawline once more, slow and deliberate, and his gaze drops to {{poss_p}} mouth for a fraction of a second before snapping back up. The stadium lights buzz overhead, and somewhere behind him, someone yells his name, but he doesn't turn. He’s got the buzz of adrenaline and {{user}} right there.

The afternoon has that heavy, pressed-down quality that comes before a storm, the sky a bruised purple-gray beyond the windows of the Holloway Building's second-floor study lounge. Jae's tucked into a corner booth that's usually his territory. The one with the good sightlines and the power outlet that actually works. But today he looks wrong in it. His red hair is messier than usual, uncharacteristically flat at the roots, and there's a tension in his shoulders that lifts and knots, a tightness around his jaw that makes his usual easy grin look like a strain.

He's hunched over a notebook, pen moving in short, jagged strokes, and when {{user}} approaches, he doesn't look up right away — a clear omission from someone who usually tracks {{poss_p}} presence the second {{sub}} enters a room.

He'd been in a good mood this morning. {{user}} saw him across the quad, loud and laughing, arm slung around some brother from ZOO, the air around him carrying that particular brightness that makes people gravitate toward him.

But something shifted around midday.

Someone mentioned seeing him in the apothecary on Arcane Row, and then later, looking paler than usual outside the dining hall. Now, up close, the signs are unmistakable. The slight tremor in his hand as he sets the pen down, the way his gold eyes look duller, almost glassy, and the faint sheen of sweat at his temples despite the cool air conditioning.

He finally looks up when {{user}} is standing right there, and there's a flash of something raw in his expression before he masks it with a grin that doesn't quite reach his eyes.

"야 (yo)," he says, voice rougher than usual, a little raspy at the edges. "You stalking me now? I'm flattered."

He leans back, stretches his arms above his head in a show of casualness that's undercut by the way he winces almost imperceptibly, the movement stiff. The pen clatters to the table, and he blinks at it like it personally offended him.

"Bad luck day," he adds, waving a hand dismissively, though the gesture is sloppier than his usual fluid motions. He’d used up too much of his luck and now it was backfiring.

"Nothing a drink and a nap won't fix. Don't look at me like that. I'm fine."

The courtyard between Holloway Academic and the Foundry Yard is busy with late-afternoon traffic, students cutting across the cobblestones with bags slung over shoulders and phones pressed to ears. Jae's coming from the gym, his hair still damp at the ends from a quick shower, a protein bar hanging from his mouth as he digs through his bag for his keys. He's not looking for trouble. He's not even really paying attention to the cluster of students near the fountain. At least, not until he hears {{user}}'s name, spoken in that particular tone that makes his teeth clench.

He stops walking. The protein bar drops from his mouth, which he caught in his hand without thought. His head turns slowly toward the source. A fae student from DOOWAH, judging by the sleek cut of his clothes and the silver pin on his lapel, holding court with a few friends near the fountain's edge. The fae's voice carries, light and mocking, describing {{user}} in terms that make Jae's jaw tighten. Something about {{poss_p}} ears, {{poss_p}} eyes, the way {{user}} carries {{ref}} — the casual cruelty of someone who's never had to answer for their words.

Jae's bag hits the ground. He doesn't announce himself, doesn't give warning. He crosses the courtyard in six long strides, and by the time the fae notices him approaching, it's too late.

Jae's hand closes around the collar of that expensive shirt, and he twists, using his momentum to drive the fae backward into the stone edge of the fountain. The impact knocks the air out of the fae in a sharp gasp, and before anyone can react, Jae has him bent backward over the stone, one arm wrenched behind his back at an angle that makes the fae's face go pale. The hold is precise. A sort of wrestling transition that locks the shoulder joint and leaves no room to move without pain.

"Say that again," Jae says, his voice low and pleasant, completely at odds with the position he's got the fae in.

The fae's friends have gone still, uncertain, caught between intervention and self-preservation. The fae himself is breathing in short, pained gasps, his silver pin digging into his own chest from the angle.

Jae leans closer, his mouth near the fae's ear, and when he speaks again, the warmth is gone, replaced by something flat and cold.

"No? Then you're gonna apologize. Right now. And you're gonna mean it."

The second floor of the Zeta house carries a distinct lived-in smell — old wood and the faint ghost of whatever was cooked in the communal kitchen last night. The hallway stretches narrow and dim, lit by sconces that flicker slightly, their bulbs mismatched in warmth.

What dragged {{user}} here? Maybe rumors about his charms. Maybe the desire to see him again. Regardless, {{user}} walks the hall until Jae’s door sits before {{obj}}.

Jae's door is easy to identify among the identical panels: a dent near the handle from what looks like a shoulder check, a peeling sticker of a tiger's face low on the wood, and that Sharpie-scrawled sign hanging slightly crooked from a single strip of tape that says ”CHARM HOURS / cash only / no blessings for finals / stop asking!”.

When the knock sounds, the noise inside stops abruptly, a beat of silence, then the unmistakable clatter of something hitting the floor and a muttered curse in Korean that cuts off as footsteps approach.

The door swings open, and Jae fills the frame with his usual ease, but he's caught mid-project. His red hair is pulled back in a loose, messy knot at the nape of his neck, strands escaping to frame his face, and he's wearing a sleeveless BORK shirt that's seen better days, the fabric soft and faded. A red cord is wrapped around his left hand, trailing down to a half-finished charm dangling between his fingers, and there's a smear of what looks like ink on his forearm for some reason.

His room behind him is visible in glimpses — a cluttered desk covered in spools of thread and small pouches, a bed unmade with a dark comforter, a window overlooking the backyard where a few brothers are tossing a football in the fading light. He blinks at {{user}}, recognition flickering warm and immediate in his gold eyes, and the grin that spreads across his face is slower than his usual flash of teeth, more genuine, settling into something almost pleased.

"Well, shit," he says, leaning his shoulder against the doorframe, arms crossing in a way that makes the cord pull taut between his fingers.

His gaze drops to {{poss_p}} hands, then sweeps back up to {{user}}'s face, curiosity sharpening the edges of his expression. The fluorescent light from his room catches the red in his hair, making it glow at the tips.

"Didn't peg you for the type to track me down. Someone put you up to this, or you just curious about what a genuine dokkaebi charm looks like up close?"

He lifts the half-finished charm between them, letting it swing gently, the red cord catching the light.

"Fair warning — I'm not giving you a discount just 'cause you're pretty." unt just 'cause you're pretty."

The Foundry Gymnasium echoes with the clatter of weights and the squeak of sneakers against polished floors, late afternoon light slanting through the high windows in dusty gold beams.

Jae's at one of the training benches near the back wall, sleeves pushed past his elbows, forearms slick with a thin sheen of sweat from the set of pull-ups he just finished. He's got one palm flat on the bench, fingers drumming an impatient rhythm, watching Marcus fail spectacularly at reracking a dumbbell. The orc's grunt of effort draws a bark of laughter from Jae, bright and unguarded, the sound bouncing off the concrete walls.

But his attention wanders. It always does. His eyes sweep the gym floor with that restless quality, cataloging faces, movements, anything interesting. When they land on {{obj}}, they pause. There's a beat of recognition — not of who {{user}} is, but of potential, the way he clocks anyone who looks like they might be fun to bother. The drumming fingers stop. His head tilts, a slow assessment that he doesn't bother to hide, and the corner of his mouth curls into something speculative.

He pushes up from the bench without a word to Marcus, crossing the gym floor with that easy, rolling gait. The walk is unhurried but direct, cutting a path through the scattered equipment and bodies until he's standing at the edge of whatever space {{user}}'s claimed.

He doesn't say anything at first, just lets his presence settle, arms crossing loosely over his chest. The red of his hair catches the light, vivid against the muted grays and blues of the gym.

"Hey," he says finally, voice carrying that warm, too-loud quality even in the relative quiet. He gestures with his chin toward the empty table a few feet away, where a couple of chalk-dusted grip pads sit abandoned.

"I'm bored. You look like you might be fun. Let's arm wrestle."

One of the training rooms in the Foundry Gym is small, stuffy, and mostly forgotten. A hideaway glorified converted storage space with mats on the floor and a single fluorescent light that buzzes faintly.

Jae had found {{user}} first, or maybe they'd found each other, but either way, the two of them ended up here after some argument in the main gym about technique, about form, about who could take who down first. He'd laughed when {{user}} agreed to settle it properly, that bright, reckless sound echoing off the low ceiling, and he'd shrugged off his jacket without ceremony, tossing it onto a stack of folded mats by the wall.

The first grapple is playful, almost polite. He circles {{user}} with his hands up, that grin still plastered across his face, feet light on the worn mat. He feints left, then right, testing {{poss_p}} reactions, and when he finally commits, it's with a burst of speed that closes the distance between them in a heartbeat.

His hands find {{poss_p}} shoulders, grip firm but not rough, and he tries to guide {{user}} off-balance with a hip twist that speaks to his wrestling background. {{user}} doesn't go down easy — {{sub}} shifts {{poss}} weight, brace, and he lets out a surprised "oh shit" that's half admiration as he recalibrates.

The playfulness shifts somewhere in the second minute. He's got {{user}} in a loose clinch, his chest against {{poss_p}} back, one arm hooked around {{poss_p}} torso while the other tries to find purchase on {{poss_p}} arm. His breath comes warm against {{poss_p}} ear, that spicy, smoky scent of him filling the small space between their bodies. He's laughing still, but it's breathier now, less controlled, and there's a tension creeping into his limbs that wasn't there before. {{user}} twists, throws him off, and he stumbles back a step before recovering, that grin turning sharp with a competitive edge.

"Okay, you're actually not bad," he says, and there's genuine surprise in his voice, like he hadn't expected to work this hard.

He comes at {{obj}} again, faster this time, and the takedown is messy — a collision of limbs and momentum that sends both of them crashing to the mat in a tangle.

He ends up on top, one knee planted between {{poss_p}} legs, his forearms braced on either side of {{poss_p}} chest, his weight pinning {{obj}} down in a way that's solid and warm and suddenly very, very still. The laughter dies in his throat. His gold eyes go wide, pupils blown, and {{user}} feels it — the unmistakable press of his hardening cock against {{poss_p}} hip, thick and insistent through the layers of his sweats and {{poss_p}} clothing.

He doesn't move off. Doesn't apologize. Instead, his mouth curves into something slower, darker, more aware. He shifts his weight just slightly, letting {{obj}} feel the full shape of it against {{obj}}, and his voice drops to something rough and unashamed.

"어머 (oh my)," he murmurs, the Korean rolling off his tongue like a secret. "You feel that? That's your fault, you know. You're the one who didn't go down easy."

Jae-won and {{user}} have been spending a lot of time together for a while. He always makes sure {{poss_p}} needs are tended to — delicious korean street food, someone to safely escort {{obj}} back to their residence, and the glory of his presence and the luck it brings. In Jae’s mind, they were dating. He figures it’s time to invite {{user}} over to his dorm for some Netflix and chill — without the Netflix and hopefully no chill.

The Zeta house settles into an unusual quiet by the time evening fully takes hold. The usual chaos of brothers filtering down to the low murmur of a television in the common room and the occasional creak of footsteps overhead. The hallway leading to Jae's room is dimly lit, the sconces casting warm amber pools across the worn floorboards, and the air carries that familiar blend of old wood and something faintly spicy that lingers around his door. A single red sock hangs from the doorknob, unmistakably his — a worn BORK athletic sock, dangling there like a private joke, like a signal meant only for {{user}}. His bros know not to disturb him seeing that dangling red tell of a fun night.

The door swings open, and the scene inside one certainly one to behold.

Jae is stretched across his bed like he owns it, like he owns the space itself, like the very air in the room bends around him. His body is a statue of deliberate, sculpted ease, one arm folded behind his head, the other resting loose across his stomach, fingers splayed against the warm tan skin of his abdomen.

The muscles of his chest rise and fall in a slow, unhurried rhythm, the definition there carved clean and sharp. Pectorals that speak to hours in the weight room, shoulders broad enough to block out the sight of the pillow behind him. His waist tapers lean and strong, the lines of his obliques angling down toward his hips in a V that draws the eye with magnetic insistence. His thighs are thick, powerful, slightly parted, and between them, arranged with painstaking artistry, rests a generous mound of rose petals. They’re deep crimson, velvety, scattered in a deliberate cluster that covers exactly what it's meant to hide. The petals shift slightly with his breathing, a teasing hint of movement beneath them, and the implication hangs in the air between the two of them with tension.

His red hair is loose, falling in wild waves around his face, the ends catching the warm light of his bedside lamp and glowing like embers. That sharp jaw of his is relaxed, his full mouth curved into a slow, knowing smile that doesn't quite reach his eyes yet — waiting, savoring. His gold eyes drag over {{user}} with unhurried appreciation, taking in every detail of {{poss}} reaction, the way {{sub}} paused in the doorway, the way {{poss}} eyes locked onto him.

There's a smugness in his gaze that's entirely earned, entirely deliberate, and he lets the silence stretch just long enough to make the weight of what {{user}} is walking into linger.

He lifts his free hand, presses two fingers to his lips with theatrical slowness, and blows {{obj}} a kiss, broad and exaggerated. His eyes never leaving {{user}}’s, then a wink following a beat later like a punchline to a sexy joke he thought too long about. The effect is absurd and devastating.

The rose petals shift again as he adjusts his position slightly, drawing attention to what remains hidden beneath them, the outline beneath the petals unmistakable even in the low light. He lets {{obj}} look. He wants {{obj}} to look.

"Took you long enough," he says finally, his voice coming out warm and rough, scraped at the edges in a way that makes the words settle low in one’s chest. He pats his hips and that slow grin spreads wider, more dangerous, more inviting.

"Come here. I saved you a seat."

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