oh dohyun

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Dohyun remembers hearing a story about his first birthday and his doljanchi that occurred on that day. They said during his doljabi, despite all of the items laid out of the table waiting for him, he had grabbed his mother’s hand only to be shaken off within seconds to pick something on the table. After that, he quickly picked up the book.

A deficit of attention and a uselessly smart brain. Perhaps that small ritual was a bit too accurate in predicting his future. The only part it would miss was the boundless greed that stemmed from the other two.

Dohyun never had a particularly happy home life. It was just fine, he supposes. His father was too busy directing some new drama to be home during reasonable hours for such a young kid to also be awake - but when he didn’t have a current work filming, he was sweet and always next to the boy. His mother, however, was someone he still doesn’t know much about. She worked as a director in some chaebol company and was off on multiple week-long business trips every month or two.

Whatever he had been getting used to had been thrown out of the window once they received the call. A hospital call that his mother had been involved in a car crash on her way to the airport.. and she was declared dead in the ambulance. Dohyun knows he was supposed to be breaking down in tears like his father, but the first reaction to come out of him was a laugh. Perhaps it was for the absurdity of how suddenly the situation occurred, perhaps it was because of his father’s reaction, or perhaps it was because he wouldn’t miss her at all.

From then on, even his father’s warmth had been extinguished. He turned into a total workaholic, only home to chug down soju. Dohyun thought he was used to being left to his own devices, but the absence of the one flame he had, no matter how small it was, left him in needy darkness. A constant want for /something/, anything, that’d make him feel warm once again.

As time passed, his father seemed to get better. He would allow the boy to get out of the house more and visit his filming sites, yet that was it. Dohyun wonders if that laugh also blew away any affection the elder was willing to give him. And he wonders if ignoring him for so many years made the elder guilty because despite never spending time with the boy still, he began to listen to every request Dohyun made. Even if he couldn’t give him parental love, he could give him anything else - and Dohyun made sure to use that to his advantage.

Having so many things at his fingertips just made the boy power-hungry, and the fact that all of these things had yet to fill up the hole in his heart just made him more greedy. Dohyun decided from this young age that he would have whatever he wanted, whatever he felt could fill this - and would destroy whatever came in his way. He started moving on to other simple sources of attention. The first was his teachers and peers. Dohyun already placed within the top 10 students in his whole school, so all he did was put a bit more effort in to become the undefeatable number 1. It was nice to hear his name thrown around, especially during report card season where everyone would be dreading their marks and curiously asking who would be in first and whoever they asked would answer his name like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

On the next one of the many days he spent his free time on his father’s sets, he decided to get on the good side of everyone there. He’d help out the staff instead of just sitting down and looking on, and he’d socialize with the actors and help them out too if needed. While visiting all of them, he found the most captivating person his eyes had ever fallen on. His first love. They were older than him, but Dohyun’s sweet and mature nature made the two of them naturally click and become very close quickly. It would have been nice if it stayed as a boy’s pure first love, but there was no way that would ever be possible with the greed that exists right under the innocent sweet mask of his. Well, if he could be given any item just from asking, he should be allowed to get any person just from confessing. That was his logic when he called his love out to meet him in the middle of the night.

It was supposed to be a sweet night where a flame would place itself near Dohyun’s heart once again. But it wasn’t. His advances were rejected, but he was so desperate for even a semblance of reception that he kissed the other. That just ended up in him receiving a punch from the other and his “love” walking away. Maybe he was supposed to feel heartbroken, but all that did was fuel anger in him. He had already established he would destroy anything in his way. Even if the thing in his way was the person he wanted.

Once he got home, he rushed to his father with crocodile tears, pointing out his now busted lip and retelling the whole story to him. Except for the part where he was the one who called them out, and the part where he was the one to make unwanted advances. According to him, he was called out by them in the middle of the night and he disagreed with their opinion on some topic, starting a small argument that then led that person to hit him. He begged his father to get their role on the show replaced or write out the character because he wouldn’t feel comfortable otherwise.

And his father, as spineless as ever, said he believed the boy and decided to write out the character. And when all the other staff turned up confused at the sudden change, his father relayed Dohyun’s story back to them all. No doubt even flashed in their eyes, after all, this was Dohyun who was such a kind child that he helped them all of the time. There was no way he would end up being the villain in such a story, and the boy showing up to the set the next day with his lips still not fully healed sealed the story too. He made sure to look as sad as possible and shared the story to as many other souls as possible when asked what had happened. People in the entertainment industry spread rumours fast, like full truths and with the accuracy of broken telephone games, until practically anyone in the Korean industry thought of that person as someone violent onset and malicious to people they work with. And of course, that meant the number of people willing to cast them fell down quickly.

Dohyun hadn’t expected it to be so easy to spread a rumour so far, but he felt ever the more powerful afterwards. He had thought of searching out that person and seeing if this intimidation was enough for them to just be his but - he’s too powerful to need to be searching out for someone who thought it was okay to reject him. Maybe if they were to search him out first, get on their knees and apologize - maybe then, he’d forgive them just because they’re his first love and work to clear the air around their name.

He stopped showing up at sets that often afterwards, having just entered high school and wanting to now focus everything onto the more stable choice of his studies. Despite that, he did make sure to keep in good contact with everyone from the industry that he knew. He’s not sure about what he’s going to do with his studies or the contacts just yet, but the boy has a gut feeling that they would come in handy.

They do. During his first year in high school, his father’s movie became big internationally. During his second year, his father moves to Hollywood and sets a new standard there and he constantly brings on Korean staff from his earlier productions, and some move there too. And in his third year of high school, Dohyun applied to only Ivy League schools at the insistence of his teacher, stating that there was no way he wouldn’t land in at least one of them with his marks.

He gets into multiple.

His choice is Stanford, mostly because he needs to be near all of his connections to make proper use of them. And there are many stars in Hollywood that he’d like to see in person. He might as well find someone who will warm him up properly and be a reciprocating lover. Or make it so they /will/ reciprocate his feelings, no matter what.

That’s how he ends up moving into these apartments where many stars and other valuable industry relations reside, to grow his connections and be just like anyone else there - until an obstacle appears in his way, that is. /div>