[ exo : the stars between us ] voice test
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kokoronashithe stars between us
a voice test
fandom exo
pairing kris/tao, luhan/xiumin, hinted a whole lot of other things
style multichaptered
chapter "teasers"
length 1413 words
Test drabbles for a Mecha AU I'm working on (because I can't do the actual fic until at least next week). Makes absolutely no sense unless you know the plot that's being worked on.
01 Kai
Here is a list of things Kai knows about himself:
One. He is a clone. He was born two weeks ago, but he was supposed to be eighteen and capable and knowing how to pilot a robot and know what a robot is and know how to eat with a pair of chopsticks because all of those information had been installed in his head.
Two. He is a clone of someone great. Someone who mastered the battlefield like it was a dancefloor and that someone was the star of the show.
Three. He is born to fight. Because earth, the blue circle marked with green and white he first saw on a hologram of needed protecting.
Last. His name is Kai. Or rather, his codename is Kai. His real name doesn’t exist and that’s alright, because Kai isn’t supposed to exist out of the battlefield either.
02 Kris
Kris had never understood the appeal of gravity. He couldn’t understand what was so good about an invisible force that hindered humankind from flying for thousands of years, making it so even just moving is a fight between one’s limbs and the asshole that is gravity.
Kris had always liked it here in space better, where he could float and fly and nothing could bring him down. Where he could pretend he was bathed in stars although he knew that if he ever came close to them, they would burn him to nothingness.
Yet still, he would have preferred that to gravity.
03 Lay
This is the M unit. So far there are only four of you. There is you, there is the leader and there are two men older than you even if they may not look it. Just smile and bow anyway. This is a new start for you.
This is the Unicorn, a full support unit. It is different from your last. It is pale blue whereas your last was red. It is a Unicorn, an animal that is pure, an animal that heals whereas your last was an animal of which you do not even want to feel on your tongue, not anymore.
Your name is Lay. Your name is Lay, now.
This is your second chance, don't mess it up, don't mess up Lay whereas you did your last.
04 Suho
It’s not as if Suho doesn’t know what they’ve been saying about him.
It’s not as if they can whisper “rich boy relying on daddy’s money” louder.
05 Luhan feat. Xiumin
They picked him up from the streets and told him there are bigger battles out there to fight than just petty squabbles over things he wouldn’t remember in a week.
Watching Xiumin walks in, feeling his heart skipping half-a-beat, tasting his juice to be that little bit sweeter, Luhan is starting to think that they might be right about that.
06 Chanyeol
Chanyeol could never get used to the feel of space on his body. It had been years now, but everytime he could float that little bit higher, do a little flip, a little joke, he couldn’t help but to smile an extra bit wider. Couldn’t help but to call to the next person because of hey, look at what I can do!
Yet a part of him knows that his feet belongs to the ground and his skin was born to feel earth’s air and its million a minute kisses on them.
Everytime he comes back to earth, he couldn’t help but to smile as wide as he could do.
07 D.O. and Kai feat. Baekhyun and Chanyeol
D.O. could always hear Baekhyun and Chanyeol tell tall tales to Kai. Tales of white whales that could fly if they attach balloons to themsleves and of birds who can sing early 21st century Korean pop anthem Gee.
“Don’t listen to them,” he would tell Kai after he silences the other two by hitting them on the head.
(If screaming in pain counts as silence anyway. It was sweeter music to D.O.’s ears nonetheless)
“So there are no white whales that can fly, or pandas that can do kung-fu?”
“No.”
Kai frowned.
“There are better.”
Kai smiled.
“Tell me more.”
And D.O. would. Telling Kai smaller tales of elephants that can paint and octopus that can predict football scores.
08 Tao and Kris
The first time they met they were Kris and Tao, leader and new recruit of a rather young team operating in a base that is still relatively shiny save for some unfortunate, odd and mysterious splatters of paint in the leader’s office.
The first day they met Tao stood stiffly as Kris read through his documents making approving hmms but no eye contact.
Today they are Wu Yifan and Huang Zitao, leader and experienced-enough pilot of a not-so-young team operating in a base that is still relatively shiny because of Xiumin’s love for cleaning, save for some unfortunate splatters of paint in the leader’s office that came from Yifan attempting to be Picasso and ending up a Jackson Pollock.
Today Zitao curled in Yifan’s bed, fingers entwined, bodies entwined, laughing at silly jokes, eye-to-eye.
09 Chen feat. the rest of EXO-M
It has been a week since Chen was a trainee for Unit M and he had learnt that firstly, being a bridge operator is boring. He would watch as the pilots fight, with flash and flare.
Secondly, that he is actually fond of Unit M, what with the horrified shriek Tao let out when he thought there was a fly in his pie (there wasn’t) and Kris’ masterpieces (awful paintings) and Lay’s piano music drifting through the hallways (actually pleasant) and Luhan with Xiumin, bent over blueprints for something or the other yet never failing to say hello to Chen whenever he walks past, asking him if he has eaten yet (more times than not, he has, they are the ones who haven’t bent over those plans like that).
That is why today Chen is holding on to an application form for the last pilot job open for Unit M. All-rounder. He can do that, can’t he?
“Application form?” Kris asked.
Chen nodded.
It was at that instant, even for just a little bit, did Kris’ expression softened, only for it to harden again into a grumble.
“About time.”
10 Xiumin
There was a lot of things Xiumin could complain about regarding the base. The bathroom, of course, just like every other shared accommodation, it seems. He wasn’t quite pleased with the air quality or the gravity center as well, he remembered to note down. Especially on the bridge. That was bad.
Out of all things Xiumin could complain about only one did he note down as urgent matter, writen down in his notes past midnight:
Thicker walls required. My room is between Tao and the Duizhang.
11 Sehun feat. the rest of EXO-K
Sehun always eats alone. It was a habit he had from his trainee days, really, to find a corner - probably one near the bin since no one ever wants the corner near the bin - and eat alone.
Sehun doesn’t see any reason to change that, but Chanyeol did, sitting right across him and making jokes. Baekhyun did, sitting right beside Chanyeol and laughing at those jokes. Kai and D.O. eventually did too and the pair would squeeze in beside Sehun, even if they don’t joke like Chanyeol and Baekhyun did.
Sehun sees Suho waving at him to join them, during one of those days Suho had enough time to make it to the cafeteria. The five of them, sitting on a table at the center of the room, made for six, a room for one more saved for him.
Sehun allowed himself to be that sixth.
12 Baekhyun and Kai feat. Chanyeol and D.O.
Baekhyun didn’t want to like Kai. The Kai who received a position Bakehyun wanted and didn’t even truly want it. The Kai who fights like he was born to do it, because he was born to do it. The Kai who received congratulations and applause when he returned because of his decisive kills.
It was easy to dislike Kai.
But Baekhyun likes Kai. The Kai who believes everything he and Chanyeol told him. The Kai who sits with him in the cafeteria talking in hushed voices with D.O. but still turning to Baekhyun to smile at him, earnestly.
It was easy to like Kai.
a voice test
fandom exo
pairing kris/tao, luhan/xiumin, hinted a whole lot of other things
style multichaptered
chapter "teasers"
length 1413 words
Test drabbles for a Mecha AU I'm working on (because I can't do the actual fic until at least next week). Makes absolutely no sense unless you know the plot that's being worked on.
01 Kai
Here is a list of things Kai knows about himself:
One. He is a clone. He was born two weeks ago, but he was supposed to be eighteen and capable and knowing how to pilot a robot and know what a robot is and know how to eat with a pair of chopsticks because all of those information had been installed in his head.
Two. He is a clone of someone great. Someone who mastered the battlefield like it was a dancefloor and that someone was the star of the show.
Three. He is born to fight. Because earth, the blue circle marked with green and white he first saw on a hologram of needed protecting.
Last. His name is Kai. Or rather, his codename is Kai. His real name doesn’t exist and that’s alright, because Kai isn’t supposed to exist out of the battlefield either.
02 Kris
Kris had never understood the appeal of gravity. He couldn’t understand what was so good about an invisible force that hindered humankind from flying for thousands of years, making it so even just moving is a fight between one’s limbs and the asshole that is gravity.
Kris had always liked it here in space better, where he could float and fly and nothing could bring him down. Where he could pretend he was bathed in stars although he knew that if he ever came close to them, they would burn him to nothingness.
Yet still, he would have preferred that to gravity.
03 Lay
This is the M unit. So far there are only four of you. There is you, there is the leader and there are two men older than you even if they may not look it. Just smile and bow anyway. This is a new start for you.
This is the Unicorn, a full support unit. It is different from your last. It is pale blue whereas your last was red. It is a Unicorn, an animal that is pure, an animal that heals whereas your last was an animal of which you do not even want to feel on your tongue, not anymore.
Your name is Lay. Your name is Lay, now.
This is your second chance, don't mess it up, don't mess up Lay whereas you did your last.
04 Suho
It’s not as if Suho doesn’t know what they’ve been saying about him.
It’s not as if they can whisper “rich boy relying on daddy’s money” louder.
05 Luhan feat. Xiumin
They picked him up from the streets and told him there are bigger battles out there to fight than just petty squabbles over things he wouldn’t remember in a week.
Watching Xiumin walks in, feeling his heart skipping half-a-beat, tasting his juice to be that little bit sweeter, Luhan is starting to think that they might be right about that.
06 Chanyeol
Chanyeol could never get used to the feel of space on his body. It had been years now, but everytime he could float that little bit higher, do a little flip, a little joke, he couldn’t help but to smile an extra bit wider. Couldn’t help but to call to the next person because of hey, look at what I can do!
Yet a part of him knows that his feet belongs to the ground and his skin was born to feel earth’s air and its million a minute kisses on them.
Everytime he comes back to earth, he couldn’t help but to smile as wide as he could do.
07 D.O. and Kai feat. Baekhyun and Chanyeol
D.O. could always hear Baekhyun and Chanyeol tell tall tales to Kai. Tales of white whales that could fly if they attach balloons to themsleves and of birds who can sing early 21st century Korean pop anthem Gee.
“Don’t listen to them,” he would tell Kai after he silences the other two by hitting them on the head.
(If screaming in pain counts as silence anyway. It was sweeter music to D.O.’s ears nonetheless)
“So there are no white whales that can fly, or pandas that can do kung-fu?”
“No.”
Kai frowned.
“There are better.”
Kai smiled.
“Tell me more.”
And D.O. would. Telling Kai smaller tales of elephants that can paint and octopus that can predict football scores.
08 Tao and Kris
The first time they met they were Kris and Tao, leader and new recruit of a rather young team operating in a base that is still relatively shiny save for some unfortunate, odd and mysterious splatters of paint in the leader’s office.
The first day they met Tao stood stiffly as Kris read through his documents making approving hmms but no eye contact.
Today they are Wu Yifan and Huang Zitao, leader and experienced-enough pilot of a not-so-young team operating in a base that is still relatively shiny because of Xiumin’s love for cleaning, save for some unfortunate splatters of paint in the leader’s office that came from Yifan attempting to be Picasso and ending up a Jackson Pollock.
Today Zitao curled in Yifan’s bed, fingers entwined, bodies entwined, laughing at silly jokes, eye-to-eye.
09 Chen feat. the rest of EXO-M
It has been a week since Chen was a trainee for Unit M and he had learnt that firstly, being a bridge operator is boring. He would watch as the pilots fight, with flash and flare.
Secondly, that he is actually fond of Unit M, what with the horrified shriek Tao let out when he thought there was a fly in his pie (there wasn’t) and Kris’ masterpieces (awful paintings) and Lay’s piano music drifting through the hallways (actually pleasant) and Luhan with Xiumin, bent over blueprints for something or the other yet never failing to say hello to Chen whenever he walks past, asking him if he has eaten yet (more times than not, he has, they are the ones who haven’t bent over those plans like that).
That is why today Chen is holding on to an application form for the last pilot job open for Unit M. All-rounder. He can do that, can’t he?
“Application form?” Kris asked.
Chen nodded.
It was at that instant, even for just a little bit, did Kris’ expression softened, only for it to harden again into a grumble.
“About time.”
10 Xiumin
There was a lot of things Xiumin could complain about regarding the base. The bathroom, of course, just like every other shared accommodation, it seems. He wasn’t quite pleased with the air quality or the gravity center as well, he remembered to note down. Especially on the bridge. That was bad.
Out of all things Xiumin could complain about only one did he note down as urgent matter, writen down in his notes past midnight:
Thicker walls required. My room is between Tao and the Duizhang.
11 Sehun feat. the rest of EXO-K
Sehun always eats alone. It was a habit he had from his trainee days, really, to find a corner - probably one near the bin since no one ever wants the corner near the bin - and eat alone.
Sehun doesn’t see any reason to change that, but Chanyeol did, sitting right across him and making jokes. Baekhyun did, sitting right beside Chanyeol and laughing at those jokes. Kai and D.O. eventually did too and the pair would squeeze in beside Sehun, even if they don’t joke like Chanyeol and Baekhyun did.
Sehun sees Suho waving at him to join them, during one of those days Suho had enough time to make it to the cafeteria. The five of them, sitting on a table at the center of the room, made for six, a room for one more saved for him.
Sehun allowed himself to be that sixth.
12 Baekhyun and Kai feat. Chanyeol and D.O.
Baekhyun didn’t want to like Kai. The Kai who received a position Bakehyun wanted and didn’t even truly want it. The Kai who fights like he was born to do it, because he was born to do it. The Kai who received congratulations and applause when he returned because of his decisive kills.
It was easy to dislike Kai.
But Baekhyun likes Kai. The Kai who believes everything he and Chanyeol told him. The Kai who sits with him in the cafeteria talking in hushed voices with D.O. but still turning to Baekhyun to smile at him, earnestly.
It was easy to like Kai.
