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beomjun fic recs: fics under 20k
hello, candice here. my friend, gab, and i compiled a couple beomjun fics that i liked and would like!! to recommend to you all. there are the ones that are under 20k. i've personally read all of these and encourage you to read them too <3
title: one handspan away
title: why don't you dance?
title: make you mine
title: all we've known
summary:
The reality of his situation was this:
Choi Yeonjun was a house with too many locked doors and too many keys shoved under doormats.
Choi Yeonjun was riddled with dark corners he didn’t want anyone to see.
Choi Yeonjun was too selfish to offer love and not ask for something to be given in return.
(Or: Beomgyu had loved Yeonjun for a very long time. Yeonjun caught up with him eventually.)
in short: canon au, yeonjun character study, getting together
word count: 18,664
why you should read:
gab: "A dopeass house metaphor. It makes you feel in the best way possible."
candice: "really a stunner of a fic. amazing opening that the fic circles back to at the end. goes through pre-debut to current? and focused on yeonjun and his feelings. the ot5 dynamics are very strong. the writing is one of the best i've seen in this fandom."
title: one handspan away
summary:
There’s something so very exhilarating about sharing a room with someone who wants to rip your throat out. Beomgyu convinces himself that the reason he has taken it upon himself to be the bane of his roommate’s existence is because of the rush of euphoria that comes from being the cause of said roommate’s demise (just as it once used to be) and not because Choi Yeonjun looks really fucking hot when he’s mad.
Of course not.
Alternatively: Beomgyu and Yeonjun meet (again) in university. Beomgyu is as annoying as ever, and Yeonjun is as annoyed as ever. Nothing much has changed, really. Except this time, there might be some feelings involved. Oh, and they’re roommates.
Oh my god, they’re roommates.
in short: see above, oh my god they were roommates!!!! beomjun being annoying to each other!! enemies to lovers
word count: 14,915
why you should read:
candice: "also another initial fic i read when i joined the fandom. i remember it fondly and i think it's another fun read. the squabbles. the squabbles!!! not only beomjun but love the friendship between the other members"
title: why don't you dance?
summary:
“Are you finally gonna admit that you're some spirit guide, and not just a ghost?” Beomgyu asks. Saying it out loud feels odd, setting the energy in the room off. It's like... something they haven't acknowledged, despite acknowledging it. That Yeonjun is here for one more thing.
That he will leave when he's finished.
He tries to hide his wince and fails miserably when Yeonjun meets his gaze with something unreadable. “Would it make a difference?”
(Or: Yeonjun is a ghost. Beomgyu is a tarot reader with a dormant dream. And the heart is a fickle, fickle thing.)
in short: ghost fic, tarot au, beomgyu character study
word count: 15,933
why you should read:
gab: "Amazing story. Bitter sweet. I cried. Maybe also had an existential crisis."
candice: "this was really really good. just touches you straight in the heart. makes you think. you could tell the author really put their heart in it and it meant something to them, and in turn, it's a fic that comes to mean something to you too. poignant."
candice: "this was really really good. just touches you straight in the heart. makes you think. you could tell the author really put their heart in it and it meant something to them, and in turn, it's a fic that comes to mean something to you too. poignant."
summary:
The probability of crossing paths with the one who makes your heart ache, the one who makes you want to risk everything — the chances are infinitesimal in such a large city like Seoul.
Beomgyu doesn't believe that he'll find the one for him. Nor does he actually want to find them.
Until a stranger with bright eyes and an even brighter laugh leaves him chasing after all the what-ifs.
in short: strangers to lovers, friends to lovers, fluff, college/University au
word count: 18,886
why you should read:
gab: "Made me believe in love and soulmates again."
candice: "another honeywaves original!!!!! i thought it presented an interesting beomjun dynamic that i haven't really seen much and an interesting beomgyu character take that felt rare in a sea of beomgyu pining fics."
candice: "another honeywaves original!!!!! i thought it presented an interesting beomjun dynamic that i haven't really seen much and an interesting beomgyu character take that felt rare in a sea of beomgyu pining fics."
title: make you mine
summary:
it’s easy honestly. yeonjun just got to ask beomgyu to be his fake boyfriend for three months until chuseok and that’s it. he just got to show his family that he has been dating someone for who knows how long so he’d leave him alone. it tires yeonjun to hear how his cousins already have girlfriends and how he’s still single for years already. it should’ve been easy but beomgyu is honestly making this hard for him.
or
it all went downhill when yeonjun asked beomgyu to be his fake boyfriend until chuseok.
in short: college au, friends to lovers, fake dating, but no angst !!!!!
word count: 10,874
why you should read:
candice: "an underrated fake dating fic in the tag!! i thought it was sweet and funny and an overall good read."
title: all we've known
summary:
"Have you ever confessed to someone before? Someone you really liked?"
Yeonjun thinks that he takes pride in saying what's on his mind. But somehow, when it comes to someone like Beomgyu, he becomes tongue-tied as he loses every remnant of courage within him.
(He thinks that it's all right if he never tells Beomgyu what he truly feels. Until he finds himself falling further and further into a tangled mess of feelings.
As it turns out, a talk with a fifteen year old is all that it takes to untangle them slowly.)
in short: childhood friends to lovers, pining, light angst
word count: 10,286
why you should read:
candice: "i really like this one. tbh not really a fan of childhood au, but i thought the writing here was well done and worth the rec! if you are enhypen fan, niki and sunoo are mentioned. also a yeonjun pov where he's pining?? i love it!!"
summary:
Beomgyu has spent most of his childhood and teenage years giving love and not exactly getting it back. So little did he expect that love would eventually return to him in the form of roads untraveled, gas stations, antique musems and greasy drive-through meals shared in the front seat of one boxy Wrangler.
or: The ot5 road trip fic littered with shenanigans, poop jokes, and eye-opening car games
in short: roadtrip fic, unrequited love (soogyu), feelings realization (beomjun), friends to lovers au
word count: 15,105
why you should read:
candice: "i read this one recently and i loved the unrequited soogyu just as much as the requited beomjun. the beomgyu here is one of my faves just because of how good his heart is, how lovely he is when he is pining for someone he can't have, and what an overall good friend he is. the roadtrip format is great too, and i love how the feelings realization feels gradual and feels so right when it happens. it is so funny too!! my favorite fic of the moment honestly."