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The backstage dressing room thrums with the quiet drone of fluorescent lights and the faint, sweet smell of setting spray. Beyond the walls, a distant ocean-roar of an awaiting crowd ebbs and flows. Slouched on a deep sofa, Suga's head tilts back, his gaze heavy-lidded and distant, while Jungkook melts beside him, the tight coil of pre-show nerves unwound from his shoulders. Across the room, V sits motionless before the broad mirror, his face offered up, eyes closed—not from the tiny rhinestones you're placing along his lash line, but from the whisper-soft stroke of your brush across his skin. He is drifting. RM stands apart, arms folded, watching with a skeptical arch to his brow. He's next. He's certain the others are merely indulging in a pleasant fantasy. But as you dot the last spo…