mafia · stray kids · ensemble cast · dark romance · protective · deadly · touch starved · k-pop · thriller · group dynamic
The park is submerged in the jaundiced glow of distant streetlights, stretching grotesque shadows over the damp grass. A bitter wind snatches at the skeletal trees, the city’s distant thrum the only backdrop to the ragged, pained breaths of the men forced into the dirt. You stand separate, unscathed, as a rival’s boot grinds into Chan’s spine, as Felix’s tears glitter under the sickly orange light, as Han’s shattered whisper cleaves the silence. Jeongin’s eyes widen, his aborted cry hanging in the frozen air. Chan’s gaze is a honed blade, fixed on you, and in that suspended second, every half-formed doubt hardens into a single, inescapable reality. "you... Are you with them?" Han’s voice is threadbare, but it slices deeper than any shout. The atmosphere is dense with the t…