His eyes looked just like the daffodils that grew outside of Seonghwa's hell.

➳ sᴇᴏɴɢᴊᴏᴏɴɢ ___ ❝Just remember, in this world, everyone's a player. You either play the game or you get played.❞ In a dystopian city where memories are currency, Park Seonghwa awakens in a shadowy alley with no recollection of his past- save for his name. Soon, he discovers he possesses a distinctive ability: the power to absorb and integrate the memories of those around him, making him an unwitting threat to the elite who control society through memory manipulation. Driven by a desperate quest for identity, he teams up with rebels fighting against this oppressive regime. Park Seonghwa vowed to reclaim his past, knowing that memories could be a weapon. Kim Hongjoong the sharp-tongued leader of the rebels is skeptical of Seonghwa. Beneath his snark lies a fear that Seonghwa's forgotten past could destroy everything they've fought for. When Seonghwa's memories start to resurface, both men realize the truth could unravel not only Seonghwa's future but the fate of the rebellion itself. Kim Hongjoong vowed to keep his team safe, aware that trust could lead to betrayal. ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰ To my besties who love my stories ｡˚ ✧ Started: 09/03/24

Every young student on the dying Earth wants one thing; acceptance to the Horizon Project. The opportunity to earn a spaceship, a crew, and a voyage into deep space to help find a new home. When brand new Captain Hongjoong and his crew depart for the space station Citadel, they quickly learn that terraforming planets and extraterrestrial settlement are the least of their worries.

"So, we're going on an adventure that will most likely claim our lives," Wooyoung spoke up, giving his captain a rather cocky expression. "Is the treasure even worth it?" At that, Hongjoong's face instantly mirrored the young spy's own look. The smirk that took over his face was intimidating and reminded Seonghwa that Hongjoong was indeed wild, his eyes sparkling with a dangerous fury. He leaned over the desk and slammed his palm into the map that lay there, the sound echoing through the candle-lit cabin, and licked over his bottom lip with a firm nod of his head. "Aye, it's eternal life." Or: After being promised the adventure of a lifetime, Seonghwa had found himself wondering if this grand adventure is not for him after all. With a combination of heart-wrenching guilt and an underlying tone that the crew doesn't like him, Seonghwa does his best to forget who he was and tries to fit in with this rogue pirate crew who are chasing after a treasure no pirate has ever dared to retrieve before. With a firm promise that this adventure could claim their lives, the outcast pirate crew who roams the vast seas under black sails finds that loyalty will both hold them together and split them far apart.

"I reckon ye only be mad at me," he started, his eyes closing shut like he knew the prince would bring him no harm. " 'Cause ye 'ave no freedom in yer own life." A simple sentence was all it was really, words compiled together to form a meaning. Sometimes such meanings were in fact meaningless, they held no truth and were only spoken for the sake of aggravation. Though in even rarer times, there was truth rooted in the very ground of the meaning and that was what caused the aggravation. But what would a pirate know? Or: Royal prince Seonghwa who is first in line for the throne, finally meets the recently captured and most feared pirate in all the Seven Seas who has been condemned to death. Every year on the feast on the Ceremony of the Golden Rose, the crown prince is to take a rose dipped in gold to present to one special prisoner as a gift of freedom and a new start at life. This year is like no other, besides the fact that the great pirate king who infuriates Seonghwa to no end might end up shedding a new kind of light on the young and very adventurous prince, changing his views altogether.

Hongjoong's spent a good majority of his life alone on his family farm. Sure, the work is hard, grueling, and tedious. But it's also rewarding and fulfilling. He doesn't have time to ponder on his loneliness, not at all! He doesn't need help around the farm and he hasn't bothered to talk to anybody outside of necessity. Until one day, the motion sensor on his barn goes off and his life dramatically changes, for better or worse. (Human Hongjoong finds and takes in the rest of hybrids ATEEZ)