SEVENTEEN: BE THE SUN [Korean Showbiz]

As the fourteenth member of the large fourth-generation boy group Seventeen and part of the maknae line, Choi Zi Su felt the challenges of practicing at the company and living in a large group from the very beginning. But the members' love, friendship, and family-like bonds had long since made up for every hardship. Having grown up alongside thirteen older brothers, and having been together since before his personality had fully formed, he carries traces of all thirteen of them. Anyone who sees him can tell that he's a Seventeen kid.

At first, people doubted him and said he would never make it. But step by step, he and the members made it to where they are today, standing on even bigger stages and feeling the love of Carats from all over the world. Every hardship and every tear was washed away along the road ahead. As the Carat Bong lights up in the dark, silver light shimmering as it waves, and the members sing alongside the Carats, their eyes meet. In that moment, love takes physical form and never fades.

Say the name! We are Seventeen forever.

Character introduction: Choi Zi Su, maknae line, Chinese, born March 15, 2000.

His animal representation is a little pig, and his plant representation is either a mangosteen or bamboo. (If anyone has a better idea, we can discuss it together.)

The whole point of this story is that I want to join the members of Seventeen and be part of their lives. Seeing them living together makes me feel happy. I can't imagine what it would be like for thirteen people to share a life, or how deep and intense thirteen people's feelings for each other must be. I want to apologize to everyone because the protagonist may not have a particularly compelling personality or outstanding individual resources and content. There won't be fixed roles like group darling or group tyrant, and their interactions will be natural. Every member of Seventeen is the protagonist of his own life, and each one is also a protagonist in my story. My only wish is to stay by every member's side and share Seventeen's sorrows and joys. I don't dare promise how many tens of thousands of words I'll write. As long as I still love Seventeen, I'll probably keep writing. But if I get too tired, or something comes up in real life, I may have to pause. I promise I'll give everyone an answer.

(Some details may be invented. If anything doesn't fit the timeline, please point it out. Since this is a utopia I created for personal reasons, it may not match what some Carats have in mind. The protagonist is also someone who grows over time, not a strong person by conventional standards, so I hope you'll be understanding. This story has no CP, so feel free to ship whoever you like. There are both family and friendship pairings. Since it's set in the K-pop scene, interactions with other groups may inevitably appear, so I hope you'll be understanding.)

This story is dedicated to all the Carats. To borrow a line from S.Coups, I hope everyone in K-pop is happy, and I hope all Carats are happy. I hope you can draw strength from this story, and that Seventeen will always accompany you on your journey forward!

Theme: Companionship and love help people grow flesh and blood