≫ A perfect depiction of humanity’s progress
Except now presented in real ti
└ Teacher, the pace of civilization is way too slow
≫ Our boys are so consistent!
They never lost their初心!
└ Please lose it. I’m begging you
└ Hahahahahaha
└ I get stunned by how handso they are and then the very next scene is them doing coconut distance throwing competitions, I genuinely don’t know how I’m supposed to reactㅠㅠ
≫ Didn’t Spark used to have a really competent image back during IAD?
What the hell happened in just a few months......
└ They’re good at things when soone tells them what to doㅋㅋㅋ This is what happens when nobody’s directing themㅠ
└ That’s because they left the brain mbers behind......
└ Honestly, at this point even the brain mbers would probably get assimilated if they went too
≫ Park Juu doesn’t look like it, but he’s ridiculously strongㅋㅋ The gap moe is real
└ Spark doesn’t have a single weak mber physically
└ Just look at them
└ Not just strong either, they’re crazy strong. When I saw him split a coconut in half I got intimidated even through the screen. Leaving the gif here
└└ Forearms wow
└└└ Since we’re sharing good things, leaving his back muscles here too
└└└└ Back muscles wow
└└└└└ Aren’t rock vocalists supposed to be skinny sensitive pretty boys......? Since when did he beco a sculpted muscle prince?
└└└└└└ Park Juu was always a sculpted muscle rock prince
≫ Guys, didn’t Kim Iwol yell at them for this?
└ Hahahahahaha
└ Judging from Kim Iwol’s BubblePop, he looked ready to pass out
└ I’m not even lying, there were three BubblePops per minute that day
≫ How one idol uses a branding iron:
Grilling banana slices
└ ???: Wow, it looks like a cafe dessert
└└ The banana brûlée would cryㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ It’s so funny how they were poking the firewood around and suddenly decided it’d be a waste to lose the heat so they started grilling bananas instead. They don’t waste a single bit of energy
└ The banana isn’t ripe yet -> then just force it to ripen
└└ The aning of “ripen” feels a little different hereㅋㅋㅋ
Kang Giyeon, once the blue green apple boy from a blooming garden, beca a rubber tree man of the rainforest. Park Juu, once the fairy of a winter lake, beca the guardian of the Amazonian branding iron. Choi Jeho, master of the golden continent, beca a tenant of a leaf house.
I’d sent them onto the show to freshen up their image, and instead they ca back after completely obliterating it. All I could do was helplessly watch comparison clips between their music videos and variety appearances getting uploaded everywhere.
"Your eyes are gonna fall out."
Choi Jeho spoke to after I’d spent the entire evening staring at monitors after work.
This little bastard. Was he seriously trying to pick a fight with right now?
"Honestly, maybe that’d be better. At least then they’d get washed."
"If you’re sleepy, go to bed."
"I’m not sleepy."
"It’s one in the morning."
"And are you sleepy? After turning the team image into a natural history museum exhibit, you still have the nerve to say you’re tired?"
As the storm of scolding continued, the resting mbers slowly erged one by one.
"What kind of glory and wealth was I chasing when I put you on the golden continent? I should’ve just dumped water on you like usual and sent you out there. At least then people would’ve just called you so nature survival weirdo living by a stream."
"Hyung, are you crying?"
Lee Cheonghyeon helped up from where I’d collapsed onto the floor.
Your hyung isn’t crying. Your image is still intact, at least. Seongbin’s already dood even though he never even went to the island....... As long as you survive this, hyung will be okay.
"But isn’t it fine since it’s not exactly a bad image......?"
"If you idiots had actually created a bad image, I would’ve locked you in the practice room for three months. Be grateful you’re still walking free."
Park Juu quietly shut his mouth.
Juu, I trusted you, and this betrayal wounds deeply. I cherish you, but this ti I can’t take your side. Do not forgive my pettiness.
"What exactly did you catch in the ocean? No, wait. Leaking spoilers is absolutely unacceptable."
"Jeong Seongbin, take him into his room."
"Yes, hyung."
"Seongbin, are you seriously listening to Choi Jeho right in front of ? At a ti when the team is in crisis?"
It was absurd. Jeong Seongbin himself had been sitting there watching his friends actively self destruct in real ti, so how could he do this to ?
At this point, I almost started wondering whether I was the strange one.
Thankfully, it turned out they were the strange ones, not . The footage that aired the following week thoroughly proved my anger had been justified.
『Giyeon: ?? Hyung, what did you catch?』
『Jeho: An octopus.』
『Juu: Don’t octopuses live in deep water......?』
『Giyeon: Doesn’t our team catch octopuses weirdly often?』
『Jeho: That’s because we’ve got a mber whose nickna is octopus.』
『Juu: Does that sohow make sense......?』
Choi Jeho casually walked into the ocean and suddenly ca back carrying a gigantic red octopus.......
『Juu: I think one of my clothes disappeared.......』
『Giyeon: Didn’t you put it in your bag?』
『PD: Apparently monkeys steal clothes around here all the ti.』
『Juu: !』
『Just then, the eldest brother spots a pri suspect』
『Jeho: Is it that thing over there?』
『! Monkey theft incident !』
......As paynt for consuming nature’s resources, the owners of the island confiscated their manufactured goods.
No wonder Park Juu had co back wearing a torn up vest instead of spare clothes. Why the hell did that monkey ignore the smoked food hanging openly nearby and steal soone’s clothes instead?
Oh right. The reason Park Juu’s clothes had holes in them was fully revealed too.
『Jeho: Park Juu, your clothes are on fire.』
They carefully slow roasted the fish because they wanted to smoke it properly, yet sohow managed to rapid heat their own clothes instead. Choi Jeho slamd Park Juu’s vest against the sand so aggressively that even the hidden embers looked ready to give up and die.
Watching Park Juu sit back down by the campfire drying fish while wearing a burnt vest made sigh. The flas that had once been blazing fiercely enough to literally consu clothing all went out during the process of repositioning the fire.
One disaster after another. Bad situations piling onto worse ones. Endless suffering.
Still, the fortunate thing was that none of this stupidity ever felt frustrating to watch.
Those idiots genuinely ate well and slept well. If the fire went out, they simply spread empty bags over themselves and went to sleep anyway.
The mont they woke up, they’d start doing sothing again, and when it was ti to eat, they’d fill their stomachs. Since their food stores kept overflowing, they looked like wealthy landowners thriving on a deserted island. Throughout the entire broadcast, the word “hunger” never once appeared.
≫ Watching them pile up mangoes and eat them sohow looks insanely powerful
They keep eating nonstop because they’re walking around all day anyway so they’re burning all the caloriesㅋㅋㅋ
└ The satisfaction from the sweetness of local fruit skyrocketing
└ This is a severe sugar high situation
└ Hahahahahaha
≫ They’re definitely not the sharp competent type, but sohow the more you watch them the more you go “wow......”
Why is that?
└ It’s just...... they survive too well. Feels like they’d genuinely keep living there forever if you told them to
└ No, co back before Kim Iwol’s stress kills him
≫ An idol personally proving that a workhorse can survive on its own as long as you feed it rice
└ They didn’t even give the workhorse rice in this household
└ Milady, I don’t even need rice, just please give clothes
The number one reason people reacted this way was their sheer easygoingness.
≫ Since they themselves aren’t stressed, watching them feels less exhausting
Even when their clothes get stolen or the house sucks, they just go “well, we’ll survive sohow~ as long as we can sleep~” and move on, so instead of feeling cruel it just feels like watching a chaotic adventure
The mango explodes? Then they just walk farther and look for sothing elseㅇㅇ They never bla anyone or make the atmosphere tense over little things
└ Maybe it’s because they’re not the type to complain much about situations
└ It’s definitely not forced positivity, but they weirdly do feel positive sohow
└ Optimistic......?
└ Yeah, exactly like that comnt above
They’d all lie packed together inside the tiny hut, one crawling outside because it was too hot, another rolling out because it was too cramped, and yet every morning all three of them woke up looking refreshed. They praised each other over trivial things and treated mistakes like no big deal.
That was why these three on the deserted island felt “peaceful.”
『Giyeon: Should we play Truth Ga?』
『Juu: I’ve never lied to the mbers though.......』
『Giyeon: No, it’s not that I don’t trust you, hyung!』
And on top of that, viewers noticed the subtle teamwork and atmosphere between the mbers.
『Jeho: Doesn’t Juu look kinda sunburned?』
『Giyeon: His face is pretty red.』
『Juu: I put on lots of sunscreen though...... why......?』
『Jeho: Want us to make you so shade?』
『Juu: No...... natural sunlight’s too precious to waste.』
『Juu: Giyeon, eat this.』
『Giyeon: When did you remove all the bones?』
『Jeho: He sat in front of the fire for thirty minutes.』
『Juu: There were a lot of tiny bones.......』
Even while acting like they survived purely because they happened to still be alive, viewers caught all the little monts where they quietly took care of each other.
On the final night, footage aired of Park Juu sitting alone on the windy beach diligently scribbling sothing down. The notebook Lee Cheonghyeon had gifted him before departure was visible. The interview fild on the first night played alongside it.
『Juu: Cheonghyeon told I absolutely had to keep a diary in the notebook. He said he wanted to hear everything that happened on the island.』
『PD: You’re the first person we’ve ever had write a diary on a deserted island.』
『Juu: But I might not be able to write one.......』
The next scene showed Park Juu desperately searching through the bushes for anything that could function as ink.
He hadn’t brought any writing utensils.
And after all that suffering, the tool Park Juu finally found was......
『Juu: Today’s also the last day for my charcoal pen.』
......charcoal.
He pulled several half crumbling burnt branches from the fire pit and used the filming lights to write in his diary.
『Smoked fiㄷ』
Due to the tragic limitations of his writing utensil’s durability, he often failed to finish writing entire words, but Park Juu diligently continued recording stories for his younger mber, repeatedly switching out his “pen.” Apparently he’d picked up so skill over the past few days, because by now he’d beco surprisingly proficient at it.
『......The sky is really beautiful.
Next ti, let’s co together.』
Park Juu’s final deserted island diary entry ended with sothing terrifyingly warm. If it were Lee Cheonghyeon, he’d definitely follow along without hesitation, which honestly worried .
Sure enough, that bastard Lee Cheonghyeon was already looking up island tours.
≫ Unless the mbers themselves want it, can we stop chanting for solo activities already~
The kids themselves said they like promoting together, so leave them alone
If they say they want solo albums later once they’ve built enough seniority and gained so influence in the company, then support them at that point instead of acting like they’re betraying the group by trying to survive alone
The mbers’ obvious closeness completely sealed the discussion surrounding the solo activity controversy that had started this entire situation in the first place.
It beca easy comfortable content to watch, while also neatly resolving the earlier issue, so the reaction among Sparklers ended up pretty positive too.
‘Well, if everyone’s happy, I guess that’s enough.’
We could always restore their more polished image during the next coback anyway. For now, I decided to be satisfied that we’d at least managed to survive this massive ordeal.
Still, before going to sleep, [N O V E L I G H T] I should probably make a note in Dotion.
‘Absolutely ban all stranded survival concepts.’
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