Genre: Comedy | Dorm drama | A hair journey no one was ready for
Cast: Nicholas (the victim), Jo (unimpressed), Yuma (enabler), Taki (evil), Fuma (tries to help), EJ (too tired), and the rest of &TEAM as witnesses to the downfall

🪞 Scene I: The Impulse

It begins, as many tragedies do, with a TikTok filter.

Nicholas, scrolling at 2:03 AM, sees it:
"Curtain Bangs = Personality Upgrade."

He stares.
He imagines.
He believes.

"I could be mysterious."

✂️ Scene II: The Crime Scene

The next morning, he enters the dorm kitchen wearing a hoodie and suspicious silence.

Yuma: "Why are you covering your face like you committed a crime?"

Nicholas (deadpan):

"I cut my hair."

Jo, not looking up:

"Who let you."

Taki: "Pics or it didn't—"

Nicholas pulls down the hood.

Silence.
Then—

Yuma wheezes. Jo blinks. Taki falls off the chair.

Fuma, gently: "You look like... a Victorian child who saw a ghost."

🔥 Scene III: The Spiral

Nicholas storms back to the bathroom.

"I look like I cut my own bangs during a crisis—wait, I did."

EJ follows him with a flat expression and a comb.

"Let me fix it."

"You don't even like me."

"Exactly. I have no emotional attachment to the outcome. Sit down."

✂️ Scene IV: The Intervention

K returns from errands.

Sees Nicholas's new look.
Says absolutely nothing.
Then turns and walks into the other room.

"THAT'S WORSE THAN SAYING SOMETHING," Nicholas cries.

Fuma brings ice cream. Harua brings a hat.
Taki brings scissors and a chaotic energy no one needs right now.

Taki: "Let's lean into it. Full fringe. Maybe a mullet."

Nicholas: "Get OUT."

🪡 Scene V: Recovery & Redemption

Three days later.

The bangs have grown into something... vaguely intentional.
EJ starts styling them quietly before morning shoots.

"It's not bad," he mumbles, tugging a strand. "Just not great. Yet."

Nicholas, softer than expected:

"You think I should keep them?"

EJ shrugs, then smiles.

"You've survived worse. And now you look like the kind of guy who writes mysterious love letters."

Pause.

"You saying you'd read them?"

"Depends. Do they come with that hair?

The bangs stay.
Not because they're good.

But because he is.

(And because EJ started calling them "emotional curtains" and Nicholas secretly likes it.)

📸 Mock Magazine Shoot: Bangtan High Fashion

Publication: Hairstyle & Havoc
Theme: "Reinvention"
Nicholas's energy: I will commit to the bit even if I'm suffering

Scene:
The shoot is outdoors, the wind is unforgiving, and the stylist keeps calling his hair "organic."

Nicholas glares at the camera between takes.

Photographer: "Yes! Give me tortured poet who regrets cutting his own soul."

Nicholas flips the bangs and deadpans,

"Tortured is natural."

Pose 1: Sitting on a milk crate in an oversized coat. Bangs flopped over one eye.
Jo watching from the side mutters, "You look like you're about to drop the saddest mixtape of 2025."

Pose 2: Standing against a graffiti wall, arms crossed. Wind perfectly splits the bangs.
Taki yells, "THAT'S THE MONEY BANG."

Pose 3: Close-up. Nicholas smirking slightly. Bangs just barely tamed.
Fuma: "Wait... he looks good?"
EJ: "Don't tell him."

Behind-the-scenes interview snippet:

Q: Did the bangs change you?
Nicholas: "The bangs didn't change me. They revealed me."

📓 Nicholas's Journal Entry: "Bangs and Betrayal"

(written entirely in cursive with dramatic underlines and just a touch too much cologne sprayed on the corner)

Title: Bangs and Betrayal
By: N. BANGS (as he signs this one time)

They said change was good.
They lied.

No one warned me that the sound of scissors would echo in my nightmares. That I'd look into the mirror and see not a man—but a meme.

Taki laughed.  Jo judged. K left the room.

I thought the betrayal was in the styling. But no—
It was in their silence.

Do you know what it feels like to have hair that actively resists your personality?
That turns your power pose into a cry for help?

And yet.

EJ combed them.

He combed them.

And I—
...I think I'll be okay.

Eventually.

Maybe.

Unless they curl when it rains.

Then all bets are off.

Signed at the bottom:

"To future Nicholas: never trust scissors in a moment of emotional weakness." ✂️🖤

Fringe Benefits

Scene: Post-photoshoot evening, dorm kitchen.
EJ is making tea. Nicholas is pouting over his reflection in the kettle.
Jo walks in, sees an opportunity, and takes it.

Nicholas is slumped against the counter, sipping tea like it betrayed him too.

"Why does it curl only on the left?"
"Why do I look like the lead in a tragic musical about heartbreak and high school?"

Jo raises an eyebrow. Calm. Quiet.

"You've looked worse."
Beat.
"But not by much."

Nicholas groans. "Thanks for that."

EJ strolls in, peeks at Nicholas's bangs—and smirks.

"Still dramatic, huh?"
Nicholas glares. "Say one more word and I'll cut yours next."

EJ leans in close. Too close.
Nicholas freezes.

Then EJ gently—gently—presses his lips to Nicholas's forehead.

Right in the center of the fringe.

Just enough pressure to flatten the stubborn curl.

Nicholas's breath catches. His tea nearly sloshes.
Jo pulls back, grinning like he's not entirely to blame for the heat flooding Nicholas's ears.

"There," EJ says. "Now they look loved."

He turns and walks out like it was nothing.

Jo doesn't look up from pouring water.

"That was a choice."

Nicholas stares blankly at the doorway.

"Did he just—"

"Yes."

"I—"

"Yes."

Silence.

Nicholas slowly presses the mug to his still-warm forehead and mutters:

"Unacceptable. I'm going to marry him."

Jo finally looks up. Shrugs.

"Bold. But you'll have great hair in the wedding photos."