Dawn of Apollo Chapter 2

Special commentary

YUNSU: Okay. Your thoughts on chapter 2?

SUNNY: Hey hey! Hyuntae, you're officially a fictional character!

C'mon, Bro, up high.

[More static, as Sunny clambers over the other seats to give Hyuntae a high five. It takes a couple tries, but they eventually connect.]

JACOB: So wait, hold on. In this world, Hyuntae's eye is, what...? A superpower?

JUNGMO: That's what I took from it as well. It doesn't sound like it's related to his condition in this story.

YUNSU: No spoilers, let's just say we took some creative liberties with it. 

What do you think, Hyuntae? 

HYUNTAE: About what? ...Disability erasure?

JACOB: Ahahahaha!

[Inexplicably, Jacob starts to laugh and doesn't stop. Yunsu's face looks like he'd sucked on a lemon.]

[The crew takes a few minutes to readjust Sunny's mic pack and to fix Minho's hair, which Sunny messed up while clambering around like a capuchin monkey and using his fellow member's scalp as a convenient handgrip.]

MINHO: I think...

YUNSU: Oh?

MINHO: The dialogue reminds me of talks I have with Hyuntae sometimes. In the makeup chair, or at the wellness clinic. 

YUNSU: Oh...well that's the idea, Minho.

MINHO: Hyuntae is a genius but he's still a person first. 

JACOB: Right. We don't really see him when he's thinking deeply. That's for him to carry. But he saves the outcomes of that thinking and makes sure that we get all his notes. How he sees us, what could be done better, what he's willing to commit to get us there. The things that make a team really run. So we don't talk in terms like 'genius' and 'limitations', we know he is an equal team contributor and he trusts that we see that. 

Also, he lovebombs us. No, show him!

[Minho casually holds up his cell phone to show a long-running conversation between him and Hyuntae.]

YUNSU: ...Unreal. [To off-camera] You guys getting this?

[The camera zooms in. Indeed, as Yunsu's fat finger scrolls across the exchange, which appears to last several pages, it appears to be all about...Minho's forelock? And closes out with a barrage of apparently random emojis.]

MINHO: He really wanted me to know that the forelock looks okay. 

YUNSU: Okay. And the six million hearts and biplanes are what? A caffeine tremor?  

JACOB: He thinks he's being casual.

HYUNTAE: ...What are you people doing??

[We apologize for Hyuntae's audio spiking so much.]

YUNSU: Well, I'm sure sorry you have to be Hyuntae's fictional friend, Sunny. The story demands it and all. But we're going to put you on rotation and you'll interact with all the guys. 

SUNNY: What? No, I - I adore Hyuntae!

[Sunny puts both arms around Hyuntae's head and gives him a sweet hug, being careful not to muss his hair. Hyuntae's a little confused at first and tries to get out of the headlock, but ultimately decides he is into it.]

SUNNY: He's the sweetest guy ever. And everything I said is true. I mean, everything you said, fictional me said I...thought. 

YUNSU: Uh huh. 

SUNNY: He's totally harmless and that's why we can all act like this around him. People call him an alien, but isn't he actually an angel?

[Almost as soon as the words are out of Sunny's mouth, he makes a pained face and ducks his head out of embarrassment, and the others raise a loud fuss. Hyuntae turns extremely red, but his arms are locked up in Sunny's arms, and he simply sits there like a ripe tomato in the sun.]

JACOB: Coo ~ !!

MINHO: Big feelings, Dude.

YUNSU: All right Hyuntae. Guess you're off the hook this time.