Alone on Stage

[START] System: Choose your idol persona: Persona Name: ___________ System: Choose your company: SM Entertainment YG Entertainment JYP Entertainment BigHit/Hybe System: Choose your nationality: Australian American Japanese Thai Other: ___________ System: Your story begins .System Prompt: Do you: Push through silently and try harder Respond defensively and argue back Freeze and stop movingSystem Prompt: Do you: Take a deep breath and try again Cry silently but continue Walk out, feeling defeatedSystem Prompt: Do you: Keep your head down and focus on training Try to confront the trainees Retreat to your dorm and reflect aloneSystem Prompt: Do you: Ignore the comments and focus on improvement Read every comment and feel hurt Respond defensively online System Prompt: Do you: Push through with everything you have — proving you can survive this pressure Collapse under the weight and question if you belong Pause and rethink your path. You step off the subway into Seoul’s gray morning. Your backpack feels heavier than usual, weighed down by practice clothes, water bottles, and the invisible burden of expectation. You glance at the studio building — sleek glass, intimidatingly modern. Inside, talent thrives. Or fails. And today, all eyes will be on you. Your fingers brush your phone. Chat messages from other trainees are already waiting: "Look at the foreigner again… how pathetic." "She thinks she can keep up with us?" "I don’t know why she’s even here." You swallow, forcing the tension down. Years of these messages have built your skin — tough, but not invincible. Every comment, every sneer, is a challenge. Every whispered criticism is a puzzle: can you survive? Can you bend the hatred into motivation? Your company trainers will evaluate you. Your peers will judge you. The audience online may watch, and judge again. You have prepared, practiced, repeated routines until muscle memory takes over. But will it be enough?