well the main reason is really to finally write park soobin as a main character 😭 i think i've mentioned this before but i think majority of ppl don't know that soob is actually my 2nd bias in wjsn. it's true i tend to write a lot more about jiyeon (she's my main bias per se, i think her charm is easier to translate into romance-focused fics & my obsession with sb/bonlu also plays a big part in that) but i couldn't go on without writing about soob as well so. i thought long and hard about which pairing should i write for her. most people see soobin and immediately think of seolbin & exbin, but even though i love those pairings a lot i don't see myself writing them? i tend to prefer writing about ships that are more subtle in a sense? so i can construct a narrative that is more catered to my own tastes. this is the main problem i have when i think of myself writing abt seolbin as a main pairing. they have one of my fave dynamics of wjsn, but we have so much content of them already that it's like. what can i add? when a ship consists only of crumbs (sb i'm looking at you) there's so many more gaps to fill as a writer. you can create your own version of the ship in a way. but with a ship that is as public as seolbin, i think the ship controls what i write and not the other way around. it's the same as writing a fic about a ship that's canon in the source material. it's like, yeah, it's nice, but i can't add anything new as a writer.

okay, so, going back to sooblu. originally i was going to write about bbobin (sorry i'm a v simple person, they are my 2 biases and i go crazy every time they interact) but. i've liked sooblu for some time now and

1. they have this kind of subtle bond that i go crazy about
2. i was watching THIS and how can you not go crazy about this. literally. soob being so shy!??¿??¿ luda panicking too???? jiyeon at their side with a hand over her mouth in pure shock????? hello???????????
3. i've been wanting to write a magical girl au wuju fic for some time now AND THEY ARE THE PERFECT FIT FOR THAT. literally. no other pairing even comes close.

there's a fourth reason too but that one will stay a secret until the fic is posted bc it's more related to the fic's storyline and i don't want to spoil everything so.🤐

anyway! sorry for this bible of an answer 😭 that was the mental process that preceded me writing about sooblu.