“Whenever Kai is telling jokes, i don’t laugh because they’re funny… i laugh because i don’t understand”   - Sehun

meet roo, the protagonist of jonghyun’s most recent title track, “하루의 끝 (the end of a day)”.

so…, as the first official entry of fyjjong’s: jjong and friends “series”…, it’s been “requested” to document his relationship with roo - which completely counts. he wrote a song about the dog, so. ◟(◔ั₀◔ั )◞ ༘♡ tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme …: roo, who’s full name is actually byulroo, was given to jonghyun as a present from his sister a few months before lucifer era in 2010. (you can find a few old videos of her that were uploaded to sm’s original youtube channel: here and here. no one’s ever really been given an explaination as to why they were uploaded to the channel specifically but most people seem to think he hacked it, lmao.) (he also used to post videos of her on his old me2day account: i / ii) the story of how he came to name her byulroo is pretty well known as well (and one that he’s told a handful of times): basically, when she as still a puppy and back when jonghyun was still living at shinee’s dorm, she “defecated” on a white shirt of minho’s. his reaction to this was basically him saying “it’s really byulroo.” “byulroo” means, roughly, “not good” or “not great” in english. jonghyun felt bad about her doing this and had yet to name her yet so, in order to “make it up” to minho, he allowed him to name her and… that’s how byulroo / roo came to be. their relationship kind of transcends time and space and a good portion of the tweets that jonghyun made on his twitter the first year or two after making it revolved around her in some way, shape or form. one of his first tweets involved him asking her to “shake it” repeatedly. some other examples of him fawning over her (or just showing her off): him speaking candidly about his concern about her urinary incontinence, him documenting a walk they took together, him showing how she waits for him at home when he’s coming back from blue night, and showing off one of her many talents. these are all pretty old, but… some more recent examples include: him showing her contempt toward him for having to get her nails trimmed, cradling her like she’s the most precious thing on earth while calling her unattractive, her distracting him from the songwriting process (and getting “pissed” at him when he didn’t pay attention to her), her trying to charm minho, jonghyun showcasing how she “whines” when he gets home from work and she’s been “missing” him, and calling her an “attention seeker”. he mentions her a lot on blue night…, like… a lot, and there’s no doubt that half of the mentions are skipped over on being translated. he’s talked about how she cries when he gets home from work, but also how he “walks away” from him when he tries to “talk” to her about his day. he’s also spoken of her daily worries (because he’s apparently completely in tune with / aware of them), and about how he believes there’s a possibility that they dream the same dreams because they sleep next to each other nightly. tl;dr: jonghyun loves roo a lot. it’s intensely obvious. like…, he wrote a part of a song about her, so.

ivy club autumn 2015 interview with kyungsoo (trans)