we already know i love zzt and yzj...my fave thing about jungjung theo zhu zhengting is that he's pretty LMAO and i think that's what sustained my interest in him from pd101 through to ip OH and also his flexibility!!! i love classically trained dancers, i'm biased, and his flowing lines are so pretty to me..his chinese dance styles is kind of like his personality and it's kind of gentle? he likes to hit people and i don't generally tend to like violent people but he's like simultaneously very 温柔??? it's an interesting mix...and his voice is surprisingly beautiful *-* but also i just rly like the way he is in interviews...like he's funny and kind of transparent? idk his demeanour makes me rly enjoy putting his interviews on while i do random stuff

for zhangjing idk where to start like i think his facial expressions are amazing...meme!zj is so real...like in the first few eps whenever he got praised his FACE...he's SO SO SO SO SO funny...and i relate with the whole love of eating thing i srsly love hot pot...and then...of course...his voice...he has a rly down to earth approach to singing and vocals tho like he is good and wants to be perfect but he's not OTT about it...so like every time i see him i just get happy...like he's so cute...ugh i can't believe both my top two ip faves made the final 9 lineup, i'm so happy, i rly was so impressed by him from the first banana audition and i feel like every time he showed up on screen making a face i would tell amy i loved him...and then like as the show went on all his interviews and behind the scenes clips etc. god he's just so funny
who else is in the group...

cxk...i love kunkun now...i used to not care about him i've talked about this over and over again but he's so cute...my fave thing about him is that he's kind of an old soul...or maybe that's not accurate but because he's kind of had such an intensive set of life experiences he comes off like a lot older and more tired than you'd expect from someone his age? and i think that comes out when he paints on his stage image and comes off super polished and perfect (TM) in interviews...but then when you toss him into the group of ip boys you see he can be rly cute and competitive and more like a 98liner. also like even tho i didn't rly care about him in the past i never disliked him bc he was just so sweet and helpful to the less well-trained ip boys and so so supportive...just so everyone knows qian zhenghao is MY son not zzt or cxk's but i appreciate that both of them tried their best to spoil my kid.

nongnong's happiness makes me so happy!!! i think the thing about him i like the most is his kind of youthful happiness and innocence...i like happy people...i know this is rly short but i rly do like him i've liked him since ep 1 i promise

chengcheng...omg......................i hate this when i first tried to get my mom to watch ip with me i was like fan bingbing's little bro is in it!! and she watched it and she was like he's not good why do you like him and i was like wait i don't like him i just was trying to trick you into watching the show...but then...i did start liking him...and it's because he's super funny and down to earth but god like i think out of everyone on the show, he's the person whose interviews i enjoyed the most, even more than zzt and yzj lmao...wait also bi wenjun's...but yeah chengcheng he's just like...very real for someone whose background is what his is and idk i went in a zzt fan right but like bwj/dzr/fcc don't rly wanna let me live...

justin, another minghao, SERIOUSLY charmed me in ip. i like HATED his pd101 intro video and through the entire show i never liked him, he just seemed like an annoying spoiled childish BRAT and tbh i think you could probably still apply those words to him but i also feel like he's matured a lot in the past year, i mean, he's only 16 and god knows i was an annoying af 16yo, but i think in particular something that really endeared me to him is the way he interacts with zzt...like i kind of expected him to have a certain type of interaction with zzt but i think even despite their age difference like he's rly supportive of zzt??? not that zzt doesn't kind of take care of his kids but i mean he's not actually their parent and i think the time jungjung and justin spent together they really came to support each other? and take care of each other...like zzt is 6 years older than him and justin really truly can be a big baby a lot of the time but he can also be like zzt's FRIEND and not just like little brother character, and i love that a lot about him? i think in general even tho justin is probably academically useless, he's actually got a lot of emotional intelligence and he just generally comes off to me as someone who's quite smart lmao, but yes he can still be kind of spoiled rich kid but like he has such a huge fanbase whether or not you think he deserves it, being thrown into the kind of environment he was thrown in i think the way he behaves is completely understandable and he's probably not one of my top top faves but i love him with all my heart and will defend him a lot lol...

lin yanjun - first off, i hope everyone who thinks his position in the group is questionable fucks off...his popularity was growing and growing the whole time and the only reason, imo, that he wasn't big in the beginning is because he didn't get as much screen time until later episodes/behind the scenes/additional clips. i'm trying to think about how to word this but i think my fave thing about him is that he's really thoughtful...about things he doesn't necessarily have to be thoughtful about? but he seems to think through things in depth...off the top of my head i don't want to mis-remember examples so i don't want to name anything in particular but i think his interviews show like a pretty independent and mature young man...

ziyi has been a fave since before i knew his name LOL i think it's rly obvious but my fave thing about him is still how much he puts other people ahead of himself. i think some people think he like isn't actually as nice as he pretends to be and he was just being nice for the votes or whatever but idk to me he just comes off as someone who has the patience and life experience to realize most things in this world don't rly matter...and if there's something you can do that will massively brighten up someone else's day then why not do it? and you might think, for example, something like choosing a center is pretty important but at the end of the day it's not actually going to change the world? idk i feel like i can understand ziyi it's just easy to do certain things for his type of personality 不怎么计较细节? so things that other people can get rly worked up about...hey it's okay for him. i personally like ziyi/xukun way more than zhengting/xukun and one of the things that's rly interesting to me is that i think there are times when xukun is similarly patient and okay with shit happening but there are other times when xukun rly kind of shows his age and gets impatient or competitive but ziyi is just kind of in the back nodding peacefully and i think sometimes ziyi must frustrate xukun even if kunkun gets it too, i think like kunkun probably feels sometimes that he wants better for ziyi than ziyi wants better for himself and stuff like that...it's all very interesting to me

kaikai...omg i hated this during ip with his dreads and i still hope someone can sit him down and explain but i rly found him cute even during ip and it made me feel so conflicted...but now that he's kaikai and not xiao gui to me with the haircut i rly...like where do i start...he's so 朴实 and positive and just i love people being earnest and honest the way he is...he's got this emotional maturity and certain carefreeness that i appreciate, tbh i think most people in this world will get worked up about stuff and that's understandable and it doesn't make me dislike them but on the other hand if someone doesn't get worked up it does draw admiration from me...anyway yes wlk has my whole heart

why do i want to continue...like with zeren and yanchen...jeffrey, wenjun, ruibin, zhou rui, zhenghao, dinghao...but i've already written so much...nap time...