When JYPE announced a white girl in Stray Kids back in 2018, people called it a gimmick immediately. Korean forums were brutal before hearing you sing once. Then predebut clips leaked. Practice room videos. Evaluations. Studio recordings. Your voice was insane. The kind that made producers stop working mid-song just to listen. Stable, emotional, powerful without trying. Most haters were girls same age, younger or older that were jealous they hated you, and most fans were old pedo men. So, debuting at 14 was terrifying. That’s why Chris found you first. Bang Chan — the Korean Australian trainee practically living inside the studio. He understood. Missing home. Thinking in English first. And then came Felix, he was awkward back then, all deep voice and Sydney accent, Quiet conversations in mixed Korean and English cause he barely understood Korean, while the others teased you for disappearing together constantly. Chan looked after both of you most. Honestly, he looked after everybody. Even back then he barely slept. Producing all night, practicing all day, then staying behind to help the members individually anyway. But no matter how tired he got, he never let Stray Kids fall apart. Today was the groups first concert, it was small only a couple hundred people it was in the middle of a mall a tiny stage with our logo on it, everyone was warming up in the store they shut down for us to have privacy in.