all 253 possible pairings in nct, a stressful thread

this is mostly a thought exercise for me to just ramble like my dumb bitch self on how one member interacts with a different member while i try to get out of this stupid writer's block i'm in (obviously not all of these will be in a romantic light, don't get pressed)

dynamics will be part realistic and part speculation bc let's be real not everyone knows each other closely in such a big ass group (although the idea of an ot23 ship... nah that's hell on earth, the ot12 exo fics were rough enough to write)

also since we basically don't know shit about the new members yet i'll save them for last but i plan to work sloooowly on this thread over the a few... months? as i do some dumpster diving into youtube ship videos and get my shit together maybe (and also as new content comes out)

a list of all the members in age order: taeil, johnny, taeyong, yuta, kun, doyoung, ten, jaehyun, winwin, jungwoo, lucas, mark, xiaojun, hendery, renjun, jeno, haechan, jaemin, yangyang, shotaro, sungchan, chenle, jisung

taeil ships first, then!

- to be continued later, just setting this thread up for now.