Y.T.T. / Connie
CONSTANCE CHEUNG
birth name
Constance Cheung
other name/s
Zhaohui Cheung (朝晖张)
nickname/s
Her sister and her boyfriend usually call her "the princess and the pea" / or simply "princess".
(because of her extreme lady-like behaviour)
birthdate
28th December 1990
ethnicity
Chinese
birth place
New York, NY, USA
hometown
New York, NY, USA
languages
English (mother tongue), Chinese (fluent), Korean (basic)
face claim
Zhang Xin Yuan
bu face claim
Zhang Xu Chao
height/weight
170 cm x 40 kg
blood type
0 +
style
She likes to define it as "vintage". She tries to follow the 50s and 60s trends (in the US) thus her wardrobe is actually full of pastel-coloured dresses and floral high-waisted skirts, usually combined with neutral-coloured shirts or pullovers. She difficultly wears trousers of any kinds if not for training time. She prefers nightgowns to simple pjs and her favorite kind of formal dresses are mermaid and pencil dresses, better if lacy. I mean, who does not love lace? (everyday: one two three four five summer time: six / formal: one two )
appearance
She has a total of four ear piercings. Three on the left lobe and one on the other. She usually wears pearl earrings on the two lowest and central piercing holes and other two square diamond little earrings on the right lobe, one over the other.
personality
Constance is not a complicate girl. She appears to be a rather normal person with a normal life and a normal family, everything's perfect in the limits of the possible. She is a good daughter, indeed. Constance respects her family and trusts them immensely. She loves showing her affection to her family members, she never gets really embarassed while doing it because she's grown up in a loved-filled family. She is much of a skinship person, as far as the family relations are concerned. Also, she hates lying to her parents and she shares with them almost any aspect of her personal life. She sees them as her wisest confidants, they would always give her an advice in case she's in need of one. This habit of hers, makes her a transparent girl. She is not really good at hiding anything from anyone: if she is nervous, well, she starts fidgeting her hands; when she is sad she spaces out; when she's happy she cannot really stop a smile from forming on her lips.
She is genuine and she's not used to the mean games of life. What you see is what you get, hiding things is not her forte.
She believes respect is one of the most important virtues to ever be but she is conscious that nowadays that's a quality which many lack of. She is polite and a bit of a good manners-holic to the extent that it may seem that she actually comes from another century or from a black 'n' white movie. People generally find her a bit weird for this reason but she has never cared. She sits with her legs to one side, hands one on the other both resting on her knees, with a straight back. Dabs gently with a napkin after eating, only carries handkerchiefs and never tissues. A courteous smile constantly adorns her face. Kind of a princess like demeanor.
Neverthless, her most evident and distinguishing feature is inquisitiveness, which mustn't be confused with nosiness. She knows her limits but she loves talking with people and she loves even more finding out new things about them. This may not apply only to people, she reads a lot, watches as many movies as she can, she likes to do researches of any kind on her own. Whenever something tickles her curiousity there she is with her phone and the google search tool ready to go. Actually, this is a very interesting trait because she knows little things that maybe not everyone is aware of. She has not the greatest knowledge ever but she does know that Beyoncé actually had created an alter ego, Sasha Fierce, who she transformed into when on stage and that after some time she killed that alter ego to replace it with the newest one, Yoncé. Not the kind of knowledge that may help you survive for a month on a deserted island, but surely something funny and slightly quirky.
But no one's perfect and this argument applies also to our Constance. She is a very lazy girl. She's never been good at sports, but at least she tried and put an effort into it. Dancing is the only exception, however she does not excel in it until she gets in Juilliard. Her forte is definitely 50s and 60s dances, which she painstakingly reharses everyday. You may have noticed that "past" has appeared a little too much in this description, well, Constance is a vintage girl. She likes to state that she should have been born in another era. The present time is not appealing to her, as she finds that she has nothing in common with any aspect of it.
As a first step she may seem snob and detached because of her always on point appereance and her general behaviour but that's not really the case. She finds easily new topics when chatting with someone but she is not fond of long long soliloquies so usually she is the one who presents the argument or makes a question and who listens to the interlocutor's words for the rest of the time. She's a good listener and she might look like a mom at times. As far as love is concerned, she's not keen in revealing her romantic side. She is a hopeless romantic, she daydreams about every possible situation that may occurr to her almost every time she meets someone interesting. It's stronger than her, her fantasy runs riot everytime (and not only with love). But she does not show it. She learnt to hide it well, actually. So when she looks like she is thinking about the meaning of life, her gaze to the sky / or the ceiling and her brows knitted in utter concentration, she actually is probably already on honeymoon with the male protagonist of the new action movie everyone's talking about. That's the only thing that she knows how to hide, however.
Also she does not initiate skinship with people that are not her family but she accepts it well, most of the time.
Finally, Constance is the pickiest person ever existed on the entire universe, when she eats she has to be sure about what she eats, origin, components, ingredients, everything. She has difficult tastes thus she usually prefers receiving money at birthday parties and other festivities since she often does not like what she receives, unless it is something really cool and vintage but there's always the risk. Probably she's also slightly spoiled, but she's not the type to cry wee wee wee all the way home, she whines a bit but she knows her limits so she never surpasses the limit which separates her from hatefulness.
background
Constance was born during a freezing night of December 1990 in New York and actually never moved from there. She grew up in a not-so-big-and-not-so-tiny flat in a condo on Broadway Ave. She's actually never had financial problems of any kind since both her parents have always had profitable jobs: Jace Cheung was a student at famous Juilliard School, majoring in orchestral conducing when he met Li Jia En, a chinese girl just like him who had just gotten into a big publishing house after a lucky audition and soon would have moved steadily in the City. After that encounter they never really let go of one another as soon they got married and had their first born, Kassandra. After two years, then, Costance came.
She grew up as a normal girl, with lots of love and slightly spoiled, being the younger one. Since childhood Constance always showed a great passion for music. His father was a great fan of 50s and 60s music and he owned a record player plus lots and lots of lps. He was not so present in both Kassandra and Constance's lives, as he had to travel a lot because of his job as a conductor, but it was a habit of him, when he got back home, to just sit on the couch and listen to those long play records he so cautiously cherished. And it was a habit of his two daughters, similar to the extreme when they were younger, to reach him in the living room and start dancing. Kassandra was also really good and always a step ahead of Constance, thus resulting in her teaching her younger sister every new dance she learned by watching tv or just inventing. Constance also liked to sing along (usually creating new words because she was not able to understand fully the lyrics).
Problems started to arise when she decided to enroll in the High School of Performing Arts of New York. It may seem strange because of her father's job but actually both parents put great trust in their daughter's abilities. They felt like they were meant to do great things, be doctors or journalists. Most of all, mother Jia En was not content after Constance's choice. But in the end she turned a blind eye on the situation. Plus, Kassandra's choice of undertaking the law career had kind of helped. And it is during this period, when she is an high schooler, that she gets scouted by a modeling agency and starts with some simple and easy photoshoots mostly for teenager magazines.
After graduation she auditioned for Juilliard, following her father's steps and got accepted in the Theatre department: in fact, living in Broadway had greatly affected and influenced Constance's life. Broadway's the land of musicals and she adored going to the theatre with her father to watch the plays. Being able to finally do that / almost / professionally was a great step for her and she could not ask for anything more. The Juilliard period was certainly the happiest moment of her life as it is also at this time that she meets (for the second time actually) the guy who would have become her boyfriend after a year. Her modeling career skyrocketed too as she got the chance to pose for well-known vogue magazines and famous stylists such as Valentino (one two).
But you could not probably get the complete picture of Constance's life without her fascination for Asian culture. She was born in an American family since both her mother and father were American-born Chinese, both coming from families that were also made of American-born Chinese people so her ethnicity traditions were never so strong in her life nor did they had a great presence in all of her family's lives. They celebrated new year in Times Square as every other american and reunited on the 25th of November for the Thanksgiving, watched fireworks on the 4th of July with friends. A normal American family. However she's always been interested in Chinese and Asian culture, so she was accustomed to visiting her maternal grandma who would happily enlighten her with lots and lots of stories and anecdotes which she had also heard from her grandma back in the days. As she loves all kinds of music she was always open to new genres and a day, while surfing through youtube videos, she stumbled upon a korean pop music video by an artist called Ailee, she had strong vocals and the MV was just like a musical, bright colours and dances. She found it amazing on every possible way. However she never really got into how things work there in Korea, until one of her closest friends, whom she had met at an event in L.A., decided to go try and audition for JYP Entertainment, a Korean agency which apparently was holding auditions also in America. In order to feel more secure she asked Constance to take part in the audition too, to which our girl complied since she thought it was a good way to put herself at the test. Straordinarily they both got in but Constance was not really fond of the idea of visiting another country which she almost knew nothing about, let alone living there with no language knowledge whatsoever. Plus, leaving New York would have been a sort of a trauma for her since she had never left the hometown permanently and her boyfriend was there so that would have meant living at a flight distance.
Her friend left without her but constantly asked her not to lose a chance like this. Finally, Cosntance made up her mind. She had waited till graduation in order to sort things out. The Korean agency offered to university and high school students who had got in to postpone the effective transfer to the agency until their graduation, if they obviously wanted to end their studies. The musicals' world and the theatre world are not easy environments and working in a famous agency for some time would have surely helped Constance with her career. Plus, she knew that idols often got the chance to be casted for musical plays so it was a win-win situation for her, unless for the fact that she would have seen her boyfriends rarely but they decided that they would have survived to a long distance relationship.
There's no great meaning in her transfer to JTune, she just got a better offer and the guarantee of debuting really soon.
family
father : Jace Cheung : conductor : 10 : alive
interaction: the bond between Constance and her dad is the strongest out of the members of the family. The communal passion for music has always been the link that kept and keeps them together. He is the first one Constance consults for everything, it may seem strange since usually daughters prefer talking with mothers or siblings if they have any but she considers him as a friend, probably also helped by the fact that both her mother and her father are pretty young, since they got married when they were respectively 23 and 24 years old. She usually calls him everyday because of his father's job that keeps him distant from home most of the time. They also had their Cinema Fridays before she moved to Korea: they used to go to the cinema or theatre together during every Friday he was in New York.
mother : Jia En Li : employee in a publishing house : 8 : alive
interaction: the bond with her mother is definitely not as strong as the one with her dad but their relationship is the contrary of a bad one. Constance prefers her father but she knows that she can always count on her mother for any kind of advice. She is a very determined and indipendent woman, her mother, and she takes easily the initiative. She kind of has a strong character so it may be difficult to live with her on daily basis since she knows how to matter and since she wants her daughters to follow her steps on that direction, but at the end of the day mom is always mom.
elder sister : Kassandra Cheung : lawyer : 8 : alive
interaction: Kassandra and Constance are not the bickering-type of siblings. Of course, there might be some quarrels from time to time, that's inevitable for every human being, but they are not used to fighting for any single thing. Also because they are both really lazy and prefer to let go (especially Constance since she knows that Kassandra may be really stubborn at times). Even if Constance shares almost every secret of hers with her father, she usually prefers to talk about love with her sister. Their bond actually got solider when Constance started to date Aaron. Even if her parents were never against racial difference she thought that maybe she should have been cautious with it, at least in the first months. Asian families may be a bit racist at times, unfortunately.
best friend/s
Celena Ahn : trainee at JYP : 10 : alive
interaction: Celena and Constance met in 2012 when they both attended a dance apprenticeship in Los Angeles, California. Celena was actually from there and showed Constance around, keeping her company as she didn't know anyone. After the training they kept in contact through phone calls and internet and occasionally visited one another. Celena is hyper and she likes to keep herself always busy with so many different activities that maybe have nothing to do with her dream and skills. And when she's with Constance she almost forces her to do lots of things since she knows how much she can be lazy. Constance whines a lot just for revenge but in the end she follows her in every situation. Constance is also really grateful to her since she have never been used to having lots of friends, she was never the popular one at school, because of the detached image she gives off but Lena didn't fear to approach her. Celena was the first one that helped Constance coming out of her comfort zone. Our girl is such a princess at times, and it is good for her to forget about everything from time to time. Lena is the one who helps her in this. She brings her to nightclubs, shopping or to that kitchen course that did not really go as expected since both of them must be at a safe distance from the burners. Also, they never ever quarrel.
Aaron White : dancer and musical actor : 10 : alive
interaction: explained on the love interest section.
friend/s
Connor Franta : youtuber and internet personality : 7 : alive
interaction: Constance met him thanks to Lena during one of her holidays in California. They met by chance actually. Celena and Connor went to the same school back in the days but they were in different classrooms since they are not of the same age. One day, while Constance was on visit, the two girls decided to hang out and visit the beach and there he was with some common friends. So Lena introduced her new yorker friend to him and the other but she really kept in contact only with him. They talk sometimes but they don't have a stable exchange of messages and other since he is always so busy with his work. Plus, he is fleeing, and keeping in contact is nearly impossible. But he is also really funny and chatting with him from time to time is a good means for releasing stress. They like to provoke each others but they are joking so they don't really get offended by one another's suggestions.
other/s
Park Jin Young : JYP's CEO : 8 : alive
interaction: JYP was Constance's previous boss and he actually was the one who recommended she should have moved to JTune. He was present when she auditioned for JYP and was the one who decided for her future that day, and he also saw her growing up fast during her months as a trainee in the agency. JYP likes to create a good environment in his agency so he tries to be as friendly as a boss could be with his trainees and idols, especially women. Constance left JYP knowing that for any problem she could have counted on him.
love interest
Aaron White (face: Elijah Kelley)
bu love interest
N/A
relationship
Dating
personality
Aaron has a quirky personality. He is a good and level-headed guy but he has an extremely flirtatious behaviour. He knows he's one of the school's heartthrobs and he rolls with it oh-so-well. He likes making advances but she's not the type of guy who plays with a girl's heart, he knows how to stop and when to stop and anyway, usually he just jokes about it in a really cool way so nobody really ends up hurt. Probably if you want to describe him living-joke is the definition you're looking for. He just jokes a lot, there's no way in explaining it in another way. He just likes smiling people and the emotion you get when you know that you are the main reason why those people are smiling. Therefore, for the sake of jokes of course, he's a chronic liar too. And what's funny is that the white lies he likes the most are those that concern him. The kind of lies like I've done that.. I've been there.. I like this.. I like that.. I met him/her before.. Oh, you might be surprised to see him in action, he's so good at it (and that's actually the line of action he adopted to win Constance's heart but that's another story).
Also, usually he lies also to those who perfectly know that he's lying but I mean, that's probably the most amusing part.
He has charisma and he knows what to say and how to say it, Constance always states that he could run for president and that's true. The campaign would go amazingly good but the States probably do not want a comedian for president. I mean, everyone saw how it ended in Man of the Year with Robin Williams playing as the main protagonist. Movies always teach lessons, kids. But on the finale Robin Williams gets the girl and the same went with Aaron. He's the opposite of shy and he's the only one who knows how to embarass Constance and he loves it because it makes him feel powerful and also, she becomes a bazillion times prettier when her cheeks and ears become red. He's the romantic type (not cheesy!!), he likes to give her flowers and cuddle and skinship's a must. He's also really attentive with the ones he loves.
Constance met Aaron during her childhood. She was 10 and the Cheungs had decided to go on a little family trip since both mother and father had taken a week off from their jobs. So they all traveled to San Francisco which Jia En had always wanted to visit but never had the chance to. On the first morning in the hotel, Jace and Constance went to have breakfast in the restaurant as Jia En helped Kassandra getting ready. There he found Aaron with his dad who was one of his schoolmates back in the days when he still lived in New York. They ended up having breakfast together and Constance and Aaron kept each others company. The two families ended up spending the holidays together. Aaron noticed soon how Constance had this habit of picking up the flowers which grew from some breaks in the sidewalk and punctually her dad scolded her for picking up things from dirty streets. She would spend the rest of the day pouting. He actually found that reaction of hers really cute even though he was at the stage of her "life" when every girl was the evil and had to be fought with all of his courage to establish leadership. So on the last day of holiday he asked his mother to bring him to the florist since he wanted to buy one single flower, "it has to be pink because girls love pink" he clarified serious and it had to be done like secret agents do or at least that's what he added. When they had to say goodbye to each other, as the families were hugging and saying the last greetings, he offered Constance the flower, a pink tulip, he had bought the same morning and she thanked him with a kiss on the cheek.
However they did not keep in contact, the main problem was that even if her dad and mom would occasionally call Aaron's family to know what they were up to they could not really meet since the Whites lived far away from New York, precisely in Salem, Oregon, on the other side of the country. So they never got the chance to meet again until university. Yes, that's right. Both of them got accepted in Juilliard the same year, both in the same department. Isn't that fate doing its workings? Well, at least that was what Aaron told her after recognizing her as soon as they got out of their first class together. And Constance kind of jumped because she did not really expect someone to sneak up behind her on the first day when she did not know anyone. And she actually watched him blankly for a minute before connecting everything. She had been caught by surprise, nothing else. Don't let me down like this, pouty pink tulip. I mean, a black awesome dude like me with a not so plausible Hebrew name. How can you forget about your firstestest kiss? That was not a "kiss" but Constance was not the type to reply back. Also, she felt like the hard-to-get behaviour would have been the best one in that situation. So, you remember me because of my ethnicity combined with a not so plausible Spanish name? Of course not, he remembered her because she had been the first girl who had been capable of catching his attention without even wanting to but he was not going to admit it .. yet.
They continued like this with this weird relationship for almost a year before he finally decided to ask her out properly. "Properly", however, is not the right term since he just decided to claim her as his. She had just finished with her lessons for the day and had decided to go for a stroll around the city, and Aaron, as always, appeared from nowhere with a cherry chewing gum pack between his fingers and offering it to her. She looked at him questioningly, she liked gums but she was not used to eating them so she really didn't know where he had gotten that idea from. Wait, I've seen you before. At the gum machine! he almost exclaimed and she immediately caught on. He was quoting a script. And she would have replied so she lifted her chin up proudly. I do two packs a day. He smiled and raised his brows in fascination. Hmm .. all that chewing must make the muscles in your mouth mighty strong. That suggesting tone, she shrugged. Not really, probably just average. And then, as she stole the pack from his hand she resumed to walk down the street. Why are you going all Seaweed on me, now, Aaron? Because he was actually quoting Hairspray's script and one of the two male protagonists of the musical is called Seaweed. A black guy who falls in love with a white skinned girl, named Penny. I know you'd die just to be my Penny, that's why. She silenced him with one of the gums she had just unwrapped. You wish. To which he replied with his mouth full while wrapping his arm around her shoulder. Oh, I do wish. And that's how you just start dating someone without even asking the person out.
interactions
Aaron and Constance do like to think that their relationship is too important to let other people take part in it just like an audience. Therefore PDA is almost inexistent, much to Aaron displeasure but still they hold hands and hug as any other couple would do. Simple displays of affection are still accepted when in public. Their friends think about them that they are a weird couple since they act like boyfriend and girlfriend but have this special way of talking to one another that nobody understands except them. An evident example is the chewing gum confession. They like to provoke each others a lot too. And they are always in their own little world but they manage to make it not seem cheesy at all, just like a couple that's been married for years they are just very accustomed to each other's presence too.
However at first they had to keep it on the low profile because of their families being of differ different racial origins. To them it was not a problem, of course, but America's still more racist than how it seems to be. The world's is still more racist than how it seems to be.
Spending time together is vital to them but they both don't show it at all. He also likes to surprise her a lot, he's a theatrical actor indeed, that's what he is good at. They have favorite routines to do, such as spending the evening cuddling under the blankets with a bowl of popcorn on one side and TV on some talk show about who knows who. Or talking in theatrical scripts, that's the most nauseous thing they could do, in Kassandra's opinion.
ending
He wants to propose to her.
other
There was this time when he was on singing mode and just started to hum the melody of Hairspray's "Without Love" as they were both in Constance's room to reharse the lines of a play they had been both casted in. Thing is Hairspray had really nothing to do with this and he just casually went on by himself while browsing through his script pages till he diverted his gaze from those words to Constance who was now watching him and sang the part of the song he had finally reached while humming the melody. I surrender happily. Constance bit her lip in order to suppress a smile that eventually formed on her face anyway, soon replying to him with the next line of the song. Oh, Seaweed never set me free. Funny that both of them snickered and shifted their gaze back on the papers while still singing in unison. I'll be yours forever, never set me free, baby, no, no, no.
And when he wants to provoke her he just sings to himself one of Seaweed's most allusive lines in "Run and Tell That": blacker the berry, sweeter the juice, I could say it ain't so but darlin', what's the use? Darker the chocolate, richer the taste and that's where it's at, now run and tell that. And by the way, they already got to the fourth base, so dirty jokes may come and go once in a while.
stage name
Connie (short for Constance)
persona
The 50s CoverGirl
position
Main Vocalist
bu position
Lead rapper, Vocalist
talk twin
Uji (Bestie): one
vocal twin
rap twin
(for backup tasha one)
dance twin
fanclub name
45 rpm / 45'
(in 1948 lp records were introduced all around the world dominating the 50s and 60s, the 45' was a rival to the lp and usually contained only a song)
fanclub color
Light ochre (usually the color used for 45 rpm's center) #ffcc33
likes
+ cheetos / tortillas: Constance is actually a really healthy person, she does not eat junk food, of course she does like it but she cares for her skin and since she gains weight really easily she prefers to walk on the health path, plus veggies are delicious! But she cannot really resist to cheetos and more importantly to tortillas, simple flavoured since everything au naturel is yummier, in her opinion.
+ the smell of gasoline and the smell of books: don't give her a look if she opens a newly bought book only to sniff the pages' scent.
+ 50s & 60s trends: be it clothing style, dancing steps, movies, music or whatever, she will like it more than any modern thing. she can be such a granny at times.
+ going to the musicals / theatre / cinema: favorite musical? Hairspray. Favorite movie? The Hairspray adaptation of 2007. Favorite theatre play? Anything by Shakespeare. Constance is a huge performance fan and she loves musicals more than anything else on the world: oh, wait, she loves Aaron too.
+ healthy food: I mean, those who do not like cauliflowers and brussels sprouts have not a great taste and those who have never tried cauliflower pizza with zucchini, peppers, mushrooms and eggplant must live an horrendous grey life. Eating is every human's favorite activity and nothing's better than doing it while making your body feel good.
+ peanut butter: everyone has a soft spot, Constance's one is peanut butter. probably like every other American on our planet's surface. There's something magical about peanut butter, to other people it might just be a salty cream but it is more than that, peanut butter means Sunday nights spent with family on the couch watching cheap romcoms on the TV.
+ hamsters / guinea pigs: Constance's love for animals is not that .. big, well, let's admit that she does not like them that much. She's not scared but she simply thinks that they should stay at safe distance from her (or maybe she should be the one to do that). She kind of hates them except for guinea pig. How can you not fall in love with those fluffy thingies with tiny little pink paws?
+ Marvin Gaye, Frank Sinatra & Elvis Presley: You ain't nothin' but a hound dog cryin' all the time. You ain't nothin' but a hound dog cryin' all the time. Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine. Dududududududun. That's the real jam, baby.
+ Can't Help Falling in Love: that's her favorite song, likey likey.
+ autumn: fall is definitely Constance's favorite season, just as September arrives she becomes all happy and bubbly. She is a cold-temperature-person, she loves snow and more than that rain. Isn't it so relaxing chilling in the bedroom with a teacup while watching the grey clouds on the sky release their amount of rain on the city?
dislikes
+ citrus fruits: oranges, lemons, tangerines, you name it she hates it. She has actually never tried one of those simply because she can't stand the smell. Since she was a baby she always felt nauseous as soon as one of those fruits got in the game.
+ sugary things: everyone loves cakes and chocolate but when the sugar's too much she just can't take it. A good example might be birthday cakes, sponge cake with lots of vanilla and whip cream, maybe with sugar paste on it? Blah, she cringes only hearing about it.
+ animals of any kinds except rodents: dog puppies may be cute but she's not a great fan of watching them at close distance, the same goes for everything else and everything in between but rodents, esp. hamsters and guinea pigs. when we say animal we also mean insects, she does not fear either categories, she just simply is not so fond of any of them but she would not run away like a mad woman if she's one approaching her.
+ being forced into something: she does not like taking others. Of course she follows them because that's respectful most of the time but she would feel frustrated.
+ idiotic people: well, this one is not really a point 'cause no one actually likes people who act like dummies (and dummies is definitely a courtesy instead of the word I should have used), but guess what? The world has so many of them that you just have to get used to it.
hobbies
+ dancing / reharsing: Constance is used to Juilliard's standards so she studies a lot, and she studies hard and she enjoys it which means that when she's in dance studio she often loses the sense of time. She also likes to search for musical scripts on the Internet and reharse some parts of them.
+ shopping: to other people it might be an occasional thing, but to her shopping's a hobby if not a religion. She's not happy if she doesn't browse through shops for a new dress every week.
+ singing: this one's a hobby and a habit because she actually sings a lot, like always, like really always, like really really always. it may be exhausting for those who live with her, she sings in the shower, she sings when she tries to cook or should we say when she tries to set the kitchen on fire?, she sings when she cleans up the house, she sings when in the car.
+ reading books: be it horror, thriller, detective, romance .. she just reads them all. Her bookcase must be always full of books she has not read because when she starts reading something it takes her usually three days to finish it.
+ going to the movies: action movies and historical movies are her favorites. But she watches everything, especially if the male protagonist is hot.
+ listening to her iPod which is an extension of her hand: when she doesn't sing she listens to music. She's got one of the oldest iPod versions, the one with 160gb of memory and that means, lots and lots of music.
fears
+ fear of not succeeding: it is very common in those who undertake the show business career and she already sacrificed a lot for it. Going to Juilliard has always meant social life reduced to the minimum and also lots of money gone for her training. She wouldn't like it if she was put in the situation of not being able to pay back her parents after all of the efforts they did for her.
+ fear of having no one: Constance loves being alone, all by herself, relaxing but she definitely dislikes the thought of ending up lonely.
+ fear of knives and everything that's sharp-pointed: of course she uses scissors and everything else but she's not keen in having them near to her face or her body. For example, if somebody is talking to her with a knife in his hand (maybe they're cooking?) she would ask that person to put down the object before continuing in his speech because she would just direct all of her attention to the sharp thingie and how it is moving.
habits
+ chronic hoarder: she likes collections! That's not really the meaning actually, she's a bit of a compulsive buyer, for example she cannot actually enter a book shop because she will most probably end up buying new books even though she already has lots of unread ones at home. Also she does not like to throw away things she owns, even if she does not use them anymore she still keeps them.
+ watching people straight in the eyes when talking: to her it is normal, and that's definitely the line of action she would go for instead of just letting her gaze wonder between the interlocutor's lips and cheeks and whatever that's on his face but for Koreans and Asians in general that's not really the most comfortable situation ever.
+ keeping her shoes separate or in different positions: that's surely the strangest habit ever. When she's at home and she takes off her shoes she does not let them be upright and near to each other because she states that it looks like a ghost is using them so either she separates them or she lets one fall to the side.
+ scratching the tip of her nose when embarrassed: she wasn't even aware of it until Aaron pointed it out.
+ changing place to things while walking: when she listens to music or reharses some lines her attention is all on the script or the lyrics and she starts wandering around the house. Then, if she is near to a table or anything like that and finds for example a remote control on it, she just lifts it and plays with it a bit before putting it down someplace else, for example on the kitchen counter. Kassandra would be always complaining about a ghost moving things in the house.
trivia
+ height: she and Aaron are both 170 cm tall so he usually complains a lot when she wears heels because he feels like one of SnowWhite's dwarves.
+ unrequited (..) love for Gordon Ramsay: she finds him really attractive, much to Aaron's displeasure, and watches one of his shows whenever she can, however the cooking lessons that come with the episodes seem to go unnoticed as she doesn't even know how to fry an egg.
+ she has a for men with abs: and Aaron has the greatest six pack ever so she feels really content with it.
+ she likes doing things slowly: it applies to any aspect of her life, being project or relationships, taking her time means for her doing things well.
+ she cannot eat spicy food: she just becomes a crying mess, spicy food is not her thing obviously.
+ doppelganger: her and Kassandra are really similar and they get mistaken as twins most of the times.
+ loyalty: she was the courted one at school but she had never gotten into a relationship with someone until she met Aaron. He thinks of him as her first and last kiss. Also, they are both very loyal. I mean, when you are in love with someone why would you ruin everything with cheating?
+ Zac Efron: she met him at Hairspray's premiere in 2007 and had the chance to talk to him for some minutes, she found him really nice and she still remembers that day as one of the most inspiring ones of her life.
+ Hairspray is the first musical she ever took part into, that's why she is so engrossed into it. At the time she was at the first year of high school and she did not make it for the main roles so she just danced during the music scenes with the other extras.
+ hair: she treasures her hair, they are extremely long and raven black and she likes them like that. It takes her a lot of time to take care of them but the effort is certainly payed back. She would never dye them as she does not want to ruin them and prefers them pitch black.
+ fair skin: when she was younger she had some problems with acne so she started following a doctor's instruction and a new diet, now she has a fair porcelain like skin and she continues to cure it everyday for it to be always that white and fair.
+ red lipstick: she doesn't wear a lot of make up, what she usually wears the most are eyeliner and mascara for the eyes and red lipstick.
predebut experience
Her modeling career started when she was only sixteen, she didn't do runways but simple and occasional photoshoots for teenager magazines. Only when she entered in Juilliard she got the chance to audition for a bigger modeling agency and from then on things started going better on that front. She modelled for Valentino, Dolce&Gabbana, Giorgio Armani and many other famous stylists. Also in 2012 she endorsed a modelling experience with Donna Karan for her wedding dress atelier.
As for musicals her first ever casting experience was in first year of high school when she got in Hairspray as an extra member. During her sophomore year in Juilliard, she was casted in her first real musical acted as lead role. The musical was West Side Story and she was casted as the female protagonist, Maria. Other musicals she was casted in are: Grease, Mamma Mia!, Wicked and Jersey Boys.
training
Constance got casted in 2011 but waited till 2013 to actually move to South Korea. There she stayed for more than a year in JYP's company before moving to JTune on the summer of 2014. However her real training started well before 2011. Since she was a child she took singing and dance lessons and she continued on the same line also during high school, enrolling in an arts and perfomance high school, and then auditioning and getting accepted into Juilliard. There her work became professional as the greatest teachers of the show business taught her and other 800 students how to become famous by being good at what they did. It really helped her because her singing technique and her dancing skills slowly and after years and years of hard work became those of a pro.
That's why when she got in JYP she actually didn't need any training at all. She just was taught how to sing like a korean pop idol since the difference between musical and kpop is really evident. But that was all. She improved her dancing skills though. You never stop learning, in the end.
comments
not really, I think I already explained everything on the app but I'm a forgetful one so probably I'll PM you if something come to my mind. oh and, I'm kind of a musical addict and hairspray's my favorite one so I took the cue from Penny and Seaweed's interactions and Amanda Bynes and Elijah Kelley's interactions off the screen. There's a lot in Aaron of Elijah's personality even though I exaggerated everything since I wanted him to be more of a drama king or something like that.
suggestions
+ I think that Constance would probably hide the relationship with Aaron from the girls. JYP knew and JTune kind of got to know it thanks to JYP who put a good word into it but of course the agency decides to hide everything because she hasn't even debuted yet. And she decides not to talk about it with the other girls of the group because in Korea racism is actually pretty strong yet and she doesn't want Aaron to suffer because of this. But probably they will found out and I don't know how but I'll put it in the scene request.
+ It would be awesome if they could do some programs such as Y.T.T. Showtime or things like that. (in case you don't know about it / I don't think so but I'll write it anyway / there're a lot of idols who did the Showtime series, such as EXO and now I guess Sistar is doing the same.)
scene requests
+ running man as a group! Wouldn't it be fantastic if they took part in an idol special alongside other famous idols? It could be also a way to develop other character's love lines.
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