PERSONALITY :  a goofy girl with a loving soul, and a bright future ahead of her. growing up in a small, yet bustling city, dandan was like the bright light in a sea of boring souls. she could easily be spotted talking animatedly to some of the food cart ladies, or starring wide eyed in front of clothing stores, and pointing at all the pretty objects inside. her mind, outside of school, work, and home life, was merely focused on the things around her. she liked to watch people, not like a stalker, but like when she sits on a park bench she’ll watch other people from a far as they laugh with each other. or she can spot when people are lying, or doing something wrong. she’s just very attentive, and can always spot things around her. she took enjoyment from talking to new people (usually around her age) and that’s mainly due to the fact that’s she’s crazy friendly. for example, her first day at jyp entertainment, she excitedly began talking to the nearest person whom happened to become her best friend later on in life—hyunwoo—and who also happened to be a trainee. yet, instead of asking for the boy’s name, she goes to the next person—her soon to be crush, jaebum—once more she doesn’t ask for a name, but instead goes for the next person—a janitor—and this time she talks for about thirty or so minutes and then asks his name. ff there’s one thing she’s known for, it’s being overly bubbly. some people think it may just be a façade. covering up her true personality; but, in actuality, dandan is just a very happy person. most of her life was very private—specifically when she was younger—so she didn’t get to really experience friendships when she was younger. so when she was fifteen, and took the train all the way to korea to become an idol, the first thing she wanted was friends and happiness—and talking to people left and right. when people actually took the time to get to know her—specifically hyunwoo and jaebum—they’d know that dandan is literally the epitome of what she shows. she wears her heart on her sleeve all day every day. when she gets really close to someone, to the point that she feels she can not only trust the person but also that the person trusts her, she gets really touchy. Like not in a romantic way; but, in a cutesy friendship way. she likes to back hug the person, or hold their hand twenty-four-seven. sometimes she’ll kiss their cheek—this may be the reason people at jyp and why fans, believe that she and hyunwoo were dating. she also has a tendency to truly show her cute side when she gets friendly with someone. like, she’ll start doing aegyo, even though she hates doing aegyo. like, she never does aegyo on variety shows, or in public. but she constantly does it in private with her best friend and her members. and nearly everyone gets annoyed by it. 

after getting dropped from jyp, dandan became very closed off from a lot of people—including her best friend and jaebum—and practically the world. her mind could literally not focus on anything. for example, when she watches her dramas—and she loves watching dramas—she usually likes to think of ahead, to figure out what happens next, but in this time frame she would barely even look at the screen and would usually find herself walking around her dingy apartment or starring out the window for periods of time. even though she was still trying to find another agency to work for, her mind would nearly always be off topic. her daily phone calls with her grandmother she wouldn’t be excited and instead would be stuttering out um’s and uh’s. which is very unusual for her since she’s usually always excited and has thousands of things to talk about. conversations that usually lasted hours turned into only twenty-minute phone calls. she would be increasingly passive on phone calls with her father where he would bash her for getting dropped from jyp despite her telling him over and over again about how being an idol is what she wants to do. even when she got selected to be a trainee at blooming, her mind is still weary and she’s increasingly distracted. it almost seems like she’s daydreaming, constantly. after getting into blooming, her happiness level did go back to what it was, but—because of what she experienced at jyp—she was overly dramatic. any time she got a critique, instead of crying, she’d push herself hard and yell at people who’d try to stop her. there would be times in which she’d be way too dehydrated and someone at blooming would have to either call her grandmother, or get hyunwoo to come over and stop her from overworking. her phone calls with her grandmother she’d cry—saying how she’s going to get dropped again. and if hyunwoo came, she’d yell, scream, most likely throw things until she’d fall into a pit of despair. she took multiple critiques real hard, and she still does. whenever she receives hate she gets all emotional and over dramatic. people are never sure why; but, it’s mostly because she doesn’t want to ever be what jy park thinks she is. she doesn't want to fail. 

even though after what happened at jyp made her determined for the future, she became a coward. hate is just one aspect of her fearfulness. before fanmeets, or variety shows, she’s the one that freaks out and tries to bail before it even begins, or she’s the one that when she has to sing, gets nervous that no one is going to cheer for her. if ever they’re going to have a show that focuses on them, she’d be the one who is careful about what she says because she doesn’t want backlash. if she finds articles about herself that bashes her or critiques her, she’s easily brought to tears. she’s usually the one who’s terrified before performances and afraid of the outcomes on award shows. she’s very apprehensive. her cowardliness turns her into a fool, and very rash. for instances, she’s the one who avoids fans and heads straight to the van because she feels like she won’t get any compliments and she’ll only get hate. it’s also because she knows that koreans are very apprehensive with other east asians. she’ll probably be the one that avoids going out in public the most, which is quiet weird. she’s negligent to some of her idol duties and that’s why some fans don’t like her as much as the other. to be quite frank, dadan feels likes she’s probably the least liked member of blossom. a lot of fans, even people just people in general, assume that she has horrible manners. not only because she drops her idol duties but she comes off as bad-mannered and almost like she’s an unpolished trainee. in variety shows, even though she’s her cheerful self, she has a tendency to avoid some questions that revolve around jyp or anything having to do with her trainee life. she hates talking about her life as a trainee, especially because of all of her breakdowns and her hard tears and sweat. it’s almost sad how people assume that she just doesn’t care to be a trainee, because that’s definitely not it—she loves being a trainee—she’s just scared. nevertheless, if you look up dandan’s name on the web, there’s hundreds of articles listing how she’s not good enough to be a trainee because she neglects her duties as an idol and wasn’t trained enough. besides that, dandan came come off a little odd to people. she has unusual tendencies. she doesn’t make eye contact, she stands too close to people, when people want canned responses she says something out of left field, instead of saying just hello she starts stammering sometimes—specifically when she’s uncomfortable in a situation that shouldn’t be—and goes off on this extravagant way of saying a simple word. she acts too hyper, and a bit childish. she talks to herself and has a habit of giggling for no apparent reason. she’s a bit too knowledgeable in how to build shed, fences, gates and how to put in base board and flooring. part of it is due to the fact that she was closed off as a child, so she’s socially unaware of how society should act. and people just don’t like that; it takes an unconventional type of person to like everything that is dandan. because with all of her loveliness, there are a good amount of downfalls.

background : feng dandan was a product of a mistake and accident. her father, beiyi had a one night stand the day after his graduation from school. the woman was a classmate of his, a quiet girl whom he had never met before nor had been associated with. it was a quick and swift encounter, and after it was done, it was done. except, for beiyi, nine and half months later at his old apartment in taipei, a four-week old baby wrapped in a pink blanket with the name: dandan attached to her, and a paternity test in between the blanket; was left outside of it, just for him. after a thousand calls later, and hundreds of anger fits—beiyi finally came to the conclusion that dandan is indeed his child. his daughter. with that woman, whose name he can’t remember, and whose face is merely the whispers of the wind. with the job he had at the time—working as an employee for an up and coming hotel known as the ba hotel—he couldn’t take time to be with his daughter and take care of her. so, he took dandan and went back home to his mother—minmin—and left her with the woman. beiyi would only appear every once in a while as dandan was growing up, and when he was around—he wasn’t necessarily a father, he was more like just a man that hung around in her childhood.

growing up with her grandmother was probably like the best damn life dandan could’ve ever wanted. her grandmother spoiled her like crazy. if she wanted a candy from the store, she’d get it—wanted have fish for dinner? move out of the way fried chicken, here comes some fish. even though her grandmother disdained the whole entirety of the reason dandan was born, she couldn’t love the child more than she does now. as a child, her grandmother used to tell her glad she was born—yet, whenever dandan wanted to know about her mother—her grandmother would say it’s out of the question and she doesn’t need to know. it wasn’t until she turned the age of ten, that she learned about her birth. she learned from an email her father had mistakenly sent her, an angry letter he had written to her mother after he found the woman. it wrote out nearly everything having to do with dandan’s birth. for a period of time, she was a complete and utter mess. thinking that her father hated her for being born, and that her mother didn’t want her. it wasn’t until her grandmother confronted her for being different from her usual self, that dandan changed back to her normal ways. the emotional talk took a toll on the both of them, and dandan’s grandmother had to call her father so he’d make an apology—one that did actually sound apologetic, and one that he actually felt bad for. it was at this place in time that dandan seriously became attached to her grandmother, and father—because she knew, for a fact, that they loved her. even if her father is very standoffish, he still loves her in his own way…sort of.

by the time dandan was thirteen, she had become enthralled with korean dramas, and dancing. seeing as she’s been home schooled since she was a child—her grandmother was fearful of dandan going to regular school because of the circumstances of her birth (children with a single parent are usually looked down upon)—dramas were her outlook into normalcy. yes, they were a bit eccentric, and she never enjoys the ist parts; but, it made her feel like she was just as normal as the rest of society. this is around the time she began to learn korean so she didn’t have to wait for subtitles or anything of the like. as for dancing, her grandmother had placed her in ballet classes when she was younger because of the situation with the letter and her father; but, she had quit after a while, and instead began practicing routines from kpop music videos. specifically, 2ne1 because she liked their badass, girl power style which was uncommon in other groups. even though she had never once done hip-hop, she enjoyed it nonetheless; and she began pretty good at it too. at age fourteen, she began to try and convince her grandmother to let her got to korea to become an idol. it took months, and months of constant asking; before dandan’s grandmother came to an agreement and sent the child off to an audition being held in taipei by jyp entertainment. miraculously, she got in, mainly for her dancing skills—but they also said she has a natural vocal talent. the company set the whole thing up, they gave her a place to stay in seoul, and arranged a schedule for her day-to-day life so that her grandmother wouldn’t worry. by the age of fifteen, she was settled in a dorm system in seoul, and started her trainee life. she became quick friends with hyunwoo, and jaebum whom she trusted with helping her in advancing through her career.

tragically though, jy park decided to drop dandan; spouting nonsense about how she wasn’t good enough. she’ll never be good enough, and how she doesn’t have the ‘jyp look and style’. at the age of eighteen, with the little money she had, she rented a crappy apartment west of gangnam-gu and auditioned at every company she could. she dropped all connections to jaebum because she couldn’t even stand to look at someone who belonged to jyp—and even though she tried not to look at hyunwoo, he wouldn’t let her stop being his friend. overtime she seriously began to change, and turned into to what she was like when she found that letter from her father. she had not told her grandmother she got dropped, only her father who constantly berated her because of it—for he was against her becoming an idol in the first place. a few months into auditioning, she got the notice from blooming saying they’d love to have her as a trainee. she agreed, almost instantly, and began training. it wasn’t easy for her to make friends with people—after what happened at jyp. and she had a hard time taking critiques of any kind—she also had to inform her grandmother. whom, surprisingly, already knew because hyunwoo had told her. though her grandmother was upset, she was always concerned for dandans health and care. eespite everything she had went through, she managed to hold her weaknesses together and preserve through her training to be put in the line-up for blossom.