PERSONALITY TRAITS — [ + ] charismatic, smart, calm, passionate  [ - ] blunt, opinionated, vulgar, judgemental [ = ] simple, boyish

ELABORATION —

like all girls her age, boram is quite a complex character of her own. but once you meet her, you can't disagree that this one trait that stands out. what's that trait, you may ask? why it's none other than her charsima. the girl has the ability to charm anyone and everyone with her sheer charisma. she entrances strangers with her well thought out words, and astounds with how she basically dominates every room. another thing that's good about boram; the girl is smart. like both book smart and street smart. she's always the top student of the grade (well in perth she was always the top student, but in korea she's like fifth. those damn smart koreans). and like i mentioned before, the girl is good with her words. she knows how to make a sentence sound like a work of art. she's eloquent (obv unlike me lol) and have a way with words. obviously, she's much better at this in her first language, english, but she can do it regardless. that said, she tends to never sugarcoat facts anyway. actually, forgot to mention, she's only this nicely spoken girl with stranger and with people she doesn't hate. have i mentioned, boram can be scarily calm at times. actually she's calm nearly 24/7. always one to keep her cool, she never loses her head unless you really up and piss her off bigtime. in that case, prepare for the boram version of the holocaust. i guess she's fairly patient as well, until you break the calm. also have i mentioned that this girl is passionate af. in anything and everything she does, she gives her 200%. why do you think she debuted just after a year of training? well, she likes to think that it's because the trainers saw how much rigor boram puts in training (but it's probably because of her looks, and her already present musical talent)

now to the bad side of things. well, boram swears excessively. mostly she just swears in english since she's more familiar of the said language, but occasionally she swears in korean too. of course, she doesn't swear in public. i mean, gotta keep that goody-two-shoes idol image right? not to mention, sm will kill her and leave her to rot in an alley somewhere if she s up her image. also, the kid is judgemental af. well, she secretly judges people. she's smart enough that she doesn't go prancing around judging people, but nonetheless she judges people very much. she's often really good at reading people, and how much of an people are. actually, she becomes really happy when people prove to be better than her initial judgement. gives her hope with humanity, and likewise if people turn out to be worse than her initial judgement, she loses a bit of her faith to humanity. also she's has opinions, and she isn't afraid to say said opinons. and did i mention that said opinions are very strong. for example, she wasn't afraid to tell seulgi off for manipulating yeri when she saw it happening, even though that clearly put a wedge in their relationship. she's pretty blunt too, i guess. she's not the type of person to sugar coat things. instead she prefers to stay silent instead of lying or sugarcoating her words. well, actually, it all depends on the situation. if she's more comfortable, and it doesn't ruin her public image that sm has so careflly crafted for her, she gets her opinion out.

little more to learn about her. some girls like to live lavish lifestyles, and some doesn't. boram is one of the few who doesn't. she's the type of girl who like to keep it simple. just look at her wardrobe that's basically just filled with sweatshirts and sweatpants. she's also not a girly girl. in fact, she's rather boyish. i mean, why do you think she has a masculine nickname?
 

BACKGROUND + CURRENT EVENTS —

from the moment she was born, boram's life already sounds like a k-drama. her dad might as well never existed to her because the jerk left when he found out that he got boram's mother pregnant, and her biological mom died in childbirth. wow such sob story boo-hoo. but you know what? boram does not give a . i mean, it's kinda sad that she never met her dad, and that her mom died bringing her to this world, but boram surprisingly didn't grow up with the angst that an orphan usually grows up with. it's probably because she didn't feel like much of an orphan. her aunt (her mom's sister) took custody of boram as soon as boram's mom died. and said aunt did a damn good job of raising her, if boram could say so herself. that said, she basically thinks of her aunt as her mother, after all, she did raise boram.

there were bad sides of her aunt mikyung raising her, though. mikyung spoiled boram to the core. anything boram wanted, mikyung provided. when boram wanted that obnoxiously large water bed, mikyung delivered. when boram wanted to learn how to play the piano, mikyung signed her up for lessons. when boram wanted that acoustic guitar, mikyung bought it for her. when boram somehow got the urge to learn how to sing, mikyung brought her to the best singing lessons in perth. why would mikyung spend so much on a girl that's not even her daughter, you may ask. well, mikyung earns a large sum being a fashion designer and professional stylist at the same time you know. not to mention, mikyung loves boram as if boram was her daughter.

growing up, boram didn't have a lot of problems. she did really well in school, made an acceptable amount of friends, and continued on with her vocal and piano lessons every week end. there was the occasional bully teasing her for her ethnicity or her high grades, but boram more or less shrugged it off. after all, everyone gets bullies, right?

how did she get to seoul, you may ask? simple. her aunt found love. hence the surname cho. boram and her uncle aint that close really, but you know. about a few months into her stay in korea, she got scouted by sm. she thought, why not? and she accepted the offer. that's where her training begins.
 

RELATIONSHIPS — 

• aunt and basically her mother - cho mikyung (37) - fashion designer/professional stylist - friendly, caring, nice - mikyung and boram are really close. so close you won't even stop to consider that they should probably have a relationship reminiscent of a mother and daughter instead of a sister-like relationship. mikyung even styles boram professionally when boram goes out (well that's mostly because boram has zero sense of style and mikyung's heart hurts everytime boram dresses that badly). boram tells mikyung everything, and vice versa. 
 

"i mean, you should've seen her! i don't know how a like her is even in the industy!"
 

• best friend - emily williams (17) - student - bubbly, blunt, caring - boram and emily have been friends since they could both talk. they were neighbors back in perth, and always went to the same school. throughout her whole life, boram and emily have been attached by the hip, so when boram had to go to korea, both girls were distraught. the see between them didn't make them drift apart. the girls still keep a pretty solid correspondence. boram also tells emily everything and emily likewise. if boram has a problem, she runs straight to emily to vent, or even to cry. emily is basically boram's personal cheerleader.
 

"you know what em? you're the best. love you!"
 

• second cousin - kim yerim (17) - idol - naive, polite, nice - yerim is boram's second cousin (meaning boram's mom is cousin with yerim's mom lol) so boram has this urge to protect her. despite yerim being slightly older, yerim is still naive to the darkness in this world. boram is not as naive as yerim probably because boram grew up in a much less conservative environment. yerim and boram have gotten close once boram started living in seoul, and much much closer when boram started training. when boram saw how her sweet, but unfortunately naive yerim was being manipulted by seulgi, boram tried to put some distance between yerim and seulgi, but was unfortunately unsuccessful. yerim noticed that boram was doing this, but just wasn't sure why boram was trying to do it.
 

"yerim, stop listening to that seulgi. just for your own good, kay?"
 

        

 

• friends - park sooyoung (19) - idol - social, neutral, secretive - sooyoung and boram are friends, thanks to sooyoung's friendliness and boram's charisma, but to be honest, boram's not even that sure of their title of "friends". boram knows how secretive sooyoung is. she knew since they've first met, but when sooyoung became her friend, boram was confused. and let me tell you, boram is rarely confused. sooyoung is one of the few characters that could confuddle boram, and boram would like to keep her close until she figures out the puzzle that is park sooyoung.
 

"you're on my side, right?"

        
 

• good friends - son seungwan (22) - idol - kind, caring, genuine - seungwan and boram became fast friends once boram was added to the line-up. the fact that they're both foreigners who came from english speaking countried drawn them together. boram knows she can rely on her seungwan-unnie because of their bond, and seungwan knows likewise. boram absolutely looks up to seungwan because of her awesome singing.
 

"unnie teach me your ways"

        
 

• enemy - kang seulgi (22) - idol - manipulative, two-faced, - boram hates seulgi's guts, and vice versa. at first, she thought that seulgi was actually sweet and kind, but no. she learned otherwise when she saw seulgi manipulating yerim. that's when all hell broke loose for boram. she went up and confronted seulgi, and was one step away from slapping the when yerim entered the room. of course, seulgi tells yerim to act like a to boram, but boram knows better.
 

"ya, stay away from my cousin if you know what's good for you."

        
 

• boram's idol - bae joohyun (25) - idol - independent, self-aware,  - from the moment she saw joohyun's face, boram was starstruck. how can someone be that pretty? now that they're in the same group, boram doesn't waste a minute to tell joohyun how beautiful she is. of course, joohyun gets a major confidence boost everytime boram tells her this, so joohyun cares for boram. what with the new member additions, there will be prettier girls than her, so it's nice having someone to tell you you're pretty.