Let's get to know me.

Small but mighty.

PERSONALITY TRAITS: optimistic, bubbly, humble, playful || perfectionist, independent, blunt, selfless 
PERSONALITY:  

Minjung is a very carefree spirit and tends to voice out her opinions without thinking. Ever since she was young, she always had this bright personality to her that immediately drew people's attention towards her. She tends to be a blabber mouth and doesn't hesitate to give her input on things. This can also be a bad side to her because she hates it when someone tries to beat around the bush with her. She will be truthful and upfront with people if she needs to be whether it'd be she's talking to someone she's close with or someone she's just casually talking to. Sometimes she doesn't know her limits or when to stop talking when she's hurt someone. As she grew up, her opinions and comebacks became wittier and sarcastic. As much as she loves to make sarcastic remarks in her conversations, Minjung is also quite the jokester. She loves to friends and family member with pranks or jokes around with them. Her outlook in life is very positive and loves to look on the brighter side of things. She's also very curious about everything that's around her. She gets easily distracted by whatever's going on around her but takes notes of the little details. If she's sitting in a lecture hall or practice room, her eyes begin to wander and she'll ask questions to herself like, 'I wonder how that guy got injured?' or 'The girl in the corner looks lonely, maybe I should talk to her sometime.' or even 'I'm thinking about Chinese for dinner tonight...I should really text Youngjae what he wants after school.'

On the other hand, she tends to be very independent. She doesn't like to lean on people too much because she sees herself as a burden and prefers to keep to herself when everyone has their own things to worry about. When it comes to the people she cares about, she always puts them first. Most of the time she's too selfless to look afterself and do the things that she wants. Minjung is also a perfectionist. She needs everything to be perfect, whether it'd be the choreography she makes or how her bedroom looks, she will stop at nothing until it's up to her satisfaction. Minjung will overlook every single tiny detail in whatever she's doing. She overthinks and analyzes everything which causes her to get easily stressed and highly emotional. She'll either immediately close herself off from the people around her or her temper will run short. If she loses her temper, she'll snap at the people around her without realizing it and speak without thinking. She'll bottle things up until it gets too overwhelming for her and she'll have a mental breakdown.

BACKGROUND: 

Growing up, her parents were never really in the picture. Her mother was busy working as a designer for a fashion company and her father was a freelance music producer so he was always abroad. When she was younger, that was the only time Minjung ever recalled spending time with her parents. Since she was their first child, they wanted to make sure that she grew up healthily. Once she was mature enough to handle on her own, her parents resumed work and even moved to the United States due to her mother's promotion and her father's connections. They moved to Los Angeles, California when she was ten years old. She got into dancing through the dance club at her school since she wanted to stay out as long as possible since her parents were never home. Minjung realized that she could easily move along to the music and was naturally flexible. The more that she danced, the more she fell in love with the art. Whenever she danced it felt like everything around her disappeared and it was just her and the music. Every time she took a class, time flew by and she felt the happiest she's been in so long. With the money her parents left her, she began to take classes at local dance studios in hopes to get even better. It was her safe haven since no one was ever home and she had the instructors and regular dancers around her to keep her company. Since LA had easy access to different genres of dance, she trained herself to be a versatile dancer.

At the age of fifteen, her mother gave birth to her little brother. The moment she got to hold him in her arms, Minjung knew that she would do anything to protect him and make him happy. During the course of her mother's maternity and father's paternity leave from work, the three of them spent that time to reconnect with each other while looking after her younger sibling. Minjung finally opened up to them and requested that they focused more on being there for him. Her parents never realized how lonely Minjung was when they were gone since she had always kept to herself and was very responsible for looking after herself. Now with her little brother in the picture, her parents made sure to make up for their mistakes after seeing how sincere Minjung was with her request. Minjung had found a liking towards singing with her father as they grew closer and she helped him with his composing once in a while. They moved back to Korea when her brother was six months old so the rest of their relatives can meet the newest member of the family. 

After moving back to Korea, Minjung made sure to continue her dancing. She contiuously took classes at SoulDance and 1Million Dance Studio after classes. There she met three other people: Minhee, Jihoon, and Haru. They were dancers that she had often seen in the dance community and became friends with each other. The four of them soon made their own street team called Playm8. Their name came to be because they're all mates and love to have fun. It was also a play on Jihoon's personality because he's a playboy and loves to firt with other girls so the four of them always joke around saying it's based as Jihoon as their mascot and the girls are the mates, like Playboy. They danced on the streets by doing dance covers of the hottest songs in the K-pop scene and competed in local, underground, and neighborhood dance competitions. Although they don't stick to one practice space, whether it'd be at SoulDance or 1Million, they would usually practice at Minhee's neighborhood where there was an empty studio that her landlord would let them use. Since they're well-known in the community, they would sometimes hold their own workshops at the studio they practice at.

LIKES: 

✩ Food 
✩ Cats
✩ Anime
✩ The Beach
✩ Coffee/Bubble Tea
✩ R&B, HipHop, & EDM Music
✩ Naps
✩ Stitch from Lilo & Stitch
✩ Poetry
 

DISLIKES: 

✩ Being rudely woken up from naps, if so she will start cussing to herself in English
✩ Hospitals because there's needles involved
✩ When people about her height
✩ Jihoon
✩ Sleeping in the dark
✩ Small Rooms
✩ When people touch her things or move them without her permission
✩ Writer's block
✩ Strongly dislikes anything horror related because she's a huge scaredy cat

HABITS: 

✩ Can't fall asleep unless she's hugging something
✩ Bites her bottom lip when she's nervous or anxious
✩ Talks in a mixture of English and Korean whenever she can't properly express herself or feels many emotions at once
✩ Tends to slap the person next to or nearest to her repeatedly if she's excited 
✩ No matter where she's at, whether it'd be in a supermarket or waiting in line for something, she will begin to dance or do small movements if a good song is playing in the background
✩ Plays with her hair or vapes when she's stressed 
✩ Talks in her sleep 
✩ Constantly hungry/always snacking on something when she can (always carrying snacks like choco pies, small bags of chips, candy, etc in her bags)
✩ Makes a sound of happiness, usually a squeal or laughs to herself while clapping when she gets food or when it's set down in front of her
✩ Carries her lyric book around with her wherever she goes. 

HOBBIES: 

✩ Longboarding/Penny boarding
✩ Must always start her day with coffee or else she'll be cranky for the rest of the day
✩ Learns dances/choreography in her room from her laptop whenever she has freetime
✩ Watching K-Dramas/Animes (especially food animes)
✩ Reading Poetry Books
✩ Kickboxing on the weekends
✩ Playing basketball
✩ Bugging her friends or other members to learn the new choreography she put together { x x x x }
✩ Looking up new places to eat with her friends and family 
✩ DJing, Composing, putting mixes/mashups together, or writing lyrics
✩ Planning her next prank on whoever her next victim will be

TRIVIA: 

✩ Favorite color is red
✩ Spirit animal is a panda
✩ Picked up DJing and rapping during her trainee days and through someone very special to her
✩ Street food is her guilty pleasure, especially if it's spicy. She doesn't care if her face is swollen the next day. A green tea face mask and facial massage will fix it right up.
✩ Knows how to cook
✩ Food is always on her mind
✩ Keeps a secret stash of her own snacks in her bedside drawer for whenever she's bored and hungry at the dorms
✩ Plays the ukulele
✩ Even if she loves coffee, she has this odd thing of switching to drinking tea in the winter. Minjung doesn't know why, but she finds it more comforting to drink tea during that time.
✩ Loves to exercise and play sports (basketball and volleyball)
✩ Closet sneakerhead; doesn't like to brag but she has a pretty decent collection of Nikes and Adidas that she's bought over the years
✩ Still kept the first pair of shoes she wore everyday to dance rehearsals back in LA. They're a worn out pair of burgundy Vans and she believes they're her good luck charm. 
✩ Has a pet Munchkin cat named Simba
✩ Loves to do skinship with the people she's closest with (i.e. wrapping her arms around their shoulders, hugging them from the side, leaning her head on their shoulders, etc)
✩ Wants to travel around the world
✩ Wishes to go on variety shows, especially Running Man
✩ Doesn't look like it, but she's a er for romance
✩ Doesn't watch a lot of TV but if she does, it's either Running Man or Show Me the Money
✩ Looks up to BoA and G-Dragon
✩ Very, very, very ticklish; if she sees someone that looks like they'll tickle her, Minjung will immediately retreat back
✩ Doesn't have 20/20 vision; her left eye is worse than her right and is nearsighted. Prefers to wear contacts most of the time because of dancing
✩ Dance Foundation: Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, HipHop (waacking, breaking, locking, popping, housing)
✩ Loves Lilo & Stitch, it's her favorite movie
✩ Hogwarts House: Slytherin; Ilvermorny House: Thunderbird
✩ Personality type: ENFP 
✩ Blood Type: O
✩ Eats a lot but never seems to gain that much weight and usually finishes first because she's a fast eater (i.e. can eat three large bowls of ramen in one sitting)
✩ Can contain her alcohol well despite her small figure; last time she tallied the number of shots she drank, it was around 15-20 before she became drunk

RELATIONSHIPS: 

✩ Father - Chae Minjun (55) / Producer, Composer / laid back, funny / 7/10; Although their relationship wasn't close when she was younger, once Eunsoo was born he made sure to stay home more and the two bonded a lot. He would always joke around with her and ask her to show her the new dances that she learned. Ever since she opened up to him and his wife, he made it his mission to fill in the empty gap they left in her adolescent years whenever he could. {fc: Jung Bo Suk}

✩ Mother - Chae Eunjae (52) / Fashion Designer / strict, supportive / 5/10; Since her job permits her to always be on the go, Minjung isn't as close to her as she is with her dad. But whenever she is home, Minjung's mother is always on her case to make sure that she's on top of her studies and doing well with everything that's on her plate. Her mother prefers tough love so her daughter would be ready for the real world. {fc: Lee Ah Hyun}

✩ Brother - Chae Eunsoo (5) / N/A / childish, playful / 10/10; He is her light whenever her world goes dark. Eunsoo is the reason that Minjung decided to become an idol. Since he always watched music shows and looked up to his sister, he always told her how she would be able to shine brightly on stage if she ever got the chance to become an idol. The two are really close with each other and Minjung loves to spoil him. They're always playing with each other and teasing each other. Whenever their dad was just relaxing at home, they would plan endless pranks to play on him. {fc: Yoogeun}

✩ Best Friend - Kwon Minhee (21) / Student, Dancer (Playm8) / sassy, confident / 10/10; Minhee and Minjung became friends when the two were paired up for a dance class when Minjung first moved to Korea. It was a freestyle interactive class where they had to improvise accordingly to the moves of their partner and the two easily clicked. Together they're known as Min² and are like two peas in a pod. Since their personalities are similar with Minhee as the more outspoken one, Minjung loves to call Minhee her long lost twin. {fc: Jung Minhee} 

✩ Older Brother Figure - Jung Jihoon (24) / Student, Dancer (Playm8) / flirty, cheeky / 10/10; The two met each other through Minhee when he took the same dance class as them. Jihoon immediately tried to flirt with her and Minjung was easily flustered. Since then, he made it his duty to always tease the girl, but always be there for her as an older brother. He's the one that she loves to have deep conversations with because he has a mature mindset although he loves to get on her nerves 24/7. Most of the time she doesn't know whether she should punch him in the face or hug him for being so experienced with relationships and life as a whole. Because they are also very close to each other, they would occasionally collaborate with each other for choreography. Some of their friends within the dance community would often mistake them for being a couple which Minjung would immediately deny even if everyone ships them. { x x } {fc: Lee Chihoon} 

✩ Best Friend - Cho Haru (20) / Student, Dancer (Playm8) / innocent, quiet / 10/10; Minjung met Haru at one of her dance classes and she went up to compliment her for her skills. She found it adorable how shy Haru got but when she dances she's as confident as Minhee. The two hit it off and she later introduced Haru to Jihoon and Minhee when they wanted to hang out after their dance classes were finished. Minjung looks at her as a younger sister and someone she can just relax with. Since Haru is quiet, the two usually just have a good time hanging out at a cafe with a book in their hands. {fc: Hong Younggi}

✩ Friend - Kim Minsoo (20) / Trainee; BIA Member / funny, caring  / 8/10; Minjung met Minsoo once she became a trainee and easily got along with her. The two were always grouped together as partners or within the same group of trainees, so Minjung naturally gravitated towards her. Although they were all competing and training to debut as soon as possible, she saw Minsoo as someone that she wanted to become friends with and grow closer to. Minsoo is the friend she likes to lean on the most because she's the first friend she made when she first became a trainee. {fc: Moonbyul}

✩ Older Brother Figure - Zico (23) / Idol / sarcastic, playful / 8/10; The two met through Jihoon and he had become one of her mentors in the underground scene for rapping. She took up on his offer since she needed help with her training anyways. They would often speak to each other through FaceTime and hang out whenever he was free. Just like Jihoon, he would be one of the figures that would often give her advice or help cheer her up when training gets the best of her. He dotes on her like an older brother and he and Jihoon deemed her as their lovechild. 

✩ Close Friend - Amber Liu (23) / Idol / carefree, funny / 9/10; Minjung met Amber when she bumped into her when looking for an empty studio to practice in. The two immediately got along when Amber approached her warmly and found out that she had stayed in the US for a while. She immediately adopted her into her English speaking line which included Ailee, Eric Nam, and Henry. The two love to pull pranks on Ailee and Eric or tease them about having a secret relationship behind their back. If Amber is known as a llama and Ailee is known as a goldfish, Minjung is known as a panda for always eating and her love of sleep.

✩ Friends - Ailee, Eric Nam, & Henry Lau (27, 27, 26) / Idol / varies / 7/10; Through Amber, Minjung met the English Line and they all got along with each other. Ailee is like her hyper, child-like older sister that loves to give her makeovers and go shopping with. Eric is her innocent older brother that she loves to pull pranks on because his reactions never fail to amuse her. Henry is her laidback older brother that she likes to bug and annoy just for the sake of knowing he's usually up to nothing or procrastinating on his work. She'd usually drag him along with Eric in the streets of Hongdae and Myeongdong to hang around or call up everyone else in their line to have a jam session as Henry and Amber play their guitars, Eric and Ailee are singing, and Minjung plays with her ukulele. 

✩ Friends - WINNER & Block B (varies) / Idol / varies / 7/10; Because she's so close to Zico and Mino, she eventually met the rest of their members. They love to joke around with her and treat her as "one of the guys". They're not afraid to play rough with her whether it'd be placing bets on who could hold their plank longer or playing a game of basketball. But even if she is seen as one of the guys, they're still pretty protective of her.
 

RETURN TO the STORY

MiniiPandaa ✩ Jade

LAST COMMENT: Let me know if there's anything that I need to fix! :) So excited to see where this story goes~ haha

SCENE REQUEST: 

✩ Eunsoo sneaking out of the house and showing up to her dorm because he misses her

✩ Mino asking her out 

✩ The girls sneaking out of the dorm to get street food from the local night market and have fun together 

✩ Playm8, especially Jihoon, asking to meet the members of the group and Minjung always trying to keep Jihoon in check when they do meet each other

✩ Minhee and Haru steal Minjung for a day and have a girl's day together 

✩ Corona members feature on Running Man and Minjung is on the same team as Haha and Jongkook

PASSWORD: Step - KARA

Yo, Lee Hi is slaying the game, I swear. I freaking love her right now, she's perfect ; ^ ;