The Tales of Exodus ➳ {Jin Seyeon: The Human} [wip]
She got me going crazy
why's my heart like this baby?
Jin Seyeon
You're beautiful; you're my goddess
Appearance: Seyeon stands at 5' 3"/160 cm tall and weighs 46 kgs/101 lbs. Even though she just turned 20 this year, she has an extreme baby face. She is double carded every time she tries to buy alcohol or even a lottery ticket.
Style: Seyeon likes to dress very chic to make up for the fact that she looks really young for her age. She loves floppy hats and fedoras, sunglasses, jean jackets, trench coats, military jackets, boots and sandals. However, she also has days where she just wears crop tops, off the shoulders, and cardigans and jeans. She also loves to accessorize and almost always has on a bunch of cool earrings, bracelets and necklaces.
Personality: Seyeon is the girl that will shut up and never say anything around strangers and people she doesn't trust. That's because from all the years of bullying, she has developed a significant social paranoia. She covers up the fact that she's insecure and self conscious by decking herself out with brand names, but it's sometimes really obvious the girl lacks self confidence in herself. However, if you keep getting to know her, you'll first discover that she's actually an empathetic girl who loves and cares too easily. She gets swept up in the smallest of inequities and social issues and she's actually just a big softie at heart to her friends. Once she feels like she can trust you, she's the type that will pour everything out to you and will forgive just about anything. Jin Seyeon is actually on the inside, a warm hearted sassy hipster who just constantly feels out of place in human society no matter how hard she tries.
Background:
[FAMILY STORY] Seyeon was born into an upper class family. Her mother was studying for her Ph.D in Genetics and her father was from a chaebol family. Her father's family owned many, many shopping malls, businesses and buildings. At the time Seyeon was born, her mother was a geneticist working for the government whose funding was in serious danger of getting cut. Although her husband's family had been funding the government so that her mother could continue her research, it just wasn't enough. After Seyeon was four, her father decided to renounce his family. He wanted to become a professor and teach public policy and economics at a university. Enraged, her father's family cut funding and Seyeon's mothers project was cut almost immediately. Her father left the family to pursue his dreams of helping the general public. He wanted to teach students about the flaws in public policy and legal statures that his family was profiting off of so he could make society equitable.
Although Jin Hyeseul was originally in support of her husband's decision to leave his family business, she had failed to think of his actions' impact on her research. She slowly began to blame her husband for her failures. She was jealous that everything was going his way while his decisions impacted her whole entire future. However, Seyeon's discovery of florenium probably turned Jin Hyeseul's life around. She took advantage of her daughter's discovery to the fullest and disregarded everything: her relationship with her family, her daughter, her life all for the success EX'ACT could bring her.
Although Jin Hyseul had been a caring mother before the formation of EX'ACT, everything changed as she became obsessed with the power EX'ACT could grant her. Seyeon's parents started arguing soon after EX'ACT formed. Her father, Jin Kihoon, didn't agree with how Seyeon's mother had been running EX'ACT. Her father was always more humane and disagreed with Hyeseul's methods of running her research. Those small arguments about how Hyeseul running EX'ACT turned into bigger arguments. Jin Hyeseul slowly drifted away from her family. Since her father was always the type that compromised and Hyeseul was the demanding type, Kihoon was sick of meeting her demands and they grew further apart and eventually divorced. They had different ideas of success and a family and the arguments had reached a point where the two couldn't stand to be in the same room as each other.
Now the question was who would get to keep custody of Seyeon? Seyeon was only nine years old when they divorced. Her father had gotten a job as a professor at Yonsei university. And although it was a long and bitter legal battle, Jin Hyeseul used her influence in the government to rig the trial and bribed the judge. Seyeon's mother had full custody over Seyeon and as time went on and Seyeon was old enough to understand what was happening, she loathed her mom. She missed her kind father and hated herself for showing her mother her discoveries, because it literally changed her mother as a person fundamentally.
[SCHOOL LIFE] Seyeon is now currently finishing up her degree in Public Policy, Planning and Development and her minor in Biochemical engineering at Yonsei university. Once she was 18, Seyeon moved out of the house and reconnected with her father and ended up pursuing similar studies as him.
When Seyeon was younger, she didn't really know how to blend into human society completely, so she used to talk about fairies and whatnot and her classmates thought she was completely crazy. She was bullied a lot throughout pretty much all of elementary and middle school for being weird, and a "nerd". Her mother, for her sake, transferred her to a different high school. It didn't really help. Seyeon made a friend or two but was too self conscious and afraid that people would judge her to make any real friends. Seyeon at one point had an eating disorder in high school when some kids bullied her about her appearance.
College at first wasn't any different for Seyeon. She was really self conscious and afraid of talking too much because people would think she's weird, so she stayed as a quiet wallflower. Besides her secret about EX'ACT and her abilities, Seyeon likes to believe that she isn't that much different from the average girl her age. Things didn't start changing until Seyeon decided to go study abroad for a whole year in the United States.
Because Korea is a homogenous country, they placed value on emphasis and uniformity, and any one too different, like Seyeon was frowned upon. However, the U.S was different. They were an individualist society that valued uniqueness, individualism, and creativity, and Seyeon felt free. She finally started showing people the glimpses of her real self and found true friends. She finally started to feel confident about herself. When she came back to Korea, people noticed this change in her. Seyeon no longer looked away from anyone's gaze but rather looked them straight in the eye. Although Seyeon has a long way to go to break her self-conscious shell, she's been making progress ever since she studied abroad. Seyeon is trying to force herself slowly to be more her true self in front of her friends, but she always gets this feeling that she doesn't belong in human society. EX'ACT and magical creatures made up such a fundamental part of her life, and she finds it hard to connect to most humans because of her experiences.
[EX'ACT Labs + The Great Escape] Seyeon feels responsible for EX'ACT, but yet doesn't know how to even begin to undo her actions. Seyeon is pretty much treated as an honorary executive at EX'ACT labs. She has access to most information and even interned at EX'ACT. Since her minor was Biochemical engineering and her major was public policy, she interned at EX'ACT, trying to improve conditions for the magical creatures in the labs. Although Seyeon was doing her job, she was also just pretty much spying on her mom. It is through her internship that she stumbles onto information about the EXO project. When she discovered how many people her mother had hurt, had almost killed in her pursuit for the military perfection that was requested by the government: she knew she had to shut down EX'ACT that very moment. It was that very moment she felt like she had to do something. Without much thought, she did something she had always wanted to do. Her rage and fury triggered her impulse and she finally did something she never had the balls to do. She freed the occupants of Jin Hwa Seul lab#12 which will be the EXO project and the OC's featured in this story and together with them destroyed the first preserve, Jin Hwa Seul and set all of its inhabitants free.
Present: Seyeon is a college student in her final year of college, planning to work for the government in policy and planning after she graduates. She went to study abroad in Los Angeles, CA at the University of Southern California for one whole year her sophomore year. She is in the progress of integrating herself into human society and is having a blast in college (compared to her elementary, middle, and high school years). Her father remarried and Seyeon has a stepbrother that is around her age; they are pretty close to each other. Seyeon is also a raging social justice warrior and if you ever get her started on any of the following topics: donald trump, gender inequality, racism, Korea's education system, capitalism and more, be prepared for her to rant for the next 15 to 45 minutes. She's just someone that wants to help the world in her own little way, hence her major.
Seyeon is a raging liberal that wants to change this world and hates people like her mother. Currently, at the very beginning of the story, she just doesn't know how to change this world. But as she sets everyone free and the EXO boys and the girls have nowhere to go and seeing as how successfully they wrecked the Jin Hwa Seul preserve, Seyeon gets a brilliant idea: what if she could rectify her mistakes and destroy EX'ACT and its preserves across Asia with EXO and the girls? The rest of the story will be about the girls and EXO battling against EX'ACT to destroy labs and preserves, defending the human public from creatures that are bitter towards humanity for their captures at EX'ACT and ultimately shutting down EX'ACT and destroy everything that it has learned. Seyeon realizes humans weren't intended to know about magical creatures and florenium and she does everything she can to keep knowledge out from her mother and EX'ACT's clutches.
Trivia:
— Seyeon had anorexia at one point in high school because of bullies. Although she's eating better now, she still avoids fatty foods and eats super healthy. However, she has a bit of a sweet tooth and finds it the hardest to eat clean when she is tempted with ice cream and pastries.
— Seyeon watches the news on a daily basis
— Seyeon dislikes nature. She's a city girl to the heart and isn't really a big fan of hiking and whatnot.
— She hates to exercise, but she likes the feeling she gets after she exercises so she does it anyway. She is also afraid of people judging her appearance so she works out frequently. She likes yoga and pilates.
— at swimming
— Seyeon likes taking long walks
— Is obsessing over pokemon go and really wants a lapras
— Was a figure skating champion in middle school, but she hates it. It was something her mom forced her to do.
— Really likes hip hop; she was a big fan of show me the money and unpretty rapstar 1.
— Seyeon loves heels and boots. She will rarely be seen with flats or sneakers on.
— If she ever sees anyone she knew from her pre-college days, she'll make huge efforts to avoid them at all costs, even if that means taking the train home the opposite way.
— Has a 3.95 GPA. She's a bit of a genius and also loves her major with a burning passion.
— Because she didn't really have friends growing up, her mother and father encouraged her to study alot, so Seyeon is actually a huge bookworm, and loves reading. Seyeon was bullied a lot for being a nerd in her younger years.
— Had to go to the hospital once because some girls pushed her down the stairs in middle school. She broke her leg and the girls were expelled. Seyeon switched schools immediately afterwards. She attendended 3 elementary schools, 2 middle schools and 3 high schools. This was partially because of her mother's job and also because Seyeon often had trouble adjusting.
I'm engraved in your heart; even when I die, we won't be torn apart
Family:
▻ Mother | Jin (Kim) Hyeseul| 47 | Human| the ultimate tiger mom, EX'ACT Executive Director
Traits: harsh, perfectionist, greedy, calculating, apathetic, demanding
Sometimes Seyeon thinks that she could have been more self confident if her father had won the custody battle instead of her mother. After her parents' divorce her mother changed. She devoted herself to her work, began to harshly criticize Seyeon for every mistake and forced Seyeon to do things she didn't even want to do (i.e. ice skating and countless other things). Seyeon's mother used to be nice, warm and caring before EX'ACT, but after its creation and their divorce, the woman just pretty much turned into an ice cold tiger mom. Seyeon moved out the moment she was eighteen and the two rarely talk. They do not get along well.
▻ Father | Jin Kihoon | 44 | Human| the kind, forgiving father, Yonsei Public Policy Professor
Traits: warm, supportive, flexible, liberal, opinionated, empathetic
Seyeon loves and adores her father and wishes he had won the custody battle over her with all her heart. The moment she was eighteen, she tracked down her father and re-connected with him. (He was forbidden to because he lost all custody rights.) And they reconnected almost immediately. Her father is the one that inspired her to take the public policy track at a time in Seyeon's life where she didn't know where she was going. She is like her father in a lot of ways. Her mother gave her insecurity and self consciousness, her father helped her find life, meaning and purpose.
▻ Stepmother | Jin (Jung) Mira | 41 | Human| Four dimensional sassy stepmom, Famous Novelist
Traits: sassy, 4-dimensional, openminded, flexible, playful
Seyeon's stepmother opened Seyeon with open arms after she showed up at her father's house. Mira knew that her husband, Kihoon had worried about his first daughter a lot, and because of all the times Kihoon talked about Seyeon, she felt as if she knew her for a long time. The two clicked together well and she's secretly hoping Jaewon and her will start dating somehow (partially because she likes the girl, and partially because she thinks that would be a great novel to write about).
Friends:
▻ Stepbrother/ best friend | Jung Jaewon | 22 | human| The Prettyboy Wannabe Rapper
Traits: openminded, playful, 4-dimensional, hardworking, passionate, tactful
It was because of Jaewon that Seyeon got into hip-hop. Jaewon was actually in a very unsucessful group called OnePunch. He's determined to try out for SMTM next year and hates it when he's judged for his face. The two get along really well. Seyeon is the type to befriend guys quicker than girls anyway because they tend to be less judgmental. Jaewon, much like his mother is a very open minded, flexible, easy going person. He's quite playful and is also a bit on the weird side. He has this way of making Seyeon feel completely at ease and the two are very close with each other. He can always tell when Seyeon is feeling down or insecure and does his best to support her as a friend/stepbrother. However, he may be harboring or developing some feelings for Seyeon.
Others:
▻ Enemy | Kang Soyou | 21 | human| The bully: childish, jealous, possessive, y
Soyou is someone that has bullied Seyeon along with her girlfriends for majority of her life time. Soyou's family moved around a lot too, and she just happened to be at 50% of Seyeon's many schools as she was growing up. Each time they met at a school, Soyou woud make it her life's mission to make Seyeon's life a living hell. Little does Seyeon know, the reason why Soyou hates her so much is because her first love happened to really like Seyeon.
Experiment #61
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“Don't be afraid; love is the way.”
Oh, the moment we become one; we'll be the lucky ones
First Meeting: Hmm, I'm not going to spoil their love story too much, but the first time Seyeon met Chanyeol was in high school. He bullied her a lot. Little did she know that was mostly because Chanyeol had a crush on her and didn't know how to express himself very well, but she ended up hating him from all his constant pranks and sharp words.
She was shocked to see he was one of the people inside the EX'ACT labs.
Relationship: explain here how your character and her love interest act around each other. how do they treat the other? how do others see them? tell me how their relationship builds and how they start to like one another more despite their differences. Since your OCs are magical beings, it should be hard for them to build an immediate relationship. Your OCs are not human. It should be hard for them to understand the boys, much less fall in love with them. Unless you want a love at first sight story, that works too, but I really want to know how should I build their relationship throughout the story.
Conclusion: and now inform us of the ending you want for your character and her love interest to end up with. pretty self explanatory, i think.
You can call me monster; I'll be your lucky one
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