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joon taewoo

life's short. so, we have to make something out of it.

hongik uni's art teacher living with some of his past and present students.
the 'you do you, i do me, and we won't do each other. probably' guy
super cool, super chill, super artistic, ex-adrenaline junkie.

 

❀ seo inguk; actor and soloist.
❀ kang haneul; actor.
❀ eric nam; soloist.
 

❀ scars which came from some of his adrenaline junkie moments, not all that bad actually ( he's been quite the lucky fellow ).
❀ got a tattoo that covered his whole back of a snake winding around an hourglass. the snake represented him ( since his chinese zodiac is a snake ) and that he's embracing the fact that his time of living is going to come to an end at one point. it's like a reminder for him and that's what motivated him to do what he wished to.
❀ he actually loved to do a manicure. he did it once—because of his mother—and he really liked it. he's even capable of doing his own nail art and was not afraid to go to the outside world with such nails on ( though, there were days he didn't have it on because he didn't feel like it or was too busy ). also, it's definitely not just a simple color blocking, he's doing all kinds of stuff with the design. probably has better nails than most of the other girls.
 

❀ work. // casual but formal sort of outfits, with dark and muted colors and the sort. he mainly donned a button-up ( or at least, formal looking ) shirt, along with slacks and either dress shoes or sneakers. really, it just depended on his mood that day. he's always quite fashionable, though ( mainly because he was fond of really nice looking clothes so yeah ). 
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❀ casual. // trendy and comfy, he tends to just go with what's popular or nice clothing he already had. he's got a variety of styles but he's definitely a er for hoodies ( he has one with cat ears and it's his absolute favorite ). color scheme wise, it really depended on the mood or look he's going for.
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❀ home. // he actually has sets of sleeping wear but also did don the shirt and sweatpants combination ( most of the time, the shirt had some cute prints on it like a sleeping panda ). yeah, he definitely loved donning cute outfits ( why did all the good outfits go to girls ninety-nine percent of the time? what's with these standards for what men or women should wear? he demanded a revolution! ).
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❀ bio tl;dr. // only child of a quite wealthy family, he was surprisingly not that spoiled. he's always been very obedient to them, only terrified of disappointing them. he was born in korea but his parents decided they should move to indonesia because his mother admired the natural beauty ( she had a friend who showed her such things from the said country). at seven years old, he would encounter a fellow korean student with a love for art and wanted to have the same abilities—leading to him becoming a dedicated artist. once junior high school ended, he ended, he took two diploma courses on arts in singapore, before heading off to england for arts university. he acquired a phd at a young age ( 23 ) due to being so utterly dedicated and proving his worth as an artist with all he had ( even with all the crazy things that happened during the times he was in england. ah, good times. ). after that, he applied for a painting ( arts ) professor position in hongik university. initially, he would have thought he would only be a professor there for a year or so, but again, his diligence pulled through and it led to him becoming a permanent professor there.

❀ weekdays. // weekdays were definitely a busy time for him. filled with teaching students, preparing study materials, finishing an art piece to make sure that he didn't become rusty as an artist. he tried to at least make one piece of art per week but preferred to finish it by friday ( so he could really rest on the weekends ). honestly, he didn't sleep much on weekdays—pulling all nighters, taking coffee as if it was a drug, and focusing a lot on his work. he did try to make his weekdays as free as he could possibly make it be. he's used to it now, though, and really, he signed up for it. 

❀ weekends. // ah, glorious weekends. days where he could just hibernate until afternoon or even the whole day if he was that tired from the weekdays. this was the time he liked to hang out with others, laze around, or finish up with the artwork he vowed to finish by the end of saturday at least. the only time he could cook for the rest ( dinner on saturday and lunch and dinner on sunday. never breakfast because he dearly needed sleep and on weekdays he never had the time ). after dinner on sunday, though, he video calls his parents and would recount his whole week to them.

❀ inside. // in the share home, he tried to break the initial discomfort between his student's and him by trying to connect with them more. those who didn't know that much about him might expect the sort of guy too old and behind the times, but he's surprisingly friendlier than expected. plus, his easygoing demeanor and nonchalance in going along with jokes ( no matter how inappropriate or the sort ) made it much less awkward than it was thought to be.

❀ outside. // he hangs out with his parents, his friends ( ex-students, fellow professors, and so on and so forth ), and the other tenants of the share home. people who knew him also knew that he was a man who loved anything adventurous or unique. the man would always order the unique dish he never tasted before, and if he wasn't a fan he'd try to finish it but if it's unfinished he would pay for the whole meal ( it's a strange vow he began at one point but would never truly give away the reason why. plus, he absolutely loved anything that would lead to seeing nature.

❀ school. // in hongik university, he was known as one of the more fun teachers around who still made sure that his students get the right education. His classes included times where he thought his students about the different techniques, mediums, bits of history, and a time to do the given art assignment. when his students do assignments, he would do other things such as his own art or more study material for next time. he's an approachable and friendly teacher who many of his students liked to interact with. it didn' hurt that he was one of ( if not, the  ) youngest professor in that university. he was also known for his objective nature, making right judgments no matter if he actually liked one student more than the other.
 

❀ 01. has a lot of crazy stories such as the time he had to lie to the police that he took intensive plastic surgery to change his face to the way it is because he was an underage driver using his friend's driver license because all his friends needed someone to pick them up after getting too drunk in a party. don't get him started on the one time he was stuck in an elevator with a criminal and played cards with them ( in all honesty, he didn't even know the guy was a criminal until the man ended up just spewing out all his woes since the elevator took much too long to be fixed ).
❀ 02. yes, he knew how to drive at a young age. but honestly, in indonesia, he knew people younger than him who drove in the streets. 
❀ 03. he absolutely loved anything extreme or along the lines of outdoor activities. for example, zip lining, bungee jumping, parasailing, flying fish, and so on and so forth. 
❀ 04. currently, he has three snakes. a ball python named snape, a burmese python named basilisk, and a green tree python named slytherin. basilisk and slytherin's living with his parents, though. and snape was the only one he brought to the share home.
❀ 05. as you can see, he's quite the potterhead.
❀ 06. but he's a gryffindor through and through, just that he loved snakes.
❀ 07. would cook simple enough indonesian meals for the other housemates because he shared his mother's love of the country.
❀ 08. he knew a lot of amazing places in there actually?? well, there and england and korea. he just loved trying to find the hidden gems and promoting it to others. he would actually bring the others to an adventure to said hidden gems when they got the time.
❀ 09. heck, if they all wanted a more private place like a small but beautiful island then he got access to that. what's more? lobsters were way cheaper than instant noodles. 
❀ 10. he loves escape rooms too but he failed at it. he's actually bad at those puzzles, riddles and the like...especially if subjects like maths or science came to play. despite being a prodigy in art, he did not share the same amount of skills in other departments. in all honesty, he barely passed them when he had to study those.
❀ 11. loves spicy food. but korean food was way too mild in his opinion. he needed to add ten times more chili and spice to deem it spicy enough to actually taste it. also, if he cooked their meals— actually, any meals in the share home that he would eat would gain additional ingredients to make it spicier. obviously, no one wanted to eat his plate unless they wanted a ticket to hellish stomach pains, a burning mouth, and probably worse.
❀ 12. the reason he moved in to stay in the share home was that he ( along with his roommate ) got kicked out by their landlord since snape managed to escape an terrified the other tenants.
❀ 13. people tend to assume that he was gay simply because he had manicured nails and his gestures ( and at times, speech ), went along with the stereotype of it. he didn't really care, though, he was more amused than anything else.
❀ 14. his art mainly consisted of traditional art. his main skills lied in painting of the watercolor and acrylic kind ( as it was faster to do ). his art style was vibrant, with a unique usage of colors and having a rather surrealistic feel to it. he tends to also be a very fast artist and could finish a wondrous artwork by an hour if not disturbed.
❀ 15. his username for all sns was senijoon ( seni meant art in indonesian and joon was derived from his surname ). he had a youtube channel meant for speed paints and tutorials and the sort, instagram for his art and the occasional aesthetic pictures of nature or selfies ( though, the latter was rarer ), and a twitter where it was more personal and mainly him putting anything he felt like and bits of his art. people generally went ot his twitter or instagram for a comission.
❀ 16. when he called his parents, he's prone to do more aegyo and showed a very affectionate side.
❀ 17. quite lucky, scratch that, very lucky. somehow, throughout the numerous crazy stuff he went through, he did not sustain any serious injury or got into jail.
❀ 18. more tba?