JUNKBAND; JUDY'S GENESIS!
JUNKBAND; GENESIS
FULL NAME judas joo.
OTHER NAMES
judy
his older cousin called him that when they were young, and it kinda stuck throughout his childhood growing up because they kept on attending the same schools. (it’s funny how fate works because now they’re also attend uch together.) you would have expected him to be bullied in elementary school, but the thing about bullying is that you have to find an easy target to be successful, and judy - with his eight-year-old cherubic face, horde of older sister friends, and the doting love from every aunt and uncle he reluctantly let pinch his cheeks - did not set himself up to be an easy target.
other nicknames
judith, joojoo on the beat, joody, joosuke joestar. this ranges from what others have him saved under in their phone to his display names on social media.
BIRTHDATE march 10, 21.
BIRTHPLACE hollywood, ca.
HOMETOWN hollywood, ca.
ETHNICITY korean.
GENDER male.
PRONOUNS he/him.
UALITY biual.
intro
outside
FACE CLAIM kim sunwoo.
HEIGHT/WEIGHT 5'10" / 150 lb.
APPEARANCE he's got scruffy auburn hair with the roots growing out and a lanky body physique -- it's no wonder that his workplace is often swarmed by giggling freshman girls arriving for the evening rush right after their classes end. despite his stylishly unkempt appearance, his parents have given him the genes for a strong jawline, lidded eyes, and full, albeit chapped, lips, so he's highly ranked on the secret list of upperclassmen to gush over for students who both take korean I and are part of uch's renown k-pop dance crew.
STYLE whether onstage or off, judy is most comfortable with his assortment of simple necklaces, ripped fit black jeans, baggy dark tees, jordans, and oversized, lovingly worn hoodies. you think you see a hole in the cuff of one of his sleeves? nah, bro, that's just how yeezy hoodies are manufactured nowadays. just swap to another hoodie? he's one step ahead of you -- he's got a variety of different colors and prints he cycles through like clockwork, even when it's starting to become uncomfortably warm in hollywood springtime, and only then will he relinquish the long sleeves for his tees.
onstage, he keeps the necklace, baggy dark tees, and the ripped jeans, but he'll exchange the jordans for a pair of combat boots, and accessorize more heavily with chain earrings and leather bracelets. if his boys are gassing him up enough, he'll wear leather pants with the whole getup. sure, he's heavily sweating by the time he gets backstage, but it's the fit that matters the most, not his comfort.
personality
chill, an optimistic nilhilist, a why take life so seriously? type of guy / that annoying that goes "aye, my voice ain't that deep" over the phone / seems like bad boy trope that will take you on his motorbike into the city but in actuality spends majority of his time holed up in his room on call with the boys / he's usually laid-back, so if he's calling you out on some BS, you know you ed up (depiglio..?) / puts 100% into group projects because ditching your partners is a move, but puts in bare minimum to pass when he's on his own because he's just not that motivated to when he could be playing games instead / same lack of energy he puts into at work .. cause capitalism .. am i right boys? / quick to forgive but never forgets, isn't the type of person to blow up out of anger but will pull juvenile pranks that are moderate life inconveniences
lifestyle
having grown up in the hollywood area, judy's known that he would stay in-state and in the area since high school - he's got no further aspirations aside from getting his major and maybe being some kind of museum technician. his parents are fairly lax about his decision, if only because one of them is an art director and the other is a sociologist, so he's not overly worried about being unable to find a job once he leaves school.
in the mornings, he forgoes breakfast for a protein bar and either longboards or birds from his off-campus housing, depending on what class he's got and where he has to travel after. forget reviewing lecture content beforehand - it'd be a miracle if he remembers to bring his macbook air, assuming that he also forgot to pack things up the night prior. during classes, he'll be seated in the back row, head bowed over his phone to start his daily grind sessions. between classes, he'll hit up his friends and see if anyone's available to hang out with; if not, he'll head towards the uni canteen for a quick lunch and coffee and hopefully a power source he can plug his most-likely dying phone into to charge.
after classes, he'll begrudgingly head back to his apartment to get started on homework and lecture catch-up, or head to work and catch up with his favorite coworker and fellow uch student ruby. in the evenings, he'll usually be glued to his PC until dinner, in which he'll whip up something quick for himself to eat before continuing to game until one or two in the morning. if it's the weekend and he's been invited out to a party, best believe that his evening will be dedicated to picking up alcohol from walmart and getting mad drunk. his boys got his back, so he never has to worry about driving home or finding a place to stay after the party's over.
MAJOR & YEAR art history & third year.
CLASS SCHEDULE
☕️ arts of europe: medieval and renaissance. MWF 10:00 - 10:50 AM
☕️ art history methods. TTh 10:00 - 11:20 AM
☕️ ceramic throwing. MW 1:45 - 4:15 PM
☕️ ethics, law, and art. TTh 3:30 - 4:50 PM
panda express service team. TTh 5:30 - 8:00 PM, Sa 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
trivia
☕️ people all have their poisons, and his are gacha games. he does his best to shell out only a couple hundred every now and then, if only because he knows he will hurt himself going 100% whale. he's currently into genshin impact, arknights, dragalia lost, and fe: heroes.
☕️ the first time he reached out to poppy, poppy was very excited in her text responses back. it wasn't until they talked over voice chat that she expressed shock over his gender. ("um... i really am sorry! it's just, um, well, your name-" "nah, i get that all the time, i gotcha.") his name has more or less become a running gag within the band.
☕️ he's got a memory; he won't remember what he ate that morning and sure as hell won't remember calculus once he's done with school. he's got set reminders on his phone for his class and work schedules as well as junkband practices, just so he won't forget last-minute and decide to take a nap instead.
☕️ has varied music tastes, ranging from 2000's era taylor swift to psyqui-esque future core - he's currently into pop punk / metal / alt rock, aka junkband's primary sound style, which is one of the reasons why his interest was piqued into joining. (he still has fantasies that fall out boy will return to their save rock and roll era...)
☕️ an extremely loud drunk; doesn't mind hitting the absinthe hard if it means he can get others on their knees to chug tequila from the bottle. has been socially drinking since freshman year thanks to his casual friend group - he knows he can hold his liquor, so he's also the most generous, and will bring several bottles of bacardi to any party he's invited to. despite how laid-back he normally is, he will likely become the most enthusiastic to ice his friends once he starts getting tipsy.
☕️ played piano up to grade 2 as a kid before he couldn't take sight-reading and scales anymore and begged his mom to set him free. nowadays, he barely remembers the piano after not playing for so long and he's swapped to the synth after taking an interest in it once lucky re-teaches him piano. has proudly learned how to play crazy frog on his modal skulpt, and has since learned that not all synths are analogues, like he had assumed prior.
☕️ has a friend group and many acquaintances outside of junkband, courtesy of his fourth year cousin, raymond jeon. if there's anyone that knows prominent alumni or current eboard members of any asian american student association, it would be judy.
☕️ smells like clean laundry... and dove+ men's body wash...
i'm dancing my dreams away!
he first met ruby through training at panda express on day one, and once he saw her secretly rolling her eyes behind the back of the shift leader, he knew they were going to get along just fine. and he was right; from that point on, any shift he had with ruby lim was just to wreak havoc to the limits of the company's "panda way," ranging from making bets on how many alterations their uniforms can undergo before they get written up by the ACO to ing every time someone orders the family feast at their location. ("like, what the , man? we're all students here, who the ordering for their family?" judy scoffs. ruby throws a wrapped fortune cookie at his head to make him stop complaining.)
he's never forgotten the time she was working BOH and called out orange beef working (it's the name she's saved under in his contacts), and in retaliation, she's saved the donation bell chime as an mp3 sound on her phone just so she can watch him shout "thank you!" at the top of his lungs out of pavlovian response and ceaselessly mock him afterwards.
ruby lim
they haven't known each other for very long, but talk to judy and he'll tell you, bro, lucky is his boy. a little serious sometimes, but they just be vibing together over the piano, and that's the best quality to have in a person. after he passes his auditions and admits to barely remembering piano, poppy recruits lucky into reteaching him how to play.
as a thanks, judy invites him out to lunches every now and then, but has more recently gotten lucky into playing gacha games with him. lucky, with a corsair icue case and nanoleaf panels mounted on his bedroom wall, is obviously the demographic judy is trying to er into gaming with him, so outside of band practices judy's linking him to builds videos and telling him how his artifacts are. lucky, meanwhile, unintentionally rolls five-stars like he's got the midas touch, and every time he tells judy what units he's rolled off a new banner, judy usually has to spend some time cooling off with his pity rolls before he can deign to talk to lucky again.
lucky park
their first meeting may be through junkband gatherings, but judy only remembers who erik is after erik realizes his fondness for panda express and starts ordering during judy's shifts. he's generally well-mannered to erik despite the other's haughtiness, but judy guesses there's something about his mannerisms that sets erik on the edge - so much that erik starts forgoing judy's shifts and starts ordering panda on days he's certain judy won't be at work.
erik takes his breezy behavior and nonchalant acceptance of anything he dishes out as silent judgement, and if there's one thing erik nam can't stand, it's to be looked down upon. this translates over into junkband practices, where judy might just casually mention food and erik's invisible hackles raise instantaneously, ready to defend himself. it's a shame that judy's unaware that they're currently mortal enemies.
erik nam
judy doesn't know poppy all that well yet, seeing as how they run in very different social circles, but he doesn't have a problem with hanging out with her and he thinks it's admirable how hard she's working in order to keep junkband afloat. she's still flustered over the name mishap that was their first meeting, but it only takes a handful of weeks before she's excitedly asking him if he wants to try some of her new sushi bake recipe or sharing tips on how she remembers things, seeing as how they're both forgetful.
judy doesn't mind her back-and-forth between stuffing his fridge full of food she's cooked up on the weekend and reducing her daily text rambles drastically, because a) sometimes he forgets to text back too so it's fine, and b) lucky's told him about her emotional support cat. like he gets it - if she wants to hit him up, she can, and if she needs time to kinda collect herself, that's cool too.
poppy kang
judy and dobie are arguably the least familiar with one another, but in that respect have the most room for growth in their friendship. judy respects dobie's optimistic world views that run parallel to his, and also appreciates that whenever there's no one down to hang in the middle of the day, dobie is there to save him from swarming student bodies with a nice lunch at one of the restaurants in the area.
he appreciates dobie even more for agreeing to be his designated driver any time junkband hosts a house party or there's a kickback he's been invited to, so anytime dobie's involved in a social game judy will either take the drink up for his boy or fend off pushy strangers who get comfortable too quick - he's got dobie's back, because mans needs someone in his corner for once, it seems.
dobie bang
WELCOME TO THE PRE-AUDITION INTERVIEW!
"hi! my name's poppy kang, we spoke over the phone! let's jump right in— why'd you wanna join the band?"
► "yeah, so, uh- i'm judy, again, if you forgot," judy begins, clapping his hands together to slide his palms against one other. "you sounded kinda surprised when you heard me over the phone, so, you know, just clarifying who i am.
"as for why i wanna join? just interested in music..." he mulls it over. "it sounds cool as hell to say that you're part of a band, so, i mean, i'm up for it. also i got the time to dedicate, anyway- if i'm not at school or work, i'm just at home chilling."
"awesome! that's super cool, what instruments do you play? do you sing at all?"
► "oh, no singing," he said, waving his hands. "unless you mean, like, in the shower. nah, i used to play the piano for a while when i was a kid." he puts his hands down to lean back in his chair, legs spread comfortably in front of him. "used to play a lot for my family, for sure, so i remember some stuff after not playing for so long. i guess you can put me on the synth if you have a piano player already? it's yamaha either way."
"wow! do you have any plans to write songs or lyrics, or produce songs for the band?"
► "oh, nah. well," judy contemplates. "lyrics, maybe? ithe boys have told me i can get poetic sometimes..."
despite his harmless look, poppy wonders why she feels cold sweat beading on the back of her neck.
"okay, great, nice... um... do... you have plans to hang out with the band after practices or..." poppy seems visibly nervous. "i mean, it's fine if you're busy! just wondering..." she lets out an awkward laugh.
► "uh, i mean, sure?" judy scratches his jaw. "i got nothing to do anyway, aside from playing games... hey, you ever heard of granblue?" he keenly glances at poppy, as if he's seeing her for the first time. "you know what gacha games are?"
"o-oh, okay! um... anyway, uh... are you okay with, like, the group experimenting with genres and music and stuff? this is the last question, so..."
► "yeah, musical freedom and all that," judy says. "i really don't mind, 'specially since i'm not the one composing songs anyway. as long as we don't end up like brendon urie," he adds on. "that man became white as hell."
wasn't he already white? poppy wonders.
"okay! cool, nice, um... we'll be in touch! i'll let you know how it goes... see you at auditions!"
► judy does a two- salute. "yeah, see ya. let me know if you need me to jot down some poems for you through text or something. you got my number."
"um, i'm good, thank you!" poppy turns him down nicely, if only because her intuition is telling her it would be a bad idea to give him creative reign over anything.
chen • ten
ANY LAST WORDS? ty leah for layout xo... also peep his pseudo ice in my veins pose in left pic.... damn boy!
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