the basics

THE name  
              Seo Yerim
 

also known as... 

 Riri by close friends... 

                   ...Honey by fans... 

                            ...Goddess by her following. 
 

The HArd Facts

Born in Seoul, 2/2/1998 to Korean parents.
Native Korean speaker with basic knowledge of conversational English.

 

The FACE
            Aisha (Everglow)
 

The Look-Alike

           Jennie (BlackPink)

 

 

 

 

the GIRL. The QUEEN. The LEGEND.

 

 

Is it an angel? Or a vile spirit? Maybe even just a mirage?

Lights on. Pose. There she is: a diamond, one of her kind, a woman that can command an entire room with the bat of her fake eyelashes. She's a woman on a mission and she ain't gonna stop before she's reached the top and proven all those ill-witted men, haters and jealous b*tches what kind of person she is. A goddess and nothing less.
When Honey enters a room, the powerful presence of an ethereal being is filling up the space - or so her fans and men in pursuit of her like to claim. Honey is a tall woman, one that radiates - but the untouchable kind. The one you're dreaming of in your deepest slumbers, when your brain relaxes and believes no one to judge the darkest desires of yours.
She could have her Gucci on, she could wear her Louis Vuitton, but even with nothin' on - bet she made you look.

 

Honey is all this. And more. Because she's Seo Yerim.

 

 

Dessert? I'm the whole damn dish
an icon in the making + charismatic like... don't drop your coffee, sweetheart + spicier than your common Gochujang + self-confident to a T - mother Hyuna is clapping proudly in a corner

 

 

You don't wanna see me bratty.

Pet the kitty, call me catty.

Make your man call me daddy.

He talk too much, he's too chatty.

Yerim is an icon in the making: Many years of training weighing heavily on her shoulders - almost as heavy as the sacrifices she's made, the horrors she had to endure to be the person she is now. To be right where she is. A girl so young but armed with well-adapted mannerism which manifested into her outstanding charisma. One that makes her radiate like a diamond with headlights on it. She knows how to look at you to mesmerize you to the core just as much as she knows how to intimidate when she wants to keep you at a distance. She knows what to say to bewitch you while also knowing which words will rile you up to the point you want to smash her face. And she's well aware of the power she holds over people. This combined with the skillset she has aquired over the past years build her self-confidence. It's what drives people to her. And what fuels the hatred on the other side of the coin. It's love or hate, hardcore fans or haters. Yerim has learned to ignore the haters and get drunk with the undying love of her fans. It empowers her... and her self-confidence that not seldomly passes the boarders of pure arrogance and ignorance.

 

 

CEO, I'm savvy.

Respect a , I'm a maverick.

Flexible, so elastic.

But don't do you dare bend a backwards.
 

 

Fight me like you mean it, p*ssy.

calculating like your local chess master + molotov in a person: shady, grumpy and very tsundere +  aloof and challenging - if you want her to respect you, you better earn the right to be stepped on by her

 

a princess, I'm a king

Bow down and kiss on my ring

Being a is my kink

What the else did you think?

 

Being a bomb on stage doesn't mean you're a lovely sweetheart when the mask comes off. Yerim is here to see the world bend the knee or burn to the ground. There's a lot of unresolved anger and resentment boiling underneath the polished surface. It's waiting like a still active volcano that hasn't erupted in years... because it's been waiting for the right moment. But who are we kiddin' - the anger is what causes the passionate fire in Yerim's eyes, what fuels her to reach the top and what makes her want to prove herself to the world. Not like she has to justify the greatness of her being. She's just trying to open the world's eyes. Bow in front of your queen, peasants.

Yerim won't miss a single chance to throw shade whenever she can, her state of the art trait is being grumpy because tiredness is dragging her and she's very much tsundere. She'll keep you far away emotionally while coming back to approach you every now and then, like a hungry hyena deprived from affection like it's a fresh gazelle. She hates the feeling of being needy. She doesn't want to rely on anyone. She wants to reign alone, to fend for herself and to be as indepentend as possible. Being committed to a person is a nightmare she doesn't want to talk about. Just imagine the pain the loss of trust would be in the end...big yikes. 

Past mistakes have taught her well: Don't trust others, be well-aware that everyone will envy you and most importantly, don't let emotions get in your way. Yerim reads people and finds it fascinating to learn whenever someone acts out of the expected. She's fairly good in reading others by now and has made it her favorite sport to challenge them. She'll piss you off on purpose and indulge in seeing you fall apart, lose your temper or worse. It's one of her ways to practice power - something she values a lot given the fact, she's lost almost all of it including her dignity in the past. During arguments, she's one to stay calm and collected, analyze the situation first and then test her boundaries, overstepping them purposely. She'll look at you intensely, smiling while sweetly pointing out all your shortcomings and calling you "dear" or "sweetheart".

 

a princess, I'm a king

Bow down and kiss on my ring

It's gonna hurt, it'll sting

Spittin' your blood in the sink

 

 

 

 

Hustle, hustle, hustle, baby
smart & prideful...I mean, have you heard how great she's yet? +  solo-riding + impulsive when it comes to treating herself well

 

Blue skies above my head,

I left all those simps for dead

I really do prefer my own company

And I ain’t trying to be no wife,

I am the love of my life

And I wanna spend some time with me

I don’t need to look around for somebody to complete me

I’m committed to myself and I’m loving how I treat me.

 

 

Work smarter, not harder... and when it pays off there's nothing wrong with rubbing your success under each and everyone's nose. At least this seems to be Yerim's mantra as she keeps boasting about every oh so little milestone she's reached. She's very prideful and it's more than hard to scratch her pride. You wanna insult or belittle her? She's gonna make the manager send you a list of the achievements she's unlocked in her life while adding an empty sheet of paper that represents yours in comparison.

On her way to success, Yerim prefers being alone. Commitment isn't her forte and most of the time she sees others as baggage and lets them know if they slack off next to her. She's self-centered to the point where she'll demand you to get better if you don't want to look like a wet towel on stage next to her but won't move a single finger to help you improve. Her time is too precious to be wasted on others. It's there to be spent on training or leisure time where the hard work needs to be rewarded. Oh yes, Yerim loves preaching how important hard work and self-sacrifice is... and she will hold you to those standards. She even holds herself to those standards but every now and then, a little voice in her head coaxes her to reward herself. For the pain she's been through, for the hard work she's done, she's very bad at telling that voice no. There's something pretty yet super expensive? She'll buy it. There's a specific hairstyle that's rather problematic but it looks great on her? She'll go for it because heck, have you seen how darn good she looks with it?! There's this hot dude but dating is off-limits and it might ruin her career? YOLO. Who dies a lone g with raisins as ovaries? Not her, surely. If men can be boys, she'll be the godmother fairy of girls. Praise be upon her. 
 

 

     trivia     

 

 

Yerim loves her reflection a whole lot. She knows that her beauty is the result of many surgeries but she's not ashamed of them. She's rather happy how she turned out looking and will gladly hand out her surgeon's business cards if someone complains about their look.

 

Her favorite food is corn dogs dipped in Tteokbokki sauce, sprinkled with cheese powder and a bit of honey on top. It needs to be this exactly or she won't touch corn dogs at all.

 

Psychology is her guilty pleasure. If you really want to get her attention, maybe start with this. If you have smart things to say, she'll listen to you for hours.

 

Yerim is a material girl. She'll try to get her hands on a Burkin bag the moment she's able to afford it.

 

 

Oh... have I mentioned she loves compliments? A goddess likes being worshipped.

 

 

Yerim hates cleaning. She's super messy since she considers cleaning a waste of time.

You pay people to do it for a reason, you see.

 

Cooking is the end boss to Yerim. She's super bad at it and never considered the skill any type of useful.
She's not your classic wifey material, after all.

 

Yerim hates cleaning. She's super messy since she considers cleaning a waste of time.

You pay people to do it for a reason, you see.

 

People who try to bull Yerim will be verbally decimated.
Ain't nobody have time for your nonsense.

 

You wanna cut her hair? Short hair is a hairstyle that unlocks the deepest fears in Yerim.
She loves looking y. Short hair doesn't look y to her,

Yerim won't be swayed easily by others, especially men. When she entertains an affair or romance, she first and foremost considers herself scoring a guy instead of the guy scoring her. It's her way of liberation and gender equality.

 

Yerim openly cracks jokes about plastic surgery procedures even if it makes others uncomfortable. She's veeeery open about it and it's always meant in a humorful sense of way. So don't take her "Hey girl, I think your implant just bottomed out" as an insult. It's just her unique humor showing again.

 

Sappy romance novels are Yerim's secret guilty pleasure. She doesn't have much time to read but if she has time off, you'll likely see her ordering books she's never gonna read.

 

 

69 is her lucky number. And one that causes her to smirk whenever it pops up randomly.

 

 

Who needs friends or love? Being a successful idol is Yerim's top priority.

 

 

THE Story.

 

"Born to be a star."

Anyone telling Yerim that this is something that happens every now and then, she considers a blatant liar.

To Yerim stars aren't born, they're being made. With the right training, the right surgeries and a power house to market you to the right audience you can go from 0 to the top. That's exactly why she doesn't do nugu, why she's always been drawn to the ones at the top. Because likes stick to likes.

Yerim's story starts with an 11-year-old girl that never liked going to school. A girl that was approached by a YG recruiting manager in the middle of a mall. One that incepted her mind, telling her she looked like the very next mega star born from the famous house of Yang Hyunsuk. Someone born to be a star.

Back then Yerim believed it und thus she romanticized all the struggles, all the hardships and the pain she went through during her trainee years. The premise of one day leaving the YG dungeons to be the next CL was enough to make Yerim keep going. Even more so when the day came she underwent plastic surgery and got rid of all the blemishes that had made her insecure. Big bust, sirene eyes. Yerim doesn't fit the Korean beauty standards of innocent little neighborhood cutie. She rather looks like the hot racing babe that someone paid to sit on their car. And she's proud of it. She doesn't look like anyone else. She doesn't want to fit into any standards. She wants to be the next standard and be that one face you remember in a pool of beautiful women.
 

Yerim believed she'd acquire the dreams YG planted in her mind by just going through a few years of training and she'd get what she wanted. The naivity of a little girl. A little girl she's long forgotten, a girl that died drowned by the immense powerlessness she wittnessed during the night that changed her life. The night she learned that music business was more than pretty faces, iconic dances and great tunes. It was a place of powerful men playing with the lifes of young people like they were objects. Dumb pawns.

"Show your best self and you'll be able to debut. We count on you", the YG staff had told her, right before they wanted to drop her off at a karaoke bar to meet some important people. Investors, in fact. She wasn't even off-age when she had to meet them and nobody had prepared her or informed her about the original intention of this very meeting.

"If you decide to invest in our company, I'll leave this girl with you tonight."

The words were shocking enough to paralyze Yerim. They echoed again and again in her head, even long after she left the hotel room the next morning. Her body had moved on autopilot for a long time. When she came back to her senses, she ensured herself that what happened was a one-time thing and she'd just pretend it never happened.

Just that it happened again. 

And when it happened over and over again and the parts inside of her that had dreamed of being a superstar in a beautiful bubbly world were completely gone, she decided she wouldn't be a dumb little thing in a game of big men. She'd play along, she'd strike back one day and she'd show those men that she wasn't any pretty face. She was Seo Yerim and she'd show those men that Seo Yerim wasn't a pawn. She was the queen on their chess field and the queen would use them just like they had user her. And she'd take away everything they loved, everything they dreamed off. Just like they took everything away from her.

So after a while Yerim got smarter. A man powerful enough, YG would sacrifice their trainees for, surely was able to be useful to her. She just had to make him want to support her. And so she made sure, he'd fall for her.  And he did. So hard, meeting him became a regular task. The affair came in useful for sure, as YG suddenly scheduled Yerim for solo debut preparations. She was delighted and ready to finally become what everyone had told her she'd be one day: an idol. But things went downhill when she got introduced to her background dancers.

Song Hajoon, a handsome fella for sure, kept following Yerim around. She enjoyed his company as he was very different from what she considered her chaebol-affair-situationship. Hajoon was young, handsome and to him she seemed to be more than just the pretty accessory girl. Things moved quickly and the friendship turned into a physical relationship. Yerim could have sworn nobody would ever find out. She didn't put Hajoon's big mouth into the equation though and when word came out, she had spent the night with him, her influential investor was gone just as much as her trainee position at YG.

Story's not over yet... Yerim's "ex" is still out and about to destroy her. Petty b*tch wants to see her suffer. But guess what, she's here to see the world burn. Guess what the right connections, beauty and the YG skillset can bring you? Right. A position at Big Hit Music.

 

 

THE POP.

  PLOTLINE    The Time Bomb
 

 POSITION  main rapper, lead dancer, sub vocalist
 

 Stage name   Honey

 

 

  SKILLSET  

Yerim has the YG DNA all written over her. She's well-trained in each dance, rap and singing but has issues toning down what she's learned for all the past years.

 

 sTRENGTHS  Outstanding charisma and stage presence is what make Yerim shine. It's what makes her stand out most when lined up with a dozen other girls. She might not be the prettiest, the best singer or most-skilled dancer, but she's the one you remember no matter if you liked her or not.

 

 WEAKNESSES  To say that Yerim might be problematic is an understatement. She basically is a lioness during her hunt which means she's gonna take over the limelight and attention the second one of the others hesitates or shows insecurity. She also makes questionable choices, may it be hairstyles, outfits, men, you name it. Her reputation is constantly on the verge and the camps of fans vs haters barely leave space for people inbetween.

 

 

 TRAINEE YEARS   10 years at YG + a few months at Big Hit Music


 Training Period  After being kicked out of YG, Yerim tried her luck elsewhere. And look at that, she ended up at Big Hit Music, home to the great BTS. More fodder to enable her way too big ego. She didn't let others humble her either. Advice from trainees with less experience than her was always met with a smile but never really accepted. Trainers that criticized her for her YG heritage were laughed at. Where's Big Hit's super successful girlgroup, after all? YG at least had 2NE1 and now has Blackpink. It was a tough time...mostly for others rather than her. 

 

 FUTURE ACTIVITIES  Yerim wants to go solo. She wants to claim what has been taken away from her because of her poor judgement. She wants to show the men that ruined her life that she doesn't need them to gain her spot on top. So yes. Going solo and wining a lot of awards is what she's looking forward to most.

 

 SUB GROUPS  Honestly, she doesn't care which sub group she ends up with. She's confident enough to say, she's gonna carry whatever sub group she ends up in.

 

the one and only....

  love interest  

 

Kim Seokjin

 

 

 

I'm no Cinderella, but I like the shoes

Big glass platforms, , I'm choosy

Long blue hair, blue as a bruise

Only trust a fella for some light amusement

I'm no prey, but I'm in pursuit

Pray for me, Nana, on the church's pews

No dickstraction can confuse me

Whiskey in my hip flask, nothing fruity.

No more dating. No more emotionally connecting. No more romance, Yerim swears.
After all she's been through, men can not be trusted. And she's made a mistake already. Make a mistake once, that's okay. You've been a dumb dumb, you'll learn. Make it twice and it's your own fault, you dumb idiot.

 

Someone should have given Jin notice about it. While Yerim is sure she doesn't want to commit to a relationship, Jin has discovered his interest in her. And the more she pushes him away, the more Mr. Worldwide Handsome is intrigued.

Jin and Yerim actually have a lot in common. They love how they look. They know they're loved by their fans. And they both think they're fabulous. The difference is that Jin's more humble when it comes to his own limitations and skills compared to the rest of BTS than Yerim is regarding her own group. But maybe that's exactly what drew him to her in the first place. It wasn't Yerim's charisma or looks that stood out to Jin when they talked to each other. It was her audacity.

"You know what's your problem? You think you're less than the other guys because each of them excels in either singing, rapping or dancing. But you're Mr. Worldwide Handsome, you're the one people who aren't even fans remember. I'd rather be someone people don't forget than someone who's the best at something in the group. Being the best doesn't mean anything. Being someone, that's what gets you far. So stop sulking and start riding that Mr. Worldwide Handsome wave as long as it lasts."
There she was, thinking she knew him and had the right to tell him what to think and do. But she said it and she didn't give a single what he'd think about it. And what he thought was how shocked he was that a trainee had told him that before even debuting.

For some reason Yerim met him with indifference after that. When he tried to get to know her, she brushed him off. When he asked for her phone number, she blatantly told him no. And when they occassionaly ran into each other at the company, she'd tell him to go away and stop wasting her time.

 

She engaged in a real conversation only once after their first encounter:

"Seriously, why do you want to get to know me? There's plenty of fish in the sea", Yerim asked him.
"Is it a bad thing I find you intriguing?", he then wanted to know.
"Depends."

"On what?"
"If you're like any other dumb male or not."
Jin frowned. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"I'm sure you know what they're saying about me", she answered and smiled, batting her eyelashes seducingly to mock him. Then she purred almost sweetly "I'm a ".
"People talk, that's what they do. Doesn't mean it's the truth."
Yerim chuckled. "Oh boy... you are one of the dumb ones."
Jin was obviously confused. "I can't follow."
"You're delusional hillybilly. Like most men. You don't want me to be a , you'd probably prefer a girl with a low body count. So what you do is tell yourself that people are talking about me that's not true. You're like most guys that run with this mindset. Men can sleep around, women can't. That mindset bores me. It's ordinary. And I don't do ordinary. Sorry, pretty boy."
She left after this. And she sure as hell left an impression on Jin.

Long story short: Yerim doesn't do commitment. And she makes that very clear. However, Jin is very keen on proving that he's not ordinary. So he keeps trying. And whenever Jin shows up on her doorstep armed with fried chicken, she opens the door a little wider. Doesn't mean he's having the easiest time with her.

Yerim is a closeted romantig at heart that has walls up so high, Fort Knox is a joke against it. Plus, she's super special when it comes to being emotionally involved with someone. Yerim expects the biggest gestures to win her over but don't go too hard because then she'll think you're needy. Yet, don't you dare not going big enough, if you won't rent a yacht to take her on a date who are you even to ask her out? Oh, and never give up on her. She doesn't like ers that can't keep up the hunt. She doesn't do commitment but you better be commited when pursuing her.


So how does this end? Who knows... but ever heard of the trope "He fell first, but she fell harder"?
 

 

 

last words.

 comments/suggestions  Hi there, I hope it's fine I gave you a very much antagonist character here XD I'm honestly very intrigued by the idea of seeing her unfold in your story and what you might do with her growth-wise. Will she soften up? Will she harden up? Is there gonna be a happy ending? Is something gonna happen that's gonna make her lose her cool? Will she find someone that'll challenge her back? So many questions and options here to explore. 
 

 scene suggestions 
Actually, it would be super funny seeing her involved in scandals she evoked herself by being the ignorant person she is but having enough die-hard fans to keep her afloat. Especially since Big Hit might still be recovering from girlgroup PTSD.

 

 song suggestions  » Fromis_9 - DM, (G)I-DLE - Nxde & TOMBOY, LE SSERAFIM - Antifragile, ITZY - Blah Blah Blah