CITRUS / วิไลวรรณ มธารมณ์
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Wila is as ambitious as they come. She likes to push herself far beyond the limits to reach whatever goal she has set for herself and others. This also makes her bold, as Wila is not afraid to speak out when something is wrong. Being quick on her feet goes hand in hand with her ability to be decisive. When making decisions, she takes into consideration all sides and picks confidently. Once again, this also leans into her responsibilities. Wila follows up on her commitments and takes responsibility for her actions, both bad and good. Wila is deeply protective of her loved ones, as she finds it hard to trust people so she holds dearly to those who she does trust. Wila will go through hell and back to protect the people she cares about.
Wila is unapologetically herself. A true Leo, Wila thinks somewhat highly of herself, but not to the point of narcissism. She does not conform to societal expectations, especially within the music industry. Words don't affect Wila as much as actions does, and by that she is numb to hate comments about herself. This can show within her bluntness, saying exactly what is on her mind without sugarcoating her words. Wila has a very dry sense of humor that does not always translate well if she's in the wrong crowd. This can make her look insensitive, even though she's just trying to be straightforward and honest.
Wila has a memory of an elephant, so if you wrong her or her loved ones in any way it leads her to become resentful of you and she takes her sweet time to be able to trust again. This can also lead her to her sarcastic remarks and overall can rub off in the wrong way. Her cynicism also plays a role in this, as Wila takes a while to warm up to people. She doesn't always trust people in certain situations. Wila can also be obnoxious with these kinds of things. Because she cares for people around her, Wila can get annoying and be too overbearing with her habits. And finally, Wila is compulsive. She really never had a moment to herself, and values when she does. But somehow, she doesn't allow herself to have downtime and always has urges to be productive. This can also be related to her cynical behavior, as she just can't help herself to be a bummer.
Despite her father being the mayor, Wila's first fifteen years of her life was pretty uneventful. She did have some interests such as music, gymnastics, and reading, but nothing that she would have ever thought to pursue. That is until Vim suggested she could audition for a Korean company, Cube Entertainment.
A few of his colleagues in Bangkok told him about a global audition that Cube was having in the capital, and that they knew Wila liked K-POP, so they recommended to Vim that she'd try out and audition. Wila was surprised by her father's suggestion as she never even thought about becoming an idol, but took the chance and went to Bangkok to audition. And surprisingly, she passed and moved to Korea to train in August of 2016.
In early 2018, Wila moved back to Phuket after being quietly cut from the lineup of an upcoming girl group and left the company. Wila went to finish her studies as she rarely had time to do so in Korea. While she did, Wila uploaded a couple of her old dancing videos from Cube for safe keeping, not knowing what was to come in the following year.
In late 2019, Wila suddenly got an email from HB Entertainment, recruiting her to come and train with them. After speaking to her family, they encouraged her to move back to Korea. Maybe this round, Wila can finally debut.
Of course, her family and Wila herself were wrong, as HB kept pushing back her debut until her and her training group finally had enough and terminated their contracts with the company. The girls decided to fund themselves instead to debut, with Wila taking up a job at a local bookstore.
Wila was determined to debut this third time around.
⊱ Bed Rotting ︰ If she finds the time, Wila loves just to be lazy and bed rot.
⊱ Sunshine ︰ Wila loves to sunbathe like a cat. No, seriously, if there's a sunbeam in the apartment, she will call dibs on it and lay down, either resting or reading a book.
⊱ Small Animals ︰ Growing up, Wila had a handful of small pets that she took care of. Her favorite small animal is a chinchilla.
⊱ Tea ︰ While she does tolerate the taste of coffee, she enjoys tea more as it comes in a variety of flavors. Her tea of choice is hibiscus.
⊱ Retro Anything ︰ Specifically from the 90s in Asia, Wila likes the style and the media that comes from it.
⊱ Getting Sick or Injured ︰ Nobody likes either of these things, and Wila's no different. If she gets even mildly sick, she will act like it's the end of the world.
⊱ Heavy Desserts ︰ It's simply too much for her. She's not really a dessert person in the first place, but will eat desserts like chocolate covered strawberries or pie.
⊱ Close Minded People ︰ Wila can't wrap her head around the idea that people have such a narrow view on the world. It cost zero dollars to be non discriminatory, people!
⊱ Chewing Gum ︰ The process, the sound of people chewing it... all of it which she hates. She's also lowkey afraid to accidentally swallow gum because she still believes that it takes several years to digest.
⊱ Driving a Car ︰ Her parents tried to teach her how to drive a car, and Wila failed horribly. She only knocked a couple of cones down but that was enough for her to be traumatized.
⊱ Gymnastics ︰ She took gymnastics classes when she was younger. Her individual introductory video for Citrus was her doing both a back and front handspring.
⊱ Playing Video Games ︰ Mobile, console, PC, you name it, Wila has probably played it. When she has more income, she'd love a try at building her own PC.
⊱ Reading ︰ One of her favorite past time is reading, though it doesn’t really help that she currently works at the bookstore. Her favorite genre is dystopian and she’s currently on the second book of Lord of the Rings.
⊱ Arts and Crafts ︰ Yet another past time of hers, Wila would make things out of air dry clay and resin and use the things she makes around the dorm.
⊱ Waking Up Early ︰ She is one of the first members to get up in the morning, and immediately makes either a pot of coffee or boiling tea.
⊱ Going to Sleep Late ︰ Wila is also the type of person who will go to sleep late. The members are astonished by the fact that she runs on minimal amounts of sleep.
⊱ Eating Healthy ︰ Between her family pushing their kids to be in sports and her diets during training, it has become second nature to Wila to choose an healthier alternative to foods.
⊱ Speaking to Herself in Thai ︰ A habit that she developed when she was younger that rubbed well off into her adulthood. She doesn't do it often, just when she's stressed.
⊱ Cooking ︰ Theoretically, Wila can cook, but she is afraid to. She'll only cook if it doesn't involve the stove or oven because she worries that she'll overcompensate and burn the food.
⊱ The Deep Ocean ︰ She's fine with the regular ocean, but anything she can't see in the waters will freak her out.
⊱ Wila identifies as panual. She only had two boyfriends in the past, both of which she was casual with. The first one was right when she moved back to Thailand, and the recent one was when she had just left HB, and had broken up with him just before the story starts.
⊱ Wila is usually the go-to member for video editing, and just editing in general.
⊱ Wila's father was in his first year of his four year mayoral term when Wila was born. He tried to run again recently, but wasn't able to win the election.
⊱ For some reason, Wila is always thirsty. She went to the doctors about it, but they couldn't give her any official diagnosis, she's just like this. She carries a huge water bottle around.
⊱ The group's resident mint chocolate hater.
⊱ Drives a motorcycle scooter to get around. But if the weather's bad, she'll just use public transportation.
⊱ She's more of a Samsung user than an Apple user. She's currently using the regular Galaxy and is saving up to purchase their latest flip phone.
⊱ If Wila wasn't an idol, she'd most likely be a gymnast or an author.
⊱ Wila is a very lightweight when it comes to drinking alcohol. Two drinks in and she becomes a giggly drunk.
⊱ She does wear reading glasses for, well, reading, but she doesn’t think she looks pretty with them on and tends to suffer without them.
⊱ Her love languages are quality time, words of affirmations, and a little bit of physical touch.
⊱ @mwila.727 ︰ On Instagram.
⊱ wilakkuma ︰ Soon on Twitch, she’ll eventually give in and finally start streaming.
Wila does not have any animosity towards (G)I-DLE. She still listens to their music often and follows them on social media. When she trained with them, Wila mostly stuck to Minnie's side as a fellow Thai, so the younger girl found comfort in that. She was also close to the others, mainly Yuqi and Shuhua. She rarely saw Miyeon as they just missed each other, with Miyeon joining the company right before Wila left. Nowadays, Wila doesn't contact them due to busy schedules, and the members just assume that she is still in Thailand and living a private life.
It's a no-brainer that Minnie and Wila have always been close. As said before, Wila was attached to the hip with Minnie when she trained with her, feeling familiar since they're both Thai. When Wila left the company, they were in contact for a while but eventually became distant friends. Though, they eventually became close friends when Yuqi became in contact with Wila recently. Wila truly views Minnie as her older sister and mentor, and Minnie also considers the younger female as her younger sister as well.
Tsuki and Wila are one in the same. Quite literally, they have many things in common, even down to their height, which allowed them to get along very well. The two usually go to each other for emotional support because they can understand each other very well. Because of this, Tsuki and Wila are great conversation partners, especially when the topic of mint chocolate comes up.
Like her relationship with Tsuki, Wila is also close with Bonnie. In fact, many refer to Wila as their child, even Tsuki and Bonnie. But nonetheless, Bonnie and Wila play to each other's strengths and weaknesses, with the older one helping Wila with her cynicism and Wila helping Bonnie's overt daydream tendencies. Wila considers Bonnie one of the members she's most close with.
- Yeonji and Wila is your classic "extrovert who adopted an introvert" trope. They definitely have different approaches to life, with Yeonji's naivety and impulsive tendencies and Wila's decisiveness and resentful attitude, yet somehow they complement each other, creating a dynamic and balanced friendship. It also helps that the two are both the dancers within Citrus, creating a closer connection because of that.
Also a part of the maknae line, Wila and Yeoreum get along very well. Being the more outgoing person of the two, Yeoreum is often the one who encourages Wila to let loose a little and live in the moment rather than being resentful over small things. And in return, Wila admires Yeoreum's warm demeanor while also wanting her to be more selfish once in a while. Like Wila's relationship with Yeonji, Wila and Yeoreum complement each other well, knowing that they have each other's back.
With Wila and Clara being apart of the maknae line, they tend to heads a lot. It took a while for the two to become friends during training because they generally shared the same personality traits, but they also crossed each other's boundaries often. Wila does hold some resentment towards Clara simply by the fact that she comes from a wealthy family, especially when the group was first training independently. Wila tends to in force some tough love tactics onto Clara because she genuinely cares for the maknae and wants the best for her.
Wila
absolutely loves and appreciates the girls of Citrus, and is thankful that they talked her out of leaving to go back home. She knows the journey to debut as well as after it will not be easy, but she is glad that she has Citrus by her side. Wila considers the members of Citrus as her second family.
⊱ Min Wheein, 민휘인 ︰ Wila's Korean name.
⊱ Min Huiren, 閔輝人 ︰ Wila's Chinese name, transliterated from her Korean name. Yuqi and Shuhua really only calls Wila this affectionately.
⊱ Wivian ︰ A nickname that only Yuqi really calls her, because when Yuqi first heard Wila's first name, she misheard it and thought it was Vivian with a W.
⊱ Wilakkuma ︰ Wila likes to be relaxed as much as possible, so fans started to call her Wilakkuma, a nod to the infamous bear Rilakkuma.
⊱ Fox Girl ︰ After fans of (G)I-DLE learned that Wila was really the girl behind the fox mask, they started to call her this.
⊱ Gamer ︰ One of Wila's hobbies is playing video games, as seen in the behind the scenes videos. Fans want her to start streaming on Twitch but she feels like she’s not good enough for that.
⊱ Korean ︰ Has lived in Korea for nearly six years, so it’s safe to say that Wila is fluent. ︰ Fluent.
⊱ English︰Her father is fluent in English so he taught her and her brother it growing up, but Wila also learned English through training. ︰ Advanced Conversational.
⊱ Mandarin Chinese ︰ Learned Mandarin through training. ︰ Conversational.
When Wila first arrived at Cube, she was like a deer in the headlights. She truly had no idea what she was doing and it took a while for her to get in the swing of things. She was most comfortable with dancing, mostly because she couldn't really speak Korean and wasn't comfortable with singing at that time. Wila was thrown into the training group of Cube's future girl group, in which she had a very good time with since the majority of the girls were also foreign, so Wila felt more comfortable around them.
But as 2018 approached, Wila was quietly cut from the lineup. No one still to this day never knew why this happened, but Wila assumed that it was because the group wouldn't get compared to CLC due to having the same amount of members. It's probably more deeper than that, but that's all Wila could muster up. Nonetheless, Wila was hurt by the company's actions because they dangled the promise of debuting right in front of her, as she was told while filming for Soyeon's music video. Wila quickly left Cube in early 2018 and moved back home.
Wila's training time at HB was fine for the first year, mostly due to the fact that they promised that she was going to debut within the next year. But the debut kept getting pushed back for reasons that the company gave ty reasons for, which annoyed Wila to no end. For multiple nights, Wila resisted the temptation to just leave in the middle of the night, never to be seen again. But her fellow HB Girls talked her out of it and promised that they'll find another way out of the company.
⊱ "Jelly" MV ︰ Only seen wearing a fox mask, nobody knew who exactly was behind the mask until (G)I-DLE's debut where it was "confirmed" to be Soojin. However, Cube hastily made Soojin to be the fox girl in the group's debut music video because Wila had already left the company at that point. ︰ 2017.
⊱ Citrus' Wila Confirmed to be the Fox Girl from Jeon Soyeon's "Jelly" MV ︰ Eagled eyed fans noticed that Wila looked very similar to the masked from the "Jelly" music video, and wondered if it was really her instead of Soojin since Wila was previously a trainee at Cube the same time the music video was filmed. Wila casually confirmed it during a livestream but it wasn't truly believed until Soyeon also confirmed it, providing pictures of her and Wila on the music video set. ︰ 202X.
⊱ here ︰ here ︰ year.
Because of this, however, Yuqi can become intense and a little bit too cocky. Just like Wila, she can be obnoxious with her habits because she cares just a little too much. But this also makes her vulnerable, especially when it comes to comments about her. Though like most people, Yuqi bottles up her emotions and makes herself look braver than she actually is.
Yuqi and Wila first met in the beginning of Wila's trainee days at Cube. Since they were in the same trainee group, the two spent a lot of time around each other but never really got to know one another since Wila was following Minnie around like a lost puppy. That, and there was a language barrier since no one spoke Korean well. However, as the time went on and both girls found themselves communicating better, they of course got closer with each other.
Yuqi was pretty upset when Wila left Cube. She definitely blames the company for promising Wila's debut and ripping the rug out from under her, but Yuqi still wanted Wila around. They even promised to keep in touch, but at the end of the day, life moves on, and they both did exactly that. Yuqi was busy with her idol activities and Wila was living a peaceful life back home, so over the years they lost contact with each other.
As Citrus' debut was nearing, there were some articles published about the independent group and their issues with their past company. The group overall got little to no traction from the public because of their low budget productions, but the article somehow managed to reach Yuqi's attention and she was pleasantly surprised to see Wila in the lineup. And after a mental debate of whether or not she should message Wila on social media, Yuqi decided to take the first step and do so. The two talked for a while before properly exchanging numbers, and to both of them, it felt like no time had passed. And over the course of time, Yuqi and Wila agreed to hang out in person when both of their schedules were freed up. Wila didn't even realize that there could be something more than a friendship with Yuqi until her member, Yeoreum, offhandedly made a comment.
"Have fun on your date with Yuqi-sunbaenim, Wil!" Yeoreum exclaimed as Wila was about to leave to go see Yuqi.
"Yeah, I've already RVSPed to your guy's wedding!" Bonnie jokingly added.
Wila pushed their comments away, but the comments still lingered on until she finally saw Yuqi in person for the first time in several years. Suddenly, Wila looked at Yuqi with deep infatuation in her eyes. Maybe she was swayed by Yeoreum and Bonnie's comments, but Wila finally realized that she had feelings for Yuqi after all this time, she just hoped that Yuqi would feel the same.
⊱ Out of all the members in (G)I-DLE, Soyeon claims to the the number one #WiQi shipper. She could tell theat Yuqi had a crush on Wila the minute she mentioned the younger one's name.
⊱ Yuqi LOVES to spoil Wila with gifts and spontaneous date nights.
⊱ Though they are not publicly known as idol friends, Yuqi and Wila does spend together out in public often. And thankfully, they rarely get noticed.
⊱ They have subtle couple accessories such as phone cases, jewerly, wallpapers, clothing, etc...
⊱ A company offering Citrus a contract with them but Wila refusing to agree to it.
⊱ Citrus vlogging their debut process.
⊱ HB debuting a girl group around the same time as Citrus does or a comeback.
⊱ Wila confessing to Yuqi first.
⊱ Dalla Dalla, Icy, Wannabe, Nobody Like You, Want It, Swipe, Boys Like You ︰ Itzy.
⊱ Ring Ma Bell, Ring X Ring, GingaMingaYo, Patbingsu, Flowerld, Believe, Back 2 Where We Belong ︰ Billlie.
⊱ Rising, Generation, New Look, Girls Capitalism, Cherry Talk, Just Do It, Seoul Sonyo Sound ︰ TripleS.
⊱ DKDK, Love Rumpumpum, Love Bomb, Fun, Feel Good, Weather, We Go, #menow, Airplane Mode ︰ fromis_9.
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