[ NAM, JIYEON : NEEDS TO SHUT UP AND DRIVE! ]
SHUT UP AND DRIVE!
RYNNAH [ RYNN ] 10/10
nam, jiyeon!
「 nicknames → ji - because apparently my name isn't short enough for people to remember; ironically my mom and my older brother call me this, it's so annoying.
yona - how I would've been called if I had had any choice in the matter; you like it? I made it up myself and I believe it suits me much better then Jiyeon. Whatever, let's call it my artistic name - I've made all my friends call me Yona anyway, I'm Jiyeon only on my passport.
「 date of birth / age → 17th OF MAY // 18 years of age
「 tell me about yourself. → Okay, THE NAME IS NAM JIYEON, OR yONA IF YOU WISH TO BE IN MY GOOD GRACES. i'M AN ASPIRING ARTIST AND I AM HOPING THAT ONE DAY i'LL BE ABLE TO LIVE OFF MY PAINTINGS ( YOU CAN HEAR MY FAMILY LAUGHING IN THE BACKGROUND, DO IGNORE THEM). UNFORTUNATELY, INSTEAD OF GOING TO AN ART SCHOOL I WILL BE WALKING THE FOOTSTEPS OF MANY GENERATIONS OF NAM FAMILY BEFORE ME AND STUDYING ECONOMICS. A BORE, YES I KNOW, BUT THAT ISN'T STOPPING ME FROM SKETCHING ON THE PAGES OF MY CALCULUS 101 IN MY PREP CLASSES. WHO EVEN CARES ABOUT ECONOMICS? IF I LEARNED ONE THING FROM SEEING MY FATHER'S WORK IS THAT NUMBERS AREN'T PRETTY, THEY'RE COLD AND BORING - EVERYTHING THAT I AM NOT. IF YOU ASK JUST ABOUT ANYONE IN MY CLOSE FAMILY SOMETHING ABOUT ME THEY WILL TELL YOU I'M AN AIRHEADED AND FOOLISH GIRL, STUCK IN HER DREAMS AND ROMANTIC FANTASIES AND PERHAPS (I'LL ADMIT) I AM, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN I'LL BE CHANGING MY WAYS. GET ME A PAINTBRUSH AND ALL THE PRETTY COLORS YOU CANNOT FIND IN THE REAL WORLD BECAUSE I WISH TO CREATE MY OWN.
all i wanna do is sing for you
「 personality → airheaded/dreamer/romantic - nothing ever seemed pretty enough, unique enough or colorful enough and this is why she was thrilled when she took a paintbrush in her hands for the first time - it allowed her to make something that's better than what she sees everyday, a world she created. Jiyeon loves dreaming and talking about her dreams to other people although she knows they roll their eyes whenever the words pass her lips. It doesn't really matter what they think, she already has her fantasy figured out, and whether she seems foolish and childish to them, it only gives her the strength to continue making even bigger dreams. Why is it so wrong to imagine opening a gallery in Paris, having the perfect wedding or traveling the entire world? These are the things that give her life. But, somewhere in the back of her mind she's perhaps aware that everyone is just trying to protect her from the disappointments of real world, but she's too deep in her fantasies to pay attention to that small nagging voice of reality.
adventurous/rash/impatient - she wants to travel and she wants to see everything that the world has to offer, she wants all the best experiences and all the interesting people around her so she wouldn't miss a beat of anything exciting, she must see it and feel it all on her own skin, whether bad or good. Jiyeon doesn't want to wait and she doesn't want to miss opportunities which is why she often gets into trouble with her family and with any kind of authority. It's not that she wishes to be rebellious, she just doesn't think of the consequences of her actions - it's all about the single moment of joy or excitement, what happens after doesn't matter.
talkative/adaptive/friendly- as long as it isn't calculus or theoretical mathematics, jiyeon can probably fix it or find an answer for it. She is somewhat a jack of all trades - need a tent made, done; need a dress for prom, done; need to fix your laptop, give her a piece of gum and she'll slap it back together. The only important thing she lacks the talent (read: patience) for is to dry her nails without sticking them to something and ruining them. This is why she'll probably walk around with poorly done nails all the time. Jiyeon can talk, she can talk about the weather and pets, about your family or hers, about fashion and music or about the newest discoveries in astrophisycs. She has a broad understanding of many subjects on a base level which is why she is able to make friends of all kinds, but isn't really super knowledgable about a certain subject. She just knows bits and pieces of everything she gathered through the years that interested her.
innocent/stubborn/insecure - whether she ignores the really bad things and people in the world or whether she truly cannot see them through her pink glasses, Jiyeon doesn't always seem to understand just how harsh the world can be. She will stubbornly say that she understands everything, since that is the job of an artist, but her heart will still skip a beat and her breathing will become harder whenever she witnesses a tragedy unfolding on the screen of her tv. There are no evil people in the world, just people who haven't been introduced to love. That was what she would always use as her line whenever a discussion came up, but through the last few years those words sounded more and more insecure, as if she was trying to persuade herself back to that mindset, not everyone else.
「 background → growing up in the suburbs of Seoul meant growing in between of grey concrete buildings with thin straps of green grass in between. It also meant you had to live in a small apartement with three more people hoping no one would entrude anyone's privacy - which happened all the time. She was born as a second child to a book keeper and a police woman so keeping anything private was pretty much impossible. Things like midnight calls, going out or -god forbid- having a boyfriend were definitely out of reach, and living on the eleventh floor of a skyscareper made everything else out of reach. Pretty much isolated from anything living (not counting the cactus that has been dying in the corner of her room for the last decade or so), Jiyeon first took a paintbrush in her hands when she was a mess of dark locks just seven years old and when she was first visited by her cousins from America. The first picture she drew was a cloud looking piece of mold in the corner of her room. She painted it pink. And with that piece of art, Jiyeon decided what she wanted to become when she grew up. No one in the family was impressed. Again, when Jiyeon first found out she was getting a younger brother or sister she ran into her room and drew a massive tree on her wall as a 'gift'. Her family was again unimpressed. Her effort not only earned her a nice scolding, but her mother also took away her brushes and paint for an entire week. To this day, Jiyon believes her rivalry with her younger brother begun because of this bad start and to this day her parents were never able to completely cover up the dark green color of the tree she painted across an entire wall in her room. Today, there is a warderobe standing over it. The tables ce her baby brother was born. For once, Jiyeon was the one who was unimpressed. Babies were a pain in the neck, and that was something she decided after her extensive research - the first three years that she spent living with her baby brother. He cried all the time and vomited on things, her things and her paintings, and he would never get scolded for it. No, it was always Jiyeon's fault for leaving them on the floor. Strike two, baby brother.
Her grades weren't really pretty, but her eyes were getting more and more prettier as the years went by. And with years, Jiyeon started noticing something she never really did before - boys. There were all kinds of boys in her school and they seemed kind of important to girls so Jiyeon started listening in on conversations of popular girls who dated and gathered the materials and advice from the sides. You wouldn't want to date someone like the chubby guy in bad clothes that sat in the farthest corner of the classroom, the girls would say, he's weird and smells funny, and then they would all giggle. Jiyeon agreed - she wouldn't want to hug someone smelly, after all. On the other hand you should do everything you can to get noticed by the guys in the left row since they were popular and well dressed. Flower boys were what most girls wanted to catch for themselves and Jiyeon too realized she would like one for herself and for the fairytale story everyone seemed to chase after at the tender age of fouteen. So one evening, instead of finishing her homework, Jiyeon wrote a confession letter so beautifully decorated that she was amazed by it herself. Tomorrow, she promised herself, was the day her dream teenage life began with her beautiful boyfriend and a bright future in front of the two. She had it all figured out. Even when the moment came to confess, Jiyeon didn't feel the nervousness other girls talked about, the fast beating of the heart, the sweating palms - she was sure of herself and the dream that was about to unfold. So, when the guy she decided for smirked and crossed his hands in a giant X above his head, Jiyeon really didn't know how to react but to stare after him and his crew of boys departing. She fel pain and agitation and... Embarassement, for the first time in her life, embarrasment so strong her cheeks were burning up and her eyes hurt, as she realized that dozens of people were talking in whispers around her. The confession letter was forgotten in the grass, only the name of the person carved into her mind for the next few years - Jimin.
Once Jiyeon entered high school many things changed, her grades not included. New people, new adventures and new possibilities and all that made Jiyeon a happy girl. She met people of all kinds and made new friends and acquaintances of all types much faster then when she was in lower grades, and before she even realized it she became one of the most popular girls in her generation. That was when she found out how it felt to be desired - girls wanted to be her and boys wanted to be with her, but after her confession fiasco a year earlier, Jiyeon's only desire was to paint and create and forget the bad things, dream up the better ones and make interesting friends to go adventuring with along the way. She created more than ever but also, according to her plans, made more friends and admirers than ever. Her brother, too was growing up but they still argued like they were toddlers from time to time. Her parents were as busy as ever with their work, barely managing to catch up with their children during late dinners, but that was okay to Jiyeon, she prefered her alone time or the time with her friends when she could be completely free (although it weireded some of them out).
Jiyeon met her first boyfriend when she was almost seventeen years old, her girlfriends giggled she was a late bloomer, but Jiyeon didn't really care. After her intial refusal, she didn't ever feel the pull towards someone, that is until she met him in a skate park. Perhaps it was fate, perhaps just her weird decision making, but the day she and her four friends went to a popular skate park changed Jiyeon life in a lot of good, bad and still undetermened ways. Her first romance was... Not like she found it described in young adult romance novels she's read, it was much more consuming and obssesive and in many ways challenging. Even if you asked her now, she wouldn't know how it all started, perhaps with a 'hey' and the introductions, or perhaps with the look they shared much before words. "It wasn't love." That's what she keeps on saying to this day but doesn't know for sure. Her relationship with her boyfriend dropped her grades some more, made her art messy and darker and it made her grow up a little. What they shared lasted for full two years before he disappeared leaving behind just a short goodbye note. His friends said he was leaving for the US. She persuaded herself he just didn't care anymore for her and she moved on. Kinda. One more thing that the damned skate park left her was a new friend - Dahyun. Wild and undescribable with any ordinary words, Jiyeon tried to draw her more than once but she could never find the right colors for her vividness or the right position to draw her. She was made for movement and speed and everything unatainable. Later on, after many more tries, Jiyeon realized she couldn't draw her because in her eyes Dahyun was already a part of her perfect dream world, just the way she was.
Ending high school meant ending one of the most difficult and beautiful and ed-up chapters of her life. Still, she smiled earnestly because she managed to finish it although her grades were quite miserable. She didn't really want to go home that night upon the closing ceremony was over, she spent hours watching the stars through the holes between the skyscrapers, lying on the green stripe of grass and thinking. She wanted to leave somewhere far, visit something new, meet someone new and have an adventure with friends, with Dahyun, before she is sent to a far away college (far away read: other side of the city) to study something she passionately disliked. She wanted to fill her lungs with foreign air and live on it until she can leave the stuffy streets and concrete cages. She smiled and thought about how to make the night sky even more beautiful before getting up and entering her sky scraper.
「 trivia →
~keep that away - bugs and spiders are not something she wants crawling over her, she doesn't even want it near her, in her line of sight so just keep the creepy buggers as far away from her as possible and everyone's going to return alive from the trip. If bugs or (especially) spiders get near her or -god forbid- touch her, putting in some earplugs would be recommended. (note: this is about the only thing she screams for).
~where's the map? the compass? - she can kinda work with both, approximately.. perhaps... Or perhaps not, but in any case she'll never admit she's made a mistake. She will always proudly hold the map with an expression that seems like she knows what she's doing. Warning! She probably doesn't, get the map away from her!(note: would make a terrible guide)
~jesus take the wheel - yes, she has a driving license; no, no one who knows the first thing about her would ever let her take the wheel or really drive anything with wheels on it (including skateboards, rollerblades and motorbikes). This is probably because of her terrible coordination and because she always avoided PE.
~it ain't survival, but if it was... - directions and drivings are meh, but her fire making, tent shaping and wood gathering skills will make her look like a queen of wilderness (until a spider appears). Also, she can recognize around 30 types of eatable fungi - very convinient, right?
~do not try this at home - she has little to none self preservation instincts so she might just wander off somewhere without telling anyone, too lost in thought, her sketchbook in her hands. She might not even realize she's physically moving, that's how much lost in thought she gets from time to time. Also, don't panic, she'll probably come back in an hour or two.
~yo, listen to my mixtape - beethoven and skrillex are on the same playlist, so if you let her be in charge of music expect a lot of different genres a lot of ups and downs.. A lot. There's probably some stuff on her mp3 that doesn't even sound like music, but just bear with it, something of your liking will come up sooner or later.
~resting face - she won't ever sleep while traveling but will observe the faces of those who look like idiots snoring onto the windows while they do and she will do it with a judging face. She might even do it while you're awake.
~aesthetics - be it winter or summer, woods or ocean, she will bring her cute sweater and sandals and she will wear them - in one combination, just because. Also, if she wants to wear sandals in the rain, just don't argue with her, she will wear them and the miniskirt even if it's snowing outside since it's her signature combination. Not practical but, practicality
「 other relationships →
Lee Min Ah | 22 | MinAh has been in Jiyeon's life forever, and that's a literal forever. Two girls of similar age living in the same building were bound to start talking and hanging out with each other. Still, their friendship was built on shaky foundations and has been unstable for years now, it was just that Jiyeon never had the heart to cut all ties with someone she's known for so long. When they were younger, they were much closer but ever since MinAh started spreading these rumors a few years back (or has she really? Jiyeon didn't know who to trust) about Jiyeon's 'numerous' intimate relationships, things between them have gotten quite cold. MinAh is now preparing to get married to her boyfriend and she loved flashing her engagement ring wherever she could. Jiyeon was a bit envious of this happiness she portrayed every time she explained how he proposed, but she couldn't know whether her old friend was just acting or was truly happy. Either way, all that Jiyeon knew was that she wanted something like that, and she definitely wanted it real and true.
Cho Yo Rin | 18 | Jiyeon's ex classmate and the only person, except Dahyun, she keeps closer contact with. They met on the second day of high school and were since unseparable. The two are actually polar opposites, with Jiyeon being artsy, talkative and dreamy and Yorin being calculative, ambitious and good with numbers. Their frindship is probably the only reason Jiyeon passed mathematics in high school. Yorin is currently very busy working with all of her applications for college but also working part-time at a local caffe. Jiyeon admires her very much but the two have quite different opinions about life, love and how the world works and often have long philosophical debates while drinking coffee and freaking out the other guests. Jiyeon managed to draw Yorin once and the only thing she changed was that she colored the black plastic of her glasses to sky blue. She recommended the color to Yorin. She said she'd think about it, but Jiyeon already bought blue rimmed glasses as a next birthday gift.
Kim, Minseok
「 back up love interest → Taehyung (V) from BTS
「 date of birth / age → 26th of March | 20
「 personality →
straightforward/sarcastic/honest - Behind his jokes and his sassy, almost mocking attitude there is a depth and a certain talent with words he rarely used. Yes, he is quite straightforward, too honest, but that's because he won't waste his time on people he doesn't like. to some he may seem quite harsh and callous to others just plain rude, but no one can deny that even when he says something mean his words hit right to the point. He hates lies and deceits, expecting the same harsh truth he serves to others. he is quite patient when it comes to long-term plans and ideas though these can become endangered once his mood changes (which happens quite frequently) and he starts making rash, uncalculated decisions.
confident/easily bored/observant - it takes a lot of confidence to be as nonchalant and uninterested when telling the truth as he is. it's really his second nature to point out all the bad things and mistakes on others. but, he has the same treatment with himself, battling to always stay objective and real about things. nevertheless, he will portray a very confident, almost arrogant person in front of others. because of this people often either dislike him or be timid and too careful around him - the second thing probably being the worse of the two. if you're tiptoing around him with your words, he will notice it and he won't like it. conformists bore him (what doesn't, at this point?) and he won't hesitate to call them out.
inquisitive/moody/player - if he takes any interest in you, whether the good type or the bad, he might just pull you into one of his games. he will pry into your private life, tease you and mock you just for the fun of it, but also because he wants to test your limits. but, if the same is reciprocated, he will abort and probably completely change is demeanor towards you which makes it harder to get any closer to him for people.
understanding - although he may seem like a complete insensitive bastard (which he is, most of the time), he understands how people feel and understands how they wish to be trated by him. if he cares in the least, he will know when to shut his mouth and offer a short, but heartfelt advice or a kind word. or, if he deems it necessary, just his silent presence.
「 BACKGROUND → BORN INTO A RICH FAMILY WITH EVERYTHING ANYONE CAN DREAM OF, mINSEOK WAS HAPPY. TOP OF CLASS, TOP AT SPORTS, TOP AT EVERYTHING HE COULD IMAGINE, MINSEOK BELIEVED HE WAS PERFECT AND THAT THE WORLD WILL FOREVER KEEP MOLDING TO HIS WILL. ALAS, THOSE THOUGHTS WERE NOT MEANT TO LIVE LONG. AS HE ENTERED HIGH SCHOOL, MET DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND LEARNED ABOUT NEW THINGS, HIS SMALL WORLD BEGAN TO OPEN UP too fast too soon ALTHOUGH HE DIDN'T WANT IT TO. in a few months after, RICH PARTIES AND EXPENSIVE CHAMPAGNE WASN'T ENOUGH; PRETTY GIRLS, FAST CARS AND HOTEL ROOMS WEREN'T FILLING THE GAP HE HAD AND THAT WAS ONLY GROWING LARGER AND LARGER. UPON SEEING THIS, AT THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN HE left school for home studies and STARTED TRAVELING ACROSS THE WORLD, SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING TO FILL UP THE EVER GAPING HOLE IN HIS CHEST. HE WANDERED AND LEARNED, BUT NOTHING REALLY HELPED. DEFEATED AND DISAPPOINTED by THE WORLD'S SMALLNESS, BORED BY IT completely, HE RETURNED TO KOREA, NOTHING REALLY CATCHING HIS ATTENTION, DAYS DRIFTING AWAY AND HE FOUND HIMSELF NOT CARING. LET THE OTHER CHANGE THE WORLD FOR HE BELIEVED THE WORLD WASN'T WORTH CHANGING.
「 relationship → in the beginning, probably quite disastrous since they are quite different and live with quite different philosophies. Minseok is like a dreamer who realized that nothing is perfect and will never be and he can see that jiyeon is just waiting for her dreams to be crushed by the outside world so he kind of starts by trying to 'gentlier' (but not really, though) crush them before. AT FIRST IT'S JUST A GAME, SHE'S A MOCKERY, BUT LATER AS THE TWO GET TO KNOW EACH OTHERS THOUGHTS THEY GET CLOSER AND IDEALLY THE TWO WOULD END UP IN THE MIDDLE. JIYEON WOULD GET A BIT MORE REALISTIC AND SHE'LL REMIND MINSEOK HOW BEAUTIFUL IT CAN BE TO CREATE A WORLD OF YOUR OWN SOMETIMES.
「 trivia →
~VIRTUOSO - CAN PLAY THE PIANO, OR AT LEAST HE HOPES HE STILL CAN. IT'S BEEN YEARS SINCE THE LAST TIME HE PLAYED SOMETHING. IT IS A FEELING HE SOMETIMES FINDS HIMSELF MISSING.
~CALL ME DADDY - HASN'T SPOKEN TO HIS FATHER IN 2 YEARS AFTER DISAPPEARING TO INDIA AFTER A BRIEF PAUSE DURING HIS WORLD TOUR. HIS FATHER DOESN'T EVEN BOTHER CALLING ANYMORE.
~SOCIAL CATERPILLAR - HE CAN BE QUITE CHARMING AND A VERY GOOD DEBATER IF HE PUTS AN EFFORT INTO IT... BUT HE DOESN'T, THE ONLY WAY HE USES HIS WORDS IS WHEN HE WANTS TO MAKE A JOKE OUT OF SOMEONE.
~I'LL SHOW YOU THE WORLD - if YOU CAN NAME IT, HE CAN PROBABLY DRIVE IT ALL. IT WAS A NECESSITY TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE EVERYTHING SO he CAN TRAVEL THE WORLD WITHOUT MANY PESKY HUMANS THERE TO BOTHER him... IF YOU HAD A MAGIC CARPET HE COULD PROBABLY DRIVE THAT TOO.
~KEEP THE LIZARDS AT BAY - IF HIS EXTENSIVE TRAVELS TAUGHT HIM ANYTHING ABOUT HIMSELF IT'S THAT HE HATES SNAKES.. BUT NO, HE REALLY DESPISES THEM. IF HE HAD THE MOTIVATION HE WOULD PROBABLY PAY TO HAVE ALL SNAKES IN THE WORLD EXTERMINATED OR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES.
the cha sister's q & a!
「 ok so which one of us did you come on the trip for and what do you think of the other sister? → was lured into this by Dahyun with a promise that this trip will be an adventure of a lifetime, and also because she believes it's time for me to find a new boyfriend and get over the old one (which I did, by the way!)... What I think about her sister is not much, since I've had only one source, and that's my good friend's big mouth, so I'll keep my thoughts to myself until I actually meet the girl, Shouldn't judge a book by it's reviews, is what I like to think!
「 describe your fashion sense in three sentences and a brand. → Keeping it casual, sassy but still with a touch of sweet and artsy. I pair my converse with every combination in my warderobe. Pretty and colorful jewelry just like my lipstick. Forever 21 with lots of pink and beige.
「 do you have a driver's license? if so, what time of the day to you prefer to drive? if not, do you like sitting shot gun? → I have a licence but I don't use it because I'm not a talented driver ("I don't even know how she managed to pass, to be honest. She's even worse with driving than she is with calculus, and you have no idea how bad she is with calculus.")... Yes, thanks mum. As I said, it's better for me not to take the wheel, if we want to survive the first red light, that is.
「 quick! what's in your purse right now? → orange lipstick, red lipstick and grey lipstick (why am i keeping all of these here?), i don't have a wallet so my money is all over the place, haha, also... There's the paintbrush I thought I lost. Nice. There is a picture of my idiot of a brother and also a small booklet from the latest gallery expo I've been into. Two chocolates that look like they're completely yucky from the hot temperature and other things that melted and I can't recognize them anymore. Remind me to clean my purse later...
「 do you hate the middle seat? → Yes, who doesn't!? You don't have enough space (or at least it feels like you don't because two bodies are next to you making you hot and unable to find a good position) and if you sit there it doubles the chances that someone will fall asleep on you. Also, no window, which is a big minus. But, as a pro the person in the middle might get the chance to control the music in the car, so that's something to think about.
「 what city do you want to visit the most? → Busan! It's a port city and a big one at that so there must be many different things to buy from all over the world! It would also be exciting to try some different types of food offered here!
「 it's summer so obviously, you'll have a bathing suit. what kind? tell me the deets! → a colorful onepiece with an open back.. it has patterns that look like you're looking right through a kaleidoscope, but I won't be spending far too much time on the sun since I don't tan at all (I'll just go red and flame up, like a vampire or something). With a ton or two of suncream I will dive into the water and probably not come back until it's time to return home. Water is good, sun is not!
「 do you know how to siphon gas? → nope, but once I look it up I'll learn everything there is to know about it and we'll be ready to go!
oh , our car broke down. sos!
「 comments? questions? concerns? → Love the idea and can't wait to see what happens! My only concern is that I made a ton of typos up there since it was four in the morning while i wrote it, other than that, nope!
「 scene requests!! → I'll leave this in your capable hands! ^^ (but it would be nice to have a philosophical debate under the starry sky with minseok!<3)
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