the deep end
"i'm basically a potato with anxiety"
( persona ) : happy virus.
( personality traits ) :
( + ) : empathetic ; laidback ; compassionate ; selfless
( ? ) : creative ; observant ; tough ; humorous
( - ) : insensitive ; dense ; indiscreet ; naive
( elaboration ) : some of her traits may seem contradicting, but i'll try my best to explain how it all works out !! haneul is known as happy virus because she's always laughing or smiling and she has a very loud, contagious laugh and she loves making people laugh and be happy. it's pretty easy for her to please people due to her humorous and observant nature. these traits work together in a way - she notices lots of little things about people and has learned not to judge people by their covers because of the little and even bigger things she's found out about people ( it's not eavesdropping, okay -- she's just very good at listening. and she knows how to. instead of talking as much as others, she tends to be the listener. and when she's somewhere by herself, she listens to other people and idk it helps her get to understand humans a lot more. ). using these things she knows about people, she gets to know their limits and what they find acceptable. also, haneul's one way of getting to know people is getting to know what makes them laugh. she herself has a very lame sense of humor and she basically finds lots of things funny and she has lots of different types of humor and she's good at reacting to people respectfully to what they say. but she's just very humorous / good - humored and uses her observance skills to help her know what to say and what not to say around certain people. she's very good at that - being adaptive to people's personalities. she adapts to their personalities because she doesn't like making people feel uncomfortable and she's very selfless in this way - she tends to put people's needs before hers and would rather burden herself than others. i guess you could say she's a people person. like said previously, she doesn't like making people uncomfortable and so is very laidback. she has a very go-with-the-flow aura and tries to keep a cool head, especially when her friends are going through tough times, because what's the good if she's panicking, too? since she seems so levelheaded a lot, people might think she doesn't understand what being stressed is like or anything, but please, lots of people are broken and have experienced those emotions, even haneul. sometimes it's surprising to people how relieving it is to talk to her. she's very empathetic and compassionate, specifically towards those she loves. she's broadminded and is very good at seeing from different points of views, so when people tell her how they're feeling, she's rarely surprised or anything - she just nods and understands. she's kind of sensitive because of this, though - she doesn't like seeing people she cares for being upset and gets emotional when they get emotional.
however, sometimes her want to please others can overcome her sense of logic. she always means well to others, but then she thinks as long as she does, it's fine. she can be insensitive in this way, because however hard she tries to please people, it's impossible to please everyone ( but try telling this girl that sigh she has like a problem otl ). sometimes, people are offended by what she says. maybe not rashly, but it's possible for them to take offense, but that thought rarely comes to her mind. "well i mean, i didn't mean for them to be offended, so it should be fine." this also kind of defines her dense and naive nature as well - not only to this situation, but other things. usually, haneul's a smart girl and knows when to protect her friends from sketchy areas or creepy men, but when it comes to herself, something just clicks. off. like girl are you really this dense -- that man is trying to hit on you okay. maybe it's because she's always like "oh i just want to see the good in everyone maybe he's just a nice man not a e" sighpies it makes people frustrated like jungkook aigoo. something else that makes people frustrated - mostly those she's really close to - is the way she closes herself off from others. she's so good at listening to others and being empathetic to them, but she herself doesn't like displaying her emotions because she feels it makes her seem weak. she's very indiscreet about her emotions and is always acting happy. most of the time, she really is happy, but there are definitely times when she's bottling up lots of emotions, which is never good. she just keeps bottling them, though, due to her want to not burden those around her.
here is a random paragraph for the other two neutral traits !! she's creative - mostly with her food. but she's also artistically creative - baking has helped her become very skillful with her hands and she loves doing little crafts and such and lots of her presents to people are, like, handmade. she thinks less materialistic things are more touching so she loves making things for people. tough mostly refers to her under pressure or stuff. she's very levelheaded and can seem very cool because she's always calm when people try to argue with her or make her flustered or anything. especially with jeon jungkook, hence the ssen ai nickname. he's always leaning in close, winking at her, back hugging her, and she never lets her front falter because she really is a ssen ai. she's not going to give in just because jeon jungkook with his hot face is staring into her soul.
( this was horrible omfg i hope this makes even a tiny bit of sense. this is my first time writing a character different from what i usually write, so it might be like...bad. super bad. )
( background ) :
[ fated to love you ] let's start from the beginning of the beginning. miyoung and mingun met at ages 18 and 21 respectively. they were both in pretty different stages of life, but they went through it together. their love started to blossom at a young age, but nonetheless, it was still love. and they knew it. after one year, they had their hearts set on spending the rest of their futures together with no doubts, but however pure the love, the journey was definitely not as pink and frilly. many people, including family members, didn't like the idea, because there were very big class differences between the couple, and putting aside class difference, the 3 year was taking a toll on them at their young age. they were yet to be ready to have a stable family, but the challenge was pretty much forced upon them when a night of passion led to a baby bump called haneul. or dog poo. or dalpaengi. even more disapproval was thrown onto the couple, by 'friends' family friends, co - workers, strangersespecially by family members to family members on the other side, and it looked like this relationship wasn't going to work out. however much each family hated each other, though, none of them could find the heart to send miyoung to abort the baby.
[ it's a boy! // miracle baby ] that subtitle is totally irrelevant. well, not really. mingun lowkey wanted a boy, while miyoung didn't really care, so the day before her due date, he wrote her a long, heartfelt letter. on a storebought card that had the typical "it's a boy" design. however, the couple was very close to not getting what either of them wanted. when haneul came out, her umbilical cord was wrapped around her, almost choking her to near death until it was cut and unraveled. thankfully it did nothing to her mental or physical state, but it was definitely a moment that brought miyoung and mingun together. haneul herself was also a moment that brought the two families together. she didn't cry much as a kid and was happy virus even as a newborn and she brought joy to both sides of her family.
[ kang haneul !! ] born on november 22, 1999 in san francisco, california under the name iris kang, haneul lived a good life in america. she had friends, good grades, a great family, etc. and then her grandparents called her and her parents to come live in korea with them because their age had been getting to them. haneul was torn away from her american dream and had to face lots of new beginnings - a new school, a new environment, new people, a new language - well, she'd always spoken korean in america to her parents and stuff, but now it was so much more prominent. it was definitely hard for her to adjust to korea.
[ mama, i killed a man ] this subtitle is probably not the best...but idk anything else that's significant of the word mom. it was hard to adjust for haneul and things got even harder when haneul's mom passed away. she passed away in haneul's second year of school, so by then haneul had built relationships with soonyoung, wonwoo, and the jeons next door, so she had many people there to comfort her and mourn with her. her mother had a rare disease that was genetically passed down on her side of the family every other female generation. haneul knows the disease will skip over her, but the thought of it and the probabilities are still haunting to her sometimes.
[ back to the future ] my subtitles legit make no sense. but here we are, back where we started. i guess. we're in the present. third year, after all these things building haneul up and helping her mature and be the person she is today. notes : mingun and miyoung's parents didn't approve on the class differences between the two. miyoung was into art, a profession that didn't make too much money, and mingun was in line to become the heir to his father's company. not only that, the relationship wasn't favored even more when news of the disease came to surface. mingun's parents didn't want their son to have a wife that had that sort of future and miyoung's parents didn't approve of that situation either. and another note : haneul's very scared to get into a relationship. what if it becomes serious? she's always wanted to experience a love like her parents have, but knowing that her daughter will have an ill - fated future...she didn't know how to handle that. but you don't have to go that deep lol i mean this is just high school. and one last note : she gets her indiscreet emotion thing from her dad. he was always so...extravagant. it seemed like there was no time for him to be worrying about things and he always covered up his worries with his crazy laugh ( not that he worried a lot ), but after his wife passed away, he learned how bad it is to keep your emotions bottled and urges haneul to find someone she can rant to besides him.
( trivia ) :
• she is a er for trend words and uses them all the time - i.e. lowkey, lit, bless, glo up, whats good, tfw, chill, etc. her speaking style in general is very casual. she likes calling people dude and man and she says yo a lot.
• she got her love of baking from her mother < 3
• she has a dog named dalpaengi, after her. calling the dog dog poop just seemed...wrong.
• she has an inhumane fear of spiders and all types of creepy crawlies. it's pretty legit, though - not something to be made fun of. if she's in a situation with one, she'll most likely become paralyzed, cover her face, and silently cry until someone can get it off of her or away from her.
• she may have a knack for baking pastries and stuff, but she is weak for chips. especially hot cheetos omg. spicy chips are life.
• speaking of weaknesses, haneul is totally weak for babies ( cute little kids in general ), miniature versions of things, guys with their sleeves rolled up to their elbows, sharp jawlines, jeon jungkook, lame puns, cute activities.
• things she is not weak for : girls who do aegyo and act all cute to get le oppas ; guys who do aegyo ; attention seekers ; when people look her in the eyes ( two can play this game - she'll stare right back. she ain't hindered. ) ; sauces ; cheese
• another family inside joke that goes along with her dalpaengi nickname is the dalpaengi sign. her parents did it all the time before she was born just as a cute little thing, and, of course, it stuck.
• walking jukebox because she is in love with so many different genres of songs and she's always singing softly to herself. she's not bad, either. she's actually pretty good !! she has a pretty quiet voice, considering her originally loud personality.
• her signature sign, as well as the dalpaengi sign, is the gun under the chin. that sounds so lame but idk how else to word it. coincidentally, that's jungkook's signature sign as well. this is something they bicker about often - 'you copied me omg' 'pls i was born first' 'that doesn't matter what the heck --'
• her smirk isn't meant to be seductive like freakin jeon jungkook. she just curls the left side of her lip up like some weird cartoon villain. but her half smile is more unconscious and it makes jungkook die inside a little. it's the cool kind - the kind of scoff chuckle / smirk thing.
• she gets hot and cold easily, respective to the weather. especially her hands. they're either v sweaty or north - pole cold.
•she gets touched easily. and amazed easily. and amused easily.
• she literally wastes so much time watching those short videos of people making food like on buzzfeed and stuff.
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