jiu kim // a photographer // a mad murderer

genre

#angst  #au  #crime thriller  #romance  #tragedy

inspired by

NELL's Dear Genovese and L's Bravo Viewtiful Photo Essay Book Series

story

being labelled and called a 'Genovese' because of his past and young cowardly self that resulted in his parents brutal murders, kid Jiu Kim spent his childhood in trauma and guilt in Old Busan after being taken in by his only relative. after his uncle death, adult Jiu Kim traveled across the lands to join an anonymous and closed underground society that gather all assasins of New Seoul to search for the truth behind his parents death but most of all, to claim his payback from the murderer.

possible plots and characterizations

# run his studio during the day and works as a freelance photographer for assasins that need informations on their own victims by night,

# every portrait of human he took, will signifies their first sign of impending death. there's no undo button once he captures a victim photo in his camera so if there is a mishap in which he captures a picture of a wrong victim, that person still has to die under reasons/sins/wrongdoings that he will find to justify the assasination,

# also accept cases from clients that want him to kill personally but since he hates getting his hands dirty in such he never directly participate in any crime scene so instead, he works behind it. so his faithful partners will execute all the dirty jobs for him, (open choices of character),

# cold blooded and perfectionist,

# suffers from PTSD. he was the only witness when the murdering happened so when the rumours of him hiding with his precious camera in the panic room while his parents fighting the murderer alone to save him spread in their neighbourhood, he got the label 'Genovese' (derived from the Genovese Syndrome) which made friends and neighbours to 'isolate' him until his uncle came and brought him to Old Busan, 

# hints and traces of implicit romance (open choices of romance interest),