TEEN FACE CLAIM  ⇔ Son Chaeyoung + TWICE

 BACKUP  ⇔ Yoo Jeongyeon + TWICE
 

 FASHION SENSE  ⇔ 

⇒ 1999 → This was definitely the period of time for combat boots, army jackets, baggy pants (usually in dark colors and grays) with even baggier tops that depict sayings that are usually comical but rude and inappropriate. She would wear a vast amount of bucket hats, whenever she could. Despite school policy saying that wearing hats is not permitted. She didn't wear jewlery often, though she did have a locket that she wore around her neck. A locket given to her by her father when she was a child. Again, she pounds on the makeup like tubeware.
⇒ 2016 → Having gone through what she's gone through, Lee became rather refined with her outfits. Peter pan collared shirts that are of neutral and basic colors. Skinny jeans of one tone, usually dark denim. Heels are her chosen shoes, though usually only two or three inches. And she mainly sticks to wearing coats if she's cold, instead of sweaters. Coats that are usually beige or gray. The only piece of jewlery she wears is a small necklace (not the locket from her father, she had lost that after a while) it's a small black chain, with a silver band strung through.
 

   CHARACTER TRAITS  ⇔

positive. impertuable, undeviating, facetious, candid
tags.  # hero complex  # chaotic neutral  # estp
perfidious, pusillanimous, cynical, gloomy .negative

 ELABORATION  ⇔

⇒ #who is that girl? → Picture yourself in a room. Music is blaring off the shaking walls, people pounding their feet against the ground, laughing, talking, singing, and dancing. The lights are dimmed down, and it smells like putrid trash. Yet the environment is fun, and lively that you can't help but be just that. Fun and lively. But no one, can be like the orange haired girl in the middle of the room. Flirting with everyone as she glides around. Laughing and talking with blunt and earnest humor. She's the center of attention. And you come to learn that her name is Lee. Chae Lee. She's nothing special. Pretty normal and average when it comes to the looks department. She offers nothing when it comes to her chest or bottom. ​How is she so, so popular? You wonder, and ponder. You listen to people's conversations about her. How scintillating and entertaining she is. You come to realize, that this Chae Lee, leaps before she looks. She's headstrong, and dramatic. She fixes her mistakes as she goes, instead of working on them idle on the way. Preparing contingencies and escape plans. Abstract complex, and global awareness and their implications don't interest her. But the new plan to rob and prank the nearest corner store; she's in on it.
⇒ #what's so great about her anyways? → Chae Lee, is the likeliest person to create risky life problems; compared to most. Maybe in the gang, she's the second person on the list who has big issues: but it's still up there when compared to normalcy. She lives in the moment and dives into the action. She used to be considered the eye of the storm. She enjoyed drama, passion, and pleasure when she was young. Not for emotional thrills but for her logical mindset. She used to make critical decisions based on factual, immediate reality in a process of rapid-fire stimulus response. After what happened, happened, Lee became a bite more refined; but, she's still the same crazy girl who tries her hardest in nearly anything. That begin said, it's easy to understand how she had such troubles in school. Organization was a challenge. It certainly isn't because she's not intelligent, because she can do well, but the regimented, lecturing approach of formal education is just so far from the hands-on learning that she enjoys. It takes a great deal of maturity to see this process as a necessary means to an end, something that creates more exciting opportunities for her and lead to her getting into a lot of trouble when it came to school and the adult world.  Also challenging is that to her, it makes more sense to use her own moral compass than someone else's. Rules were made to be broken. This is a sentiment few high school instructors or corporate supervisors are likely to share, and can earn Lee a certain reputation. But if she minimize the trouble-making, harness her energy, and focus through the boring stuff, Lee's a force to be reckoned with. Which is how she is nowadays, as she's come to refine herself.

⇒ #who is she really? → With perhaps the most perceptive, unfiltered view of any human alive, Lee has a unique skill in noticing small changes. Whether a shift in facial expression, a new clothing style, or a broken habit, she picks up on hidden thoughts and motives where most people would be lucky to pick up anything specific at all. She uses these observations immediately, calling out the change and asking questions, often with little regard for sensitivity. She should remember that not everyone wants their secrets and decisions broadcast; but, sometimes she isn't one for thinking. If Lee isn't careful though, she may get too caught in the moment, take things too far, and run roughshod over more sensitive people, or forget to take care of their own health and safety. This happened quite often as a teenager; which is why people would keep their distance from a risky and unknown person like Lee. She is full of passion and energy, complemented by a rational, if sometimes distracted, mind. Inspiring, convincing and colorful, Lee is a natural leader, pulling everyone along the path less traveled, bringing life and excitement everywhere she geso. Putting these qualities to a constructive and rewarding end is Lee's true challenge.
 

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 PAST  ⇔ 

⇒ #how did she grow up? → Chae Lee was born as Chae Mina to a young mother, and father who were only in their earlier twenties when they had her. As Lee grew up, she never quite understood why people looked down upon her parents, and her. She was just a kid, and they were just her parents. Life in Seoul, was...well...normal, for the most part. Her mom was a stay at home mom that frequented the food sellers and was one of those soon-to-be 'gossip ahjumma's' while her father was a construction worker for some of the up and coming skyscraper. As a young child, Lee went by her mother's chosen name of 'Mina' and was quite friendly and nice. She was easy to befriend and she was an adorable child. The last thing she focused on, was her mother and father's marriage. Too bad, that that was what caused her to be what she is today. Thanks to her mother's affairs, with a next door neighbor, it sent her father into a frenzy. The wife he loved so dear, was cheating on him? How? How could this be? They loved each other, and they have a daughter. He went crazy when it came to his mentality; before, he spiraled out of control and committed suicide from supposed depression, and "heartbreak". Lee was at a loss. Her mother immediately moved them to the country, and shoved any piece of her father, far, far away. Except for a small locket, and a black book. When Lee was ten, she learned what the black book meant and from that day on: blamed her mother for her father's death. She dropped the name Mina, and told everyone in school her name is Lee. From that day on, she wasn't her mother's daughter and her mother knew it.
⇒ #how did she meet the gang? → Lee's relationship with her mother broke, and she found herself distancing herself from her mother's house, to jumping from couch to couch between her friends houses. Out of everyone in the group, she met the girlfriend first. They were (and are) polar opposites. Lee, on one hand, is boyish and steadfast while the other is feminine and conniving. Yet, they got along great. To Lee, that y girl was her best friend. One who would let her stay on her couch on the days she needed most. From there, she met Shinwoo. Not a favorite of hers; but, for the other's sake, she tried to get along with her. And then, it was like ripple effect, from Shinwoo, spawned all the others. Soon enough, she had two best friends, and friends with the considered "Busan Gang". In class, she was easily considered to be the 'class clown' in an attempt to hide her struggles, she'd laugh it off and make fun of herself and others. Thus the spawn of the nickname. Although, the funny one, she wasn't all that friendly. She had her pack of friends, and people who considered her a friend; there was no need for others. She'd watch idly, a cigarette hanging from her lips, as her group of friends would either bully, or forcefully insult others. She knew they were bad kids, and although she knew her father wanted her to grow up as 'perfect Mina' she wanted to be 'pistol Lee' and stuck with the group of bad kids, and became just like them. Much to her mother's dismay and she knows her father is probably rolling in his grave at the sight of her drinking, and smoking. And dating actual guys. More than dating actually. Nevertheless, she enjoyed being her.
⇒ #what was her love life like? → Lee didn't have much of anything as a teenager. She'd left her mother, only showing up for certain events, and stayed at her friends houses for probably too long. She only had the shirt on her back, and the shoes on her feet. (Well, also the locket hanging around her neck, and her father's Journal in her backpack.) Love was a foreign subject. Someone had once told her that one of the people she hung around with, had a crush on her; but, she never cared. She had flings, that's it. Until, one day, in the midst of summer before the school days of 1999, she met someone. He was a freshman about to enter college, and she was only seventeen. He was sweet and kind, and wholesome. Everything she used to be. It was so reminiscent of the past. She spent every waking hour with him. And found herself falling for him, deeply. It's funny, she was only seventeen, how does a seventeen year old know anything about love? Well, she just knew. And he knew he loved her too. She was going to graduate soon, once she turned eighteen in the fall. And he was saving up money from his part time jobs to buy a small apartment for the both of them to stay in. She was finally going to have a place to call home, and someone to share that with. She was happy, for the first time in a long time.
⇒ #what happened to make her like she is? → The events of 1999, are somewhat unknown to Lee. What she does know, is that her best friend (Shinwoo's girlfriend) was a crying mess a few weeks before. Describing her emotional instability when it comes to her mentality, blaming Shinwoo for everything that has gone wrong since she moved to Busan. She ranted, and raved. For hours on end; before, she crumbled to the floor and stated she was pregnant. Whether it was Shinwoo's or not, Lee doesn't know. All she does know, is that her pregnancy must've lead Shinwoo to go as diabolically unstable as she was. Who knows how he got that gun? Who knows how he winded up being at the same college Lee's boyfriend attends? All she does know, is that one minute she was racing up the stairs to a rooftop of a building, a few others beside her, and the next she's cradling the body of her dead boyfriend. Shinwoo is being arrested, and his girlfriend (her best friend) a crying mess. The only person she had ever loved, since her father, was lying dead in her arms. And all she could do was watch as the life left his eyes, and his soul disappeared into the wandering night of the city. The necklace she wears to this day, is a simple black chain with a silver band on it. The silver band was in a small dark black box in her boyfriend's bag, sitting there. He was going to give it to her as a promise ring that he would marry her one day. She's kept it ever since. This way, she'll never forget him. Though, how could she? She loved him.