" HOW I MET OLIVIA KIM "

 

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< / olivia kim >
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 describe urself pls 
 
 ...wat is this for o___o 
 
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lol jacob is making me  
write ur bio for bid night
so help me bb               
 
 cries still can't believe ur  
 giving me away :-( but ok 
 
 olivia kim, '19 digital design major 
   kasa it chair, resident sober fairy,  
  shopping cart, and qt3.14             
 
LOL JK DUN WRITE THE LAST ONE 
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WE LIVE TOGETHER WYM 
GIVING AWAY a little is too   
expensive bye haha               
 
 but tyty lmfao sober fairy
 
says the one who drank 
a smirnoff ice yesterday 
 
  shhh let me beee i have church
           tomorrow i diD NOTHING
 
▴

say hello to nyufl kasa's resident it chair, all five feet two of cheeky eye smiles and an even cheekier personality. with a knack for socializing, olivia is the one that'll greet you on your way to class with a smile and an overexcited double wave as she hands you a flyer for kasa's culture show. with a penchant for being doted on by upperclassmen, olivia is the one you'll run into grabbing dinner in chinatown with 'those two charming as kasa seniors'. while she isn't the first to be thought of when people mention kasa, there's no doubt that olivia epitomizes the korean american identity, a half-finished korean drama episode opened in a chrome tab.
most don't expect to see olivia kim seated in the corner during a kasa board meeting — sending snapchats of a double chin underneath the table — considering the hillsong united tshirt on her back and the overall mismatch of a tiny girl in the midst of snapbacks and monotone supreme hoodies. in high school she was voted 'most likely to be the same in ten years' but if not indicative of the slew of party photos and cover photos advertising soju saturdays, olivia is far from the every day church girl she was in high school.
"gets lit on saturday goes to pray on sunday. you're truly an inspiration, liv." "shut up stephen you went out with me." olivia's face crumples into a look of mock offense as stephen piggybacks her back from the library. "and in my defense i was on my caprisun diet." if you see an empty caprisun pouch in the trash neatly tucked between half a dozen heinekens you know olivia was there — after freshman year mistakes ("throwback to when you hooked up with danie-" "shhh"), she's decided she'd rather read the bible than read nutrituion labels on soju bottles, but once you've had a taste of the kasa life there's no escaping it.
 
NOW PLAYING : OLIVIA IS A MEME CHILD
WHO LIKES THE WRONG BOYS (▴)
  
 
full name OLIVIA KIM
other name(s)
 
KIM HAEIN / 김해인 ▴ while used to being called haein at home, olivia prefers to be called by her english name (at the very least because there's a girl in her computer science lecture named haein and no, olivia isn't the one whose secretly dating both eunwoo and moonbin. if she gets a facebook message request asking about it one more time she's going to cry).
 
nickname(s) 
 
BOGO ▴ "once a convenience store child, always a convenience store child" aubrey stifles a laugh as olivia zealously scans the shelves of cvs for the buy one get one free deals with practiced ease. bogo comes from the rest of board, who continues to be awed by olivia's ability to stay underbudget when out to stock up for their kimbap night. it may be due to the fact that she's grown up swimming in one-size-fits-all employee vests and knowing daily discounts like the back of her hand for nineteen years, but olivia admits having worked at her parents' convenience store comes in handy when you're poor and living off microwaved leftovers.
 
OLIVE ▴ there are two cases in point to take note of: exhibit a includes daniel chae, his affection for the one korean girl in his physics recitation, and a heart-fluttering moment where he recounts how he loves olives (refer to her conversation with aubrey last month: "does that mean he loves me?" "oh my god"). every time they run into each other daniel will smile with a light "hi olive!" much to her heart's death and life. exhibit b is a little friendlier. at some point it becomes habit for olivia to respond to a singsong "my little olive" every time aubrey calls her for no reason. from whom olivia likes the nickname better is up for question.
 
CAPRISUN ▴ refer to the start of the semester when olivia proclaimed during a board meeting that she would stay sober for the whole of sophomore year and that she would "drink caprisuns like a real mature woman until i'm legal" "what the olivia." that lasted about three parties into the semester, when daniel asked her to be his bp partner. how could she possibly refuse daniel chae? (aubrey: "dude why would you ever say yes to him"). still, the boys on board likes to lovingly remind of her failures.
 
birthdate + age 12/17/97 + 19 years old
birthplace bellevue, washington, united states
hometown seattle, washington, united states
languages 
 
ENGLISH ▴ native fluency : "that's hella sus dude" "what the does that mean" / she isn't sure what seattlites are supposed to sound like, but when stephen pulls a face every time she calls someone granola, she can't help but be conscious about her obviously non-east-coast speech patterns. she'll grumble about how new yorkers are so particular about the way people talk but won't bother changing out any of her west coast slang.
 
KOREAN ▴ advanced fluency : "wait what's eggplant in korean again" "uhh" "ok thanks" / the perk of growing up in a neighborhood with grandmothers making kimchi in backyards and a korean restaurant every five miles is that olivia has conversational korean embedded into every grocery run and spoken conversation with the kbbq waiter. she'll occasionally ask what a certain word is in korean, but she can definitely hold a conversation.
 
GERMAN ▴ can say bread : "when will you ever need german" "just you wait until you can't order at a german bakery" / she slept in the day of class registration freshman year of high school and she got stuck with the last language class there was. she can't do much other than order two types of food and a few swear words but she swears it'll come in handy.
face claim ioi's choi yoojung
backup face claim oh my girl's hyun seunghee, ioi's kim sejeong
height & weight 5 feet 2 inches / 110 pounds
 
appearance 
 
   
 
olivia sighs, sweeping shoulder-length dark brown hair off her face as she unamusedly watches kyle laugh his off, freshly printed polaroid clutched in his hands as he runs his gaze on the picture a third time—"i can't ing believe," he gasps between laughs, "that only the top of your head shows in every single group kasa picture." she huffs before snatching the picture away to study it herself, heart sinking as she notices that yet again, facebook will wonder what it's supposed to tag when only her forehead shows behind daeho's hoodie.
 
meet all five feet two of olivia kim, the unfortunate board member somehow always hidden in photographs by someone's snapbacks or stephen's shoulders (why in the world they have to be so broad, olivia would like to @god). but other than the height, most people say they see the sunshine of a smile first, though daeho will argue that olivia's most prominent features are her cheeks—"they're so squishy holy like a chipmunk"—as he laughingly dodges a kick in the shin. with a spray of freckles across ivory complexion, the chest size of a midle schooler, and no apparent jawline—"i have no chin ohmygod" "i think it's the cheek fat and 3am ramen" "lol "—she finds herself having a fake id no one takes seriously and classmates who mistake her for a high schooler on a tour. still, even if daeho uses her as an armrest at least she's cute.
 
style
 
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 omg north face again lol 
 
 unnie it'S STYLE 
 
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lol okie
 

 we can't all afford acne studio jackets ;___; 

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 just steal a stussy one like me  
 
 i gave one gave to aubs and    
 she says it's ing warm lol.  
 
 
 
if there's one thing that she's brought from seattle to the fashion capitol of the world, it's her inability to understand why anyone would want to trade adidas superstars for five inch steve madden heels. "i actually don't get how you can give up comfort" olivia mentions as she watches her roommate choose an outfit for the kasa x tsa mixer, tugging at her own gray nike hoodie for added effect. she's not lazy persay, but she could care less about how the nyufl business students—in their pressed suits and pencil skirts—look at her nike leggings, draw-string hoodie, and north face vest. aubrey calls her a scrub but olivia prefers the phrase "comfortably chill" to describe her repeated infractions of showing up to downtowns apparently underdressed in a crop top and leggings.
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personality
 
< (SOME)BODY > OLIVIA KIM
POSITIVE ▴ dynamic, sociable, expressive,
unreserved and bold, cheeky, genuinely sweet
average, selfish, second lead disease, inconsistent,
easily influenced, self-deprecating,  ▴ NEGATIVE
 
isfj ▴ hufflepuff ▴ the ride or die meme child
 
"but kyle the real question is," stephen leans against the arm of daeho's sofa, a glass of wine between his fingers as he eyes olivia's son run in circles with a toy airplane, "did you know what you were getting youself into when you started dating olivia?" he avoids the overexaggerated crumpled pout olivia shoots him as aubrey snorts a laugh. "honestly though, olivia was such a character in college. like she was the biggest ray of sunshine but also the biggest meme at nyufl. felt like i was rooming with a big child." "i'm about to drop kick you two out of daeho's third story window." olivia sniffs with a pout as she hands kyle a ziplock full of goldfish for their daughter. kyle throws his head back in laughter. "all i knew when i decided she was the one," he starts with a small smile, "is that i was surprised by how little confidence she had in how amazing of a person she was." he glances to his side to see olivia peering at him with mild disbelief as daeho shorts, "is anyone missing some cheese? there's too much here."

Q: HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE OLIVIA KIM?
 
"you know how in every drama there's that unfortunate second lead that everyone loves but never gets the main guy or girl? olivia is basically that role. she's sweet and easy to be around but at the end of the day she has no impact. not saying that's a bad thing don't tell her i said that oh my god."
— momo hirai, design lab partner
 
"dude she's a meme like you think she's average as when you first meet her because she's just like every other asian girl ya know? but then you get to know her and BAM she's all up in your face tagging you in hella relatable memes – throwback to 'when you realize you need a 425% to get an a in the class' with michael scott's face – and dancing to kpop in our group study room at 3 am. also, we cry over cs homework together so she gets me man."
— finn harries, cries over cs projects together
 
"man, olivia needs to it up and love herself like it isn't apparent at first because she seems so cheery, but she's actually really self-deprecating and stubborn when it comes down to it. it pains me to say that she thinks she's nothing special, and so she assumes that other people think that of her too. and this kind of stuff is gross to say as a guy but like, i wish she would just see her own self worth? it doesn't help that she's literally only had crushes on the biggest s in our high school, ing s."
— kim sunghyun, high school best friend
 
"mmm i mean there's not much about her other than she's aubrey's friend? i don't know she doesn't really stand out and she's basically like every other korean girl – can't doubt that she's really nice though. if it's anything to go off of, i know all the kasa freshman recruits think olivia is the easiest board member to get along with and approach, if only because she makes herself so relatable and easy to talk to? considering she looks like a freshman lol."
— oh sehun, kasa senior member
 
"just saying but there's a sense of narrow-mindedness olivia may have with seeing the big picture of situations? like if she has a problem with something she'll automatically have a negative mindset and only focus on that instead of both sides of the story. and because she is so single-tracked focused, it shows a bit of insincerity that confuses people into thinking she's fake when she isn't feeling her acclaimed cheery good dongsaeng moments. just something i've noticed while working with her on board."
— lee jieun, kasa vice president and psych major
 
"she just lays around the apartment lol what a lazy – but i still love her. i do think she's a little spoiled in terms of others doing things for her and i swear to god if i have to go through another mini tantrum about how she doesn't want to be the one to buy the soju for next week's event i'm going to cry. but other than her childish tendencies, her range of facial expressions is lowkey out of this world. literally snapchat selca queen – idk anyone else who can crumple their face into so many emotions. but the important part? her heart knows how to express those emotions too. she has such a big heart for others. lol jk cancel everything i said she's gei i hate her she sat on my vinyl bye."
— aubrey ryu, roommate and former kasa big
 
"i don't know, i feel like she thinks she's hot just because she's on kasa board and all the junior and senior oppas hella dote on her. i mean, that's the vibe i kinda get from her? she's bubbly and 'smol' or whatever they call her but it almost feels fake. i was in a book club with her for a week and people think i dislike her bc i had PAST TENSE a crush on kyle but it's actually because she was a total debbie downer like she wasn't in the best mood because the book club was at 8 am and she was tired and LET ME TELL YOU, the whole 'cheery and a ray of sunshine' persona doesn't even exist before noon. 
— sarah kim, fellow classmate
 
"she's a ray of sunshine, really. she may initially grumble if you ask her to do something, but she has such a caring heart for others. she's one of the few that'll actively go out of their way to keep in touch and ask how i'm doing though we don't see each other anymore. i know a lot of people think she's forgettable because she just seems like 'just another korean christian girl' but there's just something about olivia that makes her so dotable. she's babied a lot at nyufl though, which may make her a little spoiled and lazy when it comes to responsibility."
— im yoona, former college ministry sg leader
 
"small but powerful. no really, she bruised my shin because she kicked it so hard once dude what kind of 5 foot 2 monster is so strong? but olivia is pretty chill. when she first came into kasa i expected her to be shy but she was probably the cheekiest, most excitable freshmen at our first gbm. she's a good dongsaeng to have around, if only because it's nice to see someone wave at you with so much fervor while passing on the way to class."
— daeho seo, fellow kasa member
 
BACK TO THE BASICS :
 
olivia kim is probably nothing special in terms of diversity on campus, considering how normal she seems, but in her bubbly college ordinarity is someone who, despite grumbling over school responsibilities and failing grades ("a 3.2 isn't even that bad wtf" "i'm still 2nd gen korean okay my parents are savage"), has the biggest heart for showing excitement for even the simplest things, like meeting someone new or half off wheat thin wednesdays. she tends to have a single-track focus, which often limits her scope of positivity and makes her seem fake to certain parties. she sometimes fits her image too well, playing on the "i look 12" to get away with things, but very few doubt how lovable she is. it's strange then, olivia's lack of confidence when it comes to the self — but maybe it's just that: when you're the "little sister" to every guy you meet, maybe you really do come to believe there's no one out there for you.
 
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lifestyle
  
"well if i was describing my current living conditions, all i can say is i'm dead 70% of the time and the rest of the time i'm either eating or crying over being dead."
a small, middle class home on the outskirts of downtown bellevue, washington is nothing to boast about, but such an environment had set olivia up for the need of scholarships to attend any college at all. so when aubrey suggested they share an apartment only a few minutes from school where she would cover the rent and olivia covered everything else like groceries and back massages on demand, olivia couldn't pass up the chance to live in central new york.
 
now with a view of the city in their modest but well-furnished one-bedroom apartment, olivia swears that she really tried to keep her side of their shared bedroom looking as aesthetic as she could, but she gave up after a week as clothes continued to get strewn onto her bed and chair. olivia takes it upon her self to keep the fridge as well-stocked as she can (or as well as she can to satisfy aubrey's insisting of vegan meals, greens, and wine wednesdays — "you have a secret stash of shin ramen and instant soondubu for when you're stressed?" "aka everyday" "well ") with biweekly grocery store trips. the apartment is a nice place to chill, and when she isn't working on academics olivia will be seen playing just dance, aubrey laughing at her lack of coordination.
 
as for school, majoring in digital design, as described by olivia, is like signing up to die early — computer science with a splash of visual arts, on sundays and thursdays (coincidentally days before projects are due) she stays in the design lab until 4 am thanks to procrastination and starbucks double shots. stephen is usually nice enough to laugh at her misery but feel bad and bring thai food around 1 am, but she's usually on her own in her grossly unhealthy lifestlye. 

working in the school's engineering admin office as a receptionist helps cover tuition, but instead of gaining connections with the administration all olivia usually gets are visits from friends who snapchat her falling asleep behind the desk. as for clubs, other than kasa ("gotta make them damn cover photos" "you go, it chair!" "stephen please") she's in three other clubs where she also makes facebook cover photos. but what can she do? other majors like to take advantage of the design majors.
 
bottoms up
 
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"are you the one that brought a caprisun to the party?"
— jackson wang, kasa x hksa winter mixer, actually curious
 
"ugh you're literally the worst friend i have." olivia grumbles as she unwillingly lets herself get dragged into kasa's start-of-the-semester downtown. aubrey just rolls her eyes, knowing only too well how olivia will probably be the first to head straight to jacob for a shot of soju — "it's formalities, like you know how in korean culture you gotta respect your elders and drink with them yeah jacob is old as so" "says the kid who didn't want to touch anything over 5% ten seconds ago" — notwithstanding the fact that she's a board member. while olivia openly declares her renouncement of alcohol every semester with the excuse that her church back home always get a set of heart attacks after the next wave of questionably drunk pictures she gets tagged in, her caprisun diet lasts about two parties in before she's trading angry sips of pacific cooler for smirnoff ice.

freshman year had been a time of uninhibited exploration ("yeah like remember the time you sleep with danie–" "no stop talking oh my god"), but just from the sheer frequency of kasa parties olivia has become familiar with her habits — mainly the ones about how she gets progressively better at drunk jenga the more alcohol in her system, and how she denies that she's drunk when she's past her point, drawling out an "i'm not druuunk" as she tries grabbing another shot. but even such a sight is rare, if only because she volunteers to be a sober (or near-sober) host for nearly every one of their parties. her tolerance isn't high by any means, but the will to stay somewhat coherent during most events has her more used to calling uber drivers for others than her own parents.

a half-empty bottle clutched in her hand and the other waving at hyunwoo from psychology, olivia laughs over the roar of asian boys and half-assed dean/madeon mix ("did pres try to assert his abilities as a dj again" "unfortunately") as she steps over a solo cup pyramid and a tipped can of samuel adams without a glance. she tilts her head as she taps the glass to the rhythm of the bass, eyes scanning the crowd to look for any stragglers with a small smile playing on rouged lips as her hair cascades past her calvin klein crop. she may have ridiculed the scene at first, but there's no doubt that olivia kim is nothing short of a kasa board archetype.

 
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 so olivia 
 
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 lmfao olivia  
 
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 are we gon do dis again @ junhong
 @ seunghee                                    
 
 tb to when we crapped on junhong 
 for joining a frat lmfaoaoaoa            
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 intervention  
 
 oh mygod pls 
 
 
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 LOL FEEL THE PAIN LIV 
 
 OF WHEN U GUYS ALL  
 ON LAMBDAS -_-                     
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 yah but ur you lol u deserve to be
  on. meanwhile, liv is not you  
 

 get rekt junhong 

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 ramen hair awkward kid on      
 praise team goes to rochester 
 
 dyes his hair black, joins a frat lol  
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 THE DISRESPECT but tru  
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 LOL SUNGHYUN speaking the 
 truth                                            
 
 but girl WHAT IS THIS   
 
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 HAHAHALSDJLASJD 
 
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 dude the comments on that post 
 are hella savage                          
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 HAHAH PASTOR MARK'S
 "THAT'S JUICE RIGHT"    
 
 dude theRE ARE tearz in 
 my eyes                            
 
 but it's so good rip 
 
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 amen 
 
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 JUNHONG PLEASE 
 but it's true sighs       
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trivia
 
KASA BOARD, IT CHAIR ▴ she walks into kasa's first gbm freshman year as per jacob's urging (when your orientation leader is the kasa president elect, the passion is real) and immediately deems it "not her thing" due to the sheer number of crop tops and posters advertising post-meeting soju. unfortunately, the board is short one it chair ("yeah so um sean od-ed? or something yeah so uh" and she happens to be the only tech-savvy person jacob can semi-convince. chaos ensues.
 
N. JERSEY NATIVE, AGE 23 ▴ her fake is pretty much useless, considering no sane person trusts that she's actually a 23 year old korean girl from new jersey. "even stephen can get into bars what the he looks like he could be my younger brother." she grumbles as stephen raises an eyebrow and smirks, following aubrey past the bouncer after calling an uber for their "underaged" friend.
 
DANIEL CHAE, PHYSICS GOD ▴ while her actual school schedule only has classes from mwf 10 am - 12 pm and tth 11 am - 2 pm, when others ask she's also quick to consider mw 6 pm - 7 pm as busy times — after all, those are daniel's intro physics office hours. it's not that she's actually failing physics or that she just wants to stare at his face (aubrey will beg to differ on the last one) as daniel is genuinely an amazing explainer of difficult concepts. ("get a man that can do both!!!!" "dude stop")

ALCOHOL TOLERANCE ▴ smirnoff ices are her love and her life but they're also only 5%, as stephen likes to point out oh-so-kindly. she can't do hard liquor too well and more often than not will get tipsy ("you literally took two shots of vodka" "lol") after only a few shots.
 
WEDNESDAY NIGHTS IN ▴ olivia and kyle dedicate wednesdays nights to netflix and drill ("drill?" "drill each other on bio questions lol") where they'll just turn on ty rom coms in the background while working on their homework. somehow, they always end up closing their laptops a third of the way in and getting super into the movie with kyle usually just, "yeah melissa DUMP HIS that ugly hoe" and olivia joining in.
 
THOSE DAMN PASTRIES ▴ she's really good at making random, really obscure pastries — she isn't good at cakes or brownies but she can whip up coconut macaroons with eyebrow raising ease. still, it's a running joke within kasa why she "can't be normal and just bring cupcakes to our potluck instead of these ... german ... cookies i can't ... even pronounce." "THEY'RE HAUSFREUNDE." "they're good but i don't know what they are." "THEY'RE-" "HAGGLETOSS." "JACOB OPPA NO-"
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"according to buzzfeed i'd be a cosmopolitan because i'm sweet and a crowd favorite." olivia crows to kyle as the latter playfully rolls his eyes and gently pushes back her head with his index finger. "yeah?"
     
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< / aubrey ryu >
 
doyounqs' character ▴ fc: seon hwang ▴ the cali vibin' room mate

"olivia guess what—" aubrey starts as she steals a dorito from olivia's bag, "—i'm never going to drink again." olivia stops midchew, pulling an unamused face. "unnie people who'll definitely drink again always say that." "just leT ME LIVE." "i'm just saying."
 
 
 


▴

"apparently," olivia says, swinging her legs back and forth as jacob gives her an amused grin, "aubrey would be a mojito!"

kasa is intimidating but aubrey is even more so, considering that she may or may not be the prettiest person olivia has ever met in her life. so when aubrey becomes olivia's big, she isn't sure if she should be worried or glad. weekly coffee dates and five spontaneous trips to soho later, aubrey becomes olivia's most trusted upperclassman figure, only solidifed by the fact that olivia and daniel did the do, daniel and aubrey are friends, and aubrey finds the whole situation hilarious. 

moving in together is reason to break their big-little relationship ("dude we live together we don't even need it" "also having a little is too expensive lol" "you just bought a winter coat yesterday smh") and in between late-night just dance sessions and random urges to rearrange all the furniture for no reason ("we took five rearrangements to move the couch back to the same place"), aubrey and olivia are vastly different people and styles, but they mesh surprisingly well together. balancing out each others' faults in terms of rooming.

look out for olivia's phone to blow up with random snapchats throughout the day (snap streak 253, only beaten by stephen's of 286) of daniel's triple chin (caption: do u still find him attractive lol im dying) or daeho dancing in the library after giving up on bio. but rather than digitally they like to spend their time face-to-face, with weekly wine wednesdays ("even though it's not wednesday" "just drink olive") leading to conversations that more often than not shouldn't leave the room. if there's one person olivia never wants against her, it's aubrey.

"i think they said it's 'cause they said she's the life of the party… but not the regular ones, like the good fruity ones."
 
< / stephen paek >
 
fc: jung chanwoo ▴ best frand das my best frand u go best frand

"dude did i already tag you in that one meme" stephen sets olivia down from the piggyback to pull out his phone. "wait which one, the kermit one? wait let me send you something." "do you realize our friendship has dissolved into just sending memes" " lol" 
 
 
 


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"stephen is a coke and rum" olivia tilts her head, putting a finger to her chin in contemplation. "is he that clean and classy?"
day one of freshman year classes, olivia walks into intro chem twenty minutes late thanks to a nonexistent alarm ("i can't believe you set the clock for 9pm instead of 9am" "ughhh"), heart sinking from the knowledge that she'd be labeled as that one girl for the rest of the semester. the lecture hall's door is far too loud for the twenty people closest to the door not to notice and her face burns red as she quickly sits in the last row. much to her luck (or her misery, considering the imminent friendship) stephen paek walks into class at the strike of 9:30, hoodie on backwards and snapback flattening unstyled hair. she's never been so glad to see such a poor sight in her life.

in between midnight tampon runs and grocery store blues they solidify their friendship to the point where one can't be seen without the other. "find you a boy who can do both," olivia thinks fondly as she watches stephen flirt his way around a conversation with a pretty classmate before stuffing his mouth with six mcnuggets ("at once! can you do more liv" "do i even wanna try though") as soon as she leaves. they say a boy and girl can't truly ever be friends, but she's never friendzoned someone so quickly in her life (and vice versa).

"that would be like dating my sister" stephen pulls a disgusted face as he crouches to let olivia climb on his back after grabbing fried chicken in ktown in the middle of the night. stephen is the only one that olivia is comfortable pouring her whole unfiltered heart to, and while they may make fun of each other every chance they get, she can't imagine ever breaking their friendship.

oh yeah and kyle lim? for the record that guy is an (throwback to when he hooked up with stephen's cousin in high school. that's right, they have history).
"did you just text stephen that you're the coke to his rum?" olivia's lips unturn. "yeah so?" "'stfu olivia' is his answer so i mean." "...wtf"
 
 
< / jacob ahn >
 
fc: im jaebum ▴ kasa president and resident favorite oppa

olivia twirls in the diner chair as jacob stuffs five fries into his mouth. "so as kasa president—" somehow he manages to talk despite the food, "—i want to introduce you to board and myself by saying that i've been told i look like got7's jb." "oh my god please no." 
 


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"jacob is a chamisul because he's a 20% headache with his weird playlists" kyle raises an eyebrow. "and buzzfeed said this?" 
when olivia is still at her stage of denying kasa membership during freshman year ("omg aubrey unnie nooo if i'm seen with a red solo cup my church back home is going to roast me hella on facebook") and jacob is vehemently intent on recruiting her for it chair (see: facebook messenger pleas and getting others to ask her), she's one step away from screaming when she spots jacob ahn at friday night bible study. jacob ahn. at bible study. at this point olivia's pretty sure he's stalking her in order to recruit because what the why is kasa president elect at bible study?

but it only gets worse, when they get paired to share prayer requests and olivia wants to just @god what sins she's committed to deserve this. much to her surprise, however, she finds that he's been part of the community since his freshman year, albeit not as active after internships and kasa duties took a toll.

flash forward to present times where jacob has become olivia's favorite fellow board members, and despite making fun of him for thinking that he's goodlooking ("omg oppa please you look like a foot next to jb") she knows she's absolutely blessed to call him her closest older brother figure on campus. he's the only one other than melanie and aubrey that know of her crush on daniel (not that he approves or anything, considering daniel's had a history of sleeping with three of jacob's friends) and the only one that'll listen to long drawn-out rants about the lack of nice boys at nyufl and make sure she gets home safely even if he's piss drunk himself.
"nope! but he doesn't deserve a test result anyway." kyle shakes his bangs out of his face as he laughs. "sounds good."
 
< / melanie choi >
 
csmicgirls' character ▴ fc: jung wheein ▴ grand big and unofficial sister

she takes a sip from her boba, cupping her hands over her cheeks expectantly. "so unnie, will you do it?" " no." olivia pouts, shoulders slumping. "why noooot you promised" "i never did such a thing." "okay find maybe i did but i'm not asking daniel what he likes in a girl smh."
 


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"melanie unnie," olivia pauses. "hmm she'd be apple juice because i like apple juice." kyle grimaces. "what the olivia

if there's one person that'll give olivia the truth with little to no sugarcoating ("i'm telling you olivia, daniel is a little and daeho needs to get his together") it's melanie choi. her self-proclaimed grand big—melanie and aubrey are basically related anyway—they become close after seeing each other around so often via mutual acquaintances with aubrey. when your kasa big is stuck to someone else like glue, it's only natural to also get close.

melanie isn't exactly someone olivia pictured getting close to when she first imagined herself in college (considering olivia hung out primarily with kids from her youth group at her home church) so when she finds herself becoming close with someone from a seemingly different world, olivia comes to appreciate how unique of a perspective melanie offers to everything. melanie is the one that will, unlike most of the nyufl upperclassman population, will offer tough love to olivia. 

weekly wii gaming becomes a thing and deep talks over hot cocoa wherein melanie s on daniel become tradition. and when kyle becomes melanie's little, they become a sort of family.

"it's not my fault i've never really drank with melanie unnie. that's just not our thing." she punches the side of kyle's arm lightly.
 
other flames 
 
< / daniel chae >
 
fc: oh jinseok ▴ did you test out the spring constant of his bed

olivia cups her mug tightly, eyes tracing the latte art on the brim of her drink as he takes the seat in front. "i hope you like vanilla lattes? i wasn't sure what to get you." nevermind how she hated lattes, she can't help the blush as daniel shoots her a smile. "so how was your day?"
 

 


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"daniel would be a whiskey sour." "you took one for daniel?" "i DIDN'T TAKE IT FOR HIM. WE ALL TOOK IT TOGETHER, GOD."


she's shook. and that's all she can really say to her friends as she refuses to miss her 8am physics recitation ever, only beaming brighter when daniel gives a small grimace and apologizes to the rest of the dead class for the terrible time. "but there's never a bad time for physics right?" he jokingly laughs, turning to the whiteboard as the class sans olivia groans. she's quick to chatter about how much she loves her physics class after the fact, stephen sideeying her with intense judgment. olivia hates physics.

needless to say, olivia kim is crushing on her ta, and her feelings only intensify when she sees him almost every other day due to his friendship with aubrey and melanie. and despite their attempts to on him ("olive i'm serious he's a total boy" "like legit it's better dating a frog than daniel chae omg") olivia blushes and stutters her way around campus after he gives her a dimpled smile and a small wave on the way to class. 

nevermind the fact that they may have accidentally hooked up at one of her first kasa parties, while she may see the world in his eyes, he just sees another dongsaeng. nevermind the fact that she's crushing on him, he knows she's crushing on him but chooses not to do anything about it, 50% from liking the attention of being single ("dude i heard from chaeryun that minsol likes you" "lol so does chaeryun haha" "oh my ing god"), 10% from thinking she's cute, and 40% from just seeing her as a younger sister.

he takes care of olivia well as an upperclassman—kakao chatting consistently, taking her out to eat dinner, offering to help her with homework and study together—but aubrey is scared for the day when olivia realizes that it's just never going to work out.
kyle plays with the tips of her hair as she scrolls through daniel's instagram. "do you think he likes fruity drinks?" "hm? oh, yeah, sure"
 
 
< / kyle lim >
< FC JEON JEONGGUK, BACKUP OH JINSEOK >
 
 
 
< (8)                       kyle lim -___-                        ≡
 
 SOSOSOSOSOSOS. 
 
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what's wrong?
 
 LMFAO CAN I CRASH AT UR    
 PLACE I MAY OR MAY NOT      
HAVE ACCIDENTALLY SAT ON 
AUBREY'S VINYL.....                  
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 LOL UR DEAD. 
 
 ...hello??? olivia????
 holy you ARE dead lol  
 can i have your laptop         
 
OMG WTF UR ACTUALLY DA WORST  
 
 and no you can't have my dog wall  
 papers smh kyle                               
 
 DAS BESIDE THE POINT U  
 UR NOT SAFE EITHER                    
 i told aubrey unnie that you were the    
 one that broke her heels at that one    
 party                                                     
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 ........UR DEAD TO ME LIV. 
 
 
▴
 
< (SOME)BODY > KYLE LIM
POSITIVE ▴ genuine, driven, reliable passionate, considerate, consistent
sarcastic, quick to blame, competitive
somewhat reticent ▴ NEGATIVE
 
istp ▴ gryffindor ▴ the puppy
 
young thug on the basketball team who has too much on his plate in terms of academic and sports and hanging out with non-asians to be involved in kasa.
 
he's a paid member but he never came out to meetings, only having come initially to establish some korean connections and ending up too busy with studying to continue that mission. but now that he's a sophomore, he has a bit more room to breathe. he comes out to all the kasa events now, but then again considering he started coming for olivia it's not a surprise to see him at kimbap night, especially when she's forcing him to go.
 
< / (some)body >
"i'm pretty sure you were in the school newspaper more times than our mascot." "that's because sarah kim was the editor and she had a crush on me lol." "whoa aren't you popular." "daeho hyung please."

 
kyle lim, nyufl basketball varsity shooting guard by day and computer science major by night — who is he really?
               sarah kim, 2015.09.21

"i can't believe this was an actual article" melanie guffaws as her son tries to scramble towards the weathered paper, curious over the shrieks of laughter from the adults in the room. olivia just rolls her eyes, settling down next to kyle on daeho's couch with a cup of tea. "yeah and he won't let me forget how he got a whole page to himself freshman year." kyle sheepishly grins, "i was sort of arrogant about it back then but i realize now it was stupid."

there isn't much to say about him, kyle blandly says as it gets to his turn, his daughter shifting in his lap as he plays with the ends of her hair. the indignant protests are to be expected, and he can't help but laugh as melanie outright scoffs. "you? nothing to say about you? trust me kyle, you were the sophomore class's resident asian-trying to be white-trying to be black." she simply gives him a look as the rest of the crew bursts into stories about college kyle lim, some ranging from daeho's insistence that kyle had been the one to save his during a performance for legacy (where he had ripped his pants and kyle conveniently was wearing something similar for daeho to wear), others reminding everyone how much of a try hard he truly was (“remember that time when melanie sent him out ten blocks to get boba from vivi, only to complain about how he bought her the wrong flavor before going out to buy another one?”). but in all, olivia smiles fondly at the guy who takes all the jabs from the group of friends in stride and laughs along, only to catch her staring at him before smiling back at her. 

NOW PLAYING : THANK GOD KYLE
ISN'T KASA'S RESIDENT DJ (▴)
  
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the love story
 
 
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SOBER UP (DRINK UP),  SCENE #01 ▴ ft. olivia, kyle & drinks ▴ track : lost stars
"let's get away from this place, let's go somewhere special."
 
it starts out something like a scene out of a b-list college movie, red solo cups littering the kitchen table and bodies pushed against each other by the sheer number of people over the thumping bass of some edm / kpop remix. kyle had never been a regular at kasa's infamous parties — more often used to excusing himself with mentions of homework and basketball practice — and as he leans against the wall, fingers tapping his beer bottle in rhythmic boredom as he politely declines flirtatious small talk from another girl, he vaguely understands why he hadn't more actively sought out this scene. but it's in the wake of the moment, when he sees a girl in a cropped nike crew furiously sipping a caprisun next to the beer pong table, that he thanks mingyu for forcing him out tonight. "oh she's just mad because she lost king's cup. she's hella drunk let her be." aubrey breezily mentions next to him as she cleanly shoots a ping pong ball into a red cup. but it's not something that he has the heart to ignore. it's cheesy and it's ridiculous, he scolds himself, but she's cute, holy she's cute, and this isn't a first time meeting. "hi, do you remember me?" he gathers the courage to say, his whole face bright with a grin.
 
because the truth is, they've met before. flashback to freshman orientation when kyle mistakenly sits at the wrong table and finds himself across from the one other korean at the table — "oh hi!" "oh hi, where are you from?" "seattle! what about you?" "oh that's awesome! fort lee." — and they're both surprised at how easy conversation flows in between packed lunches and the bustle of frazzled orientation leaders. later, when kyle is taken to his actual table (he'd vaguely been wondering why everyone seemed so into front end design versus hardware) with the rest of the cs majors, he turns back toward olivia from his seat, mouthing how he thinks his table is boring with a look of overexaggerated death, a grin blooming on his face as he sees her try to hold in her laughter. it's there, that bubbling feeling of something great happening, but it's only too soon before olivia just becomes "that cute girl from orientation" as school overtakes kyle's time, and he just becomes a a prelude to bigger and better things — daniel chae.
 
but tonight, what he doesn't expect is for the the miserably sad look on her face as she stops sipping her caprisun. she hiccups, "i ... no i'm sorRY." and he doesn't know what to say, panic replacing his grin as he sees her face crumple. "oh my god no it's okay that you don't remember, really." "NO IT'S NOT OKAY I'M A HORRIBLE PERSON." "NO IT'S REALLY OKAY." he glances around nervously as a few people start to look back curiously, and he rushes out an offer to get pho — because pho is the cure to everything — before they repeat themselves any longer. he holds his breath as she sniffles slightly and wipes a tear, and later he'll recount to mingyu how he had died at that moment because , it was cute as . it's definitely orientation girl, kyle thinks, and he isn't sure what to do with this new information. but as she nods he realizes this is okay, this is fine.
 
when kyle had said okay to going to kasa's first downtown of the year, he hadn't expected to end up grabbing pho at 3 am, the dull drone of the vietnamese restaurant's fish tank a conversation filler as his food partner sips at her soup. she's sobered up considerably, and as the first rounds of embarassment start to settle in she refuses to meet his eye. how convenient that he catches her on the one day she decides to drink? but it's by the time the sun starts to rise that they both realize that at some point during the night the awkwardness had melted away into comfortable conversations and even more lighthearted jokes. (and as kyle settles onto bed at 8 am, phone open to the picture of his recently added kakao contact, he'll smile at how the world gives the strangest chances when you least expect it).
 
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TAKE IT SLOW (TOO SLOW),  SCENE #02 ▴ ft. olivia & kyle ▴ track : coming over
"they say a guy and a girl can never truly be friends" "then we're an exception"
 
"did you know rats actually laugh when they're tickled?" kyle pulls out his earbuds as he looks up from his mac to raise an eyebrow. "what the ?" olivia takes a sip from his boba, raising her hands in a shrug. "i don't know man, you tell me." at some point it becomes this — starting a snapchat streak well over 60 and taking regular study outings to kung fu tea where they get everything and nothing done. stealing fries from each other's plates and going ice skating at rockefeller center once it hits the holiday season. playing just dance in olivia's living room and taking naps in kyle's bed while he works on a code. waiting in line in soho at 6 am for kyle's limited edition adidas nmd r1 releases and ordering takeout to watch the newest episode of a korean drama. "we're just friends," olivia states blandly as aubrey raises a suggestive eyebrow. "and plus, you know i like daniel, unnie please. if there's anyone that i'm the most platonic with other than stephen it's kyle."
 
but that's where, despite their similarities in interest and favorite ice cream flavor, they start to diverge. because while olivia blatantly talks about daniel in front of kyle, an unspoken mention of i'm not interested in you, he can't help the burning linger of her touch as she grabs his hand as they navigate through the streets of new york city or the sheer fondness of knowing that there's someone like her in his life. as he lets her drag him to cvs in the dead of the night to restock her stash of sour patch candy, he can't help but wonder where he'd gone wrong, where he'd started to dedicate his free time from practing free throws to memorizing the names of korean drama characters. in between the medicine aisle and bath aisle he starts to think whether it's worth chasing someone who doesn't like you back. but as she fervidly waves a family size pack of candy over her head, only haphazardly missing knocking over a magazine stand, kyle knows why — he likes her company, he likes her being, and nothing changes that.
 
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LIQUID COURAGE,  SCENE #03 ▴ ft. olivia, kyle & ups ▴ track : i hate u i love u
"i thought at some point i'd get through to you, but i was just lying to myself"
 
and maybe, just maybe, olivia had been so willing to ignore kyle's blatant feelings for her because she'd liked the prospect of receiving so much affection. maybe, just maybe, olivia hadn't been willing to even let herself think of the prospect that kyle was a better match for her than daniel would ever be. it comes in the little things, in how kyle can recite her starbucks order without a second thought and daniel has absolutely no idea she can't handle hot coffee. in how kyle knows she likes sitting on the ledge in lecture halls because she's a leftie and daniel generalizes her with the rest. it's at some point after spring break when kyle starts getting tired of waiting for something that'll never happen — enter chaeyeon jung.
 
the setting's almost too similar, kyle thinks, as he takes another swig of soju and lets a pair of stray hands find their way around him. but it's different this time. she's a new transfer and she's always thought he was cute, she says. and that's the thing: he thinks the world of olivia and he could wait ages for her, don't get him wrong, but olivia knows he likes her and it's just frustrating not being able to call her his, always being second best. he's not thinking straight, he knows, but he allows his inhibitions to fall just this once with chaeyeon. kyle later just laughs in disbelief because they actually hit it off (alcohol is involved. without is questionable; he doesn't know yet). but once becomes two times and you know, it's almost too easy, kyle tilts his head as chaeyeon steals a fry from his plate, because she's not too bad really. maybe a little vain at times but she laughs at his jokes and responds to his flirtatious comments. he almost feels ... validated after months of being not good enough.
 
< (1)                            kyle lim -___-                             ≡
 kyle!! i got just dance set up! it's just   
 you and me since aubrey unne is out!
bring chicken i didn't eat yet hoho :-)   

 -___- thnx for the text that ur going to be late 

 you don't need to bring chicken 

 ... kyle? you there? 

 uhm i'm going to bed it's kinda late and  
  unnie is home now haha 

 

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TEXTS (LATE),  SCENE #04 ▴ ft. olivia & kyle ▴ track : lost stars
"some things you should've just figured out earlier on." "way earlier."


there's a significant hole in her life and for the longest time she tries to ignore it, purposely avoiding their cafe and their shake shack and their park. it's not so much the fact that it takes kyle not paying attention to her for her to realize that she likes him but that she's liked him all along. it's also the fact that she still can't consciously believe that someone would actually like her for who she is. she's grabbing dinner with daniel at some hip restaurant in soho, and he's charming and he's easygoing and he's considerate — but he's not kyle. daniel doesn't share her humor or her conversation points, and with a sense of emptiness olivia accepts that she'd been crushing on a man for all the wrong reasons. it's 11 pm and aubrey's just left to pick up something from a friend. the apartment is dark save for the single illuminated iphone screen. it's 11 pm and olivia is shooting a text, fingers hesitating over the send button as she bites at the bottom of her lip nervously. but this is the closure she needs.
 

< (1)                            kyle lim -___-                             ≡
 Hey it's been awhile since we talked!
 
 But I just wanted to say that I miss you   
 and I know that I can't go back to the      
 way we used to be so maybe this is for   
 the best haha you ignoring me because 
 I ing realized I like you but it's okay  
 because I hope you and Chaeyeon are  
 happy! Maybe we can be friends later     
 haha. See you around, Sidekick.             


she hears the doorbell ring an hour later, and with a toothbrush in she blindly opens the door, "lol unnie did you forget someth-" and her voice dies because he's there, kyle lim is at her front door, hands on his knees panting and sweating and with a look of absolutely fury. "no." he starts, "no you can not say you like me and tell me that it's better off that we don't talk because , i've been waiting for this and lord help me if i let this go."

 
relationship statement LET ME HOLD YOU BY JUNOFLO (▴)
username hwajeon
alias aspyn
activity 5/10
 
comments & questions 
 
hella disclaimer jenn and i have similar formatting bc we decided to do it that way !!! in no way plagiarism lolololololol gg but credit to the all amazing pajeons for helping me with the coding for the relationships and personality section aka it's all her bless ur kind soul
 
in other news this is finally finished !!! fml i have to start my essay so i'll fix up probably the million and one grammar mistakes i have in this tomorrow (or today) when i'm a little more coherent. this is absolutely and i'm so so unsatisfied but at this point i need to turn something in cry so i apologize in advance ^___^;;
 
idk i had this on constant repeat while writing this and then i found a ton of remixes from the movie i was like w hOA WHOA WAIT DIS IS IT DIS IS OLIVIA AND KYLE so yeah any links to lost stars they're all different versions lmao 
 
also this wasn't even intentional but after i colored all of olivia's lines i realized this some bible right here where jesus's lines are always a different color lmFAOAOSLKDJ
 
scene requests
 
CULTURE SHOW the kasa staple. james huang (refer to pajeons's app) and his friends, all coincidentally part of kasa, tsa, or hksa, decide to perform for the event. much to everyone's amusement, the BOY AESTHETIC IS FREAKIGN STRONG.
 
LATE NIGHT KTOWN TRIPS not sure how close ktown actually is but i can see olivia just, "kyle let's get kbbq" "it's ing 1 am" "you have your metrocard with you right" "oh my god" and kyle is so baffled but also not surprised bc what can you expect
 
KASA DATE NIGHT / FORMAL it's in the winter when kyle and olivia aren't together and they're just best friends but they end up going together anyway because daniel asked his close friend and kyle doesn't wanna be sus about how he's the backup but he sorta is — but it's okay bc they end up having a ton of fun and grabbing bonchon in ktown with a few other couples afterwards
 
KASA BID NIGHT daniel (as per luca's pushing) and aubrey end up bidding on her but aubrey wins
 
password
 

 

 

 

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hwajeon #1
WHY ARE ALL THE PICS BROKEN will fix when it's not late af
pajeons #2
WTF CRED ME FOR UR PERSONALITY LAYOUT AND RELATIONSHIPS ? ?? ??
wannaong #3
I CLAIM CREDIT FOR CALLING OLIVIA SMOL AND KYLE A MESS

also: melanie should be olivia's kasa step big bc technically she can't adopt more than one kid at a time (she already has kyle and she already regrets it) but she loves olivia too much to try to steal her away anyways

plus, mel and aub are practically married (if you ignore the guys that they're in love with) so olivia is basically their child
pajeons #4
"in no way plagiarism" i call bs if ur reading this ceiling LOCK HER UP!!1!!!1!!!
bangs fist on table!!!!!!
pajeons #5
how you gunna have a bogo 7/11 if she's not from korea
may i remind u we're not as ~* hip and funky *~ as korean 7/11's lMAO

also "mess style="kyle lim";
same though
wannaong #6
I KEEP FORGETTING TO ASK BUT CAN I ADOPT YOUR LIL BUN OF CUTENESS AND HER BOY FOR MY APP
(even though i already adopted kyle lmao)
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