yoo sungsik

NICKNAME(S): 

► Cotton candy // A nickname the fans gave him when one pastel comeback style never ended.

LANGUAGE(S): max of 5, only 2 fluent

► Korean // native
► English // basic and with a very strong Korean accent, but Sungsik will do his best to learn enough to speak with their fans a little bit if they ever go abroad to an English speaking country. He just really wants to connect to the fans in any way he can.

APPEARANCE:  Yoo Sungsik is a shortie, this much is undeniable. At 169cm, or 5'5", Sungsik sometimes finds hmself shorter than some girl group members. He's the oldest but quite possible the shortest. Sometimes the company makes him wear shoelifts, but Sungsik prefers not to wear them. While not totally blind, he does require glasses or contacts. He has a pair of round wire-rimmed glassed he wears around the house or occasionally before schedules or during a fansign when his eyes are irritated from the constant contacts and makeup.

Sungsik used to have exclusively natural haircolors, never going beyond a dark brown, until during the Boiz Feel So Good promotions the company thought it a good idea to change things up and make him go with a pastel haircolor. At first Sungsik really didn't like the idea of it, such an unnatural color, but he loved it immediately when it was done. It really softens up his features and Sungsik just likes how colorful it is. He hasn't gone back since and he will be very disappointed if the company ever makes him go back to black or brown.

STYLE: Sungsik is not the best when it comes to style. His stye is muted and simple, and a little boring. Sungsik dresses safe and conservative, preferring sweaters and dress shirts and trousers, sometimes even sweater vests, things that are safe. Even his color choices are safe, tending towards the soft. Lavender or marroon sweaters, grey or black trousers, dress shoes. Sungsik usually ends up looking slightly too formal, even when going to the airport. His style can be described as what you wear to impress your girlfriend's parents.

PRETTY BOIZ

TRAITS: Optimistic / conflict averse / spacey / dense / anxious / passionate / empathetic / compliant / thoughtful

PERSONALITY: at least 2 paragraphs

Sungsik is, first and foremost, a fundamentally good guy. He's naturally an optimist, trying to see the good in everything even if the company is making it hard on him. Sungsik tries to see the good in people, and doesn't like to think that there are people who don't have the best intentions. He always listens to what the comapny tells him to do, even when their schedule is packed and he's hardly gotten any sleep, Sungsik will still keep a smile on, remain optimistic, and try to keep the mood of the group up. A bit spacey at times, Sungsik can get lost in his own thoughts until someone addresses him, which will result in a confused "what was that?". Sometimes it looks like Sungsik just walked onto the stage and happened to know the song, he can be a bit out of it.

Very much the dad of the group, Sungsik just cares so much about them, and about most people around him.
Almost too empathetic, Sungsik tends to adapt himself to the mood of others. If anyone around him is happy, Sungsik will be happy, but if they're sad then Sungsik will be sad, and when Sungsik is sad he's a bit of a mess. He cries easily and is generally just not helpful when it comes to comforting people because his emotions come on much too strongly. But Sungsik really does care, and he always tries to be thoughtful to those around. Knowing that he hurt someone is one of his fears, and Sungsik sometimes bends over backwards to please even those who don't really deserve it, he's just so afraid of disappointing people. There was some controversy over him being the eldest but not the leader, but Sungsik is fundamentally unsuited for leadership. Too much of a pushover and too much of a mess, Sungsik is very good at keeping the group together, and functioning as something of a moral compass and someone that holds things together, but he cannot lead.

Sungsik sees the group as an extention of his family, no matter how bad some of the members might be. No matter if one of them is too temperamental for his own good, or another too ambitious. They're his family. Family has always been a very important thing to Sungsik, and so that importance reaches the members of Boiz now too, and also their manager. They're the ones he spends his days with, the ones he shares much of his achievements and his hardships with. The good eggs and the bad, he loves them all and they're his family. Sungsik is always ready to help them, and can be a little overbearing in trying to make sure that they are doing okay and don't need anything and are handling themselves. Sungsik is very bad with conflict, so he's useless whenever conflict or drama arises within the group. He just doesn't know what to do to aleviate the tension and sometimes manages to make it worse, even. He means well but Sungsik just doesn't know what is helpful in a situation like that and conflict makes him anxious. Sungsik doesn't like to admit it, but he is wary around the members with stronger personalities who are more prone to conflict, they are all family to him but he's not as comfortable around some of that family as he is around others, but he is loathe to admit it.

Sungsik's biggest problem, aside from his lack of spine, is that he just can't keep up with everything that's asked of him, but he doesn't want to complain or disappoint and just wants to do a good job. But as such he keeps accepting more and more work or responsibility even if he can't handle it, and he doesn't complain about it, doesn't like showing people when it's too much. He'll feel like he failed if he can't do everything that's asked of him even if it's simply too much, until he collapses under the weight of it all. Sungsik has some anxiety problems, mostly when it comes to the possibility of disappointing, of not meeting expectations, or dragging others down. 

Really Sungsik just wants to sing, that is his goal in life. Just to be a singer and stand on that stage and sing, everything else is extra. He'll be a little disappointed that much of their work ends up being connecting to the fans, doing fansigns, photoshoots, VLive broadcasts, and not just simple and pure singing, but as long as he can sing he'll accept it all.

BACKGROUND: For Sungsik, it had always been him and his mom and his grandma against the world. Most of the time it was his mom working several jobs to support herself while his grandma raised him, and Sungsik wouldn't have it any other way. It was tough, but it was home. He always loved singing, it was his favourite thing to do, and when he was little up to when he was in middle school he'd always use whatever allowance he got to pay for noraebang after school and sing his heart out. He never got anything in the way of formal education, but his pure passion fueled him. He'd sing at home along to the radio while cleaning the house or doing homework, he'd sing after school at the noraebang arcade machines, and he sometimes sang while going to and from school to whatever song was stuck in his head at the time. Whenever Sungsik was able he'd always sing. 

Money was always right for them, there were times when he hardly saw his mom because she was working mulitple jobs, and there were times where she was between jobs and they were on wellfare. That was a really shameful time for them, and not something his mother ever likes to admit, though Sungsik never saw any shame in it. Honestly he was happier when she was home and they were on benefits than when she was gone all the time because she had to work. 

Sungsik really wanted to pursue music for a while, but his mom made him promise he wouldn't audition until he'd graduated high school, so Sungsik was 19 by the time he got to auditioning for companies. He couldn't tell you what attracted him to Royal, but it was the first company he auditioned for and he was actually accepted in due to his voice. His acceptance was also a relief for Sungsik, he wouldn't have to go find a job or stay leeching from his mom and grandma, the company would pay for his living costs and he'd still get to do what he loves. He'd never had any formal training before, but after years of singing Sungsik had a strong voice with a very pleasant sound. He got 2 years of intense vocal and dance training and then it was time for SIM.

SUPER IDOL MAKER: Super Idol Maker was very tough on Sungsik.  As someone who is naturally highly empathetic and emotional and just altogether cares far too much for his own good, you can imagine that he was a wreck every time there were eliminations. Even though he never had to worry about eliminations himself, one truly heartfelt performance early on ensured that, it honestly just made the loss of those around him hurt more. Sungsik was always strongly aware of his own priviledged position on the show as the best vocalist and how the unlikeliness of his own elimination might sour his relationship with some of the at risk contestants, and it really hurt him the times that did happen.

Of course he had the utmost respect for the judges, and made sure he showed that. Sungsik was always polite and very grateful for any criticism and praise he received, taking it all very seriously. He also tried to helpd any of the other vocal oriented trainees with their singing where he could. It was really important to him that, since he was in such a priviledged position, he help out wherever he could to make up for it. He really had a lot of guilt about it all.