〈 서울찾다 — Robin Holmes。

 
Robin holmes
the runaway
BANPO BRIDGE, HANGANG PARK
DIANA KORKUNOVA
the search begins
name. robin Daenerys holmes (birthname) // dmitriyevna robin (russian name) // 娴慧凤 (Xian Hui Feng, Chinese name)
nickname(s). 
“Xiao Xian”; her family in Shanghai, simply because she’s her mother’s daughter. “Xiao” means “little”.
“Dee”; her family and close friends because a diminutive of ‘Daenerys’ sounds cuter and more intimate, somehow.
“Bean”; she loves it when her baby nephews and nieces call her ‘aunty Bean’ because of their lisp.
 
 
birthdate. 12 February 1995
birthplace. Belfast, northern ireland
hometown. belfast, IR (0-12), shanghai, ch (12-present)
ethnicity. half irish, quarter russian quarter chinese
languages. 
English, with native Irish accent.
— russian, conversational skill, at least she can understand her Russian family and is able to have light conversations with them.
French, learned in school way back in Belfast. Is experienced with the language to conduct business in it, and engage a native speaker of this language without offending them, is able to take instructions in this language and carry them out without error, and also discuss important topics with hard vocabularies when needed.
Chinese, good working knowledge. Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken. Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
 
face claim. Diana korkunova
back up face claim. halsey
height. 173 cm
weight. 60 kg
 
appearance.  She is one of those whose wardrobe consists of 80% black. As she dislikes getting the spotlight, her choices of fashion revolve around those that will not make her stand out too much. But her keenness of being different from the rest compels her to have that quirky and good fashion-sense, enough so people will notice her for being good-looking. She's not a fan of extravagant things, and thankfully she's one of those who's gifted with the ability of mix-and-match-ing simple looking clothes into a set of fashionable attire. She also wears headwear so often because she just won't bother to style her hair. Her style is a mix of edgy and casual overall. P.S. you will never see Robin wears short pants unless it's very very very special occasion, and skirt is just not for her—though she can wear them whenever needed. P.P.S she can't go out without having a bag/backpack attached to her as well (things inside is elaborated in trivia).
the anatomy of a searcher
personality traits. “ISFP 
"The work of their hands is usually more eloquent than anything they say."
"It is this type more than any of the others whose style it is to stand by another person (or plant or animal), with no intention to influence it, criticize it, or change it— perhaps not even to interact with it— only to be in its presence."
 
(+) unassuming, artsy, pacifist, thoughtful and caring, kindhearted, humanitarian
(o) boyish, manipulative, quiet, action over words, lives in here and now, observant, rebellious, not trusting so easily but once she considers someone as "family" she will be an open book (therefore she tends to categorize her relationships with people), dislikes the spotlight and is a quiet supporter, avid for being unique and one of a kind
(-) appears distant and aloof, easily bored, tends to shut down if she’s bored or simply exhausted beyond anything, unpredictable, somewhat stubborn regarding her personal values
 
 
trivias. 
 
the things inside her bag: first-aid kit, plastic bags, few pieces of tampons, a small notesbook, two pens, refillable water bottle, wallet (though most of the times she brings it in her pocket), an iPod and earphone, an umbrella, portable battery pack for her phone & iPod, a package of dry tissue and wet tissue, 7 bars of energy-boosting snacks, a bag of chips, two buns of bread, two boxes of pocky sticks.
she is actually an agnostic pantheist. She believes she has to do good, and her life motto is "love + peace = happiness".
 
— Likes
solitude. She likes the serene feeling of solitude.
pocky sticks. She likes eating snacks, specially pocky.
cute stuff. She's a complete er for anything that's cute.
Being "one" with nature. Be it hiking, camping, or anything as long as it involves nature.
 
Dislikes
Strawberry and its dairy products. She feels nauseous and has the urge to vomit whenever she smells dairy products of strawberries. She can eat the fruit though, she doesn't really enjoy it because the fruity scent makes her dizzy.
Overly nosy person. She doesn't like the idea of someone trying to poke their nose onto someone else's business too much.
Chauvinistic attitude. She doesn't like when someone underestimate someone else or being overly proud of their own kind.
Doing sports. All she could endure is relaxed jogs around the park. excessive use of muscles and energy in sport is a no no.
 
Hobbies
travelling.
writing stories or drabbles, lyrics, composing songs, and listening to music. Writing and music in general. She also tends to write or listen to music to express herself or vent out and to distract her from the harsh reality.
→ She has always been good in social science and language; psychology, anthropology, sociology, history, and philosophy; thus her hobby is
observing her environments and people around her, as well trying to figure out the balance of this Circle of Life informations about people, and seek to discover what they mean.
reading novels (fantasies, fairytales, enthralling fictions, sliceoflife stories, classic books especially those written by Shakespeare, Dickens, Hemingway, Austen, and Fitzgerald), as well watching movies and sports (specially baseball, football, and basketball).
the background of the searcher
background. 
 
First thing first. Her first spoken language was English, since her parents made sure she learned her mother language before anything else. As she was born with natural linguistic skill, she has learned to master English, Russian, Chinese and French from early years. Her father initially wanted a son, thus explains her boyish name, Robin. She grew up into a boyish girl too for she experienced minor violence and harsh words from her parents, and she used to have more male than female friends. Her parents made sure that she grew up strong but still graceful like a lady.
 
Early life, the fall, and the rise. Robin was born in Belfast, Ireland prior two days from Valentine's Day, in 1995 and became the sole child born to Irish and Russian-Chinese parents. Her parents are Riley Holmes, a business tycoon, and Darya Xian, a florist. In 2007 right a week after her graduation from primary school, her father's business went bankrupt as his colleagues stabbed him in the back with the help of his own brother, and with the little money left—after compensating company's excessive debts and penalties for violating contracts—they moved all the way to Shanghai where her maternal grandparents lived at. Her parents had always been strict, and they became a lot stricter after the incident. Meanwhile she tried to keep up with social life and adjusting her beliefs and way of living with the culture and customs in Korea, she was always bright in both academic and non-academic fields. By the end of her last year in junior high school, she decided that she wanted to write a book that sells.
 
Upon the pursuit of happiness and dream. As a senior high schooler, she was bright and her family—even her big family acknowledged that. She was constantly demanded to do better than anyone else, and in a way she was living her parents’ wishes instead of walking the path she wanted to choose. Out of frustration, she began to write more and more until when she graduated high school she had already finished writing three books. She was one of the top rank in her high school, majoring in Social Science and was granted an award and a certificate for being one of the best alumnus. Later on, as her father’s business revolves around technology and engineering, her parents told her to enroll into a computer science technology—despite the fact that she originated from social science class, so she had to take a test. She passed the test and hence began her journey as a college student in Computer Science department. She has always been doing fine—she is not the type to study hard but she always gets high scores, but came the seventh semester and she felt like she was not having any more of it.
 
lifestyle. 
 
— She is currently in her seventh semester of her bachelor degree program, which means another semester—which she will spend by writing her final thesis—and she’s done. But 3 months into her seventh semester, she started to feel hollow that it has gradually become a mild depression. She has always been relying on her and only herself, that she tends to get things done on her own instead of waiting for people to finish it for her—including the group projects. She’s known as a natural leader in every group project she’s in, and she always manages to make the entire group earn good scores. But she has been craving for adventures. She wants to run away from the town and from all the people who knows her name. She feels like she was born to fly high, it’s in her nature, yet she is caged in the home that doesn’t feel like home—with demands and outstanding results expected from her, with people who constantly rely on her in everything because she’s been very dependable and trustworthy for the three years as a college student. She is happy that she can do at least this much for her parents, but she is not happy. And it has drained all the inspiration and motivation dry out of her.
the nature of the search
❝ how do you feel about winning a tour in seoul? ❞ 
she beamed a radiant smile, delight played in her pair of onyx orbs, "i've never been this ecstatic before. I think it came as a big surprise for me that i thought 'wow is this another bad joke' because 2016 has been nothing but a huge bad joke." she chortled feebly. "i'm utterly grateful and elated. i'm really looking forward to the trip. i don't think i can sleep due to the excitement."
 
❝ why did you want to go to seoul in the first place? ❞ 
"simply because i have a knack for k-pop and korean dramas?" her eyebrows up, a broad playful grin adorning her countenance. "that is the x factor, the main reason is because i want to go wherever, away from the town i'm currently living in, away from people who know my name."
 
❝ you'll be in seoul for 5 days and 4 nights,
what are you planning to do during the duration of your stay? ❞ 
she hummed as she pondered the question, her lower lip slightly jutted out as her gaze wandered around. "truthfully i'm not very good at following a schedule, so i'll just go with the flow. i'll make sure i'll do things that make me happy."
the seoul searcher's lover
name. jean-luc hector montague
birthdate. 29 september 1990
hometown. Belfast, Ireland
ethnicity. French-British
 
face claim. THE FRANCISCO LACHOWSKI
back up face claim. douglas booth omfg
 
the prologue. 
they will meet at the ICN. The airport is unbelievably and unusually crowded that day and it is hard to grab a cab, so people have to ask for help from the information section to call a cab for them. Both of them are standing curbside, leaning against one pillar on either side of it looking like they are reenacting a scene from ancient soap opera. When one cab halts right in front of her, she immediately grabs the door’s handle beating him by one millisecond. Out of curiosity, and a little bit of guilt, she takes a look at him and notices right away that he seems troubled. “Uh, please take the cab, sir,” she says to him, earning a surprised look from the lad. “Where are you going, Miss?” he asks her in a thick british accent, which she finds utterly y and very distracting but she has to shrug the thought off. “*mention the name of a hotel*, you?” “it must be a coincidence that we’re staying at the same hotel. Uh, do you mind sharing the cab instead?” he suggests, rubbing his nape in a rather bashful manner—typical British man. So off they go to the hotel in one cab. It is much more shocking when their room is actually opposite each other. As they walk to their respective room, they converse with each other—mostly the fact that both of them has fair share of living in Belfast. As they open their own hotel room’s door, he turns around and asks if she wants to go grab a lunch together, out of a friendly act. "it's robin, by the way," she jests as she just noticed that they haven't properly introduced each other, "and yes, sure."
 
the story. 
throughout their stay in the hotel, they don't really talk with each other much since they barely follow the same schedule. he will stay in his room all morning and only comes out when it's lunch time, while she is pretty much very excited about her trip that she turns into an early-bird. he goes to work—he's actually on a trip to cover some travelling articles for wanderlust travel magazine—at noon and only comes back in the midnight. then the fourth day, he knocks on her door at 8 in the morning to borrow her phone charger because his just broke. because she's on her way to go out, he tells her that he will leave her charger at the receptionist later so she can take it when she comes back. but well, he forgets to actually leave it at the receptionist so he ends up making a call to the hotel informing the receptionist that if a woman named Robin holmes comes back, do tell her to grab her stuff at his room. so you can imagine how flustered she is when the receptionist gives her the key to his room instead of her phone charger. she doesn't take it and instead she waits in her own room. at roughly 1 AM, she hears a fuss outside and she immediately opens her door, startling him, and tells him that she hasn't taken her charger back. then her stomach grumbles. he's holding a box of tteokbukki. so yeah basically he ends up inviting her to his room and they eat the tteokbukki while watching korean subbed dvds drinking beer talking sh*t about the movies until they fall asleep at around 5. her head on his shoulder and his over hers.
 
the end. 
he takes her to the airport and he promises to go to shanghai right away when his seoul assignment has ended, which is in two days.
FRANCISCO LACHOWSKI
the search is over
message. ola, snow! i'm ray it's nice to meet you <3 i just want to thank you for creating a travelling themed apply fic. really.
suggestions. i'm down for comical scenes so basically i wish there would be comical scenes all over. hehe
password. i seoul you

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underneath #1
please do tag this blog post with ssyta, thank you ouo
underneath #2
ps. oh nana is mah jam tooo~!
underneath #3
hello and thank you for being my first applicant~! you're very fast, sorry if the review is a little bit delayed. first things first, your faceclaim is very beautiful and you have halsey as bufc and i'm a fan of hers which is already a big plus for me ouo anyway, on to your application, which is quite good if i may say so. i like how you made use of personality types, partly because i've done that for a psychology project before and partly because it makes your application unique. i don't think i've seen that before around the applyfic community, also i like robin because i'm able to relate with her in some ways. your love interest!!!! francisco lachowski is such a hawtie and i love how their meeting is reminiscent of a soap opera scene. all in all your application is great, again, thank you for applying~! happy holidays and have a great day ouo