ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ↳ㅤPRODUCE 101 : LEE JIA FROM YUEHUA ENT IS A CONTESTANT

lee jia
optimushwanq / tia / eight out of ten
little star
 
birthname : li yixia
nicknames :
jiejie — it is chinese term for 'older sister' and is used by jung jung even though he's obviously a year older than her. it's a thing between them and in return, she calls jung jung, dìdi, which means little brother
aegyo queen — her selfclaimed nickname because she is shameless like that. she honestly is so bad at aegyo.
angel in disguise — during pd101, there was a contreversy about jia's attitude and she was getting hate because of it. during the explanation time corner, her co-yuehua trainees revealed that her nickname among the trainees in the company is angel in disguise. they said people might misunderstand her from the short clip but jia actually was a nice noona to them and treated them nicely. she always looked like she didn't care at all about others but she took care of people around her really well.
date of birth : may 8, 1997
birth place : itaewon, seoul, south korea
ethnicity : chinese
language spoken :
korean — native tongue; jia was born and raised in seoul
mandarin — fluent; because of her parents are chinese and it would be hard to communicate with her relatives without knowing mandarin, they made jia and her siblings to take madarin lesson so they know a little mandarin. also, the li household also communicate with each other in mandarin so she has been knowing mandarin since she was a kid
rock your body
 
face claim : elkie of clc
back-up : tzuyu of twice
appearance :
▸ standing at 165cm and weigh 48kg, jia is obviously underweight, but there is nothing she can do when her metabolism rate is high. jia was born with a straight, raven black hair but she usually dye her hair blonde or dark brown. you barely see her with a black hair. Jia doesn't like heavy make up but definitely cannot live without eyeliner so her every day make up consists of bb cream, lip balm and eyeliner only. as her eyes sight aren't very good, she can always be seen wearing glasses
 
 
    
 
don't hate me
 
  
 
personality : 
she shines so brightly independent, secure, competitive, caring
and like the moon ambivert, sassy
she too has a dark side over confident, vague, blunt, opinionated
 
jia was born as the middle child in the siblings of three, and that somehow influence her personality in some way. being the middle born, jia learnt how to be independent. while her parents were too busy watching out for the baby of the house and her older sibling was out there doing things that were "not appropriate" for her age, she was alone and just had to take matters into her own hands. no one really cared about what she was doing and that makes her to be self-reliant. when practicing, she always does her best and doesn’t really rely on other trainees. however, if there is anything she couldn’t do by herself, she wouldn’t hesitate to ask other for help. while many people feel asking for help is a sign of weakness, jia wouldn’t mind those. she is secure enough to admit her own weakness, so she often for helps, not only because she is secure about herself, but she knows by asking for help from someone, it is a huge compliment for them and it shows her respect for their expertise. otherwise, you wouldn’t ask right?

while jia feeling secure about herself is a good thing, it also can lead to some bad side of her. people may think be a confident is a good quality. however, when it's over confident, it's a flaw. jia has this kind of attitude – she can be over confident when it comes to doing things that she likes. she wants to leave an impression on people, she wants to show people how good she is at a certain things, which when happens frequently, it can annoy people around her. jia doesn't like losing - she is pretty competitive. being the middle born, jia is used to fight for spotlight, attention, and etc, thus resulting in the fostering of a competitive nature. she won't give up easily, and is always striving to out-perform other teams. in the team, she plays her part well and always reminds herself not to overshadow everyone, or trying to out-perform her own member. When she loses to a team, she would congratulate the winning team with a sincere smiles. though there is some frustrating moment in the team, she keeps everything to herself and tries to encourage them to work harder.

jia is someone who you would call an ambivert - she is both an introvert and extrovert. she can be all hyper and loud when she is with her friends but turns quiet when she is left alone with a stranger. she finds it is a bit difficult to start a conversation with a stranger, thus the reason as to why she is an awkward potato when she is with a stranger. it's true that she will turn awkward to start a conversation, but totally won't push you away if you start the conversation first.

her way of speech which sometimes can be very vague is something that made her kinda a complicated person. she likes to leave people hanging, thinking about what she said as sometimes she doesn't make it clear. when she answers them vaguely, no one can really understand what she has on his mind. when being questioned 'what do you mean?', she'll answer 'nevermind', but luckily, there would be at least a person who understands her. in any argument, jia would always be the one who listen and watch everything, however, when the opinion is clashed with hers, she would stand up and that is when she will give out her opinion. as you can see, she's a bit opinionated. however, the arguement will not last long because at the end, she will end up saying "okay whatever. 100 years from now, no one would remember this," that's how sassy she is - and her friends will always by saying something like "100 years from now, we're already dead," which can lead to another harmless arguement.

tldr: with her resting face, jia always comes off as some arrogant girl who looks like she's being picky about her friends when in reality she just needs people to talk to her first. plus, with her being opinionated and blunt, people mistaken her as someone who is plain rude but to those who have known her, she is a nice and polite girl who takes care of people around her well. 


background : 
the beginning : li yixia was born on the may 8,1997 in the heart of south korea, seoul to a couple of chief of neurosurgeon and a fashion designer, in a family of five. she has an older brother who is three years older than her and a younger sister who is four years younger than her.

finding her passion: because of both of her parents are busy and don't have much time for the children, the parents packed their days with classes instead of sending them to nursery, so they could learn more. when she was eight, her parents asked her brother was there any class he wanted to join and he answered dance class and that was how she ended learning dancing. jia wasn't that happy for the dance class as she was planning to take art class, but as time went by, she grew to like dancing.

walking towards the dream: jia was street casted by sm staff in 2013 when she was on her way to her school, mainly because of pretty face. the staff asked her to go for a private audition on the next day. jia had always known she could sing pretty well but she never dreamed of being an idol before. she however, did go to the audition, without telling her parents first. the reason? it is for the sake of experience and simply because she never thought she would make it. in march 2013, jia was officially a trainee under sm ent, though she left the company three years after that.

the light shines on me : after going through auditions again, jia was accepted by yuehua entertainment in july 2016. it didn't take long for her to be comfortable in the company as all the trainees are very friendly and welcoming. after a few months training under yuehua, the company announced them about the show and who would be participating on the show. the main reason for joining the show was to gain experience so when the company revealed that she would be one of the contestant, she was very happy about that. even though gaining experience is the prime reason, but jia wouldn't lie that she had a high expectation on herself, hoping that she would make it into the top11. 


scandals:  
1. lee jia and kwon hyunbin are dating each other?
this rumor started after the first episode was aired. her instagram account created a fuss among the fans when they found about it. there were quite a few photos of kwon hyunbin and fans started thinking these two were in relationship because one of hyunbin's photo posted on her account was captioned 'boyfriend is handsome today too'. what made it worse was there was another photo posted before that - it was a screenshot of her facetiming hyunbin and had the 'oppa-ya' lyrics as the caption. the fans started making an assumption that they started dating after that.
 
[+320, -12] what is this? do they really date each other?
[+276, -10] if you're going to make a lovegram, you should've made your account private — you're a trainee after all. do trainees are allowed to date nowdays?
[+259, -22] hyunbin doesn't even post any of her photos, it seems like she's excited alone
[+180, -34] am i the only here who think they will look good together?
 
both of the companies responded to the rumor by denying it. they explained that these two had been friend for quite some time now, so they were pretty close with each other. they admit that both hyunbin and jia were in china together when the photo was taken and they were definitely haung out together, yet hyunbin was there because of his work and jia was there with her familly. they only met once during the time they were in china.plus, the photos posted on her instagram were before she entered the company, yuehua representative added. 

even after the rumor, jia and hyunbin are still close, be it on screen or off screen, because trying to distance themselves from each other would just make the rumor looked real.

2. lee jia was being rude to other trainees.
this controversy happened when the relay cam clip for the position evaluation 1.0 was released. jia was caught on camera speaking informally to jung jung who was older than her. of course some of her fans defended her by reasoning that these two were close with each other, but the haters started pulling out more receipt on her attitude problem - which is more likely to be some misunderstanding because of the evil editing. needless to say, jia was getting a lot of hate for a while.      
 
 
fun fun fun
 
likes
+ eating, because who doesn't like eating?
+ manga and anime; she watches fantasy/mind game/ action anime, and she reads romance manga.
+ carrying conversation with people who sleep talks, because it is fun
+ her own chucky doll
+ teasing her co-yuehua trainee with her chucky doll
+ kids (read as: everyone who is younger than her. heck, even jung jung is a kid to her)

dislikes
+ being told to do something
+ doing sports
+ summer and hot weather; she can't tolerate heat well
+ she really doesn't like messy place; she usually wouldn't say anything about it but clearly will clean the place by herself 

trivias
+ she brings her chucky doll to the dorm and it is in her locker
+ she claims the chucky doll is her most treasured things that's why she put in the locker (read as: she is scared of it at night too)
+ she uses a lot of spongebob's reference when she's talking, like 'i can't hear you, it's too dark in here', 'it may be stupid, but it is also dumb', 'you know what's funnier than 24? 25!' (the last one is often said when someone makes a lame joke)
+ she is good at both contemporary and modern dance but she prefers modern genre more
+ "being 100% confident is not over confident, unless you go up to 101% confident, then it's over confident" - is something you will frequently hear from her
+ her hobbies include making choreographies, playing games, watching shows, and cooking when she gets bored of all above
+ she turns quiet when she's angry and  nervous
+ she is not a fashion terrorist, but sometimes her fashion style can make people go 'is she really a daughter of a fashion designer?'. even so, most of clothes are branded and expensive one
+ during the level evaluation, jia had her hair in dark brown, dyed her hair blonde during position evaluation and had it in light brown with green and pink higlight during final
+ her instagram account: liyixiahh. she created the account after she left sm, and stop updating after she entered yuehua. she totally forgot that she actually has an instagram account until the controversy blew up
+ other than trainees from the same company, jia is super close with hyunbin, eunki, and haknyeon
+ graduated from sopa in 2015
+ self taught herself on how to play guitar
+ trainees call her and minki the chucky doll squad (they both own a chucky doll and use it to prank/scare people)
+ she claimed everything about her is her charming point
her blood type is b
 
still by my side
 
mom's favorite model — kwon hyunbin (yg k+) / ten out of ten
▸ no one knows how jia and hyunbin can be so close with each other ever since their first meeting for pd101, but having a fashion designer as a mom, jia is used to follow her to fashion shows and hyunbin turns out to be one of her mom's favorite model. because of being at the same age, these two became friends and eventually exchange contact. these two hang out together a lot, especially after jia left sm - hyunbin probably is one of the closest friend she has. when hyunbin told her about him joining pd101, her reaction was no different from the other people - 'why would you join that?' and 'you wanna be an idol?' slipped out from her lips. despite that, jia actually is really supportive of hyunbin. during the show, when something happens to them,they are each other's go-to person. 
 
favourite oppa — zhu zheng ting (yuehua ent) / nine out of ten
▸ all the yuehua trainees are close with each other, but jia is especially close with jung jung. their relationship started when the company asked her to help jung jung and justin with his korean, and at the same time, jia herself can improve her mandarin. they spend the time after practice to learn the languages together, and that is how they grow closer with each other. jia has always thought jungjung was younger than her, because he looks cute and younger, but when jung jung told her he's a year older, jia was shocked - mainly because everytime jung jung got his answers right, she would pat on his back while saying 'you did well, dongsaeng-ah'. jia apologized after that but jung jung was cool about it. jia still calls him dongsaeng these days, but not as frequent as before, and it doesn't offend jung jung in any way.
 
favourite dongsaeng — joo haknyeon (creker ent) / nine out of ten
▸ jia didn't know how and why but one thing for sure, she had a soft spot for joo haknyeon. whenever she saw haknyeon, she couldn't help but to smile at him. surprisingly, jia was the one who approached him — she started a small conversation with him after the level evaluation and these two just clicked right away. when jia was getting hate because of the controversy, haknyeon was one of the trainees who kept comforting her and telling her it would be okay. after all, haknyeon understood her feeling so well l*cue the hate haknyeon got because of the drama between him and eunki*
 
i'm the best
 
  
persona : the nation's sister (noona) — she got this name during the pd101 as she is always seen playing with younger male trainees in the background. she explained that is because she has always wanted a younger brother so treated everyone like one. 
position : vocal, dance (more focus on vocal)

trainee years : three years at sm ent + 8 months at yuehua ent
trainee life : jia was introduced as a part of smrookies in april 2014. when she was announced that she would be a part of smrookies, she felt like she was a step closer to her dream. however, that didn't last long. a few months after her introduction, the company announced the final line up for the red velvet, she felt discouraged because she wasn't included in the line up. maybe she wasn't good enough before so that was why she wasn't in the red velvet line up - with that mind set, she worked harder than before and waited for another chance.

in 2015, her hardwork finally was acknowledged by her company when sm ent gave her a chance to sing an ost for the school 2015 drama (wendy ft yook jidam - return). despite that, jia was still with her decision to leave the company, because apparently sm ent didn't have any plan for debuting girl group any time soon. call her selfish, but like everyone, she wanted the best for herself.

after she left sm in april 2016, jia received lots of call from other companies for a private audition. out of all, she went to the jellyfish audition, starship audition, and yuehua audition and was accepted by all three. after having a discussion with her parents, she decided to go to yuehua.

jia is someone who always has a high expectation on herself and definitely will not go easy on herself, so she always made herself practicing until late midnight, and sometimes until the dawn. it doesn't matter to her if it was tiring because the good result is all that matters. she always tried her best in whatever she did - be it dancing, singing or creating the new choreography for the group.


twins:
   singing : wendy of red velvet
   dancing : kang seulgi of red velvet
   rapping : namjoo of apink (for fun)
   talking : elkie of clc
   variety : elkie of clc

strength : creating choreographies, rearrange songs, can work under pressure well, can play guitar
weakness : her voice can be slightly nasally and is inconsistent with resonance, over confident and blunt attitudes of her
vocal range : Eb3 ~ Eb7 
 
 
love is not over
 
love interest : hong eunki
back up : kwon hyunbin
 
personality : hong eunki may come off as a very confident person the moment he went sitting on #1 seat, and in reality, he really is. he's the type who is confident in whatever he does, mainly because he is aware that he's skilled at a certain area. he knows his own talent so everything else doesn't really matter to him. he may give off some diva vibe and all, but in all honesty, hong eunki is one cute fluffy ball who is scared of thunder and needs to hide under the blanket because thunder is scary to him. maybe because he is the younger one in his family, but with people who is close to him, he acts cutely and treats them nicely. in short, he can be a guy full of aegyo without intending to do it, contradicting to what people see him on the show, which he appeared to be a responsible and strict leader.
 
history : nah, they met for the first time on pd101

relationship : eunki's first impression on her wasn't that good. during their level evaluation, he sat behind the yuehua trainee and sat close to them. the trainees naturally talked to each other while watching other trainees' performance. jia however, sitting there with her resting face and didn't talk to anyone but her co-yuehua trainees. because of that, she came off as a cold girl and many trainees at that time misunderstood her as some cocky girl, and that includes hong eunki.

their relationship started off badly. for some reason, these two ended up in the same group for group battle mission. not known to many trainees, but their group members surely knew there was some tension between the two because an disagreement happened between them. both of them didn't talk to each other until the next day — and that was because their leader asked them to work things out and ended the childish fight between them. not wanting to be such an inconvenient for other members, they made up and started talking to each other again. their relationship though, was getting better as they practiced together. they got to know each other in such short time and realized that both of them weren't that bad. by the time the group battle ended, jia could say that she had become friend with eunki.

jia didn't think of eunki more than a friend — she had a little crush on hwang minhyun (it can't be help when he has that handsome face and a very nice personality. everyone is falling for him). maybe because she had always thought eunki more as a younger brother than a friend, she got comfortable around him quickly and really liked teasing him to the extent other trainees noticed how close they were. the trainees always jokingly said these two were dating and none of them denied it, neither did they admit it, as they knew they were just kidding.

during the position evaluation mission, eunki and haknyeon had a little problem and being close with both them, jia unintentionally became the middle person. it wasn't like she wanted to be one, but both eunki and haknyeon literally came to her and told her what actually happened (like how eunki understood what haknyeon wanted but he really wanted to give the centre position to someone who deserved it, and haknyeon came to her saying how he worried about his dropping rank — which eunki was aware of that and it wasn't only him who was worried about their rank, but the other members too). she told them to solve the misunderstanding by themselves because she too had her own problem, but jia honestly was really worried about eunki and his rank too.

jia would say everything that happened between them probably started out of concern. when jia was getting hate because of her attitude problem, eunki was the one who comforted her. she thought maybe he did it because that was what friends for, and it only made sense for him to be there for her simply because they were friend. what she didn't expect was to have a romantic feeling involve in it. jia didn't know when it started but when she realized, she already liked him, in a romantic way. she didn't know about him but the way he treated him made her confused about everything.

when eunki was eliminated from the show, needless to say, jia was so disappointed about it. it was so unfair to him because jia knew he worked hard but people didn't really see that. even though eunki was the one who got eliminated, but she was sadder about that and instead of comforting eunki, she was the one who needed to be comforted. they still texted each other even after eunki was no longer on the show. as jia lived in seoul, they even hung out together when the trainees were allowed to go home, most of the time they brought kenta or insoo or sometimes both of them along not to create any misunderstanding. eunki also came to their evaluation to support her.

ending : they're just naturally being in relationship. she found out she is his girlfriend when she accidentally blurted out that she missed him (so these two were not in contact for about three weeks because jia was busy with oversea concert (that is if they promote oversea, if not then maybe because of her tight schedule). jia shamelessly told him that she missed him and when she realized it, she was like 'oh damn! stupid auto correct' when she was totally aware that they were on the phone, not texting. eunki chukled and said "oh, my girlfriend missed me," which made her flustered and confused. and she was like "wait, so is it girl-no space-friend or girl-space-friend?". eunki casually replied "girl-no space-friend")

and for whatever happens after this, it's up to you either you want them to break up and jia ends up with hyunbin or maybe minhyun, or they're happy together, or just whatever you want.

timeline : level evaluation: stranger, with eunki having a bad impression on her » group battle: friend » position evaluation 2.0: started to be close with each other » after the show ended: flirtationship » during the group promotion(if possible. if not, after the disbandment): in relationship

status : friend
 
trivia :
+ eunki teases her a lot about her and hyunbin after the rumor, which jia 99.99% sure it is because he's jealous
+ jia has lots of fans shipping her and hyunbin after the rumor and both of eunki and jia know the hyunjia ship name. eunki is bitter about that
+ jia usually treats eunki like he is a younger brother — patting his back, messing with his hair, and so on
+ jia calls eunki superman, sometimes batman, ironman, and spiderman ("yo, superman!", "hello my batman"). the only name that she hasn't called him yet and has been dying to call him with is 'my man' + jia previously saved eunki's contact as hong eunki but after some time she changed to 흑 which is supposed to be eunki initial but she changed ㅇ to ㅡ so other people won't know.
+ during the final, eunki posts a selca of them with the caption 'my one pick', which almost ended hyunjia ship
 
 
 
our q&a
 
WELCOME! PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF.
▸ annyeong haseyo, ni hao. i'm a trainee under Yuehua Ent and [probably] the one and only female trainee from the company joining the show, Li Yixia imnida. *smiles and bows*
 
WHAT DID YOU AUDITION WITH?
▸ i sang an acoustic version of fantastic baby by big bang, and danced to no limit by usher ft young thug 
 
DO YOU THINK YOU'LL GET INTO TOP11?
▸ that is something I cannot know for sure, but I'm sure national producer will vote people who deserves the spot. If I work hard, then maybe I'll get into the top 11 *smiles again* but of course, top 11 is everyone's goal.
 
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT PRODUCE 101 SEASON 2 WITH BOTH GIRLS AND BOYS?
▸ it is something refreshing? i don't know about others but i think it is. having both girls and boys in a survival show sure make us being more competitive with each other, and i think it will be fun too. 
 
WHAT RANK DO YOU THINK YOU'LL GET?
▸ maybe because I have a high expectation on myself, so I'm hoping to be at least in top 11. *interviewever smiles and asks to be specific about the rank* umm *hesitating* maybe 2 *nods at herself*
 
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE MALE CONTESTANTS?
▸ the younger trainees are cute *chuckles* but honestly, they are all good looking. even so, i'll just think of them as male contestants who are my rivals *grins*
 
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE FEMALE CONTESTANTS?
▸ why are all of them so pretty? i already lost to them in term of visual *sigh* but in term of singing, i think i'm one of the best trainees? *grins*
 
DO YOU FEEL ANY PRESSURE?
▸ there is no pressure from the company - they told us to enjoy this instead of stressing about the rank. however, i got a pressure from myself as i always want to do the best, and sometimes things are not working out the way i want it to be. plus, working with new people, our opinions tend to clash and it stresses me out because of different opinions. though, we try to think a way to overcome the disagreement.  
 
DO YOU GET ALONG WELL WITH THE OTHER CONTESTANTS OR IS THERE DRAMA?
▸ i don't know but here it feels like school. you know everyone, and you are kind of friend with everyone but there's only a few people that you're really close with — that's the case for me. as for drama, i don't really think there's one? *mind flashbacks to the drama between eunki and haknyeon* i'm sure there's none *smiles and nods* 
 
THAT'S THE INTERVIEW, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU'D LIKE TO SAY?
▸ national producers, please take care of me well, and look forward to my performance. i'll work hard to show a better me and i'll do my best to return the love you give me. thank you *bows and smiles*
 
to the light

comments : i live for the pure friendship between a boy and a girl thus hyunbin x jia happened lol also eunki is so underrated so here is me giving him my loveeeeee!!
 
suggestions : 
1. instead of doing sport day like pd101, let's have a real sport day, like they're having one whole day for sport day (the reason is for the trainees to release their stress)

scene request :
1. jia pranked other trainees with her chucky doll. and then the next week, minki brought his chucky doll too, so they both continued pranking people? 
password : probably dongho(?)
 
 
 

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