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face claim / Xu Jiaqi

backup / Elkie

 

appearance / 

► Tungmei has had a lot of different hairdos since she was a young girl, but she prefers it short. Currently she has a short, blonde hairstyle and refuses to change it for now. When she's practicing sports or training, Tungmei will most of the time wear it in a tiny ponytail so her hair won't get in the way and make her irritated. She needs to wear either glasses or contact lenses, and even though she is forced to wear lenses most of the time to not hide her eyes away, she still prefers her glasses and will most of the time wear that off-screen and at places where she has to be comfortable like at the airport, because travelling while wearing contact lenses is HELL, as Tungmei describes it. She has a well-hidden aztec themed tattoo on her side but wants to get one on her arm as well. She's 169 cm tall and weighs 54 kg, has a really pale skin and long, toned legs. She also does have slight abs. She's blood type O.

 

fashion sense /

► Tungmei's style is quite comfortable and tomboyish. She'll often be seen wearing black clothes, caps and typical outfits that male idols actually wear. (Jungkook's famous white shirt, ripped jeans and timberlands? She's already wearing that combination for ages.) She absolutely loves oversized checkered shirts, caps that really complement her hair, and she has a huge collection of cool and colorful sneakers and snapbacks that will make any male idol jealous. When she is training, she wears... trainers, well yeah duhh. It has to be comfy for training, but has to be sweat-resistant and not being in the way. She often wears a tiny ponytail and a colorful matching hairband with the outfit to keep her hair out of her face. While her style looks very boyish and people don't really expect her to be super stylish, her outfits always have to be right to the smallest details, every color has to be matching and it has to be matching with the occasion too. She's always very matchy matchy about her outfits, making her actually a styling genius who can find anything wrong with the stylist's decisions. But there is a moment when she really clashes with the stylists. Airport... fashion? Why not just comfortable clothes that will get you through the day without any problems? Tungmei will never want to wear too complicated clothing at the airport, because it will only make her travels uncomfortable. An expensive dress and high heels just to sit 12 hours on a plane? That's a hell no. Tungmei will wear her sweatpants and no one, not even god, will stop her. When she has to attend a formal event, Tungmei will not hestitate to wear a feminine dress though, completely contrasting with the rest of her style. She will still preferably wear black, but her dresses will always be just the right amount of y and feminine for the occasion, and she secretly loves to show off her body like that and surprise everyone that it's not only tomboy that's to her. She is also not afraid of crossdressing to go undercover or for a special act, making her an adorable boy, looking a lot like her youngest brother Xiaodan.

//// Beauty is only skin deep ////

personality / 

(+) : sweet, innocent, active, freethinking, friendly, fun-loving
(-): careless, childish, mannerless, fierce, non-commital, foolish

► Sweet and friendly: She was raised to be a good girl, her parents always put a lot of attention to raising their kids to be nice people. It might be hard to get to her heart because she's so careful, once you get to it, she'll be extremely sweet to you and protect you no matter what. She's generally very sweet to everyone who is sweet to her, but they just can't get close because she has a mysterious aura around her, and she hides her personal information away very well.
► Innocent and foolish: Even though after the scam, Tungmei told herself to not trust people so easily anymore, once you gain her trust, she's really vulnerable to you. She believes anything her good friends say, often creating embarassing situations because she's so foolish. She's also innocent in other ways and once the topic becomes rated her ears will become bright red. She's the type of person that still giggles when saying things like or other rated words.
► Active and fun-loving: Tungmei always really loved sports, especially Taekwondo which she has recently picked up again after a long break. She can't sit still and wants to have loads of fun. Having fun is very important to her, but gladly she can have a lot of fun while training and practicing sports. When she sweats and gets out of breath, that's the moment when Tungmei feels alive.
► Freethinking: She didn't openly do it yet, but Tungmei supports LGBT and while Koreans are often very conservative, Tungmei is open towards changes, and doesn't mind at all when an idol gets into a dating scandal and such. She is also willing to be friends with people who smoke or do drugs, even if she herself doesn't like it at all, it's their own choice, and as long as they are nice to her, she'll be friends with them.
► Careless and mannerless: Because Tungmei loves fun so much and isn't afraid to be herself, she became very careless with growing up. When she wants to do something that seems crazy and will have a risk, she'll do it. She likes to look for the extreme thrill in things like skydiving and bungeejumping and barely has any fears. She also doesn't really act like how a female idol should. People say that it's because she grew up between boys, but she sits with her legs open, burps, yawns and curses on broadcast. Netizens either love it because she's so real, or hate it because she's so impolite. She also isn't afraid of voicing her opinion against anyone, heck, she would even argue with the president if she had to. She thinks that anyone has the right to voice their opinion as long as it is voiced nicely.
► Childish: Because she gets babied so much by Aiguo, Boqin, Jianyu and the K-tiger boys she didn't fully grow up yet, and she doesn't want to either. This also goes paired with her innocence. She can handle arguments maturely, but loves to play like a child, prefers to watch animation movies instead of mature action movies and still has her collection of Hot Wheels from her childhood. She also gets amazed by things that adults don't find amazing anymore, like a plane flying by. It's one of her sources of happiness and she refuses to grow up.
► Fierce: Tungmei is strong, she's fiery, she's sometimes even scary. She's been practicing Taekwondo since she was a little child and dreams of collaborating with the K-tigers and is actually best friends with their trainee that got into produce 101, Byun Hyunmin. She has never been afraid of getting into fights and will fight anyone that harms her friends. But she has been told to surpress her anger to not get into trouble, so she's trying hard to solve the problems in different ways.
► Non-commital: After she got scammed and lost all her money because of a man she blindly trusted, Tungmei grew careful with who to trust, and will not easily make friends anymore, because she is afraid that she will get scammed or harmed again. She doesn't have many friends anymore, and most of them are actually boys. She just doesn't trust other girls that easily because she grew up between boys and is basically used to have them around.

 

 

background / 

► Born in the beautiful city of Houston, Texas, Tungmei, more often referred to as Alyssa, was the second youngest of five kids. They had four boys, and one girl. Tungmei literally grew up between boys, and became one of them. When she was a little, happy toddler, she was dreaming of becoming a firefighter or soccer player, just like almost any boy wanted. She wasn't playing with dolls, but with toy cars, especially Hot Wheels, together with her brothers. Even though they let her play with them, they still saw her as the weaker little sister, so whenever someone harmed little Tungmei, her three big brothers would chase the culprit down and take revenge. It made Tungmei mad, because the girl saw herself big, and thought she could handle them on her own. Other kids picking on her just because she was such a tomboy, they were going to have a hard time. Mess with anyone in the family, you have all of them chasing after you. When Tungmei told her big brothers that she was able to handle it on her own, they always just either laughed or shrugged, not believing the little girl. Untill she got into Taekwondo. She was the second best of her age. She was so much into Taekwondo that it changed her into a strong and fierce girl, blinded for the damage she could make. She fought anything that was in her way, no matter how old or big the enemy was. She even got into a fight with her brother that is closest to her age, Jianyu, who was always the cool and calm sibling of the family. She grew so scary and fierce as a young girl that all her friends left her behind because she was seen as the school's thug and delinquent, and even her little brother grew scared of her. But Aiguo, who was at that time 16 years old, knew that it had to stop, and drilled some sense into that small head of 10-years old Tungmei, that she had to calm down, because even the little brother she loved so much was scared of her. Those words were her turning point, and Tungmei realised that she had been taken over by her power. Tungmei immediately quit the Taekwondo club to calm down, and even though she still fought the ones that really annoyed her, big brothers Boqin and Aiguo teached her to release her anger in different ways. She changed into a proud young girl that looked strong instead of scary.

When Tungmei was 14, she openly expressed her desire to become a star, and thought that she would have her best chance in Korea. She quickly met a man that convinced her that he knew a company where she could get in, and told her to come along. The young, innocent and foolish girl followed along, trusting the man blindly. Aiguo didn't trust him at all though, and followed Tungmei to Korea to protect her. And he was right, it quickly turned into a scam, and all the money that Tungmei had collected for years was gone in a flash and she was left behind, homeless and without a school to go to. Gladly there was Aiguo who caught her in her fall, and took care of her. While the other brothers were still in Texas, Aiguo decided to stay in Korea because after finishing his studies, he got a really good job he likes a lot. All of the brothers have lived with them at least once in their lives. After the fraud and scam on young Tungmei, she became really cautious with her relationships, and will not make friends easily, but once she trusts them, she's still very vulnerable of scams, because she is still that foolish and innocent girl from before, you just have to gain her trust. She didn't hide her dream away, but had enough of becoming an idol for a while, but instead she auditioned for the K-tigers in 2010, picking up Taekwondo again. She was a really good singer with a unique voice and practiced whenever she had the chance. She already had one huge fan, and that was little Xiaodan. He looked up to his sister so much that he wanted to be like her, but an actor instead, but as good as his big sister. So when Tungmei visited Houston for a while after finishing her junior high school and returned to Korea to live with her big brother again, Xiaodan tagged along, and he started to look for a company. They started to live with Aiguo again, in the middle of Seoul. Tungmei really enjoyed being a part of the K-tigers, but the desire to sing was still there. She was going to stay with them for a while, but not forever. In 2014, Xiaodan got accepted into Blossom entertainment as actor trainee, but he told Tungmei they were looking for female trainees for a girl group as well, and he dragged her into the building to audition, and Tungmei was one of the first that got accepted.

She stayed a bit isolated from the rest of the company, only having Xiaodan. She still was bitter over the K-tigers and that she had to leave them behind, and didn't want to experience the same, so she got known in the company as the isolated one, because she didn't bother making any friends. It was late 2014 at that time, and while Xiaodan got very popular with the other trainees because he was such a sweetheart, and of course because of his cute face, Tungmei didn't have any friends. Blossom entertainment put her out there as soon as possible, and with her visuals, she started to get some offerings to model for cf's, to the point that the fans thought she would be a new actress, but she didn't think it was right to model for something she didn't like herself, so she didn't do all of them. She brought money to the company and also to her family, helping herself and Xiaodan to have better resources than the other trainees. Some of them grew jealous of her, some others were happy for her, but she still refused to not go any further than just acquaintances, but that was already an improvement, because the other trainees now at least knew a bit from her. She still hung out with the K-tigers a lot, and also her brothers often came to visit her. The other trainees were surprised, because there was a lot of visual in that big chinese family, and the ceo openly expressed that it was too bad that her three older brothers didn't want to become idols, models or actors, because they could definitely attract fans. They did their own thing though, Aiguo was becoming more and more known as biologist, while Boqin started to travel the world as pilot. Jiaoyu came to Korea as exchange student and is currently living with Aiguo and Xiaodan for a year, while Tungmei moved to the dorm as debut came closer, maybe she finally had to open up to the other trainees? There's also that cute manager that has completely messed up her life. And on top of that, there's this boy named Jin Sungho that suddenly approached her out of the blue, saying that people think that they were siblings? Life is confusing...

 

triva / 

► Likes
▻ Her brothers
▻ Taekwondo
▻ slushies
▻ Frozen drinks
▻ Raspberries
▻ Sports
▻ Bungeejumping and skydiving
▻ Winter
▻ Fluffy things
▻ Hugging and cuddles
▻ Marshmallows
▻ Flying and airplanes
▻ Fast cars and racing
▻ Big cities

► Dislikes
▻ Bitter stuff
▻ Alcohol, drugs and smoking
▻ Bullies and liars
▻ Horror movies, not because she's scared but because they're
▻ Small towns
▻ Way too hot weather
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▻ Aegyo
▻ Whipped cream

► Habits
▻ She still giggles when mentioning rated stuff
▻ Burning scented candles to calm herself down
▻ Playing with her ears when nervous or concentrating
▻ Getting frozen coffee even if it's freezing cold
▻ Crossdressing when she wants to go out undercover
▻ Buying snacks to keep her little brother healthy as trainee under Spirit entertainment
▻ Drinking anything with a straw

► Hobbies
▻ Cooking and baking, especially desserts and cookies
▻ Taekwondo
▻ Running (she's really fast with her long legs)
▻ Flying, she's currently learning for a license to fly with small sports planes
▻ Working out
▻ Collecting Hot Wheels, flashy toy cars from her childhood, her collection is huge.
▻ Electric guitar

► Fears
▻ Snakes
▻ Car crashes
▻ Being scammed again

▻ Losing her brothers (especially Boqin because he is a pilot)

► Trivia
▻ Her ears turn bright red when she's flustered
▻ Her favourite song is Black or white by Cross Gene
▻ She dreams of collaborating with the K-tigers and is friends with member Byun Hyunmin
▻ She becomes really shy around her crush or when she's talking about him, and will find any excuse to avoid him
▻ She barely has any female friends, she isn't even close to the other members yet
▻ She loves rock music and dreams of being part of a band unit or release a rock solo song
▻ She curses a lot, on and off broadcast and she doesn't mind
▻ She's not only a fan of Cross gene but also of FTisland, Lou.de, Wonder girls and Bigstar
▻ She dreams of participating on ISAC or another sports show, and also on fun game shows like Running man
▻ She can't sit still
▻ She has two little ragdoll kittens, two sisters named Mel and Molly. They are currently still living at Aiguo's place but she plans on moving them to the dorm once they are well-trained.

▻ Tungmei is the fourth of five children, all the others being male. The oldest is overprotective Chen Aiguo (28), living in Seoul only to protect the two youngest ones, who is becoming more and more known as biologist. Next is the silly Chen Boqin (25) who is a pilot. The third child is the calm and cool Chen Jianyu (23), who is a college student, currently exchanging at Seoul national university so living with Aiguo and Xiaodan for a year. The youngest is the absolute baby of the fam, Chen Xiaodan (17) who is training under Blossom to become an actor.

▻ Predebut, people thought Tungmei was Jin Sungho's sister, when she was only known under her korean name. He personally came into her life to tell her that, and he'll have a great influence on her in the future.

▻ Two people are known to have had a crush on her (or still have), high school classmate Oh Sanghyun of MR.MR and fellow K-tigers member Ha Seongjin.

//// Shine Bright ////

Stagename / Alyssa

Position / lead vocal, dancer, rapper (Poppy)
Singing twin / SPICA"s Boa
Dancing twin / BESTie's Dahye (T^T)

rapping twin / Sol-T's Chaehee
trainee years / 7 years
trainee history / 

► She did start out getting music class (especially vocal) back in America when she was a little child, but her real training only started out in 2010, after the scam, when she was accepted into the K-tigers as first foreign member. She was trained on dance and taekwondo, but also got other classes like vocal, rap and even a bit of acting, because K-tigers is getting more and more kpop focused. She stayed there for 4 years, performed with them and was in their first (I believe?) kpop cover of Taeyang's Ringa Linga. When her brother joined Blossom entertainment, Tungmei decided to follow him, and she parted ways with the K-tigers on good terms, because she wanted to become an idol. It was her childhood dream after all. Because of her visuals, Blossom decided to already make profit of her predebut, and she got a few modeling gigs and CF's, but she only wanted to model for things she liked herself, and the company knew that, so Tungmei became a model for a sports clothing brand, and has done two CF's for sports drinks before. She is still the face of those brands until now. She worked really hard and spend almost all her time into training, if she did have free time, she's either practicing sports or visiting her brothers. Lately she has been taking some free time though, because she is taking lessons to earn her flying license. Not for huge passenger planes like her brother has, but for sports planes which can only take a few passengers, and is meant for short flights in your free time. At the time when she was only known for her CF's and modeling, fans thought that Tungmei was a Korean, because she introduced her with her koreanised name Jin Sungmi when she was with the K-tigers, and in 2016, people put the link with Jin Sungho when he got attention because of Boys24, and they lasted until not so long ago, when more information about Tungmei got revealed, that she was a Chinese with American nationality.

//// Fin ////

final words / Firstly I spot Listen, now I see Spica as well? Oh my god you are awesome! I hope you like Tungmei!

scene reqs / 

► Tungmei and Wonho having their awkward moments
► family time with her brothers! And maybe even a possible love interest of one of the brothers towards other members?
► Tungmei reuniting with the K-tigers and performing with them
►  Sungho might make for a very, very interesting story development I think

 

password / Since there is no password i'll give you this video (including Jin Sungho)