Song Jaeeun was born in a small district of the ninth largest city in South Korea, on the Southern border. She was an only child born to two parents who were only too happy to give her as much of the world as they could afford. Jaeeun had about as perfect a childhood as is possible in a flawed world, and her parents encouraged her every step of the way, always telling her she could be whoever she wanted if she just tried hard enough and put in her whole heart and soul.

Jaeeun fell in love with idols rather young, rocking out to Fin.K.L and H.O.T in her youngest years and moving on to Wonder Girls, Super Junior, and Big Bang as she aged and they came onto the scene. And at thirteen years old she decided she wanted to be an idol too. As always her parents were fully supportive and helped her look for schools in Seoul. She had strong enough grades to get into Bosung Girls' High School in the Youngsan district of Seoul, and she and her mother moved to a small apartment in the Jungnang District of Seoul.

Once Jaeeun had settled into a routine at her new school she started auditioning for idol companies. Naturally she started with SM, JYP, and YG but was rejected from all three. She moved on to CUBE, Starship, and other second-tier companies but found no luck their either. She stopped for a while to focus on her exams, but immediately went back to trying once they were complete. She moved to small, no name companies but still never heard back after her auditions. The simple fact was that Jaeeun for all her passion had no real talent to stand on. It wasn't until her sixty eighth audition that a brand new and rather desperate new company thought she might just be pretty enough to take a chance on. That company was Pandora.

Jaeeun trained with Pandora for almost all of it's three years of exitence, joining in late 2009 and training hard every day. It became clear early on that she was never going to be a dancer or vocalist so she was steered towards rapping instead, where she found some proficiency. She worked hard throughout her training and remained steadfastly optimistic that things would turn around as soon as she got a debut. And she'd certainly get to debut - hard work always pays off, that's what she's been taught for her whole life.

2012 saw that debut occur, but things weren't the sunshine and rainbows Jaeeun had envisioned. She was constantly exhausted, and as she was in her last year of high school she already wasn't getting much sleep. Her grades slipped as she focused on the group and their failing career, thinking she just needed to put in more effort. But for the first time it didn't work. And Jaeeun found herself thinking: if she was working hard enough, then it must be one of her groupmates who wasn't. Then the hiatus came and everything crashed in on itself for Jaeeun.

The hiatus was a living hell for Jaeeun. Everything she'd worked for crumbling around her, and to her mind none of it being her fault. Not realizing that sometimes no one is at fault, she buried herself in improving herself. She had failed her final exams in her final year, and she wasn't attending university so she had nothing else she could do. She tried getting into song and lyric writing, but she never really got a hang of it, still being much more scientifically minded and not having the creativity for it. It was during the hiatus that her walls really started growing, shutting out her groupmates as she curled into herself in an attempt to protect the softest parts of herself. The final brick in the building came when Acedia and Luxuria left. Jaeeun completely closed herself off from other people. She couldn't trust anyone anymore she decided. No one but herself.

And even her faith in herself ended up shaken in the end. She always had a string of hope - a stubborn remnant of the idealism she was trying so hard to destroy - that the group would turn out to be like Girl's Day or EXID, rising from the ashes of defeat to become famous. This hope flared when they came back and their song actually charted and expanded slightly when their following song did even better (she'll never acknowledge the connection between their comeback and Luxuria's debut with Bloom).

Then that hope flickered and died as they once again fell into anonymity with their following releases. Jaeeun started putting less effort into each comeback, justifying herself to herself with the idea that the other three clearly weren't putting in everything, so why should she? But it was empty justification and each time she didn't put in her full effort the weight of the guilt she insisted to herself that she didn't feel built, weighing her down and making it that much harder the next time around to put in enough effort. When the disbandment came and the others left, Jaeeun almost didn't feel anything. She tells herself she definitely didn't.

In the year that followed, Jaeeun repeated the routine she'd become accustomed to, training until she was told it was enough and then staring at the walls or the TV until it was time to start training again. It was monotonous but it's what she knew, and something stopped her from just walking away like the rest had. She tells herself she's just too pathetic to actually get up and do anything, which while not wrong certainly doesn't cover everything. Because deep down she still wants that idol dream. And Pandora Entertainment was the only place that ever offered her the opportunity to chase it - so she stays.

Parents

Song Hajun and Kim Eunji are about as perfect as parents can get. And when she was little Jaeeun adored that she could ask them anything and know they'd be honest with her. She loved that she knew they would support her no matter what, and that all they want for her is for her to be as happy as she possibly can be.

Now, although she still loves her parents more than she does anyone else, Jaeeun sometimes begrudges them their kindness as it's the primary motivator that's kept her at Pandora desperately clinging to a shattered dream. She doesn't want to go home a disspointment, and it makes it all the worse knowing they'd never blame her - because she blames herself.

Kim Sejoo

Jaeeun can't say she had much of an opinion on Sejoo during her time under his management. She can say that he seemed like a decent guy and she's more inclined to think him not guilty when she lets herself think about the case at all. When asked about him though she always avoids the question with a simple 'the jury will decide' and a quick escape.

Traits: Idealistic, Cautious, Loyal, Sensitive, Judgemental, Tempermental, Hard-Working, Stubborn, Diplomatic, Internal, Controlling

At her core, Jaeeun is an idealist, and even with the layers wrapped around that core through her years of experience and heartbreak it still dictates a lot more of her decisions then she'd like to admit. Her worldview is stained black and white with very little gray in between - good people get good things, and bad people get what they deserve. It's had the unfortunate effect of making Jaeeun a very judgemental person: if something bad happens to you then clearly you deserved it. She does try to be better about this - superficially - after her own experience with failure, but internally she's still thinking with fairytale logic.

On the flip side of her judgemental nature, Jaeeun's idealism drives her to be a very hard worker. If she does her absolute best she believes she will absolutely be rewarded, so she's always going to put in 100% when starting something new. This includes putting her emotions 100% into it - and while as a child this never really backfired on her the entire fiasco with Vista left her quite scarred. Jaeeun is extremely emotionally sensitive, taking things to heart no matter how they may have been meant.

Her sensitivity isn't all negative though - it's made her quite a loyal person. So long as you don't betray her (in her own eyes) she'll stand by the people she considers her friends, or who at least she perceives to be on her side. She has learned, however, to be more careful about who she trusts with her loyalty. She's good at putting up a smiling front, but she studies people before making decisions about them, unlike in her youth when she always assumed the best of people. With time and exposure to the cameras she's gotten very good at playing the diplomat, saying exactly what people want to hear - what she's supposed to say. Which is quite a valuable asset since she developed her bitterness.

Jaeeun has always been stubborn and had a bit of a temper, but both traits have been exacerbated by Vista's failure. She sticks both to her darker views as well as her childhood idealism. She turns her back to her old groupmates, but can't let go of the company that caused the mess. And she's almost always struggling against an underlying current of absolute fury at the world, at herself, at how unfair everything has turned out to be. And it makes her cold and bitter where once she was bright and curious about the world and what it could offer. At her lowest point it can cause her to physically and verbally lash out at anyone who tries to help, and at herself if there's no other easy scapegoat to go after.

She keeps it all inside though. Jaeeun has learned that it hurts when you let yourself be seen, when you let yourself hope. So she pushes down anything she thinks might make her suceptible to being hurt again. Tells herself that the boxed off emotions don't exist anymore, that she's wiser now, that she knows the world is cruel. But for all her desperate attempts to change her core, it will always be there, lurking just where she can't see it.

TRIVIA

 Jaeeun has suffered from a few dissasociative panic attacks in the past, usually due to the intense stress she put on herself during and after the group's initial hiatus. She had somewhat gotten them under control on her own after the disbandment but with Acedia's death they're definitely going to be back.

 Since Jaeeun took a twenty minute Subway ride to school every day for all of her high school career, and also took the Subway to the company for rehearsals she never learned how to drive. So she gets around with a combination of public transport and walking.

 Jaeeun actually really likes y concepts like Joker and Vibrato, though most people assume she prefers the softer ones because of both her age and her general attitude on cameras.

 On music shows during the endings, Jaeeun would always make sure she was smiling and congratulating everyone nominated. At first it was because she genuinely wanted to tell everyone they were doing a great job, but it evetually just became something she did because it was part of her image to do it.

 While not actively religious Jaeeun does believe in a God, though she hasn't really put enough thought into her faith to be able to define what exactly that means to her. She does sometimes pray when things are really going sideways in hopes some external force will fix her problems for her.