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Jihun.
"HALF OF THE STORYTELLING ABILITY IS SOUND"
name / Im Jihun  임 지훈
birthplace / Anseong City, Sk
birthdate / 03.12.1993
languages / korean 
ethnicity / korean
faceclaim / lee jooheon
backup / yoo youngjae
        
love since first glance
fashion style : Jihun´s style consists mostly of oversized sweaters, hoodies and t-shirts with jeans of different colors that are occasionally ripped and at times a snapback, having a collection of these that rivals that of Jackson of GOT7 and Amber. In fact it´s almost an obsession. He doesn´t really have any color-preferences. Overall his style is very laid back and comfortable and there isn´t much exciting about it. He always wears sneakers. Overall Jihun dresses comfortably and this is kind of a necessity for him as he often falls asleep while working and it isn´t the easiest to fall asleep in clothing that isn´t comfortable. He can dress up a little if the need arises, but as Jihun isn´t really in the spotlight much, he never really needs to. His dressed up style however is still very laid back and usually consists of a button-down and jeans or if he´s feeling really fancy a black blazer overtop a white button-down and some non-ripped black jeans and his least dirty black sneakers. He often lets his platinum blonde locks fall down over his forehead in its natural slightly wavy state, or styles it up in a side swept quiff whenever he dresses up. When he has a really bad hair day or hasn´t had time to wash his hair, he often just throws one of his many snapbacks over it.

appearance : With dimples deep enough to swim in, chubby cheeks and eyes that disappear completely whenever he smiles Jihun looks to be the epitome of cute. His cute look is only accentuated by the fact that Jihun is slightly pudgier than most Koreans (Think pre-debut and debut era Jooheon. Before he started dieting). He isn´t fat by any means as his BMI is in a healthy range, but he does carry a little more fat on his frame than most Koreans of his age. He comes in at 177 cm in height and 67 kg in weight. And while Jihun would love to lose the extra fat, he knows this is very unlikely as his work requires him to keep up a less than healthy lifestyle. And Jihun cares more about his work than he does about how he looks. After all he isn´t in front of the camera and isn´t in the spotlight. He has thick thighs and a fairly broad upper body, with broad shoulders. Although Jihun naturally has black hair, it is currently bleached platinum blonde. Despite his spontaneous nature, Jihun has no tattoos or piercings, with the exception of gauges, but he´s absolutely the type who would make a bet and get a tattoo or a piercing if he lost.
His gauges
attractive inside and out 
traits : ENFP - The campaigner (MBTI)
Type Seven - The enthusiast (Ennegram)
Positive: Curious, observant, friendly, open, optimistic
Neutral: Childish, excitable, energetic, annoyingly cheerful, spontaneous
Negative: Whiny, has trouble focusing, gets stressed easily, kind of a mess, clumsy
personality : Jihun has a special outlook on life. He sees life as one big complex puzzle where everything is connected. He sees life through a prism of emotions and is always looking for a deeper meaning. Really all he wants in life is to maintain his happiness and freedom and to avoid missing out on exciting opportunities.
He´s the definition of a free-spirit and a lot of people would describe him as the life of the party. However, where a lot of other people are most interested in the excitement and pleasure of the moment they are in, Jihun is more interested in enjoying the social and emotional connections he makes with others. He´s constantly seeking new and exciting experiences and is very impulsive. He does things without really thinking about the consequences they might have.

- Curious: Jihun is extremely curious. Instead of sitting around and brooding he would much rather go out and experience new things. He isn´t afraid to step outside of his comfort zone, especially not if it means learning something new. He approaches life much like a kid in a candy store and isn´t afraid to ask if there´s something he wants to know. He´s also imaginative and he comes up with many ideas. His mind, however, moves quickly from one idea to the next and he is therefore very good at brainstorming. This also means he´s very spontaneous and has a lot of trouble focusing on one thing, but I´ll get to that later.

- Observant: Tying into being curious, Jihun is also very observant. He believes there are no irrelevant actions and everything is part of something bigger. In order to sate his curiosity, Jihun tries to notice everything that goes on around him.

- Excitable: As Jihun observes what goes on around him and forms new ideas, he is not the type to keep quiet about it. He gets excited about these ideas and feels that he has to share them with anyone willing to listen. This also means that he sometimes blurts out the most random stuff, which has absolutely nothing to do with what´s going on around him. This perpetual enthusiasm brings with it two good things. It´s a way for Jihun to make more social connections as well as a way to gain even more information, as his random outbursts often lead to discussions and in that way new opinions that he can then work into his existing ideas.

- Friendly, open: Jihun is a good communicator and has strong people skills. This is quite a good thing because if he wasn´t he would never tell anyone about his ideas, and they´d stay nothing but ideas. Because while Jihun is good at coming up with ideas and starting projects, his ability to keep up with and follow through with these struggles. Without some more hands-on people to push forward the day to day things, Jihun´s ideas would remain nothing but ideas. He enjoys both small talk as well as deeper more intellectual and meaningful conversations. To Jihun, they´re two sides of the same coin and this adaptability leads him to being very approachable. He gets along with almost everyone.

- Optimistic, annoyingly cheerful: Jihun approaches life with constant optimism. He´s upbeat and fun to be around. He has a desire to fully participate in life and he doesn´t take himself or anyone else too seriously. He´s joyful and happy 99% of the time, much to the dismay of some other people. Because being around someone who´s as upbeat and cheerful as Jihun can get tiring in the long run. But to others, his natural enthusiasm and happiness is a gift and remind them of the pure pleasure of existence. Because Jihun can find something good in every situation and he always tries to keep others happy and cheerful as well.

- Childish, whiny: Jihun is also childish. As mentioned he approaches life much like a kid in a candy store and looks at the world with fascination and anticipation. However, this is not why Jihun is childish. Jihun is the biggest scaredy-cat you will ever find. He gets scared of basically everything and when he´s scared he whines. He also likes getting his way and whines if he doesn´t. He pouts a lot and because Jihun is naturally adorable with his eye smile and dimples, this often leads people to take pity on him and go with whatever he wants to do if anything just so he´ll stop whining. He has a lot of aegyo (Ugh I hate that word) and has no qualms about using it to get what he wants. 

- Energetic: Jihun is energetic and has trouble sitting still. He always has to be doing something, much to the annoyance of everyone around him. When he´s forced to sit down for extended periods of time he often bounces his legs or taps his fingers or fiddles with something. This also ties into him being easily excitable, because when he´s excited about something he gets even more energetic and talks about it or immediately starts it if it´s a project. This also ties into him spontaneous. He can´t stay in the same place for very long, whether that´s the same city or just the same spot in a house. He has to move around and Jihun adores exploring and adventuring.

- Spontaneous: Jihun does things without thinking about the consequences and if he gets an idea he sets it into motion, no matter what he might have been doing beforehand. He´s impulsive and doing things excites him. He takes pleasure in being spontaneous. He does things unplanned. If he suddenly got the urge to move to Australia he would. Or start education in art. Or literature. Or anything. He has a lot of options open to him at all times because of his ideas and he often works by a trial and error method. He wants to try everything to find out what´s best. If for example, he is unable to decide whether he wants chocolate, vanilla or strawberry ice cream Jihun chooses all three so he doesn´t miss out on the right one. Jihun wants to experience as much in his lifetime as possible and this requires sometimes making rash and unplanned decisions. He most likely wouldn´t have joined Cheol´s road trip if it hadn´t been for this trait of his.

- Has trouble focusing: Because of his spontaneity and how many ideas he comes up with, Jihun often times has trouble focusing on one singular task. He has trouble maintaining interest if something becomes a routine. He´s a natural explorer and this backfires big time when the thing in front of him that needs to be done is paperwork, anything related administrative matters or stray away from broader concepts.

- Gets easily stressed: Jihun is prone to stress. Especially because of how friendly and open he is. This leads people to come to him for guidance and help and he gets over overwhelmed by this very easily when he cannot say yes to every request. But also because he always has a lot of balls in the air that he has to juggle around. This comes from his overactive imagination and idea-making and his tendency to start projects. Especially all the projects he has abandoned bother Jihun as he feels he should go back and finish at least some of them, but knows he´s unable to as he´s lost interest.

- Clumsy: Jihun is clumsy. There´s no other way to put it. He could fall over nothing. This is because he´s often consumed by thought and is too busy observing other people and wondering about them to watch where he steps or what he´s doing. This leads to him falling on his face or walking into people or things very often. In fact, he walked straight into a lamp-post once because he was busy watching another person on the other side of the road. He´s also walked into multiple glass-doors. He also drops stuff often. Do not let this boy in the kitchen because he will either cut or burn himself or someone else. Or just the food if you´re really lucky.

- Kind of a mess: All in all Jihun is kind of a mess. He has a lot of projects that he has never finished and he´s so clumsy that he´s a danger to himself and the people around him. He might physically be a 23-year-old man, but really he´s more like a 15-year-old boy. Everything around him is always a mess. He leaves clothes strewn on the floor and forgets to clean it, he can´t cook… Really who let this guy live on his own?  He has no control over his own limbs and breaks more things than what is humanly possible. One day he will definitely end up in the hospital because he hurt himself in some weird way. He´s scared of literally everything except heights and screams and whines and pouts when he gets scared. Do not let this kid watch a horror movie. He will cry from how scared he is. In fact, he often cries when he gets scared.


background : Im Jihun was born on the 12th of March 1993 in Anseong City, Gyeonggi province of South Korea to Im Chaewon and Im Seojun. At the time of his birth, Jihun was an only child, but that changed when Jihun was just 11 months because at this point his little sister Im Jieun was born. Jihun grew up with music. His mother played both the piano and acoustic guitar and his father both drums and bass. This lead Jihun to grow up very interested in music and at 6 he started both piano and violin lessons. He loved both and continued these lessons. At 10 he also took up drumming lessons, having started learning from his father back when he was 8.
Throughout middle and high school Jihun was always the odd one. He was a very hyper and energetic kid which meant he was often a little much for the other kids to handle. Luckily he always had his sister right next to him and they spent most of their time together when they were younger. In middle school they spent most of their time in the music room, playing the different instruments. His sister had taken up the guitar after their mother as well as playing the flute so they had a lot of fun. In 2008 at the age of 15 Jihun graduated from Anseong middle school and during his summer break, Jihun watched a lot of movies. And he was entranced and fascinated by the way sound was used in some of these movies and how different sounds or the lack of any sound could completely change the atmosphere of a certain scene. So when Jihun enrolled in Anseong high school after his break, he immediately chose audio production as one of his electives. Here he met a lot of young people who had the same interest in audio and film as him and he was no longer as much of an outsider. Of course, he maintained a close relationship with his sister and would often drag her with him to stay in the rooms they used when they had their audio production classes. Here he would spend his breaks with the other students who had chosen audio production and his sister and Jihun learned a lot through these classes. He knew that audio production was what he wanted to do, and researched liberally what jobs you could get in the field of audio work. Here he discovered sound design/sound editing and immediately Jihun knew this was what he wanted to do. However, Jihun also wanted to use his skills at music to something and halfway through high school Jihun started playing around with music production as well as sound design. He graduated from Anseong high school in 2011 at the age of 18 and immediately enrolled in Dong-ah Institute of Media and Arts (DIMA), majoring in audio production. 3 years after, in 2014 Jihun was graduated and ready to start his life as a sound designer. However, this proved to be a very hard business to breakthrough in. Luckily Jihun had some practiced with sound design as well as music production by playing around while he was in high school and from his schooling at DIMA, where they took classes on sound editing, audio design and trained in studio recording and the like. This made it a little easier for Jihun, but as he worked freelance it still wasn´t easy. In fact, he lived in the tiest apartment and ate basically nothing but convenient store ramen for almost a year, taking whatever small ty sound design and music production jobs he could get until he was by some miracle hired by a video producer from MBC. He was impressed with Jihun´s skills especially for someone who didn´t have more actual experience as Jihun and he spread the word about Jihun´s skills. This made life a little easier for Jihun as he now had built up more of a reputation within the community and this also meant that he got jobs that actually paid enough to live on.
living a busy life has led jihun to not having time for love. and this led his sister to telling him half jokingly, half not, that he should join love island. and jihun figured why not give it a try?

Jihun lives a chaotic life because he works freelance. This means that Jihun can never be sure when he´ll be hired and when he gets hired he works crazy hours, often working for 12 hours straight if not more. In fact, he usually ends up falling asleep while working. When he has work Jihun has no time to do anything but work which means he barely gets any sleep doesn´t work out and barely has time to eat. His meals usually consist of delivery as he absolutely can´t cook and even if he could, he wouldn´t have time. Despite this hectic life that his job forces him to live, Jihun wouldn´t trade it for anything. He loves his job. When Jihun doesn´t have work (which doesn´t happen much anymore. He basically works all the time), he lives a pretty quiet life, spending most of his time playing around with… you guessed it. Sound design as well as music production and composing. He also plays both the piano, the violin, and the drums whenever he can find the time. This kid lives and breathes audio, sound, and music. Literally, it´s both his hobby and his job.
 
likes :
- His job!
- Sound design
- Music
- People
- Coffee - he´s addicted to caffeine
- Food
- Dogs
- Cinnamon chai latte
- Makgeolli - it´s the only alcoholic drink that he wants to drink
- Sour candy
- Sour food in general
- Movies, except horror
- Playing music

dislikes :
- Cats
- Not having work
- Bugs, insects etc.
- How easily scared he is
- Horror movies - he gets scared and starts crying the poor bby
- Horror in general, including haunted houses
- Tea
- Alcohol especially beer
- How clumsy he is
- Working out, especially running
- His unhealthy lifestyle
- Most delivery foods - he´s gotten tired of most of it because it´s all he eats

 
habits :
- Playing with his ear piercings
- his lips
- Fiddling with literally EVERYTHING
- Working too much
- Falling asleep while working
- Being unable to say no
- Commenting on the sound design in movies, which annoys his friends
- Blurting out his random ideas and connections whenever he´s around people that will listen
- Being constantly positive and happy
- Annoying his friends with his cheerfulness

 
trivia :
- He has cute looks, but his voice is deeper than most (Think Felix of Stray Kid, but without the Aussie accent)
- He can beatbox (Again think Felix)
- He has a lot of friends but not many close friends
- He has Instagram, however his account is private
- His description on both Twitter and Instagram is: “Im Jihun. 24 and a freelance sound designer. Contact: [email protected]” (I´M NOT SURE IF THAT EMAIL EXISTS BUT FOR THE SAKE OF THIS LET´S JUST SAY THAT IT´S JIHUN´S WORK EMAIL)
- He has an obsession with hats, in particular snapbacks and owns over 100 of them
- He´s a scaredy-cat and gets scared of everything
- He´s easily startled. Just touching him if he doesn´t know you were going to is usually enough to make him jump.
- He sleeps on his right side and can´t fall asleep any other way
- He loves kiwis. He could literally eat them for every meal every day
- He doesn´t have a favorite color
- He´s scared of cats
- His favorite number is 2
- He hates partying
- He has never been in a relationship
- He´s red-green colorblind
- He technically needs glasses, but never wears them as his vision isn´t bad enough that he bothers
- He only speaks Korean, but would love to learn more languages
 
 
 
 
related to love 
ideal type : having very limited experience with love jihun isn´t entirely sure about his ideal type.however he tends to be drawn to fierce, independent girls. the badass types. the types that would scare most people. (sort of a plotline 13 type of girl - the bossy types) they give a nice contrast to his soft way of being and the fact that they´re independent means he can keep focus on his career without having to worry too much about constantly having to give them attention.
past relationship # : 0
how do they react/act near someone they have a crush on? : he goes in for the kill. at least on the show. less in his real day to day life, but he does things without thinking them through and so he´d probably approach one of the girls already with a partner and cause drama without even batting an eye. because he just hasn´t thought it through.
plotline : 11?
twitter @ : imjihun




 
interview questions (answer in character pov) 
introduce yourself : "hello everyone! I´m im jihun!"
what is your occupation? : "I´m a freelance sound designer and sound editor."
so, why are you here? : "i live an extremely busy life and haven´t really had time for love, this seemed like a good option for me to try."
what are you looking for in your future partner? : "someone who can keep up with my hectic lifestyle. she needs to be independent and not at all clingy. i don´t need her hanging over my shoulder while i´m working. also someone who´s fine with my career coming before her."
what type of people do you hate? : "people with no ambition."
what would you do with the money if you win ?: "discuss what we´re going to use them for with my partner if i do end up with one at the end of this. hopefully i´ll be able to give a little to my sister. buy myself some better equipment for my job probably also."
 
 
 
THE eND
COMMENTS : so i may have a girl for you as well. or maybe another guy. i´m not entirely sure yet but i do want to add another character from me in this.
SCENE SUGGESTIONS : n/a (may add in the future)
PASSWORD : oh god... I feel like heechul would be hilarious, but idk. lee hyori is another thought that popped into my head.

 
 

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HiRitu
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ooohhh?? this is interesting? can I have a link?