birthname. Bae Yehan 배예한
Stagename.

— Chi :: It's suppoed to make her easier for international fans to latch onto. She rather likes it, it's punchy!

birthdate. 12-18-1997
birthplce. Naeseok, South Gyeongsang
ethnicity. Naeseok, South Gyeongsang
languages. 

— Korean :: Her native language, Yehan has worked harder than she's worked on anything else to destroy the country dialect and sound as Seoulite as she possible can.

— Japanese :: a ltitle conversational, Yehan was never good at languaged but SM tried so hard to get some Japanese into her.

— English :: Very basic but she tries

faceclaim. ELRIS Sohee
backup fc. RED VELVET Joy
appearnce.

— Yehan is a pretty girl in almost a boring classical kind of way. She's often compared to a younger Seohyun until it becomes obvious that her demeanor couldn't be further from the future leader of the United Nations.

fashnstle.

— Sequins! Crop tops! Shorts! Chunky sneakers! Yehan's style is anything that captures her fancy thrown together without any sense at all, she's a magpie attracted to anything shiny or glamorous and she loves showing off her body like she never left the MV set but she also loves the street look of oversized sweaters and big sneakers and ripped jeans. This combines into a total mismash of street/party glam that shouldn't work but she pulls it off with such confidence that it just does.

prsoNlity. 

+ bright, shameless, flamboyant, confident, free-spirited, quick-witted, social butterfl

Impulsive, ambitious, open book, judgmental, attention-seeking, self-centered, cowardly -

Yehan has always been rather free-spirited. Yehan has no shame, she has no sense of image, Yehan will just do whatever Yehan wants to do. She's brash and she's loud and she's flamboyant, you know exactly when Yehan enters a room. Yehan wants you to. She likes to think that she is made out of the pure extract of life, the extract everyone else is just too scared to tap into.

One thing is for sure, Yehan has absolutely no chill. She's super dramatic and extra as hell. She's the life of the party, she can make a total stranger feel like she's their very best friend! She makes friendly acquaintainces wherever she goes, she's unafraid to put herself out there and network and gather more numbers for her phone. Her humor ad commentary are sharp, every joke performed like a precious inside-joke. Sometimes her humor is scandalous and she makes you feel like you're lucky to see this side of her, little black jokes about the industry, about her lot in life. A wink, a smile, and she's weaving through the crowd for her next target. 

She projects onfidents and security, vocalizes it even so that nobody has any doubt that Yehan is totally secure in who she is, Yehan is a confident queen, Yehan loves herself totally and completely. The louder she says it the more people will believe it, right?

We stan an unbothered queen except for when she's very bothered. You see, a lot of Yehan's flying in the face of convention is a front, an absolute sham, it's loud and substance-less. Yehan is very good at pretending to be the cool unbothered one while actually she has a deep-rooted need to fit in and be accepted. She has this deep rooted fear of being forgotten, a fear made all the worse by a hiatus, and she thinks that if she's loud and extra as hell, if she's a little scandalous and unconventional, if she'd just make people notice then she'd be okay. Then people will rememeber her. Then Bae Yehan won't have been a blip on the radar of life, snuffed out without anyone caring. As long as they remain in that limbo of hiatus she's going to be super antsy and worse than ever, so scared that this is it. This is all she'll get in life, a flop.

She wants so much, our Bae Yehan. She wants the world. She wants to be famous, she wants to mean something to a great many people, she wants her name to go down in history! Hers is a great pride that slumbers inside of her, a pride that hates to feel challenged, looked down upon. A pride that resents having to stoop, having her level challenged. She is allergic to showing weakness, salty jokes and dark humor aside, nobody can see her shoulders sag, nobody can see her lip quiver. Her spine must always be erect, a smile always on her face, a sarcastic comment never far from her lips. Unbothered queen is who she must be. She's put herself on a pedestal and she will not fall.

She's also scared about her own uality. It's all fun and games to be the feminist queen or whatever, but when it comes to actually putting herself in a position of risk and vulnerability Yehan shies away real quick. She's seen what happens to someone in the industry who comes out, she knows of Hong Seok Cheon and how his schedules dried up in a heartbeat. She's terrified of that too. She's all about playing lip service to causes but putting herself in the crossfire? That's the stuff of nightmares.

She knows very well that, for LGBT rights to get better and more visible, a celebrity would do wonders. She knows there must be countless of gay idols, but nobody wants to be the first person to take the jump. Nobody wants to be the martyr for the cause, certainly not Yehan.

 

background. Nobody would ever look at Yehan and think 'this girl was probably born on a farm' and yet and yet. Yehan was born to a large family living in a farming village in the south of Korea.She grew up helping in the field with her parents, going to the smallest possible school, knowing everyone in the village and everyone in the village knowing her. She escaped as soon as she could.

She practiced her dancing on her own in her hours off, standing in front of the television and practicing and practicing, copying idols and dancers on tv alike. She'd take long busrides into the nearest city for dance lessons her parents could barely afford, harvest rice and cabbage and radish, spend afternoons with her mother and the other village making kimchi by the tons for the whole village and biding her time until she could escape. 

She was very much a diamond in the rough when she traveled on her own to audition for the SLJK-F Program in Busan, Part of her didn't expect to be chosen at all, just to be met with disappointment and return to a farmer's life. thankfully for everyone, Madame Kang saw the spark of life in Yehan that would no doubt make her an excellent idol and she got in!

 

TRAINING. This was it, she was finally in Seoul! She had achieved her dream and had made it to the big city and wow it was so different! It was loud, people didn't look at each other on the street or acknowledge each other, she was anonymous. If she did something stupid her mom wouldn't be laughing about it an other late as it travelled from ahjumma to ahjumma down the village network. Yehan absolutely loved it. On the busy streets of Seoul she was just another girl in yellow SOPA uniform making her way to school. First she enjoyed being nobody, and then she quivered knowing that she would soon be somebody.

Yehan mostly focused on her singing and her dancing and showed her real talent when her dancing improved rapidly. From small town classes to making her way to SM's most difficult dance classes one sweat-drenched night of practice at a time, sleeping in school the net day to make up for it. She made a lot of friends too, outgoing as she is, although her competitive edge remained. And then she trained and trained and trained and one after the other she watched her friends leave her until only those she didn't know very well remained. Turned out competition had been unnecessary, who made it in solely depended on who was left.

(training: 2015-debut)

talent twins. CLC Seungyeon

pre-debut. here
scandals. 

GJSN'S CHI SPOTTED CLUBBING ON HOMO HILL

As schedules piled up and the idol stress set in, the Korean night life became one of her outlets. Hani was well connected in the Itaewon scene in particular, she loved going to the gay and lesbian bars, visiting drag shows, revelling in the LGBT sub culture that snakes into every city. With very little to lose and slowly going crazy doing nothing, Yehan started to join her and it was amazing!

Gay bars were the actual best, there was no groping, no date danger, most of the men (and some women) were friendly and accepting, the queens were gorgeous and hilarious and catty, she felt accepted. Nobody asked if she was gay or straight, it was very much don't ask don't tell. She gained courage and friendships from it, learning new music (RuPaul became one of her favorite artists ever and she binged drag race), and she grew braver and maybe a little foolhardy. She'd request the DJ to play Get It or Black Widow and dance with a fervor and the gays loved it!

And then one of them filmed her dancing to La Vie En Rose and posted it on Twitter and the bubble burst. It gained little traction in Korea, nobody cared, but the kpop and gay twitter alike praised her as the queen of gays, they raved about her RuPaul dance cover and her club videos, "GJSN is for the gays", and then came the speculation. Her name appeared on 'kpop idols who could be gay' lists, people were speculating that her even being in a gay bar meant she was gay, etc etc. It wasn't a whole lot of people, but it was enough to seriously spook Yehan. She was getting nightmares, terrified of being outed. What had she been doing? How had she been so callous? She could't do this, her career was just getting started again!

SEVENTEEN'S DK AND GJSN'S CHI SPOTTED ON A DATE!

Yehan, panicked and not thinking straight, formed a plan. It was a horrible plan, a most selfish plan, a treacherous plan. She called Seokmin and asked to see him, maybe they could hang out by the Han river in the early morning? There would just be joggers and drunk people going home, no risk of recognition there. And then she emailed Dispatch with an anonymous tip.

Nobody would think she was gay now.

And it was true, the Chi hashtag was filled with doubters now, arguments of if it was real or not, Seventeen fans dragging her to hell and back for not being good enough. Pledis and SM denied it of course but the Seventeen fandom was in uproar and all of her social media filled with vitriol. Yehan was just happy, she was relieved.

And then her world came crashing down. It took Seokmin a hot second to connect the dots, he knew she'd been fretting over the gay club thing, and didn't it all just feel very suspicious? He was furious while for once Yehan couldn't contain her tears at the thought of losing her best friend. And she lost her best friend. And then her girlfriend called, furious in her own right. And she lost her girlfriend.

And now Yehan is alone.

 

fun facts.

— Early in her career she starts a monthly choreography series like seungyeon did.

— She hates talking about Naeseok and the farming village, hates admitting that she comes from a family of farmers. She lies sometimes, saying she's from a city near Busan instead, the accent is nearly the same anyway. Other times she's just very vague. She hasn't gone home since she started training.

— She loves makeup, loves experimenting with what it can do for her face, loves the way a different color, different contour, different lip can alter her appearance.

— Her family is Buddhist, Yehan practices her mantras only when she's really stressed. She doesn't really believe in it but sometimes you have moments where you can use any help you can get, right?

— Likes to joke that she has half the industry in her phone. True fact, if you need to contact someone, just ask Yehan. If she doesn't have their number she'll have the number of someone who's sure to have their number.

— Is actually a good cook, she grudgingly admits that her mother taught her well. Give her a plastic tub and she'll make the best kimchi... if you can get her to actually do it.

— She adores RuPaul's songs after she learns about him, they're just so camp and fun! Really she falls head-first into the LGBT culture and she loves every bit of it.

rElAtnshp. 

FAMILY / BAE MINJUN (fat) ('72), SHIN SOOKAH (mot) (76) , BAE YESEON (br) (92) , BAE YEMIN (br) (93), BAE YEHYUN (br) (95)

 

As the youngest of 4 and only daughter Yehan was really the baby of the family and she broke her parents' heart when all she wanted was to get out of the village. She's only gone home once, for seolal during the darkest part of their hiatus, and it was awful for her. She doesn't belong here, she knows that as clear as she knows anything. She loves her family, in a way, but they also remind her of everything she never wants to be.

(ex) BEST FRIEND / LEE SEOKMIN (DK) / 97 LINER / MEMBER OF SVT
 

Both of them were in the same class of SOPA. He was the first one who welcomed the little 15 year old country bumpkin to the big city of Seoul. She was a silly girl with a big mouth and bigger ambitions, he was a chill jokester who could reduce her to a mess of giggles with a single sentence, both of them were trainees with big dreams. They got along swimmingly. 

Seokmin is the only one other than Hani (obviously haha) who knows she's a lesbian, he caught her having a complete and total mental breakdown a year before she debuted when she finally figured out that that aching feeling, those butterflies, she was feeling for Hana was infatuation not just your nomal hetero friendship. He's been really supportive about it even when Yehan was absolutely gutted at showing such weakness. Really it was a blessing that he found out this way, it's a blessing to be able to talk to someone candidly about her and Hana.

Even when he debuted and she didn't she didn't let her feelings cloud her friendship. Yehan would never show that it bothered her, would never admit to a weakness like jealousy. She smiles and laughed away his concerns and cheered them on, and she was truly happy that they were doing so well. Even when Seventeen was busy they'd be texting and and talking. She'd chat freely about her and Hana and how they were doing and this and that gay bar Hana had shown her and how amazing the drag show had been! He'd talk about the fan signs and concerts and fans, always with a little guilt, and then he'd perk up and talk about the music they were doing! They meet up sometimes, usually with Hana or one of s present so nothing can come of it, or with face masks and scarves to hide their faces. Always careful, but it doesn't matter cause they're best friends. And then she s it all up.

She's scared, she doesn't think, well she doesn't think about anyone but herself in that moment. She does the unforgivable. It doesn't take long for Seokmin to figure out what has happened as the articles flood the internet and Pledis is out doing damage control.It doesn't take him long to realize that this wasn't just a mistake, a wrong place wrong time thing. She used him and she used his career, didn't think what the consequences for him might be! She risked his career and hers without even talking to him about it.

He's furious, of course he's furious. Yehan is crying and apologizing and trying to explain but how can he forgive her for something as stupid and callous as this?

Yeah they're not really on speaking terms after te scandal. What happens after is up to you!

 

— relation : name / occupation / personality traits / closeness

interactions

what inspires you to sing/rap/dance? to perform?

— Yehan adores the attention and the spotlight the most. She loves being adored and seen and she loves the cheers and she loves the cheek of a perfect smirk in the camera and the endless gifs it can produce. She doesn't like the variety stuff as much as she just likes doing what she does best.

which seniors do you look up to?

— She looks up to SHINEE sunbaenim the most, their perfmance skills are legendary and she will cover them whenever she can.

what makes you stand out from the others?

— Yehan has crazy charisma which makes her shine a lot. Her personality is also really to the taste of the international audience, as she's cheeky and so very girl crush. She shines in bonbon chocolat.

what scares you the most?

— Her uality coming out and inevitably putting an end to her career.

birthname. Song Hani
backup lv. a member??

PRSONLITY.

— Hani is definitely the adult in the relationship, she's dependable and mature and has a can-do attitude. She's really one of those look for solutions not problems type of people, she tries to stay positive at all times and doesn't believe in wallowing in negativity. She's emotionally mature too, she knows what she wants and how she feels and she's not afraid to share with others she cares about. Vulnerability strengthens bonds in her opinion!

Hani is free in who she is, in what she feels, in how she acts. But instead of the showy kind of  "look at me be free and rebellious" thing that Yehan has, Hani is so comfortable with herself it comes in a quiet but undeniable confidence. She does what she pleases and every day she's thankful that she didn't become an idol. She looks at Yehan and sees how it's enabling all the worst things in her/ But she loves Yehan and so she stands by her even when Yehan is closed off or when she's grumpy or mean or snaps.

Their relationship is not perfect at all. Yehan can't be as open and vulnerable with Hani as Hani wants and that's what brings the most conflict. Hani always feels like Yehan isn't quite hers, like there's always a few inches of space between them. But she stays with Yehan because she hopes that she's grow and mature and it'll get better. She loves Yehan and Yehan loves her.

lovestory. 

— ACT I —

Yehan met Hani when she was a trainee at SM. She was a dancer too and often had classes together.. She never did understand the butterflies she felt when Hani paid attention to her. Things only clicked when hthey were alone one evening, Hani tentatively grabber her hand and looked into her eyes and Yehan's heart beat inside . 

She had a mini breakdown then, the one Seokmin walked into, and a long conversation with her best friend later and she felt a little better about it all. She was fine, she was Yehan of course she was fine. Nothing could get to her. If she was gay then being gay was ing awesome because she, Bae Yehan, was fucing awesome. Right?

What followed was a whole lot of flirting as the two of them tested the boundaries, probed for a connection. And then Hani kissed her and fireworks want off inside Yehan's brain and everything in the world at that moment felt completely right. The two started dating after, which mostly meant they were inseparable and and kissed a lot behind closed doors and went on dates that looked like friendship (thanks Korea's skinship culture) and were happy as can be. Things were tough when Hani decided to quit SM, sick of not knowing and sick of the training and the condescension and the weigh-ins and the beatings to her self-esteem. She decided she didn't want to be an idol anymore and joined a dance crew instead but they promised each other it would be fine.

— ACT II —

Yehan debuted, she actually debuted! Things were fine, they didn't see each other very often for that year while Yehan was busy with group activities but they talked every day and they worked trough it.

Cracks were starting to form though, Hani wanted more emotional connection than Yehan was able to give. She wanted to see every part of her girlfriend, the good and bad, she wanted the vulnerabilities that Yehan was desperately hiding. Even with Hani she couldn't admit them, couldn't admit how the hate was getting to her. All Hani got was "It's fine, I don't care, they can eat my entire ."

That was just how Yehan was, right? the indestructable Yehan.

— ACT III —

Then Yehan's choreography project got approved so she could spend the time between comebacks keeping the fans happy. The choreography project did wonders, they were spending so much time together, actual quality time! Both of them loved doing it and it felt amazing to see something real in front of them that both of them had made.

During the promotions of other subunits when Yehan would have little to do and the stress of being an idol got to her, Hani started taking her to Itaewon with her, showed her the wonders of the LGBT scene there, of people who weren't afraid of being who they were. Hani herself had told herself she was okay with being the shadow girlfriend, that both of them had known that idol life was looming since they were trainees, that this had been in the deal to begin with. She couldn't ask for more but she wanted to. Yehan always promised her that she wasn't embarrassed, she wasn't scared, but she was just practical about it. She loved Hani but could never love her publicly. At least not yet.

The moments in dark clubs where they could dance together were some of the best moments in her life. The short moments when they were both free to love each other. 

— ACT IIII — 

And then the scandal happened and everything fell apart. Hani called Yehan immediately after. 

"Please tell me you didn't do that on purpose."

Yehan couldn't deny it, she couldn't lie to Hani. She tried to keep her facade of strength up while everything inside her cracked and crumbled and nothing came out right.

They broke up. Hani was disgusted with her, that she would use someone like that, that she would be so disrespectful and ashamed of their relationship, that she'd be such a ing coward. Yehan cried herself to sleep that night.

 

theending. 

— Up to you!

comments. Finally I have found a potential new home for her! I felt Yehan fit your story really well and I hope you think so too!
password. #b32e4d
solo song ideas/ sm station ideas.

— Sohee - Hurry Up (doesn't have to have the MV,maybe she just adds the dance practice as her monthly choreo)