GJSN • • ✤ RE : BLOOMING • • ✤ EMI IS THE MARIGOLD

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birthname. kang emi  |    강에미   |     佐藤恵美    
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— [ sato emi + 佐藤恵美 ]  this is her official japanese name. she is half japanese on her mother's side but rarely uses this name to address herself. if anything, sm would probably just accidentally release her name and then edit it out (like wonyoung and her taiwanese name/heritage rumor) 
— [ do-emi-fa-so ] while she was an SMROOKIE, fans called her this as her was clearly a good vocalist. if the girls had personal "fan-names" her fans would probably call themselves "la-ti-do's" in order to complete the scale. she thinks it's embarrassing but endearing.

birthdate. october 03 1995
birthplce. seoul, sk
ethnicity. korean-japanese
languages. 

korean |  100%  |  she was born and raised in korea so naturally she understands the language well. no accent worth mentioning, though she does have a slight lisp.
japanese |  80%  |  despite not having spent too much time in japan, she still grew up listening to her mom speak it. she still has a slight lisp while speaking, but it sounds cuter in japanese, she thinks. 
english |  50% |  any english she knows is from listening to johnny and youngmi bicker and repeating said phrases in funny, though innappropriate times. " you are the worst! why are you like this?! " with a big, clueless smile on her face type thing. 
mandarin |  20% | she is by no means good at mandarin, but wanted to learn it so she could "order food properly and haggle better" in case the girls ever go to china. 

faceclaim. yoohyeon of dreamcatcher
backup fc. nayeon formerly of pristin
appearnce.

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fashnstle.

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prsoNlity. here four positive and four negative ; expand on them please! other personality stuff is welcome,

cunning, ambitious, open-minded, begrudging, jealous/envious, easy-going,  insecure, emotional, introverted- gay and wreckless listen that's her vibe, re-vamping her all together okay. gay, jealous, wreckless and cunning okay.

 

 

 

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background. here

 

TRAINING.  

[ PRE-SM ROOKIES ] emi began her career as a trainee in 2009 when she auditioned as a vocalist and was snatched up and tossed into the dungeon for safe keeping. she was still fairly young then, balancing school and training but managed decently. she was vocal oriented and labeled "the next bada" by the company. she mostly did demo song recordings and helped out at f(x)/snsd concerts at this time. 

[ SM ROOKIES ] things get more interesting in 2014 when she is finally freed from the depths of hell and pushed into the rookie program. rumor has it she was meant to be in wendy's spot in red velvet but was changed last minute due to lack of popularity and thrown into the ROOKIE program for a back-up plan of sorts. she all ready knew several of the people in it despite being late to the party but quickly made herself a few friends to stick to. she never could get much attention though, for whatever reason, but she figured if she was friends with the more popular ones she at least had that. (too) bright and (too) wreckless, as far as how she portrayed herself, she was often stated as "being too much" or "trying too hard". 

[ SLJK-G ] unlike youngmi and a few other girls, she wasn't immediately picked up that summer in 2015 to join the program. it was a blow to her dainty ego and was admittedly a bit envious of her peers. with that sort of thing backing her, she pushed harder to stand out and eventually got recruited into SLJK-G in JAN 2016.  the hardwork paid off, it seemed and she was happy and even more so because she has friends again. training was super hard, far more challenging than her former programs but the blow to the ego that she felt months prior kept her fire burning and did her best to outshine everyone. she matures a bit during this time and takes all the try-hard energy and tries to rebrand it as "under-dog" energy (but is still on the line between good chaotic and bad chaotic, of course)

 

talent twins. here

pre-debut. here
scandals. optional 

fun facts.

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rElAtnshp. 

— parents : name / occupation / personality traits / closeness

interactions

 

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help : tba / idol - ROSE plotline / tba /  ????

despite being terribly insecure and likely secretly jealous of all the other members in GJSN for some reason or another, she doesn't really WANT to be that way? with ROSE being the leader, she tries to confide in this character when she notices her envious nature popping out to the point it's a problem and thinks highly of ROSE for it. emi doesn't like being this way but can't find it in herself to get over it without encouragement and she looks to ROSE for that sort of help. emi would likely be rather biased towards the leader and probably be a "teachers pet" type with her. 

 

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rival : tba  / idol - IRIS plotline  / tba /  5/10

emi is terribly jealous of iris, too. this girl is likely the most talented in the group, being able to rap, dance and sing fairly well but emi just can't stand it. once again she finds herself burdened with an envious feeling in regards to IRIS but she tries to keep it concealed. they wouldn't be too close, but civil i would imagine. 

 

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rival : yoo youngmi / idol / friendly + earnest / 7/10 --> gets lower gradually

these two were always good buddies and got along decently. emi is on the wreckless, emotional, alcoholic aunt side of things in contrast to youngmi being more on the disney princess with magical glowing hair and a quirky side-kick side of things but emi really enjoys the energy that youngmi gives off. she isn't obnoxiously cheerful like some of the other girls but still manages to have a good aura about her and emi has always been jealous of it. she keeps her envious nature hidden and isn't proud of it, per say, but can't help but wish she had been more popular/liked amongst the other trainees like the younger girl. she's conflicted about her jealousy, of course, but tries to gear it towards fueling herself to train harder. she got a certain satisfaction when she was given the #1 Main Vocal spot and youngmi was given the second main vocalist positon. it's a one sided rivalry, of course, but one never-the-less. 

 

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"buddies"  : yuta nakamoto / idol / a scorpio lmao / like 2 out of 10 on a good day

does yuta enjoy emi's precence? not usually, but does she persist and force it anyways? of course. trying to play into the whole "ahaha, we're both japanese-desu~!" thing, emi tends to try and give herself more edge to her character by attempting to be close to him (and the other japanese trainees/members). he isn't terribly fond of it but when a camera runs over to him chasing after her, he kind of has to deal with it, which consequently just makes his disdain for her grow even more. emi has other motives, of course, and is the official -block for literally any male besides yuta that may attempt to speak to youngmi. johnny bee-lining to youngmi to say some english stuff? NOPE, she suddenly has to ask the tall american senior a very important question. if yuta does have feelings for youngmi, than by all means emi would deserve a thank you for all her effort, at least in her mind.

 

 

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

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which seniors do you look up to?

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what makes you stand out from the others?

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what scares you the most?

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Animated gif about kpop in nct: johnny by sydney

birthname. johnny seo
backup lv. eh, if no one, then just let her -block him from getting youngmi u w u 

PRSONLITY.

—             down-to-earth | friendly | assertive | thoughtful

lovestory. 

—   for the love of god, can you please just notice me, senpai? if not you, then who because i don't want to see myself . . . 

it all started back when she first met the same age friend when he joined the company. he only trained during the summers due to him still being in school in the states but when they were able to train together, it was super pleasant- a far cry from the awkward socializing they do now. 

back when she was confident in herself and didn't have any reason to feel pressured to be the absolute best, she was just emi, a cool girl that wasn't too outgoing or obnoxiously in-your-face, personality wise. relaxed and very easy to get lost in a conversation with, the two were quick friends due to their similar natures. she might have been raised in korea but she still had half of herself that was foreign to the country and the two were able to bond over being a bit different. both older than the other trainees at the time, it was natural that the two gravitated towards one-another. 

close to say the very least, it was even rumored at the time that they might have been in "some" sort of relationship. dating wasn't restricted, per say, but it wasn't encouraged either so the two stayed casual about it but it there was certainly an unspoken sort of mutual crushing going on between them. things were going great, she would have thought back then but when 2011 rolled around things went south. 

exo had their line-up figured out and johnny didn't make the cut and that bummed her out but she was quick to encourage him to keep at it and the two carried on with that energy. she was completely there for him in his darkest time, completely understanding the whole "basement" concept he was stuck in as she herself was also down there. word of a new training program in the works sparked interest in all the trainees at the time and new faces began to flood into the ranks every other day it seemed. it was an exciting time and emi looked forward to how things would turn out. once again, the year proved to be going pretty well but it halted suddenly one fine afternoon.

"hello, my name is alice yoo. i'm a vocal trainee but i'll work hard to keep up!

a bright smile illuminated the face of the young girl that stood before her peers in the training room. she wasn't young enough looking to appear child-like but was obviously still in the midst of puberty. 

emi happily bowed and waved to the new face just as the others did, watching her take a seat next to a group of younger trainees while the trainers began to talk. 

"another vocal trainee, huh? hopefully she can keep-" emi started to whisper to johnny who was seated next to her thought stopped when she turned to look at him. 

what she saw horrified her. something deep down that she hadn't felt before bubbled up suddenly and when she followed his gaze across the room, that feeling swirled around more violently in her stomach. right in front of her eyes, she watched as her world began to change.

not only was johnny staring rather obviously at that new girl, his whole body language changed. no longer was he casually leaning against the back of the wall with his usual lazy smile but instead he'd straightened out and made a note to square his shoulders up. 

after watching him for a solid minute, studying his odd behavior rather obviously, though he didn't seem to notice, emi sat back and zoned out of the lesson entirely. that pit in her stomach sat heavy in her guts like a ton of bricks and it unsettled her. what was this feeling? 

she would find out soon enough once class ended that the feeling wasn't a passing fancy and would make itself rather well known from that day forward. 

"hey, alice right? i'm johnny and this is emi. welcome to our ranks- it's nothing fancy but i do know sehun from soon-to-debut-exo so it's whatever..." johnny cooed playfully after leading emi over to greet the new girl. 

emi hated it when he spoke english because she didn't grasp it at all but really hated when the new girl lit up and began to speak it back.

"well, i suppose that is cool but it's too bad because i prefer chanyeol, otherwise i would have been impressed." she replied with a laugh. alice looked to emi now, smiling like she had before. the churning in emi's gut swirled again.

"o-oh, hello! I am...emi! I don't speak english!" emi said in an awkward jolting of words. it made the two american's chuckle, which gave emi a moment of relief but it didn't last long.

from that day and foward, the churning got worse and matters only worsened more when several other new trainees flooded in shortly after. all the new girl trainees were talented and pretty and got popular out of no where and emi was practically last year's model and got tossed aside. no longer a common name tossed around, she was almost like a stranger in a room that she'd trained in longer than most of the trainees that stood around her. 

more and more foreigners flooded into the ranks, too, and emi began to feel even more pushed aside as johnny and his new found friend alice began to group up with the likes of mark or jaehyun or that wendy girl everyone talked to highly of. 

emi felt left out for the first time in a long time and things only got even worse during evaluations. things were more strict now and everyone was on their A game. she went from being the apple of the company's eye to being a runner up to these new girls with voices that rivaled her own. wendy was amazing and emi hated it and even that alice girl was great and was younger than emi and wendy on top of it. she felt pressured for once as her metaphorical crown was snatched off her head but now she didn't have a shoulder to cry on. 

her crush and once-mutual-haver-of-feelings no longer paid her mind in that way anymore. instead he turned his sights to the new friends he had made and most importantly that alice girl. 

when the SMROOKIES were announced and everyone except her got in and she was once again passed up to debut in red velvet, emi hit rock bottom. she used that disdain for all the other trainees to fuel herself to train harder but most importantly tried to catch johnny's eye again. 

however, by the time she lets herself sink into her insecurities and coping mechanisms of repressing and trying too hard, she's completely different from herself in the past and when she's invited into the ROOKIE program, no one recognizes her anymore. some of the newer faces didn't have the foundation of emi when she was still "cool and relaxed" to base their feelings on her about, so they just knew her to be that really extra, over-the-top older girl while the long-time trainees were just kind of perplexed by it- including johnny. 

"emi, you seem...uh....different these days." he would mention one day after training wrapped up. emi, deprived of his attention, simply shrugged and smiled rather unnaturally.

"i mean it's been a few months since we saw each other last- i've matured since then!" she said, voice nearly cracking with uncertainty. 

johnny's brows raised quizzically but he cleared his throat and carried on gathering his things. her unnatural perkiness made him and most of the others uncomfortable but he tried to sweep it aside for the sake of their history together.

"are you sure you're okay, emi?" he asked softly, looking over towards her after a moment of silence.

it was the first time in a long time she felt a connection to him. in a moment of weakness, rather than breaking down and confiding in him, she just smiled that unnatural smile again and forced a laugh. he looked disappointed, to say the least.

"o-of course, why do you ask?

"just wondering is all, i guess."


from that point on, she just kind of clings to a false personality and tries to make friends with it? johnny isn't amused by it and instead gets kind of annoyed by it at some points but for the sake of their past, once again, he tries to ignore it. 

of course if he would just confront her about it, perhaps he could help her out of her insecurity hole™. 

 

( sorry i took a bit of an intiative on youngmi joining the company- hopefully it's not too jarring  u n u ;; )

 

 

theending. 

— once she is eventually whisked away and gets to debut, she makes haste in trying to get johnny to notice her once again, failing likely, at least in a romantic manner, and instead takes to admiring him from afar while also -blocking his attempts to get at youngmi. she's made it a point to even make up nonsense about things she's heard about yuta and youngmi. 

"oh you know, i heard fans think they'd look cute together. they call them TwoYu or YuYu or something like that...

or 

"wow, they have such great chemistry, huh?

really, she just wants to discourage johnny from pursing the younger girl but really if she would just open up and be herself, she could probably avoid all that non-sense and just tell johnny how she feels. 

as long as she is acting out of insecurity based reasons, he'll likely just pity her and muse her company but perhaps if she ever turns over a new leaf and approaches him as a emi again, who knows u w u 

 

comments. i usually read off a friend's account, but i saw that you wanted tea spilled, so i was like "bet" and boom u w u whoops this love interest section got sad real quick whoops lolol
password. #faffd5  [ she's not a bad person by any means but she lets her insecurities drive her into a mid-life crisis, attention-seeking/validation cycle that ends up kicking her in the . she really just wants herself and chicago senpai to come back to her side so she can be happy again as herself with someone she admires along for the ride. ]

solo song ideas/ sm station ideas.

— go crazy, these are just suggestions and ideas for the solo bits and future solo bits
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