FULL NAME Tasanee Nanaorung — ทัศนีย์ หน้าหนาวรุ่ง
 

　  Neeni. This is the name she mostly goes by.

 

　 Neens. A cute nickname of the nickname, used occasionally by her family and closest friends.

 

　  Serene. Former main nickname.

 

DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) june 04, 2019 (17) 

BIRTHPLACE Bangkok, Thailand

HOMETOWN Moncton, Canada (moved when she was 10)

ETHNICITY thai

NATIONALITY thai, canadian

GENDER cisfem, she/her (also comfortable with they/them)
UALITY
demiromantic
(once she has that deep a connection with people, her attraction to them is not limited to any gender)

demiual, ace-flux
(fluctuates between "happy to participate, but not interested enough to initiate" and "completely uncomfortable")

 

Note: She has not figured any of this out yet. More on that in the trivia section.

 

　 Thai. fluent (L1).
She was born in Thailand and their primary langauge at home was thai.

　  English. fluent (L1).
Her father taught at an international school in Thailand and her family moved to Canada when she was nine.

 

　  French | stutteringly conversational (L2).
Neeni took french in school and was not great at it. Since moving to South Korea, she has put her french on hold, because it was messing with her ability to learn korean. As such, her french is declining - if she put in the effort, she could get back to being a smoother level of conversational someday.

 

　  Korean | semi-fluent (L2). 
Moving to South Korea to start training with BM when she was 16 was like being thrown in at the deep end of a pool. The only korean she knew at the time was a few random words she had picked up from kpop and suddenly she was going to High School in a language she didn't know. She's not naturally the best at languages, but being around the Korean language almost 24/7 meant she learned quite quickly. Though she still gets words wrong and struggles with metaphors and sayings, she can make it through everyday life and even interviews well enough.

FACECLAIM Eisaya Hosuwan
(useful pinterest boards - credit not mine)
 

BACK-UP Urassaya Sperbund
(older, but has more pictures)

 

WEIGHT 52 kg

HEIGHT 161 cm on a good day

 

Neeni has plans for an elaborate tattoo, but because she is quite young, her parents have only allowed her to get a small part of it. Right now, she has a single violet on her shoulder (similar to the main flower in the picture). Violets are the symbol flower of New Brunswick, the state in Canada, that Neeni is from. In the past, as Siren, she pretends that the flower is a lilac to represent her part of Fortuna and she chose a five-petal one because those are lucky. The plan for the full tattoo is to turn the violet into a wave of violets (and lilacs to remember her time in Fortuna), because she also grew up by the ocean and to add a betta fish, as those are the national fish of Thailand. After returning to the future, but before Cherie debuts, she wants to have the tattoo completed, so no one will try to call her out on copying Siren's tattoo.

 

Neeni's fashion is pretty simple. Jeans, Tshirts, Hoodies, Sneakers. Shorts in summer, maybe even a dress or two. Block colors, any fancier designs are seldom. Her makeup is subtle and although she doesn't like going outside without any makeup on, she is comfortable just doing her eyebrows, mascara, dropping a tinted lip balm in her backpack and walking out the door. She prefers backpacks over purses, just because that way the weight is on both her shoulders. She'll protest if the stylists try to give her a purse, unless it's for a photoshoot or mv and there doesn't have to be anything in the purse.

 

She does know a bit about fashion, though. Her sister learned a lot of fashion and makeup advice from kpop idols and passed that knowledge down to Neeni. So if she really has to, she can dress more stylishly, but will still heavily rely on the stylists to tell her what to wear. Just because she can walk and even dance in heels, doesn't mean she'll ever feel as comfortable.

BANGKOK YEARS

 

 

 

Note: Neeni's sister, Gen, is a transwoman. She is described as having very traditionally feminine interests, which is not meant as a statement about all transwomen, since every transperson's experience is unique.

 

Neeni was the last addition to her family of four. Originally, she was nicknamed Serene, with the assumption that she would be graceful, classy and unshakable. Her parents tried to raise her that way in the beginning - the idea was that Gen would be a scientific go-getter and Neeni would float across the room to the sound of music. It became clear pretty quickly that that wasn't going to happen. Gen was the one who took to music instantly. Although she was very dissapointed that she was too small to play her mother's cello as a child, she found a way to enjoy the music by spinning around the room instead. What started as an awkward child flailing her arms to a beat soon turned into dancing along to kpop dance practices on youtube. Neeni, on the other hand, took much more after their father. He taught chemistry and biology at an International School in Bangkok and got Neeni interested in those science experiment kits for children. Conducting electricity through a potato, soaking eggs in vinagar until they bounce off the ground, dying flames by adding kid-friendly ingredients. Neeni got an hour of computer-time a day and spent most of it staring at wikipedia pages of animals and plants, trying to memorize the names of her local wildlife. Her first dream job was to be either a teacher or a tourist guide, so she could show people the wonders of the natural world. Which was how she found out about pollution and how big of a problem it is for nature. Upset by the idea that there were people out there who cared so little, she (along with her parents) joined local environmental groups to help with things like protests and clean-up initiatives.

 

School went well for Neeni. Because their father was a teacher, both Gen and Neeni had access to good schools. Neeni was a bright young student, energetic and enthusiastic. She liked interacting with people, made friends quickly and raised her hand in class a lot. Studying went well for subjects she was interested in, others fell by the wayside a little. Science and math went well for her, languages were alright, art class was a nightmare. Music was an interesting case: her voice was quite strong, so when it came to actually making music, she was pretty good - but she had a hard time caring about the theory aspect of the class. So her grades in music were always a bit low for the daughter of a professional orchestra musician. All in all, Neeni was great when she was interested and generally created a positive and engaged presence in her class.

Gen didn't get along quite as well. She was brilliant at music, dance and other artistic subjects. But for scientific subjects, it took her more effort to study and as she grew older and entered Secondary School, it seemed more and more like she had something on her mind that took up her attention to the point that she didn't have a lot of time in the day left to study. In 2026, when she started Upper Secondary School, she came out as trans to her family, who accepted her pretty quickly. Although Thailand was one of the leading countries when it comes to gender reassignment surgeries, legal and social rights were still not as good as they could be and after not quite a year, Gen felt like her transition had come to a bit of a standstill. In order to enable their daughter to live as herself and to grant her a new start in a new place as a woman, the whole family soon packed up and moved to Canada.

Their father got a position teaching science classes at a secondary school, which was fairly close to his old job. Unfortunately, their mother wasn't as lucky. In Bangkok, she had worked as a cellist in an orchestra. The only professional orchestra in the Moncton area that was looking for a cellist, was an orchestra that toured a lot. Even though it wasn't clear if she would even be accepted if she auditioned, she decided not to – the whole point of moving had been to be there for her daughters and touring would have complicated that. Instead she began to give cello lessons out of their living room and managed to build a decent base of students over the years. Although the income wasn't quite as good, it was steady and although the job wasn't quite as glamorous, she felt a quiet pride for her students.

 

Job changes weren't the biggest thing to get used to: It was quite the culture shock for the whole family to move from a thai megacity with an estimated population of 10 million people to a canadian city of about 71 thousand. But since the sisters had already gone to the International School their father had taught at, an english speaking country seemed like a good choice. Because of this, school wasn't as complicated as it could have been. Both girls were determined to make the most of this new place. After a year of reading up on local wildlife and environmental causes, she was delighted to hear that her middle school had an environmental conservation club. And so Neeni spent a lot of her afternoons and some weekends at the river or on trips to the coast to participate in ocean cleanups and similar activities. There she made a lot of her friends, including a few friendships that lasted through high school, long-distance trainee years – up until the whole time travel thing happened.

 

Gen had an easier time being herself here and anyone who was transphobic towards her was met with two teenagers ready to argue. More importantly, Gen found her place in her high school's dance team and even met a few fellow kpop enthusiasts. Neeni hadn't been wildly interested in kpop so far, but became roped into it. She dragged Gen along to ocean cleanups fairly often and decided to let Gen pick the music along the way, which resulted in a lot of kpop singalongs in the car. Because Gen had more practice at singing, she had the better voice and Neeni hesitantly took over the rap parts, because that was what was left. She was pretty terrible at it at first, not knowing a word of korean and having never tried to rap before. But because she wanted to bond with her sister, she put in the work to practice her korean pronounciation and was eventually able to fake her way into sounding like she knew what she was saying without actually understanding even half of the words. As for her rap skill – you can't practice something for multiple hours a week without getting better at it.

 

 

 

By the time she turned 16, Neeni was sure of one thing: when she grew up she wanted to have a carreer that helped people. A noble goal, but not very specific. Trying to help the lives of marginalized people and trying to fight climate change... politics seemed the obvious option. But as far as she could tell, politics would mostly include talking to people who already agreed with her, being torn down by people who didn't and fighting tooth and nail for minimal changes. Important work, but very frustrating and made worse by the fact that she was so young that none of the people with the power to change anything would take her very seriously until she was much older.

 

Kpop was one of many ideas on the list, along with creating or working for various community centres, shelters or environmental intiatives. In fact, kpop was one of the ideas Neeni considered least likely to happen. But a few companies held auditions in Canada a few times a year and auditioning couldn't hurt, right? Honestly, if it hadn't been for Gen, she might have written off the pop industry as really fun and entertaining, but to vapid to mean anything. But kpop had meant a lot to Gen, who had found an escape from troubles, so many role models for feminity and a place she could belong in the music. And as she watched her sister flourish, Neeni saw the potential positive impact the genre could have first-hand and believed in the power of art. Rap was fun to her by now and sometimes she even scribbled a few lines of her own on the side of her school notes. So she viewed kpop as a chance to 1) rap for a living, 2) inspire people, 3) create and/or boost conversations that are important to her.

 

She auditioned for a few companies, was rejected a few times and was extremely surprised when she got a callback from BM. It was only because her family had such a history with music performing and because of a lot of research into how BM treat their trainees, that her parents allowed her to travel to South Korea and see if she could become a trainee. Gen accompanied her on that first trip, to support her sister and also to see the kpop world up close. During Neeni's first audition in Canada, she hadn't been very nervous, because she didn't expect anything to come of it, except for a fun story. But here? She actually had a chance and she really wanted to do well, so she was extremely nervous. In an interesting twist, another auditioning girl started an argument with the sisters about lgbtqi+ pride pins on their luggage and by the time Neeni went in for her audition, she was worked up enough that she had no place for nervousness. Instead her anger transferred into a pretty badass and confident performance.

 

She was accepted as a trainee and was quickly moved into trainee dorms and enrolled in korean high school. In the blink of an eye, Neeni had once again moved continents and switched schools, only this time she didn't even really know the langauge. It was a lot to deal with at barely 16 years old and so she wouldn't be alone, her mother moved to South Korea, though she obviously couldn't live in the dorms with her daughter. Neeni's father's job meant he couldn't up and move so easily, but her mother was confident she would find cello students anywhere. He and Gen visited regularely, though. At least one parent was close by and could help if Neeni needed support. Because the family had settled down in Moncton quite nicely, the plan was that her mother would move back to Canada when Neeni was in her early twenties in about four years. After all, no one was expecting time travel.

 

 

Queer rights hadn't been all sunshine and rainbows (hah) in Canada either, but South Korea was still worse and Neeni – who was used to standing up for what she believed in – didn't shy away from discussions or arguments. Her confrontational nature got her in trouble at school and even within the company every once in a while. And although activism was far more accepted and common in the kpop industry of 2036 than it had been ten years before, the PR team were a bit worried when Neeni was chosen for Cherie. But Brian Moon made it clear, that he had her back and even if PR would have to smooth over the occasional scandal, no one at BM would stop her from fighting for what she believed in.

 

And then, suddenly, the idea that "activism was far more accepted and common in the kpop industry of 2036 than it had been ten years before" comes back to bite her. Because she is now not just ten, but 18 years in the past. She isn't even born yet. Neeni, with all her bone-deep need to fight for a better future for everyone, is now being catapulted into the public eye in an time where open activism could tank the careers of her entire group or even company.

 

Besides... is there a point in trying to campaign for a better future, if all you can do is follow the predetermined path of Fortuna? How do you make things better if you can't change anything that happens?

 

Because her stage name is Nova and the meaning of Chérie, her fanclub name is Lovestar - like lovehearts, but with stars, you know.

 

In Fortuna, her stage name is Siren and her fanclub name is Lightship. Lightships work like lighthouses, but they are more mobile which symbolises a flexibility and ability to go where they can help the most (streaming mvs, etc.). Also, because Siren implies luring people onto the rocks, the fans can be a guiding light for Neeni to remember who she is doing all this for and that this work - however temporary - means something to someone.

 

Most of her kpop knowledge is thanks to Gen and was an especially big part of their lives from 2025 onwards. Gen's favorites went as far back as 2019 (because almost noone *just* listens to rookies when they first get into kpop). So Neeni actually knows most about the kpop world from years 2019-2036, which is extremely useful when it comes to time travel. She knows group names, might recognize a few faces. Can sing along and do the dances to some of the girl group hits. But her knowledge is limited - even though kpop had a major presence in her life, she was never the fan of the house. Most of what she remembers is stuff that was repeated a lot over the years: her sister's biases and especially iconic songs or moments.

 

Neeni holds a lot of respect for Fortuna in particular. Not only because they were some of Gen's favorites. It's how highly Brian Moon speaks of them. Whenever anyone tells him how much they appreciate his care for his idols, he brings up Fortuna as people who really helped shape who he is and that he learned to want to interact with the people around him in a way that is understanding, uplifting and kind. Fortuna have helped two people that are major parts of Neeni's life become better and happier versions of themselves. She feels like she owes them a lot.

 

Which is why she feels like the girls have been handed a huge responsibility when she realizes, that they are Fortuna. Some of the other group members may only see it as the responsibility to become the major players Fortuna were in the kpop industry, to make songs and learn dances that are that good, to be that entertaining and graceful during variety shows - to live up to the daunting task of becoming kpop legends. However, Neeni joined who the kpop industry mostly because of the significant positive impact she has seen it have and views being an idol as an opportunity to inspire people to feel like they can be themselves and to fight for social change. So she knows that it's important that they succeed as Fortuna, but also feels pressure to live up to being a part of that very personal change that they inspired in her sister and their CEO.

 

Eventually she remembers that he is going to become the Brian Moon she knew from 2036 and that a big part of that was Fortuna. And so she slowly but surely settles in to a more patient approach - this is someone she knows can change - and if he needs her to be gentler and move slower then she can grit her teeth through his nastier comments. Over time, she learns to be less short-fused and learns skills that make her better at reaching out to people that don't already agree with her - pretty useless right now when she can't speak up anyway, but it is good character development. He learns to turn his idealism outward to better standards for the kpop industry and becomes more constructive towards idols and trainees.

 

CHÉRIE

GEN NANAORUNG

BRIAN MOON

HER PARENTS

Neeni has a lot on her plate by learning to be more patient with people and by keeping up the act of being Siren. I don't think she needs a romance, but it would be cute! Tulip or Daisy are probably the best options age-wise within Fortuna.