I don't want to live a life where i'd see the same thing every day. go to the office and stare at a screen all day and go home. go to a studio and stare at a screen all day. i want every day to hold a different challenge.

aya is an oddball, wherever she goes she never quite fits in, she always stands out as an anomaly. she's witty and often offers commentary on the goings on around her, in fact sometimes it's like aya can't keep shut even when it's not good for her. she's a little like the cheshire cat, lounging on the branch and offering commentary that suits more to feed her own amusement than that of those within earshot. teasing is her primary mode of communication.

she's whimsical in everything she does, sometimes it's like aya is pulled from left to right by whatever strikes her fancy at that moment. sometimes she's not entirely attached in the now, she very quickly gets distracted from one thing to another. one moment you have your attention, another moment something you said triggered a bead of inspiration and she's already inside of her own head thinking of how to format the lyrics and what song structure might support the narrative. then another moment she's just thinking very hard about how to sneak out of the dorm to go meet her friends without the manager noticing, creating a full 10 step plan from manager distraction to how exactly to fake a check-up call without the sound of the club betraying exactly where she is, and then she might forget to execute said plan entirely because she wasn't watching a movie the others girls had on but she kept glancing at it and got in anyway and now she totally forgot about sneaking out. 

similarly, aya holds an opinion on just about anything. you can ask her what the best letter in the alphabet is and she'll say "which alphabet, latin? obviously R, the juxtaposition of soft rounded top and sharp straight bottom is marvelous, don't you think?". however, you will only get that opinion out of her if you directly ask, she doesn't offer up her thoughts on her own. she's not averse to sharing, but simply holds her thoughts close to her chest unless requested. she's introverted and enjoys her alone time, though she just as easily just shuts everyone in a room out of her mind and can have her alone time in the middle of hongdae surrounded by thousands of bodies. 

she's not the best unnie to go to for comfort, the most she can offer is some awkward brushes of the back and a there there, but she's wonderful for advice. aya isn't someone who will tell someone what to do unbidden, life is too short to listen to other people telling you what to do, but if you ask for her advice she will be thoughtful and candid. she will weigh positives and negatives, possible repercussions, and lay out a roadmap of choices that could be taken. aya is not a moralizer, she will not tell you want she thinks you should do because this isn't her life, but she will help you figure out exactly what your options are. she's super individualistic that way, she's here to celebrate everyone's differences, not similarities. your path is yours to walk and that's exactly what makes it great. she doesn't judge, anything you want to be is ok with her as long as it doesn't harm others. if it makes you happy, what are you waiting for? conforming to what other people want you to be seems very silly to her. she knows people find her weird, sometimes even off-putting, but that's fine with her. their thoughts don't affect her reality. she does understand that to some people the thoughts of others does affect their reality and will not belittle them for it either. her teasing is only for fun and never meant hurtfully. the human experence is different to us all and that is just wonderful, is it not?

aya was born in osaka to a japanese man and a korean woman. she grew up there for the first 6years of her life before her family moved to Seoul for her father's work. then another 5 years later they back to japan again.

her family is upper middle closer to lower upper class, dangling between the two, and growing up aya received a lot of piano classes and was expected to excell at them, which she did. she has a gift for music. her mom also tried to get her to learn violin as another prestigious instrument to know but the voilin and its stiff teacher bored aya to tears and she secretly ditched classes to learn guitar by herself in an empty instrument room in the school instead. her parents were furious when they found out but it was but their first reminder that, ultiately, aya would do whatever aya wanted to do. her parents have learned to cope with disappointment, she was never going to be the perfect social climber daughter they wanted her to be. the death blow to their relationship was probably when aya refused to go to university or finish high school in japan, instead choosing to pursue music without any formal education. aya wanted to go back to korea and connect more with her korean roots but she needed a visa for that. so she thought she'd try her hand at being an idol trainee for the free visa and music classes.

she auditioned for many different companies and finally got into fnc in 2015 where she trained for a while. she always felt like she wasn't good enough at fnc. she was still working on building her dance skills up from scratch but she had other skills and even then there were vocal evaluations she felt those who did worse than her but were fully korean were praised more than her or treated better. this really frustrated her. she also felt inbetween the clique of korean trainees and the clique of japanese trainees, never quite fitting in either. so she mostly was by herself which suited her just fine. she worked a lot on song writing in the mean time.

the first song she sold was was whatever in 2015. she was showing some songs she'd made to an ex-trainee friend with connections and he showed it to some companies and brave bit. she was so excited to step into this world of actual music production she started neglecting her idol training and spending more time producing. it took a while to sell her second song but it was also her biggest hit. 'fire' was made just messing around on her guitar and seeing what would happen if she put two slightly different melodies in each ear. she almost wrote it off for being too busy but it worked and somehow through connections here and there it got to sm's table and they actually bought it. it took a while for it to actually be recorded and produced but aya was star-struck when her idol taeyeon was the one to release it.

and then fnc found out that she'd been selling music and apparently doing side businesses was against her trainee contract so she was dismissed with a hefty penalty sum that her fire royalties just about covered. with her visa tied to her trainee status, aya had to find a new placement for herself asap before she'd get deported back to japan. she desperately auditioned for everything around and a little company called prism bit and so she moved to them instead.

LIKES

   fall colors and aesthetics

   pumpkin spice latte and chai teas

   spicy foods

   philosophy

   bugs and reptiles and other scary animals

   learning new things

   colorful hair

DISLIKES

   exercise

   cold temperatures

   empty praise

   small talk

   boredom and the same things

TRIVIA
   her stagename comes from combining her korean surname and the last syllable of her japanese given name.

   she asks prism to only publish her korean name as her real nae because she's experienced a lot of bullying and xenophobia about being half-japanese and she doesn't want more of that as an idol.

   she speaks very eloquently using lots of big words and difficult concepts despite who she's talking to

   she can play piano, guitar, and bass. her parents tried to get her to learn violin as a 'proper classy instrument' but aya ditched her lessons and taught herself how to play guitar with youtube videos and instruction books instead. guitar is her instrument of choice now, but she's competent with the piano and decent with a bass.

   she learned to rap so that she could write raps for idol songs and, like many things, she turned out to be quite good at it.

   she's really that girl who was always naturaly good at everything she tried who might finally be stretching that talent to a breaking point.

   her parents don't approve of her idol or producer life and they really still want her to get a formal education. aya does what aya wants to do, though. they have a rocky relationship now.

   not a fan of coffee but she can't deny the boost for late night work so she drinks it sometimes anyway

Please list the significant relationships only! Also define the character's personality (whether through listing traits or a short description), their birth year or D.O.B, and their faceclaim!

choi hanmin - fc: cho seungyoun - 96 line

he's more sunshine on a sunny day, sometimes it's nice and sometimes it's a lot and sometimes it's august and 50 degrees and you're sure the sun is just personally ing with you.

hanmin is the mutual friend who connected aya and namjoon. he's also the one who got aya her first song sale. they used to go to high school together and have been friends ever since. he's high energy, gets excited super easily, and is generally a good egg. everything he does is with passion, from grocery shopping to music production. he introduced the two of them because he thought it would be interesting to see if they would get along well, two people who are so similar yet so different. like, he had a bet with another friend that they would either become besties on the spot or never want to see each other again. he did win that bet. now he's the biggest namya shipper and often teases both of them about each other.

 

STAGE NAME: coco
POSITIONS: main vocal, dancer
TALENT TWIN(S): miyeon (vocal), yena (dance), gaeul (rap)

PAST EXPERIENCE(S): fnc trainee 2016-2017
songs composed as leif that were released:

- (2016) whatever - brave girls
- (2017) fire - taeyeon

TRAINEE LIFE: 2015-2018

aya stuck to herself most of the time, still burned from where she had a really bad experience with other trainees at fnc. she also told everyone that she's fully korean and goes by ahra or aya but never ayako. she never lies, she is korean, she just doesn't disclose the percentages.

MEDIA PRESENCE: the media doesn't know that leif is aya and she will continue to produce and sell music under that name but now with prism's knowledge and consent. aya doesn't want her idol image to get tied up with her producer image, she thinks that would be messy and she fears that she would get special treatment either positively or negatively so she prefers it this way. only a few people know about her double career.

HEADLINES:

   PRISM'S COCO IS HALF JAPANESE?

so there are some people who know that aya is half japanese, there were enough trainees at fnc with who she has bad blood and rumors will eventually start to circulate as a trainee with a grudge will rat her out to the press and it will become a whole scandal where koreans will feel that she cheated them by hiding it and japanese will feel offended that she'd feel ashamed about it and both side's nationalists will absolutely hate her and she gets a ton of for this

CAREER ASPIRATIONS: aya cares about her production career more than her idol career. she loves the group even if she can't always communicate with the other girls very well and she enjoys standing on stage but music has always been her first love. she very much took the trainee gig and debut as a means to stay in korea. this could cause conflict between her and the group where priorities aren't aligned. she would also definitely want to do a solo but only if she got to produce it herself.