Personality

(+) friendly, loyal, thoughtful, hardworking, intelligent
(-) shy/cold, stubborn, emotional, self-doubting, self-destructive

wenwen is sort of unassuming. she's pretty, but she's quiet, rarely speaking to others because of shyness and because she's not confident speaking korean. as i've just mentioned, she's pretty shy and usually has a poker face, which makes other people think that she's cold or mean, but in reality, she's really lonely because she's suddenly in a new, high-pressure environment, though she's always willing to make new ones, as long as other people want to be friends. she does, of course, greet the friends that she has very cheerfully and tries her best to get along with them despite not speaking korean well and knowing that a lot of her friends may leave the company if they don't debut.

she can also be pretty stubborn and stuck in her own mind or mindset, not easily changing her mind once it's set, but she's a loyal friend and cares a lot about her friends and family. if her friends tell her something that goes against her beliefs, she'll consider it very seriously and may change her mind without much convincing, just because it was her friend who said it. she's also very emotional, which makes her prone to anger, but though she's quick to anger, she's just as quick to forgive. she has a fairly good memory and will remember details that her friends tell her, like their coffee orders or their allergies. she's also a good active listener and is willing to spend money/time in order to help others.

in addition, she's quite smart, being able to keep up with training despite not speaking korean as fluently as the other trainees. part of it's because she genuinely just gets stuff, but the majority of it's because she works hard. because she's a foreigner, it takes her ten times more effort to learn stuff than it takes everyone else, and she's willing to do it. however, because she works so hard training, she tends to neglect living her life and often sinks into bouts of self-doubt and self-loathing where she doesn't think she's good enough. she also has a tendency to self-destruct and be like 'well this is already bad enough so i might as well make it worse'.

Mental health

as someone quite sensitive, wenwen's mental health through her trainee years wasn't super good. however, she held on with the hope that she would debut one day and all the hardships would be worth it.

but after reel girls' debut and all the living nightmares they experienced, her mental health took a total nosedive. as the leader, wenwen felt like she should be responsible for everything and believed that the current state of the group was all her fault. she should have been more attentive, she should have done more to oppose them, she should have been firmer in saying no, etc etc.

for wenwen, her mental struggles manifest in the form of insomnia, intrusive thoughts, and recklessness. so many thoughts spiral around in her head and torture her during the night, and she often doesn't feel safe enough to sleep until it's already daytime. she won't make an effort to commit suicide because she fears pain, but she also won't stop the opportunity for death, so she acts recklessly and hopes for everything to end without her taking initiative.

she has a freeze response to trauma. her brain and body simply shuts down and she blindly listens to whatever someone else tells her to do. afterwards, when she's away from the immediate experience, she beats herself up for not doing anything (even though she was physically unable to).

Backstory

wenwen's parents are fairly successful doctors, with her mother being the director of a hospital and her father being an ER surgeon. that said, they were often too busy to take care of her, so she was actually brought up by her grandparents. thankfully for her grandparents, wenwen was a quiet child who was to take care of, and she was content to listen to the radio and watch TV with her grandparents. this was her first exposure to music, even if it was old, traditional chinese music that only old people enjoyed.

with the support of her grandparents, wenwen often put on mock concerts at home, where she sang and danced to these traditional songs. this formed the basis for her dream of becoming an idol. because wenwen's family wasn't in dire need of money and her parents didn't really care what career she chose, her family supported her dreams and encouraged her to explore her hobbies. although wenwen was an excellent student and could have been a great academic, her dream was to sing for a living, so she started taking voice lessons from age 10. since they were the ones paying for the lessons, wenwen's parents imposed one restriction (and only one) on her, and it was that she could not debut until she graduated high school. this was to ensure that she would get a high school diploma, even if she didn't go to college.

being a good child, wenwen kept her promise. even though she was accepted through an audition at age 15 by yg entertainment and moved to korea entirely alone, she continued to attend online high school. after a year at yg, she realized that she didn't like the music style that the company preferred, so she started to look for other companies. coincidentally, real media was calling for auditions...

Her story moving forward... 
i think wenwen would be in tatters by the end. even if she recovers physically, she would be forever plagued by what happened to her and the members. she would return to america and, through her parents' medical connections, get into extensive therapy sessions.

i do want her to recover and be super ing angry, though. maybe she would come back on social media and make statements exposing real media (with proof, if possible). however, she wouldn't interact with comments at all and would only take interviews from trusted media outlets.  

likes 
   - all fruits, but particularly raspberries
   - spicy foods
   - cats
   - sunny weather
   - vanilla ice cream
   - ghibli movies

dislikes 
   - rainy days
   - heavy metal/hiphop music
   - the cold
   - reptiles
   - fake cherry flavoring
   - getting sick

habits 
   - tilts her head to the right when thinking
   - picks at the skin on her hands when she's worried or nervous
   - stutters when lying
   - constantly cracks her knuckles
   - clenches her jaw/grinds teeth in her sleep

hobbies 
   - reading
   - writing stories
   - watching youtube
   - (trying to) cook

general trivia 
   - takes like an hour to wash her face, brush teeth, etc but will change clothes in five minutes
   - her favorite color is lilac purple
   - she likes kids
   - her favorite kpop group is SNSD
   - other than SNSD, her favorite musical artist is jay chou
   - she's double-jointed in her elbows and knees
   - she's quite flexible in general and can do the splits both ways
   - her favorite movie is spirited away
   - she HATES the horror genre and will cry if she watches a horror movie
   - she's a touchy-feely person and will often initiate skin contact with the members
   - she doesn't save ppl's numbers in her phone with nicknames, just their first and last name (or the name they prefer to go by)  

Fears ~  
  - closed spaces
  - the dark
  - spiders

Dreams ~
 - To write a book
 - Hold a concert at home

Career Aspirations ~
- Win a daesang

Regrets ~
- Not spending enough time with her parents and grandparents
 
Special talents:
- can her elbow
- is able to imitate every member's voice