Ahn Sojoong

by Ari-nim (ari)

appearance

— cause looks are important

face claim — Park Hwan Hui
back up — Ji In

She has small feet (220 mm)and she uses them as a scapegoat whenever she falls over, something about being "unable to balance." Her hair falls to below her shoulder blades, it's pure black, never been touched by anything except a comb. Both her ears are pierced and she usually can only be bothered to wear small stud earrings. She wears contacts when out and thick rimmed glasses when at home (her eyesight is terrible, even with her lenses) 

fashion style

— walk walk fashion baby

At home and outside, Sojoong loves being comfortable. She usually walks around in her house barefoot with a pair of loose tracksuits and a random top or extra baggy jumper. She'll just wear whatever's clean, though most of her home clothes are cute and somewhat embarassing. When going out, she'll wear clothes that give off a gentle and innocent yet casual vibe (like in the gif) and doesn't usually show a lot of skin or wear bright colours a lot. 

personality

— hardworking, thoughtful, perfectionist, observant
— quiet, introverted, obsessive
 

Sojoong is quieter than a mouse and is easily spooked. You'd be lucky to even get a second of eyes contact with this girl on your first meeting, seeing as she'd most likely be fiddling with her fingers and inspecting the ground instead of mingling. She is introverted and hates talking t ostrangers and making new friends. The exact reason she'd applied for the jon was to help get rid of these traits, but it's proving to be a lot harder than expected. As soon as she sees a new, unfamiliar person she goes running for the hills. She thrives on familiarity and stability. She bases her entire life on a stricly planned out schedule. If she's even a few minutes behind, she will most likely have a mental breakdown. She needs to know that her glasses are kept in the right corner of her second drawer in her bedside table and that she has a 15 minute break after her 2o'clock shift but she must leave 2 minutes early if she is to get to where she is meant to be on time. She's one heck of a perfectoinist, everything has to be in it's place, labelled and neat - even her labels have labels - and she hates change. She's quite a worry wart and often over thinks things until something that didn't seem that bad at first ends up turning into the end of the world. It gets to the point that she has a fear of making big decisions, weighing out the pros and cons of each option and analysing and thinking and just exhausting herself. She thinks that if she makes her wrong choice, her entire life would spiral out of control. She has excellent instints and intuition but doesn't trust them enough. 

Despite her setbacks, Sojoong is quite the people pleaser and uses her oservational skills to analyse things quietly from a distance. She can never say no to people - can;t say things to people, period - and she hates any form of conflict or confrontation so she just goes along with what everyone else wants, in order to make them happy as well as to avoid fights. This sometimes leads to her being taken advantage of and feeling out of touch with her own emotions. But it doesn't matter because if everyone else is happy, shouldn't she be too? She is the type of person who thinks she can handle everything on her own and doesn't want to burden other people with her emotions. She won't say anything if she's tired or upset or feeling any emotion that makes her feel helpless and weak. She's been the only person she could rely on for the past 21 years, there's no way she can change it now. She braves everything on with a smile on her fae. On the rare occasion that she does speak up, it will usually be because a situation is unfair or unjust. Injustice is something she hates more than being untidy or dsorganised. Sojoong is also very ditzy and absent minded - usually too busy inside her own head to notice the things going on around her - and multi tasking is a nightmare for her. When it comes to working, however, she is extremely hard working and diligent, she doesn't want to disappoint or anger any higher ups and often forces herself to act a little more bubbly and extroverted in front of her customers and later, once they can no longer see her, crumples up in a corner and just cries because omfg she just spoke to someone for like 2 minnutes. 

Sojoong is by herself most of the times, so she must find a way to keep herself entertained, most of the time she would people watch and analyse things. If an elderly woman is walking by herself across the street, she would ask herself 'what's her story? where's her family?' and just let her imagination run wild. When she is deeply immersed in thinking, her emotions wiill literally be projected on her face and she will most likely be muttering to herself. This has landed her in some awkward situations. Usually ending with tears. Speaking of tears, one of the reasons why people like being around her is because of her reactions, just like how she's always overthinking, she is also always over reacting. Whenever talking to someone a faint blush will always be on her cheeks and her eye contact will be all over the place, many find this endearing - until she starts to tear up of course. When someone teases her she will most likely widen her eyes to thesize of saucers and shout out "WHAT?" or "HUH?" and of course it's funny for a while but then she looks like she's going to cry and the humour in the situation disappeas. Being the country girl she is, Sojoong is amazing by most of the things she sees in the big city, always having her jaw unhinged and eyes wide in surprise. But no matter how awestruck sheis by things, she is still easily spooked by the things she doesn't understand. Slang language, computers and the one time  she ran away screaming because she'd discovered what a hoover was - and the devilish sound it gave off - are all examples.
 

trivia

— likes

one — the colour red
two — the cold ( it makes her feel more alive ) 
three — animals ( especailly big dogs )
four — little children ( the only human beings she can actually talk to. "they're just so cute and innocent." )
FIVE — Park Chanyeol
five — mangos ( favourite fruit )
six — bubble tea 
seven — mango bubble tea ( unf )
 

— dislikes

one — ghost stories
two — loud noises ( especially girl screaming )
three — the heat
four — sport/exercise
five — physical pain

— habits

one — abusing her lips (peeling, , biting) all day everyday for no reason
two — blushing whenever talking to someone
three — shaking her leg everytime she sits
Four — fiddles with her fingers when nervous ( and stutters when flustered ) and tries to calm herself down by rubbing her wrist bone
FIVE — covering her face whenever she laughs with her hands, hair - anything she can get her hands on
 

— hobbies

one — cleaning
two — playing piano
three — studying/reading

— other facts

one — allergic to seafood
two — expert at drinking soju and eating spicy things
three — doesn't get sick often and doesn't really know how to look after herself when she is sick so she just carries on as normal, not even taking the right medicine - if she takes any at all, that is
four — has an cute eye smile
five — if things are stuck in her head or she has to remember something for later - because her memory is almost as bad as her eyesight - she even carries around a notebook and pen wherever she goes for that purpose, but if her notebook is not within reach she has an all surface pen to write with too. One time she drew the song lyrics to 'Gee' onto Chanyeol's arm and he got some strange looks from everyone that walked by him. 
Six — everything must be even like the number of fries she eats or the volume of her headphones
Seven — when she likes something she will probably get obsessed with it
eight — her name means 'precious'
 

background

— a part of my life, so listen to me cause I'm important

Sojoong has lived in Jeju all her life, her family wasn't extremely well off but they weren't struggling either. She's never really stood out much and lived in everyone's shadows. Everyone was doing well in their studies and heading for big things in their lives, but she never really knew which direction her life was heading in. She always felt sorry for her parents for having their daughter be the odd one out. Well, it wasn't that dramatic. She has a older sister, Ahn Seo Ah who moved to Seoul and became a heart surgeon. Being the indecisive girl she is, Sojoong decided to follow everyone else who'd 'left the nest' and go to university in Seoul, no matter how much she loved her simple life in Jeju. 

family

— cause damn, what would you do without them

mother — Seo Ah Na // 32 // house wife // stubborn, assertive, caring, observant // they are pretty close and spent a lot of time together but Sojoong was always easily taken advantage of by her more agressive mother, whether it be for what they would eat later on or who would get the TV remote, Sojoong always let her mother win, probably why the latter addresses her as, "my favourite daughter~" Ah Na was always trying to push her daughter to the best of her abilities, even though they seemed a little limited. She had faith in her. 

father — Ahn Ho Dong // 45 // local doctor // sweet, funny, hardworking, // seeing as how Sojoong was the more introverted one in the family and always wrapped up in her own little world, when he wasn't busy at work, Ho Dong always made an effort to spend time with her and keep her happy. He was a total family man filled with enough love to look after the "3 only women in his life."

older sister — Ahn Seo Ah // 26 // heart surgeon // sweet, bright, motherly // always doting and caring. She is Sojoong's mother in Seoul, seeing as she moved in with her sister when she left Jeju. They are inseperable and Sojoong often feel suffocated by how well her sister treats her. Like their mother, Seo Ah is domineering but she is a little more considerate of her younger sister's feleings and helps her out - behind the scenes and subtley 

friends

— you love them no matter what

friend — Park Yura // 26 // reporter // funny, bright, kind, // friend of her sister and they became close, mom no. 3 Yura likes making fun of her and calls her ;sister in law' because of how close Sojoong is to Chanyeol

others

— exs, enemies....awkward

n/a

employee interview

— a quote that represents your character

"can you, dedicate yourself to this job? heck why do you need this job for?" — Of c-course I can...I applied because I-I wanted to become...more approachable

"strength and weaknesses?" — I'm...hardworking...but I'm also a-awkward

"what are you here for? A waiter/ess? barista? or even a baker?" — B-barista...maybe I won't have to talk to people that way...

send in application

return to the cafe

Park Chanyeol

— Oh Sehun

personality — He's a bright little ball of derp. Fun loving, sweet and gentlemanly but quite careless. Chanyeol is always forgetting or losing things, most of the time his own footing. The giant is always tripping over things - usually his own lanky limbs - and bumping into things - espiecially people shorter than him, like "whoa, where did you come from?". He's friendly and making friends come easy to him. He's so cheerful all the time. In those rare occasions when he looks cool and hot and omfg he'll usually ruin it by tripping over some cable but the bright smile that spreads across his face as he laughs at himself will make everything better. He's so optimistic, so much it's annoying but but at the same time, he's a lazy , especially in the mornings when he acts like his soul left his body. He never leaves anything half finished and knows what he has to do to get what he wants and if the time calls for it, he's prepared to be a little manipulative to get it. He's quite straight forward and can say the awkwardest sentences in the wrong times, he says whatever comes into his mind and doesn't worry abuot making a fool about of himself. He has the subtlety of a sledgehammer. He's known for half assing a lot of but he's the happy virus so people let him off. He is fiercely loyal to those who are close to him and would lay down his life for them. 

relationship — He;s always there when she least expects him but needs him the most. Whenever she has one of her mental breakdowns and feels like , Chanyeol cheers her up and she usually splutters incoherently before running away everytime he smiles at her. He treas her well and looks after her, someone like Sojoong needs someone to watch over her. She laughs - quietly - at all his cheesy jokes. He's always there for her and she's thankful for that but smoetimes she feels like he's only nice to her because he pitites her. SHe also doesn't feel like she deserves someone like him in her life, he treats her so well and she can't really do anything for him. He likes her and tries to charm her, but she doesn't believe he's being sincere so just brushes it off as a joke. They are inseperable, Sojoong is always clinging to him and he acts as her 'shield' from all the things she thinks are scary. He just laughs at her beause she's cute. He tries to make her come out her shell and shows her life, always dragging her to new places like the amusement park and aquarium. He drops the heaviest hints known to man, literally telling her that he's in love with her but she brushes it off like it's nothing = not without that panic attack though. How could someone like him , like someone like her? She thinks of him as a hurricane. He storms into her life and shakes everything up. She likes him a bit but doesn't label it as a crush or anything and denies her obvious feelings for him beause in her sorted and perfect life, Chayeol doesn't fir in the black or white and turns her organised world upside down. 

history — After moving in with her sister, Sojoong is met with Seo Ah's best friend Park Yura, who takes the roll of her third mother, the latter is determined to introduce Sojoong to her 'darling little brother' . They meet and she barely says a word to him while all Chanyeol does is look at her from the corner of his eyes and marvel at how cute she is. He basically fell in love with her at first sight and even though it's not the same for Sojoong, she felt an instant attachment to him and he accepted it with open arms. Their interactions now are different from the shy little smiles and cHanyeol trying to make conversation with her without making her cry have changed into Chanyeol trying to prove his feelings are real and Sojoong being a stubborn little . And maybe still trying not to make her cry.

other — N/A...?