jasper gao

THE shine on the SURFACE

FACECLAIM : Yang Feitong 杨非同 (ZOOM, idol producer)

BACKUP FC : Jing Peiyao 靖佩瑶 (Awaken-F, idol producer)

HEIGHT & WEIGHT : 174 cm & 63 kg

APPEARANCE : Jasper is smaller than many people expect him to be. Many fans comment on how he's smaller than he seems in real life because he has good proportions. He generally has a well-toned body because he likes working out, and has a perky chest, visible abs and strong thighs. If there were participants who had to show off their body, one of them would be Jasper. He has pitch black hair which has never been dyed before, because he just looks the best with black. He usually looks quite young, until he gets stressed, and then he looks older than his age. It's quite funny. He has a tattoo, but it's placed on the left side of his abs. He got it as memory to his time with his band cause it was their logo, not knowing that they would ever have the chance to come back together.

FASHION STYLE : Jasper might be a , he sure has a sense of style. He dresses nicely, most of the times appearing in some sort of shirt, and it's sort of a rich boy snobby style. Very clean, very sleek and a sight to see. It's a surprise to many people that he turns out to be this stupid and dumb because he sure doesn't look like it. Unless he's pulling one of his funny faces of course. In summer, most of his shirts are floral and full-on boy.

story of my life

PERSONALITY : mbti type: ENFP - hogwarts house: Gryffindor/Hufflepuff, can be both really

TRAITS : 
(+): friendly, humorous, energetic, active, optimistic
(0): loud, competitive
(-): amazingly dumb, over-excitable, haughty, childish, unpredictable

ELABORATION : 
friendly & optimistic: Jasper is team softie at his best. A total pup. He's a very friendly guy who opens up to others quite quickly, sometimes too quick. He prefers to have a smile on his face and wants to bring smiles to the people around him as well. He tries to look on the bright side of life and believes that hope brings power, so he keeps hope at any time. For Jasper, life is always good, and the glass is always half full. Well, almost always...

Humorous & loud: as the mood maker of Glander, Jasper is always able to make others laugh. He has a great sense of humor, and his natural dumbness often makes it even funnier. He is great at making funny faces, even when it's not intentional. He might be a dumb who gives headaches, he is also able to cheer anyone up from the participants. He's also very loud, and his loudness sometimes brings life back into the tired kids, but it can also just go plain wrong and make everyone angry. It's hit or miss, I bet they never miss huh with his loudness.

energetic & active: this dude never gets tired. The other members know that when they're tired and/or grumpy, they should keep their asses away from Jasper cause he'll only make it worse. He has way too much energy and is always bouncing off the walls, even after a long and tiring day of training or schedules. He uses sports to let out his energy overloads, but when he is unable to do that, he'll become annoyingly hyper and even stressed when he can't practice sports for a long time. He brings energy and good vibes to the squad, but once his energy is kept for too long, it will become a huge pain for everyone. Jasper needs his sports, and he needs it often.

competitive & haughty: If you don't like competition, stay away from this guy. Jasper likes to make a competition out of everything. First one to get to the training room, best one at mobile games, all of that stuff. Well, the one competition he wins at but doesn't like to do is who's the dumbest. When Jasper loses, he'll simply move on and find something else to compete over, but when he wins, he'll become haughty and keep on bragging it for a while. He sometimes acts haughty as a joke, but sometimes he can't stop himself from acting like he's superior. He's just so dumb that he doesn't realise he's being a brat.

Amazingly dumb: Jasper is... really something. He was always at the bottom of the class with his grades, but he always got through because he worked day and night to get his grades up. It is a subject of jokes and teasing a lot of time, and Jasper knows that, but sometimes it wells up, and the tears come. Jasper is dumb, very dumb, and he can't do anything about it. It hurts him. He's such a slow learner in anything that's not language or creative stuff, and it makes his mood drop. He has learned to deal with it and joke about it, but in his heart, there's pain because he can't do things that other people do, and that people get mad at him because he can't do it all. He's incredibly slow at understanding, and the poor guy sometimes tries so hard that his mind gets foggy and he gets a headache. It's really starting to mess with his mind and even his health.

Over-excitable: people usually think that getting excited easily is all good and fun, but really, it's not. It's not only excitement that Jasper feels quicker than others, but pretty much any emotion. He reacts heavier than the others, and it has its disadvantages. When he's mad, he gets scary, when he's sad, it's full-on depression, when he's stressed, he'll get panic attacks for pretty much nothing, when he's scared, his legs give in because he's that terrified. He experiences all emotions in double the intensity and it makes him hard to deal with. Yes, getting excited over the smallest things is very fun for Jasper, but he has often been mocked for being excited like a little child for a plane or something. His life may seem like all happiness and sunshine, but this all shows that it's actually not that easy for Jasper, and behind his optimistic loud self, there's much more hidden. He also has no way of hiding his emotions, he is just unable to do that despite his efforts. He'll definitely have some emotional outbursts on the show. Mnet likes that .

Childish & unpredictable: being on this emotional rollercoaster all the time, Jasper doesn't know how to react to or deal with things that might make him go into one of those breakdowns. He reacts to conflict with clownery to be able to deal with it, like a child, but it often rubs others the wrong way. He acts like a child when he's in distress and will seek for a sleeve to cling to, preferably of Haitao or possible group leaders of the show. He cries like a child, gets excited like a child, clowns like a child, and is just very unpredictable like a child. His emotion bombs come at unpredictable times and he can get really off at something others would not care about. Yeah, he's a pain to deal with, but you can't blame him.

BACKGROUND : Jasper Gao was born as Gao Liwei by the coast as the youngest of three. His parents had been moving between Qingdao and San Diego for a while already. They met in Qingdao, married in San Diego, had their kids in Qingdao, and were going to return to San Diego once the kids were old enough. So from the start, Jasper had two names. One for in Qingdao, and one for in San Diego, and so did his sisters. Jasper's first interest as a young child was dancing, and once they moved to San Diego when he was 8 years old, Jasper immediately wanted to join a dance class. Soon enough, his interests switched, as he discovered rock music. Jasper suddenly wanted to learn guitar and vocals the most, but he still kept on dancing, lowkey.

In school in San Diego, Jasper wasn't the only asian, but he was the only one who went up against the smart nerd asian stereotype the kids all had. Jasper was a , and it was a subject of innocent teasing and jokes, but he didn't get bullied because of it, cause he was such a lovable and fun guy.

The only fields Jasper was good at were sports, creative things and languages, so people around him knew that he would be best off doing something in music. It would help him as well, cause doing something he loves makes Jasper calm down if he had troubles. He was feeling at his best when listening to rock songs, and performing them. Jasper left his parental home in San Diego in 2013, when he was 16. One of his old friends from China had called him up. They wanted to start a band, and knew that Jasper would be the ideal front man, lead vocal and rythmic guitarist. They all lived in a small apartment in Beijing, and spent their days busking in the streets while also working a part-time job each, except for Deshi, because he was too young. It was an amazing time, and after their first few fans asked them to start publishing their amazing song covers online, they started a youtube channel. But the thing is, they didn't even have a band name yet. After a night of thinking, they decided on the name Glander. It was a random name and they didn't know what it meant, but it sounded cool. During the times as busking band, a few of their covers went viral, and they gathered quite a following. Glander was the #1 busking group, and they even got asked to join a company in 2014. It was Mavericks entertainment. They kept releasing covers, but now more professionally, and they got even bigger. Their first original song was greatly anticipated, but something went terribly wrong...

During his time with Glander, Jasper discovered that he wasn't only for girls, but swung to both sides. The band was with two of his childhood friends and a new guy that was very good-looking, he was the bassist. Bassists were hard to find, and Glander was very happy that they actually had one. Jasper fell in love. They started dating somewhere around the time they joined Mavericks. But right before debut, Jasper's best friend caught the bassist cheating, and told Jasper. Things went downhill, Jasper was a wreck. The bassist left, and was never to be seen again. Glander was missing a puzzle piece. They were given 3 months to find a new bassist, or they would have to leave Mavericks, missing out on their debut chances. Sadly, they didn't find a new bassist. The three buddies were devastated, and decided that they had to resume their lifes and go their own way, but still come together occasionally. If they found a new bassist, they would come back, no matter where they were at. That was a promise.

They all went their own way, but they all missed Glander, and all tried to pursue an idol career. Jasper spent his time performing at cafes and events in QIngdao, and participated in a talent show as well. Jasper just couldn't find a new place to become a trainee under. He started to feel empty and hopeless without his buddies, until the summer of 2018, when the call came.

Haitao found a bassist.

They met up, all very hyped and excited. The new bassist was named Yaozu, and was very friendly but definitely calmer than the three other members. He was a bit taken aback by Jasper and Deshi's shenanigans at first, but he agreed to join Glander as bassist. He said he had a twin sister who was a trainee, and maybe they could join there? The others thought it was a great idea, so they went to FutureOne entertainment. They got accepted and joined Yaozu's sister on one condition, they were going to be trained for both band and idol stuff, which all of them agreed to. And after a bit more than half a year, they're out on their first mission already. Conquer Korea, accompanied by Glander's sister Yehao.

THE little things

LIKES : 

- soft fluffy blankets, a great way to calm him down
- rock music, especially the happy stuff
- Glander
- the beach and the ocean
- summer and warm weather
- boats
- pineapples
- milkshakes
- sweets, he's a real sweet tooth, but Haitao always tries to prevent him from getting a sugar rush because... a naturally hyper person with sugar rush? that's calling for trouble
- fluffy, long-haired cats
- busking
- joking around and making people smile
- sports

DISLIKES : 

- being alone
- his dumbness
- emotional outbursts
- his personality, even himself sometimes
- people who harm his friends
- coconut
- broccoli
- sushi
- winter and cold weather, he's very sensitive to it too
- passion fruit
- reading
- sitting still

HABITS : 

- biting his nails
- hugging anything in his sleep
- making a competition out of everything
- whispering when he wants to say something but everyone else is silent
- waving at a camera when it focuses on him

HOBBIES : 

- electric and acoustic guitar
- piano
- working out
- athletics

FEARS : 

- his own emotions
- darkness
- ladybugs
- dogs
- death

TALENTS : 

- electric guitar
- singing rock songs
- piano
- running
- ugly faces

TRIVIA : 

- can't locate his own hometown on the map
- Often speaks in third person and adds his full name at unnecessary spots in the sentence (see quotes section)
- is biual but has only dated one dude before (and we all know how terrible that ended)
- can play many sports decently but he's the best at running
- wants to have cats once he's allowed to
- generally jokes about his own dumbness but it hurts inside
- has Glander's band logo tattooed on his abs. (yes they did take some inspiration from iKON but yeah it's China)
- if there is one group he's fan of which is not a band, it's probably Oh my girl
- takes lots of unnecessary pics but sometimes he takes gems which will be treasured forever
- He owns two electric guitars. 1 2
- also owns an acoustic one 1
- no one can touch his guitars other than Haitao or Deshi
- his favourite colors are purple and blue
- his favourite dish is marinated scampi
- his favourite band is relient K
- his all-time favourite song is waste a moment by kings of leon
- loves galaxy print stuff, it's mesmerising and has his favourite colors.
- off stage, manly and charismatic on stage
- wants to be seen as a manly and cool dude
- the first thing he looks at in both men and women is their smile. If they have a pretty smile, Jasper's sold.
- can't see the other members sad
- when someone harms one of his friends, his sisters or Glander members, he'll get crazily mad at them
- can fall asleep anywhere and does that extremely fast. Can even sleep standing up
- even though all the kids are adults now, they still try to go on a yearly family holiday with the parents
- always puts his hair up in a little sprout when he's training
- Jasper is the happiest when playing rock music with his beloved guitars and Glander playing with him

JASPER SAYS : 

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- Ni hao
- you
- oh god
- why am I such a dumb
- why can't I just be smart
- why do I have to be like this
- Jasper Gao doesn't like that
- you want a Jasper Gao punch in the face?
- if you ever harm my friends, you'll get a Jasper Gao punch in the face and then a Jasper Gao kick in the groin
- Jasper Gao is just casually going to get out of here
- .
- , why the you lying
- wait a ing minute
- are all of you really gay??

home relations

FAMILY & FRIENDS : 

Oldest sister : Rachel Gao (31) / restaurant owner / creative, confident, cheerful / 9/10 (fc: amber an)
The oldest child of the family. Rachel is a queen who has become one of the best female chefs of China, and owns a restaurant named Jasper & Jamie's in Qingdao, she's also planning on making it a big brand. She's currently preparing to open a restaurant of Jasper & Jamie's in Beijing and Shanghai as well. She is known to mix eastern and western style food together.

Middle sister : Jamie Gao (25) / architect / humorous, tough, stubborn / 9/10 (fc: Ni Qiuyun)
The middle sibling of the family and the toughest of them all. Jamie's like a breeze, she's constantly moving around and making others move as well. She's an architect, but in her free time she teaches a dance class, so Jasper is not the only dancer of the family. Jamie didn't always treat her brother as well as Rachel did, but now they've become great friends and they are the moodmakers of the family.

The terrible ex : Chen Aiguo (20) / waiter, former bassist of Glander / sweet, sassy, feisty / 1/10 (fc: Lin Chaoze)
Aiguo... Don't get me wrong, he's not like some evil witch, but this is the dude who broke Glander. The new guy that Haitao brought in to complete the band and Jasper's first boyfriend. They were a cute couple and all. Until Haitao caught him cheating on Jasper. Haitao was fuming, Deshi wanted to punch Aiguo in the face, Jasper was a devastated mess. A puddle of sadness. Aiguo was too embarassed and scared to face the trio ever again, so he left without notice. Well, at least he felt regretful and didn't make it worse by talking to Jasper. But he was the reason Glander couldn't debut. Jasper tries to not think about him anymore, but Haitao and Deshi still despise him for breaking Glander and harming Jasper.

stage connections

GROUP MEMBERS / OTHER TRAINEES : 

Bestest friend in the world : Xu Haitao (21) / lead guitarist of Glander, also does the backing vocals, occasional keyboardist / see his app / 10/10 (fc: Ding Zeren)
If Jasper had to choose one friend to keep, he wouldn't even doubt about it and go for Haitao immediately. Yeah too bad for his other friends, but Haitao is basically Jasper's life right now. They've been friends since kindergarten, and even when Jasper moved to San Diego, they kept writing letters to each other and later on chat on the pc. Haitao was the one who started Glander and brought Jasper back to China. They weren't best friends before that, but through Glander, they became besties through thick and thin. Haitao was the one who made Jasper discover his desire to stand on stage. Haitao is the one who caught Jasper's first boyfriend cheating on him. Haitao is the one who cared for Jasper when he needed it. Haitao is the best friend. The bestest friend Jasper could ever wish for. And it's the other way round too. Haitao's parents never agreed with his desire to be idol, and Jasper helped convince them. Haitao and Jasper had the same plans when Glander had to separate. But in the end, Haitao found a new bassist, and they could come together again. Haitao also has the Glander tattoo, he has it on his right thigh.

TBA, I have no inspiration from him, but it'll be in his own app

Glander's third wheel : Zhao Deshi (18) / drummer of Glander, also rapper / see his app / 9/10 (fc: Lou Zibo)
Desh is the youngest and the drummer of Glander. He met the two besties on the playground, and Haitao started treating Deshi as a little brother immediately. Deshi was too cute of a kid to let go. Haitao still mothers the out of him, who gets grumpy when Haitao does it now. Deshi is a great guy though, but since Haitao and Jasper are so close, he's the third wheel. he doesn't care though, as long as he can drum. Samuel isn't someone of many words anyway, but deep down he really cares about his big brothers of Glander. Deshi got the Glander tattoo later on as well and has it on his right forearm.

I have everything I need to succeed in life. Except for the votes. Please change that.

The savior : Lin Yaozu (20) / bassist of Glander, also rapper / see his app / 8/10 (fc: Ye Hongxi)
Yaozu is the new member of Glander who brought them back together and saved them. Everyone is eternally thankful for him, and they accepted him with open arms, but of course he's not that close to the other members as the others. But at least Deshi has his mate now and won't be the third wheel anymore. Yaozu is a cool dude, but also quite awkward, so he was a bit silent at the beginning, but they're quite close already, for only knowing each other for less than a year. His twin sister helped a lot with dragging him into Glander, because she befriended the boys faster than he did, actually.

It feels good to have a place where I'm welcome and able to follow my dreams. I'm very blessed.

Glander's girl : Lin Yehao (20) / trainee under FutureOne and half-member of Glander / see her app / 8/10 (fc: Matilda Saebyeol)
Yehao is Yaozu's twin sister and an earlier FutureOne trainee. She brought Glander into the company and helped them out. She's a very wild, fun and open girl, and she's someone who makes friends easily. She's almost the opposite of her brother. She was the one to get close to Glander first, and then dragged her brother along. She always drags her brother along, and her brother always has to pull her back to keep her safe from reckless actions. Jasper loves Yehao and they have lots of fun together. Yehao is like Glander's sister, and actually some sort of member because whenever they need an extra keyboardist while Haitao needs to play guitar himself, Yehao takes on the task (like in their recent days gone by cover).

Have a fun time and be yourself, any day, every day.

THE STAGE LIGHTS SHINE ON YOU

STAGENAME : Jasper 재스퍼 (officially it's just Jasper but he tends to introduce himself as Jasper Gao)

COMPANY : FutureOne

TRAINING YEARS : 2,5 years (unofficially 3,5 years). Busking and covers with Glander for 3 years, including 2 years officially under Mavericks + 6 months under FutureOne

TRAINEE LIFE : Jasper started out as member of band Glander, and they were an individual band that started with busking in Beijing and then started uploading covers on youtube as well. After a year, they were scouted by Mavericks, and were being trained for their official debut while still working on their covers. They were treated greatly and given a lot of freedom, because that was how Mavericks wanted to keep them under their company. Glander was already ready to debut, but they just needed the recognition and funds to start it all. Some of their covers went viral, some Relient K covers even gathering more views than the original since it isn't a very known band. They had a fandom and were ready to debut when the disaster around Aiguo happened. Mavericks gave them three months to find a new bassist, but they didn't find one and had to leave the company. They separated, but promised to come together when they got the chance. They continued to pursue their desire to stand on stage, each in their own way. Jasper performed locally, Deshi concentrated on school while training at a new company, Haitao concentrated on looking for a new bassist. And he found him, and a twin sister as bonus. They joined the sister's company, FutureOne. But they wanted to train Glander to become idols as well, and not only a band. They had their eyes on a survival show. The first one they were ready for was in Korea, so they went there. Glander's dancing is good enough, but they really shine when performing as band, and when they can show their skills. Jasper and Haitao continued as skilled vocals, but Yaozu and Deshi turned out to be better rappers.

GROUP NAME : Glander

GROUP TWIN : Vogue5

POSITION TWIN : Lin Zheyu in Glander, Yang Feitong in general

DISCOGRAPHY : No own songs yet, but these are some of their most known covers. Because they were preparing to go to Korea, they released some Korean covers under FutureOne:

- the 1975 -

- zebrahead - call your friends

- kings of leon - waste a moment

- foxy shazam - unstoppable

- relient k - don't blink

- imagine dragons - shots

- cartel - retrograde
- stone temple pilots - interstate love song

- green day - 21st century breakdown
- 3 doors down - here without you
- muse - uprising

- ftisland - pray

- day6 - days gone by

- cnblue - i'm sorry

(someone stop me from adding more songs to this list please)

WOULD CHARACTER NAME BE ONE OF MNET'S FAVORITES, OR A RELUCTANT PICK? Jasper is definitely a reluctant pick. Even though his vocals are really something, he's definitely mnet's least favourite of the FutureOne trainees. He'll be one of those talents who don't get screentime and fans will complain about it. They mainly don't like him because he's an emotion bomb which might give mnet a bad reputation, he's visually not that appealing (according to them!) and he's just a bit unstable which mnet doesn't really want to show. They don't want him to get up there by talent and pity votes. And... he's Chinese.

SCANDALS / NEWS ARTICLES : 
- Busking band Glander disbands and leaves Mavericks for unknown reasons. Haitao says that Glander is still alive, but incomplete.
This was leaked by a staff member after Glander didn't find a new bassist to complete the team. The fans were very sad, but they had hope, since Haitao spoke about it on social media, saying that Glander won't go down that easily, and that they will keep looking to complete the band again.

- Busking band Glander announces new bassist and company.
The fans were very happy to finally hear this news. Haitao was again the one who announced this. He introduced Lin Yaozu as their new bassist, and told the fans that they were now under FutureOne entertainment, preparing for their official debut. 

PRE-SHOW EXPERIENCES : local performances in Qingdao and a local talent show too.

questionnaire

WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO BE AN IDOL? Music is the thing that makes me the happiest, so I wanted to become an artist to show others the same happiness.

WHY DID YOU COME TO PRODUCE? Because we want to get experience and become better versions of ourselves by joining a survival show. The first one we could actually join after joining our company was produce 101 season 4. People might ask why we didn't join idol producer 2, but that's because at that time the company didn't allow us yet.

WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER TO BE YOUR BEST SKILL? Vocal and guitar. But since guitar won't really be needed here, I think, it's vocal.

WHAT CONCEPTS ARE YOU BEST AT? rock of course. But I'm good at both ballads and cool songs as well.

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO? Don’t underestimate anyone, it will fire back on you.

sienl1 / sien

COMMENTS : CUSSES AT YOU, SCREAMS BLOODY MURDER, MAKES YOU UWU SO HARD! Just kidding. Yo Min. Here's my first boy! Baby Jasper uwu. I hope you like the bub! I added all of the seats here since he's the first one to get submitted but I'll repeat the seats of the other kids in ther own apps, if that's fine! I just want to make sure no one separates them when half of them are submitted or something. Also the songs won't be repeated again either cause that would be a nuisance. And I already made the song list a bit crazy cause I just keep adding songs which always happens when I try to make a playlist for an app lmao.

SCENE REQUESTS : 
- unstable moments of poor Jasper, gimme the drama
- glander just being happy to be together
- Jasper getting no screentime but at one point he'll like suddenly emerge because of his vocal skills just like his faceclaim did (he was #89 without screentime, then became center in the first mission and shook everyone with his high note, and ended up in the top 35)

PASSWORD : 1: Zhao Deshi, 14: Lin Yaozu, other 14: Lin Yehao (in case they are the seats next to the stairs), 15: Xu Haitao, 16: Jasper Gao