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SHIM KWONSOO
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NAME. 전설, Shim Kwonsoo
NICKNAMES.
부회장. As a member of the Gunseo Data board of directors, Kwonsoo's role is more or less that of an overpowered investor. Considering his close relationship with the chairman, it's no secret how much weight his contributions hold. That, coupled with the fact that his presence is never missed in the Gunseo Data headquarters, is what prompted the employees and executives to call him Boohwejang (vice chairman/president) even though the title is nowhere near official. It's become an inside joke of sorts.
수. The only one who calls him Soo is Jaehwa, but you've got to give credit where credit is due: he's been calling him Soo for at least fifteen years.
Zuckerberg. "Oh, so you kinda became —what's his name again?— Mark Zuckerberg," Sejeong says. "Me? You wish. That's Jaehwa," he tells her. Of course, in standard fifteen year old behavior and despite the fact that it doesn't affect him at all, Sejeong uses it as teasing ammo.
AGE / DOB. 25 / May 23, 1995
OCCUPATION. Investor & Board director
FACE CLAIM. Wonwoo from Seventeen / Johnny from NCT but consider this: wonwoo
APPEARANCE. It would be fair to say Kwonsoo went through a phase of what the youth now calls flexing and, while it's mostly over, he maintains a general aura of privilege. In other words, one look at him will tell you he's got you money. Which is kind of funny, actually, because his features, in isolation are all quite normal. He's of average height (175cm and he'll always lie about the exact number), he has monolids, black hair, no piercings and no tattoos (to his surprise). Nothing extraordinary about Kwonsoo, just tired eyes and a collection of watches you can't afford.
ESTP, THE ENTREPENEUR, CHAOTIC ENERGY,
COPE BY PRETENDING, MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?
SYMPATHETIC MURDER BACKSTORY
gregarious, present-oriented, observant, assertive, logical, fun-loving
SYMPATHETIC MURDER BACKSTORY
gregarious, present-oriented, observant, assertive, logical, fun-loving
insensitive, repressed, impatient, irreverent, noncommittal, guilt-ridden
If you see the world in terms of talkers and doers, you clearly haven't met Kwonsoo because my man is both. He's very sociable and an amusing speaker —you never know what kind of purely chaotic thing he's gonna say next—, but his chaotic energy also translates into a can-do attitude and a sort of incessant restlessness. What matters most is here and now, right? So, more than anything, Kwonsoo likes to go out there and do things. No one values new experiences and adrenaline rushes as much as this guy.
However, if you see the world in terms of thinkers and doers, you might have a point. Kwonsoo is a very observant guy, very practical too: he's best at putting his knowledge and skills to use and he can easily explain something in few words because that's how easily he understands new things. The thing is that, because he's so present-oriented, he gets impatient: he tends to jump to conclusions and charge ahead without second thoughts, which comes back to bite him in the . What's worse is he brings all this trouble upon himself only to shift his attenton to whatever new better thing catches his attention next. Kwonsoo isn't the best at sticking to plans or commitment in general. He sees people making ten year plans and can't help but to be absolutely baffled: what if they're not even alive in ten years?
Also, he has a tendency to take things at face value. Yeah, he saw you looking down, but wait! Does that mean you're sad about something? Annoyed? He truly can't imagine what about. This is closely related to his privileged childhood. Not having his parents around and growing up financially comfortable (to say the least), Kwonsoo could get away with being in his own world and saying some pretty insensitive stuff. As a result, he can be irreverent... at best. At worst, he's full out ignorant or hurting someone's feelings.
Speaking of feelings, Kwonsoo doesn't really partake in that. He has a very hard time addressing and communicating how he feels, so often times he finds himself chasing after things to do, problems to solve or people to talk to, just so he can get his mind off of his personal concerns. He's been doing it for a decade now, so it can't be that bad of a habit. What started it, you ask? Well, Kwonsoo killed someone. Maybe saying that he killed her is debatable —he's gone over this—, but the point is he could have saved her and he didn't. Kang Jimin didn't get to live: she never went to a club or ate live octopus or smoked weed or traveled to Thailand. And maybe that could have been him, it could have been him instead of Kang Jimin. For a decade, Kwonsoo has wanted nothing more than to feel alive. That, and to forget, to leave the past behind.
So join the party! Sleep with your jeans on, eat a bell pepper like an apple, smuggle alcohol disguised as Listerine. There's no guarantee we're here for a long time, make it a good one.
Background
High Society: The Shim family of Haeahn Group notoriety welcomes their second son
Kwonsoo is born the youngest of two extremely wealthy siblings. The Shims have played a major part in the development of Haeahn Group, a large conglomerate focused on areas such as precision machinery, aerospace, chemicals and explosives and dabbling on financial services, sports teams and city development/construction. As much as people try to get it through to him how much other people struggle, it's only natural that Kwonsoo grows up privileged for he can't imagine living life another way.
From a young age, he's used to not having unconditional love in his life. That's perhaps the one privilege he doesn't have. To outsiders, it might seem sad, but Kwonsoo doesn't think it's necessarily bad, it's just how things are when your parents aren't around and the relationships you develop with your peers are superficial because you're just kids.
He's eight when he switches schools and meets Oh Jaehwa, who he is convinced is a child prodigy, and Oh Sejeong, the coolest girl he's ever met,. The two were already friends prior to meeting him, but he fits in their dynamic all too well. The years pass, people come and go, but the three remain inseparable. They're there to witness each other's embarrassing phases and growth spurts and best and worst moments.
Breaking: Ship sinking in Gyeonggi. Seventeen injured, six dead.
Breaking: Students dead in field trip accident. Haneul Middle School to be facing charges
He's fifteen when he goes on a field trip to an island in Ansan. When he hears about the boat ride on the way, he figures they're gonna do something special or at least interesting. Turns out it's an immersion camp. In response, he hears his brother ask why the school didn't chose a more accessible place. Nothing of note.
Kwonsoo can't remember the boat ride all too well now. He remembers sensing an overall change in the atmosphere, something like panic spreading as people began to whisper and ask questions with their eyes open wider. "What's wrong?" he asked. The only one who listened to him was a girl called Kang Jimin (really smart, almost as much as Jaehwa, not in his class) and all she could say was "I don't know".
Then he remembers screaming. Screaming, the slight smell of smoke and water. He doesn't remember where Jaehwa was. He remembers the uncomfortable feeling of water in his nose and the sheer desperation as he tried to hold his breath. And then he remembers the suitcase: a single brown suitcase floating amidst the chaos.
The way he remembers it, fifteen year old Kwonsoo hurries towards the suitcase to stay afloat. Finally, he can take a breath. He's gasping for air when feels himself getting dragged underwater once again only to meet a girl's eyes. Kang Jimin shoves and tugs at him as she reaches for the suitcase. He shoves back.
To this day, the image of Jimin's eyes as she sunk further and further away is engraved in his mind. He thinks it always will be.
South Korea's youngest millionaires? Meet Oh Jaehwa and Shim Kwonsoo
He doesn't remember much after that, just numbness. Then, he remembers the slightest feeling of relief after seeing Jaehwa rushing towards him. Then, knots in both of their stomachs as they looked everywhere for Sejeong (once, twice, three times and then the police came). Then, the funerals, but Sejeong's in particular.
Jaehwa was friends with Sejeong way before they were friends with him. Kwonsoo has a lot of things to say but, for the first time in a while, he can't verablize them. Physically, they two are as close as ever. Mentally, there's a distance.
Honestly, he still can't process it. He can't process any of what happened in boat ride. Nothing feels real to him, if that's the word for it. He tries, though. It's pointless to wait for his soup to cool down before eating and he washes his face with ice cold water in the morning on purpose to remind himself he's here, but it doesn't do much in the larger scheme of things, especially not when he hasn't told anyone about Jimin.
Nothing seems to personally involve him anymore, he can only make detached observations. Studying gets easier because when he has to memorize, he doesn't have to think. He even gets into the same univeristy as Jaehwa, which he would have never thought to be possible. He has no inclination towards science nor art and anything introspective like humanities seems like his worst nightmare right now, so he chooses the most impersonal major: business.
Kwonsoo travels a lot in college. He's pretty sure he did every kind of drug and skipped more than a few classes. Does he regret it? No, not really. While college Kwonsoo isn't excelling academically, he's living —or at least trying to remind himself he is. And, although he's not excelling academically, he might be about to excel professionally.
When Kwonsoo reads up on international big data enterprises for one of his classes, the conclusion is obvious to him: someone could make a lot of money doing that in Korea. Come to think of it —considering that he's studying business and Jaehwa has taken lots of computer science classes for his minor—, he could make a lot of money if he did that. So Kwonsoo claps his hands, looks at his best friend in the eye and, as one would deliver the punchline to a joke, he says "let's do it, then". Gunseo comes from humble beginnings: a mere student startup led by a top SNU student and a middle of the pack business major with the underlying aspiration to become big data giants. However, Kwonsoo believes in it, so he gets ahold of a significant sum of money, reaches out to some of his family's contacts, and the impossible begins to seem possible.
Flash forward to the increasing amount of articles about Oh Jaehwa and Shim Kwonsoo, the future of big data, and the current Gunseo headquarters in Gangnam.
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Kwonsoo is okay. Most of the time, that is. His lifelong trauma is as sorted out as it will ever be and, even though he branched out to do investments (because he got bored), Gunseo is doing well with Jaehwa as chairman. He has lots of good friends and he moved in to a really nice place with a pool he doesn't swim in.
That's when the dreams come into the picture. On the one hand, they're very unsettling, while on the other hand, they seem like the best shot at closure he's gonna get. He can save so many people, he has to. No one could save Jimin back then.
And one day he wakes up and staring him in the face are familiar eyes and familiar black hair.
"You're kidding... Kwonsoo?" Oh Sejeong asks. She hasn't aged a day and she's wearing her uniform.
He's sure his neighbors heard him scream.
Relationships
Oh jaehwa
twenty-five years old
lifelong friend &
business partner
mingyu from seventeen
twenty-five years old
lifelong friend &
business partner
mingyu from seventeen
They go way back. Kwonsoo first met Jaehwa in elementary school when he was already best friends with Sejeong. Somehow, despite the close relationship between the two (they even shared a surname), Kwonsoo fit right into their dynamic and the three remained friends.
Looking back, in comparison to Kwonsoo's chaotic energy and Sejeong's organized chaos, Jaehwa has always been the least, well, chaotic one out of the three. No surprise there, seeing how his wealthy upbringing has shaped him through the years. Very well-spoken but definitely more low-key than his friends, Kwonsoo still describes Jaehwa as his "genius poker-faced friend" who can find an order or a pattern in things unlike him.
There's no denying that things have changed after Sejeong's death. Their friendship took a blow when Kwonsoo began to act out do his thing in college, but the final nail in the coffin was when, a few years ago, he stepped down from his previous position to take part in other projects and left Jaehwa as the sole chairman of Gunseo. Jaehwa and Kwonsoo keep talking, they still have years of history behind them. Kwonsoo can still get Jaehwa to open up a bit more around him and Jaehwa can still make him see a point in waiting and committing to things, but when it comes down to it, something isn't quite the same (and neither of them have gone out of their way to work it out).
There were three best friends and now there are two. One is destined to save humanity, the other to destroy it. Of course, there's a catch: they don't know this about each other.
"You really can't blame him," he tells Sejeong, "it's all the rich people-ing that he does."
"I thought you did that too," she counters.
"When I was younger, yeah, but now? Not in a million years. You know how at the semi-fancy dinners there's always the who lucked out with his juice company or won the lottery? I usually just have a drink with him. They love me. Some of them do coke too —I'm kind of old for coke now, but I appreciate the offer," he says. "Jaehwa still does the more standard stiff big-dinner faking and the subtle -measuring contests."
"," she mutters lovingly under her breath.
"After I stepped down from chairman, his family's been rich people-ing with us."
"Alright, alright. Now you're just showing off."
In response to getting caught, all he can do is strike back. "Maybe, but you say that because you're a woman and you'll never luck out with your juice company."
"That's ist. Also, I could still win the lottery."
"Entrepeneurship is ist, Sejeong-ah, not me. And so is the lottery. Name me a single woman who won the lottery and tried to get me to do coke with her in a boring fundraiser. Name one."
Oh sejeong
fifteen years old
close friend, constant presence
straight-forward, humorous, organized, empathetic
jinsol from april
fifteen years old
close friend, constant presence
straight-forward, humorous, organized, empathetic
jinsol from april
Jaehwa might have struck him as a child-prodigy but, looking back, Sejeong was clearly the smartest of all of them. She had her together and she spoke honestly but she always knew what was going on. Even as a child, emotional intelligence was high on this one: she didn't skip a beat. Of course, she was still young, so she had her fair share of missteps, especially with Kwonsoo. Their similarities could derive into conflict and many times they did, but never severely enough to put a damp on their relationship.
"How... Why am I seeing you? , I'm still asleep, obviously," he says when she shows up in his room. Kwonsoo is convinced he's dreaming (maybe hallucinating).
"No clue. But you summoned me, why are you asking?"
There's a silence. Then she asks is this like the future? and it clicks that Sejeong might technically be twenty five, but she stopped living at fifteen and that's why she looks this young. She is (at least mentally) this young. Also, if she's telling the truth —which she is because she's Sejeong—, he summoned her, somehow. She used the word summoned.
For some reason, Kwonsoo can't get rid of her. Sejeong is the only dead person he can see and he sees her constantly. She's more than happy to give her insights on his life ("Shut up, kid" "Oooh Shut up, kid. We're the same age, don't try to be cool"), which is one of the reasons why people tend to assume they're siblings. Honestly, as much as they try to get their old dynamic back, they're at different stages in life, so Sejeong often times ends up coming off as a little sister figure to him more than a friend, something that neither of them knows how to deal with.
Sejeong tries to hide it. Maybe she could've fooled him when they were young, but to Kwonsoo it's obvious she's not okay. "No. , no. I'm going. Jaehwa was my friend before he was yours, I'm not gonna miss his wedding."
All he can do is sigh. "That's sweet, but there's literally nothing I can do to explain the dead girl walking around the wedding to the dozens of rich people up my —who went to your funeral, by the way. Any ideas?" he asks and pauses. "You know what? I'm sorry, Sejeong, but don't be dumb about i-"
"It's not dumb. What would you do if you were me, huh?"
"Stay dead, if you're not going to act like it."
"Oh, yeah? Then it should have been you instead!"
Kang jimin
fifteen years old
it's complicated
clever, introverted, dead
yeojin from loona
fifteen years old
it's complicated
clever, introverted, dead
yeojin from loona
Kwonsoo knows next to nothing about Kang Jimin. He knows she was a top student (number two to Jaehwa's number one), her family's well off and she had an older brother who's now working as a chef. But they were strangers. He doesn't know if she was shy or if she was a people-pleaser, he doesn't know whether she was calm or if she had a temper, if she hated hot weather or if her favorite season was summer. Kwonsoo doesn't know any of that. He hasn't talked to anyone about the Daebu accident, hasn't talked to anyone about Kang Jimin, so chances are he'll never know more.
"That's terrible customer service. You get one dead person that you didn't choose delivered to your personal life as a free trial and then nobody else shows up," he says, falsely offended, and Sejeong laughs.
"If it was up to you, who would you choose?"
He wants to say Kang Jimin, he really does, but is it true? He's seen her face in nightmares and he's been practically haunted by her death for years. He lives, metaphorically and literally, because Jimin doesn;t. Why summon her when she's already with him?
But, above all, the only thing more unsettling than the deep mark she's left in his life would be to erase it —or, if you will, leaving new marks—. The only thing more terrifying than not knowing anything about Kang Jimin would be facing her, getting closure, knowing something.
Moon bayu
twenty-eight years old
close friend
sophisticated, remorseful, careful, unforgiving
soloist heize
twenty-eight years old
close friend
sophisticated, remorseful, careful, unforgiving
soloist heize
"So who's the poor girl?" Sejeong asks. She looks a bit wary, but she still seems to want to know.
"Her name's Han Soomi. Her family does cosmetics or something similar." He nods at that. There's not much to say.
"Okay," Sejeong starts off hesitantly, "do you know what she's like?"
Kwonsoo bursts into laughter.
Socializing with rich people tends to be a tedious and stifling process, one that Bayu has mastered. On the other hand, you can't possibly say the same for Kwonsoo. The two had barely talked to each other before Soomi and Jaehwa's families set them up together (the news reached Kwonsoo pretty quickly, considering his lifelong connection to Jaehwa and, consequently, the Oh family).
Kwonsoo isn't exacly known for his sense of responsibility, but the couple's relationship is being handled so seriously that Kwonsoo supposes he should get used to Soomi's presence —you know, get to know something about her and stuff. Suprisingly, that goes well. It goes way better than he could have imagined.
Bayu is as bored and suffocated by the chaebol scene as he is, if not more. In Kwonsoo she finds a friend, someone who she can genuinely get close to, even going as far as to reveal her true identity to him. And you know what? Amidst all this chaos, Kwonsoo could use a friend too.
"You like her," the excitement in Sejeong voice as she says it is obvious. Contagious, too.
Still, it's outright ridiculous. "Sejeong, she's engaged."
"You say that like you haven't been with taken people before." Ouch. How does she know this? "Anyways, I didn't mean you like like her, I meant you don't hate her. Like, you enjoy spending time with her. You have her back. She's your friend."
"Well, yeah," he says, amused. "I have a lot of friends, you know."
"No, not like that, you don't. But what do I know? I'm not even good at staying dead, am I?"
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here years old
relationship
trait, trait, trait, trait
faceclaim
here years old
relationship
trait, trait, trait, trait
faceclaim
lol does anyone want 2 collab.
POWER. Necromancy . link.
ALTERNATE. Mediumship / Psychometry
DESCRIPTION.
Kwonsoo's powers are real fresh. Lord knows if he could use them on command he'd get rid of Sejeong's annoying , but he can't. From what he has gathered, though, he can summon the souls of the dead into the world of the living (and by dead, that means only Sejeong's annoying so far). He can't bring them back to life, but they look certainly look like it. Instead of zombies or ghost-like spirits, their appearance is unmistakably human (they look exactly like they did before they died, same age and all) even though they can be dispelled any minute. Say, if you slashed one down, they'd be gone. The good thing is he can bring them back. Not that he wanted to, but he's brought Sejeong back after an incident which shall not be spoken of. He's found that it's extremely draining, though.
Trivia.
— Has a pool in his house even though he....... doesn't swim
— Not that he can't swim. It's more like he doesn't unless he has to.
— Gunseo is definitely a dumb millenial tech startup. Not really because they make bank but they have standup desks and all that annoying stuff.
— He wears rich m*n expensive watches
— Absolutely hates rich people fakery. He supposes he could partake in it if he wanted to, but he deliberately chooses to be a certain percentage of impertinent because he can't get through those dinners and fundraisers without a little bit of drama
— Has done a good amount of drugs
— Tip top alcohol tolerance
— Spends his weekdays in Gunseo and meeting executives/representatives from other companies he's invested in and companies or startups that want to work with him
— Also works with an investment manager to avoid screwing himself over... they tend to disagree
— Weekends, he dedicates to friends and friends-of-friends
— Is too afraid to really get closure about the Jimin situation but he'd be lying if he said he hasn't tried to summon her
— He has decidedly kept tabs on her family. Hopefully nothing too creepy, but he wants to know how they hold up
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Questions
How does your character feel about their destiny? "Saving the earth... Well, what else is there for me to do?" he tells Sejeong, tone ironic. "There's no real reason I'm alive right now, so who am I to save humanity?" But it's weirdly tempting. It makes him feel like finally, something can help him justify his existence. Saving the world, he tells himself, could be the final reminder that he's alive.
Do they believe in fighting for the world or against it? "Against it," he says. Sejeong expertly recognizes the look in his eyes. It's the "I'm gonna go on the stupidest, most hyperbolic, irreverent spew. And it's gonna be ironic as well" look.
"You've got capitalism, so there's that. But also more and more people are getting human rights now. There's feminism. Not a single funky and fresh war in sight. saving the world, I take that back. 's a terrible place."
In his own weird way, Kwonsoo believes in fighting for the world. He doesn't want to unpack the whole issue of whether he thinks he should be living here or not, but what's the other alternative? Dying? Destroying the world and doing to other people what he did to Jimin ten years ago? He's not ing choosing that.
What price would they be willing to pay to achieve their goals? Kwonsoo actually has no clue. He's going to have to process elimination his way through this. "Well, first of all, nobody's dying in the middle of the process. Been there already and it's not fun." Then he looks at Sejeong and, confronted with utter silence, he can only keep going. "Honestly, I'd rather be the one to go myself," he says. He doesn't truly realize what that means. Kwonsoo can't unpack all the layers there are to him prefering to die than having someone else's death on his conscience. "But I guess I can be boring and spare the death part. I just don't know what to answer, I'll figure things out when I have to.
Final Thoughts.
Literal word vomit bc I need it why did i do this to myself
alexa play little girls from annie the musical bc kwonsoo is what? Done with them
also like,, i kinda hate him but at the same time i like this guy
Would you be okay with your character dying during the course of the story? ing tear him to pieces.
Questions? on a scale of ten to too ing much how bad do u wanna murder me for writing so much
Password? the falklands are decidedly not british. when argentina inherited them from spain in 1810 and proceeded to officially claim sovereignety over them in 1820 nobody batted an eyelash. it was published on british papers and made public to the whole world. until the brits decided they uh,, wanted fish,, and wanted the strategic location and started plotting to usurp it in 1829, culminating with them usupring it in 1833 (after the americans usurped them in 1831 for the pettiest ing reason). to claim that british sovereignety is legitimate and not the product of underhanded usurpation is false. however, the population in the falklands prefers british sovereignety and their wish should be respected, so things worked out in the end.
Scene Requests? idk give me kwonsoo-jimin closure or give me dramatic redemption arc where he gets killed. lots of material here.
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