The Novelist Jongin
Description
HEADS-UP!
A re-imagining and re-illustration from my favorite anime, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun.
I am an anime person, by the way. And a devoted EXO-L since 2012. SARANGHAJA!
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Characters :
Kim Jongin
- The deadpan impassive senior year high school student who spends his night time as a teen's love novelist, Kim Kai. Most of the time, he is clueless. A very good cook and living alone with his adorable toddler half-brother, Kyungsoo. Laconic and terrifyingly honest. A member of the school basketball club.
Lee Hanna
- The shy, cheerful and optimist high school student who fell in love in first sight with Kim Jongin. Her confession went wrong, unfortunately. Ended up becoming Jongin's assistant author. Still tries to confess. A member of the school art club.
Kim Junmyeon
- Nickname : Suho, Jongin's classmate and Jongin uses Suho's personality to create the heroin in his novels. Flirtatious and popular among girls, however easily get embarassed after being bold. Hates being left alone and always being so problematic to make friends and to maintain one. A member of the Student's Council.
Choi Sooyoung
- Hanna's bold and athletic best friend/classmate. Hates calculations but a killmonger in sports fields. Blunt, tomboyish and cares for no one else but Hanna. Inspired by her personalities, Jongin created a male antagonist character, Minho, from it to rival against his main male protagonist character of the novel. A member of three martial art clubs and school basketball club.
Byun Baekhyun
- Junmyeon's best friend and maternal first cousin. A cheerful, petite and soft spoken high school student who is in the same year with Hanna. His androgynous trait caught the attention of many male students of the school and praised him as 'beauty in the beast'. He usually plays the role of a 'Princess' in the school drama club. Loves attention from his senior-club president, Park Chanyeol.
Park Chanyeol
- Senior year high school student and the president of the school drama club. Short tempered but always dotes for Baekhyun's pretty appearance and princess-ly behavior. Usually plays the role 'Prince' and hates to deal with girls for some childhood trauma. Knows Jongin's secret and oftenly seek to Jongin for plot advices and discussion for his drama scripts and storylines.
Oh Sehun
- Jongin's junior from the school basketball club. He is Sooyoung's object of persistent pestering. Often misunderstood things and easily jumps into conclusion. Scaredy cat and unbearably naive. Connected to a girl named Yoyoung online, he seeks comfort befriending her, not realizing she is the same person who causes him stress and insomnia. Jongin is inspired to create innocent Sera from Sehun's personalities for his novel, to use against the antagonist boy, Minho.
Kim Minseok
- Jongin's grumpy, competent and favorite editor. Minseok hates his colleague, Kim Jongdae (Jongin's previous editor) because he always annoys him by every single thing he does, in this he and Jongin share in common. He eats a lot.
Kim Jongdae
- Jongin's former editor who is too cheerful, narcisstic, self-obsessed and annoyed Jongin for correcting most of Jongin's storylines and plots without Jongin's consent. He is annoyingly careless as he once spilled coffee on one of Jongin's manuscript. Strictly demanding the manuscripts to be handed over on time, unlike Minseok.
Lay Zhang
- Jongin's senior novelist and neighbor. Despite his calm, kind and soothing personalities, Lay is a competent horror/thriller/slasher novelist. He is easy to emotionally triggered however too humble to let his emotions take over his action. E.g. : He is mad when his editor, Jongdae, renamed his novel's title without his permission, however after confronting Jongdae, he was the one who apologized.
Do Kyungsoo
- A five year old toddler who lives with his maternal half brother after his parents died from a car accident. On weekdays, his brother sends him to kindergarten nursery which is managed by their aunt during school time. Sweet, talkative and eats a lot, Kyungsoo is much loved by Jongin and his friends.
Foreword
Lee Hanna is an average seventeen year old highschool girl who kills her youth time with love fantasies, being given that she doesn't own one. Most of her time she spent with cuddling on her own bed, with heaps of love novel by her side, none other than written by her favorite author, Kim Kai.
Influenced and motivated by the strong love values in the novels, Lee Hanna is determined to confess her love for a senior year boy upstairs, Kim Jongin. In Lee Hanna's eyes, Kim Jongin completely fits into her ideals as a man to love: tall, athletic and cool.
Whatever it takes, Lee Hanna even prepared herself for the worst if Kim Jongin shall reject her love.
However, Lee Hanna is introduced into Kim Jongin's nature as a deadpan, apathetic figure, and the confession went wrong where Kim Jongin mistaken Lee Hanna as a fan of his work. He thanked her support by giving her his autograph instead.
Clueless yet disappointed Lee Hanna soon found out from the autograph that he is actually the author of the series of her favorite love novels, "Things I Do For Love".
After confronted Kim Jongin the next day, the two became closer as Kim Jongin needs her girlish and feminine side to help him understand nature of women and also to improve his romance writings. Lee Hanna on the other hand was troubled by the thought of a deadpan person like Kim Jongin able to pull out ideas to produce one of the best love novels she ever read despite his zero romance experience with women. Seeing this as an opportunity to get close and to know Kim Jongin better as a person, Lee Hanna agreed on becoming his co-author and helps him out by contributing ideas.
The plot of this story then goes on as the two embark into many attempts bringing their fictional romance fantasies to life. Many unexpected yet hilarious moments, along with the introductions of new characters of their novel inspired by their schoolmates, and how these two will ever get a clue of what they actually have for each other outside their unusual pairing.
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Senpai's notes :
I have always adore Nozaki-kun and Chiyo-chan's interactions in GSN, so I dreamed on re-illustrating Kim Jongin and Lee Hanna's interactions in my own imaginations despite they have the same starting such as how they first encounter each other and certain interesting plots that is too extra for me to take out.
So, I'm open with any criticisms and suggestions.
Ciao .
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