hey gang, it's juve ( s/h, 25+ )! in tow with me is son jaehee, a city boy who crawled his way to seomri after lots of grief, revelations, yadah yadah yadah! i've condensed his story under the cut since i clearly have a knack for speaking in riddles a la his app — if you find anything that resonates with you, feel free to give this a like so we can talk about it! xo
born to a university professor for a father & accomplished barrister turned stay at home mother following the birth of her — as she puts it — miracle child, jaehee! it's been jieun's lifelong dream to become a mother & after many, many years of being letdown, it's no surprise that jieun makes being jaehee's mom her entire personality
like any kid though, jaehee does long for his father's affection, so he puts effort into his studies which lands him admission into konkuk uni's vet science! no one was going to let him and his scalpel near a human with his grades, so vet science really was his next best bet. honestly doesn't feel any particular way about the job. as long as it pays the bills!
what this means is a codependent mother-son relationship and a kid who's literally been supported in every way imaginable. it's the best childhood a kid could ask for really — save the fact that he's still left to battle his father's towering expectations. donghoon is your typical grinder, works 9 to 5 then 5 to 9 and only respects people who do the same. because of this, his father's always been pretty unimpressed with jaehee academic-wise
& that, unfortunately, is how he finds out his entire life has been a lie. from the results of the tests, he learns that he's not actually related to his mother. he's devastated about it and starts to question everything about his identity, but of course he can't confront his mom or dad because a) she's literally dying, b) he doesn't have that frank of a relationship with his dad, and c) what if they affirm he's not their kid?
jaehee's life continues peachily with no complaints up until mid 2025 when his mother's slapped with a diagnosis for polycystic kidney disease. the drs say that it's genetic and aggressive and she needs an organ donor, fast. of course, jaehee volunteers without an ounce of hesitation
without a suitable organ donor, jieun passes on the eve of christmas 2025. jaehee starts to spiral — he moves back to his parents' house unannounced because 'his father needs the company', starts cleaning the whole house because his mom likes it clean, literally just anything, really. beneath the guise of keeping his father company, he's here because maybe his father will finally tell him about his adoption story. and beneath that guise, he's here because maybe his father will tell him that regardless of everything and anything, jaehee is still his son. donghoon does none of those, of course. instead, like many grief stricken men, his father throws himself at his job & barely makes it home. the few times he does, the indifference and silence that jaehee faces just makes this whole endeavour twice as detrimental as it was meant to be helpful
so without any confrontation or acknowledgement, jaehee leaves. because his mind needs to be on literally anything else, he's somehow latched onto this idea that all his problems will be solved and he can finally move on if he just gets down to the bottom of his parentage. so jaehee hires a private investigator who, after some digging, confirms his adoption and digs up that his biological parents are seomri natives
with this lead, jaehee puts in a job application for seomri veterinary hospital and promptly relocates. he again doesn't tell his father because part of him hopes the man will realise his son is missing and come running after him, but he's knee deep in seomri now so guess how that turns out :))
personality-wise, jaehee's relatively calm and collected but it's all smoke and mirrors. bro is genuinely not doing okay. i could tell you about how he can be sociable and down for anything but jaehee is, at present & at best, a shell of a man. he's never sitting still & he can never be alone because all that silence will leave him with no choice but to confront the fact that his mom is gone
considering finding out more about his biological parents is the real reason he's here the low hanging fruit for a plot is anything to do with his parentage. i honestly have grand ambitions for him to be a child of a love affair or some young dumb toxic love before they each grow up and get married. that said, i'd love any plots involving half-siblings! or hell, even just anyone who would be willing to help him out with his quest ( although this is a good time to say that jaehee isn't frank with why he's in seomri. if you ask him, he'll lie and say it was just a good job opportunity. he will also talk about his mom in the present tense )
on the topic of his job though, feel free to send any plots concerning pets / animals his way! jaehee also has his very own staffy who he rescued and is an in house vet for
i'm also a sucker for pre-est connections! so if your muse has ever been to seoul or is from there, i'd love if we could work something out!













