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anthony (25, he/him, est) in your area! i’m here to (re)introduce park duri, better know as duri, also commonly referred to as god duri. he’s main vocal (1) of titan, a soloist, a variety star, a model, a songwriter, and a composer! brighter than the sun, a big ol’ puppy, and a teddy bear you’d just like to give a big hug too! but, without further-ado, here’s a tl;dr under the cut, considering there’s a lot of information across all his pages.
as a friendly reminder, under the cut, there will be mentions of car accident, parental death, post traumatic stress disorder, injury, and anxiety. when mentioned, they will be triggered in each bullet point.
most of duri’s background has stayed the same, besides for the things fixed to go with him being younger and etc.
duri was born on december 25th, 1994 in seoul, to two young college students named park bongju and oh aeri. the two had worked really hard to care for duri while he was young and they were in college. however, they grew lucky that their parents were okay with it, even if they were a bit mad at first - since they helped to provide for him.
at this time, he grew close to his grandparents, as they would take care of him while bongju and aeri were at class or at work. bongju would graduate with a degree in law and aeri would graduate with a degree in pharmacy. the both of them were rather bright and that showed in their studies - even duri would get that brightness handed down to him, but his came in a different form than his parents.
when he was three, his parents would wed in a rather beautiful spring ceremony, with cherry blossom petals coming down, and all of that sort. duri has the entire wedding album, given to him by his grandparents, and that’s all he has of the wedding. as the wedding is a blur to him now.
CAR ACCIDENT TW, PARENTAL DEATH, && INJURY TW // when duri was five years old, in the early morning hours of a barely spring day, tragedy had struck. on the way, in the car, their car would be hit head on by someone else. this accident had killed both of his parents and knocked duri out. duri came out with just scratches, bruises, and a bad injury to his leg, but because a college student witnessed the accident and quickly pulled duri from the wreck before things got worse for him. he was a bit lucky, especially since his parents still kept him in a car seat, of course, due to the car guidelines with children, but even so, his right leg was caused injury, but it could be worse. he woke up in the hospital and figuring out his parents passed, caused him to breakdown and later have a fear of hospitals // END TW.
following the accident, duri would move in with bongju’s brother, bongki, and his wife, choa. they were childless, not by choice (due to choa’s pregnancy complications) and so, they took duri, just so bongki’s and bongju’s or aeri’s parents wouldn’t have to care for a small child.
bongki and choa own a café in seoul, more specifically the itaewon neighborhood. it’s a rather popular little shop and bongki and choa ended up being able to own the building, just so they can live above the café - making that their home. it worked out rather nicely.
POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER // bongki and choa were rather glad that they ended up taking care of duri, because they would realize something deeper was wrong with him. he would be nervous in cars, he couldn’t handle being on elevators or smaller spaces, and then at night, duri would wake up crying and screaming. it would turn out that he has post traumatic stress disorder and both bongki and choa got really on top of taking care of this. // END TW.
INJURY TW // the injury that duri received to his leg was something that would be a bit bothersome every now and then, especially when he would over work the leg. but, he would say it isn’t too, too bad, truth be told - he can deal with it, even though it can be really bothersome. he’s kind of just... ignored it, but physical therapy had helped and later, working out would help pretty often too. but, it’s still something that’s bothersome and he should really look after, but he tends to just work through it, truth be told. // END TW.
at around this time, duri ended up getting really into music, and this was something that really helped him to cope. duri has a really, really good voice, so he went to vocal classes to help him learn about his voice. he would also go to classes for piano, guitar, and violin - all of which duri has a level ten certificate in.
sometime before duri’s fourteenth birthday, he went on to win a public talent show for kids and teenagers. there, he got approached by a lot of entertainment company scouts. however, duri turned them all down because he thought they were all scams. however, he couldn’t get the idea out of his head and instead, went home to research all the companies.
he found out that right after the new year, bc entertainment was holding auditions, so he decided to go for that company first.
he auditioned with whitney houston’s “i will always love you” and got in on his first try, which he was really happy with. his two childhood best friends, hanui and jinsol, accompanied him to the audition and they ran home with him to tell bongki and choa, whom were really excited for him.
in the beginning of training, duri had a rather hard time, simply because he was never good with change. he was known was the quiet kid, who would just smile, and had a really good voice. this soon changed, and he came out of his shell more.
this also made him a bit of a target by the other stressed out boys, especially because he always seemed to do well with evaluations. however, after about a year, this stopped and he was able to not have to be stressed anymore.
duri would train for two years from january 2009 to january 2010. his trainee anniversary being the new year.
debuted as the main vocal (1) of titan just a bit after his sixteenth birthday.
he’s apart of the maknae line of titan and truly fits there.
he’s considered to be the “fake maknae” of the group, which duri getting mistaken for being the youngest due to this personality.
apart of his image as well, duri is seen as a “golden songwriter”, due to the amount of canon songs that he’s written and that they’ve tend to do well (besides for btd, of course, as that was more moderate at it’s time of release) and someone who’s born to be an idol/made to be an idol because he’s just really good at being an idol? and it’s clear that he really loves being an idol.
duri is also fluent in japanese and is upper intermediate in english.
has multiple canon full songwriting credits: btd (before the dawn) by titan, the chaser by titan, gee by lily, destiny by titan, light by titan, playboy by titan, love me right by titan, monster by titan, she’s dreaming by titan, lotto by titan, kokobop by titan, lights out by titan, tempo by titan, & obsession by titan.
personality wise, duri is a vv good person. he’s really nice and sweet without a mean bone in his body. generally, it’s probably to a fault. he’s someone that people can really take advantage of because he has such a big heart and doesn’t really ever say no. he’s always happy and smiling; even though his mind is in pain. he’s the sun itself, one big ol’ puppy. the softest boy !!
PARANOIA, ANEXITY, CLAUSTROPHOBIA TW // he doesn’t drive because his paranoid about it & he always takes the stairs, never going in the elevator because he feels like it’s closing in on him and he starts to panic. // END TW.
god i love duri so so much and i’m just so excited for his slight revamp and the famed restructure. if you read this far and read any of his other pages, thank you <3.
