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. . . shot straight off the edge / guess the world’s flat after all
STATS . . . MUSINGS . . . VISAGE . . . HEADCANONS . . . SELF-PARAS . . . extended map.
🌦 « teo yoo. cis man. he/him. forty-two. » was that HANSON KIM walking through the doors of amorelux ? i heard they just moved in to apartment 1105 from COPENHAGEN and work as a/an freelance cfo. they seem meticulous & dutiful but don’t get on their bad side ! they can be unmoving & critical which makes sense since they’re a VIRGO. you know they’re home when you see a flash of a fake birth certificate, a shelf dedicated to his pta awards, & a biometrically locked gun safe. — @amoreluxintro
+ meticulous, dutiful, persevering, hardworking, practical. - unmoving, critical, relentless, obstinate, bookbound.
— ↷ morgan. 23. pst. she/her . . . cis bi korean woman.
trigger warnings: bullying, child abuse & neglect (implied), death, forced cultural assimilation, murder, pregnancy, violence, weapons (guns), xenophobia & racism (implied)
TLDR; hanson never knew his birth parents. instead, he grew up to be groomed as a killer. now, he’s a sleeper agent co-parenting with another agent he’s sharing a marriage certificate with, presenting a picture-perfect life without making current use of his espionage skillset.
CHAPTER I . . .
as an infant, kim il-cheong was left on a doorstep underneath the metal awning looming over the entrance of a catholic orphanage in copenhagen, denmark. all that was left with him was a small, plush elephant and a piece of paper with his name written on it.
il-cheong was defined as an isolato early on, not finding much amusement in the other children’s cruel version of play. especially since he was an easy, foreign target. instead, he worked hard at his lessons, keeping his mind and hands busy with his lessons and frequent tree-climbing.
CHAPTER II . . .
at seven years old, he was plucked out of the establishment by a rough, ragtag militia entity who wanted a malleable foot soldier.
after doing so, they imposed a new name on him — hanson gundersen. he never forgot his korean name. but he never said it again either, especially since his caregivers forbade it, wanting him to culturally assimilate as much as possible.
to further insulate his understanding of the world, they also lived on the mountainside and didn’t allow him to venture into the more urbanized parts of town.
under their tutelage, he was never instructed to kill. but he learned to dissemble and assemble weaponry, learned their parts and functions, and naturally absorbed the tricks of their trade through the books on their shelves and the power of his own observation.
he also often sat in vehicles as they performed night hits and raids when someone couldn’t be home to watch him. sometimes, he would be instructed to help clean up.
CHAPTER III . . .
a german mercenary network was paid to retaliate for one of the militia’s attacks, leading to hanson’s third home in shambles and his first and final usage of the abode’s designated panic room. he also killed in self-defense, somehow shooting an intruder straight in the chin despite his shaky hands.
the assailants considered eliminating him, but his aim was clearly intentional, he was obviously malnourished, and he didn’t seem straightforwardly aggrieved.
they decided training him was a smarter alternative. after all, he clearly grew up only knowing duty — might as well channel that tendency while making him feel lucky to get three full-sized meals a day.
he was home-schooled at the director’s home, continuing his longstanding pattern of asociality. but at least he had a formal education. occasionally, they’d also instruct him to wander into town on his own. sometimes to perform errands, but mostly to learn how to perform a social persona. though he did have some friendly acquaintances and even friends within the network, his interactions with the outside world nearly always had utilitarian pretext.
CHAPTER IV . . .
he was put out into the field as early as age 15, when he’d often be sent on overseas missions mostly set in the states. as a talented kid, hanson was inconspicuous but deadly, papers forged to put him in close proximity to high-ranking targets.
the most non-network based stability he obtained was his attendance at uc berkeley for another one of his long missions. there, he officially received a degree in accounting and statistics.
his dedication was instrumental to the growth of the network, especially since it was still quite small when he was first recruited.
CHAPTER V . . .
after graduation, he was told to utilize and continue his trajectory as hanson kim.
specifically, he would have to embark on his most dedicated mission ever — marriage. with this endeavor, he’d be a sleeper agent donning on an impeccable white picket persona, hiding in plain sight until activated as an agent.
the network tasked him with finding someone to faux-date and eventually marry, handing him hundreds of files of women that other mercenary networks, including governmental organizations such as the cia, have been monitoring for recruitment.
decisive as ever, he definitively chose lyra lau, a first-year law student with high test scores, incredible aptitude, and a penchant for relentlessness. after befriending one of her friends and worming his way into a blind date, he offers her a job at dinner.
CHAPTER VI . . .
surprisingly, it doesn’t take long for her to warm up to the prospect of marriage. perhaps it’s due to her intensely ambitious nature or a previous string of bad partners. or both.
he doesn’t question it. instead, they play their parts, performing their honeymoon phase as two lovebirds and even staging a big relationship crucible involving their concurrent post-grad educational tracks — her with law school, him with his accounting master’s program. they meet each other’s in-laws (phony ones, in his case) and eventually host a gorgeous yet intimate wedding ceremony.
soon after, lyra was offered a lucrative job in a manhattan-based firm, which functioned as a perfect excuse for a relatively fresh start in a new city.
upon their entrance into the big apple, they were activated for their first mission (at least as a married couple).
CHAPTER VII . . .
a white picket family’s also usually incomplete without a tyke in tow. so after a few years of marriage, hanson and lyra used in vitro fertilization (ivf) to conceive a child.
their mission was going smoothly for years, with their kid ingrid demonstrating inheritance of her parents’ intellectual prowess and lyra getting close to a senior partner position.
however, due to uncharacteristically bad intel, they were nearly compromised. before the absolute worst could happen, they were extracted from the mission in question. luckily, lyra was poached by a former colleague, who wanted to transfer her talents to a seattle-based firm within this time frame — and with the promise of senior partner.
so, their espionage higher-ups approved their move. mostly for the purpose of hiding, but also to keep an eye on the daughter of a high-ranking out-of-state official.
