hello everyone! i'm linny (25/est/he-him) and this is my son ayemi, also known as yemi. underneath the cut here, you'll find some facts and information on ayemi - if you're interested in plotting, just drop a like on this post and i'll message you. i'm also available on discord too, if you prefer plotting over there!
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his parents were two successful people in their own right, and together they created a form of life through their love. his father, kim seungkwan, was born into a chaebol family and went on to take over the family company once he came into adulthood. his mother, aduka isime, however had come into her own in a much different way. she was born into a middle class family, not rich but not poor either. given her good looks and tall stature, it was no surprise that his mother became a model quite early on in her lifetime. within the first few years of her career, she became a very highly sought after and requested fashion model, which led to her and seungkwan meeting.
it was fashion week in new york city during the mid nineties when they first met. aduka was just nineteen at the time and seungkwan was twenty-one. seungkwan was there on vacation with a few friends and when one of those friends had connections to get into a fashion week runway show as an audience member it was only a matter of time before his parents met, and they hit it off almost immediately after meeting for the first time. seungkwan was charming and wooed aduka not too long after that. by the time autumn of that year rolled around the two of them were an official couple.
it was a relationship that neither of their families really approved of. with both families being very traditional and having conservative views, seungkwan and aduka's parents would have much rather their children marry within their own cultural and ethnic backgrounds, but the two young lovers didn’t care about that. they refused to leave one another, even when their families threatened to cut them off financially and disown them. they were in love and were happy together even if the ones around them weren’t happy.
with that said, their families didn’t end up cutting both of them off, but they did end up stopping frequent and casual contact, only speaking to them when absolutely necessary. fortunately for aduka, she still had a stable career as a model. seungkwan on the other hand struggled a little bit, but only until he was able to get his own business off the ground and running using the connections he had formed while working as an employee at his family’s company. after a year or two of hard work, they were both doing very well for themselves.
just three years after that, they announced aduka's pregnancy with a baby boy. her career had spanned quite a few years by that point and at the age of twenty seven she was ready to start a family with seungkwan. or at least she thought that she was. seungkwan was more than happy to start a family with her and after making sure all the right pieces were in place, they went forth with their plans.
on june twenty fifth, nine years after the pair met, kim ayemi was born in seoul, south korea. the spitting image of his mother with a few of his father’s features, he was the apple of both of his parents’ eyes. they treated him like a little prince, doting on him and giving him everything he could possibly want or need.
his relationship with his father's side of the father was rather strained, considering their disapproval of his parents' relationship. however, he did grow rather close to his cousins and the younger people in his family, the ones who weren't caught up in their biases.
there was one cousin in particular that he was close to. a cousin of his that debuted as an idol when yemi was quite young, just seven years old. his cousin was the lead vocal, sub rapper and face of her group, and while the group didn’t make it to the top tier rankings, they did good enough to stay active for the full length of their contract. it was from her that yemi first began to get into music. he liked singing and rapping especially, and would oftentimes find himself mimicking his older cousin’s dance moves and group performances in his bedroom mirror.
it was at this same cousin’s encouragement that yemi tred to audition for a company. she knew how much yemi admired her career and seemed to like it, so she wanted to support him in his interests and encourage him to put himself out there. yemi had never been the most confident so he was hesitant to do it at first, but after having a long conversation with his parents, he decided at the age of seventeen that he wanted to audition for different companies. and that was how he ended up joining ace.
singing and performance are his strongest suits, however he does enjoy rapping quite a bit and he likes to dabble in songwriting a little bit. he spends a lot of time writing song lyrics and such in his notebooks, trying to build up his lyricism skills to the best of his abilities.
