hullo hullo! i'm autumn ( s/h, 21+ ) and this is my college dropout + conspiracy theorist, hwang minho! no context he reminds me a bit of this but i promise he means well! i’ve got his stats and background here if you’d like to give it a read, but it’s pretty hastily written so you may be better off reading whatever’s under the cut! please give this post a like and i’ll come to you for plots ♡ thanks guys & i’m really excited to be here!
gemini sun / aquarius moon / scorpio rising
think eddie munson from stranger things and john bender from the breakfast club! if i had to sum him up into a song, it’ll be teenage dirtbag by wheatus!
off the bat i’m going to disclose that he’s got that strong avoidant attachment, so that’s pretty much going to be the undertone of all his interactions! he gets really uncomfortable with vulnerability and closeness and the most conversation you’re going to get out of him is when he’s rambling about whatever conspiracy theory he’s investigating next! if you’re really close to him, he’ll even show you his conspiracy wall 🤩
as for his backstory: his parents were high school sweethearts! parents are from very different backgrounds—dad is from a family of fishermen and mom is from some super christian upper middle class family, so when they found out they were pregnant with him a few years out of high school, they were forced into a shotgun wedding. didn’t go well! they found out the hard way that living together with adult responsibilities + a child is very different from being recklessly in love as teens, so towards the end of their seven-year marriage, they really hated each other’s guts
when minho’s seven-ish, dad files for a divorce. there’s a custody battle and in the end mom gets him for weekdays, dad gets him for weekends
everything seems to have worked itself out until his mom tells him she’s getting married to some pastor from church! they play happy family and start popping out minho’s half-siblings, and minho’s kind of shrugged off to his dad cause he doesn’t really fit into their pretty picture. no big deal, he’s always liked his dad more anyway
until a year later when dad falls for a high-strung woman who’s weirdly jealous of his past and doesn’t like the idea of minho existing, so now he’s being shrugged off to his mom and their parents get into huge arguments about who’s taking minho for the week
throughout all of this, minho starts to get the idea that his parents were somehow abducted and replaced by aliens. it’s the only thing that made any logical sense to him, because they used to fight to have him and now they’re being really cold and distant, and a kid like him on the dark web reading reddit posts about people being possessed by aliens makes his brain go whirr
also starts to get the idea that he has to save his parents. he reads on reddit that aliens cannot come into too much contact with water, so he empties a bucket of water on his mom and gets the beating of his life. he hears from other conspiracy forums that aliens need to bask in the full moon to recharge, so he’s tracking moon phases and camping outside his father’s door. hears that aliens can’t cross the town lines, so he runs off knowing that his father would chase after him and cross the town line. basically a menace to society
as he grows older, he sort of gives up on his parents but his love for conspiracy theories never fades. even though he never really tests his parents anymore because none of them have worked ( because.... some of them are just really dumb and also his parents are not aliens ) he likes to think that there’s some explanation for why they sort of... ditched him
meanwhile in school, he was just a huge emo kid and because he’s so obsessed with his conspiracy theories, he pretty much got bullied for most of his schooling years! his teachers don’t really like him either cause he’s not a stellar student, is constantly sleeping in class and never hands in his homework
somehow, he manages to make it into a bachelor of science, majoring in physics in daeseong uni. doesn’t last long because he’s failing too many units and drops out in his second year, but throughout his college years, he managed to snag a part time job at cha ko latte as their barista and still works there even after dropping out! it’s one of the things he really enjoys!
plot ideas: uni and hs friends please! potentially even a bully from his hs days? / i’d love for him to have neighbours too! anyone from yeonhwa-gil ( dad’s place ) or yonghaeng-ro ( mom’s place ) please lmk! / i see him to have a pretty tight-knit group of conspiracy theorists ( sort of like the hellfire club ) ... would be cool / anyone wanna hear him ramble about his conspiracies? oorr aliens who think he’s hilarious because he’s so off or alternatively, them getting antsy because out of his 100 wrong ideas, he gets one right / humans who he suspects are aliens, it’s likely he’ll be playing a lot of ‘pranks’ on you but i promise he doesn’t mean to annoy you, he’s just very invested in his experiments
