Got balls of steel Got an automobile For a minimum wage Got real estate I'm buying it all up in outer space Now that the truth is just a rule that you can bend You crack the whip, shape-shift and trick, the past again. I'll send you my love on a wire Lift you up, every time Everyone, ooh Pulls a way, ooh It's a mechanical bull, the number one You'll take a ride from anyone Everyone wants a ride Pulls away, ooh from you
heyo my name’s ryland and i’m a terrible turtle of a human being but!!! i’m back and i’m ready to roll! this here is jake oh; resident life-of-the-party night owl and bassist of crashing corners. you can find his stats page right here and i don’t have a plots page yet (even though i said i’d have one last time, and look at me now) but feel free to hit me up on discord @ rysharona#1361 for some plots because i can't keep track of tumblr dms to save my life lmao
(JAEBEOM “JAY” PARK, CISMALE, HE/HIM) you’ve probably already heard of JAKE OH through the LA music scene. the TWENTY-SIX year old is the BASSIST of the band CRASHING CORNERS, an INDIE ROCK band that has FOUR members & sounds kind of like THE STROKES, THE LIBERTINES & CATFISH & THE BOTTLEMEN. JAKE is said to be JOCULAR but also IMPETUOUS. i wonder what bandslam makes of them?
BACKGROUND
jake was born and raised in la (both his parents are second-generation immigrants)
he has one older sister, age 29, who just recently finished law school
his sister was always the better of the two academically, but it never really bothered jake and it got to a point where his parents finally gave up on holding him to his sister’s standard and let him do things at his own pace more or less
he discovered his love for guitar in high school when he needed to take a mandatory arts credit and enrolled in a music class
he wasn’t really thinking that he’d get anything out of it, since he’d had piss poor luck with other, more orchestral, musical instruments growing up but found that he actually liked learning to play the guitar
started out with electric guitar, and eventually moved onto the bass once he started college
didn’t attend college for anything music related, since he felt school might kill his passion for it
i’m not quite sure what he actually studied, but either way he’s got some kind of menial side job rn sooo
his parents divorced a few months after he started college since he wasn’t living with them any more and it kinda just gave them more time together and brought to light a lot of issues they couldn’t keep ignoring
he dad ended up moving back to korea for job-related opportunities afterwards, and jake will sometimes go visit him if he gets the chance but he’s a mama’s boy through and through and mostly just glad his mom didn’t feel the need to leave la
PERSONALITY
a real wild child who likes to just do things as they happen and not put too much thought into it
which, y’know, has the tendency to land him in some shit from time to time but he’s fine rolling with the punches so to speak
never really had to grow up so he sometimes has difficulty balancing his needs with his wants, his responsibilities with all the fun things he’d rather be doing
hates conflict and will do anything in his power to avoid it, walk across the street, look the other way, serpentine, all that jazz
it’s cause he’s pretty immature and doesn’t like facing real adult issues™ and real adult feelings™ because he quite honestly doesn’t know how to handle them
feel free to hit him up at ass o’clock though if you’re in need of some help or wanna pull off some shenanigans, odds are he’s probably already awake and raring to go
OTHER
he’s always misplacing his apartment keys (you think he’d put them on his car keys but nope)
has a car ( a’95 toyota land cruiser, to be exact) and is actually a semi-decent driver but will never voluntarily sign up to be someone's dd
he'd have to owe you his life or something to miss out on his chance to party
gives shitty advice but will 110% make you mac and cheese at 5 a.m. in an attempt to make you feel better
scott pilgrim is his bassist claim, fight me on it
TERRIBLY BASIC PLOT IDEAS
someone who’s always crashing at his place (on his couch or in his bed, who knows?)
ride-or-die bestie
co-workers at his side job
frenemies/love to hate each other
good influence & bad influence
platonic life partners (give me that good shit)
a roommate (or several)
and a million other things; hit me with your best (or worst) ideas and we’ll make something outta them
the thumping beats seemed to shake the boom factory dancefloor. it was nice to dash over to the booths for a minute, in order to get a little further from the speakers and wait for jake to arrive. she was glad he was coming. he was more of a real friend, not like the people she’d initially gone out with. they were college friends, sure, but they didn’t even have the decency to call their friend after losing her in the crowd? so they were officially cancelled for the night. jade was already focusing on the notion of having a fun time with her fellow party animal, and spotting him making his way over with drinks for them both was a sight for sore eyes. “jakeeey! thanks so much, you know me too well.” she grinned, accepting the drink.
her highly-intoxicated state of an hour ago had simmered to more of a tipsy buzz, so she was sobered enough to realize that the question was a weird one, but drunk enough to consider answering it. “you’re wild. you come all the way here to link up with me and that’s one of the first things you say?! what’s my ex’s dick like?” she laughed before taking a sip of her drink and deciding to cave anyway. “it… was good i guess? god, what the fuck jake,” she blushed slightly, still laughing and hoping she could blame the alcohol for her flushed cheeks if he were to point it out. “alright, fine, pretty bomb. haven’t seen that in a long time. next question?”
"aw c’mon jadey, you know this isn’t the only reason i came out to meet you– you can’t blame me for being curious though. it just,” here jake trailed off, idly taking another sip of his drink while he thought of the best way to phrase what he wanted to say. “may be a topic of gossip around the apartment. but i can neither confirm nor deny that for sure.” he finished with a short laugh, and though there was definitely a drunken night or two with nikki wherein the subject had come up, maybe jade didn’t need to know that right now.
it was easy for jake to think of several other things that he could ask her, since he was being given the chance and all, but jade seemed a little flustered by his line of questioning already and he didn’t want to push her too much. still, he made a show of drumming his fingers against his chin and humming aloud like he was thinking hard. “how about we do this fairly,” he suggested. “ask me something instead. go wild and ask anything you could ever want to know. i promise i’ll answer it, since it’s only fair, y’know?”
[ text → 🍌🍆] so
[ text → 🍌🍆] i heard a lil something
[ text → 🍌🍆] about you and ricky maybe
[ text → 🍌🍆] u know where i live if you wanna take a shot at cc for real
mentioning nikki had seemed to cause an atmosphere, which was weird. though, he had no doubts it’d all be fixed the minute she walked through the door. the four could never stay mad at each other. he slid forward off the couch, sliding himself in between jake and ryan after some struggle doing so. “i have to sit in the middle, i’m the dad.” he joked, throwing his arms around his boys. “steak burritos are happening. i know it. i feel it in my third eye or whatever.” he scoffed, kicking his feet around at one of the blankets on the floor. “so what’s happening when she gets back then? some well needed family bonding? repair a little of the damage that seems to have been manifesting the past few days?”
@nikkihclls·
Nikki got out of her car, swinging the bag of burritos gently as she hummed all the way to the door. Really, she was fine. But with everything going on with the money she owed her mom and trying to get her dad to notice her, she’d been beyond stressed. All she needed was some time with her boys and she’d be fine again.
“Sup.” Nikki sipped at her soda when she came in as if nothing were wrong. She set the bag of food down on the table, “Steak, chicken, and bean and cheese. Have at it.” She grabbed a bean and cheese for herself before wandering to the kitchen for a cold drink in the fridge. “The line was insane, there was like a whole coupon deal going on. I obviously didn’t have the coupon but they gave me a free soda anyway.” Nikk rambled.
@rydonovans·
though there was never a doubt in his mind that it would happen, any previous tension dissipated the moment nikki returned and the four of them were reunited once more — all others beware. and if that wasn’t enough, the addition of food certainly did the trick. the moment it was placed on the table, ryan was scrambling to duck under ricky’s arm and stake his claim on that steak burrito he’d longed for. “nikki, he’s beautiful,” ryan proceeded to sigh, as if the bag of food he’d just tore into was instead the reveal of a bundled-up human baby, “you shouldn’t have. —i mean, you really should have, but…” trailing off there, he once again tried his hand at knocking jake upside the head with another pillow, not quite willing to give up just yet. “you know, if this fort doesn’t happen, i could also be satisfied with a wrestling ring instead. just sayin’. couldn’t you just picture one right—” he gestured wildly, burrito in one hand, beer in the other and all, “—here.”
@jakeohfficial
the tension bled out of the room once nikki arrived, the air instead filling with the delicious scent of the burritos she had brought back home with her. “nik you’re a godsend, what did we do to deserve you?” jake snagged one of the other steak burritos for himself, since he sure as hell wasn’t going to leave them all for ryan. he took a large bite, briefly savoring the flavors melting on his tongue before barreling on. “seriously,” he said, half around his food. “these are amazing. looks like you and your third eye were right, ricky.”
in all honesty, jake was content to let the so called ‘damage’ from earlier simply fade out and be ignored. if everyone wanted to sweep it under the rug, he wouldn’t be the one to rock the boat. nikki probably wouldn’t want to bring it up again, if it was something that actually bothered her. jake would have to remember to offer up some mac and cheese at some point to her. “and as much as i’d love to roll around in the sheets with you ry,” he said, pausing briefly to attempt to smack ryan again with a pillow off the ground. “there are burritos that need to be eaten and a fort that needs to be built. so, what’s the plan here; how do we want to do this?”
[ text → tae-bae ] yo fuck those guys at bandslam
[ text → tae-bae ] ur perfect and no one hates u
[ text → tae-bae ] least of all hyper
[ text → tae-bae ] u guys are all just stressed
[ text → tae-bae ] take it easy
[ text → tae-bae ] dont worry so much over it okay??
✉️yo if u really want that fake i mentioned✉️i know a guy✉️we can go out sometime!!✉️just say the word and u got it
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🎶big wave – jung ilhoon
✉️dont tell cc i said this✉️but that was actually a wicked set u guys played✉️scratch that dont tell anyone but jade✉️theyll give me shit for days✉️u deserve it though
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