long time returner right here. name's rina, nice to re-meet y'all!
i'm bringing an old gal of mine park jaekyung! long standing trainee, was in the public eye for a couple projects but decided to focus on getting her studies done before actually continuing to pursue debut. now she's back and ready to be the precious menace she is <3
just drop this a quick like if you want to plot and i'll cha cha slide into dms!
2 years had passed already since she last stepped her way into the spotlight. To re-center, grow up, figure why the hell she was still doing all this. Perhaps she had stepped back just right before the finish line but with her final exam looming above, jaekyung felt nothing but accomplishment.
Re-centered, educated and actually feeling capable, she was also ready to reconnect to people she had unintentionally shoved aside. Connections lost to every day life and busy schedules weren't hard to rekindle when there was never ill intend to begin with.
So finding herself in the same vicinity as miyu was a choice, not a coincidence and spending time with someone she shared so many experiences with was nice- almost nostalgic. "so how has life been?" it's an easy opener, her eyes friendly and interested as she stirs the ice cubes in her iced latte.
🖇₊˚ෆ Story Time! How Jaekyung had another fangirl moment
for @lgceunhye
After careful calculation and evaluation, Jaekyung came to a conclusion. The result was inevitable, no matter how much she intended to try and shield her eyes from the ugly truth:
Growing up and becoming an adult was absolutely the worst.
Stuck between existential dread and skipping across practice room floors, digging her nose into books and worrying about her final paper for graduation; everything boiled down to her solely wanting to hide under her blanket and watch another episode of her current favourite drama.
Instead she found herself hunched over a book during lunch time, going over review notes for the lessons she chose to engage in because yes, even learning languages became an inevitable truth she could no longer escape from.
But she also realized that English internet memes could be ridiculously funny. So understanding those won't be half as bad.
Her thought is interrupted however when she spots Eunhye from the corner of her eye, a small wave directed to the idol in case she'd seen the trainee. While Jaekyung was delulu enough to consider them at least acquaintances, she also didn't want to bring unwanted attention to Fabula's leader by yelling her name across the entire space.
🖇₊˚ෆ Hey! I think you're really cool. maybe we can hang out or something
for @lgcsori
It had been seemingly 84 years since they managed to hang out in person and Jaeyung was hyped! Texting and calling just wasn't the same. The circumstances didn't matter, as long as the stars aligned just right for those two busy bees to meet again.
So finding herself in Sori's presence she soaks up as much skinship as she can, head on her shoulder, eyes trying to read blurry words on white pages with fancy graphics supposed to explain to her what a relative clause was.
"of course I'd forget to fetch my glasses... I'm too lazy to go back to my dorm now though... maybe this is a sign that i should leave study session for some time else..."
🖇₊˚ෆ Oh hi, thanks for checking in. I'm still a piece of garbage
for @lgckenta
Now if people were to encounter Jaekyung at this very moment, they would see themselves faced with 3 options. A) pretend they didn't see her, B) ask her if she'd like a coffee or a chocolate bar or C) offer her a hug.
With hair messy, eyebags under her eyes and beyond done with everything going wrong that could have potentially gone the unfun kind of W, she was ready to crash into her dorm and drop face first into her sheets. Well, hoping she didn't somehow manage to hit her head on the bunk beds in the process as well-
But when she saw Kenta? All that bad energy flew out the window. "Oiiiii!" Echoes the shout across the hallway so he stops long enough for her to catch up. Once she does her fingers immediately find his hair, ruffling the messy strands in an analyzing manner. "you look pale," she continues on, Japanese rusty but good enough by now that she gets by. "did you eat dinner today?"
jaekyung is a simple girl. she solely wants to experience life while being there for those she cares about. adventurous and open minded, her ennagram type fits her well in the way that she’s spontaneous in taking up new challenges and offers tossed her way with the common phrase of “you never know if you don’t try”. this mindset is also what makes her so versatile and open to trying out things she’d usually not consider herself proficient with. it does however leave her distractible and scattered on the flip side, facing her with the challenge of actually seeing things through until the end.
however she is nothing if not determined, which fits well to where the sorting hat placed her. with her loving and kind heart she could very well be a hufflepuff as well but her brave and daring nature makes her tip slightly towards the side of the gryffins, wearing red and gold proudly. being generally perceived a people pleaser, it’s no myth that she learned how to be rather chivalrous, enjoying to be THAT hype woman to pick someone up after a long day and make them rest their feet along with face masks and a funny movie or cliched drama to take their mind of whatever the cruel harsh world may place on their shoulders to wear them down. she strives to let her light way of living life inspire people to follow along and just relax and enjoy the bright sides for a second longer, smile a little brighter and a bit more genuinely.
her daemon depicts those qualities perfectly as she often channels her emotional intelligence to express her loving nature with her chatty and social attitude and find the best way to cheer someone up with always looking for the right thing to say.
regardless of all these things jaekyung still classifies as a huge introvert, vastly preferring one on one interactions in comparison to being the center of a crowd. she gets too easily overwhelmed with having to carter to too many people at ones, her observing nature feeling easily out of the loop while not knowing who to focus on first. especially because she loves to get to know a person instead of judge them straight up, she seriously gains more energy from taking care of people one at a time and not be the life of the party and the center of everyone’s attention.
fascinated eyes drift around the practice rooms as 18 year old jaekyung starts her first official day as a trainee. there is little she knows except for the joy of performing and her fascination for the city. there are eyes on her, making her shift in her skin, sneakers squeaking against the ground in an otherwise too quiet room.
while not minding standing in the spotlight, this kind of attention on her makes her antsy and itch in her skin. she’s not performing right now, she’s just good ol’ kyungchi from jeonju with a funny dialect and skin a notch darker than the rest of them. should she have made sure to wear long sleeves? should she have applied some whitening cream?
twisting her vitamin pack anxiously she fumbles to tug it open, hoping to energize herself before the inevitable mistakes she was to stumble through during her first singing lesson. in the end she almost chokes on the dry powder, having to force it down with a large gulp of water before even more eyes turn towards her. by the end of it all, she finds herself still with no one to talk to, exhaling a tired sigh while gathering her things.
she’s considerably a bit demotivated but she expected a rocky start like this somehow. it isn’t until another water bottle is held beneath her nose that jaekyung perks up to see her coach direct a fond eye roll at her. “you’re not the first here to come from the countryside kid. don’t get too caught up in your head or you won’t be able to keep up. which would be a pity because you got a good voice.”
it’s admittedly blatantly obvious advice and directed in a rather strict manner but it has jaekyung’s eyes light up with a smile.
so she finds herself handing out vitamins the next day in a way to make friends and assist another when warming up their vocals. so when their coach finds a tiny piece of chocolate along with a note saying “thank you♥”, jaekyung will deny beaming a smile at her before going about her day.
🖇₊˚ෆ Two Girls sitting at a table, crying over studies cause it's math
for @lgcmilan
"why...," is the single word that leaves her lips in more of a groan than an actually audible question. however jaekyung is confident milan will understand her regardless. even beyond the straw she's nibbling away at with pouty lips because- well, her friend just gets her.
"we're studying in a creative field- why the EFF do we need maaaath for that?! are we expected to calculate the distance how many steps we can take across the stage before we fall off now or what?!" another sigh as she leans back into her seat in overdramatic fashion. yet she foregoes another comment and instead resumes the assault on her straw, crunching the paper between her teeth with just the tiniest huff.