( kim yerim, cis woman ) have you seen MAE KWON ? i heard SHE is a WAITRESS/VISUAL ARTS MAJOR at MAL’S DINER/SUN VALLEY. they’re 22 years old and they’ve been living in san verto for 13 YEARS. they tend to be LOYAL & DEPENDABLE, but rumor has it they can also be IMPULSIVE & STRAIGHTFORWARD. [ tally, 25, GMT+4, she/her ]
tw // seasonal affective disorder, depression, child abandonment
mae kwon –– kim yerim / yeri fc
nicknames: maemae ??
birthday: june 25, 1998 - 22 yrs old ; cancer
cis woman, she/her, bisexual
born in gwangju, south korea.
past !
Mae Kwon, originally just 'Mae' was a little girl who was left stranded by her mother at a young age on a rainy day. Originally born in gwangju, South Korea, her parents moved to New York with her. The little three year old girl was found crying in a parking lot. There was a piece of paper tucked into her pocket stating her name, age, birthday, and the words 'if found, please take care of her because i don't want to. don't try to find me, because you won't. don't try to find her father because he's dead. i’m sorry'. Mae was actually lucky to be found by people without any ill intent. After a lazy investigation by the police department, Mae’s mother couldn’t be traced.
Mae was in the foster system for as long as she could remember and was moved from one state to another a lot. The longest she stayed at a foster home was with a couple consisting of two married korean women in san verto, california who loved children and wanted to take care of them, but could only take in one kid at the time, and that happened to be Mae. They loved her so much that on her 9th birthday, a year after being their foster kid, she was adopted by them.
Of course, there were a few complications. Mae wasn't properly taken care of as she grew up. She wasn't used to getting whatever she wanted. She wasn't used to being treated like she was someone's biological child. Someone’s favorite thing in the world. She wasn't used to having food whenever she wanted. She was a very quiet kid at first, barely speaking unless she was spoken to first. But once she got used to someone, she was so talkative and happy. Eventually, she got used to her new life and she loved it. Now she couldn't ask for anything better.
present !
Mae now lives a happy and healthy life. She may have not grown up in a great environment, but she was lucky enough to be one of the few older kids to be adopted at the age that she was. Mae is someone who's amazing when it comes to her studies. It is so easy for her to memorize things, and therefore get outstanding grades in school. She, however, preferred art over anything else, if she had to consider a career path. Painting has saved her in her quiet and rough times, and she's gotten so skilled at it. Her specialty was realism, and which sometimes was mixed with other abstract styles. Mae now studies visual arts at Sun Valley School of Fine Arts, and she's going through her last year. It's not fancy, but it's what she prefers. She knows that if theres anything she couldn't learn at school, she could easily learn herself.
Mae has had multiple jobs throughout being in high school and college working as a barista or a receptionist, or what have you. She’s currently a waitress at Mal’s Diner. while her parents are big on helping her out financially if she needed it, Mae is someone who likes to save up and depend on herself.
One thing to mention is the way her childhood has affected her mentally in the long run. She was diagnosed with Seasonal Affective Disorder, and she was told it was most likely genetic. However Mae, although she knows it's incorrect, she feels like she developed it on her own during her childhood. In fact, she was abandoned on a rainy winter day, and although it's not true in terms of the official causes of the disorder, Mae thinks that day has had a big affect on her mentally regardless. She still remembers it vividly, and especially in the winter when she's suffering with her disorder the most. The impact of that memory just makes her even more depressed than she should be.
personality !
mae is that person who could come off as quiet and invisible, with her general vibe, but she’s such a social butterfly whenever she gets the chance. she’s the type of person who would purposely annoy you for fun. she was known at school for being the one girl in gym class who called the coach by his first name shamelessly, just because saying “what’s up, steve?” and seeing his reaction was funny to her. she generally has good patience, but it could run out so quickly, especially when someone is being rude to her or her friends. and despite her being so good at school and on top of her classes, she was lazy when it came to other things, especially whatever job she was having at the time, to the point where she became the type of person to quit work just because she wasn’t vibing like she thought she would be. mae has a shiba inu dog named haruki, and if you call him doge, she will glare at you because she’s so sick of the outdated doge jokes lmaoo anyways that’s her !
wc !
- friendsss , i’m always here for friendships - crush ?? 😳 it could be either your character with a crush on mae or mae with a crush on yours ?? i’m here for it - old crush bc it would be funny if mae had a crush on this person and they never acknowledged her existence until now that she’s completely over them lmaoo - co workers ?? they could either be havin’ Good Vibes together or simply not like each other and hate it when the other gets in their way ? - bad influence 👀 mae isnt really the type of person to do something she knows she shouldnt ,, but sometimes her ass can be dumb if she was around the wrong people - f-fwb ?? 😳 again, mae isn’t really someone who’s big on wilding out but these two could’ve met somewhere like a bar or a club one time and it’s been a Thing since then ??
i’m open to more ideas, not necessarily just these !!
