Days like today would be categorized under one of Mingyu's favorite days of the year, if it hadn't been a workday. There was something cruel about being stuck behind a stand with a perfect view of at least three rides that he couldn't get on. Sure, the pay was good, but aside from that, the only thing that made up for his sweet smelling prison was the amount of people in the park. Gyu was used to very quiet days, especially the rainy ones were long and boring. But at least today Astroland seemed to be bustling with people eager to bring their kids somewhere for free.
( And what was better than unsupervised kids? Unsupervised kids on a sugar rush. It reminded him of his own childhood — careless, fearless, bound to get into accidents. )
"What can I get you today? We have fresh, extra-terrestrial popcorn, galactic cotton candy clouds, M&Ms from Mars, spaceship worthy Skittles- You know what? Can I interest you in our limited edition Icee? It is guaranteed to stain your tongue for the rest of the day, so you can convince the aliens you're one of them! I tested it."
He stuck out his tongue as proof, showing off the bright blue color. "I drank it two hours ago. Can you believe it?"
Growing up in LA, Sora was no stranger to hot weather. In fact, hot weather is just an excuse to drop an inch off a hemline guilt-free. But, there's something about being surrounded by children and families on a hot day that makes her feel on edge. Their negative vibes and squabbles are starting to grate on Sora's iron nerves. It was so unlike her to get annoyed, but if she had to hear one more mother scold their child for 'ruining their dinner' by eating too many sweets, she might need to scream. Out loud. And that would not be cute or neighbourly.
So, treating herself to treats seemed like the lesser evil. If anything, it's her civic duty to improve her mood. So, naturally, visiting the confection stand is a matter of national emergency.
Sora had been blankly surveying the options while queueing for the sweets and was still spaced-out when the man behind the counter begins speaking to her. So much so that she zones in only when a flash of blue zaps her out of her trance. Her eyes lift and squint as she tries to make sense of what was possibly said to her prior to the very last part.
"...Sorry..." She blinks, finally tuning back into reality. She smiles, but it's more polite than apologetic, as if he should be sorry for interrupting her thoughts. "Did you say you were an alien?" She asks airily. "I've been to this park like, loads of times and I feel like if there were aliens, I would have seen them by now."
One hand twirls a long lock of hair around her finger. Her gaze drifts back to the endless rows of candy, sparkling almost immediately. Her finger hovers aimlessly across the display. "Also…Am I allowed to buy one of everything? Or is there a limit per chi-I mean person."
“i'd rather live my life believing in l o v e and hope and soft things; if that makes me a fool, may i remain a GENTLE one.”
full name: kang sora
faceclaim: jang wonyoung
occupation: club enigma dancer ・ vipers mc tattoo artist
meaning: seasnail
age: 23.
dob: 04/10.
religion: none (raised areligious)
gender: cisgender female.
pronouns: she/her.
sexual identification: demisexual.
romantic identification: biromantic
height: 5'6".
place of birth: los angeles, california.
criminal record: none, but it's just a matter of time.
personality type: ESFP-A.
blood type: A.
moral alignment: chaotic neutral.
languages: english, some broken korean.
nationality: american
ethnicity: south korean
+ confident, + artistic, +talented, + bubbly
- morally grey, - spoiled, - vain , - out of touch
ｓｐｅｃｉｆｉｃｓ –
favorite food: sushi.
favorite drink: frappuchino.
favorite brand: ralph lauren.
favorite hobby: dancing.favorite artist: n/a she probably can't name a single one.
favorite musician: madonna, spice girls.
favorite scent: candy apple, coffee, freshly baked goods.
favorite person: her uncle (who is incarcerated).
ｒａｎｄｏｍ –
1. sora has been dancing her entire life and is classically trained.
2. despite coming from a fully korean family, she speaks next to no korean.
3. was born and raised rich and so can be quite out of touch.
4. has a massive sweet tooth.
5. has an angeleno accent; big time.
6. dyes her hair often.
7. she first started tattooing by making stick and poke tattoos for her friends but then got really into it.
8. despite the sheer amount of pink in her wardrobe, her favourite colour is orange.
9. is terrible at singing.
10. is allergic to copper.
list five things they like:
shopping / exercise / baseball / mtv / fairytales
list five things they dislike:
mean people/ responsibility / maths / police / criticism
common words / phrases that annoy them?:
’can i ask you a question’ / ‘where should we eat’ / ‘what do you think’
personality types they prefer:
sora likes people who treat her like a princess, funny people, people who don't take themselves too seriously
personality types they avoid:
rigid, goody two shoes, overly serious.
h e r s t o r y –
to say that kang sora was born with a silver spoon in her mouth would be a gross understatement. there was not a need that went unmet in her entire time growing up. her father would hang the moon for her if she asked. not only her father, but her uncle spoiled her to pieces too. and so for as far as she can remember she was always surrounded by love and adoration.
despite the plethora of resources given to her, sora was never interested in making the most of the headstart life gave her. she had no interest in academics. she only enjoyed dancing, art and later cheerleading. as a student she was always more interested in being well-liked and popular than she was in learning anything. but in LA, it seemed that being pretty and rich was all she needed to be anyway.
then, seemingly out of nowhere, her life changed. the first shock came with her uncle's arrest when she was 12. the subsequent shock came when her father suddenly vanished from her life as well. her business man father had screwed over the wrong kind of people and had to go on the run. her mother, a movie star who had always been the primary breadwinner, simply became even more distant than she already was. she had always been a cold person, but the scandal caused by her father's business transgressions estranged her even more. she had always been less keen to spoil sora, wanting her to become capable and independent. and so, eventually, sora's lifestyle became something she was unwilling to support.
broke and isolated, sora decided to forge her own destiny by moving away from california. she initially followed a boy all the way out to new mexico but ended up settling and finding a new home away from home.
at first it was difficult for her to make money. after all, she was too much of a princess to perform well at most workplaces. it was only when she landed a job dancing at club enigma that she finally was able to make ends meet. but what really reversed the bleak direction her life was going in was befriending a member of the vipers mc. after the initial introduction, becoming a prospect and eventually joining, sora finally felt like she had found a family away from home. sora is ride or die for the vipers mc and considers them her real family. she currently works as their tattoo artist as well.
when speaking to her, people might feel that they're speaking to someone quite shallow and immature as a result. sora idealises the idea of love and relationships, but has a hard time committing and finds fault in people easily, leading her to be the type to love em and leave em. she's a bit naive and doesn't understand innately that there's no such thing as a perfect person.
despite coming across as surface-level, sora is a sunny and friendly person. she's bubbly and quick to make friends. that being said, she's far from a goody-two-shoes. as long as the dollar is green, sora is nothing if not morally flexible. it's also worth noting that sora categorically doesn't discuss her parents and so her connection to her celebrity mother wouldn't be known by anyone.
MAXXIE : a MONSTER is not such a [TERRIBLE] thing to be. from the latin root MONSTRUM - a divine messenger of CATASTROPHE, then adapted by the old french to mean an ANIMAL of myriad origins: [centaur, griffin, satyr.] to be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a LIGHTHOUSE: both SHELTER and warning at once.
FULL NAME: MAXIMUS ‘MAXXIE’ MOON
MEANING: GREATEST, LARGEST.
OCCUPATION: WBHR RADIO MANAGER.
AGE: 29.
DOB: 11/11.
RELIGION: NONE / BORN CATHOLIC.
GENDER: ANDROGYNE .
PRONOUNS: HE/THEY/ANY
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: BISEXUAL.
ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: BIROMANTIC.
HEIGHT: 6′3.
BLOOD TYPE: AB
PLACE OF BIRTH: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA.
CRIMINAL RECORD: NONE
PERSONALITY TYPE: ISTP-A
MORAL ALIGNMENT: CHAOTIC NEUTRAL.
NATIONALITY: AMERICAN.
ETHNICITY: SOUTH KOREAN.
+ PERSPICACIOUS, + TALENTED, + INTROSPECTIVE
- FATALISTIC, - RETICENT, - SATURNINE
ｓｐｅｃｉｆｉｃｓ –
favorite food: steak
favorite drink: bourbon
favorite brand: saint laurent
favorite hobby: songwriting
favorite artist: n/a
favorite musician: billie holiday (vocals) or nina simone (vocals) or aaron neville (vocals), yo yo ma (cello), ryuichi sakamoto (composition, piano), etc. i could literally go on forever. big fan of mozart, the pixies, and other random musicians.
favourite scent: coffee
favorite person: his dad
ｒａｎｄｏｍ –
list ten facts about your muse:
1. maxxie is a musical prodigy and quickly becomes proficient at any instrument he picks up
2. has a very gender-free style of dressing, wears whatever he wants, doesn’t care what people think. although he goes by he/him pronouns he doesn't really consider himself a man or a woman and wouldn't mind being referred to any other way.
3. unapologetic nicotine addict
4. really likes monkeys
5. has a younger sister named cindy he would pretty much die for.
6. has very low emotional intelligence and finds it difficult to relate to other people.
7. hates sweets
9. has had one major romantic relationship in which his girlfriend cheated on him; he never quite got over it. so he keeps people at an arm's length.
10. misanthrope
list five things they like:
drinking / music / accessorising / fashion / travel
list five things they dislike:
sweets / reading / being told what to do / small talk / liars
common words / phrases that annoy them?:
i feel like it’s pretty easy to annoy maxxie. i think more than anything he hates when people whine a lot.
personality types they prefer:
witty / funny people / realists / cynics
personality types they avoid:
ditsy / self-absorbed people. / people who avoid accountability
h i s s t o r y –
tw: mentions of chronic illness, depression, alcoholism/substance abuse, nothing graphic.
AN ANATOMY OF MOVING PARTS: THE BOY.
+ maxxie moon was born in seoul, south korea, to an underage mother whose parents were strictly against abortion.
+despite the circumstances of his birth, his grandparents had been fully intending to take care of him.
+ however, with the father out of the picture and the daughter’s reputation and marriageability on the line, the underage girl begged for them to send him away.
+ after a lot of back and forth, the family settled on giving him up for adoption, deciding not to declare his status in case the orphanage refuses to take him in.
+ when he was still an infant, he was adopted by a korean-american family who were unable to have children of their own and were wanting to adopt a child.
+ honestly his parents were pretty nice, hardworking people.
+ they were just your average, middle-class american family. camping trips. his dad used to push him toward sciences and while he always had a natural knack for sciences and especially physics, he was just not into it.
+ instead, maxxie always gravitated toward music and music is definitely an area he is exceptional in. they’ve always had an ear for music and from a young age was able to repeat harmonies or play notes by ear. at age four, they could play the piano at their church as though they had been playing for years. at age five, they added the violin to his repertoire. but their dream was to be a guitarist.
+ after a lot of begging, maxxie’s dad went out and bought him a ‘guitar’, even bragging that he bought the most expensive one there. but it was a bass (thanks dad!!!)
+ maxxie was upset about it for like 3 minutes literally but then his best friend laughed and pointed out they could now start a band.
+ so maxxie, his best friend willem, and his two other friends, benji and jude, started a band. they were called kid skeleton and went from lame boys practicing in the garage to actually being pretty impressive and well liked in the cozy confines of their school district.
+ maxxie wrote all their music, played bass and often acted as back up vocals, william was their frontman, their and guitarist with his dashing looks and amazing voice, then there was jude who was a beast on the drums and benji on the keys. it was perfect.
+ and maxxie was definitely very optimistic about their future but this flipped 180 degrees after graduating high school.
+ benji had gotten his high school sweetheart pregnant and suddenly had to focus completely on his new responsibilities as a father. he’s now working in a bank.
+ william went to law school (hardly the anti establishment position he expected him to take)
+ jude had gone out of state for college and that was that. suddenly the dreams they spent over a decade singing about had disintegrated into dust.
+ his parents were pretty fucking livid when he broke down after that. he threw away the acceptance to MIT he received, having applied only to placate his parents and decided to fully throw himself into music.
+ it has not worked out for him, to say the least. despite all his talent, it was difficult to kickstart a career and with his parents cutting him off until he reconsidered college, he had to make ends meet, so he pursued his love for music in a different way by becoming a radio manager. (he is still incredibly bitter though)
+ so he just lives alone and drinks, and drinks and ponders the meanging(lessness) of life and rinses and repeats and wishes to wake up and be completely normal.
+ maxxie suffers from depression + substance abuse/self medicating + chronic pain / stiffness of joints + Insomnia + also being a miserable music snob
“some girls are full of [heartache] and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running from them.”
full name: yoshikawa aki
faceclaim: kanna hashimoto
occupation: dungeon master
meaning: daybreak
age: 24.
dob: 04/04
religion: none
gender: demigirl
pronouns: she/they
sexual identification: pansexual
romantic identification: panromantic
height: 4′10″ / 147 cm
place of birth: tokyo, japan
criminal record: none
personality type: infp-a
blood type: o-negative
moral alignment: chaotic good
languages: japanese, chinese, english and korean
nationality: japanese
ethnicity: japanese
+ dauntless, + true-blue, + sincere
- hypersensitive, - petulant, - naïve
ｓｐｅｃｉｆｉｃｓ –
favorite food: takoyaki
favorite drink: cream soda
favorite brand: n/a
favorite hobby: playing videogames
favorite artist: yoshitaka amano
favorite musician: iron maiden / metallica / vow wow / etc. there are literally too many.
favorite scent: apple cinnamon, freshly baked bread, cherry blossoms
favorite person: mondo-san, her father’s right-hand man
ｒａｎｄｏｍ –
1. aki is left-handed.
2. aki is proficient in judo.
3. has 2 pet bunnies named gilgamesh and daisuke and a third unnamed pet bunny.
4. is all the way a cat person.
5. dumbs herself down to be more likeable/approachable
6. smells of roses
7. her favourite flowers are tulips.
8. sometimes she practices wearing makeup but ends up feeling so ridiculous that she angrily wipes it off.
9. went to a prestigious prep school (before her memory loss)
10. her favourite ice cream is mint choco chip.
list five things they like:
animals / video games / horror movies / heavy metal / comic books
list five things they dislike:
complicated or mean people / being patronised / formalities / being ordered around
common words / phrases that annoy them?:
’stop acting like a child/baby’ / ‘act your age’ / ‘grow up’
personality types they prefer:
kind, soft-people / witty or funny people / sensible and intelligent people
personality types they avoid:
people who are condescending / egoistic / morally questionable / arrogant
t h e i r s t o r y –
tw: hospitals, death mention, abandonment, bullying, mention of chronic illness
there are parts she still remembers. the sound of her mother’s laughter, the kindness of her smile, the way her eyes formed crescents whenever she saw her. the way the light hit her face as it poured through the kitchen window, the smell of breakfast hanging heavy in the air while she ran dishes underneath the steady stream of water. her mother: one of many misplaced memories.
sometimes she wonders if she remembers anything at all - or if her reality is altogether pieced together by her father’s understanding of the way her life was. it was a troublesome thought, really, considering her father had only been in her life for the past year.
and maybe that’s why her thoughts don’t cooperate with her, no matter how hard she tries to make sense of them. to take the frayed ends of scribbled thoughts and knit them together into something seamless. can she truly understand her thoughts if she doesn’t know who she is?
before.
+ aki was born to a single-parent household in tokyo, japan.
+ her mother was nineteen when she gave birth to her and had never gone to college. she was scouted right after school to become a performer, but was promptly discarded after she fell pregnant with an unknown man’s child. the shame being too much to bear the brunt of alone, she fell off the map and changed her name so she could raise her daughter alone quietly.
+ aki’s mother is actually from nara prefecture in japan and moved to tokyo to become a famous singer. she didn’t want to go back to nara city after everything that happened, though as she comes from a deeply religious background of shrine workers and priestesses.
+ though aki realised very early on that people didn’t look too kindly on the circumstances of her birth, she always kept a brave face in front of her mother because she didn’t want to make her think she wasn’t proud of her.
+ in school though, children were not the nicest to say the least. she was often called the mistress’s daughter, a bastard child, etc. she spent her adolescence fluctuating between total anonymity and scorn.
+ one girl stood out amongst the rest - and maybe this is because aki was admittedly rather envious of her. she was tall, beautiful, confident, etc. aki wanted nothing more than to be friends with her.
+ unfortunately this girl was to become her chief tormentor. it got to the point where she couldn’t stomach going to school and would actually fake or cause illness so as to ditch school.
+ her mother started to notice this after a while and - especially as her grades started slipping (from a’s….to…b’s….) and demanded to know what was going on.
+ when aki confessed what had been going on, her mother immediately tried taking action and reported it to the school.
+ the girl, shock and horror, started to cry and said she feels that she was misunderstood by aki and that this is just her way of playing. her parents are a big deal™ so in the end aki ended up being asked to apologise and when she wouldn’t, her mother apologised and even got on her knees
+ this enraged aki because she had always wanted her mum to keep her head held up high and not bow down just bc someone more socially advantaged said to, so the next day she decided to take it into her own hands. she knew she couldn’t carry on living like a victim though. no matter what.
+ the next day the girls have a confrontation on the school rooftop and the exact events which transpired what happens next is something of a mystery to all parties involved. rumours circulated the school claiming that aki was the aggressor, some other people said that the other girl fell off trying to save her from falling off.
+ either way, and to everyone’s relief, they both survived - but at a price.
+ for aki, the price was six months in a coma, nearly a full year of physical therapy and three broken ribs, but that wasn’t the worst of it. this was: her memories.
+ for her schoolmate, whose body had partly broken aki’s fall when she grabbed her hand and fell off as well, was now paraplegic. aki was told, when she woke up, that her mother had to pay for her medical fees - something she isn’t sure how she managed considering their financial situation.
+ either way, when she woke up, it was to a world without her mother and a lack of clarity surrounding the woman her heart longed to see or the memories of their life together.
+ there were whisperings amongst the nurses that her mother had abandoned her, that she could no longer take care of such a problematic child, nor foot the steep medical bills her hospital stay was racking up.
+ others even said that she must died, somewhere, and were it not for the fact she couldn’t move properly when she first woke, that alone would have gotten her out of bed.
+ in her place was a man she had never seen before, who smiled apologetically and introduced himself as her father as soon as he ended the call.
+ and that was the end of her former life.
after.
+ her father, she later found out, was a record producer - and that was how he and her mother had met. he was still unmarried, despite his good looks and considerable wealth. his success was seemingly unstoppable, too, and he had been living outside japan for the past few years. in america - the big leagues, he said. after she had been cleared to leave the hospital, he whisked her away from japan and to his second home in new mexico. it was far away from the glitz, glam and pressures of los angeles, he’d said, and was a much better place for a young girl like her. although he spent most of his time out of state, she wasn’t all alone in their new home in new mexico. she had her bunnies, too.
+ her personality is pretty soft in general, she’s tenderhearted and very loyal to her friends. she’s just a fun-loving, hyper, quirky person. she’s very empathic so exceedingly mean people are not usually her vibe. she is very hypersensitive and can become emotional rather quickly. though she is soft on the inside, she is tough on the outside and can actually pack a mean punch for her size. although her memory is foggy, she remembers enough to know she was always picked on for being small, weak and too nice, so she actively takes kickboxing and self-defence.
+ she likes video games, music (metal, hardcore, rock), anime, dungeons and dragons, comic books, etc.
+ she unfortunately deals with a few ailments, being nonspecific to be mindful of triggers, but basically a heart arrhythmia disorder, and anemia.
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