Is that MINNIE PARK? Wow, they do look a lot like LEE JI-EUN. I hear SHE is an EIGHTEEN year old university FRESHMAN who is studying FASHION DESIGN at Luxor University. Word is they are a REGULAR student who is AGAINST The Unhinged. You should watch out because they can be SENSITIVE and NAIVE, but on the bright side they can also be CREATIVE and AMBITIOUS. Ultimately, you’ll get to see it all for yourself. ( TW: death, murder, suicide, depression )
MAJOR:
Fashion design
CLASS SCHEDULE:
Fashion design Creative writing Probability German
EXTRACURRICULARS
Theatre - Costume design Arts club
BASIC INFO:
BIRTH NAME: Park Min-seo NICKNAME ( S ): Minnie, Min, Minnie Mouse PREFERRED NAME: Minnie DATE OF BIRTH: January 13, 2003 PLACE OF BIRTH: Seoul, South Korea HOMETOWN: Seattle, Washington AGE: Eighteen ZODIAC: Capricorn LOCATION: Luxor University OCCUPATION: Student ADDICTIONS: Smoking and drinking ( sorta but she’s started to drink a little less since leaving Luxor ) ETHNICITY: Korean NATIONALITY: Korean-American SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Bisexual GENDER & PRONOUNS: Cis woman / She/her
BIO:
okay, so minnie, born park min-seo, was raised in washington and lived there for the majority of her life up until being sent to luxor her freshman year of high school.
her parents weren’t insanely rich or anything, but they were fairly well off. her mother, lee ha-yoon ( yoon lee ), owned her own dance studio, as well as an art studio and her father, park hyun-jae ( jae park ), was an fbi agent. they were both born and raised in seoul, south korea and they met when they were just teenagers. the way they always told it, they fell madly in love and left seoul to live out their dreams in california, which they did for a while until ha-yoon became pregnant. they moved back to seoul and moved back to the states, this time seattle, when minnie was five.
minnie’s love of art came as no surprise to her parents, given the amount of time that she spent at both of her mother’s studios. however, despite her mother’s efforts to convince her to take dance classes, minnie never loved dancing as much as she loved sketching/painting. they were passions that she threw herself into, particularly as she got older and found herself needing an escape from what would still to this day be considered the worst thing that had ever happened to her. ( but we’ll get to that in a minute . )
if asked, minnie always swore that she loved both of her parents equally, but she was definitely more of a daddy’s girl than anything else. she always said that was because he wasn’t around as often as her mother, so the time she spent with him meant even more to her because she knew how lucky she was that he took the time to make time for her??? when he very well could have just… not done that and chosen to focus on his work more than he did his family.
her father was just generally an all-around a+++ guy, but she really did love both of her parents and aspired to be like them in a lot of ways because she didn’t think there were two people who were more good. even if that made her bias.
TW: MURDER
when minnie was a teenager, her father started investigating a series of killings. it wasn’t ever something he really talked about with his wife or daughter, but he was home a lot less and threw himself into the case.
she was thirteen when she was pulled out of a history lesson and greeted with the sight of her mother, who looked like she’d just seen a ghost, as well as her father’s fbi partner and another one of the officers he’d been investigating the case with.
a lot of worst case scenarios ran through her mind and she’d already guessed the worst thing before her mother even said the words, that her father had been brutally murdered by the same man responsible for all of the other murders.
it was only a couple of weeks later that they caught the man they thought to be responsible. END OF TW
after losing her father, minnie started to shut everyone out. she was so angry with the man who had taken her father from her, but since she couldn’t take that anger out on him, she buried, choosing instead to always keep her head down and never talk to anyone
minnie threw herself into her art even more, because it was the one thing that made her feel okay. she didn’t cry at her father’s funeral and hasn’t really dealt with his death since learning of it. her mother grew as distant as she had and spent more time at her studio than she did with her own daughter, given how unable she was to cope with her husband’s death. it was like his ghost was everywhere, in their house and at the studio and in her mother’s eyes.
she tried to commit suicide and spent the summer before her first year at luxor in a mental institution. this was a secret until it was revealed by the circle at prom. ( this was secret reveal number one for her, revealed two years ago @ prom by the circle )
it came as a relief to minnie when her mother announced that she was going to send her to luxor for her schooling when she entered high school. she was ready to get out of washington and to escape the ghost of her father.
when she got to luxor, she joined theatre to do costume design, because she still had dreams to become a fashion designer some day. she also joined arts club, because of her love of art.
life at luxor had been more tolerable than her life at home and she’d almost forgotten her sadness and that anger, buried it until she couldn’t feel it anymore… and then her secrets had been revealed.
she had been hoping that she could continue to fool everyone into thinking that she was okay, after the crusade revealed her second secret, that she’d been lying about still talking to her therapist & that she hadn’t been taking her medications. ( graduation 2021 )
minnie left the university for the summer and traveled back home to seattle, for the very first time since she’d left at age fifteen to start attending luxor for high school.
it was as tough as she had imagined it to be and she didn’t last very long there and she and her umma spent the last couple of months of summer in seoul with her umma and appa’s families.
cut to the current semester and minnie has returned to the place that her umma was VERY reluctant to send her back to, but minnie argued that she was an adult and that she was getting better & she could handle it. it is very difficult for her to be back and she’s kind of trying to navigate her life, one breath at a time while she tries to heal
ahhh okay, that’s all i can think of but i might add more later. as for her personality, she is literally the definition of sweet as pie. she doesn’t ever have a bad thing to say about anyone, except for one person in particular. still, she isn’t so nice that she doesn’t know how to stick up for herself and in the event that anyone was ever mean to her for some reason, she wouldn’t be afraid to fight back. she’s artsy and it shows. the true definition of a fashionista and she WILL talk fashion all day, every day. very loyal, the kind of friend that anyone should want to have on their side, and is incredibly trustworthy. she tries to give everyone a chance, but she does have trust issues, which makes it hard for her to believe in second chances. basically, hurt her once, shame on you and you don’t get another shot to do it again. ummm, she’s really really smart and honestly could have been given a scholarship but her mother is well-off enough that she was able to pay for everything without the aid of a scholarship. likes to crack a lot of jokes, but they’re all really lame. think dad jokes, but, like, the teenage girl version of that. she has mood swings sometimes, but they’re never so sudden that it gives people whiplash. if she doesn’t want to talk, she won’t be rude about it. she’ll just say that she isn’t feeling well and lock herself in her dorm until she feels better.
random facts:
while she was raised in washington for the majority of her life, she was born in seoul, south korea and spent five years there before her parents moved the family to the states
if you don’t like k pop, never ask her to play music because it will be one of the only things she plays
she’s fluent in english, as well as korean because her parents were notorious for only speaking korean when at home to make it easier for her to not forget how to speak the language she’d first learned. she also knows a little mandarin and can speak semi-decent french and japanese. she’s currently taking german and plans to add that to her list once she masters it.
she can often be seen wearing her father’s fbi cap because it’s one of the only things she has left of him. that, and his jacket.
comes off somewhat confident, but she’s actually really really insecure and doesn’t think too highly of herself at all
can secretly sing very well/also rap but she won’t usually do so in front of anyone because she’s incredibly shy. ( voice claim: lee ji eun / iu )
literally the embodiment of walking on sunshine. ( this random tidbit is a bit outdated, but she still tries to be the embodiment of sunshine, despite pretty much everyone seeing through her fake smiles at this point )
she recently got her first and only tattoos ( two at once because they both meant something to her ). one behind her left her-- a semi-colon, to signify that she’s a survivor of a suicide attempt and to remind herself that no matter what, she’ll continue to live and the second one are the words “this too shall pass” written in tiny cursive, on the inside of her right wrist
character inspo: rory gilmore from gilmore girls, willow rosenberg from btvs, felicity smoak from arrow, belle from beauty & the beast, jamie from a walk to remember ( more to come later )
