[ currently viewing this page as @ paras1tes ] … did you see? yesterday, JEONG EUNJAE (HE/HIM) was spotted at the airport! you know, that 26 year old who was part of that one film's LEGAL/PUBLIC RELATIONS TEAM? the cursed one that they never finished? yeah, they were the JOURNALIST! i know everyone already knows they're PERCEPTIVE and RETICIENT, but i heard that HE SNUCK AROUND THE SET LATE AT NIGHT WHEN FEW WERE AROUND, POKING HIS NOSE IN OFFICES HE SHOULDN'T. apparently they’re a CONTENT WRITER FOR A MAJOR NEWS SITE now, but i guess they’ve got unfinished business with this movie, or this movie’s got unfinished business with them.
me ? late as per usual to posting any kind intro several days after acceptances ?? yeah it's more likely than you think, but i digress. hello ! my name is jae ( she/they, est, 25+ ) and i am bringing to you my nosy little journalist who literally can't keep his nose out of anything if he tried: jeong eunjae ! known for his articles on various media including movies and television shows, the review he had started on the movie during filming has since remained unfinished and to be honest that has never sat with well with him, so like everyone he's back to figure out what the hell is going on ! below is essentially word vomit about him while i'm still fleshing him out. i prefer disc*rd for plotting, so feel free to ask me for my username, thanks !!!
𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 !
born and raised in seoul, south korea by a single father. eunjae was the product of college love that went completely wrong between his parents. his mother was far from the type of person who should ever have a child with her flighty, temperamental nature that never kept her in one place for long. by the time she knew she was pregnant, they had already broken up and when the time came of his birth, she all but dumped him on his doorstep with only an ultimatum that if he didn't take him then she would leave him at shitty orphanage somewhere.
despite the new pressure of a baby he did not know was coming, eunjae's father adapted and worked hard to finish his degree while taking care of a newborn child. his mother hadn't even deigned to name him, and so he named him eunjae. those first few years bonded him to his son and often his nights of studying including having him at his side in a crib while he as flooded under schoolwork and papers. the determination to become successful now not only for himself but also for eunjae.
as he was growing up, it was obvious that eunjae had taken on so many of his mother's facial features. essentially beginning to look a male version of the woman that he would never come to know in his life. to this day, eunjae has never met his mother, having only seen old photos he had found in one of his father's closets some years back, but as time would go one it would show that he hadn't just inherited her looks but bits of her personality.
from the moment he learned what it was, a television, eunjae became hooked. some of his first words as a toddler, after father and dad of course, was remote or television. with his father working a low-level associate lawyer, it was all too easy to hand the remote to him when he was busy so that eunjae would be distracted enough till he got bored or hungry.
even as he grew older and was school age, he would hurry home so that he could breeze through whatever homework he had and plant himself in front of their television again and again for whatever new show or movie was going to be playing that he was interested in.
after media, his second love would come to be writing. finding articles online about the tv shows he was adored or was interested in, scouring sites upon sites of news and information and he was surprised that people could make money this way. it became the only future he could see for himself, being a journalist and writing the kind of stories that people would want to read.
in his late teenage years, his father would finally fall in love again and get married to a woman. she was nice enough to him and seemed to want to get to know him but that was short lived and some part of eunjae felt it would happen, especially the moment she became pregnant and from then on it became about her child, a half-sibling for eunjae whom he would never grow close to.
his father's focus shifted a lot but eunjae thought it was okay, he was finishing school and going into college soon and he knew that his father loved her even if it made him begin to feel that loneliness that would grow over the years. his father could finally have his happy little family but eunjae wouldn't stick around to be a part of it.
eventually he enrolled at seoul national university on a scholarship and ended up majoring in journalism, creative writing, and english. a major that kept him very very busy during that time to the point that he rarely visited his father, missed his calls when he wanted to check in, and all in all distanced himself even more. it's not that he really wanted to but it was hard to see himself apart of the new life his father would have.
on top of his already busy schedule, eunjae became a part of the university's newsletter team which allowed him to get a true start on his writing. it was the beginning of his examples that he could one day show on his resume especially so when he was applying for an internship right before the summer of his final year in college. impressed with his hard work as an intern and his ability to write engaging articles, he was eventually offered a position as a content writer assistant for that major news site in south korea he had interned at.
a lot of his early writing for the site was based around media, articles about upcoming projects, castings, and eventually what he became known for by the timing of the filming of 'the mask of all hearts' were his reviews of both popular movies and tv shows as well as those who were more indie or even cult classic status. and at some point before the filming of 'the mask of all hearts' he was promoted to a more senior content writing position.
with all this in mind, it is probably why sanguine studios reached out to him through his employer and set up for him to visit the set of the filming, likely hoping that a review he would write would be quite favorable for when the movie was finally released.
𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 !
eunjae could have gotten away with visiting the set of the production a few times, but after he was assigned to this project he ended up binge-reading all the issues, watching the previous movies, and doing some research beforehand on the previous production. he had never been the type not to put his all into something that he was doing and this would be no different.
he could be see often around the set, watching filming, interviewing both staff and cast alike on various different things; how they felt about the past movies, the volumes and issues, how filming was treating them, any and everything to the point that some people probably got tired of seeing him around.
his natural curiosity would often got the best of him, causing him to sneak around the lot and poke his nose in offices that he probably wasn't allowed to but luckily he didn't get caught somehow by security or anyone else, perhaps it helped he tended to do it at night when there less people around in the dark studio lot.
those late nights are when he thought the empty set was at its most creepy, every sound was suspicious, every movement in the corner of his eye a possible trick of the light but he eventually he would creeped out to a point he had to leave. but even to this day there was something that never felt quite right when he was there.
𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 !
the abrupt end of filming was shocking to everyone, everyone kicked out of the set so quickly and no one was more suspicious than eunjae. at that point he had began to write his article but until he was invited to view the movie before it was released he couldn't finish it. and so he waited and waited, and when that call never came in what he thought would be the company to edit the film, he was forced to move on.
since then he has had to move on to new projects and has been dabbling in trying to get out of his comfort zone and write on different topics. trying for more hard-hitting stuff to show that he's more than just a media journalist but it hasn't been as easy nor has his new stuff gotten as much attention or views.
but everyday when he opens up his laptop and navigates to the folder that has his writing, his eyes always gravitate to the document titled 'wip the mask of all hearts', and it would always bother him that it was incomplete, that he wasn't able to publish it. and it never quite helped that his publisher has been on his case to find out something so that he can release it but until now despite his inquiries and searching he's not been able to come up with anything until now.
with the news of a reality tv show bringing together the cast and crew of the movie as well as possible upcoming release of the movie, eunjae is more determined than ever to figure out what the hell was happening during filming, why the studio went silent so suddenly, and why now of all times that they were hosting a reality show before the release of the movie.
𝙩𝙞𝙙𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙨 !
very much the type of person stand in a crowded room and just casually eavesdropping on conversations but somehow does it so casually that no one knows that he is? very observant that way and pretty perceptive of his surroundings which does help him in his snooping for his writing.
kind of nerd if it wasn't obvious since he's really into movies and tv shows and is a casual gamer at times, nothing too serious that warrants him having like a huge setup, but his laptop is pretty comparable to a gaming one.
diagnosed with anxiety and depression in his teens and has been on medication for them for a while now. he handles it much better than he did in his youth but he still has occasional issues or episodes as a result of them.
big lover of sweets, will literally eat any kind of dessert that you put in front of him. if he's wanting to snack or craving something he'll always reach for sweet treat.
says that he doesn't believe in the supernatural or ghosts or any of that spooky stuff despite watching a lot of horror movies, but even he thinks something was definitely off at the set of the movie production.
𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙩𝙨 !
a fling from the set ( male preference ) - someone he connected with on set and for whatever reason they found an attraction to each other and started sleeping together. how or why it ended after filming is up for plotting and maybe it would fun if it ended badly with lingering feelings and all that good angsty stuff?
a close friend made on set - a friend made on set that maybe snuck around with eunjae when he was snooping around.
someone he just did not get along with - enemies, snark, just in general all the sarcasm to each other!
maybe a friend from childhood - a friend he didn't expect to see on set but ended up surprising him when he found out. whether they were still close or not is up for plotting.
if nothing tickles your fancy, i am up for brainstorming !!!
