what's up, yunhwa? you can call me ria (she/her.) here comes yun sira: yeyun’s one and only innkeeper. below the cut is sira’s full biography and wanted plots! or you can just follow the links bc they’re uh kinda long and it looks nicer there anyways. i don’t have a discord, but give this post a like and i’ll slide into your tumblr dms for plots. ( biography. ) ( plots. )
stats full name: yun sira birthday: 29/08/1989 age: 32 orientation: bi occupation: innkeeper birthplace: yunhwa
visage faceclaim: kim taeyeon hair: medium blunt cut, long fringe often pushed to the side; naturally dark brown eyes: dark brown piercings: standard and upper lobes
goals
make yeyun inn the destination spot in all of busan—scratch that, in all of korea.
encourage as many of the young people of yunhwa to stay in yunhwa. they can’t afford to lose more people to the glamor and glitz of the big cities.
finally forgive the people who left her. well, on second thought—
background everyone leaves, and especially so in such a backwater town like yunhwa. but sira loves yunhwa. it’s home. it’s where she has dug her roots, deep into the fertile earth of the naminsan forest, into the expanse of farmland surrounding the town. but, she thinks, surely the people she loves most will stay with her.
time in yunhwa moves like it’s been submerged into cooled soft caramel: slow, sweet, sticky. most days, nothing happens at all, so the people make do in inflating even the most insignificant details into something worth talking about. sira doesn’t mind. after all, there’s always something new to discover in the forest, something new to try at the stalls in bimikil, something to be taken care of at the inn. she keeps busy helping her parents even as a tiny little child, barely tall enough to reach the top of the kitchen counters.
all of her friends at kwangsook academy talk about how they can’t wait to get out of yunhwa. the minute they graduate and hopefully pass the csat, they’re taking a one way trip out of here on the only bus that bothers making a route here. she can’t help but take some offense to it, thinks about how proud her parents are of their inn and the town they and their family before them built from the ground up. aren’t they proud of the work they’ve done?
she goes to a university in busan to study hospitality and tourism management. her inheriting the inn was never a question. besides, it’s something that she’s wanted ever since she was young: to be able to carry on the family legacy and allow her parents to enjoy their lives after toiling away for so many years. she enjoys her time in busan and makes a number of friends, but still she finds herself wanting to head back to yunhwa every time. she finishes her degree and returns home.
most of her schoolmates have left by now, but at least her best friend and her partner are still around. she’s up to her ears in the minutiae of yeyun inn’s everyday operations, but it’s rewarding especially when she sees how much stress is taken off her parents’ shoulders now that she’s able to help properly. slowly but surely, she takes the reins from them almost completely, only requesting their help during particularly busy seasons.
her partner stops her one day when they’re on a date, hiking up to see the yunhwa flowers in full bloom. they’re silent for a moment too long, the words stuck in their throat. sira knows what’s coming and does them a favor by saying that the spark between them was dying anyways, and that she hopes they enjoy their new life outside of yunhwa.
life is slow in yunhwa, and yet she feels the caramel escaping through the cracks in her fingers, dripping, depleting. she’s shaken more by the breakup than she’s willing to admit but continues her diligent work at the inn. she has a sudden and intense urge to renovate the place, bring in fresh ideas, new furniture, fun events to entice people in. and it works; business picks up significantly, with both tourists and long term visitors renting out rooms. and then she’s at mokjawon with her best friend, and there’s a brief flicker of distress in their eyes, one that only sira, knowing them all too well, could decipher without a word. she downs the rest of the beer in her stein and just looks at them with a sad smile. everyone leaves, and sira is the only one to stay. but that’s fine. one day, she’ll make this town so great that everyone will be begging to come back home.
plots what do i call you? (requirements: yunhwa native) status: open the ex. you started dating sometime in secondary school, you even made it all the way through the years of university, committed and loving. then you received a job offer too good to pass up in a city far away from yunhwa, so she broke up with you and said it was for the best. (relatively flexible backstory, can be discussed.)
gemini (requirements: yunhwa native) status: open the best friend. you were by her side for years and years. you were inseparable, never seen anywhere without the other. you never kept any secrets from her, and in return she’s never told another soul the things you confided in her. but one day, you too had to leave her behind in yunhwa.
wine status: open the drinking buddy. things can get pretty stressful managing an inn all by herself, so sira enjoys visiting mokjawon tavern to let loose every once in a while. and of course, she never does so alone. they’re one of the few people who knows her more hidden thoughts and insecurities.
to the moon status: taken by kim eunsoo the adventurer. in the rare moments that sira has free time from taking care of the inn, she always hits you up to go on an adventure. it could be all the way to busan, it could just be to one of the farms on the outskirts, but regardless she enjoys your company and willingness to always accompany her.
