We are pleased to see you coming back to Hogwarts, Miss Choi Taeyeon.
We hope Year 12 is a pleasant one and Slytherin treats you well.
trigger warning: death
she grows up with magic, and she’s told that no matter what she’s definitely going to be sorted into slytherin. a pureblood family of slytherins, they boast, and overall they are content. she is content. her childhood is a simple life in the secluded village of duncton, and her teenage years bring greater excitement as she’s taken to hogwarts. her parents were right– she’s sorted into the green and silver. her mother reminds her to keep her head down, not falling into any trouble. her father tells her to focus on her studies, become the best witch that she can be. and so, she does.
( she falls off her broom in her first flying lesson. she decides she hates heights and leaves it at that. )
taeyeon decides early on what she does and doesn’t like. she prefers her own company, and is most content studying in her room with her cat. she doesn’t like bringing attention to herself, and fades easily into the background. there’s a lot going on a hogwarts, but she keeps her nose out of it.
( at some stage, she ends up befriending a gryffindor. he’s loud and too confident for his own good, but he sticks around like glue. she doesn’t hate it. )
the wizarding war arrives, and ruins the peaceful routine taeyeon had made for herself. her parents write to her one day, asking their daughter to stay at hogwarts and not come home. they won’t be there. they will be going into hiding from he who must not be named. taeyeon tries to hide her heartache, her worry, but her gryffindor friend (drew, his name was drew) notices. hogwarts doesn’t feel safe anymore, but it’s the only place for her to be. she’s twenty years young when the dark lord and his army attack. taeyeon wants to run away, just like her mother would’ve warned her, but he convinces her to stay.
( “you’re a skilled witch, taeyeon.” he says, and he grins. “i’m gonna need you to cover my clumsy ass” )
practicing incantations in class is nothing like fighting to survive in the terrible chaos of war. every bone in her body begs her to run for cover, but the thudding of her heart gives her the courage to protect her fellow students. taeyeon stares into the eyes of those who will make the first move to kill, and pulls out every spell she knows except that one. whatever she does in the heat of the night, like the rest of her life it goes by largely unnoticed. and it’s useless. she finds the body of her friend (drew, say it, drew) amongst rubble and dust.
( she reunites with her parents. they were traitors of the dark lord during the first war, but he failed to find them before his ultimate demise. they’re safe. they’re fine. she is not. )
by some kind of miracle taeyeon returns to hogwarts the next year, a shell of who she once was. she keeps her sorrows hidden, and buries herself away even more than she used to. this witch just wants to get through her last two years at hogwarts, then get the hell out of here. no matter how many messages of hope are spread, how well they clean the halls and mend the walls, she can’t forget what happened that night. and never will.
SCHEDULE: microeconomics 101, modern languages (italian), social anthropology, speech science, studies in grammar
EXTRACURRICULARS: Honor Society, Glee Club (female lead)
SUNGWOL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN, 05.09.17: New student Ahn Soo ah has officially been accepted into the Junior class! Soo ah is twenty-one years old and plans on majoring in Business Management. She has been reported to be confident, logical and charming but also insincere, competitive and manipulative. Her personality will take her far as a member of the Honor Society. Let’s welcome Sooah to the University and wish her a good year!
OOC!
Name and pronouns: andie
Other muses: henry kang
Time zone: pst
Additional notes: :P
IC!
Muse name: ahn soo ah
Birthday (or age): feb 18 1996 / 21
Faceclaim: kim yongsun/solar of mamamoo
School: sungwol university
Grade: third year
Desired clubs: glee club - female lead, honors society member
Positive traits: confident + logical + charming
Negative traits: insincere - competitive - manipulative
Proficiency: soo ah has always been a diligent student, maintaining high grades in almost all her subjects, even despite her extracurriculars. in an effort to challenge herself, and to assist in her music/theater skills, she is taking an italian language course this semester, and though it is proving tricky for her, she’s still keeping up fairly well in class. the only course her parents told her to take that she seems at all interested in is social anthropology, despite its minimal connection to her business management major.
BIOGRAPHY!
TRIGGER WARNINGS: mention of sexual favors / sleeping for success
Ahn Soo Ah always knew she was destined for greatness. Since the time she was young, she had been offered countless praises that told her as much. She would be a star, a success, too famous for Korea alone. It was fact, it was biblical -
It was something she would have to spend years working for.
But Soo Ah had led what had to be the most normal life in existence. Though her family was fairly well-off, her parents were frequently travelling for business, leaving Soo Ah to entertain herself with nannies instead of family, and the fancy toys they brought back to the house as some kind of attempt to make up for their absence. For a few years of her childhood, this constant negligence irked and hurt her, but she quickly became used to it. They had to do what they had to do, after all, or they would have no life to speak of, or so the staff told her.
In another mockery of good parenting, Soo Ah was given a very free reign to choose what hobbies took up the time not spent in school or studying. She tried a variety of things young girls are expected to be interested in, but nothing seemed to stick. Her increasingly bad attitude didn’t help either. It became something of a contest to see which would get Soo Ah kicked out of an activity first: her own mouth, or her lack of interest.
But then, when she was around 10 years old and beginning to show increased interest in the glitz and glam of the music industry, she asked to take voice lessons. The music teachers at school had told her she had strong potential to stand on the stage someday if she received more advanced training, so Soo Ah begged for the chance to do so. Her parents relented easily, and she was soon taking after school classes in classical/operatic singing. It wasn’t the popping, bright music that had first caught her interest, but it was a step.
To the surprise of everyone around her, Soo Ah persisted with singing like she had never done with anything else. For years, she practiced diligently, attended every class, went to any and every recital or performance she could. But with her growing skill came a growing ego, and it was obvious to anyone that Soo Ah felt her skills lent her some kind of natural superiority, and only the bravest dared to try remaining in her circle, for fear of the sharp tongue she wielded being pointed at them. The semi-isolation was fine with Soo Ah though - it gave her time to practice without interruption, and she was used to being on her own, anyway.
Fast forward to the final days of Soo Ah’s time in high school. After much discussion with her parents ( mostly over Skype calls and the like since they hadn’t changed their ways much either ), Soo Ah was allowed to leave the comfort of life in Korea for the United States. While her home country certainly had plenty of options for music in post-secondary settings, she had set her sights on the loftier goal of pursuing music in one of the most famous of foreign lands. Soon the applications were sent, and a few months later a letter of acceptance was firmly in her grasp. Who wouldn’t want Korea’s most charming and talented vocalist in the school, after all?
After months agonizing over official documents and the matter of living quarters, Soo Ah took a plane to Los Angeles, where she would spend the next two years attending UCLA’s Thornton School of Music. With the glamour of Hollywood so close, it seemed like the ideal place to begin spreading her wings as a musician, and perhaps branch into acting. She learned quite a lot struggling through life in the concrete jungle, including basic fluency in the English language and the value of a part-time jobs.
But even the promise of a degree wasn’t enough to content her thirst for the spotlight. Soo Ah and her grades suffered in the face of it as she combed L.A. for opportunities, hoping to take her next steps towards musical stardom, and was met with less than lackluster results. Dozens of auditions for anything and everything, late nights and money thrown at recording demos, and nothing. Not a single callback or contract offer. She had even spent a less than ideal night with a guy who was supposed to be a talent scout, who had promised her he would help make sure her next audition with his company was a success. Apparently the asshole had let her down, because even they had rejected her, and when she tried to confront him, he acted as if she had never existed. Frustrated and disappointed, she left the illustrious California city behind after two years, and returned to Seoul.
She spent a few weeks getting back on her feet, and crying out her sorrows over soju and dramas, before she approached her dreams of fame with renewed vigor. Gone was the hopeful student with the gleam of probable success in her eyes; this one was vicious and determined to claw her way into the industry no matter what it might take, or who she might have to step on. Once again, she underwent auditions of nearly all kinds, for companies ranging big to small. But she struck out again and again. And her parents, whose money suffered for her lack of success, finally forced her to call it quits.
“We cannot afford to waste more time on your failures. You will go back to school so you can learn to take over the company, and that’s final. No arguments.”
So she was forced to attend her parents’ alma mater, Sungwol University, to pursue a business-related major. With her decent performance in basic subjects the previous years, she was able to skip general requirements and dive straight into the boring world of mathematics and demographics that she loathed. In order to appease her parents, she’s kept up her grades and even joined the Honors Society, but they couldn’t stop her from also joining the school’s Glee Club and winning over its female lead spot. Now, it’s the only thing keeping her sane as she tries to escape school as fast as possible, praying that her dreams of standing on the stage might still be able to become a reality.
SCHEDULE: math b1, science c1, korean b1, english, shop, woodworking, mechanics, home ec.
EXTRACURRICULARS: n/a
TAECHON SCHOOL NEWSPAPER, 05.09.17: New student Bae Jihoon has officially joined the third year class! Jihoon is eighteen years old and has been reported to be open hearted, intuitive, and affectionate but also blunt, easily envious, and competitive. Let’s welcome Jihoon to the school and wish him a good year!
OOC!
Name and pronouns: Leah, she/her
Other muses: N/A
Time zone: GMT (+00:00)
Additional notes: I know this is extremely late! I apologise!
IC!
Muse name: Bae Jihoon (배지훈)
Birthday (or age): 27th / 08 / 1998 (18)
Faceclaim: Oh Sehun
School: Taechon High School
Grade: Third Year
Desired clubs: N/A
Positive traits:
(+) Open-hearted: Jihoon is a friendly person and he’s always there for you. You’re a first year and you don’t know where you’re going? Jihoon will take his time to show you around and make sure you get to where you want to go, you want some help in maths because it’s too hard for you? Jihoon’ll be there to help you and is willing to tutor if you need a little extra help. Even if you have personal problems jihoon always willing to hear you out and he’ll even give you advice if you need it.
(+) Intuitive: Even if it wasn’t enough for Chunghwa’s standards Jihoon is still quite smart. After wanting to get good grades since forever his constant studying payed off, capability exceeds Taechon levels but after his slight personality change since joining Taechon he hasn’t really used his knowledge to its full ability but his parents and teachers are hoping for him to at least graduate for someone so bright.
(+) Affectionate: Despite his many flaws and how he can be irritable when jealous Jihoon can turn into the sweetest puppy ever when you need him to be. As he is an approachable, easy-going person it’s just in his nature to be sweet and loving when he wants to or when someone needs someone like that in their life. His mother always taught him to be nice and because of this he has just naturally grown into becoming a softie.
Negative traits:
(-) Blunt: While one can be extremely kind, one can also very honest. Jihoon will often tell it to you straight to your face in the bluntest way possible and is one to not acknowledge of this trait, despite having being told multiple times. Jihoon encourages people to talk to him due to his friendly-ness but the honestly thing can be a turn off.
(-) Easily envious: Sadly, Jihoon is not one to keep his jealousy under wraps and as much as he tries so hard to hide it he can’t help it. He grew always aiming high and if anyone beat him his jealous side always got the best of him. The trait has stuck with him most of his life and sometimes hindered him from making in the earlier stages of school and it especially affected him when he found out he wasn’t accepted into Chunghwa.
(-) Competitive: Being a jealous person is one thing but being competitive is a whole other story that doesn’t help out when he has his goals set. Teamwork never came easily to someone who always thought they’d be able to do it themselves as if they all had some silent competition going on and he was destined to win it. He’s now more “chilled” in terms of personality and he’s still a friendly guy but that hasn’t stopped him becoming the world’s biggest bitch when it gets to competition.
Proficiency: (in order of most to least)
Maths
Foreign Language (English)
Korean
Science
BIOGRAPHY!
I. Bae Jihoon, born into a family on the poorer side of things in the heart of Seoul he grew up learning to appreciate the greater things in life. His father worked long nights at the nearby cinema and his mother worked as a waiter in a not-so-successful restaurant close to home. no one was home nearly enough due to this and a young Jihoon often found himself asleep waiting for someone to get home before he grew to learn that loneliness would most likely be his greatest comfort. Jihoon promised to his parents that one day he’d graduate school and get a good job and help his parents out of their situation, he always stuck by that promise and it is still his number one priority.
II. School was hard, his soft personality and ever-growing height never helped out to well during primary school (middle school) and he stuck out quite a lot because of this; he was always willing to learn and spent too much time studying rather than making friends or going outside to play. He was so hell-bent on getting good grades he never really had a large amount of relations and never had anyone to look out for him being an only child, with the exceptions of his closest friend and family members. Others would pick on him on the occasion simply to get him to talk or because they found it funny how someone could actually stand being in school.
III. Jihoon soon began contemplating his future; yes he always wanted to do well in life but as what or where? He thought about what it would be like to move somewhere else and escape his home completely, he could be a new person with a new life and maybe he’d get what he’d always wanted. He started studying English four years ago because of this. Yet still to this day he has no idea what he wants to do as a job despite wanting to study so hard for a future he’s still uncertain about.
IV. Soon the time came for jihoon to choose a high school. Chunghwa was where he aimed, to go to such an elite school and get the education he dreamed of was everything to him considering he didn’t have the talents for Dongnam or Kurin, Taechon is where he wanted to go the least. He tried so hard to get into Chunghwa but failed and instead got accepted into Taechon.
V. Taechon was nothing like what he dreamed of but he grew to liking the school and how much more fun and lenient it was, he met some new people and learned to appreciate the kindness of the other students too. the school’s atmosphere changed his personality, while still being interested in studying hard and continuing to be a nice person, he started going out more and this resulted in him becoming more laid back and he started going out drinking only slightly illegally with his newer friends after them suggesting it and continually telling him “it will be fun”, despite his parents not approving of anything.
VI. Jihoon now is still out there trying to achieve his own high expectations or at least graduate but now his Fridays and Saturdays are filled with having a good time and getting intoxicated at parties etc. to forget all his school stress.
VII. Jihoon took on a part time job during the weekend nights as well, to support his family’s income, he’d always be caught studying and sleeping on his night shift but he’d still be ready for whatever those that drunkards at 12 am had to say to him this week.
We are pleased to see you coming back to Hogwarts, Mr. Choi Minjoon
We hope Year 13 is a pleasant one and Ravenclaw treats you well.
Choi Minjoon came from an affluent pureblood family. The Chois were one of the richest and most affluent pureblooded families in South Korea, yet somehow managed to live a relatively peaceful life during the Wizarding War, owing to the fact that they had stayed off the grid during that time. After all, the Chois were not known to be Death Eater sympathisers; they were merely lucky in the gene pool. But besides being affluent, they were also known to be one of the most intelligent families and it manifested in Minjoon.
But that wasn’t the only manifestation in the young man.
In his fifth year, he had started seeing things that he was sure hasn’t happened yet. The young Choi predicted events that would happen and he was afraid. He was afraid of the power he may have actually wielded. For Minjoon, he didn’t want the additional responsibility of quite literally holding the future in his hands. And yet he couldn’t keep it a secret any longer from his parents.
It was then that he found out a rare genetic makeup from his own family: Choi Minjoon was a Seer.
No one in their immediate family had been a Seer. He was told that the last Seer their family had was his great-great grandmother. In a time when she had been used by whoever was in power for their personal gain, she had not wished upon the gift of being a Seer on her family. Yet somehow, somewhere along the way, it made its way to the young Choi heir. Already pressuring himself to maintain that intelligence that the Chois were known for, Minjoon now had to figure out how to balance that out and figure out a way to make sure that his Seer abilities were kept a secret and prevent himself from being used by someone who held too much power.
Choi Minjoon needed to make sure that it stops with him.
We are pleased to see you coming back to Hogwarts, Mr. Jung Matthew.
We hope Year 10 is a pleasant one and Slytherin treats you well.
Out of everything, ending up in Slytherin was the biggest plot twist Matthew had even seen in his life. Never, ever, in his life did he think he will sit under the Hogwart’s sorting hat, and hear the words:
“Slytherin is where you’re meant to be.”
And see his twin brother’s face looking at him from the Gryffindor tables. The words still haunt him to this day, really. With a family filled with pureblood Gryffindors, he and a few other were sorted out in different houses, but for the love of Merlin… Ravenclaw would have been best. He can’t bear the looks on his parents faces the first time they go back for Christmas. He can’t bring himself to see the disappointment is his mothers eyes and the skeptical look his father gives him. If anything, he expected Owen to be the black sheep of the family. He thought his older twin would fuck up and end up somewhere else, but he guessed he was the black sheep of the Jung family now.
It still haunts him to this day, really. Matthew’s not gotten over it but he tends to not show it. its not like he is showing more of his Slytherin side, it’s more about him accepting the fact that he is a part of the snake den. Sometimes, his words show it, sometimes just the way he walks down the big halls of Hogwarts, its in his step, its in the way the green uniform sways with him. Matthew knows it, the hat wasn’t wrong, however, he can’t seem to stop himself from thinking, where did he go wrong, and where did his jackass twin went right.
It makes him sigh, loud and clear as he hears Owen’s voice echo from somewhere near him. Guess he’ll never know what’s the huge difference between them two .
We are pleased to see you coming back to Hogwarts, Mr. Heo Elliot
We hope Year 10 is a pleasant one and Gryffindor treats you well.
tw: child abuse
Elliot is a good kind, most people would say.
He is an excellent student and he is consistently trying his best in all his classes. He is a student who always does the extra credit and tries to tutor others who need as much help as often. But he hides his own secrets. Where his father thinks of him as completely useless at home and how he needs to become a doctor. His mother stands by and watches.
Elliot comes from privilege but he wouldn’t really call it that. He’s at the mercy of his father but Hogwarts if his only solace away from his family (minus the howlers his father likes to send him). Hopefully he can get the grades required to become a Prefect next year…
Elliot is a nice boy, if it a little too naive. Although his father reigns supreme at home, he has become a really sweet boy. He's 18 but many believe he's younger due to his stature and the way he carries himself. He's usually hunched over his books, eyes downcast and tends to flee from loud situations. Embarrassment and humiliation are things he hates with a fiery passion. He scares easily and cries just as easily too. Many think he's too shy or even just too quiet but Elliot can't afford any distractions. He /needs/ to become a Prefect next year or his father will be very, very disappointed.
We are pleased to see you coming back to Hogwarts, Mr. Min Yoongi.
We hope Year 11 is a pleasant one and Slytherin treats you well.
Min Yoongi originally studied at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, in house Thunderbird. He came from a long line of purebloods that studied at the school Each and every one of them troublemakers, or students that failed their final exams. But yoongi was different, he enjoyed studying more than messing around. Spending his time in the school library, and doing extra homework for the professors. He never stopped studying. However, when he did, you’d find his head in one of the fiction books Muggles write.
During Year 8, his older sister pushed the boundaries too far by setting off fireworks in his precious library, destroying hundreds and thousands of books. This was the limit for Ilvermorny, they expelled them both, despite Yoongi doing nothing wrong, and the family were banned from ever returning to the school. So, this is when the family decided to transfer them both to Hogwarts.
Both his sister and himself were sorted into house Slytherin, where his sister got the biggest welcome and fit right in, but Yoongi himself lived in her shadow. However younger students feared him just as much, staring at him in classes and whispering about him in the halls. Yoongi ignored them all, avoiding everyone at all costs, just returning to his studies just as if he was still at Ilvermorny.
It was now Year 11 for Yoongi, his sister now finished at the school (failing of course) and Yoongi finally started to come out of his shell a little. Still avoiding the quidditch team, despite carrying the gene of being amazing at riding a broomstick, and playing quidditch. They were all too intimidating for his liking. So instead, he settled for becoming the Slytherin Prefect. Much to his parents’ dismay, but they were happy deep down that Yoongi was coming out of his bubble.
Just a little more and he’ll be able to have fun and enjoy his final years. Will the other students at Hogwarts assist him?
We are pleased to see you coming back to Hogwarts, Mr. Han Jinwoo.
We hope Year 9 is a pleasant one and Ravenclaw treats you well.
Han Jinwoo grew up a rather high class Pureblood family, but not one that spewed hate and a loathing for Muggles and Muggleborns. Instead, his parents were kind people with good hearts, quick to help no matter who you were and were always preaching the importance of unity. They would be the last people to support the Dark Arts. His mother was a Healer and his father worked as a Beast Manager for the Ministry.
The younger part of his childhood was nothing really special, he was homeschooled by his mother, and Jinwoo poured himself into his work if only to make her proud. He was a smart kid, and while he sometimes wished to go to a public school to mix with other kids his age, he was happy enough at home. He loved his parents more than anything else, so he was quick to pick up that something was wrong when he was ten years old.
His father started acting strange. One day he just never returned from work and his mother lied about it, refusing to tell him what was happening. And when his father did eventually come home again, he was a different man, scarred and quick to anger. He was no longer than man that Jinwoo knew, though his parents never explained what the situation was and why his father was acting like this. So, the smart boy he was, Jinwoo started researching himself, trying to find out the truth behind his father. Though nothing could have prepared him for what he discovered when going through his father’s magical texts.
A werewolf. His father had been attacked by a werewolf and was no one of the beings himself. It all made sense. The disappearances around the full moon, the mood swings, the scars he so desperately tried to hide whenever Jinwoo was around. But Jinwoo never confronted his father about what he had found, maybe if he had things would have turned out differently for him. Instead, he wanted to see for himself, see if his research was right. The next night of the full moon, Jinwoo sneaked out from his bedroom and followed his father as he left the house and heading deep into the forest behind their large estate.
That night, he saw his father transform from man into wolf.
But Jinwoo had made a fatal miscalculation. He forgot that werewolves have heightened senses, he forgot to be quiet enough when he was trying to back away to the safety of his home. The next thing Jinwoo knew, he was being chased through the forest by his transformed father. But a ten year old child cannot outrun a werewolf, it was not took long before his father was on top of him, mind too gone to recognize he was attacking his only child. If it wasn’t for Jinwoo’s screaming and the fact his mother had noticed he was missing from his bed when she went to check on him, he would have probably died that night.
His mother saved him at the last moment, wand brandished and shooting spells at her husband, just enough to stun him so she could grab Jinwoo by the arm and apparate them to safety. But Jinwoo was hurt, chest and belly cut by large claws, scratches down his face, but he was still breathing, his mother using all her knowledge to stop the bleeding and save his life. And when she was finished, Jinwoo was weak, but alive. Though he had been attacked by a werewolf and she knew what that meant. Jinwoo did as well.
When his father returned the next morning, no memory of what had happened, but found Jinwoo had been attacked, his father couldn’t live with it. He packed a bag and left home that morning, saying nothing more than he was a danger to everyone around him and he couldn’t bare to see the son he had almost killed. After that day, Jinwoo never saw his father again, his mother becoming his sole carer. And Jinwoo completely blames himself about what happened and has never gotten over the regret.
When it came to the next full moon, his mother pulled Jinwoo from his bed and locked him in the basement despite his wailing that he didn’t want to turn into a monster. That whole night he spent locked in the dark, hugging his knees to his chest and waiting for the worst to happen. But the night came and went and nothing had happened, he never transformed. It turned out his father had never gotten the chance to bite him before his mother arrived. He wasn’t a werewolf and had been saved from that curse. But his wounds were still cursed, they never healed properly and Jinwoo himself devolved a love for raw meat and was a lot grumpier and tended to snap around the full moon, but that was the worst of it. He never transformed.
Though the whole event affected him. While he used to be a happy and smiling child, he got a lot moodier, more reserved and wanted to be left alone most of the time, stuffing his nose into a book and not looking up. When his Hogwarts letter finally arrived on his eleventh birthday, his mother had her reservations about sending him off. She wanted to keep an eye on him, keep his safe, but she knew he couldn’t keep him locked up forever, so she agreed to let him go.
To no ones real surprise, Jinwoo was sorted into Ravenclaw and was rather quick to pick up the typical Ravenclaw traits. Most of his time was spent in the library with his nose shoved into a book and his grades in the classroom were always quite stellar. And while he never really had many friends, Jinwoo was perfectly alright with that. He never told anyone about his condition, lying about his scars and refraining from mentioning how he got them. His parents were also a touchy subject and he only mentioned his mother in small detail, his father was never even brought up.
When he found Quidditch in his fourth year it did help to break him out of his shell a little, it was a team sport after all and if he wanted to do well he needed to participate. And while he found himself speaking up more in public, he never really changed that much. Even now at seventeen he is the bookish Ravenclaw who is most likely found in some quite corner in the castle with a book in his hands. But that is a role he’s quite happily adopted and has no plans to change that about himself.
