idol headcanon meme : no longer accepting.
Send ○ for a training headcanon. (word count: 216)
mirae trained for a relatively short one year considering she hadn’t had any formal experience in singing, dancing, or performing before she made her debut. if she hadn’t debuted that fast, there was a good chance she wouldn’t have debuted at all, though, since she would have eventually had to go running back to her parents with her tail between her legs since she was wearing her mother’s patience thin.
in the year she trained, mirae really gave everything she had. she spent countless sleepless nights practicing in gold star’s dance studios until it was morning and she had to go to her vocal class and start her day all over again and she never skipped a training day, even when she was ill or injured. it made her stand out and was what got her to debut in the long run, but it definitely made the pressure for her to have a successful debut that much higher. selene would be gold star media’s first group, so even though they had bang sunyoung’s name behind them, there wasn’t a precedent to know if that was enough to hit big.
mirae would consider her year of training under gold star to be the most stressful time of her life, but it made her who she is today.
Send ♡ for a social media headcanon. (word count: 200)
mirae is very active on social media. she has a personal, private instagram, but she often uses her public instagram account more than that one anyway. she sees it as a self-promotion tool, so she understands it as a very important part of her career she needs to keep up with. she’s quite social media savvy, though not quite to the level of her younger sister (who is an influencer). other than instagram, her most used social media is instagram, since she has had her own personal channel there for almost a year and a half now.
mirae’s instagram has gained a lot of followers in the aftermath of squid game. her followers more than doubled and she’s built a much bigger international base in her followers. she’s still waiting to see when it starts to drop off, but she sort of wishes her youtube subscribers had grown as much. her youtube subscribers have grown a lot, too, but not as much as her instagram, and her youtube is where she posts content showcasing her skills and not just her face, so she believes it to be a better representation of any long-term career effects it will have on her.
Send ♠ for a headcanon about misconceptions fans or the public have about my muse. (word count: 203)
for the most part, up to this point, i think mirae has done a good job of shaping her image to be how she wants to be seen. she’s someone who likes to have control over that sort of thing, so she usually does. gold star obviously has the power to overrule her and mediaplay her into whomever they want her to be, but so far there hasn’t been too much conflict since mirae’s image has paid off.
but the main misconception i think fans and the public have about mirae is that she’s sort of inhumanly secure in herself. she is a very confident person and she’s worked hard for that to be genuine and most of it is not put on. that said, she is still very sensitive about certain things and is not above insecurity. her pride controls her a lot, and that makes her prone to flare-ups of jealousy and a wounded ego when her pride is compromised. a lot of people would perceive her as someone things just bounce off of because she’s so confident in herself. she would like people to think that about her, but the truth is that she hasn’t achieved that superhuman skill yet.
Send ‼ for a career goal headcanon. (word count: 201)
mirae has career goal after career goal. she wants to win a grand prize as an individual actor; she’d like to become a household name. above all, she just wants un-shatterable stability in her career for guaranteed financial stability. she realizes truly un-shatterable stability is something that is not possible, though, so i’d say her biggest career goal is getting as close to that as she can.
it’s not the career goal she’d state in an interview because it doesn’t make for a fun answer, but it’s the driving force behind pretty much all of her other goals. wanting success in so many different fields is very much something she pursues because she has an earnest interest in all of those fields, but it wouldn’t feel so dire that she finds that success in each of them if financial stability wasn’t so important to her. being multi-talented is good for her image, but it’s also a way to diversify her safety net. it goes beyond a career goal into a life goal. ultimately, everything she does in her career comes down to the desire to have a strong foundation under her since she and her family never had that growing up.
Send ∞ for a future (post-idol life) headcanon. (word count: 267)
mirae’s true post-idol life might not come until she’s physically too old to perform on stage anymore, so i’ll talk about her future when being an idol stops being her main job. by the time selene comebacks slow down and they’re coming back only once every few years at best and her solo releases are the same, mirae will probably be working primarily as an actress. by this point, i see her as having established herself enough as an actress that she has her pick of scripts and will have probably transitioned to mostly doing films. she won’t give up dramas completely, but she’ll only come back to them when something really compelling grabs her. though she’ll be established at this point, she’ll continue to work at a rate of two projects a year or three projects in two years because she wouldn’t be comfortable with having a lot of free time; she’d feel like she’s wasting it. she’d continue to do brand deals and would maybe come out with her own line of clothing or accessories or cosmetics, maybe all three.
she’ll probably settle down into marriage around her late thirties, probably with some ceo or someone from a rich family who she’s attracted to for (once again) the stable lifestyle they can have by combining their finances, and start a family shortly after, but she’ll take off only as much time as she needs to for that before going back to work. she’ll continue to act into old age. i don’t see her ever retiring unless she becomes physically incapable of working for some reason.
Send ♥ for a headcanon about something my muse likes about being an idol.
there truthfully isn’t a lot mirae doesn’t like about being an idol. she’s successful in her field, and it’s given her a much better life than she had before it, but i think what she likes the most deep down is that she’s good at it. being an idol isn’t the only thing she’s good at necessarily, but it does come very naturally to her. she would have likely felt the same about modeling if she’d been able to have a career trajectory in it similarly to her trajectory in selene, and acting is similar but she has to think about it more than she does performing.
mirae likes having control, especially over herself and her own life, if i haven’t made that clear, and somewhat oxymoronically to all of the control gold star media has the ability to exercise over her life, she feels more in control as an idol than she thinks she would if she’d done something else. mirae hadn’t had the connections or money to secure a powerful job position for herself, so if she wasn’t in the entertainment or fashion industries, she’d probably working a job like her older brother, where she’s viewed as little more than an inconsequential cog in a machine. the idol industry may be about selling a product as any other, but as a public figure, she has fans and with that comes leverage of her own.
Send ✈ for an airport fashion headcanon. (word count: 221)
mirae is known for her sense of fashion, so she makes sure not to disappoint at the airport. there’s a place for everything and she isn’t showing up at the airport in a stage outfit or a red carpet outfit, but she’s acknowledged for her fashionably casual style when she’s at the airport. she wears a lot of pants and crop tops at the airport for comfort; you could say it’s her uniform, but she approaches it in different ways. sometimes, she wears a crop top under a tracksuit for a sportier look, while she dresses it up other times with a long coat over jeans and a neutral top. it isn’t anything too eye-catching, more off-duty model looks, but she’s acknowledged for rarely slacking.
there’s been a number of occasions where she became a subject of talk for not wearing a bra at the airport. it depends on the day whether she wears one or not because there are days a plane ride in a push-up bra just isn’t what she’s looking for and she just doesn’t wear a bra all the time in her off-time anyway. she’s a firm believer in putting effort into her style at all times, but a plane ride is the type of situation where comfort is of utmost importance in tht effort as well.
Send ☎ for a bad fan experience headcanon. (word count: 232)
selene is lucky in the sense that they appeal more to the general public than they do a passionate fanbase. that isn’t to say they don’t have any passionate fans; they certainly do, and there are many faces mirae recognizes because of the frequency with which they come to fan signs and concerts. there aren’t many who dedicate their entire lives to following selene around and invading their privacy, though. in mirae’s experience, their fans are more mature and understanding of the boundary between them than that. the bad experiences tend to come from the “fans” who have read into some of the sexier concepts selene has done to mean that they can be sexualized against their will whenever it suits the audience. (mirae is also aware this isn’t solely because selene has done sexier concepts. groups with ‘innocent’ get it just the same as selene, but mirae has heard these ‘fans’ use the ‘excuse’ of their sexy concepts.)
so rather than one particular bad fan experience, mirae’s handful of bad fan experiences have come from attempts to film upskirt from below the stage during performances or down her shirt via concealed cameras during fan signs. any time she’s noticed it happening, she’s tried to alert staff so that the person could be removed from the premises, although that hasn’t always been possible, and those instances have for sure been the worse.
Send ◙ for an audition headcanon. (word count: 216)
mirae actually planned to join gold star media in their modeling department, not their idol division. she’d been let go from her previous modeling company and had been intent on finding a new one. a staff member at her old company had tipped her off to gold star media auditions and she’d shown up for the model auditions, but they’d asked her on the spot if she could dance and sing. she hadn’t prepared anything, so she sang a capella and danced to a popular soloist’s song she knew the choreography and lyrics to well enough. the audition wasn’t anything she’d be proud of nowadays and she’s quite happy it’s never surfaced online or on a variety show, but her ability to hold a note and keep a beat at the same time was enough for gold star media to show even more interest in her as an idol trainee.
it was unlike mirae to be so unprepared, but she’d gone in fully prepared for a modeling audition, not an idol one. changing her career path so abruptly seemed ill-advised until she actually got an offer to train. she doesn’t regret auditioning or even the audition she gave at all since it got her in, but it does bother her that they caught her off guard.
Send ☀ for a variety headcanon. (word count: 218)
mirae doesn’t appear on variety as much as she probably could because she doesn’t always like the position she’s put in when she appears. in a group setting, it’s more diluted since the other members are present, but her ‘role’ on variety often gets boxed into a sort of ‘bitchy’ role. this stems from her past variety appearances where she would play on her schtick of overconfidence. it plays well with fans, but in certain variety spaces, especially since they’re often so male dominated, it gets a weirdly confrontational or even demeaning response. the schtick got her into some minor controversies in her earlier years, and while she didn’t really care, she wishes people would have paid more attention to what she was saying than the way she said it. she didn’t like to take shit from hosts the way they liked to give it out, and it didn’t make her the most popular guest with some hosts who didn’t like to be challenged on their way of doing things.
gold star sort of decided to steer her away from too much of a variety push to avoid a controversy that actually blew up and while she’s not against appearing on the right show, she’s perfectly fine with focusing on acting, modeling, and performing most of the time.
