* & . 🍂 ◜ 〔 seo joo hyun, cis woman, she/her 〕 good morning, fellow dreamer ! have you heard of PARK JAEHWA ? they are thirty years old, known to be charitable and self - assured, yet stubborn and impulsive, from what i’ve heard. rumor has it they’re a WAITRESS at BETTY’S TAVERN. you’d probably remember them if you heard REPETTO X MOSAERT by stromae, which is revealing since they remind me of unrestrained laughter and a helping hand with no strings attached, murmured mentioned of hopes and dreams never fulfilled, and a bonfire on a cold autumn night. ╱ sam, 27, they/them, est, none.
tags + pages coming soon...
BASIC STATS
NAME : park jaehwa
NICKNAME(S) : hwa
AGE : 30
BIRTHDAY : to be determined (she’s an aries moon, though)
GENDER : cis woman
PRONOUNS : she/her
SEXUALITY : bisexual
INTRO
she’s the middle child in a family composed of two very artistic parents and three daughters who couldn’t possibly be any more different from each other. except that, typically enough, in a lot of ways, she turned out to be the perfect balance between her older and younger sister. it never really bothered her, though. she’s proud of her sisters and of her parents, and has always considered comparisons to them to be praise rather than a lack of understanding.
to be fair, though, she always kind of was the trouble child growing up. she never was the cause of life-changing problems, sure, but at the end of the day, it’d always been hard for jaehwa to think before she acted and it definitely has caught up to her from time to time. and time and time again, she has reflected on it to try and figure out how to grow from it all... has she put those thoughts into action? maybe not all the time, and maybe not properly, but she’s considered it, and isn’t that saying a lot? her issues have very rarely affected people other than her (or so she’s always assumed), so is it really a problem?
and really, she’s calmed down a lot in the last few year. she’s still reckless, and still acts before thinking most of the time, but it rarely ever leads to too much trouble these days.
she’s always willing to help, and is always volunteering before anyone ever even gets the chance to ask. she never judges or looks down on those she helps, and to her, helping people is a sign of respect and not of pity. as long as she’s not the one who needs help, that is… (she’d rather scream and throw herself against a tree instead of asking for help, which can sometimes be a bit of a problem.)
she’s extremely sociable, and truly does enjoy being a waitress for the opportunities it gives her to interact with people… and because it gives her a chance to listen in on people’s conversations and find out things she might not have found out otherwise. fact is, she can’t stand feeling like she’s out of the loop, and if the loop in question is none of her business whatsoever, she doesn’t care; she has to know all there is to know. and, really, at the end of the day, she never really does anything with that information, but she needs to feel like she’s in the know.
when she was little, she wanted to fly. then, as a teen, she decided that she’d learn to breathe underwater. and in her twenties, she swore she’d find a way to get taller. — jaehwa’s always had unattainable goals and dreams; it’s how she manages to get through life with a smile on her face. where dreams are involved, there’s always hope, and that’s what’s always mattered most to her.
jaehwa falls in love very easily. a bit too easily, actually, considering the fact that she never truly falls out of said love... she loves ardently, passionately and truly; and although it might be somewhat easy for her to turn her own unrequited romantic love into platonic love, that never truly makes the heartbreak any less painful. and yet, she’s grown used to it. sometimes, it’s easier to love oh so openly than to pretend you’re wearing any kind of armour.
* & . 🍂 ◜ 〔 barry keoghan, cis man, he/him 〕 good morning, fellow dreamer ! have you heard of CIAN O'CLARE ? they are thirty years old, known to be observant and self-assured, yet provocative and morbid, from what i've heard. rumor has it they’re a WOODSMAN of THE MARSHES & FOREST.
ok y’all im gonna keep this one brief. since ilaydas is so interconnected, i’ve left this guy kinda vague so i can hammer out the details with uhhh... you! anyway
im slater, any pronouns are fine but i usually put they/them for simplicity’s sake
this is cian! (pronounced key-en)
he’s recently become a woodsman. i’m thinking.... 6-9 months ago. long enough to think he knows everything about it, not long enough to find out how horribly wrong he is.
it’s really just a means to an end for him. it keeps him fed and provides him with materials for his true passion: taxidermy.
he specializes in mice dioramas, but he also works with birds, rabbits, squirrels, and other small animals. occasionally, he mounts a buck head or something of the sort for a hunter.
some people find his art (and he himself) creepy, but he doesn't see it that way. he treats his subjects with respect, and finds peace in granting them an immortal second life. for him, it’s a meditative practice. almost religious.
death was always rather mundane in his household. his mother was a hunter, and his father was the island undertaker in his time. they found it amusing when their little boy started playing with dead things.
he doesn't mind when people find him a little off-putting. in fact, he gets a little thrill out of it. he likes to push people’s buttons. if he’d been born in the modern era, he’d probably be like,,, a relatively benign troll.
that said, i think he’s fundamentally a pretty good guy. i mean, we’ll see. but i think so.
wanted connections/plots!
an elder woodsman or hunter who’s taken him under their wing, maybe grudgingly. a trainer of sorts. i might make this a wanted connection.
family! blood or found. i’m happy to play with his backstory to fit a sibling in, but i also imagine that his parents died relatively young, so he may have people who kind of took him in after that as well.
people who find him creepy or who he’s offended in the past. he’s got a good heart, but you’ve got to get past several layers of instigating and morbidity to get to it. there are plenty of people in town that haven’t gotten that deep.
fellow weirdos! he’d be naturally drawn to anyone else in town who’s kind of an outsider. he’s fairly outgoing in his own strange way, and might make himself a presence in their life until they relent and let him in.
this one will probably depend on chemistry before plotting, but it’s always been my intention for ilaydas to write a character who would be at home in a grimm’s fairytale. something dark and tragic and otherworldly with a moral to it. it’s why i made him a taxidermist. i think there’s a lot of potential for creepy fairytale-esque themes there. a doomed romance would be nice, but any character/s who wanted to share in that tale with him would be welcome.
