JOON KIWON “KEEAN”
age: 96 liner company: millenium entertainment position: knifepoint’s coach/content creator traits: (+) enthusiastic, powerful, engaging (-) loud, hard on himself, bad at taking care of himself played by: cynthia
his mom was a korean-american, and his dad a korean man she met when she was visiting her grandparents-- somewhere along the way, keean was born. honestly, he’s never been told outright, but he knows he was an accident. everything about his life screamed “accident child”
his parents never married, nor did they agree on even a country to share, both refusing to move from their homes. so from the moment kiwon was born, his passport got a lot of mileage, typically spending the schoolyear in seoul (his parents thought the education system was better there) and the summers in buffalo.
videogames were his escape. no matter where he was in the world, he could turn on an xbox and play with his friends (sure, he got basically no sleep, but in order to have a social life sometimes you needed to make hard choices). and with juggling basically two countries of friends, he played a lot, and he got good.
he played pro for a few games-- halo, cod, overwatch, and pubg to name a few. but when he found apex, he loved it. it was colourful and fast, and the characters were fun to play.
he played pro for a while, and was signed to a major NA org for almost a year before it got the best of his mental health. he was pushing himself too hard and being too rough on himself. so he didn’t sign again for the next circuit, moving back to seoul to hang out with his father for a while, and focusing more on content creation.
he’s been signed to knifepoint (or millenium, really) for only a couple months-- with the mess with taek being removed, they were desperately in need of a coach, and he’s that. he keeps them hyped. he keeps the coms friendly and the mental strong. he helps ruiqi feel welcome, while making sure woo feels heard. he’s good at what he does-- all while continuing to be one of the most positive and most hype streamers in the apex category. sometimes when more casual teams need a third teammate, he’ll pop in, but it’s usually only for scrims or OTs. he’s much more into the content creation side.