MEMBER PROFILE-KARINE
✨”There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.”✨
K A R I N E/ S O O Y O U N G:
STAGE NAME: Karine
FULL NAME: Karine Botcharova.
KOREAN NAME: Choi Sooyoung
BIRTHDAY: October 31st 2003
AGE: 16
NATIONALITY: Russian
GREW UP IN St.Petersburg, Russia.
SEXUALITY: Bisexual (closeted.)
ZODIAC SIGN:Scorpio
EYE COLOR: blue
HAIR COLOR (natural): blonde
HEIGHT: 5 foot 6 ((167 cm)
BLOOD TYPE: O negative
POSITION: Maknae(in both PRISM and Dream), main rapper, main dancer.
SUB-UNITS: DREAM(2019), PRISM(2020)
LANGUAGES: Russian(native), Korean(fairly fluent), English(learning).
FACE CLAIM: Ryujin(ITZY)
FAVOURITE:
COLOUR: Purple
LEAST FAVORITE COLOR: Dark green
MUSIC:-pop, any kind of pop in general.
LEAST FAVORITE MUSIC: She’s pretty open to any kind of genre, there’s no one in particular that she hates.
FOOD: Takes after Marisol in the sense that the spicier the better. For some reason, adores jalapeno peppers. Lily often has to stop her from buying the really spicy ones whenever she accompanies her and the managers on grocery shopping.
DRINKS: Jaemin got her hooked on six shots of espresso a day, so the coffee machine in both dorms has to be guarded extra carefully.
HABITS: Picks at her split ends, greets magpies(habit picked up from Rose), sleeptalks in Russian.
HOBBIES: Dancing, also reads a lot, easily the bookworms of the group.
WHY DID SHE AUDITION FOR SM?: Her and her twin sister both auditioned in the SM global audition in Moscow, but only Karine passed.
AGE SHE JOINED SM: 14
EDUCATION:.Russian elementary and a bit of secondary school, currently in SOPA’s department of Applied Music
FAMILY:
MOTHER:, Jiyeon, resentful that Karine couldn’t come home for the funeral, refuses to have anything to do with her daughter.
FATHER: Alyosha, died shortly after Karine became a trainee after collapsing suddenly.
SIBLINGS: Katerina, twin sister, older by 3 minutes, often sends Karine news from home.
MOST AT EASE: when talking to her twin, reading, messing around with Amelie or Rose.
GETS UPSET WHEN: she gets freaked by something bad happening to her members.
SELF-ESTEEM: Definitely doubts herself as she hasn’t trained as long as the others, and is definitely aware as the youngest member of 28, the responsibility lies on her to go a good job
PERSONALITY:
GREATEST STRENGTH: Is a total optimist, to the point it rubs off on her other members. can also be a very affectionate person.
GREATEST WEAKNESS: Can cry easily at things that upset her(because she’s babie and needs to be protected someone get her a cute gf please )
SOFT SPOT: Literally all of her dreamie and prism members. it’s super obvious as she gets as soft as Jungwoo when it comes to them.
TRAITS:
OPTIMIST OR PESSIMIST: Optimist
INTROVERT OR EXTROVERT: Extrovert
WHAT BEING AN IDOL MEANS TO HER: getting to sing in front of huge crowds and do what makes her happy.
EXTREMELY SKILLED AT: Flirting-has lowkey flirted with other cute idols her age but has never got full on wild like Mari.
EXTREMELY UNSKILLED AT: Baking-it’s just not her thing and has almost set fire to the dorm a few times.
~OTHER FUN FACTS~
-one-third of the dreamie bros(name given by Dreamie boys.)
-is closest to Sofia due to her also not being straight, views her as her gay older sister and always confides her love life troubles with her.
-is also very close with Amelie, they spent of their trainee days together and looks up to her a lot.
-is hoping to subtly plan a pride concept for PRISM in the near future due to the whole rainbow motif, but knows it may not go down well, but hopes Korean attitudes change.
-hopes to attend a pride parade in the States with Sofia once they start doing promotion there.
-is a huge girl group fangirl, all of her favourite artists are girl groups such as TWICE, Red Velvet, Mamamoo...and bops to some Little Mix from time to time(but she’ll never admit it not even when Lily somehow got her a signed Little Mix poster for her birthday.)
-Joined Haechan and Jisung for their dance stage at the dream show.
-closest to Jisung and Jeno in the dreamies as both treat her like she’s an adult, and Jeno was amused at her reaction to him ripping off his shirt(he got a full-on lecture from her afterwards which was more hilarious than threatening.)
-in 127, Jungwoo is pretty much her confidante, she really admires him and it’s the cutest thing, they’re like proper siblings.
-if dreamies want to tick her off, they’ll call her “Sooyoung-ah~”in the most annoying voice possible.(Jaemin and Renjun are the worst for it lmao.)