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full name: leo jaehyun kim

nickname(s) / goes by: leo

pronouns & gender: cis man, he/him

sexuality: bisexual

birth date: august 19, 1990

birth place: atlanta, ga

arrival to merrock: 2025

housing: the coast & pier.

occupation: opthamologist

work place: hospital center

family: daesung kim (dad), chaeyoung kim nee goh (mom), younger sister

relationship status: divorced

personality

charming. all business. knows no limits and easily overwhelmed by it. intense, driven to succeed, doesn't know when to take breaks. a workaholic. yet faithful in being driven, loyal to a fault. expect him to show up to your best friend's cousin's wedding with one text bringing the gift you forgot; if he remembers and put it in his calendar. jealous over dumb things. mature, calm, stubborn.

portrayed by Steve Sanghyun Noh; penned by PomPom.

full biography / background

triggering / sensitive content warning: illness, medical, ableism.

jaehyun was born into a different world. his parents were older when they had him and his sister to follow was a miracle. around age 5, his dad started losing his sight. over the years, he slowly went blind and jaehyun watched him become a shell of his former self in his teens. his dad was still there but he felt like he lost him. their family is one that doesn't talk about what's wrong, so he researched what made his dad go blind on his own. this got him interested in medicine and maybe finding a cure, or something to slow it down.

scary things like glaucoma, macular degeneration and others are ideas jaehyun no longer wanted to be scary. part of why he got into it was to comfort his dad too. his dad used his hands a lot and liked to garden, looking at the flowers they planted together, and all that was taken away. it took a lot of hard work, sleepless nights, and every time jaehyun's own eyes hurt, he wondered if he'd lose his sight too. however that simply added to his drive. he did this for his family, forgetting about any other option as a job.

he interned at a lot of places and went around the south to research as much as possible. he was known as a workaholic and not able to commit to anything too personal outside of the workplace, married to his job, etc. but he became a pharmacologist out of it and made a breakthrough in some research, and yet he felt empty. he realized he couldn't change his dad's mind about his condition and that he needed to look at his own life. where does he want to settle? how? looking at online job postings led him to see the one posted at merrock's hospital. in a time when jobs felt scarce and he felt alone, he figures this is as good a time as any to try and start over.

although he still has a good relationship with his family, he now tries to separate himself from them. he tells himself his research and job will help merrock's people, he can find more purpose, his routine, etc. he struggles with the guilt and still buries himself in his work but maybe merrock will change his outlook as he heads into his forties? he hopes so. otherwise he'll have to start over again.

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