#nssungjoo

[kiteunns]

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🔥 — what’s your greatest fear?

Already answered.

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🍱 — what’s your eating habits? which cuisines do you like?

Once again the female was greeted by the vending machine’s filling of snacks. Those in her office candidly shook their head at her habits for constantly snacking and eating other sweets. It wasn’t her offense, in fact, Hyemi generally accused it on her younger brother that she developed his habit of picking up different foods in between meals-- maybe more than just in between meals. She actually wasn’t sure how many times she’s visited the vending machine or cafeteria that day despite the inadequacy of breaks given. “What should I get this time?” she hummed the inquiry to herself, gaze depicting after the assorted candies within the machine that was, in some measure, vacant (mostly because of her). A certain strawberry delight caught her eyes as a smile tugged at her features. Hyemi had an unfailed devotion for snacking on strawberries as a “cuisine”.

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🏃‍♂️ — how often do you exercise? what’s your favorite sports activity?

"Do you have to be that slow?” Sweat glazed her co-worker’s body, a puzzled look tracing over his features as they were taking laps around the track. It seemed numerous times now that he had passed her with ease while she struggled to make it through the first five runs. Hyemi was not one to exercise, but instead stay inside where the a/c employed her and she could munch her shame away through snacks. The female wouldn’t even dare attempting a sport activity no matter how much her associates pestered her to do so. Such a thought just wasn’t in her being.

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📥 — how do you feel about paperwork? do you like doing it? 

Are you kidding me? All she does is paperwork. She actually prefers paper and pen over digital devices.

[nshaewon-blog]

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🗼 — what’s the favourite country you have ever visited? why?

The summer before her senior year of college, Haewon took a trip to France with three of her friends, and the four of them lived out of a tiny AirBnB for a week, only planning their schedule for each day on the same morning. They stayed away from big touristy things ( except, of course, the Eiffel tower ) and simply asked locals what they would recommend. Haewon sometimes finds herself wishing that she could do these types of things again, just leave the country on a whim and immerse herself in other cultures--- she certainly has the money nowadays to do so--- but she’s got a commitment to the NIS and she needs stay in Korea to do her job efficiently.

💬 — which languages can you speak? how did you learn them?

Haewon is fluent in Korean, English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Japanese, and she’s conversational in Spanish, French, and Thai. Currently, on her own time she’s learning to write Latin, and speak Russian and Portuguese. Haewon has a knack for learning languages and grammar rules easily, like a child would, and rather than learning languages entirely in academic settings, she likes to listen and pick phrases up from music and media in those languages.

👔 — how do you dress outside work? what’s your preferred attire?

Outside of work, one could easily confuse Haewon for a backup dancer in a 90s music video--- she likes lots of demin and oversized sweatshirts and jackets paired with an overkill of accessories. Her makeup choices, however, are very modern and she tends to pick up makeup tips from instagram, which really contrasts with the reclaimed 90s style she’s got going on.

🔥 — what’s your greatest fear? 

Haewon isn’t afraid of death, but rather of serious injury--- she is particularly scared of losing her knowledge or ability to do her work, as she feels that would make her a burden on others. So, really, I guess you could say that she’s afraid of existing without purpose.

[nskwon]

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ask memes I : headcanons.📥 — how do you feel about paperwork? do you like doing it?

Seojun isn’t the biggest fan of paperwork, he knows it is important and a very serious part of the job, but he’d rather be on the field instead. He’s not the most patient man on earth and paperwork is something that makes his patience drop fast, it stresses him in many ways and sometimes even brings him an annoying headache.

🔥 — what’s your greatest fear?

As surprising as it may seem, Seojun actually has many fears: failing on a mission, being kicked out of NIS, getting seriously injured on a mission, not being able to be an agent anymore... He worries a lot about his job and his life, but his biggest fear has to be losing someone he loves again. The death of his fianceé was something very traumatic for him, and he fears that it could happen again --- which is one of the reasons he has a hard time being close to people now, he’s afraid of losing the people he loves like he lost Ahreum.

💥 — how did you get recruited to nis?

Ahreum told him about NIS and they sent their applications together, and then were recruited together. They had just graduated from college and were willing to start a life together, once Seojun had just asked her to be his fianceé.

🗄 — what is your favourite place at the hq? where do you spend your time off work?

His favorite places have to be the gym, the library, and the vault. The gym because it’s where he gets to practice, the library because it’s the place he goes to when he’s done with his work ( he likes to just sit there and enjoy the silence of the room ), and the vault because it’s where he keeps the blades he uses on his missions. 

Off work, he tends to spend time at the dorms since it’s where he chose to live after coming back from the army --- it’s cheaper and more convenient once it’s closer to the HQ, has its own gym, pool, and cafeteria.

[nsjihae-blog]

⸢ finger on the trigger | past ⸥

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jihae is nestled between two clear panels of bulletproof glass on his left and right, stark white wall at his back and a target in front of him. he’s been staring down the paper man with targeted circles on his front for the past fifteen minutes-- at least he thinks it’s been that long but time is a foreign concept to him currently. a gun is settled in front of him on the thin counter, a standard issue with nothing special about it, the sight of it mocking him ever since he first placed it there, gentle in setting it down despite how it felt as if he’d been burned by it touching his skin. it urges him now to pick it up and use it, but the mere thought of it has him freezing in place.

it’s funny in hindsight, not really but almost, because before joining as an nis trainee, jihae had promised himself he’d never pick up a gun for any reason. he’d grown up around them too much already with the officials he’d deliver packages to and who’d roam in and out of his home as if they belonged there carrying them, separating them from his family and from everyone. he’d watched his father fall dead, bloodied and full of holes, because of them. he’d fired one at age eleven to protect his mother and himself, taking the life of not only their assailant but the last shred of innocence he had. he remembers the ringing, ear-piercing sounds of every shot, the way they reverberated through his entire body, the smell of blood and hot metal. he’d thought he’d escaped having anything to do with them. but he can’t, not when he and his fellow trainees have to acquaint themselves with them, not when his freedom rides on it.

it doesn’t stop the anxiety of picking one up again.

he just barely manages to fake it during the drills he’s put through, managing to block out everything if only because of the noise canceling ear protectors, a pair of which hang loosely around his neck. he needs to get over this hesitation if he intends to pass the evaluations that will determine his passing into the next set of training. he could tell yongjin but the man already helps so much with helping him exercise and pass the more strenuous physical parts in addition to being an agent with his own responsibilities-- he feels guilty even thinking about getting more help.

“shit,” he curses to himself and subsequently almost jumps out of his skin when he hears the nearby door open, promptly slamming himself into the glass wall next to him and banging his shoulder, another soft string of curses escaping him.

[nsjihae-blog]

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[ ASK MEME I: HEADCANONS — accepting!! ] what’s your relationship with your family? do you keep in touch?

when he was growing up, he had a loving relationship with his real parents. the circumstances were bad but there was never a lack of warm love in their tiny house. they instilled in him the determination and willpower to carry on even in hard times and the hope for things to one day be better. losing them both was understandably difficult for him and in some ways he’s never completely gotten over that which, unfortunately, is what affects his relationship with his adoptive parents and younger sibling.

jihae would be the first to say that he made things a lot more difficult for seungho and minyoung than was necessary as he grew up. they were patient with his every idiosyncrasy and mood, accomodating him whenever he isolated himself, never once insisting that just because they are his parents on paper that he had to call them as such. the problem is that jihae grew attached and began recognizing them as his family and that made him feel all the more guilty and disrespectful of his real parents. his guilt is only doubled because he knows his adoptive parents deserve to know he cares.

regardless, he stays away. he limits his contact with them to the occasional phone call or text message and visits are saved primarily for the holidays with the excuse his workload is too heavy. there was a period of time he kept better contact with them but he’s since fallen off the track with that.

[nsminjae-blog]

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ask memes I : headcanons.🛡 — are you comfortable with talking about your past? 

Minjae doesn’t mind talking about his past, but he does feel a bit uncomfortable knowing that his childhood was so much different than most people’s: while everybody else has memories of themselves playing outside, with friends and family, most of Minjae’s memories are about him studying alone or with his mother glued to him, to make sure he was really studying. Sometimes he wishes he could have had a “normal” childhood, but the thought of changing something about his past and influencing the present scares him.

[nstaeyong-blog]

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🎼 — how often do you listen to music? if so, what are your favourite songs?

taeyong has an affinity for wreaking soft and subtle havoc around the workplace, so you will almost always find him playing music unnecessarily loud when he’s training. meanwhile, he happily sings (read: slurs) along to the top 100 dance pop for the extra volume and, consequently, has quite the reputation for his unorthodox music taste. 

some favourites include: sweet but psycho — ava max, dental care — owl city, chocolate disco — perfume.