DISPATCH, (06/24/17): Mirage Entertainment has officially released information about actor two, Nam Euntae, on Euntae’s official website! He is a ‘91 liner and has been beloved by fans since his acting debut in 2013. Find out more about Euntae below!
I, Nam Euntae, have read and understand the terms and conditions as my position of Actor 2 and agree to honor the standards that are to be expected of me as an employee of Mirage Media.
OOC INFORMATION Preferred name: Trice Pronouns: She/her Timezone: PST Other muses: Park Aejeong
IC INFORMATION Faceclaim: Lee Jongsuk Name: Nam Euntae Stage name (if applicable): N/A Idol concept: When he was formerly in a boy group and an idol, he had the “mischievous maknae” concept. His former company marketed him as a “sweetheart on the outside, but an untameable, passionate lover on the inside.” It was a little bit true; while euntae is a total flirt and a generally nice person, he’s more of a playboy. Mirage is currently marketing him as “sexy and seductive” as a foil to his former idol concept, and it’s working brilliantly: netizens are loving the idea of a childish-on-the-outside maknae “showing his true colors” as he “matures into a steamy-gazed young man.” euntae finds this a little ridiculous, but since he feels a deep sense of obligation to his company, he doesn’t question it. Birth date and age: April 23, 1991 (age 26) Company name: Mirage Group Name (if applicable): N/A Group Position (if applicable): Actor 2 Strengths: euntae’s acting talent is unmistakable. He does best in roles as villains, particularly cold or insane ones. He’s navigated almost all the aspects of the K-Entertainment business; he started off as an idol in 2007, began acting part-time in 2013, and after his former group disbanded in 2014, he began acting full-time. Due to this, his face is very well-known throughout the entertainment business. He’s also good at sticking to concept, and he knows how to work his visuals. He’s rather good at variety as well, although he’s better at performing than hosting, and he has been doing more hosting ever since switching to an acting career. Weaknesses: euntae is a total cynic, and seems to think that every company except Mirage will screw their contractees over. This is partly because his old idol group disbanded due to the company forcing them to (even though most of the members began to pursue their solo careers more). Because he misses his days as an idol, it is occasionally clear that he’s jealous or particularly cold toward younger groups as he believes they’ll eventually end up disbanding against their will as well. This attitude makes a few particularly aggressive dispatchers consider him a spoiled child who never grew out of his rascal maknae phase, which reminds him of his time in an idol group and starts the cycle back up all over again. Positive traits: Polite, enticing, passionate, loyal Negative traits: Vitriolic, unforgiving, arrogant, elitist
PERSONAL HISTORY nam euntae is born the youngest in his family in the spring of 1989. his parents are a strangely mismatched couple; while his father parades around his newborn child (“look at my son; he’s an angel, perfect!”), his mother is amusingly unimpressed in all the photos after her labor. (in all fairness, she’s like that in all of the pictures with euntae’s siblings— most of the pictures in the family photo album are the rest of the nams making silly faces around her while she stares into the camera, queenly despite her deadpan expressions.)
his three older siblings are just as dizzyingly carefree as his father. they’re triplets, two girls and a boy. the eldest (by eighteen minutes only) is hana, then mija at thirty minutes, then chul. then euntae, youngest by three years. he doesn’t really feel left out when it comes to the triplets— they’re pretty good at including him. hana especially: she’s the ringleader. mija, chul, and euntae practically worship the ground she walks on, and with fair enough reason; she’s the most clever of the four nam siblings, and usually the one orchestrating tricks to play on their father or on their classmates. and even though the other three bear a striking resemblance to hana, she’s still the prettiest in their family besides their mother. with all this, she can practically get them to do anything she wants.
euntae is usually her go-to. she adores him and he adores her right back, though her reason for getting him to shoulder the grunt work for setting up pranks is based on the fact that he’s more obliging than the other two in the triptych. so she convinces him instead of them, and that’s how euntae gets the time he craves from his three older siblings.
still though, it’s hard not to feel a little bit lonely when they hit high school and the triplets’ class goes on field trips and he’s left alone. or when the older kids are clearly civil with him at their lunch table only because he’s hana-mija-chul’s little brother. it’s still fair enough, he thinks, when his brother and sisters graduate in the top ten of their class and he fades back into the background; even when his sisters go to law and med school and his brother studies aerospace engineering in america, they still call him, but he still misses them a lot. even his sprightly father and reserved mother notice, so they enroll him in vocal lessons to try to get him to interact with kids his own age instead of alumni who graduated in the years before him.
it works out much better than they hope; he’s caught on quickly, and signs on with a prestigious entertainment company at fifteen, and he’s finally made it: he’s going in as the main vocalist and maknae of a group with wicked sharp choreography and strong vocals to boot. he’s pretty pleased with the outcome of his time with the group, living on top and managing to stay at least somewhat relevant. his parents and sisters attend concerts where they can, and his brother is at the front row when they tour america.
he signs a non-exclusive contract with mirage entertainment in 2013 after the ceo “falls in love with his tortured soul” or whatever the hell it was; surprisingly, his first acting job isn’t under that company. it’s under kaleidoscope, where mirage loans him out for the drama my love from another star as lead villain lee jae-kyung. and he’s praised for it, even getting offers from bkb to play a role in their drama (he turns it down, of course; not only is he a full-time idol and a part-time actor, but there’s no way in hell he’d want to do anything for bkb).
his fellow members start branching out as well, much to his chagrin, and while they still promote together, his hyungs go into solo debuts, variety hosting, and modeling. euntae becomes greedy, savoring the time he can spend with his group as a group and not as members beginning to pursue their own solo activities. it was the period at the end of a sentence already written once 2014 rolls around.
because no matter how much euntae gives his life to his group, they disband. fans, of course, still try to keep up with a good number of the ex-members. there are rumors that euntae’s packed up and moved to australia. there are rumors that he’s gone into hermitage and now resides at the local cave. there are rumors that he’s gotten involved with the mafia.
in actuality, he’d stumbled into his parents’ living room after moving day, towing seven years’ worth of luggage and seven members’ worth of tears before he collapsed and slept like he’d never slept a day in his life.
the triplets have been keeping up, it seems, because they return home on the pretense of sightseeing. hana pulls the curtains back and lets the sunlight stream in. mija arranges flowers while humming the tune to her favorite song euntae’s promoted. chul takes it upon himself to place euntae’s clothing, neatly folded, back into their drawers. it’s nice to have hana-mija-chul paying attention to him again, but he’s absolutely bitter at the circumstances under which it happened. how is it that someone can try their hardest at something for seven years straight, only for it all to dissolve just like that?
he stews in his own anger for at least a month, 2014 becoming his most hellish year and unsurprisingly the year he releases no new content before the triplets haul him out of bed and back into the world.
and somehow, it works.
he leaves his old company and changes his contract with mirage from non-exclusive to exclusive; he belongs to mirage now, with the exceptions where they loan his skills out to other companies.
he’s far better at it than anyone might expect. of course, perhaps it’s growing up with three mischievous siblings who, together, are fiendish enough for plenty inspiration, but he’s praised for his role in a villain’s shoes, and suddenly jobs are flooding in. he had been asleep, he thinks: when he signed on with mirage the first time, he had opened one lethargic eye. when he signed on the second time, he was awake, alert to the harshness of the world around him. netizens are stunned once his face starts appearing all over again in the magazines as roles and modeling jobs begin to take their hold on him (nam euntae is back and better than ever, some sources claim). He plays a few roles as villains in various dramas, his most notable ones in my love from another star and oh my ghostess. he’s about as on-demand as they come when it comes to villains. the media eats him right up, loving the idea of former maknae taking high society by storm with a flash of his devilish grin. “sexy, seductive nam euntae!” is splashed in big, bold letters across magazines with him on the cover, and he’s a little amused to see it.
(not to mention he’s a little smug as well to see that he’s still considered the most famous of his former group, and made the successful transition from idol to hallyu star. it’s refreshing to sleep to.)
admittedly, he’s a little thrown with his change from idol to full-fledged actor. it’s strange to go from the performing end to playing guest host on variety shows or introducing new groups on stage that are bound to end in the same place he did. but he tries his best out of a rooted gratefulness, loyalty, and respect to mirage; they did, after all, shelter him where his group failed to, and he will do his best to repay them. a pang of sadness hits him when he sees bright-eyed idol groups rise to the top; he knows they’ll fall farther, hit harder, and he can’t stand the idea of anyone ending up like him. but that’s none of his business; his business is to act, to play hellion on screen for as long as his company needs him. and if doing that helps junior idols maybe realize that not everything is golden, then nam euntae will only consider that the icing on the cake.