DISPATCH, 06/24/17: BKB Entertainment has officially released information about leader and main vocalist, Park Aejeong, also known as Aej, on silverBEAT’s official website! Aej is an ‘89 liner and has been beloved by fans since her debut in 2010. Find out more about Aej below!
I, Park Aejeong, have read and understand the terms and conditions as my position of silverBEAT leader and agree to honor the standards that are to be expected of me as an employee of BKB Entertainment.
OOC INFORMATION
Preferred name: Trice
Pronouns: She/her
Timezone: PST
IC INFORMATION
Faceclaim: Park Kyungri
Name: Park Aejeong
Stage name (if applicable): Aej, pronounced “Edge” ; her unofficial stagename by fans (and her nickname within the group) is “AJ”
Idol concept: Her concept originally started out as cute (which she hated immensely), but as silverBEAT’s concept started to evolve, so did hers; BKB began to market her as a confident, proactive go-getter, passionate and fiery, who would do anything for her group. While this last part is true, the rest is not; Aejeong, while protective of her group members, is calm, levelheaded, gentle, and above all, tired; she hates the slave contract BKB has tricked the group into, and is one of the members who intends to sue upon release (and also talked some of the re-Fuse trainees out of debuting with the group).
Birth date and age: December 3, 1989 (age 27)
Company name: BKB Entertainment
Group Name (if applicable): silverBEAT
Group Position (if applicable): Leader and main vocalist
Strengths: Aej is known for her power vocals. She can belt out a note at seemingly any range and hold it for ages. She sings just as well live as she does on recording, and can move from note to note with a grace and ease that few possess. It is because of this that she has begun a solo career, and despite rumors surrounding her, she still garners respect as a vocalist. Her dancing skills are well-developed, and she never misses a step.Additionally, her skills as a leader are rather refined; she puts her group ahead of herself, taking extra work where necessary in cleaning the practice rooms, cooking dinners and breakfasts, and putting herself in the line of fire to negotiate extra free time with their manager, all so that the others can get a few extra minutes of sleep.
Weaknesses: While Aej isn’t a “bad” dancer per se (in fact, she took ballet as a child and can dance en pointe; she had wanted to be the main dancer pre-debut), she’s rather unenergetic due to the jadedness that surrounds her and her career. She tries her best to put on good shows, but it’s difficult for her to hide how angry she is that she’s locked into BKB for another three years without her consent. Additionally, her variety show skills are lacking, as her blunt, deadpan honesty and scathing, subtly-concealed jabs at BKB’s CEO tend to cause a few awkward laughs while hosts and fans try to decipher if she’s serious or not (only her group members would know that she is, indeed, very serious). This has earned her the reputation of “Ice Queen” and is the cause of most of her attitude scandals; despite the fact that she respects everyone in the company except her dishonest CEO, most netizens consider her a diva. She is mostly indifferent to these scandals.
Positive traits: Gentle, nurturing, playful, patient
Negative traits: Proud, critical, bitter, jaded
PERSONAL HISTORY
.01—- her earliest memories are the ones of her mother, her sister, and the star shining its light outside the window. that star holds a special place in her heart, brightening and dimming with a fluid grace to be admired. she doesn’t let her mother draw the curtains, and it paints itself beneath her eyelids when she sleeps. she still remembers it when she twirls alone across her practice room’s wooden floors in the dead of night, humming the melody to whatever song dances through her mind.
.02—- her mother is a flighty, whimsical woman who tears up when she talks about aejeong’s father (“the other woman made much more sense than i did, i suppose”) and her sister was an infant when aejeong was four. aejeong protects her fervently and learns to cook and clean to care for her better when their mother is away. they are as close as family can get. their dark hair tangles together when the sounds of their laughter at a moonlit sofa in their seoul-stationed café, and they listen to music that is just as eccentric as their matriarch. that music, too, nests itself in the warm space of aejeong’s memory, and the star from years ago begins to glow to its tune.
.03—- they enroll aejeong in the ballet studio that opens down the street when she is six, and she takes to it like a bird in flight; her toes spin her around and around like the earth around the sun.
.04—- aejeong grows disciplined with her form and observant with watching the technique of the older ballerinas. she is shy among the reflections of stocking-clad legs, and more awkward than the other students. it takes her far longer to learn the dances than the rest of them. if she is a star, then she is dim.
.05—- yet when she does learn, she moves with the fluidity of a petal in the wind. she works to land each step precisely. eventually, her late hours dancing catch her up to the rest and propel her ahead. she is en pointe by the time she is twelve. she, too, can now dance along to the starlight.
.06— dance makes her quiet, her mother jokes sometimes. now she’s always watching the customers come and go from the café and what they leave on their plate or at the bottom of their mugs. aejeong can remember the orders for the customers even when they don’t visit in a month, and they praise her on bringing their coffees so efficiently. she observes the arch of their feet and picks out the flaws in the way their knees bend, even though their form of dance is flitting in and out their door. it’s quite distasteful, and oftentimes she wishes she was surrounded by other stars rather than being the only one.
.07—- bkb entertainment is holding auditions. she is thirteen and has had enough of being the only star in sight (occasionally she reprimands herself for this arrogant train of thought). she dances to the song to which she’s practiced for months before the audition and doesn’t miss a beat, her body in tune from her head to her heels. then,
.08—- ‘can you sing?’
.09—- and a heavenly sound comes out of her mouth, one that sounds like a siren song and it hits her with mild surprise (besides impromptu karaoke nights with her mother and sister, she hasn’t sung a day in her life) and just a little bit of dread; she is supposed to become a main dancer. she will not be the main vocalist for any group, she will not be the main vocalist for any group, she will not be the main vocalist for any group—
.10—- ‘congratulations. we believe you will be the perfect main vocalist for a future group.’
.11—- she just about dies right then and there, but beggars can’t be choosers; maybe they’ll realize that she’s not worth being a vocalist. but much to her chagrin, the longer she trains, the better she becomes at singing, and the farther she gets from her goal of main dancer. she doesn’t have it in her to fail on purpose, so she gets closer to the position of main vocalist. and yet she hopes.
.12—- and fate, of course, has it out for her. it’s announced when she is eighteen that she will be the leader of a brand new group, silverBEAT … and the main vocalist. she secretly prays that the group will fail, and she will have another chance at the position of main dancer in a different one.
.13—- as expected, she is evaluative of the prospective members when they first meet. she can see the flaws in their trades as well as she can see the flaws in her own. but she also sees the beauty behind the little things the other members do, and with a satisfied smile, she decides that this group will be perfect for now.
.14—- it is far easier to be comfortable around them once she gets to know them. she can joke and laugh and play in their presence as if she has known them for years, and she takes the skills she learned from caring for her sister and applies it to them. despite this, she feels guilty as her prayer is not granted; not only does silverBEAT not disband, but they become the most popular group in the industry. a dancer position is even farther from her than she could possibly imagine; who would dream to let her change positions so far into her career?
.15—- but her group is enough. she may hate their cute concept with a passion. yet even when she grimaces from the far back positions in their performance formations, she passes the flashes of teeth off as smiles. she cares for her group and thanks the star through her window that they did not disband as she had hoped. but still, she has heard things about other companies like mirage; of course a visually-oriented company like them will appreciate dancing skills like hers. she is not an idiot. she knows that bkb is treating her unfairly, and plans to switch out as soon as their contract ends.
.16—- then 2014 rolls around, and her beloved ninth member and fellow vocalist applies for a contract termination. aejeong tries to hide her disappointment; she’d hoped, at least, that she would stick around till the end of the contract three years down the road. but she holds her tongue; she understands why one might want to leave early, what with how dangerous bkb is. this, unfortunately, manifests in aejeong ignoring her soon-to-be ex-member, and aejeong is heartbroken to learn, after the girl’s official exit from the group, that too many believe aejeong hated her and kicked her out.
.17—- she doesn’t mind. no, that’s a lie: she does. it hurts to think that she could hate any group member, not when she watches them make their acting or modeling debuts, or when she buys her ex-member’s brand new solo debut on her phone and listens to it every night when she makes dinner. perhaps she was critical of them at first, perhaps she wanted nothing to do with them at first, but that doesn’t matter; they are now her little sisters, the ones she’d protect with everything she is. she soon finds that that even means protecting them from their company.
.18—- because it is now 2017, and bkb springs them with a revelation of fine text that had apparently been in their contract since 2014. (numbly, aejeong wonders if she should have left with their ninth member.) she could collapse with pain, but she can’t stand to cry in front of them; she is already a failure of a leader, a fake main vocalist, a disappointment who couldn’t protect her group from three extra years of long nights and health-threatening schedules. she goes home and weeps with her sister and mother, curses their ceo. silverbeat’s concept has long since changed from their hated cute one, but despite this, aejeong can’t find it in her to keep her energy. when they coerce her into a solo debut, she doesn’t flinch, completely numb to the dishonesty that is this company. she no longer cares about performances— all her time and resources will go into keeping her group guarded from the hell that is three more years (just three more years, three more years). even if she can’t join mirage afterward, even if bkb killed her passion for dance long ago, park aejeong holds out hope for the comfort that her seven little sisters will continue their careers as unscathed as she can keep them.
