Family: Mother, three older brothers, one younger half sister, father (Jong-Su; deceased), stepfather, three uncles, two aunts, ten cousins, one sister in law, two nephews.
Personality: Seongmin can best be described as a very nice guy who is very repressed. His childhood left him standoff-ish, insecure and awkward, while his own nature has left him protective and very hard working: he’s determined to show his best face, no matter how hard it is. He is also very easily distracted, though not for the reasons most people think.
Good at: His build and face are usually the first things people notice and physically he is pretty intimidating - tall and broad shouldered, with a perpetually serious expression. As such, sometimes people do things for him just so he’ll stop looming over them. He is excellent at cooking, since it’s his goal in life to become a chef and since his mother often left him to fend for himself. He’s also good at telling stories that he makes up on the fly - ghost stories, adventure stories and bedtime stories are his favorite.
Fair with: A Support Thresh for all his terrifying appearance, Seongmin taught himself first aid, mostly since he has no healing abilities. He’s got a level head in emergencies, and a surprisingly gentle attitude. He’s also okay at rapping, though he’d be terrified to perform in front of an audience.
Horrible with: he doesn’t have much experience with friendships and he tends to worry, a lot, about whether the people he likes actually like him in return or if they’re just too scared to tell him to leave. He is easily distracted becase there are actually a lot of ghosts around Seoul’s Rift, and they all tend to want to talk to him once they realize he can see them. He’s also very, very bad at hanging out with large groups that tend to talk all at once - he’s easily overwhelmed and has to excuse himself to reorganize his thoughts.
In Depth History
Seongmin was born seven months after his father and his father’s friends were killed by Shinwoo. He’s always, from the time he was a baby, known that that the sweet, gentle neighborhood baker technically murdered six others in a (certainly justifiable) demonic rage...
He’s always known, because the first time he got a cookie from their shop - a day Lee-Gong Opal and her dads were in, a day Mr. Shinwoo politely asked his rude older brother to leave - his dad’s ghost told him.
He had a cold childhood, even without the ghosts he could see since birth. Thresh beliefs don’t generally involve much affection, many hugs or happiness, joy or laughter. And with his older brothers so much older, and his mother stressed from working and from raising them alone, he often envied kids with large groups of friends. He wanted to BE friends but his mom’s strict rules meant he had to come home right after school. He learned to cook for himself because often she would be at work when he got home... which soon turned to cooking for cousins and brothers as well. This, at least, was a form of affection others in his life would accept.
And, despite the horror stories that his mom and brothers told, he wanted to be friends with Cha Jaewoo and the rambunctious ahri sextuplets...and even Opal, though he didn’t like to be near her much because of his dad’s ghost. After all, his dad’s ghost wasn’t the only one following that group around. Jaewoo’s auntie follows Jaewoo around sometimes, and from her he knows the whole story. His father wasn’t a noble fighter killed before his time - he was a murderous rapist who deserved what had happened to him. It was a concept that was way too mature for a kid his age, but ghosts really don’t have an idea of age-appropriate information and he’s been afraid to date his whole life in case he turns out like his dad.
he was twelve and his older brothers had moved out when his mom remarried. instead of making life easier, it made it worse. His dad was very much a traditional Thresh, expecting Seongmin to fight and to gather souls and to not care about making friends. Seongmin got used to getting hit when he hesitated, when he answered wrong, when his stepdad just felt like it. His only real happiness came from cooking for his new baby sister when she arrived and telling her stories.
High school was pretty horrible. His concentration was bad, his grades were bad, he told himself it was okay because cooking didn’t require a big, important school. His stepdad hit him more, told him it was okay because the rift didn’t require big, important schools. He agreed meekly, just to get his stepdad to shut up, and went back to cooking.
He still watches people from afar, and the oldest Ahri makes his heart ache, but he doesn’t know how to approach them, for fear of even worse heartache.
PLOTS
when opal and jaewoo end up on the rift together and sims’ ghost escapes, he’s the reason jinwoo knows where to go
sims’ ghost ends up in his lantern.
wants to be a baker, wanted to work with shinwoo, is too scared to ask after Jaewoo’s attack
is thrown out of the family for helping save jaewoo
worries about his younger relatives when he can’t go home to take care of them.
turns all his I COOK AS A FORM OF AFFECTION on Jisol forever and ever
Personality: Jinwoo is cheerful to a fault, almost always happy and if he’s not truly happy he still fakes it, hating to have people worry about him. He throws himself into new experiences enthusiastically, wanting to learn and do new things. He loves to make people laugh, dancing and singing silly songs or telling jokes he’s often made on the spot. On the negative side, he is very much a people-pleaser, and if he fails to make people happy he takes it personally. He is very clingy with the people he loves, and sometimes worries that he’s overly enthusiastic, overbearing or smothering. He also thinks he’s less attractive than his siblings, which leaves him slightly insecure in situations where they all have to dress up and look nice.
Good at: As the most genial of the six siblings, Jinwoo is good at mediating arguments, playing the peacemaker between more volatile and competitive personalities. He’s generally a happy kid, and he makes friends easily. In school, his best subjects are Korean, creative writing and history, while his best working skills are in customer service.
Fair with: Unlike some, his Rift skills are passing at best. He’s not a huge fan of fighting, but he can hold his own, at least. He’s also decent (but not stellar) in the rest of his school subjects (barring math).
Horrible with: Jinwoo is very bad at math, and usually has to get Jisol’s help with his homework. He’s not good at dealing with large disagreements within his friends’ group, getting stressed when he can’t patch things over in a few words. When he’s upset, he tends to internalize what’s wrong, and needs verbally dragged out of dwelling on his own insecurities.
In Depth History: Though he was born fourth of the six children Joon and Jinyoung had, he was Cha Jaewoo’s baby from day one, the baby Jaewoo was allowed to name. As such, he’s spend most of his life as Jinyoung’s unspoken favorite child.
A gentle, curious kid, he didn’t really talk much until he was five, thanks to Jaewoo, who knew what he wanted without him needing to talk, and who was quite content to translate for him. However, when he was five he started talking and people have been hard pressed to get him to shut up since then.
Born towards the middle of the group, he’s always been the peacekeeper among his siblings, always willing to make a fool of himself to get them laughing and (more importantly) stop talking. Taken as he was with Jaewoo, he rarely got in trouble. Unlike Joonho (who was wild) and Juwon and Jooyoung (who thrived on mischief), his biggest childhood mishap involved getting in the way of an angry Opal and getting knocked down a (short) flight of stairs, leaving him with a light scar through his left eyebrow.
Once the teenage years (....and puberty) hit, Jinyoung worried about him for different reasons than his siblings. While the others were off flirting and having their Typical Ahri Flings, Jinwoo didn’t once seem to look at anyone. What Jinyoung didn’t quite realize was, yeah, he was looking at someone. It just wasn’t noticeable, since it was the same someone he’d been looking at his entire life: Jaewoo.
It started when he was 14 - the physical changes came slowly, but Jinwoo found sitting in his hyung’s lap made him feel different. Made him want things - frustrating things, since his beloved older hyung thought too much of his family to be willing to make the first move. Jinwoo spent many, many nights of unrequited want, up until the summer they were all 15, when Juwon got them all in trouble and split up to other cities.
During his internship in Busan, he got taller, broader, stronger. He enjoyed working with other people, learning about Joon’s company. He still texted his hyung, daily, but didn’t really have time for video chats and, well, there’s not really a good sense of perspective in a selca...
When he returned to Seoul, he was surprised by how much bigger he was than Jaewoo. How much smaller and more vulnerable his beloved hyung seemed - and abruptly, instantly realized that while he still really, really wanted to be with Jaewoo....maybe he’d had how wrong all the time.
The next year was frustrating, but in a good way. He didn’t want to chase his hyung, though there were lots, and lots, and lots of hints, until he finally got the message with the dawn of the new year and realized hints weren’t working, so he flat out told Jaewoo he was in love with him, and likely always had been.
They’ve been happily dating ever since.
Plots
has the brilliant idea for Jaewoo to try the Rift during the baseball off season, accidentally calling Sims back into existence
Turns into Firefox Ahri / Jaewoo’s guardian Tibbers through inheriting a mutation of Jinyoung’s curse.
Family: Joon (father), Jinyoung (father, carried), Jisol (brother), Jihoon (brother), Joonho (brother), Juwon (brother), Jooyoung (sister, favorite sibling), grandmother, three aunts (he’s the apple of their eye).
Personality: Jinyoung and Joon did their best and continue to do their best, but the word that sums Juwon up the most is brat. He’s lazy, preferring to let others do all the hard work while he’ll swoop in at the end and flirt to claim all the glory. He’s hot tempered and quick to throw fits, and impulsive, quick to make decisions that he should really, really think through. He’s also incredibly manipulative, using his innate sensuality and sex appeal to get what he wants, be it free food or homework done for him. He is fiercely loyal to his family, however, and his attitude around them is more mischievous than mean and catty, though he and Jisol often clash over schoolwork and (currently) their mutual crush Aqua.
Good at: Juwon and Jooyoung are the most Ahri-like of the Lee-Jung children. He’s very in-tune with his nature, which...means he’s pretty darn awesome at sex, both at figuring out the ways to bring himself the most pleasure and making sure he does the same for his partner(s). He’s also excellent at basketball, his favorite sport, motorcycle racing (his second favorite sport), fashion and - a skill he learned purely at his fathers’ insistence - video editing.
Fair with: It’s tough work juggling ten different former lovers without them hating you and/or each other, but Juwon....somehow manages. He’s a fairly decent negotiator.
Horrible with: Juwon is physically and mentally incapable of caring less about school. He squeaks by with the bare minimum to pass, and usually only accomplishes that by manipulating others into doing his homework and assignments for him. He’s also bad at empathy, finding it difficult to sympathize with people or animals outside his immediate circle of family and friends. He’s terrible at basically anything artistic outside the realm of fashion and, well. Discretion is not a word in his vocabulary, much to his fathers’ chagrin.
In Depth History
Joon and Jinyoung have tried their best to raise their kids outside of the stereotypical hedonistic Ahri norms of do anything and get away with it because you’re cute and manipulative, and for the most part, they’ve succeeded...except, perhaps, with their two youngest.
From the get-go, Juwon was a troublemaker - from pulling siblings’ tails, putting gum in other kids’ hair, to pocketing candy at the convenience stores despite the fact that he could definitely pay for it, Juwon did it all. It didn’t help that Jinyoung’s cold, mean mother - a famed matriarch in the Ahri clans - preferred him and Jooyoung over the rest of the kids (much to Jinwoo’s constant hurt feelings) and spoiled them whenever she had a chance.
He was trouble all through kindergarten, elementary and the first half of middle school...and then he and the others hit 14.
Puberty usually comes with mood swings and acne.
For Ahris, it comes with almost instant irresistible beauty and an insatiable sex drive. They all dealt with it in their own ways, suffering lectures from teachers and (embarrassingly) Jinyoung. After all, Ahris collect soul energy through any kind of sex. Collecting too much could result in death - either of the Ahris, or of their partners or, in some grim situations, both. Some of the siblings may have absorbed it all correctly, but most of it went in one ear and out the other for Juwon...
Juwon, who seduced his personal driver/bodyguard into taking his virginity in the backseat of his car. Juwon, who proceeded to have a different fling every night of the week. Juwon, who eventually got so into it that he was leaking the residual energy to the point of setting things on fire unconsciously.
Worried of the influence the sextuplets might be having on each other, Jinyoung and Joon reluctantly made the decision to split them up and send them on summer internships where they would be too busy to run amuck and, theoretically, too tired to chase suitors as often. Juwon sulked as his siblings got to go cool places like Jeju or Busan or Tokyo while he stayed in Seoul, tasked to work in the advertising department at Joon’s company, learning video editing which....yawn. Boring?
Until his internship was done and he found out that one of his (.....many) objects of affection (one who was already in his friends’ circle!!) wanted help editing his mukbang...
He continued to have flings, but no where near as often, and found he actually enjoyed hanging out with Aqua and just talking about stuff. Helping him edit his videos and clear up the sound and learn about the stuff his hyung found enjoyable. Soon, he started having odd feelings. Different than the usual “how fast can the two of us get our clothes off” feelings.
Feelings like he actually cared....
It was scary and new and slowly but surely the other flings kinda....petered out, a fact that his siblings have noticed (and perhaps have been a little alarmed by...especially Jisol, who has made the connection to the hyung he likes.....)
His typical approach has failed so far, but he’s vowed to make it obvious this birthday. Now, hopefully, Aqua will at least notice that.
Plots:
keeping an eye on Quax and Ravi’s twins while Minkyu’s hospitalized
