hi there ! i’m arcane, (he/him, 24), and i’m here to introduce cha suhyeon, your local perfectionist who can be bribed with vanilla iced lattes and will probably never be caught with a single hair out of place. if you’d like to plot, go ahead and like this post and i’ll come and say hi ! without further ado, the red velvet curtain opens to.. cha suhyeon !
profile / biography !
-- everything he does is a dance. a well calculated move. he was not raised by a famous actor and singer to be born of nothing, he was born to be someone with grace, with poise. he smiles, it’s a dance. he looks you in the eye, he knows that it is supposed to mean something. and so he does. no one ever asked him if he didn’t want to.
-- is there something about him.. ah, he was in several roles, standing in the background, the main actor’s friend, his brother, that one worker in the coffee shop who spilled the coffee all over the love interest for the main actor to swoop in. but then, last year, he worked his way up. a darling’s dahlia, that’s what it was called again. he was the second love interest that still lost out, that dependable, childhood sweetheart role that he played so well.
-- from there.. what was it again? that ad for that perfume that smelled like late nights & the interior of an expensive sports car? that was him. is he wearing the latest coat from that fashion line plastered all over the magazines right next to the bottles of soda in the local convenience store? he is, indeed. he was the one on the magazine, too.
-- he’s so perfect people always try to find the cracks in the surface, and maybe it’s right there, in the corners of his eyes, where the happiness doesn’t quite reach. nobody ever asks him if he wanted this. nobody even cares about him, they care that he’s cha suhyeon, son of cha minseok and cha sora. never just suhyeon. he’s stopped trying to find someone who wants to look past the mask.
-- is anyone wondering when cha suhyeon would finally break? maybe it was that video posted all over social media, the one where he’s obviously drunk and blowing out smoke and stumbling into the arms of another in the dark. social media certainly was, and it’s a hit to his reputation that changes him. maybe he’s the same on the outside, but there is something there, now, that wasn’t there before. his gaze a little sharper, his hands, seeking out in the dark, now, instead of the light.
-- a film, television, and multimedia major, due to the fact that he grew up around cameras, looking at them and admiring the winking, clear glass from afar as he watched his father change in front of it, and learned how to follow in his steps. everyone has always told him to look here and stand over there but he wants to know why. he wants to hold the camera and see the vision and hopes that somehow, if he can understand this, maybe he can better understand himself.
-- he lives in an apartment off campus alone. maybe it’s a little empty, and maybe it’s also the only place he feels like he can breathe, no one to watch him slouch his shoulders or fall asleep on the couch watching dramas. maybe he sings into the shower in the mornings, but it’s only because no one else can hear the longing in his voice that echoes off of the walls.
-- he’s gotten so good at pretending, faking a smile, playing a part, that he doesn’t know how to not. maybe this new feeling in his chest, one that feels like a craving for redemption, one that looks a lot like proving to his parents that he can make them proud, maybe that’s the one that breaks him out of his role.
-- cha suhyeon’s got a lot of learning to do, with this newfound desire to make a name for himself. it’s about time that he truly learned how to dance.
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