hiii....*awkwardly waves* everyone TOT i'm the mun behind sohui that's still trying to power through using the new tumblr editor since new accnts can't...revert back to the old editor T-T but yes!! i'm here to bring you my precious gorl, mun sohui. she's a 1050 year old imugi (yes, an ancient lady :")) that was born as the imugi spirit of the eorimok river in the hallasan mountains!
i have the basic background story + some points for sohui, but if you'd like or prefer to brainstorm things, i'm down for it as well! i do have discord as well if that's a much easier platform for us to communicate! feel free to ask for it if its easier! that said, i'm super excited to be here! ToT and i hope you can love sohui as much as i do~
sohui was born in 972, during the goryeo era. she grew up mainly without her parents, having been created specifically to guard the eorimok river on hallasan mountain, her birthplace.
due to the fact that hallasan mountain was rumoured by residents to be a place filled with mountain gods and spirits, sohui used to be worshipped for the longest time in her youth
she attained human form due to the constant interactions that she had with those that came to give her offerings, and formed a strong relationship with a farmer's family (that eventually prospered with her blessings) into that of a rich, merchant family. and due to her having been worshipped as a god, sohui's human form transformed accordingly to human's "perception of beauty", giving her a beautiful face that fit to many human's aesthetic and thought of beauty.
sohui's belated interactions with humans also resulted in her not catching onto her own, more human feelings, and as a result, the affection she had for one of the humans never bore to any fruition. she ended up watching him get married to another woman, and the man pledged that his family would watch over her (since she blessed his family) for the rest of their lives.
sadly, that was the cause of sohui's downfall. the man's children and wife didn't like her much, and as time passed, that sentiment passed onto their children--and they begin to see her as a source of both entertainment and money.
in the year 1945, at the tail end of world war 2, whilst everyone else was distracted, the man's family plotted and captured sohui, holding her captive deep in hallasan until the year 2014. sohui was easily capture in part of her lack of knowledge of the human world, hving not interacted much beyond that of that human family that had a close connection with her (and were now betraying her), and also that as Eorimok River's imugi, she couldn't stray far from the river she belonged to.
the man's family eventually ventured out of jeju, and sohui was set on display for private clients and other rich individuals, with her scales being ripped from her body and one of her horns being cut as a souvenir for those patrons of that family.
eventually, her body became marred with scale like scars from where they had picked her scales off her body, and she watched as it became a symbol of that family (part of her scales would be taken and made into a dangling earring of the children of that family), and it was a terrible torture to witness, esp since she could do nothing
funding eventually slowed, even as the place where she was held captive slowly got modernized. as a result, sohui knows and is quite familiar with seeing some modern things, but she knows not of their functions or qualities, leaving her knowledge of the world stuck at 1945, and a certain edge of naivety.
in the process of her being held captive, the eorimok river also dried up eventually--but having not seen the process of it dying off by itself, sohui couldn't reconcile the dried river with the lustrous one she always had thought back to in her mind, and thus she "chained" herself to eorimok, as if it was still a full, lustrous river and she was unable to leave it.
she has only recently started to venture away from hallasan, which is why she is still a park ranger there (due to her intimate knowledge of it), and a part time barista.
sohui tends to hide her scale like scars to keep herself under the radar, even if it's difficult. she has patches of scars all over her body, from the base of her neck down to her thighs and legs. not a single patch of her skin was spared from taking, except for the more obvious things like her hands and her feet which can't be covered with clothes.
despite all that she's gone through, her sentiment and good will tiding back to the days where she was worshipped, and had a solid foundation of love & rapport with that man's family resulted in a "thought" being planted in sohui's mind that no human is inherently bad. in fact, she is inclined to extending a helping hand or making friends with humans as and how she wishes, a contrast towards the supposedly solitary nature of imugis. though...that could also be seen as a fear of loneliness and captivity, having spent all those years surrounded by four walls & pple staring, in solitude.
sohui doesn't usually use much of her abilities. in fact, she passes for a human very easily, because of her lack of inclination to actually use her powers to do anything. but at the same time, due to her naivety--she is impressionable, and thus viable to be swayed as and how someone who earns her affection / concern would like to direct it.
plot ideas:
sohui learning abt well. the world : introduce her to the more modern things, bear witness to sheer or moderate clownery of her taking a fork and using it to bun her hair, or things like that etc.
frenemies, enemies, people who wanna mislead her into the way of da evil: for an imugi that has years of a grudge against humans, and is impressionable, she's honestly a good target for anyone who wishes to cause some havoc...considering that she's able to change the weather, fly and control water at will as an old old imugi anyway
friends? friends that are using her? pple who like her naivety or get annoyed by it?: listen, i like angst and i'm open to everything and anything so if there are ideas pls chuck them my way!
faes, vampires, werewolves, humans, hunters: while sohui is wary, that inherent thought that everyone is good often overrides that wary aspect of hers due to her languid nature. which..can cause for some issues because her perception is blinded by her desire to see the good in others.
bathing clownery: hv u seen legend of the blue sea? or cdramas where someone accidentally walks into a lady bathing? yep that's sohui, who hasn't gotten used to using showers and bathes in rivers close to nature.
general angst, romance, platonic or romantic, or even soulmates: gimme all ideas, angst, pain love, heartbreak, everything. maybe u remind her of the man she loved 50 years too late, and it's so fucking complicated because well. technically. his family betrayed her so what can she say :)) oooor you're someone from that family that captured her and u heard of her...escape. come to take her back? have her sell her heart in love and break it again? just ideas :") but feel free to chuck everything and anything our way!!
more that i haven't thought of. yet.
thank you for reaching the end of this looong ass intro and god i am sorry its so long TOT
