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Misuk is 5'5" (165 cm) and about average weight for her height. She often keeps her hair it's natural black, though she'll sometimes dye it to a slightly lighter brown. She tried blonde one time, and it fried her hair so much and faded so quickly she ended up giving herself a buzzcut to start her second year of middle school, getting in trouble with both her parents and her school. Her skin tends to tan somewhat easily, but she doesn't really mind too much. She has her ear lobes pierced once, and no tattoos, though she's not against them, just hasn't decided exactly if she wants any yet.

Her preferred style is comfortable while still being stylish, and doesn't favor tomboy or feminine styles more but rather has a mix of both.

Misuk is generally calm and restrained, very seldomly seeming to lose her cool on the surface, despite how she is feeling on the inside. She is rarely shy to meet others, but she is quiet a lot of the time and enjoys the quiet. She is very good at calming a crowd and turning what may be colloquially known as "rabid fans" into calmer, more respectable ones. She takes pride in her photography, and has enjoyed photography since elementary school. She enjoys helping and mentoring others, and did mentoring in college and enjoyed it.

She was running the most popular Yuseong-but-mainly-Taehoon fan blog and through that also learned to enjoy coding and Photoshop, though initially it was the bane of her existence. In online spaces, she is very outspoken, though she keeps her queer fan spaces separate from the fan blog, not out of shame, but safety. She was sad to leave the main fan spaces to start her job, but she does still occasionally check in on the queer fan spaces.

She is terrified she'll be disowned if her parents found out she was gay. Before he married her step-mom, her father may have been okay to tell, but with how religious her step-mom is, and the feeling of resentment she always got from her father, she has always worried he would be convinced to disown her, so she doesn't want to tell her family her sexuality until she's sure she can make it on her own.

MOTHER
Name: Park Myungsuk (박명숙)
Birth Year: 1955 (Died 1998)
Occupation: N/A
Feelings Toward: Neutral - Misuk never knew her mother, so she can't really miss someone she never knew. She used to often find herself wishing her mom were still around though.

FATHER
Name: Kim Youngchul (김영철)
Birth Year: July 1953
Occupation: Retired school principal
Feelings Toward: She respects him, but in the slightly fearful way. He's never done anything to hurt her or even neglect, but Misuk never felt like he was on her side. He would lecture her and talk about saving face among his coworkers if she did even remotely bad in school, so she developed intense study habits.


STEP-MOTHER
Name: Jeon Hyejin
Birth Year: December 1980
Occupation: Teacher at a Christian Private School
Feelings Toward: Doesn't like her - she's nearly as young as her older brother, and while not abusive, she always seemed to favor and praise her blood-related children over Misuk. Misuk also resents that Hyejin convinced her dad to convert to Christianity and forced the family to go to church every Sunday.

OLDER BROTHER
Name: Kim Seokmin
Birth Year: October 1981
Occupation: College Professor at Yonsei University
Feelings Toward: Like her mother, Misuk feels like she can't have feelings towards someone she doesn't know. By the time she was born, her brother was already 18, and had never lived in the house to her memory. He probably still talks to their dad, but there are times she only remembers his name because it's so similar to hers.

YOUNGER STEP-SISTER
Name: Park Yujin
Birth Year: June 2003
Occupation: Preschool Teacher
Feelings Toward: Neutral to dislike. They just never had anything in common, even the bands they liked were completely different. Misuk was often forced to babysit her when they were younger.

YOUNGER HALF-BROTHER
Name: Kim Seokjin
Birth Year: January 2009
Occupation: High school junior
Feelings Toward: Her only positive relationship in the family. Her baby brother is her baby brother at the end of the day, even though he's no longer a baby. His birth was the first time she really felt like there was maybe a connection to her again in the immediate family. They have absolutely nothing in common, but he does seem to like talking with her, as sometimes if she doesn't reach out to him for a while, he'll contact her to chat. He likes J.B.N. and biases Anya.

Misuk's life started out rough, as soon after she was born, her mother died from hemorrhaging. She's not convinced her dad ever forgave her for taking away the love of his life, even after he got remarried when she was about 9. She has an older brother, at least in pictures and theoretically, but she doesn't actually remember any of their interactions. Her brother moved out for college, and then his military service, and then started working and got married and Misuk doesn't think she's seen him since she was around three or four years old at most.

Growing up, Misuk did well in school, partially because her father expected her to, and if she even remotely did bad on a test, she would get a lecture about making him look bad in his work circles. After all, if his own daughter couldn't do well, how was he supposed to lead and teach others? She hated those lectures, because it only served to make her feel worse, so she got into the habit of studying extreme amounts growing up, which she only lessened when she got into college and there was less pressure from her family to do well.

When she was just past 9, her dad got remarried to a much younger woman who brought her own daughter into the family as well. Even though they were somewhat close in age, Misuk and her new step-sister, Yujin could not get along. It wasn't long until they welcomed another sibling, though, and Misuk felt like she connected much better with her baby brother than she ever had with her older brother or step-sister. Misuk still feels closest to her baby brother out of anyone in the family.

Another problem was her new step-mom forced them to go to church every Sunday, and Misuk found it boring on the best days, but her father ended up converting and she really felt like she lost him then, before she had even realized she was probably feeling that way because she was queer.

She was 16 when she had her first crush, and didn't know what to do about it. It was also around this time that she was really getting into KPop, and she was watching a radio show while home alone, and got the nerve to try to get through to the fan call. She told them how she had a crush on one of her female classmates, and while most responses hurt to hear or were neutral at best, one answer really stuck out to her - Taehoon, telling her to be herself, and be responsible about the feelings and be sure to communicate and make sure everyone stayed safe. She decided that day she was going to be Taehoon's fan. Since then, she made a name for herself in fandom spaces, especially for her excellent photography, and for a long time before being hired at the company, had a fairly casual fan relationship with Taehoon, where she knew he recognized her, which even after the "magic spell" was broken and she now works at the company, she still cherishes that feeling.

When she was accepted into one of the SKY colleges her dad finally let up on her grades, which by this point were never below excellent anyway, (Seoul, Korea, and Yonsei University are the top universities in Korea, and referred to as the SKY colleges), and Misuk was able to loosen up her rigorous study habits for the first time in her memory. She met Thomas in one of the class she shared with him as well as Qiwang, and ended up helping Thomas wrangle the more unruly fans to let Qiwang study in peace. She and Thomas got to talking, and soon became friends. Although she agreed with her dad to take education courses, she had no interest in becoming a teacher, so she was thankful for the out when she was hired by Dreams Entertainment. Because of frequent group projects, Misuk found herself at Thomas and Remi's apartment and got to know both of them, though she has always been closer to Thomas.

She had heard about Thomas and Remi moving, and reached out to Thomas to see if he was willing to add another person to the mix. After they agreed, she was thankful for the opportunity to leave her parent's home and be on her own.

Hello! My name is Redeim!
I was born in 1989.
My pronouns are he/him.
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