why, hello all !! i’m a bit late, aren’t i....but that’s okay, i come bearing a gift !! he’s a muse i’ve brought on impulse, but i couldn’t be happier to be apart of the first wave of wonderful muns here !! anyways, my name is pandora (she/her, est, 19) and this is my kid, kwon iseul !! he’s 20, a nosy journalist, and trying to get all the info about the shady happenings at project cafe !! i’m so excited and intend on developing him further as the rp progresses, but for now you can check out his plots here, profile here, and tidbits under the cut !! hey, it’s only 14 of us here - might as well get acquainted, right ?? well then, if iseul rings you or your muse’s bell feel free to like this for plotting (i’ll im you!) or hit me up on d!scord at binu, binu !!#2500 !! until then, happy roleplaying & i hope to see you soon !!
from icheon, south korea!! i-c-h-e-o-n, not incheon, don’t get it confused !! much smaller city, but he loves his hometown a lot & you’ll always find him repping it !
born kang iseul, but had his name legally changed to kwon iseul for reasons i’ll explain a little further down! (pls forgive me and i slip up & call him kang now they’re so similar!!)
his dad was a gang lord around icheon which was kind of rare, but they worked more underground ? so most citizens knew he was involved in shady business but not exactly what, but those in the gang scene definitely know him !
his dad met his mom through a business deal, he was supposed to collect money the gang had loaned her family but found her v pretty !
child abuse & abuse tw - begin!
his dad settled down & married his mom for a while, until his bad habits started resurfacing. they had 1 kid, jihun, but things didn’t really get bad until iseul was born ! his dad was angry they had another kid because though she was a family person, to him 1 kid was enough and he started becoming abusive to the kids & her ! things only got worse when they had yet another kid,
which is why the oldest jihun, chid/iseul’s brother was always so protective & tough - he’d been through it the longest & didn’t want his younger siblings to get hurt.
but not all things in his childhood were bad ! his mother was super loving to them all, and she was who supported his dream to be a writer after finding his journal with all his poems & stories in it ! which is why he really wants to be one now~
death tw - begin!
flashforward though, to right when his mother was pregnant with the youngest child and only daughter, jieun ! she didn’t want to tell him, but eventually he found out and got very angry. he flew into a rage at home & things got so bad that 14-year-old jihun had to step in, but when he did his dad was mid-punch & the impact was much harder than anticipated. jihun had to get sent to the hospital, but he died because of internal bleeding.
this shook the entire family. his dad fled & iseul hasn’t seen him since, but no one wantd to call the police because he’s well respected in the gang & the family would risk getting hurt. so his mom was forced to handle things on her own & when her daughter was born she named her jieun, similar to jihun, honoring the fact that he sacrificed his life to save his mom & baby sister’s.
this is when iseul developed ptsd, after witnessing his brother’s death & constant abuse of himself & his family by his dad.
death, abuse, & child abuse tw - end!
but this is also when he got so invested in ridding seoul of their gangs & bad people. he hated how easily his father got away w/the crime & wanted to end it ! but he’s never wanted to turn out like his father, so instead of resorting to violence he used the power of his writing by exposing all their activities !
also, he’s changed his name legally to kwon for 2 reasons - his mother’s given name is kwon, and when she legally changed it back they all did bc they didn’t want to be related to such a bad figure. the 2nd is his stepdad’s last name is kwon & though he’s not legally adopted by him yet, he sees him as far more of a father figure !
anyways - time skip ! isuel’s now a sophomore at snu, majoring in communications, minoring in journalism, and working as a journalist ! he makes near no money, sigh.... but that’s alright ! he’s doing what he wants, and hopes things will look up !
sidenote he has VERY bad vision due to the hours spent staring at screens...so he wears glasses nearly 24/7 ! he hates the feeling of contacts & he’s so used to glasses !
but here’s the real drama !! he has an exposé blog, written in the stars, where he writes under the pen name pluto ! he’s very disliked by gangs & such because he tries to get info on them & take them down, & has gotten very close to getting caught as the one behind the blog many times !
originally he went to project coffee because it was the closest place & had a nice atmosphere, but after staying a while he thinks things are....fishy. he hopes to find out what’s going on behind the scenes, so gang muses beware !
he’s not telling anyone (unless by accident or he reeeally trusts you) that he writes written in the stars so !! for now you can find him at the cafe a lot of the time, peeking at everyone and trying to see what’s going on !
i think that’s all i’ll say for now, i want to leave some things to be discovered at all ! but yeeeah....that’s it ! heart heart.
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Hey all, so it’s Alex again this time bring you my little angry chihuahua Lucky. It’s been a hot minute since I last wrote him and I’ve made a couple of changes to make him fit the RP’s premise better so I’m still trying to work out a few of the new details. He’s kind of the worst and I hate him already but he’s also one of my all time favourite muses to write so please come love him. Also if you’re looking for angst, look no further since he’s basically a vessel for all of those plots. As always like this post if you want to plot or anything and I’ll come bother you, or just pop up in my IMs or on Discord!
「 LEE MINHYUK, CISMALE, 26, BRING ME THE HORIZON 」┈ did you read that latest viral gossip issue on JIHUN ‘LUCKY’ PARK? he is the LEAD GUITARIST/BACKING VOCALIST in DAYBREAKER, one of my favorite ALTERNATIVE ROCK groups. they’ve been releasing music for EIGHT YEARS now, but viral gossip has only been talking about them for the last THREE YEARS. get this, i think i heard HE ANONYMOUSLY LEAKS STORIES (INCLUDING OCCASIONAL FAKES) ABOUT HIMSELF TO THE MEDIA IN ORDER TO KEEP HIS BAND RELEVANT. they’re known as the FIREBRAND of the music industry, since they have a rep for being LOYAL but QUICK TEMPERED, but who knows. maybe that will change once they become #1.
TW: Alcohol, Addiction, Traffic Accident, Loss of Limb
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I’ve accidentally written a small novel again, so I’m going to split it down into four key sections. Personality, Personal History, Career History and Other. I’ll also just throw a tl;dr at the top because good grief is this a lot. His plots page is here if anyone is interested, so if something catches your eye please come shout at me!
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tl;dr
Kind of antisocial guitarist in a metalcore turned alt-rock band. Raised in the UK. Punk af. Really short fuse that gets him into a lot of trouble. Sees the music industry as a game and knows how to play. Every move and response is calculated. Plays up to the media perception of him as some sort of villain. Doesn’t really trust people, especially if they’re famous. Super jaded, super bitter, super cynical. Rich parents who were never around. developed a drinking problem after being signed. Involved in a serious traffic accident shortly after third albums release that led to the loss of his left leg. parents paid to bury the story. relocated to america and checked himself into a rehab clinic. first album was a flop. second and third better. fourth blew them up. really doesn’t like where the sound is heading for five, but feels like he owes his band mates so is sticking it out. has a three piece side project that is highly political (27club VC: The Fever 333).
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PERSONALITY:
Firstly, and most importantly, Luck doesn’t like you. Lucky has never liked you, and he probably never will. He might respect you, or even be kind of neutral towards you, but never more than that.
There are very few exceptions to that rule, with the main ones being his bandmates and his siblings.
Has some serious self loathing that he’d never actually admit to.
Lucky considers himself a punk, an activist and a musician. In that order.
Has been describes as a journalist’s wet dream and a lawyers nightmare.
Values authenticity above all else. Both his and other peoples. Despises people who are fake (lol irony) and hates it eve more when other people call him fake.
Calling him a sell out or anything along those lines is probably not a good idea.
His first instinct is that people are only trying to get close to him to take advantage of his success and popularity. Probably because he does exactly the same thing to everyone else.
Loyal to a fault. If by some miracle you make it into his inner circle he’d actually take a bullet for you. He’ll always have your back.
The fact that he is so short tempered causes him so many problems? It doesn’t take much to light the fuse, and when he explodes things tend to get messy.
Which means that a lot of people are kind of scared off? And the ones that aren’t are just as volatile as him.
Absolutely no filter. Lucky will tell you exactly what he’s thinking or what he means with no regards for the consequences or your feelings.
Voted most likely to start a fistfight over something dumb five years in a row. Still holds the title.
Comes across as kind of frosty and callous even when he’s trying not to.
Has a serious problem with people taking advantage of others.
He is painted as kind of a villain type character in the media? But like, the villain you love to hate. I don’t know what the international equivalent is, but I’m thinking sort of like Trent Reznor in the 90s? Kind of plays up to that trope, but he pretty much fits the label without trying.
Does not know what a healthy relationship looks like. Platonic, romantic, even familial: there’s always a catch.
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PERSONAL HISTORY:
Brace yourself for this because my boy has not had a smooth ride.
Jihun was born is Daegu, South Korea but moved to the UK (Specifically Sheffield) before he was old enough to start retaining memories.
The second eldest child of two property tycoons with more time and concern for their business than their family, he was never close to his parents.
Childhood wasn’t exactly unhappy. His grades were decent enough to get by and having seven siblings meant that he was never without company. Despite hiring staff to watch over them, Lucky kind of grew up fast and felt a sort of almost parental responsibilty
As time went on and their parents became more and more distant from him and his siblings, he slowly grew to resent them.
By the time he reached his teenage years, Jihun began to see exactly how his parents did business. Shady backroom deals. Questionable partners. Bullying or bribing their way out of any trouble.
They weren’t exactly good people.
He’d become increasingly jaded, bitter and cynical beyond his years and isolated himself from the few friends he had outside of the family.
He was convinced that they were only trying to get close to him because of his family’s money: After seeing how corrupt his parents were he’d lost a lot of faith in most people.
It was around this time that he also discovered his love of punk rock.
The scene in Sheffield was pretty small, but he instantly connected with the anti-establishment values and aesthetics. He threw himself in head first.
It didn’t take long for him to teach himself guitar (Four chords and the truth) and form the band that would go on to become Daybreaker. [See: Career History]
Though things started off well enough. They played shows, eventually got signed to a new small imprint of Universal and began releasing material.
Over the course of several years however, Lucky got himself involved in some pretty serious stuff. What started as casual drink quickly transformed into a cru to help deal with his new found fame. He developed a serious problem with alcohol.
Between the pressures of effectively raising his family, maintaining a career as a full time musician and trying to fit into a scene that was, he now realise, extremely toxic, he struggled to cope.
The sheer catharsis of punk rock had proved to be an effective coping mechanism, but for Lucky it had already reached its limits and so he sought solace elsewhere.
It reached a point where he was having his stomach pumped on a regular basis.
The turning point came one night in November 2014. Lucky was considerably over the blood-alcohol limit, and shouldn’t have been walking let alone driving.
And yet he found himself behind the wheel of their tour van with a member of their road crew in the passenger seat.
They were involved in a serious collision: a head-on crash with an oncoming truck. Frankly neither of them should have survived, but the passenger escaped with a few broken bones.
Jihun wasn’t quite so fortunate. As well as several broken ribs and a skull fracture, his left leg had to be amputated below the knee. With the aid of a prosthetic was eventually able to walk again, but it was the hardest period of his life.
He didn’t talk to anyone for the first three weeks of his recovery. Just sat there expressionless.
When he’d first come around after the surgery and he was informed of what had happened he was told that he was lucky to be alive, let alone that he would be able to walk again. It was a them that kept resurfacing throughout the recovery process and one that has stuck with him ever since Hence why he goes by Lucky.
Once he was back in the world, something began to bother him. There had been no coverage of the accident despite him being a relatively prominent public figure.
As it turns out, that was his parents doing. They’d paid to get the story buried as well as any and all charges that could have been levelled against him.
They would later claim that this was for the benefit of his career, but Lucky remained fairly certain it was to keep their names away from the bad press.
Since then his relationship with them has been complicated. He still doesn’t approve of their methods, but they also potentially saved his career. And could ruin it at any moment.
Needless to say it proved quite the sobering experience. Lucky knew that he needed to get clean, and so checked himself into a rehab clinic in LA. This was probably the second most difficult period of his life.
He completed the program and decided to relocate to America permanently. Hollywood was probably not the best place for him, but it was a damn sight better than Sheffield.
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CAREER HISTORY:
And now that all the trauma and angst is out of the way, lets talk about angry music.
Lucky’s first band, RedBtn, were awful. I mean truly terrible. Sure they were only 14 at the time, but the bassist could barely play and the vocalist couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket.
Needless to say they were not together for very long. It was long enough to spark a passion for performance in Lucky, and two years later he went on to form the group later known as Daybreaker.
They were marginally better. Gathering a small following in their hometown, their scrappy, rough around the edges take on metalcore was heavier than most other bands on the market.
Something else that set them aside was their aesthetics. It made them almost like black sheep of the scene. They looked too polished to be accepted by the hardcore kids, but sounded far too aggressive for a more mainstream audience.
This was a pattern that would continue until late into their career.
Someone saw something in them though, and it didn’t take long before they were signed to a small imprint of Universal.
Despite having some devoted fans, including Lucky), their first record (A proxy of Count Your Blessings) was almost universally panned. It was a Christmas miracle that they weren't immediately dropped.
By the time the second album (A proxy of Suicide Season) came around they were widely regarded as posers and dismissed by the rock community at large.
It was around this time that Lucky realized that the music industry was one big game, and in order to get anywhere they’d need to learn how to play.
From that moment on every action and potential response was calculated with a ruthless efficiency.
Every friendship, relationship, public appearance, quote, photograph. Everything was optimized to increase their presence and make them more visible.
And so Lucky decided that the best way to get more eyes on them was to cause controversy. As the defacto spokesperson he started showing a more confrontational side to the press, calling out critics and fans alike.
He would leak stories about himself anonymously.
Eventually he would take this characterization t the extreme. He has been pictured in physical altercations as well as the subject of a defamation suit all to keep their brand relevant.
The media began to paint them as villains: a band turning on their own scene with no regard for their peers or their fanbase.
He’d taken complete control of the narrative, and they were eating out of the palm of his hand.
It tended to divide people. You either loved Lucky, or you hated him.
It definitely worked though. The album received (Admittedly still muted) praise and secured their future for at least one ore album cycle.
It was during the production of their third album (A proxy for the one with the stupidly long title) that Lucky went through his dark phase. The rest of the band remained mostly sober whilst he struggled.
He doesn’t remember much of the recording process and doesn’t really know the songs. If they ever slip one into the setlist, he has to go back and re learn it.
This was also the point in time where his relationship with the press began to sour. Whereas he had previously tried to pull attention towards him, at this point he hated the invasiveness.
They began reporting that he may have had a problem, and he furiously denied it, going so far as to issue take down notices and cease and desist orders.
Of course it only served to boost their infamy, and the album was their first to be widely lauded. They were on their way to major league success.
And then, one night in the middle of a November UK tour, the accident happened.
The tour was cancelled due to a ‘family emergency’ and the band went into a media blackout. Despite his insistence that they simply replace him and carry on, they waited until he had recovered before emerging into the spotlight once more.
After Lucky decided to permanently relocate to the US he was sure that, as much as he’d valued his time with the band, their time together was over. Imagine his shock then, when some of them decided to follow him.
Shortly after completing rehab, Lucky locked himself away in the studio, working on what would later be dubbed the crown jewel of their discography (A proxy for Sempiternal). The album detailed a lot of his struggles in a very coded way.
With lost time to make up for, Lucky returned to the character of the music industry’s cartoon super villain. He once again began leaking stories about himself to the press anonymously, fabricating many of the details.
There were certain topics that remained off limits. The accident. His addiction. His stint in rehab. Anything and everything else was fair game.
The record relaunched them into public consciousness in a bigger way than ever before.
Currently the band are at work on their fifth album (A proxy of That’s The Spirit) which is shaping up to become an even more commercial sounding album.
Lucky isn’t entirely on board. In fact he hates it, and considers it to be selling out their core values. But at the same time, he feels an obligation to see it out.
His bandmates had risked their careers and stuck their necks on the line for him: who was he to throw that away because a guitar tone isn’t distorted enough
Because of this, Lucky decided to put together a side project. A supergroup of sorts (Although if he were to hear you call it that he’d seriously kick off.). A three piece punk rock band, 27club are a super high energy, extremely political group combining straight up hardcore with rap influences (VC: The Fever 333) [SIDEBAR: If y’all haven’t listened to letlive or The Fever 333 and you like rock music you're missing out. Jason Butler is the best singer of this generation Change my mind.]
Daybreaker will always take priority, but this gives him an outlet for angrier music, as well as a place to air his political leanings outside of interviews.
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OTHER:
Strong sense of social justice and regularly exercises that. Has a tendency of taking his activism a step too far.
Considers himself bisexual, but has never officially labelled it. Has been in public ‘relationships’ with both male and female partners
Has a boat load of tattoo, including the straight edge x’s on the backs of his hands
Vegan.
Rides a motorcycle which he loves more than he would his first born child.
Has three dogs. Two Pomeranians named Rollins and MacKaye, and a Boxer named Atticus
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