YIPEE!! bonjour hi friends, i'm sylvie and i am super excited to be here and plot with you all :^) under the cut is a tl;dr of my muse, bitna (obligatory profile link here). please give this a like if you're open to plotting and i'll get back to you asap!
byeon bitna, 29 y/o, 96 liner.
is a virgo. you can tell. a clinically diagnosed perfectionist, remembers every little thing, and has a nasty habit of looking down her nose at pretty much everyone. has an insatiable need to be (and feel) useful - the alternative is unthinkable. seriously, ew.
type of girl to say ACKTHUALLY non-ironically. sorry not sorry. she's trying to be better but also she's probably right because she's read the prevailing literature on this before. have you?
on the other hand, is extremely passionate, exceedingly generous, and loyal as a dog. honestly ferocious about who and what she cares for. will even (gasp) break the rules for them. just please don't tell.
some would call that overcompensating! some.
due to aforementioned virgoisms, was a huge loser/loner growing up. not helped at all by the nouveau-riche hunger emanating off her parents in waves. at least that's what her classmates told her (in not as complex terms) when she started at the exclusive elementary they put her in to "fit in". rinse and repeat throughout her formative schooling years. developed various survival mechanisms to claw her way out of it, but yeah, it kind of sort of hurt really bad.
through skill (NOT luck, be for real) she was hired out of law school for a chaebol trading company. hated it. had a nervous breakdown (hereby The Incident). no one but her mom cared, but even that well ran dry after a while. certainly the calls did.
has been at seomri for about 5 months, arrived almost directly after The Incident. ostensibly it was to take a break, but that excuse flew out the window after the third week and the accompanying quiet resignation letter to her company.
lives in her grandmother's semi-dilapidated home. is trying to modernize it in a japandi style (great for the summer renters!). does not have the aesthetics nor the skillset for it. do Not tell her otherwise - she already knows.
is the secretary to the mayor out of sheer boredom; spends most of her time picking up his drycleaning and confirming his personal appointments. otherwise kind of keeps to herself unless it's specifically for house supplies, trying to get the library to stock books from the 21st century, or getting a real meal at any food establishment after a week of slumming it with her home cooking.
relevant plot/connections info:
not a seomri native, but her mother's side of the family is. spent sporadic amounts of time throughout her childhood here until her grandmother's death when she was nineteen. hasn't been back since the funeral - until now! open to some fairweather childhood friends, people close to her grandma, people she tangentially knows because their parents were friends.
anyone want to be her unwilling contact to help her out with her home reno??? no??? well you're in luck!
is she moving too slow on her vespa? well technically she's driving the speed limit so sue her. also no she doesn't look stupid in her full safety gear - she looks safe. that's the point.
can you please stop renting out the same library book for months on end? that shouldn't even be policy.
honestly she's a nosy extrovert the meet-cutes or meet-not-cutes are endless.