what’s up, everyone! it’s ya girl luna (suji/jaein mun) here with another third muse because yes... i have absolutely no self control!!! this is selene’s youngest, lead vocalist and rapper jung hyojung! though she’s mostly active as an actress outside of her group. call me beep me on d*scord if you want to plot (ask and you shall receive!) or just bug me first through my im’s. you can also just like this post and i’ll come hopping to you! alright, let’s get into this ridiculously long intro!
BACKGROUND
born into a really normal family. dad’s a govt civil worker, mom’s a high school history teacher and her older brother just exists. loving family, they loved having a daughter after a son. her mom’s a history nerd so she names hyojung after a princess and all that jazz. i think that paints her fam pretty well. also, her name is the same backwards as well, and that’s probably how she introduced herself when she first debuted
tw terminal illness mother unfortunately dies from breast cancer around the time hyojung’s six. it’s devastating for the whole family, but hyojung’s dad manages to pull his weight and raise his two kids well as a single father! end of tw
her love for music comes quite early. her dad was always a musician yknow strumming his guitar at home, and her older brother took after him in that sense. hyojung wasn’t as talented in instruments (other than the bass guitar which her brother started and then quit in which she took over) and she mostly took after her mom in having a lovely voice. family music sessions soon became a regular thing, and it all led to her asking to be enrolled at a vocal academy as a hobby
becoming an idol, on the other hand, sort of comes out of the blue for her. gold star media ended up holding in-house auditions at her vocal academy, she tries out and then gets accepted! trains for 9 months and then debuts!!
CAREER.
when she first debuts, she’s given a very standard maknae image to uphold. a little brighter than usual, meant to be cute and sort of childish. it’s not that difficult because she is sixteen, and that’s sort of natural for a sixteen year-old. while it wasn’t completely who she was, putting on a more smiley persona for the cameras wasn’t all that difficult
it only starts getting difficult when she starts growing up. debuting so young, she ends up having to grow up in the eyes of the public and her fans. slowly, she starts to subdue and sit back a little. basically, she settles back to her true personality. she likes to be in the background, stays quiet when she can and just naturally enjoys not being the center of attention
unfortunately, what this results into is people claiming that fame has changed her. a weird claim to make because selene pretty much debuted into fame right away, but that doesn’t really stop antis or the general public or some odd fans from saying that the fame has gotten to her head
it’s a gradual change though and not as dramatic or drastic as some people claim it to be. hyojung simply grew up and matured like any young teenager would but people can’t seem to accept that
the claims only get worse when she gets her first drama role. love in the moolight does quite well and people start recognizing hyojung beyond her own group. this is when ~actress disease~ also starts getting thrown around when talking about hyojung. it’s not a widespread hate train or whatever, but there may be some ex-fans and dedicated general kpop fans who like to say that she’s become different after becoming an actress
she purposely has no big career moves in 2017 because that would have been selene’s contract renewal year. hyojung’s only 23 at this point so she re-signs without thinking through it too much. this life is all she’s really known and she doesn’t know who she is if she’s not selene’s hyojung. the one thing she negotiates is a little more individual activities and freedom in choosing roles
she starts getting to do more. does 2 more modern day dramas that kind of don’t do too well and then the red sleeve happens. this is totally recent, but the drama did super well and definitely boosted her popularity up as well. despite only being her second historical drama, she’s gotten labeled as a historical princess because those are the only dramas of her’s that people remember in the first place...
anyway now she’s sort of stuck in this limbo of like.. trying to find herself twelve years into her career. she doesn’t really know who she is because of the molds that she’s been put into. in the beginning of her career, she was supposed to be the bright and cute maknae. now that she started acting, she’s supposed to be this romantic female lead that people fall in love with. the latter is a lot closer to her usual subdued personality, but that doesn’t mean that it’s 100% her yknow all that jazz
PERSONALITY
i feel like her personalty is... hard to describe. she’s a little softer and less headstrong compared to suji and jaein, but there’s things that she’s passionate about that she won’t back down on?? so she’s like any typical human being, but it’s hard to explain that in words so i’m gonna try to explain it through some specific headcanons/situations and how hyojung would respond
i know selene’s the most senior group in this rp, but hyojung does not know how to act like a senior lol she grew up as the baby of her home and then was the youngest in selene so she’s much more comfortable interacting with people who are older than her. she’s not sure how to respond when juniors come up to her and tell her that selene is their role model like... good for you?
and it’s not that she doesn’t care... she just genuinely does not know what to say to that in response other than a polite thank you so yeah, i don’t think she’ll make a great personal role model. might even disappoint some fans because she seems haughty or cocky when really, she’s just kind of awkward
the type of person who can comfortably sit in silence even with others around her. she doesn’t find that awkward, but she won’t... flat out ignore anybody around her either. she does polite talk and small talk pretty well, but that’s mostly because of her developed social skills as an idol. if she could, she’d sit in complete silence and just embrace it
this was mentioned back in the career section, but she’s one of those idols who doesn’t know how to be anything but an idol if that makes sense?? it all comes from debuting young and this being the only thing she’s been doing so far in her life. while she got to shed off the maknae image, there’s still a very idol hyojung persona. except, that’s sort of all that exists for her. hyojung doesn’t know who she’d be if she wasn’t an idol (it’s what pushed her to re-sign too), and she’s not sure how to be a ~regular~ person. again, she’s going through a mid-life crisis this far into her career












