#decipherv

CHARACTER INFORMATION

faceclaim: 2pm’s lee junho

legal name: hwang yejun

stage name: jun

pronouns: him/he

birth date: january 25th, 1992

hometown: south korea, ilsan

position: main vocal of decipher

claims: 

2012 / to the beautiful you / u  ♫

2016 / marriage contract / to you again ♫

2016-2017 / hwarang / the divine move ♫

2017 / because thsi is my first life / this life ♫

2018 / gangnam beauty / always you ♫

2018-2019 / sky castle / it has to be you ♫

2019 / vagabond / vagabond ♫

2020 / 18 again / moments make memories ♫

2020/2021 / true beauty / fall in you ♫

BIOGRAPHY

triggers: death

son yejun was raised by his grandmother, she passed away right before his debut and he almost dropped out of being a trainee despite having been there for so long, but he decided to stay at bc and debut- his grandmother had always wanted to see him perform on stage and that was what pushed him to debut and now he wouldn't trade it for the world - each time he stands on stage he feels like she's watching him.

he had always been a singer, ever since he was little - performed at multiple different contests and his grandmother was his biggest supporter -- in elementary and middle school he played multiple different sports but didn't find the one for him. then in middle school ( 2004 )  he auditioned for bc and got signed at the age of 13, despite the fact that his family's economic situation was what it was -- never having taking singing or dancing lessons. he got accepted despite that, a diamond in the rough; a charming face and a solid voice. all he needed was training in dancing and singing.

thankfully that wasn't hard for him to learn dancing, he put all of his efforts into practicing dance and it paid off-- if he was in any other group he might have been considered a lead dancer.

while in high school he had a few girlfriends ( and some male relationships that crossed some boundaries ) --  though only one of his relationship while in high school held any significance... it didn’t last, there was something missing and when his grandmother passed, he also felt that it wasn’t the right time for him to be in love. for his three years in high school, he never considered himself to be "in love" though he was sure, the ones that he dated felt love for him but yejun had always been the one to break up with the ones he might have dated.

CHARACTER INFORMATION

faceclaim: lee hoseok (wonho), soloist

legal name: lee jongho

stage name: LJ

pronouns: he/him

birth date: october 31st, 1993

hometown: seoul, south korea

position: maknae, main dancer, vocal of decipher

claims: - hit the stage season 1 - supporting role in the webdrama ‘wednesday 3:30′ as yang taekyung, may 31st - june 14th, 2017 - supporting role in ‘my id is gangnam beauty’ as seo yoojin, july 27th - september 18th, 2018 - lead role in ‘18 again’ as (young) hong daeyoung / go wooyoung, september 21st - november 10th, 2020

BIOGRAPHY

triggers: domestic violence, infidelity, depression, anxiety, self hate, body shaming, toxic relationships.

violence is something that was introduced to jongho at a very young age. his parents, while they never laid a hand on him other than to give him a hug, didn’t extend the same courtesy unto each other. despite claiming to be in love with one another, their spats and arguments were lethal around the lee household. one of jongho’s earliest memories was sitting in the middle of the living room floor, surrounded by his toys with his younger sibling in their playpen just a few feet away from him. he was just in the process of dangling one of his teddy bears over his sibling’s head when he heard the sound of breaking glass and two voices shouting at each other. there was a loud thump and the a yelp before the arguing got even louder, to the point of his sibling breaking out into tears.

up until that point he had been too scared and stunned into silence to do anything, but the sound of his sibling crying made him move into action. as quick as his little five year old legs could move, he was hoisting himself up and into their playpen, laying down next to them and wrapping a protective arm around them, as if he could protect them from the yelling going on in the next room. that was a position that they would find themselves taking several times over the next few years.

to those on the outside looking in, the lee family was admired and respected. coming from a long line of money dating back several generations on both sides, jongho’s parents didn’t marry each other for love. despite it being the modern age, the two of them were betrothed to one another by their two families from a young age. in order to keep their wealth and help it grow, their families, who have been friendly for several generations, decided that the two of them would be the perfect couple to continue on their legacy. unfortunately the two of them didn’t get along, and never learned how to despite having three children with one another. the third and final child came when jongho was eight years old, and by then, even at his young age, he had accepted that was just how relationships were. couples fought and argued, and sometimes things would get aggressive and violent. that was just how things were.

having seeing how his parents treated one another over the years definitely had some kind of harsh effect on him. he hated arguments of any kind, between his parents or anyone else, and would always act as a buffer for people who were going back and forth with one another. he hated seeing people fight, it filled him with that dreadful, anxious feeling that he had whenever his parents got into fights. his home life was a constant source of stress for him.

he loved his parents more than anything, but they never seemed to understand that their behavior was having a negative effect not only on him, but on his younger siblings as well. it had gotten to the point where he tried to stay away from home for as long as possible. he would leave for school early in the morning, hang out with friends afterwards, do his homework at a cafe and sit around in the cafe until they either closed or until an employee or a manager kicked him out, then he would finally go home.

it was around the age of eleven that he found something that could occupy his time; dancing. at first the dance classes he signed up for was just an excuse to not be at home. three hours after school everyday and three hours on saturdays? it was almost too good to be true. but it wasn’t until a few months into it that he realized that he actually liked dancing. like really, really liked dancing. and he was a natural at it too. he liked dancing because not only was it fun to do, but it got him the praise and attention he didn’t feel like he got much of back at home. with his father working most of the time and his mother either out with the other wealthy mothers or drowning her sorrows in glasses of wine during the day, that validation that most children needed was left unattended to.

he was just thirteen years old when he decided that he wanted to audition for bc entertainment. his decision was all thanks to an idol group that he’d seen promoting early one morning on a music show, and he was enamored from the moment they stepped on the stage. they looked so cool and confident, but most of all, they were loved. people loved them, they cheered for them and chanted their names. jongho wanted that so badly, he would have done anything to have it. it didn’t take much convincing from his parents to let him audition. his father was too busy to really care, and his mother.. well, she was too drunk to really notice that he was gone for most of the day, so she definitely wouldn’t care that much.

his dancing was his saving grace during his audition. they offered him a position as a trainee, which he happily accepted and afterwards his parents signed all the paperwork to seal the deal. training was, for lack of a better word, intense. and it wasn’t the dancing part of it, no, jongho had long since gotten used to how tiring and physically demanding dancing could be. no, it was the singing aspect of it all. jongho didn’t have a natural singing voice. he never sang before in his life, and he had a bad ear for music. most of the year spent and a half he spent training was dedicated to helping him find his voice and develop an ear for music and singing. by the time he debuted with decipher, he was still lacking in the vocal department, but the others shined, especially the vocal line, enough to help pick up where he slacked off.

being apart of decipher was everything he could have hoped for. after years of being the one who had to take care of his younger siblings, he was finally the younger sibling that was being taken care of. he enjoyed being the baby of the group, relishing in his status as the maknae and using it to his full advantage whenever the opportunity arose. even though he got a little bit of flack for his vocals, people merely just wrote it off as him being so young. and eventually, he did get better and better until he was more on par with his group members vocally.

it was around 2010 that things started to change again. he began dating a girl, someone from another idol group that was of average popularity. things were great in the beginning, until she started to change. she began to get more and more irritable with him, and more mean as well. she would openly look at other guys and tell him how she wished he looked more like them, how she wished he was more manly, like them. obviously it was a blow to his self esteem. the fact that his own girlfriend was telling him that she preferred how other guys looked was something that continuously nagged at him for weeks and months on end until he decided to do something about. he began working out more, building up more definition on his body. but that wasn’t enough for her, it seemed, because after their third year anniversary, the day after actually, she ended up dumping him.

his second relationship was just as bad, if not worse, as his first. it was rather short lived compared to the first, his time with the second girl only lasting just about a year and a half. this girl was more aggressive than his previous girlfriend. she reminded him of his mother and father and how they used to get into spats with one another. despite his physical appearance, jongho had never been a violent or aggressive person, especially towards people smaller than him, so he just took whatever she flung at him, accepting it because that was how he thought relationships were supposed to be.

the ending of that relationship brought about a new year as well. it was 2017, and decipher were more or less on a hiatus. jongho took that as his opportunity to expand his horizons. music was fun for him, but being a soloist was never something he wanted. he wasn’t that great of a singer, not good enough to be solo that is, and he liked performing with his group members. he didn’t want to experience being onstage without them. he set his sights on something he had never considered before - acting.

he started out small and simple; a supporting role in a web drama. since the web drama didn’t get too much traction, he didn’t really hear any feedback from the public, but he enjoyed it quite a lot. more than he thought he would, which prompted him to try to do it more and more. he went out for another role, this time in an actual drama. and this time, the drama actually did get a bit of traction.

he didn’t get the best reviews, that was for sure. while not necessarily ripping his acting to shreds, they did give him heavy criticisms, which jongho took to heart. he hated being judged harshly and not making people proud. it was almost enough to make him quit acting altogether. almost. while jongho was sensitive, he was stubborn as hell. he wanted to prove to people that he could do it. he could be a good actor. he could make them proud.

so from the end of 2018 and all through 2019, he took acting classes. in between comebacks and schedules for decipher, he squeezed in acting classes, trying to better his skills before he stepped into the world of acting once again.

CHARACTER INFORMATION

faceclaim: Park Seo Joon, Actor

legal name: Kim Tae Jin

stage name: Taejin

pronouns:  his/him

birth date: 02/02/1990

hometown: Seoul, South Korea

position: BC Decipher Leader

claims: Fight my way (2017) - Ko Dong-Man

Parasite 2019 - Kim Ki Woo

To the Beautiful you 2012 - Song Jong Min (supporting)

BIOGRAPHY

triggers:

Born into a world with a golden spoon in his mouth, Taejin did not have any trouble with the life he lived. Where most would say their journey began with hardworking effort, he would say that everything was handed to him. With his mother and father being part of a conglomerate household business known by all the citizens, Taejin knew he was able to get away with almost everything with the help of his parents’ money. From a young age, he would get into trouble with his classmates and have his occasional brush-ins from the law - underage drinking, underage smoking, underage clubbing, and bullying - and each time, it would be swept under the rug with not an utterance from anyone.

By the time his high school finals came around, everyone around him knew that the delinquent was far too caught up in his hedonistic lifestyle to get into college. Knowing that there was no hope, his parents offered him two choices - go abroad and study at a college or go into the entertainment industry. Knowing that he had no future in education, he chose the latter. Swooping into the limelight with minimal training time, he became part of Decipher. Of course, he was mediocre at everything - dancing and vocals, but despite that, his face was enough to make up for it all.

Each time, he would do his best to maintain the image his company wanted for him and each time his past would creep up on him, with threats to reveal his younger scandals, his parents would pay the press off, preventing any issues within the company. Thus, his clean slate landed him the image of a golden boy of BC Entertainment. Despite his womanizing tendencies and his issues with getting caught with other idols, his parents would do the same each time and pay off the press. It was an easy deal and life for Taejin all because of his parents’ money and power.

The wave of fans after his debut was interesting enough, something new to the boy who was sheltered by the lifestyle of the rich. However, once he settled in, he found himself bored again. Everything seemed so meaningless, dressing up on stage, dancing to music he didn’t find passion for. The concept of being an idol seemed cringey, and something definitely not worth flaunting. Then came his big break - a break from promotions. It was obvious that there were no solo promotions for him. After all, he was only a mediocre singer and dancer. Instead, it was suggested to him to start out acting, and that’s when it all clicked.

He put himself into his work, and slowly found himself enjoying the acting scene. It allowed him to play a new character each time, and transform into someone else. Adding on top of that entertainment, it made people take him seriously. He wasn’t just in glamour makeup, wearing clothes he would never wear in real life dancing on stage. Instead, it was a production, on people’s TVs - eliciting raw emotion from everyone watching. He found himself no longer wanting to sing or dance, but instead only act. Struggling to find the balance between being a leader for a group, and wanting to branch out and be his own person, Taejin currently stands conflicted.