・ ˖ ✦ ⋄ . HELLS TASK 001 : family tree.
❝ a figure in the distance, a movie reel of old pictures. ❞
OH EUNJUNG ( b. august 23, 1976 – december 19, 1997 : moon ga young ) was born in jeju island. an only child whose culinary interest was honed into an expertise by a great-aunt from the bustling city of seoul, whose death had left her to fend for herself in her later teenage years. she was twenty when she first met her husband,GUN DONGYUL ( b. october 15, 1971 – december 19, 1999 : lee minho ) in the same restaurant that she worked at.
although short, the life that eunjung & dongyul lived together was clouded in mystery and ... fear, if the village’s old fortune teller would say honestly. it is said that they had messed with something sacred, an occult or an evil being that chased after them all the way to the island where they subjected the other villagers to it. ❝ they’re cursed, ❞ people would whisper ... and there was nothing that could be done to help them. ❝ and their daughter? oh, they brought her here to this world as a vessel to that evil that they’ve brought upon us. ❞
it’s not real — but minji knows that something has been following her for her entire life : it’s not some demonic presence that one would easily imagine ( a figure of a humanoid with horns & a tail & hot-red skin ) but its a series of voices ... one after the other, all of whom belong to her peers and all of whom sneered at her viciously.
it follows her back whenVALERIE MENDOZA ( b. january 6, 1978 – ?? : judy ann santos ) and her then-husband, STEPHEN SINCLAIR ( b. july 17, 1976 – ?? : ioan gruffudd ) brought her home to minneapolis, minnesota. valerie is the traditional filipino mother — she stands at a mere 5′0″ but she is the type of woman who can move mountains for her children, she has a glare that leaves you wanting to scurry off but her heart is big enough to have unconditional love for kids that cause havoc. she is and, minji believes, remain to be unmatched. her husband, minji’s foster father, later in the future, maintains her career as his own profession.
on december 19, 2001, minji – having been renamed winona – meets her younger sister, REGINA SINCLAIR( b. may 29, 2000 – ?? : paris berelc ), who she grows up to affectionately call reggie. the younger is incredibly keen but she’s strong, a fierce little thing that will fight anything. reggie was never shy of letting others know how and what she felt — and every day would end with her peeking her head in minji’s room with an ❝ i love you, wins. good night! ❞
CHELSEA GLENN ( b. november 15, 1993 – ?? : laura harrier ) has a curiosity that minji had become a victim to. if there was something new that she wanted to try? she made a beeline towards the younger, hook her arm in hers and drag her away for hours on end. it is thanks to her that minji learned how to play an instrument, a constant figure of her music. her videos are often littered with chelsea’s appearances, sometimes singing with her.
on december 19, 2007, PHILLIP MENDOZA-SINCLAIR ( b. june 15, 1993 – ?? : steven r. mcqueen ) is fourteen years old and he’s a nightmare that minji can’t seem to wake up from. they say that older brothers could be mean : lip would tease her, pull her hair, take her things and destroy them. unkind, ruthless — she didn’t like him, not a bit. but he was her brother and she was convinced that it would change. prayers that consisted of asking god to make her brother a nicer boy, a less violent boy or give her a better understanding of him... but it never did.
where are they now? did they survive? could they have survived? — all of these are good questions to ask. minji gun, however, has stopped asking it at the first second. her thoughts often do not include any of these family members. she has nothing to remember them by. perhaps a rosary ... but that is gone, too. lost. meaningless in a world like this one. it is no longer one of her worries.
