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There's a scene in 'Exhuma' which is cool to see similarities between Asia cultures regarding supernatural curses / grudge.

Burying a deceased in a coffin where its standing rather than flat is to birth a curse within the family & outsider.

My understanding is, bury a coffin standing is to place a curse (because the dead is not laid to rest), however if the coffin is unearthed and broken.

Berlioz Baek ✦ Berlioz ✦ Lee Do-hyun ✦ The Aristocats

KILL THE CHAOS, FIND THE BALANCE

CURRENT AGE: thirty one

SPECIES: human

OCCUPATION: composer and pianist.

AVAILABILITY: open

AROUND WE GO, BERLIOZ BAEK

berlioz baek learned early that silence could be as commanding as sound. as the eldest child of dana “duchess” baek, he was raised in a world where presence mattered... where a glance could shift power, where restraint was often more effective than excess. while the world watched his mother shape fashion into something near-magical, berlioz was watching something else entirely: the spaces between her words, the discipline behind her perfection, the cost of always being composed. he absorbed it all, internalizing the quiet expectation that he, too, would become something extraordinary... not loudly, but undeniably. music was never a choice so much as it was a necessity. the piano became his language long before he found ease in conversation, a place where he could express the emotions he had been taught to temper. what began as structure: scales, repetition, precision, evolved into something far more complex. now a world-renowned composer and pianist, berlioz is known for work that feels almost surgical in its construction, each piece meticulously layered yet emotionally devastating. critics describe his compositions as restrained until they are not, moments of control unraveling into something raw and consuming. his performances are similarly captivating: still, deliberate, almost distant... until the music takes over, revealing something far more vulnerable beneath the surface. there is an unmistakable gravity to berlioz, the kind that comes with being the eldest in a family built on intensity. he carries responsibility like a second skin, often stepping into roles that were never explicitly asked of him. for his siblings, he has always been a quiet constant. the one who shows up, who steadies, who listens. for his mother, he is both her greatest pride and the one who understands her most intimately, though neither of them would ever say it aloud. their relationship exists in a space of mutual recognition: two people who built themselves carefully, aware of exactly what was sacrificed in the process. in his personal life, berlioz is careful, almost to a fault. he loves deeply, but in ways that are measured, intentional. offering presence rather than spectacle, loyalty rather than grand gestures. there is a part of him that fears the chaos he witnessed growing up, the fleeting nature of love that defined so much of his mother’s life. and yet, that same intensity exists within him, buried beneath layers of control. when it surfaces, it is all-consuming. if dana baek is the architect of image and reinvention, berlioz is the architect of feeling. building worlds out of sound, holding emotions others cannot name, and carrying the quiet weight of being the one who never falls apart, even when he wants to.

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