#midas:intro

ahaha aye its ya girl, skinny p- its nana! bringing you haute pink's situational explosive girlie, you can really tell when midas music is pushing her too much. but hey, pressure creates diamond right?

kum jules, gemini, vancouver born, seoul raised, only child mother is a sports reporter, father is a football player main dancer and whatever lines midas music gives her third to solo debut, one or two viral moments a year

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tldr;

was pretty big on sports when she was younger, still is but not as much. blames her dad for always playing whatever sport she wanted, but never good enough to go pro.

she never really knew what she wanted to be when she grew up, but once she moved to seoul at the age of nine she met another girl that pretty much insipred her to become an idol.

took a lot of dance lessons because that was the easiest to get her hands on and her parents were extremly supportive of her. jules finally had something she was genuenly interested so her parents did whatever they could to get her to become a trainee.

she focused mainly on ballroom and hiphop, but started branching out as she got more comfortable.

so she worked hard and failed a lot. took her six years to get signed and thena nother seven to debut. extremely hard worker really, she was a ball of sunshine during trainee days despite being stuck in the basement of midas music for years.

things do change.. during the debut documentary, she became a bit too compeditive and not in a healthy way. more so because she trained for so long she knew she had to get a grip and get in the final line up. really she was scared she would fail and maybe actually make it time to retire the idol dream.

so that caught people's attention, that she would speak up and say stuff that sometimes was out of pocket and maybe rude, but hey... the enviroment wasn't the best ya feel. she doesn't really speak about the documentary unless forced to nowadays.

anyway, she has mellowed out infront of cameras and even behind the scenes, no more bark and bite, however she reverts to old habits when put under pressure by midas music or some tension has build up in haute pink.

she is very easy to forget, but not forgive and move on, to the point where its probably infuriating to others, but she doesn't care. she doesn't really... emotionally invest herself in a lot of things, because she is scared it will ruin thing in the long run. so with the pinks, she really just forgets bad situations have happened for the sake of working together better.

she went to therapy at one point because she just started shutting down during some days and going on autopilot and realized, that was bad. so therapy helped and she has been a lot better. some fans have noticed a different kind of spark to her.

she started vaping around that time as well, and maybe the nicotine helped but she doesn't do it often. again, if stress gets to her, old habits resurface.

the recent hate trains after her solo debut haven't helped either. to an extend she wants another solo out of spite, but she isn't sure. however, because of all the solo activities and promotions, jules has managed to show that she has really changed and matured since the early days of debut - especially her fans.

however, those closer to her can notice a change in attitude and shift in perspective with the approach of the contract renewal.

facts!

she has three cats, all rescues.

she donates regularly to animal shelters, because she thinks its a good thing to do.

cooks. a lot. loves cooking and baking, please let her cook and bake for you.

still loves playing sports but hits the gym more often than she gets to play sports.

she bboys a bit, used to a lot more in her early debut days; posts a lot of dance videos on her instagram. can be seen covering a lot of boygroup choreographies during instagram and v-lives.

she is addicted with caffeine, which probably makes sense she has all the energy in the world on stage and to work out a lot.

chronically online and knows all the memes and gossip. not the best for her mental health somedays, but she will quote vines or tt's regularly.

always down to dance, you can call her up middle of the night if she is awake she will be there.

favourite vape flavour is mint, idk feels appropriate.

only wears male perfumes, just likes them more.

will often be seen wearing gifts fan gave her - hats, keychains, jewlery, clothes, you name it.

doesn't have any huge insecurities tbh, she used to feel like she wasn't really well fitting for haute pink at the start, but therpay helped get that mindset completely out of her system.

she will always have time for her juniors, especially if they need any support.

never listens to haute pink's discography unless its work related.

she lovessss cute stuff, like, pop mart stuff?? girlie is obsessed!! anything kuromi, she has a whole wall probably deddicated to just that character.

plots! you can find more here

that childhood bestie that inspired her to become an idol would be cute qwq

dance, gym and sports buddies! she is very active and actually has a lot of energy to burn so she is always down for something!

someone she can spoil with cooking and baking, she would love you for it and you would love her back

someone who still thinks she is a bitch due to how she acted in the debut documentary

crush. she;s your crush, you are her crush. its a crush, how bad can it be

smoking budy? she doesn't really smoke, she vapes but she knows if she sees you and asks for a cig, you got her

juniors!! all the juniors, she loves you all to bits she will fight fo you even if she cant fight in haute pink

a junior that looks up to her, how? no clue we can figure it out

someone who wasn't a fan of her until they saw her solo debut

someone to see her for the true golden retreiver she is meant to be but cant due to stress and midas music being in her business constantly

someone who thinks she is the reason why there is always rumours of tension within huate pink. you just don't like her, thats fair

i want a dancer, like a dancer dancer she looks up to and searches for whenever she needs inspiration to dance and challenge herself. preferably male, but can work with female as well!

that one time there was a dating rumour with your muse but nothing came out of it? was it a rumour? did your muse and jules find it funny or did it ruin their friendship/relationship?

someone that wants to collab with her, and she wantsto collab with you as well.. alas midas music isn't exactly thrilled.

also you know what?? it's valentines weekend when i get accepted!! TAKE MY GIRL ON A DATE!!!

have some songs i want plots based on

gorgeous gorgeous girls - lilyisthatyou

anxiety - lilyisthatyou

sorry - halsey

ego - halsey

deit pepsy - addison rae

i should have stayed at home - ryan mack

last night - lucy spraggan

teen idle - marina

she's all i wanna be - tate mcrae (underrated banger imo)

fan behavior - isaax dunbar

ex i never had - lany

be nice to me - the front bottoms

1996 busan born, her mother ran a private daycare for neighborhood kids and her father worked 2 full time jobs. she had 3 younger siblings and then like 10 random kids on her block that she spiritually adopted as her siblings by the time she was 12. (even to this day she loves kids so much she's such a dork about kids, and emotionally adopts anyone even 3 years younger than her.)

she wanted to run track and field in school. she was very social and cared for, but it wasn't quiiiite enough for her. busy body, stand on the top of the playground and yell about how she's the king of the world at the sky type.

luckily, at a local festival she and some of her friends sang trot and danced and yerin's ability to whip the crowd into a frenzy was enough to get her scouted.

fast forward many long (whiny, annoying baby girl with a big dream) conversations with her very overworked parents later and off she went to become an idol.

it was never about being famous for her. it was just about the adventure of it all. going, doing, anything more than average.

after a few years of training she got dropped in as leader for angelix and the rest was history.

angelix's image doesn't really suit her, not even back then and certainly not now that she's older, but she has a bright personality (at least as an idol she does), so it was always enough to get her a pass.

except after making many casual, crude/unkind comments between 2022-2023 about anything from uncle fans to the company rules to having to flirt to be noticed or liked-- many fans have began to think she's quite disrespectful, doesn't know how to keep her mouth shut. not the sort of tact a leader should have, certainly not for the angel group.

she's totally grounded now 😔all of her activities have slowed down, and she's spent over a year, closing in on 2 years, basically only being at group activities and almost nothing else (a big change from her former activities).

not only that, where before she was outgoing, funny, a variety type through and through (both on activities and even amongst her members, she was known for being bright and taking care of them, being loud and sweet), now she has become considerably more mellow. she went from a 10 on the volume scale to a comfortable 6.

she doesn't know how to be what she thinks she needs to be. and not only that, she feels like she's let her group down. after siah (this is a topic that should not be approached with her, it will make her cry in broad daylight), she fears what will happen to her group. whether they'll stay together, whether she's helping them to stay together or further driving them apart.

she's going through a painful growing phase right in the public eye, and it's leaving her feeling a bit silly and afraid of her own shadow. being the sort of person who speaks without thinking had never burned her so bad before. she has to learn how to manage that.

she has a fair bit of ! cw for anxiety ! likely to pop up in her posts, as she's struggling quite badly with barely checked anxiety for the last 2 years.

essentially, a woman of much duality, both a very playful and kind person who loves to uplift others, and also a painfully hard on herself, anxious person who doesn't think people will accept her as she is? most of her threads from her pov will strongly feature the dynamic of how she always seemed (and really was in many ways), and who she is becoming, and how she's making amends with that?? (poorly, badly, terribly)-- what of it is real and natural and what's a breaking down of her or inability to overcome stress/anxiety/fame itself?

she could use some friends to help her through the slow painful crash and burn of going from enfj to infj lmao-- or some enemies to make it worse, that is also fun and ok! up for anything.

background

tw: abandonment

seungjae’s birth parents left him at an orphanage when he was 4 years old. he never understood why they’d left him and thought they would come back. they don’t.

he goes through two foster homes, until he’s adopted by a foster worker at 10 years old. his adoptive family shower him with a lot of love, and seungjae up till this days doesn’t know how he’ll ever repay their kindness. he loves his adoptive family a lot.

at 17 years old, he gets scouted by ydh entertainment. at 19, he debuts.

he isn’t immensely successful at first, but his career skyrockets when he releases the little prince and it goes viral! but… it’s also then when his birth family starts contacting him!!! woah!!!

seungjae doesn’t know why!! they’re contacting him! or how they found him!! but curiosity gets the better of him, and he decides to meet them face to face! finds out that woah – they ‘abandoned’ him because he was getting in the way of planning family trips! his birth father straight up tells him “you were our third child. and it made planning really difficult, especially for family trips. but after giving you up for adoption, we regretted it. because we realized we really wanted a third child! so we got to work, and now we have four beautiful children.”

seungjae is shocked!!! he feels… terrible. and his birth family starts asking him for money because they’ve gone through a few failed businesses. he doesn’t want to help at first, but they start bombarding him with calls and messages. the final straw is when they show up at his adoptive parents house. seungjae decides to give in, and he’s been sending them money whenever they call now just so they’d leave him and his adoptive parents alone.

they still ask him for money frequently, and seungjae gives in. someone should kick his ass about it.

personality

extroverted. a little annoying at times, but it’s because he cares. he’s pretty friendly, and an easy guy to approach..!

he doesn’t enjoy putting himself in tense situations. seems pretty down-to-earth. really leans into the whole nation’s son in law vibe.

tbh he’s pretty soft-hearted, he gives into things easily.

a workaholic though, he doesn’t know what to do if he’s not working. since 2016, all he’s been doing is surrounding himself with work and schedules. he loves his job, loves singing, loves performing and acting, but whether it’s healthy or not… well!!!

nation’s son in law – does pretty well with the older demographic.

he sings a lot about love, but doesn’t know if he’s actually… experienced something like that himself! maybe he has but he's been too busy to realize it!

likes to talk about random things to come across as friendly but will never talk about his own private life because that’s a little too… personal!! so he’s never actually had someone… know him ❤️ fully ❤️

plots

tbh give me everything…

seungjae’s been in quite a few dramas (reply 1988, sky castle, lovely runner, the heirs, etc) so muses that have acted in that drama…!! that could work!

he also has a lot of featurings open in his albums! ( i promise i’ll work on listing all those out one day ) so that’s always fun!

friends? he’s been in the industry for a really long time, so i imagine that he’d have built a close circle of friends that he enjoys hanging out with.

enemies? people that he doesn’t get along with? he’s been in the industry for a long time – but yes. someone that can’t stand seungjae, or someone seungjae can’t stand.

they had mutual friends that tried to set the both of them up before but it didn’t work out. they’re both good friends now!!

variety co stars?

seungjae has a show called jung seungjae’s service ( similar to lee mujin’s service ), so someone who’s gone on there before? and both you and seungjae have kept in contact since!

( female ) exes? seungjae’s always been so busy with work, but he’s probably had a few exes, that never quite worked out for whatever reason. did both of them end up broken hearted? did seungjae fuck up? was she someone seungjae loved? or thought he could?

( female ) fwbs. again, because seungjae’s such a workaholic, and because he’s always just focused on his job and on the move everywhere, i don’t think he’s ever had time to properly be in something serious. but he’s definitely open to something casual! and fun! and whatever comes after!

alright so i kinda realized i accidentally wrote his bio more from the pov of his parents than including his own thoughts and feelings, so i'll try to give some more insight into that... basically luke was lowkey parentified, his mother in particular because she had to lean on him to translate for her in canada and his dad was spending long hours at work. this kinda forced him to grow up too fast, and he accepted this until he started to become a teenager and realized how unfair his situation was. it sounds kinda insane to use the idol industry as an "escape" to freedom, but that's exactly what he did. it gave him an excuse to leave his parents' home for an extended time and he doesn't hate it tbh, so he's soaking up this experience while he tries to decide what comes next.

that said he loves his family! he really does! he has his grandparents and probably aunts/uncles/cousins in south korea so he's not exactly alone here (and i am so open to plotting out extended family relationships too just saying...). he does struggle with some guilt at likely leaving his younger siblings in the same situation he left, and he misses them, but he had to do this for himself.

a lot of his community growing up was through church btw. his parents attended a korean community church in toronto where some services were held entirely in their native language. they became very involved as it was a way to connect with the culture they moved away from for luke's dad's job. another reason he wanted to get away is because of his bisexuality, which he knew he could never admit to his very conservative parents, and y'know still acknowledges that south korea isn't exactly the place one would go to in order to explore that but it is what it is. he's not totally sure of his own religious beliefs at this point in his life but kinda appreciates the fact that it doesn't have to be a priority right now either.

all this said, he still very much has caretaker tendencies despite being one of the youngest members of his group (and in the company?)!! that's sort of how he adopted the "mood maker" role for himself; he can't exactly take care of his members or anyone else like he would his younger siblings, but he can try to make them laugh or brighten their day a little bit. he's kinda good at it too since he's not really afraid to make a fool of himself. it's why he keeps going viral for dumb shit too and he's probably the guy hosting the party in the fanfic since he comes across as super extroverted and friends with everyone.

he's actually way more chill than his image would imply though. he's not actually full of boundless energy and is perfectly happy to sit in silence and just relax when he has the opportunity. but he does put pressure on himself to be the funny guy, to make everyone around him happy, and ALSO that "chronically online" image means that he's VERY active on social media and hi-u. social media, unfortunately, is a 24/7 job and fans are becoming increasingly entitled to his time and attention and a touch of people pleasing tendencies make it hard for him to establish boundaries. luke's doing his best, but this is definitely a theme i want to keep exploring and how it'll affect him longterm!

background!

comes from a middle class family with bigger dreams, which they managed to push onto raebin when he was born.

they managed to sign him to an agency, where he began working as a child model up until his teen years, appearing in fashion magazines and commercials.

while he liked his job, and always took it seriously, it also sparked his interest in fashion and styling. often, he’d talk to the staff and ask questions about the process!

tw stalking — during his last year of highschool, a fan began stalking raebin to and from work and school. at one point, the stalker approached and harassed him but a bystander managed to clock what happened and called the authorities. — end tw

while he was mostly physically unharmed, the experience mentally scarred him. adding insult to injury, his parents’ worries centered around his face, ‘his greatest asset’, and how they were glad it wasn’t compromised.

that sealed the deal for raebin, and he quit his job as a model. at first, he used the excuse of wanting focus on university first, but he never returned to the public eye.

he enrolled in fashion school, using his connections and network from his time as a model to secure an internship in a notable fashion magazine. then, he was offered the role of an assistant stylist after he graduated. from there, his career continued to progress positively.

midas took note of his skills, poaching him in 2022 to be girl code’s head stylist. he accepted the generous offer.

he has been in a legal battle against his own parents for keeping the money that he earned as a model, eventually managing to take back what was his only recently.

he’s happy where he is career-wise, after everything that he has been through! he doubts he’ll ever return to the spotlight, especially when he sees how rabid fans are from behind-the-scenes.

he might seem like an opportunist sometimes, but it’s only because he wants to finally prioritize himself instead of anyone else.

plot ideas!

to all girl code members, he cares about all of you! sure, he might show it by scolding you when your eyebags are too prominent and telling you to sit still and to put down your phone… but he genuinely cares and looks out for you!

he’s all about skincare, perfume, make-up, outfits. he can help out your muse, if your muse needs advice on that regard!

someone he goes up to and says ‘you’re wasting your visuals if you keep dressing that way’

juniors or peers that he may know during his time as a model! he’d likely keep in contact with your muse, never let go of a network, but he’s also genuinely concerned how they’ve ended up (he may not be good at showing it though).

other stylists! might spark a competitive spirit, or a friend in the industry!

someone he might’ve worked with during his time as a stylist in the fashion magazine.

someone who might’ve recognized him as a model, and is surprised to find him working behind-the-scenes instead now.

exes! with his rather sharp and to-the-point attitude, it might cause a significant rift in any of his relationships.

flings, one-night stands… he’s picky about who he allows into his bedroom... most of the time.

ride or dies, best friends. he’d be the friend that can’t show affection but pays close attention to you and feeds you and everything. imagine it like this short.

background

born to a young single mother who ran away from home when she was pregnant with areum. for the first few years, the man who fathered her child wouldn’t stop stalking her + her family would keep sending private investigators to follow her around, so she was moving towns constantly, always looking over her shoulder and never feeling safe

in the process, areum grows up to be a very quiet and very obedient kid. good at following orders without question. she was never fussy as a toddler either, hardly ever crying or giving her mother trouble. it was as if she knew, or sensed something in the blank expression that settled on her mother’s face sometimes that told her she had to be good. that if she wasn’t, her mother would disappear forever…

when areum’s 8 y/o, they hop on a ferry and move to a small fishing village in jeju island, which ends up being the last time they move

something about the town’s seclusion, its tiny size, and the friendliness of the small community there makes them stay and settle

while her mother dives for mollusks out in the ocean, areum hangs out with the neighborhood grannies, who take care of areum like their own and help her slowly come out of her antisocial shell

some of areum’s best childhood memories take place on the floor of the village recreation room where they spent their time—sprawled out and listening to music on the radio as the grannies gambled and argued playing godori

at some point, they notice how much areum likes listening to the songs, and so they gift her a portable walkman and some tapes for her next birthday

that music player ends up being her most treasured possession and the catalyst for her interest in becoming a singer—feeding this fascination she has for what these musicians are doing with their voices and how it has the ability to make the listener feel things…

she’s not satisfied with just appreciating this from afar, she wants to pick it apart and recreate whatever it is that they’re doing

in areum’s first year of highschool, an opportunity comes when she gets scouted by ydh while she’s visiting the more touristy part of the island

she flies up to seoul the following weekend for the audition, drawn by the name and reputation of the company, and while she’s sitting in the rehearsal room with two dozen other applicants—discovers how much she likes the straightforwardness of competition. that she likes being told ‘this is the standard you are meant to reach’ and ‘this is where you stand in relation to the rest.’

as soon as areum passes the auditions and signs with the company, she throws herself into training with the discipline of a soldier, and this same kind of steely-eyed focus is what characterizes the rest of her career

image

three months after her debut, a fancam of her singing at a festival goes viral, and the nation’s first love is born

the combined synergy of everything in that video—the weather, the atmosphere, her vocals, her visuals—leaves an impression so strong that it defines how areum will forever appear to the general public. she becomes the embodiment of loveliness, immortalized as an open concept for people to project their romantic fantasies. men would cite her as their ideal type and women would study her mannerism for clues on how to get their crushes to fall for them.

in the process, areum becomes whatever the viewer wants her to be. sophisticated and graceful, but unspecific enough to be broadly appealing. universally liked. the general public’s pick.

the flip side to this is that some people think that it feels too manufactured. too bland. that areum lacks a color and personality of her own, and isn’t that just so typical of a female idol from that company? they sneer at how ydh markets her like she’s some organic singer-songwriter when her name can’t be found anywhere in the production credits

and so areum adjusts. identifies the gaps—the cracks in her image that are causing people to lose their immersion—and fixes it. switches her major from kpop performance to applied music. they want a real artist, so she becomes a real artist, unable to stand the thought of getting anything but full marks for her work.

personality

to no surprise, areum is a workaholic. a textbook perfectionist. she’s the happiest when she’s working herself to the bone, which is somewhat troubling bc she’s starting to realize that she doesn’t know what would be left of her life without it?

ever since her debut, she’s been running full-speed with complete tunnel vision, barely even registering that it’s been almost a decade since then and that she’s given over her whole youth to this industry

compared to what it was like in the beginning, however, areum’s come far in terms of establishing a sense of agency over her image

if before she only saw herself as a vessel for this character, now she’s able to take an active role in the narrative built around her, mixing in moments of truth and honesty with her song lyrics that in turn make what she does on stage feel more real. more like her own.

but despite this increase in introspection, she’s still kind of emotionally repressed? she doesn’t like the highs and lows of being carried away by any particular emotion, and so she has a habit of controlling herself whenever she starts feeling overly happy, overly sad, etc

so on one hand, areum comes across as having super high composure, unfazed in any situation—calm, stoic, reliable. but on the other hand, she’s still incredibly reserved, making it hard for her to express herself or be vulnerable with others and form meaningful relationships

currently…

areum’s in a period of her career where she’s hit the peak of her success domestically and feels stuck on where to go next. should she try to increase her global presence? should she continue to cement her legacy here?

she has no intention of slowing down or stopping, especially not when she has no idea of what would come after, but at the same time, she feels like she’s on the verge of hitting a plateau, and the thought of this scares her—this risk of a deceleration that then slips into a decline