#mnsintro

so he grew up with hardworking parents that wanted the best for him but jisoo was more of a physical kid but he didn’t do bad at school 

so he finished high school and didn’t go to college to help support his girlfriend cause no no no we do not approve of this boy 

so he joins the army when he’s old enough bc hey he can’t keep working these shitty jobs to help bring in a salary 

somewhere during that time they have a daughter (she’s four now and the light of his life) 

things kinda go downhill from there cause he gets sent out on more missions and more dangerous ones and for longer times cause he needs that salary 

so when he’s discharged due to an incident he finds himself alone and taking care of his daughter but it’s chill he gets it 

so he’s just on the show for money but mostly for veteran awareness!! 

↞ •✕ ┅ BASICS ┅ ✕• ↠

KWON JAESEONG — feb 20 1995, a Bitch Ass™

his father is the ceo of the biggest steel exports company in korea and as the sole heir, made him quite the spectacle growing up. money is trivial and will never be a problem for him. this boy is a member of the bbc and he takes such a notion and flaunts it.

he’s arrogant, hot-headed, charismatic, and has no regard for anyone other than himself. he lives to be entertained. he can be cruel, unforgiving, manipulative ... and that’s it. the soft side of him died in the dark with withered petals and dying roots. he’s got no redeeming qualities now except his smooth smirk and silver tongue.

he was soft. as a kid, he was sweet, well-mannered, and a people pleaser. he played by the rules, gained favours, won hearts and charmed his superiors. a model student and a role model, he was in an elite boarding school for elementary age kids when he rotted.

his mom died. she was a secretary but not his father’s. the competitor’s. it was a scandalous reveal and jaeseong never really understood why it was such a big deal. not too long after, she died in a mysterious car accident on her way to visit him during a school break.

jaeseong blamed his father. his father blamed himself. his father gave jaeseong money over and over, thinking it would make up for everything. his father was drinking every time jaeseong would come home. soon, jaeseong would be drunk coming home to see his father drinking. 

it wasn’t long before the tabloids loved jaeseong more than his father. underage club hopping, smoking, dating scandals, sexuality crises, jaeseong had his fair share. he’d get into fights and the paparazzi would catch it. assaults, vandalism, duis... celebrity gossip couldn’t get enough of him.

aimlessly spending his father’s money, not really grasping the idea of responsibility and adulthood, he craved more and more attention. what better attention than appearing in a reality show ??

↞ •✕ ┅ WANTED CONNECTIONS ┅ ✕• ↠

the one that got away — he almost became soft for you. he set out to play you, have you become his little starlet in the magazines alongside him until he got bored, and then ... he started feeling. he cut you off abruptly, and maybe it broke you, maybe it didn’t fool you, but he’s anything but charming now.

the one that was too easy — he prides himself in ruining you, enjoys watching you try to avoid him in the mansion. he comes every so often to make you uncomfortable because he is literally a piece of shit. likes to start drama and spreads rumours about you ( also cool if not, but this bitch is not below it, he can’t be tamed ).

somebody he used to know — a childhood friend, wealthy just like him, probably ended up way different than him. you saw him when he was soft, when he wanted to impress people, now forces people to impress him. it’s almost sad, and maybe you try to rekindle the friendship or maybe you try to knock some sense into him. still, he calls you a friend, even if disdainfully.

sugar babies — sexual or not, he thinks he keeps you around because he gives you money, gifts, trips, dates. ( literally, these are unlimited, jaeseong the Youngest Sugar Daddy he’s practically a Sugar Son™ )

the one who fucks around — you and jaeseong don’t get along. fights, arguments, petty pranks, name-calling, confrontations, lies. you and jaeseong do it all. tensions are high ?? and suddenly, the tensions are ... dangerously magnetic ?? 

fight club — jaeseong has no compunction about being absolutely awful to you. he can’t stand you and constantly tries to start shit with you. maybe you fall into the trap of starting fights, ruining your reputation while his is already tainted and doesn’t mater, maybe you see him as the child he is and don’t indulge him. eith way, it’s definitely a time when you two are in the same room together.

woo taerim — age 23, university student ( on leave ), and a part-time worker who juggles numerous jobs ( at the mall during the day, and at the club at night !! ), living that working class life

your basic university student ( on leave though, oops ) who struggles to pay for her own tuition, rent, and add onto her life savings, plus a little more — also struggles to help her family pay back the debt caused by her father’s gambling problem 

her mother isn’t around anymore ( she left when taerim was four with another man !! ) but her aunt works her butt off to try to fix their financial circumstances

her aunt, by the way, is the love of her life and is basically taerim’s mother — her aunt wants taerim not to work to pay back her father’s debt but taerim isn’t going to allow her aunt to suffer alone ??

that’s what sucks about being the only child, although she isn’t the only child, not really

her only sibling, her younger brother, was claimed by her mother after her parents divorced while she was left with a parent with a serious problem 

yep, she’s forever bitter about that because who wouldn’t be ??

still, taerim doesn’t complain ( mostly because she just isn’t the complaining type !! ) and figures she just has some bad luck screwing her over

never been the brightest child to ever grace the earth, but with the debt taking forever to pay off ( it still hasn’t dissipated completely !! ), it took a toll on her personality and taerim is now basically a sharp-tongued woman of rock 

it takes a lot to faze her so just, don’t try it, unless you want her fist delivering a mean upper-cut, something that her aunt taught her as well

speaking of her fierce aunt, she runs a taekwondo program in seoul and makes decent money off of it — it’s also where taerim learned a lot of her self-defense moves

taerim looks like your basic bitch with a mean mouth to run, but really, she’s just a tired one who still runs to several jobs in a day as if her feet are on fire

holds a disdainful reaction to people who pay attention to acquiring popularity or a social media presence or whatever, and doesn’t hold much interest for the celebrity world, which is ironic considering she’s going to be aired on this program 

only decided to join /mansions/ because it offered good pay and a chance to help her aunt pay off her father’s debt, once and for all 

there wasn’t much hype about her in the comments after the preview, mostly because she’s not a well-known face like a lot of the other members, but she wasn’t a complete failure due to her somewhat pretty face and a darker vibe that was somewhat different from the rest

speaking of darker, she’s nicknamed the tempest mostly because taerim can be a little too much to handle if she ever gets riled up to the point to lose her cool — also, she can just be a little insensitive ( okay, a lot insensitive !! )

continuing off of that, she’s also pretty guarded when it comes to talking about herself and is unbelievably stubborn, but she’s also a diligent worker who can be independent and take care of her own well-being — taerim is also loyal and protective to a fault

hubris is what they call it, as she has an obvious weakness for those that she finds to be her friend, or something even more than that

just find her throwing a punch toward someone twice her size because they said something snobby about her best friend or whatever — not the smartest move 

this is completely random but she also hates ( absolutely loathes !! ) it when people touch her stuff because just ... why ??

some quick likes: italian food, quiet places, pay checks, bubble tea, just tea in general, window shopping ( mostly because she’s too financially unstable to actually buy what she wants !! ), jogging, cheap beer, autumn, ponytails, the ocean

bio !

junhwi was born in seoul to a scientist father and english teacher mother

moved around a lot as a result of his father’s job - moved to japan when he was 9, stayed for 4 years. then moved to russia for 2 years, then germany for another 3 years. returned to seoul when he was 18, managed to take the university entrance exams and got in to korea university to study computer science smart boi

grew up loving video games, especially nintendo as he got older for nostalgia porn. as gaming/esports became huge in south korea and the country became known globally for it, he decided to become part of the movement and start his own channel. he reviewed new games, took a look back at old games, and streamed himself playing games as others do.

he saw relative success in his home market of sk with gaming, a decent popularity comparable to that of any homegrown gaming youtuber. nothing spectacular, but it was a fun hobby for him.

real success came from when he jumped on the vlogging bandwagon. his first vlog was a typical “my daily life in seoul” video, which received attention from many international/western viewers, in the particular era where creators gained views from focusing their videos on aspects of korean/japanese/chinese culture.

junhwi found that he also just enjoyed vlogging and sharing his life with his subscribers, the count of which increased impressively with each vlog he posted. they were simple, detailing his days at uni, meeting friends, travelling around seoul and showing off his city to the world.

after graduating from university, youtube essentially became his career. he does most of his editing alone, aside from larger scale videos, such as interviewing the seoul public on various topics or collaborations. he managed to enlist friends from university as occasional cameramen/editors, which helps a lot.

now, he keeps up the format of uploading two videos per week - a gaming video and a vlog. he switches up whether he speaks in korean or english, the two languages he’s fluent in, but always adds subtitles of either language.

he applied for mansions because he wanted to do something new for his channel. he’s making a series about his experiences on the show, and it’s created some buzz in the korean vlogging/youtube community.

personality !

suffers from an undiagnosed dissociative disorder. his psychiatrist believed it stems from moving around so often as a child when it was his prime time to make friends and socialize. instead he had to adapt to vastly different cultures, learn new languages, fit into new schools and make new friends repeatedly. he mostly fits into having denationalisation disorder, where he doesn’t feel connected to reality and is detached from his surroundings. he has trouble remembering that he is not the main character in the world, that other people are not just npcs in a game.

with his detached personally, he is extremely bad at vocalising his feelings and emotions. he may seem like he doesn’t care about anything, and is stoic, but it’s more like there’s a block in his mind which stops him from accessing and expressing his feelings. it’s frustrating for others around him, but it’s something that he himself barely notices.

he’s never uncovered the truth about his mental health to his subscribers, and he doesn’t think he ever will. it’s personal to him, and he’s worried that people wouldn’t view him the same if he did. he’s funny, witty, weird and interesting, but he’s scared that people knowing about the workings of his mind would be construed as him not caring about the people who support him.

he came out as bisexual in one of his vlogs - he didn’t make a big deal out of it, didn’t make it the focus of the video. it was just a statement when he spoke briefly about past relationship experiences. fans made a big deal out of it, however, and constantly ship him with whatever male appears in his videos.

wanted connections !

perhaps a youtuber he’s collabed with? they can be close or not so close! or someone who is frequently in his videos, a pal of sorts? a youtuber who he gets shipped with by their fans?

an ex-love interest who somehow managed to be in the house with him too oh lord

someone who wants to be in a vlog with him and has never done it before

someone who he became very buddy buddy with, everyone knows them as the bestest buds of the mansion

a subscriber? :O

fwbs lmao

♥ love interest ♥

noh joonwoo — age 22, chaebol status, and popular socialite 

probably the wealthiest twenty two year old in korea, with his family being /the noh/, the household that has a tight grasp on korea’s steel industry 

the second son in the family, which joonwoo finds to be great bc he doesn’t have to be the responsible one who has to mandatorily take on the family business and still has his parents’ affection as the youngest

been pampered all his life, and was born and raised in cheongdam-dong, seoul, south korea ( everything fit for a prince !! )

famed for both his riches and his looks — definitely received the good genes bc his brother is an ugly butt 

has millions on followers on all his social media platforms, which is probably why he got accepted for /mansions/ in the first place tbh ( noise marketing is important !! )

popular enough to make money off of being a socialite — occasionally models, goes out on interviews, flashes his face at high society gala 

but joonwoo loves dj-ing, so he takes that up as a hobby at club octagon, which is where most people found him on the weekends before the show started

basically, he’s cocky rich boyTM who is popular with both men and women alike

has his own share of scandals, but none of them have been big enough to crack the media — maybe /mansions/ will find him one

speaking of scandals, never really experienced love ( like actual love ) so if he finds it on this show, well, he’s kind of screwed bc he’s got a lot of things but a poker face ain’t one

continuing off of that, joonwoo can be irresponsible and impulsive and arrogant but he’s honest and perceptive and sociable — likes talking with people even if it’s just to tick them off

doesn’t really have that whole “you’re poor and i’m rich” barrier idea, mostly bc he’s just into the idea of meeting lots of people 

that’s probably why he hasn’t gotten slandered by all the comments for the /mansions/ hype tbh 

but he can definitely get on people’s nerves, even if unintentionally — like, just see him complain about how hard the beds are or how small the kitchen is or just how uneven ( yes, uneven ) the floorboards are or something

some quick likes: dj-ing ( obviously !! ), hoodies, romcom movies, flirting ( ha !! ), jellies, caramel macchiatos, winter, lavender scents, waking up late ( really late !! ), late night drinking, cats, video games, social media, take-out 

BACKGROUND

way before the great success of his books, hanbin was nothing but the only child of a very poor family living right near the docking areas of busan. both parents had to work three jobs to make meets end and grant their kid an education, but still hanbin was heavily affected by the lack of familial presence by his side, albeit not weighing it on the two at all.

being a very shy kid, tho, it was really hard for him to socialize, which is why he’d rather always spend time with books or with some paper to scribble on rather than playing with the other kids. it was a situation that never was brought up to hanbin’s parents attention simply because it was just seen as a juvenile shyness meant to disappear when growing older, something that only got worsened when at the beginning of high school he became target of bullies who would constantly point out his status and the fact he had to work after school. even then, hanbin never spoke about it and only closed himself even more into writing, winning a few poetry contests held in his school while starting the very first draft of what was going to become the first novel of his series.

speaking of his afterschool job ━a florist’s greenhouse where he had to tend the plants, not so far from the local arboretum━ , it was perhaps the only place where he felt safe and serene, and where hanbin himself said in various interviews that it helped him destress from the harshness of life and helped him write.

at the age of 18, he was framed by his bullies for an act of vandalism at the basement storage after he got dragged there with an excuse, and was found trembling and bleeding from his head nearby its entrance while the storage itself was essentially turned inside out. the incident left him very shaken and very prone to panic attacks towards sudden movements and unprompted touching. because of not speaking and not accusing anyone of what happened, he was forced to help one of his professors with afterschool work and ditch his actual job for that day. it was that professor who found out hanbin’s draft for his novel and encouraged him to try looking for an editor.

that encouragement was the little spar this shy boy needed to go forth with his dream, actually signing with a known korean publishing house who had extremely appreciated his draft and only needed corrections and some more finessing to be done while he was busy graduating from highschool. he didn’t go to college due to lacking money for it and not wanting to become further weight for his tired parents, so he put all his heart and soul into alternating the greenhouse job and the final stages of his novel’s publishing.

serendipity came out exactly one and a half year later ( 2013 ),  and its story was an unexpected yet gradual success that brought the young man’s name under the spotlight. wonder ( 2015 )  and euphoria ( 2017 ) managed to raise the bar even higher to the point the three books got a complete cover renovation and was approved for translation in several countries as well as an official name for the saga: the serendipity gospels.

HANBIN

the living proof that angels are real and are too good for any of us. he literally forgave his parents for not being with him because he knew they had to work and used the money from the first book to repay them for all the sacrifice they’ve done, and also made a gift to the greenhouse’s owner to thank him for being patient with him and letting him appreciate the flowers even more.

very soft. very, very shy. never raises his voice. rarely talks unless it’s being asked something to him or he really feels talkative. which again, very rare moments, and has this thick busan accent many think sounds cute on his soft voice. has ptsd from what happened during his last year of highschool and won’t talk about it claiming he doesn’t remember what happened, but it’s clear that it left a huge scar onto him that he’s unhealthily suppressing.

yet he writes the most heartwrenching scifi book series ever conceived and has had people in tears for how euphoria ended, like how dare he. that’s offensive. 

fans keep saying that the protagonist of the series, a mute boy called seokjin, is a literal author avatar of hanbin, which has also been brought up to his attention during euphoria’s press conference. he has of course said nothing on the question, simply saying that like every author, there’s a piece of him in every part of the books.

catch yourself falling in love with how he giggles when he’s gotten an idea and pitter-patters to get his notebook to write it down, cause that’s the sound of happiness.

ok let’s just get on w this !

so yeoreum’s upbringing was just ... never consistent ! she never knew her father as her mother had her as a teenager and her biological father bounced , most of the men in her life stuck around for a few months of years , some were decent to her and her mother and others were a complete nightmare to her mother , there were times when she just locked herself in her room because of the violence that ensued next door .

when yeoreum was in her mid to late teens, her mother , a long time alcoholic , died bc of her severe drinking habits and yeoreum was shipped over to her godmother , an owner of a private escort service . yeoreum like ....really found it interesting because her godmothers clients were all VERY wealthy people , people you’d never expect , those in the 1% etc right .. and yeoreum , who grew up rather poor and didn’t have materialistic things and the such but her godmother was like .... NO u r my angel little baby there’s no way . so yeoreum just kind of ached from afar until she turned twenty-one and her godmother finally gave in !! she set her up with a married man in his early thirties, an extremely rich up-and-coming entrepreneur and yeoreum fell ... in Love w it . she had always been sultry and into sex and oozed confidence so this job seemed so perfect for her ?? like it was her . caling JGNRJGNTRJGTR if u will .  

so basically she continued escorting on her terms , became one of the clients favorites , and made beyond easy money . she was twenty-three ( at the time ) nd had half a million won in her bank account , some clients even had little secret relationships w her so she had multiple flats , apartments , villas to her name all over the country . it was all good until a visiting diplomat and her got caught and it WAS ALL OVER THE NEWS and it got sooo ugly so fast ... reporters found her house and paps stalked her and it just wasn’t okay ?? i’d want to compare the situation in terms of how Big it was to like clinton & lewinsky KNGRJTGRT it was just fucking a big deal ??? anyways . she ended up quitting and became a camgirl, due to her already popularity w the former company and the new found fame w the diplomat she made decent money . she eventually signed up for mansions bc ... more money ? Why not ! and now she’s here ! living her Best fucking life .

so yeoreum is just .... Nsfw all day every day . KGNRKJGNT a very LOUD bisexual queen who just wants to have fun , whether that includes people , drugs or drinks she literally just doesnt care ! she’s very open w whats on her mind and has nooo filter at all . i also think she has a bit of a social media presence as well ?? like ... an ig baddie GDGNTRGKTRNGKJRTGNTRG u kno .. u kno !  to those who don’t know her , she can come across as very self -centered , narcissistic or obnoxious but like ..... *wipes tears w hundred won bills* ya know ? she’s just ... MONEY MONEY MONEY !! loves loves LOVES materialistic things , like all she wears is name brand and designers .. kind of oblivious to the fact she’s trying to fill that empty hole in her heart with people and things but ... lmao !!! :DD despite all that she’s pretty chill and like pretty easy to talk to , i think . shes rather friendly unless ur not friendly first :( she always ALWAYS cries alone like just refuses to EVER look weak ... its not cute and her mascara cost 125 won so .. no time for that ! anyways she’s a really new muse of mines that i made specifically for this rp so i hope you love her as much as i do !! she’s still a work in progress, bare in mind .