#pabintro

kanto was born to a messy marriage, in which his parents were always fighting and getting back together. his father was a terribly busy doctor, cheating on his mother more than anything, while his mother, the heiress to her family’s money, was basically a socialite, loving being part of that circle and was no more innocent than her husband.

once she found out she was pregnant, their relationship took a more peaceful route, but after a couple of months of being born, kanto wasn’t a reason to be civil anymore. they divorced when he was three. kanto can’t remember seeing his dad for most of his childhood, and instead of being resentful, kanto simply doesn’t care about his absence.

kanto and his mom, kang yubin, left ulsan for one of yubin’s family’s extravagant houses in seoul, where he lived until he was seventeen. he got everything he wanted whenever he wanted, his father’s fat allowance combined with the kang’s old money being more than enought to keep him alive for at least fifty years. it wasn’t hard for him to get used to his easy money and life style.

kanto went to hundreds of social events with his mom, always the easygoing and well educated kid around. a little older, as a teen, he slowly learned how to present as the charming and alluring man he is now.

after high school, he decided to travel around. kanto lived in japan, england and the u.s in the span of three years, going back to seoul for college by 20, thanks to his grandparents. they demanded him at least a degree in exchange of his carefree way of living and he accepted to take business and administration.

although supposedly being the well mannered and educated heir most people knew, kanto, as most men, was actually garbage. JFNDSJG not but really, he would always go clubbing and fooling around, drinking and smoking like there’s no tomorrow. that’s how he met the red lions, how he got familiar with the gangs and decided to take his never ending money to use. he got in by offering money, because kanto just buys everything in his life apparently. then, after college, he chose to open a club where the red lions could make business, acting like a partner rather than just a member.

LIFE BEFORE GANG ACTIVITY !

he was born as CHAE HANSOL to a very wealthy chaebol family, and thus is the heir to this empire they have created. ( the conglomerate is huge, think lotte ! ) according to his family, he is to be the next predicted ‘ genius ’ who will further the company when the time comes.

( INFIDELITY ) in the beginning, hansol was to be an only child. his family believed that only one child was necessary to continue the legacy, but his father ... was unsatisfied with that. unbeknownst to his family, hansol’s father was always off with other women, and most of them had children afterwards. in total, ( including himself ) his father has seven children, all different ages; in order for them to keep their mouths shut about these illegitimate children, his father paid these women off in advance and they were happy enough.

( BLACKMAIL ) one of those children was gunhwi, and his mother was not as satisfied with the payment their father provided. she was so unhappy with it that she came by the chae household, just a few months after gunhwi was born, and demanded that he stay with the family and she be paid monthly or else she’d expose him ... which was incredibly, incredibly unideal for the family and their reputation.

reluctantly, they took gunhwi in and agreed to look after him. since hansol’s mother was a private woman, the timing worked out with gunhwi’s birth and he was revealed as a family member just as hansol was years ago.

he was only four years old when gunhwi entered his life, and so hansol didn’t believe anything was wrong with his family. growing up, he noticed how his mother treated the younger somewhat coldly, but paid no mind to it as that was how his own father treated him. a one for one, give or take.

however, while his mother treating gunhwi coldly was actually undeserved, hansol absolutely deserved being treated coldly ... for the fact that he loved causing trouble. while seen as an angel in the eyes of nannies and his grandparents alike, to his parents he was anything but a saint. loud, messy and troublesome, he was most definitely a lot to handle.

he loved his parents, but the small boy loved having fun too !

his troublesome behaviour only worsened when he found out the truth about his family and gunhwi. when hansol was ten ( and gunhwi was six, ) gunhwi’s mother paid a visit for the first time and exposed the truth to them, which turned out to be his father’s worst nightmare for two reasons: one, his family now knows of #His Truth, and two, hansol knew of it.

hansol may only be ten years old, but he’s way too intrusive and clever than his father would like. somehow hansol had gotten access to the information of his father’s other children ( all girls ) as he grew older, and managed to befriend his half sisters that remain unknown by his mother, gunhwi and his grandparents to spite his father. then, once he considered them ‘ family ’ he invited them over to his father ... just to see his reaction.

while he, his sisters and gunhwi were all playing together, it’d only be his father and him who knew who these girls really were.

eventually his father got tired of his shenanigans, and sent him abroad from ages fourteen to eighteen to lessen the headache the young male always seemed to give. his father masked it as ‘ wanting to give the next heir a higher level of education ’ but they both knew it was a load of bullshit.

it’s in manchester, england where he lived with his maternal aunt when he adopts the english name ROWAN, and for awhile ( much to his parents’ surprise ), he seems to mellow down and becomes the model son they’ve always wanted him to be. he’s studious, polite, hardworking and kind, they’re expecting great things for his return.

the truth is that there’s just no way he could rile his father up all the way from manchester, so he sucks it up and does what he needs to do — besides, he couldn’t wait to see the surprise on their face when they realize he has only gotten better masks.

when he returns, he heads straight to university while also interning in his family’s company. it’s not really fun, but to say he’s unprepared is a bold faced LIE. he knows he was meant to run an empire, but he didn’t want to run someone else’s empire.

THE CREATION OF RED LIONS & EVERYTHING AFTER !

during his time in manchester, he encountered many different people leading completely different lives. some were aiming to be doctors or soldiers, while some had already found their home and sense of purpose in a gang. no, he was absolutely not a criminal, but the idea thrilled him enough to want to try.

luckily for him, a close friend of his, also unbelievably rich due to his criminal activities was willing to start one together, recruiting people from various bars and clubs they both secretly frequented as potential members; rowan ( the name he preferred to go by in the gang while he went by hansol with his family, ) was only twenty-two when red lions was first established.

in the beginning, red lions had two leaders: rowan and his good friend. however, that was short-lived as a trusted source had informed him that his ‘ good friend ’ of his was planning on selling him and the rest of the gang out to the authorities, taking their money and supplies for himself and running ... obviously that did not sit well with rowan here.

( MURDER ) without a second thought, his ‘ partner ’ was gone. friend or not, he does not take lightly to backstabbers. just like how his father had cheated on his mother, there was no way rowan was going to sit back and let him do as he pleases, especially since any form of exposure to the authorities would endanger everyone else involved; he was going to protect this family no matter what.

now as the sole leader of red lions, after three years of running things he believes he’s doing well. ignoring the amount of promiscuity in most members, he thinks they’re doing well for themselves. he lets them have their fun as long as they get their tasks done with good results.

he views the red lions as a family ... much better than his own ( sorry, gunhwi ! ) despite the fact he would never say it out loud. as a leader, to fellow red lions members he probably seems like ... a really chill dad, up until they see him when he’s stressed or pissed the fuck off by his personal life ( aka his own father lmao ). the gang knows he’s a chaebol heir, and they probably know he lives this double life ...

he doesn’t care about word getting to his family, because at the end of the day they would do their absolute best to bury any sort of scandal—whether true or not—to protect their family name; he isn’t worried at all of being caught by them.

definitely rough around the edges a bit but he means well :((( especially when he’s in Protective Dad Mode ...

ROWAN AS A PERSON !

this man ... this 174 cm tall man ... he really Does Not look like much at all but he’s not to be underestimated ! he is capable of being a fearless leader while also being a model son ... the duality !

to the gang, he’s mostly seen as ... serious, strict, calculative, organized, boring ... up unil he’s off duty. truthfully, he’s never really ‘ off duty ’ unless absolutely necessary, but when he’s relaxing with either a cigarette in between his fingers or a bottle of vodka, he’s rather mischievous, troublesome, flirtatious and friendly ... very unlike the working man members usually see.

gang dad? gang dad.

but don’t call him that, unless you want him to flick you on the forehead.

he’s often seen with a black face mask on even if members know who he is. he’s somewhat paranoid, as he never knows who will step onto the property. this is all due to the fact that his own friend, someone he trusted so much, was willing to sell him out. there needs to be the right amount of evidence ( aka his whole face being shown ) presented when / if he is ever caught, and he’s just being careful.

he also doesn’t play favorites in red lions. gunhwi may be his brother, but he won’t treat him any special way unless he’s scolding him AHSKSSHJS ... we’ll get into this more later.

on the other hand, with his family he’s still seen as both a dirtbag yet also a model son. he still causes trouble in order to rile his father up, and is very much disliked by the old man due to his behaviour. his mother is proud that he grew up, but his father knows better. unlike with the gang, he’s not really seen as responsible or capable, but he also doesn’t prove his worth until it really matters ... soz .

ya boi has mental health issues but i can’t ... think straight right now so ... maybe another time ! just know that his depress*on exists.

maeko/maemae or koko to her group is a high class, elitist fashion thottie snob and loves all things luxury and high-end. money truly makes her happy. things make her happy and messy situations. she lives for the drama either the ones she creates or ones she’s involved in. she’s also an adrenaline junkie. she’s a money launderer for the red lions. she’s often seen in the VIP booth wearing a full chanel outfit, away from the rest of the crowd because god forbid someone spill their drink on her!! if you would like to plot, please press the like button and i shall slide into your dms or come slide into my dms  ^w^ 

knowing her now, you’d never assume she had a difficult childhood. she was living in poverty, her mother could barely afford to keep their current place, it pained her to see her mother working so hard to receive nothing in the end. she didn’t know what she could do to help. at the young age of six, maeko learned how to shoplift. that’s where her desire and lust for material objects began. she also loved that she didn’t get caught. that made it all the more fun.  

she was so good at it. she never felt that fear of being caught because she was too smart, too calculating. she felt as if she could provide for her and her mother. unfortunately, her mother passed when she was in high school. this part of her life, no one really knows and she’s not willing to share. she’s more than happy for everyone to label her as this rich bitch who goes to Hermes more frequently than your local grocery store.

she’s a girls girl!!

she’s very easy to get along with and she’s also judges upon first impression. first impressions are everything to her, but it doesn’t mean you can’t change her mind!! she’s just stubborn as fuck and kind of annoying about her pride. if you can get past the fact that she has a huge fucking ego, then all is well.

she has fun in meddling in other peoples problems, but plays victim when the blame is pointed to her. there really is no point in getting her to apologize, just let her rot.

has a very possessive personality. when it comes to things she loves, people, etc. it becomes very toxic and a lot of people don’t fuck with her because of that trait.

PLOTS

xx. ex-boyfriends???? she’s a sucker for love even though she would never admit that. she falls for charismatic boys who are great at manipulating.

xx. current fling ( male or female ) !!!! doesn’t have to mean anything, they could be in their feels or they could just be in it for the affection and attention, etc, etc

xx. someone that she was/or is completely in love with ( reason will probably differ depending on which character it is ). whether the person knows or not is up to the mun!! and how they react is up to them as well!!

xx. people that are obsessed with her or people who want her validation so she keeps them around because they give her attention

xx. someone who loves riling her up because she has the shortest temper ever

xx. people who hate her, idk, anything!! i’m up for anything!!  

xx. member that she saved, the one that got her into the gang  

xx. someone in the red lions who is protective over maeko  xx.  a forbidden friendship(s) with a member of other gangs  

: *✧･ﾟ [ DONG SICHENG, CIS MALE, HE/HIM ] so, HUI ZHAO, you think you have what it takes to join ROSE GOLDEN? at only TWENTY, i hope you know what it is you’re signing up for. there’s more to it than just the reputation. are you ready to be a HACKER? being ZEALOUS might help you out, however let’s hope they don’t get tired of you being SNARKY. good luck to you.

PROFILE / PLOTS !

hui zhao, 20 and a hacker for rose golden and perpetually angry tired

born in china to two v. high maintenance parents, aka very influential people (mother was a supermodel and father was a dodgy yet successful lawyer) who basically, from a young age forced him to be educated to his maximum abilities and constantly stressed him the fuck out ! 

typical lonely childhood, spent years slaving over books and being home schooled (including languages, like korean) etc. (does it connect to his lack of ability to show affection now and inability to adapt to overly social scenarios? mayhaps!)

graduated high school at 14 and yeah it was a show of his intelligence but he had a moment of revelation where he just thought what am i doing with my life ..... his parents had effectively stripped him of friendships and human encounters and everything kind that’s typically associated with childhood

how does he retaliate ? he steals 5 million dollars off his parents and runs off to korea. there might have been better ways to handle that situation but not in this world !

upon deflecting paparazzi and dipping from public eye as well as hiding away from his parents for around a year, hui runs into a bunch of ppl who offer to take him in and help him (whats he gonna do? say no?)

uhh yeah it’s a ragtag group but hui learns to use his intelligence more efficiently and, as his iq is obviously his strongest point, is tailored to become (drum rolls) a hacker! spends a couple of years working as one and accepting odd jobs here and there, not for money because he doesnt need it but mostly because he truly does enjoy watching people and knowing everything about them while they know absolutely nothing about him

when he was 18, he was approached by a member of rose golden who had heard about his outstanding abilities and thus he was recruited into the gang ! thanks minseok oppa

now he’s just been in the gang for around two years, filthy rich and chilling with that big wad of cash in his bank account that he probably spends on bread and stickers

spoiler alert: he’s stayed pretty lowkey for the most part which is why his parents haven’t found him yet. spoiler spoiler alert: they probably never will

personality wise: genuinely is soft for members in the gang .... as he’s never really been in a group, let alone a homely environment he tends to dote on fellow rose golden members more than he admits ! but then hui vc: everyone else can choke

has literally .. the least amount of sympathy for other gangs unless he personally knows the people there. he likes to think of everything as more business and doesnt really bother trying to develop relationships as it’s a waste of time

is fluent in mandarin, cantonese and korean but when he’s annoyed he pretends not to know korean (10/10 tactic)

she is 22 years old and is a robber for the red lions.

she joined the gang at a young age, 18, so she’s been around for awhile. her mother passed away at a young age and her father was very absent from her life, he spent most of his time getting drunk before 5 and bringing home all sorts of women AKA why sunhee may have daddy issues and is into older men

the women that her father brought home was never in for the money because they did not have much of it so growing up, she always saw women as in charge of their own bodies and they slept with men bc they wanna. which is what fuels her strong personality. 

sunhee doesn’t take shit from nobody and she’s also afraid not to slit ur throat if u piss her off tbh soOOooOO be careful lol

if she wants something from you, she can be very charming and sweet but it’s kind of fake hahah in reality she’s very sarcastic and strong-willed but if you got her, you GOT her. extremely loyal to her friends and the people in her gang, it’s the leo in her

as mentioned before, she’s a robber so extremely skilled in picking locks, pickpocket-ting and robbing shit in general. she can sneak into a house and steal millions of dollars in jewlery and have the crime scene super undetected 

walks very quiet like a cat

from busan!! lived there her until she was 18 and has a very strong dialect, even when she tries to conceal it

she comes from...humble beginnings, so to say (but she won’t ever admit it). her family was lower class, but it was a little easy for her since she was an only child.

at 17, she fell in love with a boy. her parents were against it because of his reputation, but she went against their wishes and dated him behind their back.

whoops surprise!! on her 18th birthday, they found them making out in the back of his car and were livid.

...so livid that they kicked her out!!

fresh out of high school, & with nowhere else to go, she went to live with her boyfriend. essentially, he was a dealer & used her to smuggle drugs in & out of places for 2 years.

whoops again, at 20 she got busted & her boyfriend refused to take any blame.

she got arrested for drug possession, & along the way completely lost all her trust in everyone since he was the last one she thought she could trust.

even though he was an ass, she did appreciate the feeling she got being around his friends, & started looking around for gangs. and on a trip to seoul, she met someone who recruited her to the red lions!

since her family exiled her and her ex betrayed her, she really gained a love for the red lions since they were the only people who’d shown her real trust.

now onto current areum!!

she’s definitely not the best person outwardly, but there is room for her to change.

if you’re not somewhat close to her, don’t call her areum... she’s ivy to you, and she’ll fight if you try to address her as otherwise

she’s super manipulative, using flirting & others lustful desires as means for getting ahead. she figures that it’s just, because it’s her payback for years of being manipulated.

super comfortable with her sexuality!! “i find everyone gorgeous - and what’s so wrong with that?”. not shy in sexual endeavors at all, and doesn’t mind vocalizing it.

loves expensive things...but can’t always get it. so she uses her charm to get into others wallets!!

can be playfully pouty, but can get very angry & spontaneous when she doesn’t get what she wants.

she may seem cute but...don’t try it. this girl can kick some ass

she tends to be really fake with people, but it’s really just because she’s closed herself off to being vulnerable.

she suffers from insomnia & intense nightmares that often leave her restless.

and lastly, she needs connections so!! wife her up!!

gonna make this short & sweet since ... i cant write all of a sudden ??

he was born into the oh family as a blessing. ae-ra and dongchan were trying for a baby since they first got married but they never made it. however, it was when they stopped bothering with trying that made their little bean appear?? uGH ! dongchan’s sperm mind...

aNYWHO ! they’re legit politicians who are sooo down to earth. they care so much about city of changwon.

hyunjae wasn’t spoiled like any other rich kid. his parents still made him work for what he wanted to show him that no one is gonna hand you greatness on a silver platter. he appreciated this lesson til this day.

unlike his father, dongmin, his uncle, was not the best guy to be around. the eldest male was known as a scam artist and a thief. it shocked citizens to find out that dongchan was related to such a scumbag.

still, no matter how many times ae-ra’s side of the family protested that he should be nowhere near their priced possession, the crook was always included in hyunjae’s life. birthdays, talent shows, sport games, all that good stuff. sometimes he was there more than his actual parents since they were busy dealing with improving the city.

since being a baby, hyunjae would be attached on dongmin’s hip anytime the male was out of the city. his parents never knew about this bc the boi was shady af & they even let him BREATHE in the same direction as their baby boy if knowing what he was doing.

hyunjae was around six when he overheard a conversation with his father with his uncle that resulted in a fist fight. he didn’t hear much but he did catch that that his father was sick of his uncle being irresponsible and so fucking stupid. #mood

after that he barely sees his uncle anymore. it made him kinda sad but it put less stress on his parents.

from 6 - 10, HONEY, the nickname he doesn’t dare speak of that his grandmother gave him, was a sweet child. liked watching crime shows and reading sherlock novels. sometimes stole candy.

life changed drastically when his parents were celebrating their 5 year anniversary a month after he turned 11. they dropped him off at his grandmother’s place and went out to dinner. they said they would pick him up in the morning and spend the day with him at the zoo.

a day turned into a two. two turned into five. five turned into a week and a half.

it was like they vanished in thin air. & it didn’t help that when the police were contacted, they couldn’t find a single thing relating back to them. they only had the car they were in, which was parked at their home yet they weren’t there. nothing indicating that something bad happened since nothing was out of place. no signs of force entry either. so a missing person’s case was filed.

not knowing what to do, his grandmother took him in only to have his uncle snatch him away. in dongmin’s defense, the woman was too old to walk let alone take care of a child.

so he raised him to a fine teen. sport jocky, multilingual, all that nonsense. 

teen!hyunjae was living his life like it was golden until he came across an interesting phone call between his uncle and some man on the phone. suddenly they were traveling to seoul and meeting some guy who was not happy. in the end, he witnessed a whole new side of his uncle & boy did that fuck him up.

dongmin knew the kid was baffled by his actions and not by hid words ( as he locked him in the car while talking to his client ). so he decided to get him into the world his parents’ wanted him away from. the world of gangs!

first off, nO, it wasn’t in his intentions to get him involved with the gang. but hyunjae was smart af and could do more than some of the members did sooo

he was sixteen around this time. now he was balancing high school, being a negotiator and translator, and keeping the public outta his business after the news of his parents’ case going cold hit the screen.

nearing 18, he was introduced to drugs. narcotics, cocaine, lsd, you name it. they started letting him count the product and bag it up. this then led to him organizing routes and finally being 1/2 of the top people handling it.

shockingly he never really  ... learned the gang’s name ??? like his uncle was just like “yo, do this my intellectual nephew” and hyunjae was like “..yah!”

so it was not surprising when he was cleaning up his uncle’s penthouse and came across a box he’d never saw before. he didn’t want to snoop as it was an invasion of privacy but y’know how that went

inside laid his mother’s sky blue purse, his father’s rolex, and his mother’s golden locket that she never took off. these items were what was last seen on them before they disappeared.

NOW HE MAD LMAOOO

he played it cool until he turned 20. he was a year away from graduating from uni, but boy was he a changed man inside. he shitted over everyone to get to a high position in said gang, JUST to turn them all in on his graduation day. he sat far from the building and watching them get raided with police. sipping on his champagne bottle, he poured out the rest in honor of his parents.

because of this, the police force was hella impressed with his progress. they offered him a position as an undercover spy to take down more gangs but he declined at first. then it occurred to him that these people are literally ruining kids’ lives, him being one of them. it crushed him to think of other innocent people going through this so he accepted it.

now at 24, he’s still trying to figure out what exactly happened to his family. grandmother passed away due to heart failure, but that was then ruled out as her medication was increased unknowingly. his parents were a forgotten memory in changwon, which caused him to move to seoul. plus it was less expense than driving back and forth.

turns out, some of the members that was were in the gang he took down dispersed into other gangs with brings him to where he is now???

his lifetime achievement is to end gang activity, PERIODT. it’ll be the justice for his parents and for those who’s life was ruined because of it.

doesn’t care who he was to turn on nor what he has to do in order to succeed in this. his best method of fidning out information? befriending people or sleeping with them.

because he was taught the lifestyle, his mannerisms are fool proof. he’s gotten the secrecy down as well as the behavior he monitored from the old leader. so you can’t really tell he’s a spy unless you find something out of place in his condo.

a huge bi who loves puppies and 90′s movies. isn’t afraid to punch someone in the teeth for saying something stupid. sharp-tongued. aggressive and violent tbh.

obvs wanted connections are those who have ties with the old gang.