#sunhee's introductions

(okay, so these are based on my opinions and how sunhee perceives the members- if you don't agree that's fine. I was just watching some of the 2022 chan's room back and got smacked with his pokemon go obsession lol. funfact- my pokemon card binder is also my pc binder- Jisung is next to snom.)

[ ᴄʜᴀɴ, ꜰʟᴀʀᴇᴏɴ ]

So she actually names Flareon first. After Chan names his Emolga- Sunhee’s favorite pokemon that he goes out of his way to catch- Sunny. It’s only fair that she names the Eevee she’s been doting on after him. And when it evolves into Flareon? Well it couldn’t be more fitting.

Sunhee wasn’t really a pokemon kid. She’d played emerald before, but pokemon was her brother’s thing, she’d always been an animal crossing girl. But Flareon had always been her favorite. 

It suits him too. Flareon was pretty on the outside but powerful in a way many wouldn’t expect. Chan’s passion burned deep inside him and escaped in bright, condensed bursts, much like flareon’s move-set. Sunhee doesn't tell him any of this of course, purses her lips and thinks it makes sense that the pokemon she named after him ended up evolving into her favorite version. Not unlike how Chan himself had grown into Sunhee’s favorite person when she wasn’t looking. 

[ ᴍɪɴʜᴏ, ɢʟᴀᴄᴇᴏɴ ]

Minho was glaceon. She waited until after the pokemon evolved to name it but she just knew the second it did, that this was Minho. 

He’s graceful and elegant, lethe and carefully constructed just like the pokemon was. She also likes to think he’s fragile like Glanceon's ice, snickering as she remembers how his joints crack loudly- like ice bergs splintering apart. 

Glaceons are cold in appearance but are calm and gentle in nature. Sunhee thinks about Minho, how he cooks dinner for her when he knows she’s having a rough time, how people assume he is mean because of his humour but how warm his heart is. 

He’s also very pretty, Sunhee- even after all these years is not immune to the butterflies in her stomach that sometimes choose to erupt when he does something particularly ‘boyfriend’. There’s an innate kind of beauty to glaceon, one that Sunhee sees reflected in her friend. 

[ ꜱᴜɴʜᴇᴇ, ᴇꜱᴘᴇᴏɴ ]

She didn’t intend to make herself Espeon- she was actually going to keep herself as eevee but it was the second to last evolution and it ended up as a female. Which was like, a 1 in eighth chance or something. 

Besides, she liked it. At this point, Chan caught onto her plans- because of twitter of all things. Stay had figured out his pokemon username and when they clocked onto the same username (wherethesundontshine) being at all the same gyms Chan was, it was pretty obvious. When she actually explained on live about her ‘fuck-ass team of eevees’ as Felix liked to phrase it in private, and accidentally announced the name of her sylveon, stay sort of put it together. 

Chan was the one who told her to name the Espeon after herself, since it was so fitting. Sunhee had shrugged. “I guess you do evolve it with a sun-shard in the normal games.”

Chan had stared at her like she had two two heads before beginning a tangent of all the reasons Espeon was the perfect fit for her, included but not limited to: 

It reads the environment with it’s fur- like you read the room

it’s very loyal to those it deems worthy, 

it’s pretty, 

it charges its powers up with sunlight, 

its main move is confusion.

When he’s done, Sunhee just blinks at him. “I feel like you’ve put a lot of thought into this.”

Chan flushes flareon-red.

[ ᴄʜᴀɴɢʙɪɴ, ʟᴇᴀꜰᴇᴏɴ ]

Honestly, she was going to make Changbin umbreon because of the whole dark rapper aesthetic he had tried to push when they were younger (and failed miserably at) but once she’d fully committed to the whole, collecting all the eeveelutions and naming them after her members thing, Sunhee did some research. 

Leafeon was perfect for him, because even though it can learn powerful attacks, all of its pokedex entries say it doesn't really fight. Just uses photo synthesis to clean the air. 

And if that wasn’t the most Changbin shit she’d ever heard. 

He’s sort of their emotional air purifier of the group, he’s always there to mediate during a fight. Ever since predebut, from short scraps like Sunhee and Chan had during their survival show days to Jisung and Hyunjin’s longstanding-beef, Changbin was the one to clear the air, to force them to communicate and soak up all those negative rants. 

He was her best friend. Sunhee never really liked that term- the idea of singling someone out and putting them above the rest- but she holds it close to her heart when it comes to Changbin, feels right to bestow that title on him. 

He’s strong, sensitive and so emotionally intelligent- he also looks good in green. So Leafeon it is. 

[ ʜʏᴜɴᴊɪɴ, ꜱʏʟᴠᴇᴏɴ ]

Hyunjin ends up as sylveon. 

It feels a little stereotypical to put the visual as sylveon but honestly, it suited him. 

Hyunjin’s dance had become so fluid over the years, he’d really grown into himself. Sylveon gave off tall vibes, Sunhee couldn’t really explain it but it did, and the long hair totally matches the aesthetics of the long ribbons. 

The ribbons weaken its enemy's guard and reduce feelings of hostility. Sylveon uses them to distract its opponent before pouncing. It needs affection or friendship to evolve rather than a shard or stone, which Sunhee feels is very fitting for Hyunjin who feels things very deeply and feeds off those around him. 

Sylveon is a very elegant and gentle pokemon, favouring disarming its opponents before attacking and Sunhee knows from personal experience that Hyunjin will take every reasonable option before confrontation. He’d go in to bat for any of them if need-be, with his disarming kindness and gentle demeanour but fierce love for the eight of them. 

Besides, Sylveon just looks like it would be as dramatic as him.

[ ᴊɪꜱᴜɴɢ, ᴊᴏʟᴛᴇᴏɴ ]

Jolteon was the most Jisung coded pokemon she’d ever seen. 

They’re energetic, boyish and rough around the edges. Not to mention his bed-hair bares a striking resemblance to jolteon’s spikey fur… 

Sunhee’s pretty sure that Jisung could generate enough static electricity to power one, if not two of their stadium concert stops if they clamped some jumper cables to his thumbs and rubbed a balloon against him for long enough. 

Apparently they can also be sensitive and temperamental. Jisung has certainly put a lid on his ego of years past and has become a lot more humble, that being said, the Jisung Sunhee first got to know certainly fit the box. He was a cocky little bastard whose pride bruised easier than dropped fruit. He got into fights, worked himself into crying fits and became a ball of nerves if exposed to enough social pressure. 

But with the right trainers, care and love, Jolteons become very friendly and affectionate, much like Jisung had over the years.

[ ꜰᴇʟɪx, ᴠᴀᴘᴏʀᴇᴏɴ ]

Honestly she named the Vaporeon after Felix because of that one rather lewd, copy pasta about the pokemon. She's alomst positve that he would know what it was.

It was the second evolution she’d evolved, before she’d really invested much thought into it, and it was too funny not to do it. But when the others found out about her little quest to catch them all (all being her members in eevee-form), she’d explained why Felix was vaporeon, only for him to start quoting the damn copy pasta- she’d hastily shut him up, dreading the idea of having to explain what the term ‘breeding-compatible’ meant in Korean. 

All of that aside- it is quite a fitting pokemon for Felix. Supposedly, according to the pokedex, they’re very adaptable creatures, having grown gills to better suit water environments and Sunhee can’t help but think back to how quickly Felix had adapted to Korea when he first arrived. 

Apparently they’re very playful and cheeky, but also very elegant. Felix matches that quite well with his joking and bouncy demeanour but practiced grace that makes itself known when he dances. 

She just hopes Stay never finds out she names her vaporeon after him (they all think he’s her sylveon) let alone why. 

[ ꜱᴇᴜɴɢᴍɪɴ, ᴜᴍʙʀᴇᴏɴ ]

Umbreon’s rings glow in the dark. 

That’s what makes her settle on it for Seungmin, when she was about three eevee’s deep and decided there probably should be a bit of rhyme or reason to the naming method. 

Seungmin shines given the right environment. Sometimes that was hard to find, as a vocalist in a group that didn’t do many ballads or vocal focused songs but when they make a track that fits him, or he does a soundtrack for a drama, he is truly one of the best vocalists Sunhee has ever heard. 

Ever since the first time she heard him sing, she’d known his voice was something special and unique. And well, Umbreon was pretty damn special.

Aparently it’s also kind of fucking crazy. A guard dog for its trainers that- Sunhee is appalled to read on the wiki- will rip out the throats of attackers before eating them. 

Sunhee’s pretty sure no other eeveelution could quite match the screw loose energy that Seungmin emits, quite like Umbreon. 

[ ᴊᴇᴏɴɢɪɴ, ᴇᴇᴠᴇᴇ ]

Jeongin was lucky last- eevee. 

Honestly, Sunhee kept him as an eevee because in some ways she still sees him as that little kid from Busan with braces and a dream. He’s still growing into his own, still becoming the best version of himself there is. They all are.

Sure it’s stupid to think he’s still a kid, he’s twenty one already, but he will always be her dongsaeng, someone she needs to look after and foster the growth of. 

Besides, eevees are well-natured and impressionable. Happy, docile pokemon. Jeongin’s very fluffy too. Sunhee can’t really explain that one when he asks, just says it’s the vibe he gives off. He’s soft around the edges, a wonderful young man she’s watched grow over the years, even if he’s not that much younger than her.

Eevees adopt the traits of trainers around them and it’s something she sees very much in their Maknae, the way he’s taken pieces of them each onto himself, found space for each of them in the person he has become. 

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a note from ink: haha, do you guys like my assessment? it is all entirely vibes based with a smidge of information taken from the poxed entries, but sill, i feel like they fit. let me know what you think!

Also: all the eeveelutions art is by chickey-nuggey on pintrest, expect for eevee, which is done by artizzy on instagram! check them both out, they have lovely art styles!

[ ᴇɴɢʟɪꜱʜ - ᴀᴜꜱᴛʀᴀʟɪᴀɴ ]

It’s so painfully obvious that Kang Sunhee was born and raised in rural Australia.

While the Aussie accent is easy to pick amongst English speaking kpop idols, Sunhee’s is definitely that slight degree stronger. It’s generally accepted that there’s three kinds of Aussie accents. Cultivated, which is often mistaken for British, General, which is what most Aussies speak like (Chan and Felix gravitate around this accent) and Broad, the stereotypical Aussie accent people see in media- this is where Sunhee sits.

Studies have been done that along the east coast of Australia, the further north someone lives in Australia, the broader the accent they’ll speak with. And this definitely shows with Chan and Felix vs Sunhee. She hails from about a thousand kilometres further north (that’s over 600 miles in freedom units) than the boys do and it shows.

Her English is more nasally, and stretched than theirs, it’s the kind of stereotypical accent people hear and think ‘oh yeah, that’s an Australian’. The irony is that when Chan and Felix put on an extra thick accent for show or a joke, it sort of just ends up sounding a little like Sunhee’s.

Although, like most Australians abroad, Sunhee subconsciously tones it down- especially while in America. There’s a clip that went very viral back in 2019 from an American news program where the presenter is able to pick up that Sunhee was Australian, but said Felix had ‘a bit of an English accent’.

Australian Stays often joke that Sunhee’s a ‘bogan’ to her core and well, if you watch that vlog of hers from when she visited home in late 2022, you can certainly tell she’s a rural girl.

[ ᴋᴏʀᴇᴀɴ - ᴊᴇᴏʟʟᴀ ]

Sunny speaks Korean with a distinct accent- although, it’s not really because it’s her second language. 

She was raised speaking both English and Korean, her grandparents and parents were all fluent and felt like it was very important to raise her speaking both (her reading was a little lackluster when she first moved to Korea but she didn’t want to admit that). 

Her grandparents used to live in Jeollanam-do, a province in the very south of Korea well known for its agriculture. They spoke with a strong dialect and always had. She went on a short holiday there once, to a beach town with Minho and he found it very amusing how well she slipped into the dialect, joking it was like she’d regressed since he was the one who used to help her learn the seoul dialect better. 

The Jeolla dialect is a little bit gangster in tone, they end sentences in a low pitch (very different to the Australian habit of always ending on a higher pitch). Verb endings are often shortened and rougher constants, they speak fast with a thick accent.  But the whole ‘gangster’, ‘dangerous’ vibe of the accent is fading in belief nowadays, it’s mostly older generations who see it that way. 

Sunny’s satoori (the Korean word for Diallect) is interesting because she only speaks fast like a Jeolla local when she’s ranting or angry. The fans joke it only makes an appearance when she’s crashing out. Usually, she’s good with the vocabulary, has learnt the Seoul equivalent to most satoori words that she was raised with and uses them for the convenience of fans. 

But it’s easy to tell where she gets her korean from because she uses a couple of words that are painfully local to Jeolla province. ‘Wamma’ (왐마) and ‘Omae’ (오매) are the main ones- both terms used to express surprise, very localised to Jeolla. 

The other tell is how she adds ‘-ing’ (잉) to the ends of some phrases, particularly when asking for something, it’s like a little interjection that doesn’t add much meaning, more of a vibes sort of thing so it often pops out when she’s forced to do aegyo. Fans think it’s very cute and endearing. 

During MNet’s ‘Kingdom: Legendary War’ the editors clocked onto it and tried to milk Sunhee’s supposed cuteness for all it was worth, trying to draw contrast to the heavy stage presence Stray Kids had on the show. A few clips of it went viral, mostly from when they did a song swap with BTOB and Sunhee was forced by production to do aegyo for her seniors in exchange for a clip of the song they were covering. The field day was even worse, with her being lent to BTOB for the relay to make up for their missing member and all three of them doting on her. 

The whole show has earned her a bit of a ‘cute’ image with the Korean locals, even if she rarely acts as such. 

Fans in Korea love when Sunhee lets the satoori out, whether it’s the gangster vibe she uses when jokingly threatening the members or the cute vibe she tacks on during aegyo and fan-service.

[ ᴊᴀᴘᴀɴᴇꜱᴇ - ᴋᴀɴꜱᴀɪ ]

Fun fact, language is a compulsory subject in most Australian schools, Sunhee learnt Japanese through primary school and continued with it as an elective once she reached high school. 

Fans who speak the language say her accent is clean, almost clinical. It’s textbook Japanese because that’s how she learnt it, first over in Australia and then during their rookie years with the company. 

Occasionally though, she’ll toss out a word- usually slang or some kind of pop culture reference- that’s drenched in Osakan accent. She explained on live once it’s because she used to talk with Momo and Sana in Japanese when they were younger (Apparently, they still send her japanese memes), it’s how she learnt most slang terms and cultural context beyond text books, so sometimes their accent sticks around her words when speaking the language.

Japanese fans think it’s cute. Kamigata Dialects- like the ones in Osaka and Kyoto where Sana and Momo are from- are often considered to be a bit of a country bumpkin sort of accent, the same way southerners in america have that sort of drawl and the regional towns of Australia have thicker accents. So fans think it’s very fitting that Sunhee has a little bit of a country accent woven into her Japanese given that she did grow up on a farm. 

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[ YOUTUBE ]

Source: Sunny’s Moonlight Vlog no.2

“Stayyy,”  Sunhee pokes the camera lens with her pointer finger, “Guess what tomorrow is?”

A beat of silence as she struggles to lock the door behind her, grunting and screwing her face up just within the camera shot. With one final tug it closes as her excessively decorated keychain clatters with far too much noise for a typical set of keys.

“Valentines day!” She cheers quietly, starting her descent down the building’s stairs. “Now I don’t know about you guys, but I love giving my friends valentine gifts- back when I lived in Australia I used to make little paper hearts or bake cookies.”

The sun pours onto her face, making her squint and grumble in discontent. “Today, I was thinking, flowers for the boys, what do you think? Boys never get flowers.” 

The camera cuts, skipping to another scene where she looks down the lens, beanie tucked over her head and white mask over her face. The walls are coated in greenery and hanging flower displays. She leans closer, whispering. “I feel embarrassed to film, the lady at the register is looking at me weirdly.”

‘Oh, daisies.” And of course her attention is immediately snagged by something else, a very common occurrence. She thumbs one of the dasies in the bucket that sits on a long table spanning the store’s centre. “I think Jisungie would like daisies- do you agree?”

“Would you like help with any-”

‘Ah!” Sunhee shrieked, hands fumbling the camera and barely catching it before it drops to the ground. With the lens pointed at the ground, She can be heard apologising to the worker.

“The nice lady is out the back wrapping up my flowers.” Sunhee slips the mask back and lets out a heavy exhale, dragging a hand down her face, whining slowly from the back of her throat. “Oh- I’m so embarrassed! She asked to take a picture- her son is a fan!”

The pout is pictured clearly as a voice speaks from off camera and Sunhee jumps again.

 Source: Sunny’s Moonlight Vlog no.1

She trips over a pair of shoes left in the doorway, tilting forwards and crashing to the ground of the Dorm’s entryway. She says nothing but stares at the camera with wide eyes before looking out of frame. 

“Sunhee, are you home?” Accent English accompanied by slow footsteps echoing on the floor as Chan makes his way through the dorm, picked up by the camera that sits on the hardwood, capturing Sunhee’s ‘deer in headlights’ expression. “Yeah.”

“Did you drop something?”

“No- I tripped.” 

The footsteps speed up. “What!”

 Source: Sunny’s Moonlight Vlog no.4

She’s sleepy, that much is clear by the state of her hair- dark locks ruffled and fluffy from lack of attention. The clothes are just extras she’d had hanging up, not really dressing up for her outing. The camera is tilted in her palm and she frowns at it, adjusting the angle before smiling brightly, pointed canines on display as her tongue pokes out slightly from behind her teeth. “Good Morning Stay!”

She waves a sweater covered palm at the camera, moving through the doom. “You know, I have a lot of errands to run- so I thought I’d take you with me today.”

Well that was sort of true- to a degree. The group had just finished their last set of promotions for NOEASY and thankfully weeks- nonstop, they were on a week and a half break. But as usual, they were required to vlog over their break. Not to mention, they were moving on the last two days, so they had to pack up their dorm. With the revenue from winning kingdom and their latest album, paired with the fact that JYPE debuted a new band under studio J, meant that finally, Stray kids was getting a dorm upgrade.

The plan was to move them into two separate flats in the same building, and each member would have their own room. Sunhee was very excited. 

So well over half way into their break, she’d started to get her shit together and actually left her bunk and her pyjamas- a very big task for someone catching up on as much sleep debt as she was. But she figured- why not kill two birds with one stone? Film her vlog while preparing to move dorms.

They’d been given keys and everything, provided with the basics of furniture like beds and a furnished kitchen, but they wouldn’t be taking their clothes and other belongings over for another day or two. Management had informed the members they were free to travel to the new flats- set up furniture for their own rooms etc, and surely, over the break most of the others had. It seemed only Sunhee was procrastinating.

“Today,” she tutted, locking the door as she backed out of it and towards the stairway. “I was thinking about going to Ikea- I need a new shelf.”

Sunhee had filled out the application to borrow one of the company cars- approved the day before- and roped Chnagbin into coming along with her

“Wave to the camera,” She zooms in on the screen displaying the security feed at the store’s entrance, Changbin smiles at it waving and making a little heart. Sunhee gives a hard shove between his shoulder blades and Changbin goes stumbling forwards, out of the security feed and off the screen. Sunhee gives a peace wave at the security camera.

“Ya! Kang Sunhee!”

I think you could fit in here,” Changbin opens the cupboard door under a fake sink. They were walking through the displays, making their way to the warehouse to find the flat-packed version a shelf unit Sunhee had taken a particular liking to.

She assessed the cupboard with a critical look, hand under her chin as she lent on a bench beside it, head tilted in thought. “I donno, I think I might be too tall.”

“Shi- It’s two centimetres!” He closes the cupboard storming off and Sunhee picks up the camera from where she’d set it down, laughing to herself as she filmed his retreating figure.

[ Comments ]

@/lovestaystay: Look at this little clumsy middle child.

↳ @/kppoppee: But have you considered her being the mascot of skz?

↳@/lovestaystay: But that’s jisung…

@/chanslaptop: Chris running when Sunhee trips- and the comedic cut when he screams? Top tier.

↳@/chanichris: Her deadpan and timed humour? underappreciated.

@/straightkids: Sunhee and Changbin are long lost siblings. 

↳@/freckleboi: I swear the 99’ line were separated at birth- prove me wrong.

 @/babylinnno: can we discuss how in every vlog, Sunhee leaves the dorm and walks past the elevator to take *several* flights of stairs? how have i not noticed she does that?

↳@/chuchulu: your so right- how has no one pointed this out before-

↳@/freckleboi: No way-

 @/lixheartu: I will forever scream about Sunhee not filming her giving the boys their flowers.

↳@/straightkids: I’m with you,

↳@/kppoppee: Me too

↳@/igot7loves: me three.

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@/skzgirls: Why was changbin so determined to put her in as many ikea cupboards as possible

↳@/chimichichu: say it with me people, /sibling energy/