#yjsurrender

a year. it has only been a year since karina lost her best friend turn fiance oh jae-in. arranged to be married since they were children, the two would develop genuine feelings for each other and do things their own way much to the annoyance of their grandparents. everything was planned perfectly— but it was ripped away by the sudden death of jae-in. karina has been living on autopilot ever since and has yet to properly grieve and accept that she will never again love anyone in the manner she loved him until she learns that the arrangement between their families will continue. but with someone else— that someone being devon jackson, jae-in's half sister, his hidden half sister. a half sister that his mother gave up to stay in america with the biological father and his family far away from chaebol society and her family. but devon herself has her own demons to deal with, and now she's learned about her mother and the maternal side of the family, along with having another younger sister and a now deceased older brother, and has now gained the responsibility of continuing his engagement to his late fiancee. devon has no idea about chaebol society or how to navigate it, nor does she know how to deal with the fact that her soon-to-be wife looks at her as if she shouldn't exist. but feelings and love are very complicated— they can also sneak up on you when you least expect them.

GUARDIANS OF THE LONE BRAIN CELL

DEVON 'DEVIE' JACKSON • jackdaniels_ • lesbihonestnow

devon grew up believing she didn't have a mother because, according to her father, she's the reason why her mother's no longer with them anymore because of her dying in childbirth and was raised primarily with her grandparents and her aunt. considered a soccer prodigy from a young age, and it was the only reason why her father became more involved in her life but would end up suffering a career-ending injury during a college championship game and switch her major to focus on cinematography and getting a master's in photography because she just wanted to be busy. spends most of her time helping her sister manon with filming her vlogs, helping her aunt with her gallery/art studio, being kidnapped periodically by ayo to come on her film sets, and being the only person her cousin trusts in taking photos of him. has a very strained relationship with her father and only deals with him because of manon and her grandparents and has a service dog named pancake, pan, for short thanks to some crying convincing by manon. works in the movie industry but uses her nickname and manon's last name.

AYO EDEBIRI • ayoedebiri • ayoohoo

lives to get on devon's nerves...out of love! director, writer, and actress— ayo goes to her friend first with her short films or just drags devon with her because of her not wanting to be on set alone. outside of her devon's cousin and jennie, she has known devon the longest, even before they went to the same school together due to their grandparents being friends, and has been friends through everything— including the time period where devon's father didn't want her to have outside distractions and wanted her to concentrate only on soccer. ayo and kelvin both sneakily mention devon being a cinematographer, and devon has worked on several film/tv projects that has ayo in them. has tried, and failed, to get her best friend back into dating after their last relationship, but whenever she brings it up devon always throwing something at her. considers herself the baby daddy of devon's service dog, pan.

KELVIN HARRIS JR • kevharrjr • kevsnothere

devon and manon's cousin. everyone swears he's the normal one in the group when he's very much not. views devon more as his little sister than a cousin due to them practically being raised together when he and his mother lived with their grandparents when they were raising devon. an established actor who can and will mention that devon is a cinematographer, so he. kelvin at one point did have a close relationship with devon's father, but after seeing how he treated devon and how hard he pushed her when she played soccer, it soured the relationship, and now he doesn't care about him at all after devon suffered her injury. actually met karina and devon's late brother when he went to korea for filming. considers devon's service dog as the group's baby and mascot.

JENNIE KIM • rubyjane • jenkneesnuts

kpop artist and actress, jennie and devon's grandparents have lived next door to each other for decades and were known for coming directly over to see baby devon after coming home from school. that's still hasn't changed, as whenever jennie came to visit her grandmother as she got older, she would go directly over to see devon. jennie knows bits and pieces of what happened with devon's mother from listening to her and devon's grandmother's conversation, but because of not hearing everything, she still believes that the woman is dead. she's very protective of devon, overprotective if you ask ayo and yunjin, and spoils devon and shows no remorse about it when someone points it out.

MINNIE • min_nicha • minnieme

model, singer, and songwriter. minnie met devon after she and her family moved from thailand and she started attending the same school, and they started hanging out more once devon's father lifted his restrictions. considered to be devon's muse by everyone but devon herself because she just likes taking pictures of minnie or in devon's words, 'it's not my fault minnie is so photogenic.' she and devon did date throughout high school and some in college but mutually decided to break it off once minnie started taking her career in singing more seriously and decided to remain friends. minnie's the only one devon has confided in about her relationship with her father and how the pressure of being in soccer really affected her. is the actual baby daddy of devon's service dog, pan.

HUH YUNJIN • jenaissante • thisnotjin

singer, songwriter, and devon's main headache (affectionately). yunjin takes being the youngest girl in the friend group very seriously and is a walking, talking chaos vortex with a very beautiful voice, and if you ask devon or anyone how she became part of the friend group, none of them have any idea but say the same thing about how she just appeared out of nowhere and has been part of the friend group ever since. yunjin's family is also wealthy, so she has met and knows karina and her friends and has talked about them in passing to her friends and has even said to devon's going to end up taking pictures of karina up close and personal one day. she and miles are the only ones who will use knowing devon to their advantage because they are more comfortable with her when it comes to taking pictures or being photographed for magazines and different photoshoots because they know her— and yunjin knows devon won't say no to her.

MILES CATON • mil3s_ • milesishere

actor and singer. miles is the youngest of the group and is the one everyone actually dotes on and spoils; he claims to hate it but will look at everyone sideways if they treat him differently for more than two seconds. between him and yunjin is the calmer one, but when the two of them are alone, there's absolutely no telling what dumbness the two of them will get into, and it happened— and still happens— when they were in school. it got to the point where they were almost separated in music class because they kept talking in class, but the teacher saw that they were more productive when making music and musical activities. a very gifted musician but was convinced by ayo and devon to try out for an audition for a film— the film went on to become an award-winning hit with people pointing out his performance, and it boosted both his career in music and in acting. has managed to convince his management and team to let devon be the one who photographs him during most of his photoshoots and goes to her when he needs advice on how to take better pictures for his social medias.

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