Name: Song Minjoon Nickname(s): Joonie, Joon Age: 25 Birthday: November 5th 1996. Occupation: Bartender at The Hideout in Azure Heights + Waiter at Blossom Café in Silver Point Sexuality: Demisexual Panromantic Zodiac Sign: Scorpio sun, Virgo moon, Capricorn rising Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff Enneagram Type: 9 – The Peacemaker Character Alignment: Lawful Good Myers-Briggs Type: ISFJ-T – Turbulent Defender Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rat POSITIVE TRAITS: Loyal, Hardworking, Kind NEGATIVE TRAITS: Childish, Anxious, Gullible Bio - Trigger Warnings: Anxiety, Reference to homophobia:
Minjoon moved to America a little over 13 years ago with his family, a little after the family’s ‘scandal’ came to public attention. The Song-Lee family weren’t strangers to rumours before then, the most popular being that Lee Jisun’s partner, whom she has already had one child with, had been having an affair with Song Sarang and when both women discovered the truth, after they had both fallen pregnant to him, they left him and moved from Seoul to Hanam-si together to support each other after what he’d put them through. Many people who worked closely with Sarang and Jisun easily swept the obvious under the mat as long as it wasn’t public information that they had to outright deny. Friends and colleagues of both women were happy to pretend to believe the obvious lie about their living situation when the truth of the matter was that they had been in a secret but loving relationship since their teens.
Minjoon was the middle child of three boys although he and his younger brother Minho were affectionately dubbed ‘The Twins’ by their mothers, their births only being weeks apart. The Twins and their older brother, Dohan, were spoken to in regards to doing their best to keep the secret exactly that. Of course they had also been told that it couldn’t be helped if it came out, they were only children after all. Minjoon, however, was petrified of saying the wrong thing and made the decision to keep his mouth shut whenever he wasn’t at home. Minho then took his taciturn brother under his wing – made sure he was included by his friends when Joonie refused to make his own. They assumed he was a friend of the Lee’s, always with one of them and simply just shy. This was until his anxiety became worse as he became older, to the point where he’d start screaming whenever anyone touched him as his automatic response. He became more and more withdrawn, more and more terrified of other people – students and teachers were all an equal threat to his otherwise happy life.
Dinner time at the Song-Lee residence was the first time that Joonie’s family was together during the day; it was the first time during the day that anyone saw him relax and even smile because he wasn’t capable of doing or saying the wrong thing – his family was whole and nothing could take that from him. Joonie felt at peace, he felt comforted and when he wanted to prolong that feeling, he found the best way to do so was take part in making the meal, following clear instructions he couldn’t get wrong and even then, burnt food wasn’t going to drive his family apart. Even after Minjoon developed a love for food and cooking, his moms were growing ever more concerned about how detached he’d made himself from his peers; locking himself in his room whenever his family members had anyone over and refusing to go out with Minho and his friends, opting to stay locked away from them all and read recipe books instead.
The first decision about helping him came in the form of therapy and even after he’d been made aware that the doctor knew his moms were partners, he still refused to talk about them. After hearing that no progress could be made, Jisun and Sarang made the decision to move away somewhere they would be more accepted, somewhere Joonie wouldn’t panic about mentioning his family to anyone and somewhere they could finally get him the help he needed. It took years and several therapists after they arrived in Maine but Minjoon was able to grow into his own happy, albeit still slightly nervous person. It wasn’t surprising when he pursued his passion for food all the way to NYU, still finding comfort in the first thing he loved. Alongside his food and his business studies, Minjoon minored in art with the intent of using his artistic skills for his dishes in a restaurant or café of his own one day.
With no clear plan for his future, simply an end goal, Minjoon was more than happy to follow his roommate when the other wanted to move back home to Azure Heights and needed someone to split the bills with. It was a chance for Minjoon to branch out on his own with some semblance of familiarity in the form of his friend. Joonie loved the little apartment he’d been living in for a couple of years, so much so that when his best friend announced that he was moving away for his dream job, Minjoon didn’t even consider moving back to New York and instead starting planning on how he was going to afford to keep his home with prices spiking - knowing he’d need more than the tips he earned at The Hideout. That’s when he started applying for jobs in Silver Point, only planning on pretending he fitted into the wealthier half of town until he found a roommate - something that he was in no rush to do once he started working at Blossom Café.
