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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Casey.
AGE: 22.
JOURNAL: frottage.
IM / EMAIL: skirtflip / garudyne at yahoo.com.
PLURK: bangtan.
RETURNING: N.

〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Jinseok Jin.
CHARACTER AGE: 22.
CANON ORIGIN: Original universe.
CHRONOLOGY: Before being kidnapped and killed by Park Taeyeol.
CLASS: Anti-hero.
HOUSING: Alone please, in an apartment in Nonah.

BACKGROUND:

There was nothing in Jinseok's childhood that would indicate the way he was going to turn out. No harrowing, traumatic experience, no family who ignored him, no struggling throughout the day just to get a warm meal at night. Jinseok grew up very much in the lap of luxury, between two well-off business owners in a huge house with maids to wait on him hand and foot and cater to his many, many petty whims.

Okay, so maybe when he was a child Jinseok's parents were working so much that they weren't really around for as much time as they could have been otherwise, but Jinseok never felt lonely in their long absences. When he needed affection or attention, the maids were always there to pick up in the places where his parents just couldn't, and he never had any problems with the fact that his parents left early and came home late. With maids to run headless at his every beck and call, who would feel neglected?

Maybe he got a little addicted to the feeling of being loved and waited on, and by the time he reached high school, his emotional needs were at their peak, and he became obsessed with getting the affection and attention of his peers, his maids, the staff at school, strangers he'd pass on the street--anybody in the whole world, he just wanted them to look at him, to notice him, to realize that he's kind of incredible? And he'd like them to tell it to him, even though he's already well aware.

That need for attention is what bred into his eventual hunger to become a pop idol. What better way to get attention than to be on stage, with hundreds and thousands of people watching your every move and living and dying over your every breath? There was no better way for him to get everything he wanted, and his parents supported his endeavour, letting him join the rungs of the most prestigious entertainment company they could toss their money at.

It's a shame though, because all the money in the world couldn't make Jinseok a good idol. Singing and dancing turned out to be so much harder than they looked, and in two skills that required a lot of blood, sweat, tears, and most importantly, effort, Jinseok just didn't have the drive. Though it might have something to do with the fact that he spent all his time fraternising with the other trainees, feeding off their attention and insisting that they skip practice and spend their time only with him.

When he wasn't charming his way into the pants of celebrities-to-be, he was being scolded for not practising, for not being able to do even the most basic manoeuvres, and for not paying attention when being reprimanded. Dozens of times he must have been threatened that after one more misstep his contract would be terminated and he would be kicked out of the company, but it never happened to him; he proved to be incredibly persuasive, and even though the company was losing out on a lot of money trying to train him, they couldn't seem to grab hold of a reason strong enough to get rid of Jinseok for good when he offered so many better reasons to keep him around.

So in the company he stayed on, skipping practice and distracting other trainees, only focused on how many he could have hopelessly wrapped around his hands and feet, and attending big events that the company organised in order to get the trainees schmoozing with established singers to further their would-be careers. Jinseok only attended to look for more pretty faces to get the attention of, of course.

His skill in talking circles around people was finally something that Jinseok actually excelled at, and he was so proficient in talking potential investors to sponsor him, rival companies to vie for him, other trainees to worship him... that he caught the eye of someone who was none of the above; a low-level cartel flunkie who only edged into parties to pedal drugs and earn bank. Praising Jinseok's abilities was enough for the guy to get Jinseok to leave the party, following him back to a well-respected company building, heading up to meet with the CEO himself, Mr. Choi Jungil.

While Mr Choi dealt entirely in exports, it was never quite clear to the public what exactly the company's biggest export was. Truth be told, it was a drug called sanguine, and the thing that made the company so successful was that it was so very, horrifically addictive, and even harder to get.

Jinseok was given five minutes to prove his worth and convince Mr Choi why he should hire him, and he did it in three. Thus began his new career as drug mule. He was expected to go out onto the streets, sell sanguine in small doses to whoever would take it, and give 70% of his earnings back to the company. He didn't bother asking what was in the drug and doesn't want to know; something like that doesn't matter when all he's trying to do is sell it for profits.

And selling for profit was something Jinseok was very, very good at, and where other mules would sell a few mls here and there, Jinseok managed to sell it in litres, managed to hook up other companies into distributing it in huge volumes, and even drummed up interest in neighbouring countries.

Following the huge spike in interest, Jinseok was given a new job: coordinating the untalented meat sacks who were given his old job. Too valuable to be transporting the drug himself, his job escalated until he was delegating deliveries to his own flunkies, organizing their flights out of the country, and pulling strings if they happened to end up in jail for drug smuggling.

The internal spread of the drug within Korea accelerated following that, with companies facilitating sales with large volumes of stock bought from Jinseok. Alongside it, the spread outside of Korea grew in enormous volumes, which called for a lot more hands required to get the drugs where they needed to be and facilitate the handover from Jinseok's people to the buyer's.

They didn't need to be skilled hands, or even smart hands, they just needed to be willing to take dozens of plane trips a month to countries across oceans. With his own security detail at hand, Jinseok had them begin searching the streets for runaways, homelesses, people down on their luck; anyone he could get willing to work for him.

Which is where Jang Junseo came in--a real, natural idiot with a flair for absolutely nothing. His security team brought the kid into Jinseok's penthouse as a new mule, and as he was--covered in piss, stinking to high heaven--Jinseok wasn't interested in him as a person, but hired him regardless, because you don't need to be qualified to be a drug mule.

Things changed once Jinseok saw him cleaned up though, and it turned out that Junseo had a natural handsomeness that you just don't see on many people when you work in a business that ruins lives as Jinseok's does. His obsession with Junseo grew quickly, and his possessiveness even faster. He took claim of the kid, decided he was his, and nobody else was allowed even a shred of Junseo's childlike attention. He didn't even mind that he spent most of his time working with Junseo cleaning up his mistakes and messes--the way Junseo lowered his head when he was upset with himself struck Jinseok as very cute, and staying up until ungodly hours to bail him out of some prison deep in Mexico didn't seem half bad.

Even with the addition of Junseo essentially tripling his workload, Jinseok did his job and he did his job well, which made his untimely arrival all the more disappointing to him.

PERSONALITY:

When it comes to positive, socially acceptable traits in a person--kindness, compassion, empathy, sympathy--Jinseok has next to none. While he may be charming, persuasive, and excessively clever, he is brash, irrational, selfish, and cowardly in far larger degrees than those of his acceptable traits. Nobody he meets can be under any possible illusion that Jinseok is a good person--he takes what he wants when he wants it, and the rest is garbage that can rot out of his eyeline; not interested.

Very little of Jinseok has changed throughout his years. As a small child he sought after attention like it was integral to his continued existence--an oasis in the center of an endless desert--and something like that need hasn't left him, despite now working through his early twenties with vigor. Though a fully grown adult, Jinseok still craves attention like he did when he was still in his single digits, and to get it, he acts in much the same way. There isn't as much screaming and crying and threatening to have people fired, but more throwing himself into the face of anyone who will let him, insisting that they pay attention to him right then, because who wouldn't? and, well, threatening to fire them himself. He isn't above getting rid of a handful of flunkies who refuse to jump any time he asks.

Jinseok's sense of self preservation is high, and though he has no qualms sending someone else out into the fray on his behalf, like his drug mules out to foreign countries to pedal drugs at his behest, or his security team into dangerous situations he brought on himself, he will absolutely not step out of his safety bubble into something that seems even the slightest bit of a danger to him. He's far too important to be in the direct line of fire, and his company agrees--it's half the reason they give him enough money to throw into a security detail in the first place.

He has no regard for the health or wellbeing of anyone who isn't himself, and his only worries when it comes to other people are whether or not it impacts him or his work. If one of his workers gets sick he's going to react, but it'll be with annoyance, and he won't feel for them in their time of need. Rather, he will likely instead just get irritated at the fact that they're making him change his already perfect system to accommodate their inconvenient illness. When it comes to others, he is far from empathetic, and his interest in the lives of anyone who isn't him is minimal.

It should go without saying by now that Jinseok is extremely selfish, and if something doesn't relate to him, it isn't important. Be it situations, events, people--if he isn't involved, there's no point in it.

Spending more than five seconds with Jinseok is enough to clue you in to his incredible vanity, and there is nobody who loves Jin Jinseok more than Jin Jinseok does. He spends hours in front of his mirrors primping and preening, and calling in whichever leg of his security team is closest to come agree with him. He doesn't consider things like that as wastes of time, because no time spent with him can ever be called a waste. He's God's gift to the world.

Similarly, he only surrounds himself with beautiful people. For someone as devastatingly handsome (a self proclaimed title) as him, to be surrounded by ugly people would only be an insult to his eyes, and he considers them as much. People who aren't beautiful on the outside are just as useless as their faces, and aren't worth the air they waste by breathing.

His moral compass is skewed in odd directions, a fact that isn't difficult to realize when you look at his occupation and work ethic. Jinseok willingly and joyfully supplies his own country and the countries that surround him with a highly addictive narcotic distributed only by him and the company he works for, and cares very little about who gets a hit after that. He also supplies Junseo, the youngest of his drug mules, with a steady supply, keeping him strung out far more often than he lets him come down--a boy of only fifteen years old.

More than anything else, the thing Jinseok values most is himself, and it turns him into an incredible coward when he's being threatened. When in trouble with things looking bad, he isn't above begging, willingly offering up bargains with heavy losses on his side if it means he gets to keep his life (and more importantly, his face).

He's possessive about the things he likes, even if those things end up being other people. The faces he deems pretty enough to surround him are to only pay attention to him. They can't have other lives outside of him, it doesn't matter if they're friends or family, all the attention has to be centered on him, and if Jinseok isn't the pinnacle of their live, he doesn't want them around him.

He's incredibly manipulative, knows he's a smooth talker, and will tell people what they want to hear to get him what he wants.

Much like a child who hasn't learned to communicate properly yet, Jinseok is very passive aggressive when he doesn't get his way. When being wronged, rather than explode with his outrage, he's prone to going cold, bottling up everything into a cold irritation, and taking out his anger in petty, small ways. Like when Junseo chose to spend time with an elderly neighbour instead of him? He cut Junseo off from the drug he himself got the kid dependent on, and wouldn't give him another hit until he apologized for what he did wrong.

One of Jinseok's most uncomfortable features is the fact that he is an incredibly sexual person, and most of his persuasive deals involve him offering to do some salacious act in exchange for the thing he wants, or just because he's eager to see what a beautiful face looks like while he's on his knees. Particularly in his line of work he uses those kinds of deals to string lonely, rich business owners along, but never actually delivering on his promises.

In fact, unless he has a particular special interest in seeing more of their beautiful face, Jinseok's talk is just that--all talk; manipulative tactics that work to get him what he wants without him ever having to lift a finger.

POWER:
Only persuasion, further amplifying a skill he already had. Using his natural negotiating skills will get him what he wants more frequently and with less effort. It is essentially a mind manipulation type deal, making the offer he's putting on the table sound impossible to turn down.

〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
This is Jin Jinseok. Don't forget that, Jin Jinseok, the one with the handsome face.

[ He pauses to pose for the video briefly, tilting his head around into a short series of angles he likes to think are his glamour shots, before easing back into his seat. ]

I need a hairdresser. It isn't for me, because my hair, look? Perfect. For my Junseo, he looks like a rat and his hair is straw now. I do not blame the Porter for saving the best until last, but maintenance of a pretty face is important, or you will turn ugly and nobody will ever love you. A bad haircut ruins the ratio of your face, even the good ones.

A hairdresser is what I need, and I need a good one. Also, one who is good with rope, and will tie someone to a chair when they squirm too much? Someone like that, who will maybe tie me up too, for fun.

Someone tells me what I want to know, and maybe I will let them spend time with me. If you are an ugly person, I don't want to hear from you. Only the handsome ones can help me, and I will help you in return, by showing you the inside of my apartment. You will not leave disappointed, you can trust me, Jin Jinseok. Remember that? It's important.

That's it. Please help save my Junseo from his homeless hair before I have to get rid of him.

LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE.

FINAL NOTES:
Jinseok's way of talking is stilted and awkward, rather abrupt and to the point. He has a habit of repeating his own points in different words just to make sure his ideas are heard, understood, and most importantly, paid attention to. He will also only use his full name when introducing himself or addressing himself, for no reason other than he wants people to remember it, and he loves it, because it's his.