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 Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:58 am
xxxxxxxxx✚ JIN AE LEE
xxxxxxxxxxxSemi-Custom Quest JIN AE LEE ║ BLOODLUST ║ BLOOD ║ BOX-CUTTER
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:00 pm
xxxxxxxxx✚ YOUNG GIRL
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxAbout Jin Ae Lee xxxName: Jin Ae Lee
xxxColor: #a41818, Bloodlust
xxxAge: Fifteen
xxxNationality: Korean
xxxHome/Financial Status: Lower class, resides in a small one bedroom apartment with her grandparents (located in the Downtown Lynn District).
xxxSchool: Quail Continued High School
xxxPersonality: To most Jin Ae seems standoffish, rarely talking to anyone, even her own grandparents. She tends to keep to herself, spending most of her time in her room when she isn't at school and avoiding most contact with her peers while she's at school. When spoken to she often will speak very few words back and will make it known she isn't enjoying their company.
Surprisingly though despite seeming "off" most of the time Jin came be very loving if the right person comes along, willing to devote all her time to them. She is quite clingy around those she holds close, rarely letting them leave her sight. She also often gets very possessive around her loved ones and if she feels someone is becoming a threat to someone she holds close she will make it her personal mission to remove them from the picture. Needless to say she can have her violent streaks during these moments.
Others might often feel like they are walking on eggshells when around Jin do to her known violent behavior. Any number of things can set Jin off. It could be a funny look someone gives her, name calling, or some type of negative remark towards someone she cares about. The thing that would often drive her into fights as a child would be anything involving her parents, sometimes even the mere mention of them.
As of right now her violent streaks are mostly limited to kicking, punching, and maybe sometimes biting. Her grandparents are very cautious about what they leave laying around. This means anything she could use for destructive habits such as knives or scissors are safely locked away.
Jin Ae is a bit headstrong. She'll never back down from a fight. This causes her to be a bit brash with her decisions and will often rush into things without thinking of the consequences. This often can get her into trouble and can even lead to her getting injured on occasion.
In her spare time Jin enjoys taking things apart to figure out how it works, mostly old electronics though she isn't picky and will often bring home whatever she finds throw away in the alley behind her apart. She can't fix anything she finds nor does she have any desire to. She simply enjoys disassembling things, the parts from whatever she was dismantling usually strung around her room until her grandparents attempt to clean it. This serves as a sort of coping mechanism for her that she developed as a child which she just never grew out of. It's a relaxing activity for her much like reading a book is and also helps as a release for her anger. She can be as rough with whatever it is she is taking apart and it won't cause any unwanted trouble, making it probably the only healthy way she releases any of her anger. Her interest in how the things work, especially electronics, is something she recently developed thanks to all those huge books she reads regularly now.
Outside of her destructive habits Jin Ae can often be found reading an assortment of books, many of which usually seem a bit too advanced for her age, or sometimes stealing her grandparent's netbook while they are away to entertain herself with some mindless games for a bit.
Jin must always constantly keep herself busy. Anytime she isn't entertaining herself with something her mind tends to wander back to her parents. To avoid this she must always be busy. The books she reads for example especially help with this and this is why she often picks out books of an advanced nature such as medical and higher level science. It is not so much those subjects even that get her interested so much as the harder the read, the harder it is for her mind to stray. Likewise a lack of anything to do would probably end up in her making a rash decision such as starting a fight just to get her mind off of the past.
xxxAppearance: Jin Ae is on the small side, standing at only 5'2 she hardly looks threatening and is rather defenseless looking despite the glare she is usually sporting across her face. Her very pale skin also adds to this giving her a somewhat frail and sickly appearance. Jin is somewhat on the chubby side though only slightly. Just enough to give her a somewhat cuddly look about her.
Jin has long curly black hair which always appears unkempt and on the messy side with her mass of curls. Her bangs are always crudely cut with jagged edges that you can tell she cut herself. She leaves one side of her bangs long, covering up one of her eyes.
Like her hair Jin generally dresses rather on the sloppy side. She mostly wears darker clothes that tend to be sort of baggy and not form fitting. She does however own a few dresses which she quite enjoys wearing and will sometimes end up wearing them several days in a row at school.
xxx[Slight warning for this ref since she is only in her underwear]
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxRefs: Appearance/ Body Type Ref
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxPolyvore - Example of Street Clothes
xxxHistory: Jin Ae's parents were hardworking Korean immigrants, living in a small suburb of New York. They were caring and devoted to their only daughter. She had a normal childhood, even if she wasn't particularly rich, and she was very close to her mother and father.
At the age of eight years old Jin's parents were taken from her by a car crash, though Jin didn't even know of their deaths for a couple days. The day hadn't been particularly abnormal even if her parents hadn't been there to pick her up after school that day. "They must just be busy." she continually told herself as she walked home. This wasn't the first time this had happened. Sometimes her dad wasn't able to get off from work to pick her up and her mom would always be waiting for her when she got home. However when Jin reached her house it was completely empty, both parents and their car were gone. Jin tried her best to shrug this weird occurrence off too. This hadn't exactly happened before but, mommy and daddy were probably just busy, yes just very busy. This was the mantra that got her through the night. The next afternoon a knock sounded on the front door. It was a social worker accompanied by a police officer, come to retrieve the now hungry and sleep deprived little girl. Jin shied away after opening the door, her excitement and hope of it being her parents quickly disappearing. After a few moments of reassurance from the both of them she reluctantly left with the two, leaving behind most of her belongings and the once warm house she used to call her home.
After learning of her parent's deaths Jin Ae was placed in a foster home with a loving family with two other fostered children. The once happy little girl had been replaced. She became quieter, pulling away from people and barely speaking to her foster parents. Her anger slowly built over the whole situation, feeling like an outcast and placing the blame of what had happened to her parents onto her foster family. She began throwing tantrums anytime she was asked to do something, even if it was sometime as simple as them telling her to come eat dinner for the night. This eventually lead to her lashing out, often hitting and punching the two other children she lived with. She hated having to share with those kids, often hitting them if they even touched the few things she owed. The concept of having to share with someone else was quite new to Jin, being as she was an only child while her parents were alive. She hated having to compete with the other children for affection or attention and turned to violence, discovering that this was an easy way to get what she wanted even if it came with bad consequences.
Troubled by Jin's behavior, her foster parents sought therapy for her. At first, she would refuse to go entirely, slapping her foster parents away when they tried to bring her. Eventually, she was coerced to go. Jin Ae would just sit in the room with the therapist, breaking the small toys and not speaking. Occasionally she would draw pictures for her therapist, depicting a doodly-Jin and her family, all smiling and holding hands. She spoke only once to her therapist, to gesture to her drawings and say "This. I want this."
Eventually her foster family learned to leave her alone, letting her stay locked in her room and leaving food outside her door so she wouldn't have to interact with them if she didn't want to. Jin continued to go to therapy once a week. She never showed any improvement, not for her withdrawn ways, nor her violent outbursts. Her foster family tried to get the young girl to cheer up, offering her rewards if she behaved herself, for one-on-one time to go shopping with the foster mother, or to go out to get ice-cream with the foster father. Yet still, this didn't work. Jin didn't want to do those things with the strange people. She wanted to do these things with her real parents.
Jin continued to act violent when forced to interact with anyone. She would scratch and hit her foster parents if they came to retrieve her, and she'd throw things at the foster children if they tried to talk to her. She spent two years there acting up both in and outside of school, often causing fights with other children. While Jin Ae's behavior was bad she rarely ever hurt anyone past cuts and bruises so her foster family was able to put up with her, even if they were beginning to worry more and more about her violent outbursts. Their worries of Jin turning even more violent eventually proved to be true.
The day started like any other, Jin had gotten into a fight with one of the other children over her favorite toy. As usual Jin turned to violence to win this fight. Grabbing a pair of scissors that had been carelessly left out she jabbed the other child in the arm, snatching back her toy and retreating back into her room, leaving the other child to be found by her foster parents. While she had not given the other kid life threatening injuries and the cuts she had given were still rather minor her foster parents finally decided she was too dangerous to have around the other children. After putting up with her violent behavior for two years her foster family gave her back to the system, saying the couldn't handle her violent behavior in their house anymore.
For the next three years she was passed from foster family to foster family until eventually the system was finally able to get a hold of her only living relatives in the country -- her elderly and poor grandparents who lived in Teufel Town, California. Despite being frail and poor, they happily took Jin Ae in, and tried to provide for her as best as they could, even turning their living room into a makeshift bedroom for their newly adopted granddaughter. Her grandpa even came out of retirement to work at a local deli in hopes he could save up enough money to move his new family into a bigger apartment in a safer area. They often worried about Jin, noticing her strange behaviors and how closed off she was towards them. They decided to enroll Jin into Quail Continued High School hoping the alternative school could in some way, shape, or form help Jin come out a little more. However, Jin was still shaken from the death of her parents and her time in foster care, and had already begun to shut out most people completely.
xxxFamily:
Mother (Deceased) - Eun Mi Lee
Eun Mi was very loving both as a wife and mother. Family always came first in her eyes and after Jin Ae was born she quit her job in order to stay home with her daughter. She was killed in a car accident at the age of 31.
Father (Deceased) - Dae-Hyun Lee
Hardworking and sometimes a bit strict, Dae-Hyun was a very devoted husband and father. He often worked long nights just so her could provide for his wife and daughter. He was killed in a car accident at the age of 35.
Grandmother - 74 - Chun Hei Lee
Chun Hei is rather on the frail side and usually inside their tiny apartment to help with her ailing health. Despite being quite sickly most of the time she still tries to care for Jin Ae the best she can. Even though their granddaughter is rather distant towards her she holds out hope that one day she'll come around.
Grandfather - 77 - Jung-Su Lee
Rather distant, Jung-Su is a man that rarely lets his feelings show. He is however quite worried about how closed of their granddaughter is and even came out of retirement to work at a small deli down the street just so he could try and provide for her better.
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:02 pm
xxxxxxxxx✚ PUELLA MAGI
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxAfter The Contract xxxLanguage: Seoul dialect, the basis of the standard language of Korean in South Korea.
xxxDesires: To be noticed by the object of her affections (this would only happen through RP however, it is something I will want to plot out and RP before she contracts), to be able to protect those she cares about, and to be rely on herself and not have to so heavily rely on others (mostly her grandparents).
xxxEmblem: The alchemical symbol for blood
xxxWeapon: Box-cutter
xxxType of Magic: Offensive-based, she's quick on her feet and slightly speedier than most other magical girls. All of her attacks are close combat.
Being that part of her wish will be to gain the attention of the person she wants to befriend and is crushing on her support ability would be along the lines of being able to slightly focus attentions, as in she'd be able to momentarily distract a witch or even another Puella Magi. This effect would only last a few seconds but, it would be enough for her to easily get a few attacks in.
xxxOutfit: A hanbok with a bit of a modern flair. The modern touches leaning towards lolita with lace and frills. Outfit is mostly red with black and white accents. Artistic freedom is of course very welcome!
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:05 pm
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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxJust in Case Amazing headshot by haliekins
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Friendly Conversationalist
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:20 pm
First of all, I want to say how good of a job you did on Jin Ae overall! The poor thing sounds like she's been through so much, and her reactions to the situations she was put in seem perfectly realistic to me - especially for one so young. Her appearance really chimes well with her personality, given her habit of shutting people out and staying home. I'm really fond of her Puella Magi uniform idea and the desires for her wish, especially the fact that you want to work that out via RP before she would contract. I find that rather appealing and different since, gauging a few of the other shopgoers' quests here (mine included), most people's histories reflect what they want. So this is definitely something that sounds interesting to see unfold via RP, speaking as an outside party. :>!
I do have a few questions/crits for you though!
You describe her violent streaks somewhat briefly in her personality. Can you give us some more detail about what those entail?
Definitely digging her hobby of deconstructing things! Is there any basis for what got her into doing this?
Since you said she likes to read any number of books as well as play games on the internet, she seems the type who likes to keep her mind pretty occupied. If this was intentional, is it to keep thoughts away from her losses? Mostly just curious on this one~
How would she react if someone she was very fond of up and left her, if they felt she was being too clingy? Again, just curious on this one!
In her history, the fact that it takes the social workers/police three days to figure out that Jin Ae's parents had a child (and only with the neighbor's intervention) seems a bit off, unless her parents had no form of ID on them or any kind of medical or dental records. Perhaps bump that up to two days or a day and a half? I would think if any of those were obtainable, they would find that her parents had a child and would start going through the motions of looking for relatives/putting her in foster care.
I'd like to know more about her situation at her foster home! Incidents or things about the family that caused her to start her descent into anger: perhaps feeling like an outsider? Would there be any specific violent outbursts? Just a bit more description here!
As for this one person you want Jin Ae to find and want to protect, would this be merely a friend, someone she's romantically interested in, or someone likened to a family member? Or would that be something you would also figure out during RP?
For her Puella Magi form, does she have a supplementary/support ability? Such as how Mami could use her ribbon, Homura could enchant objects (such as chains), Kyoko had her chain-link barrier, etc.
That's all I can think of for now. Either way, I hope these helped you out, and I wish you the best of luck in getting Jin Ae. She's a character whose RPs I would definitely enjoy keeping tabs on! In the meantime, here's a present for you:
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:58 pm
Thank you Halie! This was the nicest thing to come back to. <333
That really means a lot to me to hear you say that! Really glad she came off realistically because while that was what I was going for I wasn't exactly sure if I had pulled it off.
I wanted to try having a sort of interactive wish, mostly because I think the idea of having someone else involved and eventually becoming the reason why she contracts to be pretty fun. She also at this point in time doesn't have much trust in anyone so I highly doubt she'd trust Kyuubey enough to wish on anything until someone got her to open up a bit.
Any number of things could set Jin off. Could be a funny look someone gives her, name calling, or some type of negative remark towards someone she cares about. The thing that would also drive her into fights as a child would be anything involving her parents, sometimes even the mere mention of them.
As of right now her violent streaks would mostly be limited to kicking, punching, and maybe sometimes biting. Her grandparents are smart enough to keep knives and really anything sharp away from her.
This would definitely be something that she started when she was in foster care. Back then it would have just been breaking toys or maybe the occasional handheld electronic device, such as a gaming system or cell phone if the other foster children she was living with carelessly left them lying around.
It's sort of a coping mechanism she developed as a child that she just never grew out of. It's a relaxing activity for her much like reading a book is and also helps as a release for her anger. She can also be as rough with whatever it is she has and won't cause any unwanted trouble, making it probably the only healthy way she releases any of her anger. Her interest in how the things work is something she recently developed most likely because of all those huge books she reads regularly now.
Yes, it is indeed intentional! She always has to keep herself busy to keep her mind from wandering back to her parents. The books especially would help with this and that is often why she would pick out books of an advanced nature such as medical and higher level science. It is not so much those subjects even that get her interested so much as the harder the read, the harder it is for her mind to stray. Likewise a lack of anything to do would probably end up in her making a rash decision such as starting a fight just to get her mind off of the past.
I can actually see that going one of two ways. She would either fall into complete despair and passively just kind of close off, or just completely go insane. Either way this is most likely what would lead to her becoming a witch. Only way I could see her even remotely overcoming that is if by some slim chance she had someone to fall back to for comfort This however would only happen if the person who left wasn't the one she wished on.
I will definitely be moving that down to only one night alone then. I was a bit unsure how many days to leave her home alone at first but, you are right in it not making much sense for it to take that long. Even one night alone in a dark house with no way to feed herself would be enough to traumatize her even before she found out her parents were dead.
At first a lot of the anger would be brought on by the fact that the family taking care of her aren't her parents. Any time they would try to discipline her or even ask her to do anything would upset her. This probably at first only lead to tantrums though later down the line it would lead to eventual violent episodes. Being in a strange house with a strange family was definitely the first thing that pushed her towards anger. So yes, feeling like an outcast would be a big part of it! I can see a lot of her outbursts also starting from having to share with the other children. This would be a concept completely new to Jin being that she was an only child and not used to having to fight for affection or attention.
The turning point for her first foster family giving Jin back to the system and realizing they couldn't handle her anymore would probably be bought on by a particularly bad outburst, leading to one of the other children getting badly injured. I will be elaborating on this more and adding it to her history post within the next day once I get the exact details ironed out.
While it is something that will only be figured out for sure through RP I do picture her crushing on this person pretty hard even before they become friends. Though this crush could end up very well being one-sided but, in the very least they would still be really close friends.
Being that part of her wish will be to gain the attention of the person she wants to befriend and is crushing on her support ability would be along the lines of being able to slightly focus attentions, as in she'd be able to momentarily distract a witch or even another Puella Magi. This effect would only last a few seconds but, it would be enough for her to easily get a few attacks in.
That picture. Just. ;_; <333
Thank you so much! This was completely unexpected and so very sweet of you! You don't know how much you just completely made my day. I absolutely love how you captured her personality so perfectly! <333
Thank you again for the crit too! You really helped me a ton with ironing her personality and her history especially a lot more. I really can't thank you enough, you just helped me so much! <333
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:40 pm
Allo Shi, this is just a little blurb of crit~
I hope it helps in some way~
If she were with the person she loves/is devoted to in public, would she also act lovey? Or just act coldly possessive? Are her lovey moments solely for when they are in private?
Has Jin ever gone to therapy? Had anyone tried to get her to therapy? After so many reports of violence and recluse, I would think that many of the foster families would beg the system to have her get therapy. If she hasn’t why not? Just a suggestion, it seems like it could fit into her history.
Two years sounds kind of long to be living with a quiet child who cuts and bruises the other kids. Maybe if you add other kinds of methods the foster parents tried? Two years in one’s room would worry many parents.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:42 pm
Okay finally getting around to replying to this. Sorry I took so long. ;_;
First off though thank you for the crit Sky! You made really good points about her history so, thank you again. You really helped a ton. <3
I can see Jin being lovey in public to an extent. She'd probably almost always being clinging to their arm when they are together and I imagine she'd want quite a few hugs as well. She'd want to keep anything more lovey than that private though, such as telling said person she loves them. It is just in her nature to be very clingy.
She would act more coldly possessive if there was a third person in their company. It wouldn't be anything that extreme, mostly just nonstop clinging and glares at the other person would not be uncommon either. Only time things would escalate from there is if she felt like the other person was trying to take the person she loves from her. A situation like that would probably end in Jin trying to start a fight.
This is actually something I had never thought about till now! Her foster family did try taking her to therapy after they started noticing her violent behavior. Once Jin was talked into going she'd refuse to talk during her sessions and would mostly just sit there breaking the small toys and crayons they had in the room. Jin would never up open up to the therapist, even when the therapist tried. She only ever got her to speak once. Jin continued to go to therapy once a week the whole time she lived with her first foster family but never showed any improvement.
While Jin was going to therapy her foster family also tried to get her to open up with such things as one-on-one time to go shopping with the foster mother, or to go out to get ice-cream with the foster father. Jin rarely wanted to go with them and if they did convince her to go it would usually end up in her throwing a tantrum halfway through and just wanting to go home. No matter what her foster family tried, no matter how much one-on-one attention they gave her she still never thought of them as anything but strangers. She didn't want to do things with strangers, she only wanted to do things with her real parents.
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