Family:Father: Hyun "Joe" Yong - Deceased
Mother: Caron Yong - Deceased
Sister: Seren Yong - Alive, DCU
Personal History:Dai was born 5 years and 1 month, to the day, after his elder sister Seren. Unlike how they felt about his sister, his parents were thrilled at his birth, the son they had awaited for so long (in their minds). Dai was raised with the idea that he was the beloved child, that he was the wanted one. Despite that, and their parents' attempts to convince him that his sister was evil, a curse, and that he should avoid her... Dai adored his sister, who loved him was kind to him and treated him with a gentleness she had never experienced herself. For much of his early childhood, she was the caretaker when his mother wanted time to herself.
However, when their parents realized how attached to her he was, saw that he was always trying to include her in family things, they decided to try to limit his time around her. He was about 4 at this point, and he would try to sneak off to see her whenever he could. He only stopped when he realized
she was getting punished for his actions.
From there, he stayed back, trying to show her he still loved her but without their parents seeing. It was hard, and he hated it, especially as he knew of the abuses they heaped on her... But he tried hard to be the model child they wanted, so that he could hopefully distract them from her, from hurting her more. When he went into school, he was a straight A student, though he did not have to work hard. Education came
easily to him, and so did friendships with kids his age. He seemed to have an effortless talent for making friends, and for leading them.
He watched his sister from a distance, the entire time she was still at home. He saw the way her relationship failed, he saw the way her life fell apart. He saw her flee their home on her eighteenth birthday, a month before he turned 13. He had done his best to buy anything she was selling by way of friends, and hid them away, to keep as memories, during the weeks leading up to this. He did hear the way his parents called out good riddance after her, and it just solidified his honest loathing for them in his heart.
He kept his dislike of those two selfish people to himself, however, and focused on school, and his friends. Meanwhile, he used the internet to try to hunt for information about his sister, about where she had gone. He retained his popularity through High School, and he took California's early graduation test to get himself out. Two days after he received the letter showing he had passed, his parents died in a car accident caused by his father driving while drunk. No one else was harmed, luckily, and Dai was left at seventeen with two options... Move to his paternal grandparents' home, or sue for emancipation. He chose the later, and as he had been accepted into Harvard the following year, he was graduated from High School, and he showed an appropriate maturity, the court chose to grant it.
At this point, he too packed up all of his belongings. However, as he had a rather lot more, he paid to rent a UHaul and put everything that mattered to him, or was his sister's, in the truck. He sorted through all of his parents' things, and found a number of interesting legal documents that he kept, as it had to do with inheritances they had been hiding from his sister and he. Given that his reasoning for applying to Harvard was twofold... It was one of the best schools in the country, and it was closer to where he had found evidence of his sister... He thought he could maybe fix things.
It helped that the lawyers who had Executorship over those inheritances were on the East Coast, too.
He then sold EVERYTHING else, including the house, which left him with an unexpectedly tidy sum. His mother had been the sole heir, save for a few trust funds set aside for the first two grandchildren, to a fairly wealthy family (though it was odd that she was, she was the youngest of three, but her
own parents and siblings had also died in a suspicious car accident, but there had been nothing to link her that the cops could find), and between that and his father's money, he was rich enough that he could live comfortably for the rest of his life without working, if he chose. He did not. Instead, he moved to Boston, and set himself up to be comfortable for his four years there. During his Freshman year, he managed to get in contact with his sister and began to repair their relationship.
By the time he had graduated, he had decided to move to Destiny City and finish his education towards becoming a lawyer at DCU. The lawyers were there, and he hoped to connect his sister with the trust fund she was supposed to have had. So far, he has not found a good opportunity, though he was able to gift her his old car when he got a new one.
He now owns a really nice condo, and the one across from it, on the penthouse of a tower in DCU. He rents the second one out for extra income, and resides comfortably, as he studies and makes friends with the people of Destiny City.
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