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if there was one thing father taught him, it was how to do business. it was hardly a classroom setting, the hand-holding and spoon-feeding, the watching over his pupil’s shoulder as he carefully perused every line of their working out. rather, father taught by experience, by inviting a tech giant into the comfort of his home with a handshake and a smile that hansol’s never seen before, before quickly sequestering the associate into the privacy of his home office. simply put, the way to conduct successful business is to do so under the pretence of breaking its first rule: don’t make it personal.

after all, who doesn’t love a compliment? to receive praise from a notorious egomaniac is not unlike buttering up a roast for the grill, and just like father, he fully intends to feast. now he’s on the streets of seonjaedo, its tarmac sizzling from the traction of a race prior, and he notes that the season is ripe for the harvest. the winner approaches as he’s balancing a cigarette between his lips, fingers busy with a lighter. “congrats,” he speaks into the wind, lights his cigarette and puffs. wonshik catches the tobacco between his fingers and points it towards the racer. “you know, i bet a pretty penny on you,” he admits, lips curling into a wicked smile, “nice to see a return on my investment.” and here, a bastardised invitation into the privacy and comfort of his home in the form of a pack of cigarettes he holds between them, just as father taught him, “smoke?”

BAD FOR BUSINESS / @purewreckage

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hey guys! just an update that i'm on a 2 week trip overseas rn so i'll be super spotty w dm replies ( typing this from one of the layover countries as we speak el oh el )!! i don't have access to my laptop either but i've queued some starters!! see yall in 2 weeks 🤓

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the jins share a burial ground in the upper east of astra. it is all sorts of luxury and pomp, boasting the size of land to hold the descendants of the jins for the next five generations. today, his father buries him in an unmarked grave. stomps his foot to the shovel’s step and forces him to swallow the dirt.

what is a man buried alive to do?

why, dig, of course. he claws at the thick layer of dry ground until the dirt seeps into the broken, infected skin between nail and flesh. scrapes over and desperately and over again until the texture of sand grates against his oesophagus as he’s forced to swallow. now he’s here, six feet under in the depths of ansan and he watches how the litter of skyscrapers peek through the thickened, dark mist like gravestones in a cemetery.

what is a man buried alive to do?

why, revenge, god willing. the sound of footsteps interrupts his view of ansan’s skyline from the glass walls of his penthouse in la mariposa, and he pivots quickly around to catch the humanoid he’d ordered moments before. “great, you’re here,” he acknowledges. because there is no time to waste for a man that is supposed to be dead. there is no time to waste before father finds out that he’d foolishly left the body when it was still warm, so rotting corpse as he may seem, he is still very much breathing. hansol gestures to his stack of luggage, “ready my room and unpack,” he orders in a flippant tone, his mind elsewhere with thoughts on how to hit back where it hurts jin hangil the most. indeed, what better way to do revenge than to beat his father at his own game? “tv on,” he commands, and with a flash of light, the hologram of ansan’s beloved news anchor comes to life. so consider this the genesis of his get-rich-quick scheme: he’ll build a name for himself so great, it’ll rival that of the jins. and when he finally takes his rightful place as the jin patriarch, he’ll be the one looking down on his father as the man stands begging for mercy, and he’ll be the one to shovel dirt—

“ah,” he stops his pacing in front of the hologram, turns to regard the humanoid, “when you’re done, make me ramen. i want the noodles hard. not a lot— just a little.” suppose nothing whets the appetite more than escaping death. “save my preference.”

DEAD ON ARRIVAL / @elusium

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hellu hellu gloss here ( s/h, 21+ ) n happy opening day 2 us all!!! can't wait 2 get plottin n interactin w all ur cool muses ♡ im gna be writing for mr venture capitalist, wolf of ansan street, jin hansol!! he's lived in astra nearly all his life and only recently got his ass booted 2 ansan bc his rich n influential daddi-o pulled some strings to get his ass kicked out so ... awkward ... but yes!! you can find more nonsense info on hansol under the cut, but as alw, pls hit that LIKE button n ill come runnin into ur dms!!! also if u have d*scord pls pls lmk bc i cannot for the life of me keep up w tumblr ims orz edit 10/07: so i've decided hansol is gna take on a fake identity as some not-from-ansan dude named kim wonshik bc the anti-astra sentiment in nightrunners ( aka the place he's tryna infiltrate n gentrify ) is p strong and his family is too much of a household name rn!! he's gna be known as jin hansol in business and clinical settings but other times he's gna be known as wonshik but yep!! so muses from ansan prob only ever know of him as wonshik unless we plot otherwise <3

if ur an astrology h0 like me then ♡ he's a leo sun / scorpio moon / aries rising which explains a lot of his fuckassery behaviours 👅

lil backstory: his family owns cynet cybernetics, a v longstanding company and one of the major providers of androids ( aka ai robots / humanoids that run around doin ur house chores 4 u... yep... )!! they were one of the first in astra 50y ago which means hansol was born in astra!! he's Never been to ansan and honestly kinda looks down on it ( pun not intended ) so we know where this is goin 🥶

anw he's born middle child between big bro n lil sis n was unsurprisingly neglected : )) he was alm exclusively raised by cynet androids yikers so altho his physical needs were tended 2 as a kid ( 2 the point of overindulgence honestly ), his emotional needs is that year 1 science textbook sittin in the deep corner beggin 2 b read

a lot of his experience shaped who he was as a teen!! he was a bit of a black sheep n would alw get into tons of trouble like tw underage drinking and drug use n it was all rlly j his own way of trying to get his father's attention!! it seemed like those were the only times his dad ever acknowledged his existence even tho it was usually j 2 express his disappointment

meanwhile his obnoxiously overachieving older bro is taken under daddi-o's wing when he comes of age, even starts 2 intern @ cynet n this pushes hansol to clean up his act!! ofc given his track record his dad is Not goin 2 award him the same internship @ cynet so he ends up trying to prove himself in other ways aka scoring deals, funding startups w his sizeable pocket money, buying out said startups when it shows promise!! he's also a bit of a gambler n even got the rights to revel mayb ab 1y ago in a moderately high-stakes poker games so uh... revel peeps say hi 2 ur absentee owner ♡ also has a ton of body mods to help him cheat in these poker games aka cyberaudio 2 b able to pick up change in tone aka if the person is lying n cyberoptics which helps him read hidden cards!! i'll update his body mods page someday rip

ofc despite all his efforts, none of these r big enough to impress his dad so he goes higher!!! word spreads ab his 'talent' @ the game n this leads to his invitation to play a v v high-stakes poker game w the big boys aka dad's competitors friends!! it's to the point that they don't dabble in cash anymore so this is rlly The Game that would get him his father's attn if he won so he rlly goes all in!! all of the jin family members get a small share of cynet to ensure that the company stays in the family and ultimately overpowers non-relative shareholders in big decisions, n bc hansol is positive he's gna win ( bc he's cheating lol ) he bets his share of cynet eek

ends up LOSING bc it turns out they were cheating too but !! he only knows they're cheating bc he's cheating so can u imagine how that argument is goin 2 go down : )) so yeah cynet is so super impt 2 his family n his dad was absolutely livid to find out that hansol gambled his share away n chalked it up 2 his 'delinquent activities' being so bad 2 the point where it's not only detrimental 2 himself but 2 his family!!! anw 2 regain that cynet share that hansol lost, his dad reports him to the authorities for cheating ( dad obv found out ab his mods bc whose credit card do u think he's usin to install em ) n pulls some strings to get him kicked tf out of astra

so yeah now he's here!! it's been 3 months since n he's still trying to prove himself, this time 2 prove 2 his dad that he's a better businessman than his dad will ever be n the first step is 2 get himself back on astra!! of interest one of his current ventures is to gentrify the betting ring @ the nightrunners races n j make it more organised / official but understandably the nightrunners want their own representative runnin these bets so yeah this means hansol is tryna officially become a nightrunner

personality wise i'd say he's v cunning, likes to think he's more like his dad than his brother is bc he can be p cutthroat and he knows a good deal when he sees one ( n honestly it's true it's prob why his dad loathes him extra ) n he takes a lot of pride in it!! ( yeah he's got a capital D for daddy issues )

also has a bit of a one-track mind so it's like if it's related 2 wtv business venture he's focused on then he'll care 2 the point of obsession n micromanaging but if it's not a priority then he will literally pretend it doesn't exist!! what this means espc socially is if ur someone who's eg a nightrunner he'll be v present 2 u but if ur eg working @ revel he literally could not give less of a shit u prob won't even recognise him that's how absent he is

he can be really charming when he wants to be but honestly it's j part of the game, v wolf of wall street villain coded, has a predatory instinct @ pursuing wealth n will stop at nothing rlly

this is also bad but in line w bein raised by androids n just not respecting ansan at all it can sometimes feel like he's treating ansan as sorta his playground n by extension he doesn't rlly treat a lot of ppl from ansan like real humans n this may sometimes be sorta alluded to in j how he talks or the things he does......... but yeah this sorta goes back 2 his stuff w the nightrunners, like j not respecting their races n stuff n j seeing it as a business opportunity but idk!! mayb w more time in ansan he'll have a good character arc n learn 2 care for things

err as alw i've rambled on waaay too much so if uve made it this far i wanna personally thank u ♡ also below r some plots 2 get us started w the brainstormin!!

since he's p hyperfocused on the nightrunners rn i feel like @ nightrunners there'd b plenty of opportunities 4 positive n negative interactions!! mayb he's tricked u w his charm n u think he genuinely loves racing n shit teehee or ur sus ab his motivations n ur sleepin w one eye open when he's around idk!! i'd also love a nightrunner who's a friend of his ( who he probably approached when he heard ab the existence of these races ) who queued him in that nightrunners only want their own people runnin these bets, which gives him the bright idea 2 become a nightrunner!!

did i mention he loves a good gamble <333 anyone who's a gambling fiend urself pls step right up!!! he also prob places bets on fighters @ the underground so if ur muse is a fighter mayb he places a bet on u!! or against u!! hansol is also not above cheatin so imagine he approaches u n tells u to lose on purpose or smth n he'll give u money in return....

alternatively anyone working @ revel say hello 2 ur boss 😩 i imagine the prev boss was a little more hands on bc they actually cared a lil more for revel and since the ownership's passed to him it's rlly j been goin downhill... also fun thread where he dines @ revel for the first time n mayb he doesn't pay n they confront him n he's like i own this place n they're like o so ur also delusional

he honestly gets a cybermod for literally anyth ( could also b purely for aesthetic purposes honestly ) so anyone workin @ the circle installation centre and apollo medical see u for the monday am appt

he's currently staying at la mariposa ( yeah he was cut off from his fam but this is j proof of privilege 🤡 aka bein his father's son has helped him start off w a large capital to get his hands into a lot of diff businesses which are all now paying off n funding his time @ ansan )

i can also imagine hansol may not be So forthcoming ab him being from astra espc when he finds out ab some of the anti-astra sentiment so idk it would b cool if he kinda lied ab his identity to u n u bought into it n he's literally not at all the person u became friends w ( or even started dating 👀 )

alternatively if ur a diehard fan of astra he will use his birthright as an advantage : )) or if uve been to / are from astra mayb!!! yall could've known each other somehow!!

someone he's pissed off or wronged n mayb now it's comin back 2 bite him in the ass!!!

catch him at orbital sometimes bc old habits die hard

even someone workin at or used to work at cynet?? like the ansan branch or smth!! i feel like ur muse would know him bc he's part of the jin family n ngl once he finds out he's immediately gna start treatin ur muse as like an assistant or smth......... .. .. .... .... orrr mayb he will ask u for info on how daddi-o's doin idk lots of room 4 brainstormin!!

a bunch of his body mods r to make him a good poker player which is rlly handy in business bc he can usually tell when someone's lying!! maybe ur muse is tryna lie to him ab smth n hes like 🧐

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Hari Alluri, from “Ancestral Memory”, After Kwame Dawes 

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Fool Me Twice by Sarah Bahbah

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“Nicky’s mother called.” “Oops, time’s up.”

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"do you seriously think you're above the rules" the stupid ones yeah

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