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dreeftaway · 1 year

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hi, hello everyone! i'm jamal and here's my stoic, slightly emotionally constipated scientist jin dosoo. super excited to be here (haven't been in a tumblr rp for years so i'm a little nervous) but i hope i can write with every amazing writer here! here's dosoo's brief info (will be updated gradually) and here's dosoo's app that contains her story pre- and post-outbreak. below the cut is some trivia about her and some wanted connection (which is not much). i'm also available on discord for a discussion! :D

trivia:

dosoo is the only daughter in her family. she has (had?) 5 brothers, 3 older, 2 younger. they were fishermen and they had a sashimi restaurant by the beach. so naturally dosoo was expected to work there after she graduated high school

her family is the typical asian family who thinks sons can do no wrong and puts daughters on a higher pedestal; dosoo was very self-sufficient because she was expected to do all the work in the house when her mother wasn't around (while her brothers were lazing around after work)(bad). no one ever asked her what she wanted out of life

she wasn't born a genius; she was fairly average in school but she was very very very dedicated to her studies (who trades sleep for a study session kind of student). she's also very critical of herself but she hates it when other people criticize her (bad)

her relationship with her family made her not want to get married but she still did nevertheless (it was an arranged marriage). her husband, jungha, is very chill about her and the whole relationship was business-like more than anything. they b chilling 2 meters apart, watching the news and reading books, sometimes bitching about their colleagues

dosoo is not a fan of teamwork and prefers to be left alone but her marriage taught her that not everything can be done alone (and that its okay to ask for help!)(she's still feeling very conflicted about that but with the apocalypse going, she's learning to cope)

not a fighter, more of a runner. she ran marathons and it all pays off! very sloppy with weapons, it's a surprise she didn't take her eyes out or something. fairly good with knives because of her years serving sashimi in her family restaurant but she doesn't have the stomach for violence (violent thoughts are where she draws the line)

she brings her journal everywhere like a holy book. it's like a diary for her, where she writes her daily routine and what she encounters on the road especially about the infected. she's very observant when she's not getting chased by the infected (which is why she prefers to sneak around so she can take notes of everything that's going on around her)

loves animals but does not have the commitment to keep a pet. dosoo would wave at stray cats but shrink away from them because she doesn't want the cat to get attached to her. she really doesn't have the energy to take care of another being.

wanted connections:

dosoo is not a fighter and therefore susceptible to attacks by the infected or other aggressive civilians. please teach her fight! (she's not good at it)(there will be frustrated screaming)

you catch her snooping around trying to figure out what the hell is up with the fireflies. dosoo is curious about a lot of things (the wrong things). more fighting? or just talking ensues?

probably with one of the gen zs? dosoo used to teach and host lectures so maybe you've seen her before. she's not very enthusiastic when meeting people but she'll talk your ear off about her research

something in the team reminds dosoo of her husband and you, a kind soul, offer to listen to dosoo loudly denying that she misses her husband while being all melancholic

i'm always up for a discussion! i'm down for anything angsty comedic thriller any genre to ever exist please don't hesitate to pitch your idea to me

#frf:intro #j: out of character

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dreeftaway · 1 year

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agent JIN DOSOO has volunteered as a SCIENTIST in division four. they are 41 years old and resemble BAE DOONA of the good ol’ days. think they used to be an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR back then, too. pity those days are over now. they’re a little ALOOF, but with their PRECISION, they’re sure to make a fine addition to the unit. good luck and godspeed, soldier.

there was nothing out of the ordinary with her childhood. her family always said she had a dream too big for her own good. the jins were good with knives and pans, not papers and pens, or so dosoo was told. a small quip would end up in a full-blown argument with her parents and dosoo would find herself by the coast of sindeok beach, thinking that this, gutting fish and mollusks, was all she was good for. it took years of arguments and even longer years of small talks over dinner that her family finally relented. her cousins still thought she was doing all of this so she didn’t have to deal with fish anymore (the words rang true but dosoo wasn’t about to let her intention known) when she brought her diploma home, the first in her family, all the jeers stopped.

during her time in college, dosoo had grown exceptionally close to her supervisor, professor yang jeongmi. dosoo was made known of professor yang’s background which bore striking similarities to hers: the odd one in a family that didn’t value education as much as they did with an unwavering devotion to their dreams. professor yang saw herself in dosoo, she confessed as much, and dosoo, longing for someone who understood her, latched onto her. dosoo came home less and less; there was always something to be done around professor yang and the disappointment on her face when dosoo told her she wouldn’t be coming wasn’t worth the constant nagging her mother gave her.

dosoo got married to someone professor yang introduced her to. lim jungha was a colleague before anything else; they worked together several times but there was no budding romance between them, no matter how hard professor yang insisted that asst. prof. lim was head over heels for her (perhaps he was; dosoo was too preoccupied with her papers to see it). her family liked asst. prof. lim, her mother especially so; it was the only thing she shared with professor yang. she got to know asst. prof. lim (jungha, he insisted) and life went on. the marriage, after all, was proven to be beneficial for both of them.

dosoo first heard of the cordyseps from professor yang. both dosoo and jungha were among the scientists who worked to observe the mutation. their objectives changed when the infection reached korean peninsula; alongside kdrt, they worked to contain the infection and, to some selected scientists, find a cure. some days, dosoo managed to keep her zen; their laboratory was isolated from the outside world with first-grade protection against the infected.

the day dosoo received a call from her mother was the day her peace shattered. the infected had reached yeosu and with the elderly making up the majority of her family, they were as good as immobilized. help us, my daughter, her mother had said, but dosoo wasn’t moved. in the end, it was jungha who persuaded her to contact the kdrt to provide transport for her family.

the request was denied. despite being the lead researcher in their project, the kdrt held no respect for her and her family and, for the first time, dosoo wondered who they worked to find the cure for when it was clear that the kdrt held zero compassion for the survivors. professor yang remained tightlipped and unwilling to pull any strings to keep dosoo’s family safe. it was jungha, always jungha, who sneaked her out of the laboratory but was unable to follow because he couldn’t abandon his post. dosoo didn’t call him a coward, not to his face anyway, but she promised to return once she saw her family in safety.

splatters of blood on the wall welcomed her. aunt misook, with her bright eyes turned glassy greeted her by the front door and dosoo ran, ran, ran. she ran and she hid, the two things she realized she was best at, and made a call to jungha, only to hear that the laboratory had been compromised and he, too, was on the run. they had the kdrt, in the beginning, but they had no one now. it was only then dosoo realized that the organization was never their ally.

fireflies was everything she stood against. dosoo was told that they were a group of terrorist, yet whatever their causes were, it was the better option compared to the kdrt. so she ran until she found the spraypainted logo and camped around there for days, waiting for someone, anyone, to come and find her. perhaps, this way, dosoo could finally have the resources to find jungha and whatever left from her family.

#dosoo: the beginning

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