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Medalion Rahimi photographed by Jan-Willem Dikkers

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       kim taehyung  ,  24  ,  he/him   ------   hey  ,  did i just see siwon ryu walking around the block  ?  oh  !  yes  !   the last time i saw him  ,  i heard he wanted to be called siwon  .  people around say they are so endearing  &&  inquisitive sometimes i wonder how they can be selfish  &&  duplicitous  .  (  popped bubblegum  ,  glowing under the sun  ,  purple-pink skylines  ,  patterned blouses   ) 

heyo  !  i’m deni  ,  she/her pronouns in the gmt+9 section of the world  .  i can’t keep an aesthetic and i use too many em dashes  .  below is one of the characters i’m bringing  ,  SIWON  ,  my favorite problem sunflowers  .  i have some info and verse-specific information beneath  ,  but i have a habit of updating  ,  adding and changing as i go  .  apologies in advance for how messy all tis is  .  looking forward to writing with you  <3  !

☀  𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋 .

➤  full name.  siwon ryu ➤  date of birth.  january 29th ➤  hometown.  toronto  ,  canada ➤  gender.  cis male ➤  sexual attraction.  pansexual ➤  romantic attraction.  pansexual ➤  wants.  family  ,  power ➤  fears.  imprisonment  ,  humiliation

      universal facts.  hustles at arcade halls  ,  scarfs down burritos like they’re gonna disappear  ,  looks as comfortable in a dark  ,  dirty alley as he does standing under all those lights in the neon districts  .  pockets full of candy and a lollipop between his lips  .  likes cheap beer and cigarettes  ,  fast talking and smooth smiles  .  gets up when the sun goes down  .  who knows if he ever gets a full night’s sleep  ,  but you can find him taking a nap just about anywhere  .  seems to live for the dark hours and stays busy as a bee  ,  feels the rain on his skin  ,  plays with matches  .   spray paints boobs on the sides of government buildings and dicks on malls  .  can do crazy math in his head and spot fake bills with incredible accuracy  .  can barely stand to sit still  ,  always moving except when there’s a computer screen or an aquarium in front of him  .  gets addicted to things so easily it’s scary  —  people  ,  food  ,  liquor  ,  feelings  .  craves that intimacy  ,  craves that closeness  .  has a loud as fuck laugh and a love for sneaking into places where he doesn’t belong  .  catches extra cash on the side by fixing up broken-down machines and can figure his way around a motor with a bit of elbow grease  .  fucking loves nature dude  ---  takes care of plants and reptiles in his home  .  would die for snakes and lets them drape over him  ,  claims they give the best hugs  .  vegetarian  .  would be a vegan but too lazy  .

       personality.  loud  ,  noisy  .  could talk to a brick wall  .  holds himself with all the confidence of the sun and his smile burns just as bright  .  there’s this lazy intensity to everything he does  .  like  ,  pretends he super cares but also doesn’t  ?  or pretends he cares so much but in reality couldn’t give a shit  .  affable  ,  easy to get along with on a surface level  ,  and he’s curious enough to keep any conversation going with questions and enthusiastic energy  .  mood changes on a dime  ,  goes from grinning like a maniac to eerily calm in a snap of your fingers  .  intuitive and instinctive  ,  listens to and follows his gut  .  trusts the energy in the air more than anyone’s word  .  comes off as thoughtless but it actually very cautious  .  impulsive doesn’t mean brainless  .  sniffs out bad situation fast and decides on a dime if he needs to run or face it  .  go with the flow kind of attitude  .  doesn’t take things personally  .  nice  but trusting him’s an iffy situation  .  greedy  ---  wants everything and anything  .

       appearance.   stands around 5′11  .  broad shoulders  ,  slim hips  .  floppy  ,  messy hair and glowing skin  .  half legs and a lot of eyelashes  .  wears no less than five charms on a daily basis and keeps his tarot cards with him at all times  .  rings  ,  bracelets  ,  necklaces  ,  earrings  ,  crystals  ,  talismans .  wears a small lip ring and has several runes tattooed on his body  .  dresses anywhere between a washed up rockstar  ,  your college weed dealer  ,  and your grandpa in the ‘40s  .  his closet’s a chaotic mix of anything he could thrift or patch together  .  most of the time  ,  he’s sporting loose pants  ,  a vintage blouse  ,  a jacket or blazer and comfortable loafers  .  kind of swims in his clothing because most of its’ two or three sizes too big  .  only wears skinny jeans when he wants something  .  unironically wears cargo shorts in the summer  .  keeps all that hair back with a bandana or a headband  ,  hairties on his wrist  .  nothing in his closet’s technically new and he loves looking for a bargain steal ——or simply just a steal  .  sometimes he’s jimi hendrix and other times he’s versace  .    

☀  𝐌𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄 .

  ⇀   kim taehyung  ,  24  ,  he/him   ------   hey  ,  did i just see siwon ryu walking around the block  ?  oh !  yes  ! the last time i saw him  ,  i heard he wanted to be called siwon  .  i hear they are a podcast host  ╱  “psychic”  .  people around town say they are so endearing  &&  generous sometimes i wonder how they can be selfish  &&  duplicitous  .  ( beaded curtains  ,  purple skies ,  tousled hair  )  

      about.   wrongly labeled a troublemaker after a little incident with some candles  ,  pentagrams and a slightly burned down warehouse  ,  siwon’s been on the road and seeing te road ever since  .  makes a few quick bucks tapping into that aura of his that somehow magically nudges his brain about who’s got what on their minds and what might happen to those what’s  ,  but no one really seems to believe him when he says it’s all real  .  starting a podcast straight outta the back of a busted-up RV  ,  siwon’s crossed the country and broke down in this little town  .  and  ,  so  . . .  maybe some stuff he was involved with in the past wasn’t totally legal butthat’sokayokayhedoesn’tdothatanymore  .  ANYWAY---  this town  .  figures he’ll call it home  .  it’s groovy enough  ,  he supposes  ,  and after a few attempts to get out of town that just failed  ,  siwon figures this is the universe telling him to settle down for a bit  .  so okay  .  his few listeners don’t mind  ,  siwon still does some readings and random lectures on whatever’s on his brain  .  for extra cash  ,  he does a few side gigs  ---  fixing up websites  ,  selling crystals and rocks he finds  ,  jobs around town that don’t require him to fork over any semi-serious documentation  .  takes scenic pictures for his instagram and documents the road-trip across this Great Wide Country he and his pets are seeing  .  let’s  . . .  let’s just see how this goes  . 

☀  𝐌𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘 .

  ⇀   kim taehyung  ,  24  ,  he/him  ,   toxokinesis   ------   hey  ,  did i just see siwon ryu walking around the block  ?  or was it poison  ?  it’s hard to tell  ,  really  ,  all i saw was the commotion  ,  someone being saved  .  you know  ,  i heard siwon is an app developer  .  i also heard they are a saint  ,  really  ,  so affable  &&  generous  ,  none of that mercurial  &&  selfish  nature people talk about  .  (  blackened veins  ,  wild eyes  ,  living for the applause  )

       about.  after his parents volunteered him for  “ quirk ”  studies at a leading research institute  ,  siwon’s been semiworking for the man  .  but it’s fine  .  it’s fine  .  totally fine  .  spending most of his early life in a tank waiting to be let out  ,  siwon kept himself busy with plant pals  ,  reptiles  ,  and of course a computer screen  ---  everyone’s favorite parents  .  he’s developed websites and applications for the hero organization to help them locate and identify trouble around the city  ,  a bridge between 911 services and the heroes themselves  .  at twenty-two  ,  siwon created a popular app cataloging heroes and villains  ,  a place for fans to post their own pictures of fights and fallouts  ,  gossiping about which heroes were secretly in love and speculating about new faces behind the masks  ,  then a megapopular game where people could play as their favorite heroes or villains to save  (  or destroy  )  a city  .  as poison  ,  he wears no cape --- and in fact hasn’t even been seen since the site skyrocketed in popularity years ago  .  instead  ,  siwon helps in the development of weapons using his poison and sends little  ,  touching notes to baddies all over the world when he isn’t shuttling around on mercenary expeditions  .  he’ll ignore the mortal coil for now as long as they fly him first class  ...  he thinks  .  just hopes the organization doesn’t find his stash of supervillain fanfics  .  ikes  .

☀  𝟏𝟖𝟓𝟑 .

  ⇀   kim taehyung  ,  24  ,  he/him   ------   hey  ,  did i just see siwon ryu over there  ?  talk around town is that they are a witch  ,  but i don’t believe any of that  ,  no  .  they are just a con artist  ,  endearing  &&  generous  .  those are all just humors  .  like the people saying they were selfish  &&  duplicitous  .  (  frayed tarot cards  ,  three-piece suits  ,  sticky fingers and a smile  )

      about.  look who got himself invited into a magnate’s manor  :  a nobody who made a pretty penny from the opium trade ----- and who’s definitely not human  .  siwon’s bounced from city to city on his own  ,  brewing and selling antidotes to unfortunate come-downs from the drugs that’s rotting them all from the inside out  ,  but that’s only to sell more of that shit once the high’s gone  .  it’s enough to keep the rich happy enough  .  popular at parties  ,  he performs as a spiritualist and fortune teller  ,  snakes into conversations he shouldn’t be privy to and trades the information later  .  he’s a busy man  ,  what can he say  ?  for someone who wants to be free from all of this  ,  he enjoys parts of the lifestyle far too much  .  but maybe he should start making friends soon  .  attracting a lot of attention lately  ,  and with rumors of animals around  ,  even the “fake” witches like himself might find themselves in more trouble with the law  .  and now there’s the other trouble he’s found himself in  .  unfortunately caught swindling a vampire  ,  siwon was forced into dealing with a group of witches and their opium trade for protection  .  now his clients are their’s  .  his product and profits  ,  partly their’s  .   siwon’s in a whole other side of the criminal underground on the cusp of the victorian age  ---  and he doesn’t know what the fuck’s gonna happen  .

☀  𝟐𝟐𝟖𝟎 .

  ⇀   kim taehyung  ,  24  ,  he/him   ------  hey  ,  did i just see siwon ryu over there  ?  yes  ,  oh my  !  haven’t you heard  ?  it seems they have moved to level seven  .  makes sense  ,  considering they’re a techie  .  rumor has it they are so affable  &&  inquisitive but i know at heart they are just impulsive  &&  mercurial  .  (  busted old radios  ,  buzzing neons  ,  sticky situations  )   

      about.  tba  !

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       medalion rahimi  ,  27  ,  she/her   ------   hey  ,  did i just see marnie taslimi around the block ?  oh  ! yes  !  the last time i saw her  ,  i heard she wanted to be called marnie  .  people around say they are so headstrong  &&  protective sometimes i wonder how they can be aimless  &&  abrasive .  (  sunny weather on a fall day  ,  sweating out your problems  ,  post-workout muscle aches  ,  worn-out letterman jackets  ,  dream pop  )

heyo  !  i’m deni  ,  she/her pronouns in the gmt+9 section of the world  .  i hate proofreading and don’t know how to use commas correctly  .  below is one of the characters i’m bringing  ,  MARNIE  ,  my favorite sporty gay  .  i have some info and verse-specific information beneath but have a habit of updating  ,  adding and changing as i go  .  looking forward to writing with you  <3  !

☀  ��𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋 .

➤  full name.  marnie taslimi ➤  date of birth.  april 1st ➤  hometown.  multiville ➤  gender.  cis female ➤  sexual attraction.  lesbian ➤  romantic attraction.  lesbian ➤  wants.  excitement  ,  a dream ➤  fears.  failure  ,  metaphorical disintegration

       universal facts.  sporty as fuck ------ softball  ,  skateboard  ,  streetball  ,  parkouring off anything  ,  basketball and biking  .  fit for the gods despite a steady diet of ramen and pizza  .  claims to like horror movies but a total schmaltzy indie snob  .  only has a twitter account for the memes and an insta for skateboarding videos  .  mix of a jock and punk  .  warped tour t-shirt and silky gym shorts  .  wants to be a beer snob but on a strict bud light budget  .  abides by a strict bed by 11 PM clock even if she’s tried to bump it a hundred times before  .  likes wearing makeup but is running late half the time  (  does she even know how to tell time ?  who knows  )  loves kids and is pretty good with them  .  squeals every-time she sees a playground  .  will kick your ass at anything competitive  .  only wears sports bras  .  read half the communist manifesto in college and thinks she’s a marxist  .  used to be a punk rock fan but her playlist is mostly indie pop and gal grunge now  .  really needs to wash her face but her room is spotless  .  gay as fuck and open about it --- parents are chill  ,  gets onto her more for her shitty eating habits than who she’s bringing home  .  will fight you  .  really needs a good cuddle  .  favorite past time  ? dancing around her room  .

       personality.   wants to do anything she sets her mind to and takes losing terribly  .  a little brash  ,  especially to people she’s just met  .  sociable  ,  but not exactly friendly  .  it takes a lot for her to come to trust someone  ,  but when it happens she’s loyal and protective AF  .  still talks to friends she has for years even if she doesn’t really like them anymore  .  speaks her mind  ,  often times saying the first thing that comes to her head  .  blunt and a little demanding  ,  quick to order people around and assume control of a situation  .  big leadership energy  .  she thinks  .  tends to pick up skills fast with a determined scrunch of her brow and a lot of sweat  .  pours herself into new hobbies and activities with an incredible amount of focus  ,  so when she isn’t good at something  ,  like  immediately she gets --- weird  .  pretends to brush off stuff with a shrug but takes a lot of criticism and failure to heart  .

       appearance.  5′6 but she feels taller  .  big  ,  bushy curls she maintains with argon oil and nights spent wrestling with a comb  .  throws it up in a bun or low in pigtails most of the time  .  closet is super simple --- jeans and a bunch of t-shirts  .  athletic wear  ,  sports jerseys  ,  sweatpants  .  thinks throwing on a vintage denim jacket dresses up an outfit  .  bites her nails  ,  but her favorite neighbor keeps painting them  .  polish stays chipped  ,  but at least the skin’s moisturized  .  no tattoos  ,  only has a piercing in each ear because she dreamed of gauges back in high school  .  posture is impeccable until she’s at work and then it’s like the whole world’s grinding her down  .  sneakers stay scuffed  ,  white space drawn in with markers and sharpies from when her co-workers get bored  .  socks are always matched  ,  clothes clean because she actually likes doing laundry  ??  never switches out her wardrobe from season to season  .  half of what she wears doubles as pajamas  .

☀  𝐌𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄 .

  ⇀   medalion rahimi  ,  27  ,  she/her   ------   hey  ,  did i just see marnie taslimi around the block  ?  oh  !  yes  !  the last time i saw her  ,  i heard she wanted to be called marnie  .  i hear they are a supermarket cashier  .  people around town say they are so headstrong  &&  protective sometimes i wonder how they can be aimless  &&  abrasive  .  (  scuffed pair of converse  ,  big dreams on a dime store budget  ,  messy hair and pigtails  )

       about.  a skyline she’s seen a dozen damn times  .  roads she’s carved ruts into with two feet  ,  a bike and a skateboard  .  a swing in the park where she smoked her first cigarette and the warehouse where she broke her first girlfriend’s heart  .  familiar and weird  ,  isn’t it  ?  coming back home after swearing you couldn’t wait to leave  .   marnie talked a big game back in high school  ,  leaning into all those softball trophies in her bedroom after leading the local team to the state championships not one  ,  not two  ,  but three times  .  once a rising star  ,  something about a post-college funk made her fumble  .  scholarship nabbed  ,  eyes on a pro team next  .  mandatory minimums on a GPA she couldn’t keep up with  .  a shitstorm of deadlines  ,  essays and study hours made her head spin and she tried --- damn did she try --- but didn’t everyone deserve to have a little fun  ?  burnout came fast and hard  .  imposter syndrome a thunderfuck of feelings she couldn’t handle  .  what became a tentative gap year to get her head right’s become three  ,  four  ,  six years  .  recently  ,  marnie’s signed up for local community college classes in the hopes of easing back into the desolate wasteland that is academia  .  problem is  ---  what she’s supposed to do  ?  she’s just so goddamn bored  .