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[kjnwoos]

so sorry for the vanishing act, everyone! work has been keeping me more than busy. i have loved getting to know you all and plotting with everyone buuuuut i wanted to make it a little easier on myself so ta-da! wanted connection page! obviously, i am open to brainstorm if nothing seems to fit quite right and it will be ever added onto. let me know if any of them strike your fancy and we can get to plotting it out. as always, feel free to find me on d*scord @ daisydaisy#5293 💖

(link to plot page here)

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closed starter for @interldes

normally, cooking was jinwoo's answer to everything. feeling stressed? feeling overworked? feeling so wound up that your skin feels like it's pulling too tight across your bones? he always turned to the kitchen. but this time, it wasn't working. jinwoo pushed a stray piece of hair out of his eyes with the back of his hand, let it drag across his forehead to catch a small bead of sweat that had started at his hairline. his pot was seconds from boiling over and the pan he deglazed earlier had started to bubble in a not great way. there was a slight tang of burnt something in the air and the microwave clock reading 03:17 in neon green was starting to grate on his last nerve. 

jinwoo tilted his head from side to side, pushing his ears down to his shoulders, feeling the tension pull in his back muscles underneath his shoulder blades. this wasn’t right, it didn’t feel right. he was somehow both in his element and separated from it entirely. an out of body experience back to when he was a kid learning how to make a perfect bouillabaisse with his mother, fumbling with spices and utensils. he was annoyed, his frustration getting the better of him, and he couldn’t make the buzzing irritation under his skin go away. 

this was supposed to be relaxing. 

unintentionally, jinwoo closed the cabinet door with too much force after taking out an array of spices. he flinched at the sound and then huffed in frustration at yet another thing not going right. the deglazed pan he was planning on using for a broth base decided to start puffing out bits of smoke, almost as if it was angry for being unattended to for so long. the smoke alarm going off was the proverbial cherry on top of the cake. 

“fucking shit,” jinwoo cursed, probably too loud but he didn’t care. he pushed the handle on the sink to cold as fast as he could and slammed the pan into the sink before grabbing a dish towel to fan under the blaring alarm. as if he had nothing else going on, his pot decided to boil over too, water sizzling onto the open flame of the gas stove top. “motherfucking- why?!” he quickly grabbed the pot off the burner and set it onto a cool on towards the rear of the stovetop before getting back to fanning the alarm, desperate to shut it off. 

it was only then that he heard someone enter the kitchen and jinwoo whipped his head up to get a better look. “sorry for... all this,” he said with a gruff to his voice that wasn’t exactly friendly. “i’ll clean it all up in a minute. just-” he cut himself off and grabbed an extra dish towel out of the drawer before handing it to jisun. “help me fan this to get the alarm to shut the fuck up.” 

[kjnwoos]

a nervous breakdown? I’m actually very confident in my breakdowns. I’m experienced.

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kwon jinwoo aesthetics 1/?: get to know me

my breath’s getting short and i’m unsteady, welling up in tears as i lay upon your belly telling you i’m fine, i don’t really need nobody but you say through a sigh that i said that lie already

[kjnwoos]

hi hello! my name is daisy (she/her, 21+, cst) and i’m so excited to be here!! let me introduce you to my boy kwon jinwoo, a 23 year old chef from seoul running away from a career-ending family scandal. under the cut is (probably too much) info on my guy along with some possible connection ideas. give this post a ❤️  if you’d like to plot or feel free to msg me here or on discord @ daisydaisy#5293 . just as a general heads up, i sometimes forget when i need to respond to ppl so please never worry about double messaging/giving our messages a bump if i haven’t replied. i can’t wait to write with you all! 🤠

before we dive into all of that, i do want to say that jinwoo’s backstory/information has a lot to do with chef stuff and also shady business stuff. aka things i do not know a whole lot about. so if any of my information/terms are wrong, sorry in advance! 

GENERAL:

birthday:  july 17, 1998

cancer sun, taurus moon, capricorn rising

born in seoul, sk

family: kwon wooseok (dad), shin minhee (mom), kwon jinyoung (younger brother, age 14)

traits: (pos) thoughtful, courteous, nurturing, open-minded, passionate, (neutral) emotional, reserved, introspective, observant, (neg) standoff-ish, reclusive, insecure, temperamental, judgmental, lavish

career: former executive chef at “simmer”, an upscale modern fusion restaurant in seoul

ABOUT:

traveled a lot as a kid because his parents own “intaste”, a french style gourmet restaurant that started with one location in seoul but now has hundreds across the globe

mom, minhee, was the creative brains behind it all and was the og chef de cuisine at intaste. she then turned it into a business that raked in the money and allowed jinwoo to grow up without wanting a single thing

dad, wooseok, joined intaste as patissier and eventually became cfo of the corporation. he was the money brains behind it all

jinwoo grew up in kitchens and loved every second of it

his family all got along well together, his parents were strict but nothing out of the ordinary. his only wish was to be able to see his parents more often instead of growing up with a nanny

went to the best schools, got decent enough grades, didn’t care much about grades tho as he knew he wanted to be a chef

his little brother jinyoung came around when he was 9 and he couldn’t have loved it anymore

jinwoo is, in general, a pretty loyal dude for everyone but do NOT mess with jinyoung. that is one line he will not allow anyone to cross

after graduating high school, jinwoo went straight on to being a sous chef at the intaste in seoul, not bothering with culinary school or university

worked his way up to chef de cuisine after 4 years, then (much to his parents disapproval) decided to leave and start something new

jinwoo started at simmer, a new modern fusion restaurant that an old buddy from intaste had opened 

in general, the public thought jinwoo was a good chef (he had appeared on some talk shows to promote things and had been in the tabloids since he was young due to the high profile clientele his parents rubbed elbows with)

in general, the food world thought he was over-rated and a nepotism baby

a few months after simmer opened, news broke that jinwoo’s dad had been making really shady deals with politicians and had a bunch of off-shore bank accounts with embezzled funds

jinwoo’s mom called him and told him to take out as much cash as he could and hide it away because he may lose all of his inheritance if he didnt (idk if this could actually happen in real life so uhhh) and to go to a place out of the way to let it all die down

and that’s how he ended up with a moving truck at maehwa, a frown on his face, and a trunk under lock and key stored in the back of his closet

FUN STUFF:

guy is a chain smoker, tbh. likes to open the window in his room, look out at the property and lose track of time by smoking

you can always find him in the kitchen late at night because the man does not know how to go to bed 

(headcanon that jinwoo gets stressed so he cooks and leaves trays of food in the fridge and plates of sweets on the counter that magically pop up in the middle of the night for everyone to enjoy. he gets flustered if someone tries to thank him for them)

his brother encouraged him to journal so he has a bunch of well loved, falling apart journals to write in when he gets frustrated

he likes to stay on his own and doesn’t really open up/talk to people so he has an image of being cold but really, he’s just shy 

super emotional guy who will have emotional outbursts and esp gets loud when he’s cooking and something goes wrong 

pansexual but doesn’t really date or have partners. he doesn’t allow himself to make the time to be romantically involved with anyone (that obvi can and will change when he meets the right people)

doesn’t really wear leisure wear, he normally is in at the least a sweatshirt with jeans

CONNECTIONS:

someone in the house who he can be his one (1) close friend

someone in the house who can not stand him

someone who knew him outside the house (maybe they ran in the same circles in seoul)

someone who found the trunk in his closet and won’t leave him alone until they find out whats inside

someone who knows all about the embezzlement/possibly was affected by it personally

a cooking buddy / someone to stand in the kitchen and cut carrots and peel potatoes with jinwoo, both in silence

someone who wants to learn how to cook

any and all romantic tropes can be applied here, i am up for almost anything 

someone who really tries to get jinwoo out of his comfort zone and fails constantly, but not without annoying jinwoo to high heaven first

a chill buddy, someone to sit outside and drink a beer with late at night

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*crushes my emotions with my bare hands* as I was saying,

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