sinkswims

[sinkswims]

hi hi! for those who remember me… i’m back 🤭. life took a crazy turn so i needed to take a break but i’m back with sodapop’s manager one, doh kijung ( lee dohyun, ‘95 liner ). formatted on mobile for now, so pls excuse the mess. please give this a ( *twice vc* ) heart-heart if you’d like to plot !!

sparknotes ver.

high school swimming prodigy whose career was cut short after a knee injury. had to rediscover himself in his early twenties after building his entire sense of self around swimming—still in the process of finding himself but has ended up at ydh entertainment after jumping from industry to industry. golden retriever with a heart of gold, prone to making lame jokes but also strict enough to put his foot down when needed.

other info, some of which is not included in his backstory.

a talent agent attempted to scout him when he was 16, but failed to #ballislife. up until his mid-twenties, he was mistaken as an idol/idol trainee at times just due to his looks and how he carried himself—not so much anymore now that he’s almost 30…

the eldest son with two younger sisters. total mama’s boy—in part due to the fact that dad was absent often due to the long hours spent at his corporate job. lived in seoul his entire life—he may have gone abroad for brief stints in his youth for junior olympic/international swim training programs, but otherwise has barely stepped foot off the korean peninsula—at least until accompanying sodapop on their tour.

distinctly middle class—his parents would have to cut corners to make end meets and take out loans to fund his expensive swimming career and injury rehabilitation. also due to his injury, he was exempt from military service. nowadays, it’s mostly a situation where his knee hurts when it rains, or after days with long schedules.

bi, but would likely identify with demi/gray asexuality if he cared to label himself. in high school, he would have girlfriends (mostly for appearance purposes, though he did not realize at the time) and most of them would break up with him because “all he cared about was swimming”. started dating men in addition to women in college, but it eventually tapered off when he started working, at which point “all he cared about was his career”. his lack of dating interest could be yet another a reason why ydh tapped him for idol management.

the type of charmer that can seem insincere at first—until you realize how sincere he actually is. definitely overplays the cheese and dad jokes at times—is the type to laugh at his own jokes and if someone else only groans at them, that just adds to his own amusement. racks up favors mostly by being a considerate person, plays everything by ear, but is often able to charm without delving into flirting territory, which often works in his favor. a people person fr fr

wanted plots.

his work husband is fellow sodapop staff rihan, but work wife?

someone who knew him in high school! i would love for someone to have gone to the same school as him and has firsthand knowledge of how good he was as a student athlete, but they could have also known each other through mutual friends.

want to keep this list relatively short for realism, but exes. since starting at ydh, kijung does not date talent, so if your muse is an idol it should have been before kijung or your muse worked in the entertainment industry (on kijung’s end, this would have been 5+ years ago). i imagined most of kijung’s relationships would have fizzled out due to a lack of passion, especially on kijung’s end, but i’m open to something that ended more messily or “the one that got away” if the personalities fit.

former coworkers. i kept kijung’s work history vague on purpose (aside from a restaurant manager job) but whether it was a part-time convenience store gig in high school, some internship in college, or anything before kijung ended up at ydh… idk this is rlly niche but it could be fun!

sodapop come here…

idols apart from sodapop where kijung suddenly ended up in your muses’ support network. we could develop a plot down the line where kijung learns smth that could impact your muse’s career and may or may not decide to keep it from the company—situation and plotting dependent !

friends! drinks after work, hang out outside of schedules, go hiking together etc etc. especially but not limited to industry staff 😌