#koo junhoe i love you so much for debuting as an actor

[winterdusktales]

koo junhoe debuts as an actor as yang jinho in true to love (bora! deborah)

[fmdelijah-blog]

Whoa, is that ELIJAH KIM? I love him! He’s VOCAL 1 of ORIGIN, and he’s a ‘96 LINER! He’s one of my favorites under GOLD STAR MEDIA. Don’t you think he looks a little like KOO JUNHOE (JU-NE)?

Hello all, thanks for all the lovely welcome messages. I’m Sav (25, EST, they/them) and I’ll be writing Elijah for all of you guys. He was a really last minute decision, I think I submitted his application half an hour before acceptances, so I don’t have any written plots for him unfortunately. But that gives us the opportunity to really come up with some organic plots for our muses. I do have his stats page up though, so you can check that out to get a better feel for him. 

He was born in Seoul, South Korea. His parents grew up in lower-middle class families, but his father ended up starting his own business that blew up and pushed them into the upper class bracket. 

He’s always been an extremely introverted person, and he tends to stick to himself for the most part. His parents always tried to break him out of his shell, but that only made him retreat further in on himself. Eventually they decided to just leave him be, partially because they knew they couldn’t change him and partially because they were too busy trying to save his father’s business. By the time he was fourteen, his father’s company was hemorrhaging money and they lost everything. 

They went from a three story house to a small, rundown apartment on the bad side of town. He ended up getting a part time job in order to help his parents out financially. His part time job was where he was approached by someone from Gold Star. 

He was originally slated to be an actor and model because of his height and physical appearance. Being on camera and being in the public eye wasn’t something he wanted, but he thought that it would be a good way to make good money. All he wanted was to support and help his parents like they did for him throughout his childhood. 

He had to build his acting and modeling skills from the ground up, because he had none at all (obviously). He worked hard and diligently, and Gold Star decided that they wanted him to make his acting debut as a cameo in an upcoming drama. 

Then towards the end of 2012, they flipped the script on him and told him that he would be joining idol trainees on Who’s Next?: Origin Story. That was the last thing he wanted, but he didn’t really have a choice in the matter. 

Because of his introverted nature, he found and still finds it incredibly difficult to perform on stage. Before every performance on the survival show, he had a panic attack that took him at least half an hour to calm down from. 

He thought that he would drag his team down, but they surprisingly ended up winning and he debuted with Origin as vocal 1. 

Even though it’s been years, he’s still not completely comfortable on stage. He puts on a poker face during performances so people won’t see that he’s internally panicking the entire time (acting skills coming in clutch). He still has panic attacks and suffers from anxiety, but he takes medication for it (when he remembers to). 

He actually does prefer acting to being an idol. He likes being able to step into someone else’s shoes and portray that role. For him, it’s a lot easier than performing as a member of Origin. 

He’s been in three dramas so far (Second 20s, Hwarang and The Smile Has Left Your Eyes). The last time he acted was in 2018, and he wants to act again, but Origin’s schedules make it difficult for him to audition for anything. He’s a little frustrated that the career he didn’t even want is interfering with the career that he signed up for, but he’s trying not to be too bitter about it. He’s just happy that he’s finally able to financially support his parents. 

His relationship with his group members pretty much ends there for the most part. They’re group members, he works with them when he has to, but for the most part he just stays at home when they don’t have schedules and he doesn’t see them often outside of schedules. 

He doesn’t really care for nicknames or anything of the sort, he just likes to be called Elijah. Not Eli or ‘Lijah or anything else. (He’s kind of a hardass about this)

In the future, I plan on having him act in more things and maybe do a few brand endorsements here and there, along with some hosting, if the opportunities allow themselves.

That’s pretty much it? Thanks for reading this longwinded intro post. I don’t have a discord or anything like that, but I’m logged into this account on the tumblr mobile app so I’ll always be around to chat and plot if you’re interested.