This is short, it's five episodes and if i remember correctly the episodes are not long, so honestly there's not much to say about it. However the plot is outdated and you don't really expect much from it... the ending was a shocker though.
Welcome to Hanjeong, Jin Soomin. You are quite the human. At 31, you have quite a claim to being a trade council member and black sand smuggler.
Enjoy paradise.
OOC:
Name/Alias: krys
Pronouns: she/they
Age: 25+
Timezone: cst
IC:
Biography Information:
OC Name: jin soomin
FC: jeon yeobin
Species: human
Occupation: Manager of Seaside Relics
Residence: east side
Gender: ciswoman
Pronouns: she/her
Age: 31
Claim(s): trade council, black sand smuggler
Biography:
The best thing about living in Hanjeong as a human was obviously the perks. Having the run of the land, pretty much. Clearly always coming first when it came to things. There were very few downsides… Oh, wait, that was for the pirate born. The descendants of the great Captain Yeonsu. Leading the people in all different directions. After them came the regular humans. Ones with blood that may have been on the island before the pirates. Maybe some new blood. But under all of those, was the poor. It wasn’t like the island was a utopia. Some were ignored. Some struggled from as far back as the founding to the present day. If there was one thing Soomin understood more than anything else, it was that struggle.
She didn’t come from some special line of pirates. Didn’t have a family business or money that she could have inherited when her parents passed. Her family was poor. From one generation to the next. Family legend says there may have been a half blood in their tree but if there was, they were long gone and all that was left was the destitute human blood left behind. Jealousy and envy had long since tainted every single one of them. A taste Soomin could remember from the moment she was born.
A constant fight to prove her worth. Be the best. The smartest. The prettiest. The craftiest. It was almost like a long running con that had to be run with all the people she was surrounded with.
At the age of five, she got her first taste of being disposable. A father that almost sold her to a siren for meat and a mother that was screwing around with a nymph on the down low. When the siren saw how old she was, they backed out. At ten, she got a taste of the true art of bullying when it came from pirate blooded children. Every scrape, every bruise, and every word said against her… etched into her brain…
If only things had gotten easier, gotten better. Maybe that outcome would have been different. but the best couldn’t be rewritten and as it stood, she decided things have turned out just fine.
Despite the hardships. Sleepless nights, hungry weeks and parents that were more ghosts than living beings. Soomin won. She worked hard. Made the right connections, met just the right people and despite her ‘hardships’ and ‘tough background’ she pulled through. Got onto the trade council of the town. Made a respectable person out of someone who was only meant to be a criminal or a wretch.
Oh right, there’s one more thing. You could call it a side project. Maybe a side hustle as the newer generation had coined. But there was more than just trade council money lining her pockets. You see, smuggling was a lucrative business. Especially when you know all the rules around it. Now, Soomin could have stuck with just the basic stuff. Regular contraband that the council didn’t want on the island and in the streets. Getting people out. Getting people in. Kinda sounded boring and who knew there would be such profit to be gained when selling the parts of the natural creatures of the island?
Imagine her surprise…
Anything else? Changes you want to make? Comments you have? Extras you want to include?:
has anyone made that “but it’s weird that it happened twice” joke about jeon yeobin and playing characters intensely grieving over boyfriends who died tragically early?