GOSSIP GIRLS AF - Kim Min-ji

                                            [STRAY KIDS | GOSSIP GIRLS FORM]

                            ▪ part a. OFFSET

USERNAME : MATCHIMOCHI
PASSWORD : from zero

FULL NAME : Kim Min-ji
NICKNAME(S) :
 ◦ MIN: Called that by her nanny/caregiver, because ‘it always seemed to suit her personality better’. If she’s called by her full name by her nanny, she knows she’s in deep, deep trouble.

NATIONALITY : South Korean
ETHNICITY : Korean

BIRTHPLACE : Seoul, South Korea
HOMETOWN : Seoul, South Korea

LANGUAGE(S) :
 ◦  Korean : 100% fluency, due to her growing up speaking the language.
 ◦  Chinese : 95% fluency, as due to her father's continuous business with Chinese investors and business partners she was tutored in the language from a relatively young age. She hated learning it, but she won't deny that it's a useful skill to have.

FACE CLAIM : Eunbin - CLC
BACKUP FACE CLAIM : Yuqi - (G)I-DLE

                            ▪ part b. WHY DON'T YOU KNOW

SLOT : COME ALIVE
BACKUP SLOT : THE OTHER SIDE

BACKGROUND :
 Min-ji grew up as the only child of a highly prolific business family, with her father being the founder of a successful tech startup. She grew up never wanting for anything, other than her parent's acknowledgment and love, as she was delegated to the care of her nanny, a woman who should have never been hired as a nanny, but luckily for Min-ji’s worldview and sanity, was. To her parents, Min-ji wasn’t much other than something to show off to other people; an accessory, if anything. Her school life was much different to her home life however; despite her awkward personality, she was always good at picking out good friends, and she got through school relatively easily; the pressure from Da-eun (her nanny) to succeed in school wasn’t much, but was more than her parents concern for her school results; as long as she was passing, and showed up when they needed her so that they could show her off, they could care less about her grades and whatever else she did. With almost anything and everything at her fingertips, she found a love for expensive music equipment and began messing around with music software when she was about 15; at first she just found it fun to play around and see what she could do with it, but once she discovered that she had an actual talent for mixing, she started to work on it more seriously. While her home life was almost nonexistent, apart from her interactions and relationship with Da-eun, she’s always had a supportive and close group of friends, who stayed with her through high school and her many terrible haircuts.

FAMILY :
 ◦ Mother | Kim Jung-Hee | 49 | Trophy wife | ⅕ closeness
 ◦ Father | Kim Do-yun | 48 | Founder of a tech startup | ⅕ closeness
 ◦ Nanny/Caregiver | Sung Da-eun | 57 | Former wife of crime ring boss | ⅘ closeness

PERSONALITY :
 ◦ Min-ji is a serious procrastinator; she’s unmotivated and lazy when it comes to things that don’t excite her, and needs lots of stimuli to keep her focused. She’d be very happy to laze around all day and do nothing but mess around on her computer, and binge watch dramas. Her best friend is her bed, and she’s pretty unfit, having never picked up any kind of sport at school or in her free time; does she honestly seem like the kind of person who would do a physical activity for fun? She’s been rumored to show interest and actually participate in things that stimulate her brain (*cough cough, the blog) but it’s never been proven by anyone, and so she’s seen as quite an unmotivated person. How she keeps her grades up is beyond anyone. She’s average in the smarts department, but she excels in a practical sense, and in the snarky wit department. She’s got quite a tongue on her, thanks to her nanny, and she’s sarcastically sharp and witty. Her knowledge lies in real life applications; she’s learned how to read people, how to spot weaknesses and secrets. She’s very observant, and her unmotivated persona hides it well; she has a keen eye for emotions and situations. Her sharp tongue can get her into a bit of trouble every so often, but not so drastic as to have people's eyes on her at every turn. She can be chatty enough with her friends; mainly quips and stories, but she’s quiet enough around strangers and people she’s not comfortable with. She can be patient and silent when she wants to be, mainly when she’s sneaking around and investigating, and she’s a bit nosy in terms of trying to find more than she’s been sent to find. She can tend to bite off more than she can chew, and is a bit too ambitious sometimes. If she's sneaking around, unless she wants you to, you won’t see her at all, a talent she picked up at formal events to avoid talking to people. With strangers, she tends to keep her distance and avoids people she doesn’t know, as she can get uncomfortable with them. Min-ji an be a bit of a pathological liar in situations where she fears she’ll lose something or let slip something that she doesn’t want people to know; it’s come in handy when she needs to explain what she was doing in certain suspicious areas, and she has a talent for coming up with outlandish but completely believable excuses for any kind of situation. Despite all her her laziness, she's actually a very emotionally passionate person, and she values her friendships and relationships highly. She’s a bit of a slippery snake, and it can be hard to catch her in the act for anything; stealing cereal from the dorm common room, perched in a tree at 2am, or watching dramas in the middle of her classes and lectures. Min-ji is very down to earth, thanks to the intervention of her nanny, who basically raised her and kept her sane and humble, and she has a very realistic view of the world and the people and situations around her. She’s quite an interesting character in terms of how her personality is quite different to what would be expected from her growing up in the family that she did, and how in tune with the outer world she is, despite her relative unmotivation and tendencies to stay inside watching dramas, instead of socialising with her friends. The facade and public image she has have given her a good alibi in order to get away with her work with the blog.

LIKES : min. 5 bulleted
 ◦ Music; especially television soundtracks and osts. That’s what she eventually wants to compose someday, and so she’s never seen without her old battered headphones (noise cancelling, of course) and her playlist on full blast.
 ◦ Autumn. The perfect mild temperatures for a girl who hates winter and summer with a passion. The perfect weather for doing nothing and yet everything at the same time.
 ◦ Finishing all your work and being able to just do nothing for the next day or so; in her case, watching k-dramas.
 ◦ On the topic of k-dramas, while she has next to no experience with it in real life, she loves romantic comedies and dramas with a passion.
 ◦ The wonders of caffeine and energy drinks, and the fact that they help her get through night long sneaks and finals week.
 ◦ Succeeding in a personally fulfilling task, such as getting all the information she needs, standing up to someone, finishing a long task.
 ◦ Sleeping in. Min-ji won't forgive anyone who disrupts her precious sleep, so wake her at your own risk.

DISLIKES : min. 5 bulleted
 ◦ Spicy food; she’s a bit of a baby when it comes to spicy and sour foods.
 ◦ Crowded and social areas, such as big parties and social events.
 ◦ Schoolwork and her massive loads of it. While she loves the subject, she could do without the strict guidelines on what she has to create and the long lectures.
 ◦ When her composition doESN’T SAVE GODDAMMIT-
 ◦ Cold weather; she hates going outside in winter, and even in her dorm it’s really miserably cold since she doesn’t have proper heating. If her friends are over, they’re delegated to human-sized hot water bottles and heating pads.

TRIVIA : can be anything, talents, hobbies, facts etc. min 10 bulleted
 ◦ Terrible with any technology that isn’t her music software. If you asked her how to restart her laptop she’d have absolutely no idea how to explain it.
 ◦ She’s got like 10 goldfish in her dorm room, each with equally dumb names. How they’re all still alive is beyond anyone else.
 ◦ Very good at hide and seek; during an alcohol-fueled game at a party that she didn’t want to be at, she found a spot, fell asleep, and woke up at 11 the next morning with everyone else hunting for her still.
 ◦ Always has loose change in her pockets for vending machines and late night scope outs.
 ◦ It's rumoured that she once watched through all 4 seasons of a high school setting kdrama in two days, without moving from her spot on her bed, except to eat and go to the bathroom.
 ◦ Has a bad habit of getting paper cuts from anything and everything; she’ll usually be seen with plasters all over the tips of her fingers.
 ◦ Really bad at remembering names. Gives people dumb nicknames to remember who they are, and most of the time, never starts calling them by their real one. If she does, it’s a sign of deep respect and love.
 ◦ Touch her friends and honey, you’ve got a big storm coming.
 ◦ Has the time and money to cook and eat healthily, and does, surprisingly. She’s a pretty decent cook, despite her overall laziness.
 ◦ Keeps a diary/journal and will murder you if you read it. It’s a mess of daily entries, midnight thoughts, song lyrics and little snippets of stuff she wants to remember. It’s one of her most prized possessions; her answer to the ‘if your house was on fire, what one thing would you save?’

SOCIAL MEDIA :
 ◦ instagram : minjikim
 ◦ kakaotalk : minminji
 ◦ twitter : kimminjii

COLLEGE MAJOR : Music Technology / Production
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES : N/A - other than the blog.
OCCUPATION : None. While she might be down to earth, she won’t brush off the fact that her parents are paying her way through college.


                            ▪ part c. ROLLER COASTER

LOVE INTEREST : Lee Felix
BACKUP LOVE INTEREST : Kim Seungmin

HIS PERSONALITY :
 ◦ Felix is very much the opposite of Min-ji; he's sociable and friendly and popular with boys and girls alike. His popularity comes from his overall cheerful nature and friendliness, and he's always willing to help out with things and people. Due to him being quite well known, he's a target of the blog in terms of being associated with almost everything they've documented, for the source of knowing and being close to many of the other people targeted. An absolute sweetheart, he's got a strong moral compass and values, and is pretty against the blog, since he doesn't like what they do. He's quite a positive person, but he still has his own low points and relatively low self-esteem, which he hides with over exaggerated confidence. He's not one to let up, and is pretty determined and hard-working, and puts all he has into most everything he does.

HOW YOU ACT AROUND HIM :
 ◦ beginning ; She has nothing to do with him, and that's absolutely fine with her. She has no interest in being associated with him, since anything she knows about anyone is basically sold to the blog, and she's way too lazy for that. She tries to keep people off her back for fear if they get too close they'll figure out the truth about who the blogs informant is. When she's assigned to scope out information around him, he doesn't really care much, and gets on with it. However, when he starts trying to socialise with her, she continually rebuts his attempts to get closer and figure her out; he's not subtle, by any means. At one point she has the idea that if she lets him get as close as he wants, she can get more information out of him in relation to himself and others.
◦ middle ; She surprisingly begins to warm up to him. She's still adamant about keeping him far, far away, and she'll regularly insult him, which to her chagrin, he keeps laughing at her when she does. He's just too damn persistent. Despite her better intentions, she can't help but begin to feel closer to him, and a want to be closer to him, a part of her that once she knows is there, is ready to burn so she doesn't have to deal with the resulting fallout, like feelings and other stuff. Still will not let up with her dumb nicknames, and up to this point, has never once called him by his actual name, direct or otherwise. They get a lot closer at this point and she would almost consider him a friend, willingly or otherwise. At one point, she gets caught in the act of sharing information with other members of the blog (by email maybe? or text) which drives a massive rift between the two of them, and he's really quite upset by the fact that 1. She used him for information and 2. She didn't tell him.
◦ end ; She genuinely reflects on what she's done up to this point, and realises that this isn't who she wants to be; someone who gets entertainment from the suffering and lack of privacy of others. She basically says fuck the blog, and goes off to apologie to him, realising that she cares for him more than she realised and that she's let go something that genuinely meant a lot to her. Hunts him down and apologises, explains and confesses. It takes them a little while after that to get back on better terms, but after that, they're good as ever. And she starts calling him by his real name.

HOW HE ACTS AROUND YOU :
 ◦ beginning ; Similarly to her, he has hardly anything to do with her, but does know who she is through mutual friends. At this point, he hadn't made any assumptions about her, but as he begins to see her around more often than not (due to her being assigned to scope information around him), he begins to get curious about who she is as a person. Start's to try and talk to her, and despite her continual rebuttal of his friendliness, he doesn't give up. At one point it's as if a switch flips, and she lets him in, for reasons unknown to him at the time. It doesn't mean she stops with the terrible nickname though.
◦ middle ; He warms up to her much more readily, and is much more aware of the fact that he has a crush on her, despite her overall unfriendliness; he enjoys her humour and honesty in conversation, and her down to earth personality. He doesn't let up, and is overjoyed when she becomes noticeably closer and more comfortable with him, and is much more willing to hang out with him. He could do without the terrible nicknames, but he'll deal with it. However, when he finds out what she's a part of, and how she's basically been using him, he feels betrayed and is really upset. He basically tells her to fuck off, that he doesn't want to hear her excuses, and is super angry at her because of it.
◦ end ; When she apologises, he's very reluctant to accept it until she starts to genuinely talk about how she feels about what she did, what she feels about him, and when she makes a final, genuine apology. He forgives her, reluctantly, and it takes a little bit of time for him to warm back up to her, but soon his feelings towards her are back and better than ever. Genuine feelings are hard to completely destroy, no matter how hard you try.

RELATIONSHIP TRIVIA :
 ◦ Min-ji calls him by his major at the beginning, when she doesn't really know him, before moving onto more targeted nicknames such as 'skippy the kangaroo' and 'budget wendys girl'.
 ◦ Felix disregards all of these and laughs at them whenever she comes up with a new one, much to her chagrin.
 ◦ Their regular meeting spot is usually this one specific bench behind the gymnasium, since no one really goes there, and it's where they'll usually just chat and (in Min-ji's case) complain about classes.
 ◦ Felix has yet to beat Min-ji in a game of Mario Kart, and he has no idea how she keeps on winning.


                            ▪ part d. WEEK

SUGGESTED SCENES : with love interest or with the other girls, min. of 3
 ◦ WITH FELIX ; He drags her out of her dorm room to, quote 'Do something that doesn't involve you frying your brain in front of your machines', unquote, and takes her out to get lunch, to the background noise of her protesting. It's a pretty nice affair, even if she does spend most of it complaining about her classwork that she needs to get done and her poking fun at him. All in good humour though, and she actually has a nice time; not that she'll admit it.
 ◦ WITH OTHER GIRLS ; After Felix finds out what she's been a part of, she calls a meeting for the other girls, and tells them she wants out of the group. Explains why, and it's a pretty charged encounter, with everyone else sticking in their own ideas and two cents, and it becomes a mess pretty quickly.
 ◦ WITH FELIX ; When she finally finds him, to apologize, he refuses to listen to anything she's saying, and she's just trying to get him to understand what she's trying to say. Eventually, she just gets so frustrated, she yells 'Felix will you just LISTEN TO ME'; the first time she's called him by his actual name. He's shocked enough that's she's able to blurt out a bunch of stuff in order to get him to stay, so that he'll to listen to the rest of what she's saying, and hopefully accept her apology.

ANYTHING ELSE? yikes IM SO EXCITED I LOVE STRAY KIDS AND THIS IS A HELLA COOL CONCEPT! i really hope i get the slot; i spent a lot of time on min-ji, and i hope you can tell!