kiyong - kino

RED

Real Name: Nam Kiyong
Stage name: Kino
Nickname (s) & who gave it to you and who calls you that:
Ki (given by friends, called by everyone)
Yonggie (given by friends, called so mainly by wei)
Age : 23
Birthday: November 13th, 1993
Nationality: Korean
Ethnicity: Korean
Height: 182cm
Weight: 70kg
Birthplace + Hometown: Busan, South Korea
Languages + fluency: Korean (fluent), Mandarin (conversational)

ROSE

Slot: The Caterpillar
Backup Slot: n/a
Sub-unit:  Tea
Back up Sub-unit: QC
Face claim: Zico (block b)
Back Up Face claim: Yongguk (bap)

Explain who they are and aren't close to in their family and why:
Kiyong has a closer relationship with his brother over their parents. This would be due to the fact that Kiyong was often secretive and tip toed around his parents in his teenage years in favour of hanging out with his friends and lying to his mother about where he was. That being said, the relationship between the family of four wasn't horribly tense or negative.

Personality: He usually stays quiet when something concerns himself, opening up to only an exclusive few. Kiyong isn't the most polite guy you'll ever meet, often replying in sarcasm and equipped with a dark sense of humour. While he can come off as lazy, Kiyong is quite efficient when he puts effort into something.

He doesn't seem to have a filter and usually flip from being completly blunt to leaving his answers vague just to annoy you. He takes things a bit too seriously at times, sometimes working himself up for nothing. It's advised not to annoy him too much as Kiyong is known to have a temper problem, quick to irritation and snapping at someone--even for petty reasons. He also holds grudges for a long time, sadly.

Kiyong is one of those guys with an arrogant streak, believing that he doesn't need to put his all into things since he believes that he'll do just as good. This results in him coming off as lazy and half-hearted.

If there's something he hates, it's being vaulnerable. Kiyong instead prefers to be in control of situations. At first glance, he may come off as cold and aloof with his quiet and serious nature but Kiyong is quite caring and sympathetic once you spend some time together, not that he always shows it.

Background: Kiyong grew up in a Christain family, although he stopped attending church some time in his second year of high school. Thankfully, his parents didn't force him to go. It was a year or so before this that he started to play piano, taking lessons on the week ends and practicing in the band room after school since his parents were heisitant on buying him a piano, eventually settling on a keyboard that Christmas. Kiyong was none the less thankful for it, knowing it was unrealistic for them to buy him one.

He was quite popular in his school years, a point guard on his schools basketball team. Of course, Kiyong was eventually kicked off the team after getting into a fist-fight during a game with a neighbouring school in which he suffered a minor concussion himself. To him, the best thing about the exchange was that his mother allowed him to skip the next few days. Overall, he was one of those annoying teenagers that quite a few of his peers disliked as well as he picked petty fights with other students and didn't socialize outside of his 'squad', acting as if they were on a higher level. Despite all of that, Kiyong has managed to remain friends with two or three of his past friends-- one being the tattooist he now goes too.

When he was sixteen, Kiyong got his first tattoo withouth the consent of his parents-- a thin, black cross on the side of his wrist.
Within the next two years, Kiyong became more interested in hip hop music and the general pop genre, eventually auditioning for Wonderland Ent. when he was nineteen years old. Sometime in the next year, Kiyong found a friend in one of the Chinese trainees and while they couldn't comunicate that well at the beginning, his friend eventually became more fluent in Korean and taught him some Mandarin as well.

At one point, he was almost kicked out of the company after he was accused of domestic violence-- later proving to be false information spread by his ex-girlfriend.

Trivia:
Kino is deathly afraid of heights
He wants to learn how to play guitar
He can sleep through just about everything
He's been seen smoking in the past but recently hasn't been

Likes: Rock music, game shows, sleeping, caffeinated drinks
Dislikes: Heights, snakes, singing, hot weather, cheating

BUSHES

Thoughts on the Company as a whole: Kiyong doesn't talk to any of them outside of a professional setting due to his quiet nature. His view on them is neither positive or negative, purely neutral.
Thoughts on the CEO: Kiyong can't help but feel a bit grateful that K.W. Choi placed him in the Wonder lineup. At first, hearing about the concept made him a bit weird since he knew Alice in Wonderland as a childrens movie in the West that he'd never cared to watch. He hadn't even known there was a book.
Years of training: 4 years
Onstage persona: While fans love when he occasionally acts cute, Kiyongs presence on stage is anything but, yet it isn't the typical sexy or bad concept that most would guess upon seeing him . His general vibe on stage is lazy but passionate when it comes down to it. His dancing could be considered lazy but, Kiyong is never tense-- his posture and limbs loose. He's developed a knack for gestures while he's rapping instead of standing still awkwardly.

Offstage persona: You'd expect his lazy nature would transfer over but Kiyong is quite energetic, tapping his feet often or fidgeting with pens. He'd rather take a walk to the coffee shop than sit inside on his phone, that's for sure. That being said, he's a king of procrastination and will often black mail the others into doing things for him.

Interview/ TV appearance persona: He's a bit more playful when the cameras are rolling, throwing more jokes--more like insults-- instead of just making a sound and pushing someone away from him. It's also at this time that Kiyong lets his cute attributes show, mostly in affectionate gestures towards Wei-- whom he tends to be the closest too.

Fanservice: Kiyong's fanservice mainly focuses around skinskip with the others.
Message to Fans: "I hope you can deal with everyone else, because I can't."
Message to Family: "I guess I should apologize for being such a brat? Nah, thanks for the support."
Message to CEO: "Why was I placed in this group again? Thanks though."

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Anything else?:
Fandom name: Kinosthetic
Requested scene:
Kino fake proposing to Wei on a variety show
Kino making fun of Jay's height
Someone stealing Gigwangs cigarettes because they want him to quit smoking
Kino asking Wei to teach him more Mandarin

Requested debut song: Overcome (nu'est)
Note to author: ah, hellooo. this idea looks really cool so like, i'm excited <33
Password: must