Post by Im Yong Soo~! on Oct 20, 2010 16:09:58 GMT -8
Name: Im Yong Soo!
Country of Origin: (South) Korea. Uri nara mansae!
Gender Male! How else could I be everyone's big brother?
Age: 24
Height: 5'9" or 177 cm. Tall originated in Korea, y’know.
Weight: 157 lbs. or 71.2 kg. Mostly muscle, da ze.
Appearance:
Rather proud of his Asian heritage, Yong Soo will be the very first to point out his decidedly Korean features, in particular his impishly young face, bright brown eyes, and chestnut brown hair. He wears his hair short, parting it mostly to the left, but with long side-bangs and a signature fly-away curl.
Actually fairly muscular along with being rather tall, Yong Soo is as spry as a monkey and about as grabby. Never quite still, Yong Soo doesn’t walk so much as dance across the ground, tiptoeing with carefree steps along the pulse of earth and sea. The Korean almost always has a wide grin plastered across his face, even when he actually feels a bit sad, or annoyed—you can tell it’s serious once he stops smiling.
Clothes-wise, Yong Soo is rather given to the colors white and navy, usually wearing shirts with very long white sleeves and a heavily padded dark-blue vest, cinched with a navy sash about his waist. Despite the fact that his sleeves almost always cover his hands, he still remains very deft at handling objects through the cloth, and often conceals goods though not often weapons within the folds.
He wears long white pants with pleats on the sides, and the rest of his legs are covered in weighted black bracers, white socks, and simple black rubber shoes with good grips. His weapon of choice is a pyeongon, a two-sectioned staff that also functions as a flail. While at sea, he will sometimes wear a bright blue bandana to keep his hair off his face, and when he’s doing accounting he has been known to wear rectangular reading glasses.
Crew member of: The Lucky Dragon
Status: Captain, da ze!
Pet: I have a curl on my head I named Sang Ki! It makes faces like this. ( > 3<)
Crest: A stylized mugunghwa, or Rose of Sharon, the national flower of Korea!
Personality:
Loud, bright, and noisy, Yong Soo is an impulsive young man in the prime of his life. He smiles often and laughs even more, always up for a good joke and a new game. A sociable soul, he likes getting to know people, and hopefully finding a new friend or earning some laughs. He has a cheerful air about him, looking at the world as though the next new discovery is just around the corner. Insults appear to roll right on over Yong Soo’s head—in one ear out the other—and by virtue of his competitive streak, he meets most challenges with a ready grin. He almost always has a wide grin plastered across his face, even when he actually feels a bit sad, or worried, or annoyed. Once he stops smiling, things get serious.
The young Captain has the unfortunate habit of claiming to have seen or done something first, much to others’ annoyance, but by the same token he will also accept the blame for things that do not seem to be his fault. Yong Soo may do this for any number of reasons—to gain attention, to help a friend, or to avoid even worse trouble. There’s always a lingering suspicion in the Korean’s mind that he could have been responsible, and he will make plausible excuses to back it up.
Yong Soo loves feeling that people trust and depend on him, and wants more than anything for others to believe in him. Even if he’s technically classified as an merchant escort vessel, the Korean has a strong ambition to gain ranks amongst the pirating world, not because the phrase ‘overlord grand pirate king’ sounds amazing (even if it does), but out of a deep-seated need to prove himself and find his family. At the same time, he generally stops short of conventional piracy, targeting hostile pirate ships as opposed to other merchant vessels, lest he become anything like the bandits he so despises.
More often than not, Yong Soo is mistaken as a fool by those who don’t know him, but there is a very keen understanding and intellect hidden behind that grin, given to popping out at the most random of times. He has an intuitive sense of people that he doesn’t always show, and he actually reads the atmosphere fairly often. It’s the only thing that saves him from really crossing lines and getting himself killed. At the same time, he often denies seeing the things he doesn’t like, deluding himself that it was something else. It’s easier that way.
Yong Soo’s weaknesses are his compassion and his squeamishness. Yong Soo’s efforts to garner another’s good will can either run afoul into annoyance, or work too well by leaving him tied to another’s affections. Yong Soo’s emotions are genuine—he sincerely cares, and can be manipulated through this, even though he is generally aware of when that is happening. Yong Soo isn’t very comfortable handling violence—guns make him skittish, and directly dealing with a dead body and blood without battle rush to distract him would make him panic and give in to a rash impulse. When he has formed attachment, he can almost seem clingy or needy when threatened, at least until it comes time to act.
Yong Soo can be a bit awkward dealing with people he has soft feelings for, easily flustered by them and a bit more clumsy. It takes him a bit to get used to receiving physical contact at first, but he will rapidly adjust once he likes someone enough. In contrast, the Korean is very open with exhibiting affection, sometimes in strange ways that don’t always translate well. He has been called a “pervert” more than once, and he will admit there is a grain of truth to it—he loves the way another person’s warmth and heartbeat feels beneath his hands. That and it’s funny to watch them squirm.
Off-beat but benign, Yong Soo values the bonds in his life above all else, particularly to family. If you’re a stranger, he doesn’t feel any particular need to be polite, and indeed can seem rather pushy and obnoxious. Even once he accepts you, that may not seem to change much on the surface, but a friend to Im Yong Soo is a friend for life, and he’ll fight to the end to prove it.
Because loyalty originated in Korea, y'know?
History:
After the deep injuries exchanged and sustained by the War, the leaders of various Asian governments determined to raise their reborn Nations together in hopes of recovering from the damage, with the eventual intent of emerging on the global stage as a united coalition, a strong world power.
While he was found as a baby deep within the turbulent heart of Korea, Im Yong Soo spent the majority of his youth in the small Chinese village of Yīzhì, growing up alongside several children gathered from all across Asia. These children were to be his siblings, each learning the others’ languages and cultures alongside their own, their identities to be revealed to them once they were of age.
Yong Soo’s adopted parents, both established officials by the Korean governments, were different as night and day--a taciturn, serious-faced father from the South whose word was household law, and a strong-willed, passionate mother from the North who knew how to rebel without direct disobedience. Their marriage was a fiery one, peppered with contention, yet somehow through their combined desire to raise Yong Soo well they managed a companionship that occasionally dipped into fondness. That said, it’s readily evident that their chaotic relationship had an impact on the boy. The Korean boy was, without question, the most eccentric of his generation.
Yong Soo was almost always in trouble for petty misdemeanors, whether it was stealing chickens from the Hondas, sneaking kimchi into the dog's food, or writing his signature in bright blue permanent marker all over everyone’s stuff. He was as often above the ground as on, dancing across rooftops and diving through tree branches to escape penalty. His parents were frequently harried trying to keep the child under control. When he was caught he bore his punishment honorably, albeit not without whining, but no amount of lecture could tame the Korean boy for long.
There was one person in particular Yong Soo loved to torment—a Chinese youth who was like an older brother. Yong Soo idolized this person, and frequently spent his time trying to grab their attention in a variety of ways. One minute he was bumblingly earnest, seeking the other’s approval through open emulation, and the next he was belligerently disobedient, earning their ire for his own amusement. Regardless, he was always devoted, and if he occasionally managed to achieve a gesture of tolerant affection from the other it was more than enough for Yong Soo. Overall, it was a rather idyllic childhood.
On the summer of Yong Soo’s seventeenth year, just before his eighteenth birthday, the village was viciously attacked by a horde of bandits. Yong Soo managed to avoid most of the commotion by hiding in a nearby forest, taking to the trees, but was forced to witness first-hand the capture and carnage of his childhood friends and neighbors. He hid in the tree, huddling and frightened, and watched in horror as his siblings were attacked by the bandits. In the agony between anger and fear, the Korean boy was powerless, his heart and mind torn.
Unable to move from shock until a few days later, Yong Soo eventually managed to return from the tree only to find that most of his home had been destroyed. His family was broken--whether they were taken by the bandits, escaped into a neighboring town, or had long since ventured out to seek revenge, his siblings were scattered to the winds. His parents, in the meantime, had managed to survive, but the father had been critically injured, and ultimately did not live to see the winter.
Yong Soo stayed for a time in the village, doing what he could to help repair his home, but he couldn't stay forever; ever since that night, the Korean had been wracked with guilt over the fate of his siblings, deeply ashamed of his own perceived cowardice and unable to forgive himself. Soon after his father’s death, Yong Soo decided to leave the village and seek out his siblings, leaving a note for his mother promising his return only once he managed to find the rest of the Family.
Yong Soo ventured forth to the outside world, travelling the countryside and getting by on charity and offered work. His skills fostered in the village served him well, even if he had to adapt when it came to street-fighting, and he learnt lots of things in the course of his sojourn. However, while there was no end to the stories of the bandits’ cruelty, the Korean failed to learn anything concrete and solid regarding the fate of his siblings.
The next spectacular occurrence in Yong Soo’s life occurred when he was nearing twenty and made the choice to leave China, boarding a ship and consigning himself to its service in return for passage. It was only when Yong Soo was forced to take part in an active attack at sea that he realized that the ship he had boarded was a pirating vessel. The revelation struck him hard, and in order to survive Yong Soo found himself having to hide his internal disgust, playing pirate for as long as he was aboard.
During the course of his unwanted stay, the Korean managed to learn by virtue of his ship’s affiliation the location of the infamous Libertalia, and by listening to the discussion of his shipmates and witnessing the captain’s gem piece itself the Asian learnt of the legend of Ernst’s Treasure. Even once Yong Soo managed to escape the pirates back to his native Korea, the legend preyed upon his mind, a tantalizing murmur of possibility.
Yong Soo spent another year or so wandering his home nation, a strange period during which he almost felt serenity, though his quest was still maddeningly out of reach. While traveling through Yeosu, Yong Soo came across an unexpected family heirloom--a genuine Korean turtle ship, kept in excellent condition and unquestionably his. Deciding to put his learnt skills at seamanship to good use, Yong Soo renovated the ship and set about establishing an independent merchant escort business, determined to protect others from piracy as he searched for his siblings.
Upon inspection of his new vessel, Yong Soo was astonished to discover another gem piece hidden in the hull. The Korean remembered from his old crew that owning a piece was a one-way access ticket to the Libertalian council, so long as one was a pirate. By having and keeping a map piece, the Korean would have authority. With authority, resources for his search.
With this promising new avenue glittering before him, Yong Soo began to hatch a plan. Naming himself captain of the newly christened Lucky Dragon, the Asian man set forth to find out everything he could from both the merchant and pirating circles, playing both markets in his hunt for information. It has been such for at least two years, the Korean captain sailing and rotating his crews while tenaciously balancing the line between neutrality and piracy, one ear to the ground for the faintest murmurs of his family.
And now, it appears that his efforts are finally starting to bear fruit...
Allegiance: I’m obviously a neutral escort, da ze!
Country of Origin: (South) Korea. Uri nara mansae!
Gender Male! How else could I be everyone's big brother?
Age: 24
Height: 5'9" or 177 cm. Tall originated in Korea, y’know.
Weight: 157 lbs. or 71.2 kg. Mostly muscle, da ze.
Appearance:
Rather proud of his Asian heritage, Yong Soo will be the very first to point out his decidedly Korean features, in particular his impishly young face, bright brown eyes, and chestnut brown hair. He wears his hair short, parting it mostly to the left, but with long side-bangs and a signature fly-away curl.
Actually fairly muscular along with being rather tall, Yong Soo is as spry as a monkey and about as grabby. Never quite still, Yong Soo doesn’t walk so much as dance across the ground, tiptoeing with carefree steps along the pulse of earth and sea. The Korean almost always has a wide grin plastered across his face, even when he actually feels a bit sad, or annoyed—you can tell it’s serious once he stops smiling.
Clothes-wise, Yong Soo is rather given to the colors white and navy, usually wearing shirts with very long white sleeves and a heavily padded dark-blue vest, cinched with a navy sash about his waist. Despite the fact that his sleeves almost always cover his hands, he still remains very deft at handling objects through the cloth, and often conceals goods though not often weapons within the folds.
He wears long white pants with pleats on the sides, and the rest of his legs are covered in weighted black bracers, white socks, and simple black rubber shoes with good grips. His weapon of choice is a pyeongon, a two-sectioned staff that also functions as a flail. While at sea, he will sometimes wear a bright blue bandana to keep his hair off his face, and when he’s doing accounting he has been known to wear rectangular reading glasses.
Crew member of: The Lucky Dragon
Status: Captain, da ze!
Pet: I have a curl on my head I named Sang Ki! It makes faces like this. ( > 3<)
Crest: A stylized mugunghwa, or Rose of Sharon, the national flower of Korea!
Personality:
Loud, bright, and noisy, Yong Soo is an impulsive young man in the prime of his life. He smiles often and laughs even more, always up for a good joke and a new game. A sociable soul, he likes getting to know people, and hopefully finding a new friend or earning some laughs. He has a cheerful air about him, looking at the world as though the next new discovery is just around the corner. Insults appear to roll right on over Yong Soo’s head—in one ear out the other—and by virtue of his competitive streak, he meets most challenges with a ready grin. He almost always has a wide grin plastered across his face, even when he actually feels a bit sad, or worried, or annoyed. Once he stops smiling, things get serious.
The young Captain has the unfortunate habit of claiming to have seen or done something first, much to others’ annoyance, but by the same token he will also accept the blame for things that do not seem to be his fault. Yong Soo may do this for any number of reasons—to gain attention, to help a friend, or to avoid even worse trouble. There’s always a lingering suspicion in the Korean’s mind that he could have been responsible, and he will make plausible excuses to back it up.
Yong Soo loves feeling that people trust and depend on him, and wants more than anything for others to believe in him. Even if he’s technically classified as an merchant escort vessel, the Korean has a strong ambition to gain ranks amongst the pirating world, not because the phrase ‘overlord grand pirate king’ sounds amazing (even if it does), but out of a deep-seated need to prove himself and find his family. At the same time, he generally stops short of conventional piracy, targeting hostile pirate ships as opposed to other merchant vessels, lest he become anything like the bandits he so despises.
More often than not, Yong Soo is mistaken as a fool by those who don’t know him, but there is a very keen understanding and intellect hidden behind that grin, given to popping out at the most random of times. He has an intuitive sense of people that he doesn’t always show, and he actually reads the atmosphere fairly often. It’s the only thing that saves him from really crossing lines and getting himself killed. At the same time, he often denies seeing the things he doesn’t like, deluding himself that it was something else. It’s easier that way.
Yong Soo’s weaknesses are his compassion and his squeamishness. Yong Soo’s efforts to garner another’s good will can either run afoul into annoyance, or work too well by leaving him tied to another’s affections. Yong Soo’s emotions are genuine—he sincerely cares, and can be manipulated through this, even though he is generally aware of when that is happening. Yong Soo isn’t very comfortable handling violence—guns make him skittish, and directly dealing with a dead body and blood without battle rush to distract him would make him panic and give in to a rash impulse. When he has formed attachment, he can almost seem clingy or needy when threatened, at least until it comes time to act.
Yong Soo can be a bit awkward dealing with people he has soft feelings for, easily flustered by them and a bit more clumsy. It takes him a bit to get used to receiving physical contact at first, but he will rapidly adjust once he likes someone enough. In contrast, the Korean is very open with exhibiting affection, sometimes in strange ways that don’t always translate well. He has been called a “pervert” more than once, and he will admit there is a grain of truth to it—he loves the way another person’s warmth and heartbeat feels beneath his hands. That and it’s funny to watch them squirm.
Off-beat but benign, Yong Soo values the bonds in his life above all else, particularly to family. If you’re a stranger, he doesn’t feel any particular need to be polite, and indeed can seem rather pushy and obnoxious. Even once he accepts you, that may not seem to change much on the surface, but a friend to Im Yong Soo is a friend for life, and he’ll fight to the end to prove it.
Because loyalty originated in Korea, y'know?
History:
After the deep injuries exchanged and sustained by the War, the leaders of various Asian governments determined to raise their reborn Nations together in hopes of recovering from the damage, with the eventual intent of emerging on the global stage as a united coalition, a strong world power.
While he was found as a baby deep within the turbulent heart of Korea, Im Yong Soo spent the majority of his youth in the small Chinese village of Yīzhì, growing up alongside several children gathered from all across Asia. These children were to be his siblings, each learning the others’ languages and cultures alongside their own, their identities to be revealed to them once they were of age.
Yong Soo’s adopted parents, both established officials by the Korean governments, were different as night and day--a taciturn, serious-faced father from the South whose word was household law, and a strong-willed, passionate mother from the North who knew how to rebel without direct disobedience. Their marriage was a fiery one, peppered with contention, yet somehow through their combined desire to raise Yong Soo well they managed a companionship that occasionally dipped into fondness. That said, it’s readily evident that their chaotic relationship had an impact on the boy. The Korean boy was, without question, the most eccentric of his generation.
Yong Soo was almost always in trouble for petty misdemeanors, whether it was stealing chickens from the Hondas, sneaking kimchi into the dog's food, or writing his signature in bright blue permanent marker all over everyone’s stuff. He was as often above the ground as on, dancing across rooftops and diving through tree branches to escape penalty. His parents were frequently harried trying to keep the child under control. When he was caught he bore his punishment honorably, albeit not without whining, but no amount of lecture could tame the Korean boy for long.
There was one person in particular Yong Soo loved to torment—a Chinese youth who was like an older brother. Yong Soo idolized this person, and frequently spent his time trying to grab their attention in a variety of ways. One minute he was bumblingly earnest, seeking the other’s approval through open emulation, and the next he was belligerently disobedient, earning their ire for his own amusement. Regardless, he was always devoted, and if he occasionally managed to achieve a gesture of tolerant affection from the other it was more than enough for Yong Soo. Overall, it was a rather idyllic childhood.
On the summer of Yong Soo’s seventeenth year, just before his eighteenth birthday, the village was viciously attacked by a horde of bandits. Yong Soo managed to avoid most of the commotion by hiding in a nearby forest, taking to the trees, but was forced to witness first-hand the capture and carnage of his childhood friends and neighbors. He hid in the tree, huddling and frightened, and watched in horror as his siblings were attacked by the bandits. In the agony between anger and fear, the Korean boy was powerless, his heart and mind torn.
Unable to move from shock until a few days later, Yong Soo eventually managed to return from the tree only to find that most of his home had been destroyed. His family was broken--whether they were taken by the bandits, escaped into a neighboring town, or had long since ventured out to seek revenge, his siblings were scattered to the winds. His parents, in the meantime, had managed to survive, but the father had been critically injured, and ultimately did not live to see the winter.
Yong Soo stayed for a time in the village, doing what he could to help repair his home, but he couldn't stay forever; ever since that night, the Korean had been wracked with guilt over the fate of his siblings, deeply ashamed of his own perceived cowardice and unable to forgive himself. Soon after his father’s death, Yong Soo decided to leave the village and seek out his siblings, leaving a note for his mother promising his return only once he managed to find the rest of the Family.
Yong Soo ventured forth to the outside world, travelling the countryside and getting by on charity and offered work. His skills fostered in the village served him well, even if he had to adapt when it came to street-fighting, and he learnt lots of things in the course of his sojourn. However, while there was no end to the stories of the bandits’ cruelty, the Korean failed to learn anything concrete and solid regarding the fate of his siblings.
The next spectacular occurrence in Yong Soo’s life occurred when he was nearing twenty and made the choice to leave China, boarding a ship and consigning himself to its service in return for passage. It was only when Yong Soo was forced to take part in an active attack at sea that he realized that the ship he had boarded was a pirating vessel. The revelation struck him hard, and in order to survive Yong Soo found himself having to hide his internal disgust, playing pirate for as long as he was aboard.
During the course of his unwanted stay, the Korean managed to learn by virtue of his ship’s affiliation the location of the infamous Libertalia, and by listening to the discussion of his shipmates and witnessing the captain’s gem piece itself the Asian learnt of the legend of Ernst’s Treasure. Even once Yong Soo managed to escape the pirates back to his native Korea, the legend preyed upon his mind, a tantalizing murmur of possibility.
Yong Soo spent another year or so wandering his home nation, a strange period during which he almost felt serenity, though his quest was still maddeningly out of reach. While traveling through Yeosu, Yong Soo came across an unexpected family heirloom--a genuine Korean turtle ship, kept in excellent condition and unquestionably his. Deciding to put his learnt skills at seamanship to good use, Yong Soo renovated the ship and set about establishing an independent merchant escort business, determined to protect others from piracy as he searched for his siblings.
Upon inspection of his new vessel, Yong Soo was astonished to discover another gem piece hidden in the hull. The Korean remembered from his old crew that owning a piece was a one-way access ticket to the Libertalian council, so long as one was a pirate. By having and keeping a map piece, the Korean would have authority. With authority, resources for his search.
With this promising new avenue glittering before him, Yong Soo began to hatch a plan. Naming himself captain of the newly christened Lucky Dragon, the Asian man set forth to find out everything he could from both the merchant and pirating circles, playing both markets in his hunt for information. It has been such for at least two years, the Korean captain sailing and rotating his crews while tenaciously balancing the line between neutrality and piracy, one ear to the ground for the faintest murmurs of his family.
And now, it appears that his efforts are finally starting to bear fruit...
Allegiance: I’m obviously a neutral escort, da ze!
