Bio
Character Name: Ji Yoon Raymonde Gwan-eum Bernadette Song-Laurent. Joon for short.
Character Age: 24, born April 5, 1988.
Character Suit and Rank: Six of Hearts
Short Physical Description: Five feet even, Joon gets only an extra inch from the Doc Martens she's always wearing. She's easy to spot from a distance, though, thanks to the vibrantly eye-searing bright colors she always wears, all the turquoise and pink and lime green she can manage to fit in. Her hair is almost waist-length, straight and black and ridiculously thick, but she keeps it out of the way in pigtails or messy braids. Except on opening nights, when she pulls out the heels and dresses and puts her hair up.
Character Personality: Joon is an outdoorsy energetic tiny woman who runs everywhere, even when she can walk. She works at the Wheel of Fortune, an old theatre in Town that her mother's family has owned for several generations, though the paperwork as to who owned it before them gets a little fuzzy. Her mother Song Mi Yeong, Mimi for short, is the Artistic Director (capital letters definitely on purpose) and Joon does everything backstage, from set construction to ticket selling and ushering. If you have artistic talents, Heart or not, it's guaranteed she's made some attempt to shanghai charm you into painting a set.
Her father's influence has given her a deep love for all things French and almost everything she wears is from a French designer. Yves Saint-Laurent is her favorite, as her last name sounds almost exactly like Saint-Laurent, but any French designer is welcome. She stomps around in Doc Martens, the easier to run around in, but she's almost always seen in the company of an impractically enormous handbag in another eye-searing shade and an assortment of hats.
She speaks both French and Korean as well as the Deck's common language, as does her mother, and arguments between the Songs often become impossible to follow as they jump from one language to another. Sometimes in the middle of a sentence. Joon keeps her entire schedule on her iPhone, which she nicknames her brain-backup, and is often found muttering at it in a mix of languages as well.
The one thing she might love more than the theatre is her pack of dogs. She lives in a massive, rambling house in Town, close to the Wheel, and the dogs sprawl all over it and have the run of the back yard that isn't taken up by the garden. She doesn't have much time for it, but she grows flowers and a few vegetables, but one wall of the fence is almost entirely taken up in the summer by a row of sunflowers. There's a gate in the fence and anyone is invited to stop by and play with any of the dogs who happen to be at home, but at least one is often found at her heels when she's out and about.
Gwan-eum is the Korean name for Guanyin, the Buddhist Bodhisattva of Compassion. Joon's birthday was on Gwan-eum's birthday in 1988 and Mi Yeong added the Bodhisattva's name to her list of names. Because Gwan-eum is associated with vegetarianism as one example of compassion, Joon is a vegetarian, and she celebrates the Bodhisattva's birthday and Day of Enlightenment every year. Otherwise she makes attempts to follow the Noble Eightfold Path, mostly successfully but nobody's perfect, right?
Character History: Joon is the unexpected daughter of Song Mi Yeong and Marcellin Laurent of Paris, producer and director of French musicals. Marcellin lives in Paris with his long-time partner Raymond, for whom Joon is named. Raymond is the most maternal parent Joon has and she adores staying with them on her week-long Parisian shopping trips every few months. Neither Marcellin nor Raymond have ever grilled her about where she and her mother disappeared to, preferring to preserve the mystery. Secretly they believe the Songs are living in America, perhaps in New York or Los Angeles, but Joon has never been to either.
She's always lived in Town with her mother and grew up playing with props as toys. The theatre was almost more home than home. She was climbing in the catwalks like a monkey by the time she was eight. Even when she was a child, she was always running everywhere and she acquired an assortment of friends and enemies from different Suits to grow up with. She still attends their challenges and cheers them on, but she'll deflect conversation about why she's staying at Six. Secretly, she fears that continuing to challenge up will mean she'll need to take on more Suit responsibility and she doesn't want things to change for her.
When she turned fifteen, she hopped up to Three in a footrace against a tall Heart who didn't realize how fast she was, but she waited to keep challenging up until she was eighteen. Four was a checkers match on her eighteenth birthday (the checkers counter-challenge was also won by her) and Five was a tree-climbing competition on her nineteenth, another unwise acceptance on her opponent's part. However, she lost her first attempt to challenge to Six at twenty because Mi Yeong insisted she use singing. Despite her father's profession producing musicals, Joon cannot sing a note. The embarrassment caused a coolness between her and her mother and she evaded all discussion of challenges and waited until she was twenty-three before trying again. The birthday paintball challenge ended up so fun, the counter-challenge happened as an excuse to play a second round.
Character PB: Hyomin (Park Sun-Young)