Love for Money [Chaos] ; Character Biographies
Love for Money [Chaos]
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Kim Jaejoong
22 years old / 3rd Year Law Student, Seoul National University
Kim Jaejoong comes from an average middle class family in Gongju. The only thing not so average about his family is the fact that he has eight older sisters. You see, his parents really wanted a son, and after eight girls they had almost finally given up, when their neighbour had told them of a young woman who had no means to raise a baby boy on her own. Jaejoong doesn't remember his birth mother as far as he is concerned, and there really is no need to because the only parents he knows about are the ones that raised him.
He is a year older than the majority of his cohort because Jaejoong, the wild spark that he has always been thought it fit to work his way through a handful of odd jobs in Seoul to experience the city before begining his University (and most likely working) life there. A barista, bar tender, mechanic, car wash attendent, chef - you name it and Jaejoong probably has done it.
While intelligent enough, and quick on his feet, Jaejoong sometimes resembles a freight train with no brakes. He drinks too much, swears too much, smokes too much, has too many flings (he has never really settled down into a real relationships of sorts, it just feels too serious) and really just wants to live in the moment. Which is why, he finds himself having gambled away most all of his living allowance and rent for the year, as well as half of the school fees for his final year (it is only the start of the school year, goddamit) that his parents and sisters had thrown together for him one drunken night, all because of his damn ego.
Sure he works part time, but part time gives him a little extra money for drinks and cigarettes. Its his last year of law school and Jaejoong really can't afford to take on anymore jobs. He needs a cash line, and fast.
Jaejoong shares and apartment with Yoochun and Changmin and seriously has a thing against instant ramen and microwave dinners, which lends him to cooking for the two others more often than not.
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Jung Yunho
22 years old / Graduate in Law, Seoul National University / 1st Year Trainee, South Korea's Judicial Research and Training Institute
Jung Yunho is pretty much the golden boy (literally so - just look at that tan). Good looking, atheletic, and the only son (of two children) from one of the wealthiest families in South Korea. He is intelligent, responsible, a gentleman and so nice that really no one could ever hate him. Sounds perfect doesn't it? Well, not to Yunho.
He has spent his entire life, following the 'path' set out for him (sans law school, which he had pushed for instead of going down the Business route, but that isn't much adventure now is it). Acting a certain way, doing certain things, but never deviating, never venturing even slightly off track, and frankly, he is sick of it. He is heard, but never listened to, and many a time, never taken seriously by his parents. Because he is Jung Yunho, what mistake could he make? What mistake dare he make? What mistake would he make.
He is sick of people fawning over him - men and women alike, old and young. Always expecting him to step up, to shine on the pedestal that everyone has placed him on, thinking they are able to predict his every move, his every thought because he has always done things a certain way, and it is all just getting so stifling. He itches for adventure, for excitment, to really just live the life he has. Yunho is getting restless, and with each passing day he feels like he can't breathe. He knows who he is supposed to be, but yet isn't entirely sure if he knows who he really is, and he wants to discover that before his path is sealed for good.
Yunho has his own apartment in the city - a respite away from his parents, him arguing that he needed the space and quiet to study for his bar. He has dated before, and gone for countless matchmaking tea sessions set up by his mother and various aunts, but Yunho doesn't think he has really ever been in love.
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Park Yoochun
21 years old / 3rd Year Law Student, Seoul National University
Park Yoochun is the only child of two doctors living in Seoul. He hadn't been able to go down the medicine route, because the sight of too much blood, and the thought of having to push a scalpel through a living body freaks him the hell out. While he isn't Jung-wealthy, he comes from a comfortable enough background that pitches him above he average family.
Lewd in mind and jokes, Yoochun had met Jaejoong in their first year during their very first jurisprudence lecture where the lecturer, a feminist professor had veered off on her own tangent, ranting about phallic discourses in law. They had been seated beside each other, and a mummur of 'she needs one up her ass' as the professor started talking about sizes, and a chortled had caused Jaejoong who had been seated next to him to chuckle lowly - and that folks, was history.
Yoochun drinks almost as much as Jaejoong does, and the two are the reigning kings of drinking in the SNU law faculty. Yoochun shares an apartment with Jaejoong and Changmin. He can't cook to save his life and after the incident involving the flaming sausages while he was still living in the school dormitory in his first year, Jaejoong refuses to let him anywhere near a stove, or oven really.
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Shim Changmin
20 years old / 2nd Year Law Student, Seoul National University
Having grown up on Seoul, you could call Changmin somewhat of a city boy. He is snarky as hell and he won't let you forget it. He doesn't quite remember how he met Jaejoong and Yoochun because the first time he actually remembers meeting them, the three of them were topless, torso's covered in scribbles and offensive pictures made with a black sharpie (it had taken him a week to completely scub them off) and lying in a heap on his dorm room floor. They had never found where their shirts had vanished too, and were unable to retrace their steps because they had been so smashed the night before none of them remembered anything.
Nonetheless, a friendship between the three had spawed, and while close to his own year mates, Changmin had leaped at taking up the offer of staying with Yoochun and Jaejoong in his second year. The three had found a reasonably sized apartment within walking distance to the law faculty and never looked back.
Changmin's father is a lawyer himself, and his mother a housewife who had spent much of his younger years plying the young man with home cooked delicacies of sorts - because she loved to cook (and bake). While his mother does still send his younger sister over to visit every fortnight bearing boxes and boxes of kimchi and side dishes, and while Changmin does head home too often (for dinners), Changmin thinks that Jaejoong might just be the best thing that happened to his stomach.
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Kim Junsu
22 years old / Graduate in Law, Seoul National University / Student, Accelerated Buisness Diploma in Banking and Finance, Seoul National University
Kim Junsu made quick friends with Yunho in their first year of law school. They had tried out for the SNU soccer team (and made it), and once it had come to light that they were both in the same course, they were inseperable. Both as easy going as each other, and as atheletic with boundless energy to expand.
With his unique laughter, sunny disposition and how he never seems to worry about anything makes Junsu highly likeable. Everyone is his friend, and no one can really bring themselves to hate the smiley man. However, there is just one quirk about Junsu which everyone more or less agrees on - the fact that he might just be asexual. Aside from sports, soccer, video games, his twin brother, family, pet dog and friends - Junsu has never shown an interest in much else (i.e. love interests).
He and Yunho had bunked into a two bedroom apartment for their second and third year along with Junho (Junsu's twin). Junsu currently stays in a post-graduate dormitory while pursing an accelerated diploma specially catered for graduates - because he just isn't sure if law is what he really wants to do. His twin Junho has gone off to America for a two year masters programme in Chemical Engineering and the two spend an obssessive amount of time talking to each other through skype while playing various legions of computer games with one another.
Junsu's parents own a chain of highly successful fried chicken restaurants, cafes and dessert shops, and you would think that has turned the man off fried chicken entirely, but no, not really, he loves it.
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A/N: So, this is a fic idea I've been sitting on forever and very excited to delve into!! I ~might~ add more character biographies as they come along, but for this story I think I'll stick to the 5 of them and let the chapters tell you the rest. I love writing out character biographies HAHAH (is that weird???) because I feel like they help me to clearly map out the characters in my head before I start writing.
If you were wondering why they are all in law school, welllll, I just have something for law!DBSK okay? ITS SO SEXY. And it really seems like something I could see them all doing. And well, maybe also because of the fact that I am a law student myself, and while sadly none of my cohort is even as sexy ;_; pretending that they could be just makes life feel better.
Anyway, as for the parts on taking the bar in South Korea, and anything to do with Seoul National University. I have almost NO idea how the system works in S.Korea, so I basically just used wikipedia to navigate my way through and ran with a vague idea of how one qualifies as a practicing lawyer in S.Korea. As for the choice of University in this fic, I kind of just googled 'Universities in Seoul' and came up with the whole
S.K.Y Universities' thing, so I just picked the highest ranking (which was SNU - did you know they are 31st in the QS World Rankings for 2014/2015 :o) and again, ran with it because smart!dbsk is just SO sexy.