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MUSE NAME: Cho Kyuhyun
PB NAME: Cho Kyuhyun
ALTERNATE NAMES: Ga Seonji, Jia Xianzhi, Zhao Guixian, Oshiro Kyosuke, Marcus Cho
GROUP/SOLO: Super Junior
MUSE LJ: kyunnii
MUSE IM: #evilkyunnii
AGE: Born approximately 400 AD; appears 25 years old. His current, forged birth certificate says he's 26.
IMMIGRATED ON: October 15, 2013
OCCUPATION: Programmer, part-time teacher at the University of Hong Kong
RACE: Unsorted - Immortal
HISTORY
If you were to ask Kyuhyun for the exact year of his birth, he would just shrug noncommittally. He was born so long ago, his memories of anything before the turn of the first millenia have become fuzzy and blurred with time. He knows he was born in Goguryeo in the Three Kingdom Era during the rule of King Gwanggaeto the Great, but beyond that he wouldn’t be able (or willing) to elaborate. The immortal doesn’t even remember his original name, “Kyuhyun” being something he picked up before his travels through Feudal Japan.
What he does know is that he came from a small strain of nonhumans, the offspring of two immortals left to fend for himself once he was old enough to understand exactly what he was. He stopped visibly aging at the rough age of 25, and every ten or so years from that point he was forced to travel in order to avoid the local villagers catching on.
While he enjoyed traveling, it made for a lonely existence. During those first few centuries, he did try to settle down and start a family. His first wife died in childbirth, the baby stillborn. Broken-hearted and forced to flee again, he remained alone for another two decades before falling for a beautiful minister’s daughter. They had four children together, Kyuhyun hoping he could ignore what he was for even a couple of decades. He hoped his new family would understand, and indeed his wife kept his secret at his insistence.
But for someone who lives forever, such peaceful moments were fleeting. Whispers began to arise as his lovely wife aged and he didn’t, and soon was being mistaken for his own sons. Kyuhyun waited as long as he could, hoping his sons and daughters had inherited his immortal blood and yet wishing they hadn’t at the same time. He didn’t want to be alone…but how could he trap others in a life that never ended?
He would never learn if his children were immortal. Goguryeo was at war; Silla, one of the southern kingdoms, had conquered Baekje and was now at war with his own kingdom. Their tiny village was swept up in battle, Kyuhyun and his eldest son sent to fight with other men. Modern-day Kyuhyun doesn’t remember much from the chaos that followed. He only remembered two things: screaming in anguish as he tried to pull an enemy spear out of his son’s corpse, and returning to their tiny village home to find it burned to ashes. He would never learn what happened to his wife, two daughters and youngest son.
From that period on, Kyuhyun separated himself from humans. His heart hadn’t recovered from the pain of losing those closest to him. The immortal watched, detached, as the kingdoms fought each other, dynasties rising and falling. Eventually, he took to traveling. His wandering took him throughout China during the Song dynasty, before he set his sights on Japan. Once in Japan he changed his name to Oshiro Kyosuke, and remained there from the Ashikaga era until the end of the Meiji restoration.
His professions changed from century to century. In China, he was a literati, a scholar, an archery trainer. In Feudal Japan he served under the shogun as a samurai, before faking his death and reemerging a decade later as a blacksmith. The Meiji restoration saw him tend to patients as a doctor. But throughout the centuries, he never made the mistake of becoming attached to others again. That wasn’t to say he didn’t have friends; he knew other non-humans in both China and Japan, especially in Edo (modern-day Tokyo). Edo was Japan’s power node up until the end of the Meiji era. When supernaturals in the area migrated in order to survive, Kyuhyun followed them…to America.
Kyuhyun remained in the United States for only a short time compared to the centuries in China and Japan. He was homesick…he missed Korea. So shortly before the second world war he traveled back to the land of his birth. He was there as war broke out, watching the televisions in horror as atomic bombs fell on the cities he’d at one point called home. Then, war broke out in Korea once again. Kyuhyun couldn’t escape recruitment, as much as he wanted to. So he lived through another war, watching men die around him.
The war took it’s toll on him, both psychologically and physically. His chest was crushed under heavy metal when an explosion rocked the convoy he was stationed in. Even his increased durability couldn’t protect him from the force of the blast, and to this day he wonders how he survived. He still feels phantom pain from where his ribs were broken.
After the war, Kyuhyun disappeared for two decades before reemerging in Busan. The immortal remained low-key for the decades following, choosing to follow a career in the emerging electronics industry rather than anything to do with his past. While he retains the knowledge of his past professions, most notably medical and battle experience, utilizing that knowledge brings with it painful memories and flashbacks best left buried.
With the disappearance of power nodes throughout the world, Kyuhyun ended up migrating with the rest of the supernatural community to Hong Kong. He arrived in October 2013, immediately making his presence known in the tech industry. Today, he works in the CAPCOM office located in Hong Kong programming video games. He also has a part-time teaching position for various programming languages. Not that he needs both jobs…he’s pretty well-off. But he’d rather keep himself busy than be bored.
PERSONALITY
Kyuhyun is a bit of an ass. He got over being polite to people centuries ago, and sees no reason he should be currying favor from humans who’ll be dead within five or six decades. If he thinks someone is being an idiot, he’ll tell them so. It’s earned him more than a few enemies over the years, but has also earned him respect for his honest, ‘tough love’ approach.
Making friends doesn’t come easy to Kyuhyun. While he does have friends within the supernatural community (especially vampires or other long-living creatures), the detachment and isolation that comes with being immortal makes it hard for him to relate to others…or to even want to. When it comes to humans, he keeps his distance. He still remembers the pain of losing his family clearly, and would rather go through another war than experience that pain again.
Surprisingly, considering his aversion to his war-torn past, he has no problems programming war games. When asked, he just snorts before pointing out he does know the difference between video games and reality. Video games aren’t real. What was real…he doesn’t appreciate being reminded about.
Having lived for such a long time, Kyuhyun is knowledgeable on a variety of subjects. If he likes you well enough, he’ll let you pick his brain for whatever you want to know. But he tends to know when people are sucking up to him just so they can get an answer to something, and will mock them accordingly. He's known for scoffing at people reciting facts from history books, as if writing it in a book automatically makes it the truth.
ABILITY
Immortal. Kyuhyun can’t be killed by natural means, including old age and disease. He is also immune to deadly poisons, though they will leave him sick for a long time.
His immunity to injuries varies. Increased durability and speedy healing mean that most injuries that would kill a human are only minor inconveniences to him…the main reason he survived the various wars and fights that occurred during his long life. There are ways to kill him though: immortals can be slain by beheading, a gunshot wound directly to the brain or heart, or by being crushed or bled out. They can also be drowned or burnt to death, though to drown an immortal they would need to be underwater for a longer amount of time than needed to drown a human.
LIKES
✪ Video games
✪ Wandering
✪ Coffee
✪ Singing
✪ Dogs
DISLIKES
✪ War
✪ Blood
✪ Cats
✪ Rain
✪ Religion
FEARS
✪ Bombs / Explosions
✪ Earthquakes
NOTES
✪ Kyuhyun is recovering from PTSD…the reason why he disappeared for two decades following the Korean War. Loud noises tend to startle him, as do earthquakes. They remind him too much of the bombing he barely survived.
✪ A surprise considering his immortality, but Kyuhyun is allergic to chocolate. It won’t kill him but he will be bedridden for a few days.
✪ Kyuhyun is fluent in five languages: Korean, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese and English. But his mother tongue is Old Korean, more specifically the Goguryeo dialect. Sometimes it shows.
✪ Throughout his long life, Kyuhyun has always liked dogs. Even if their life spans were shorter than humans, they provided a sense of companionship for the immortal when he was lonely. Currently he has a beagle puppy named Lian (graceful). The name is in jest...she's anything but graceful.
TIMELINE
~400: Ga Seonji was born in Goguryeo.
~640: Met his second wife. Had four kids.
665: Lost his family in the war. Disappeared.
665-980: Went by Jia Xianzhi. Whereabouts unknown. Assumed to have been in Unified Silla and later Goryeo.
980-1300: Reappeared in China during the Song dynasty and beginning of the Yuan dynasty as Zhao Guixian.
1300-1900: Traveled through Japan as Oshiro Kyosuke. His most notable influence was during the Meiji era (1868 till departure) as a doctor.
1900-1935: Lived in America for a short (relative) time, under the name Marcus Cho. Exact whereabouts unknown.
1936: Returned to Korea; during Japanese occupation. Changed name to Cho Kyuhyun.
1945: The end of World War II. Korea was divided along the 38th parallel 3 years later, Kyuhyun in South Korea.
1950-1953: The Korean War. Following the end of the war, Kyuhyun disappears.
1975: Reemerges in Busan as a computer programmer in the still-young tech industry.
Late 2013: Moved to Hong Kong. Currently residing there.