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OFFICIAL PROFILE BLUE (JOO JAEYOON)

BLUE IS A SOLOIST UNDER MIDAS LABELS

stage name: Blue birth name: Joo Jaeyoon (주재윤) birthday: October 5, 1996 zodiac sign: libra chinese zodiac sign: rat height: 180cm / 5'11 weight: 63kg / 138lbs mbti: ISTP representative emoji: 🦥 representative color: classic blue fandom name: blume instagram: jy__nj

FUN FACTS:

He was born in Pangyo in the Bundang District in Seongnam, Korea.

When he was younger, he studied abroad in America through a homestay.

He has an older sister (1993).

He's stated multiple times that he prefers to go by Jaeyoon rather than Blue.

He speaks Korean, English, and Japanese. However, Blue states that he is 0-lingual because he is a master of none.

Blue was originally set to debut in Phaze, but instead debuted two years later as a soloist.

He has dimples when he smiles.

His hobbies consist of reading existential novels, writing music, creating videos, and learning about whiskey.

His favorite foods are marinated crab, and sliced raw fish. He hates chocolate and sweet foods.

He has an allergy to peaches.

He stated in the past that he liked spring, but now states that his favorite season is winter.

When he's not promoting, he's always wearing glasses.

He is a fan of nirvana, oasis, and frank ocean.

A secret skill: can tell the difference of soju brands blindly, and he can sleep for 18+ hours straight.

Ideal type: someone who cuts their hair, and tells him that they cut their hair 2cm, rather than have him guess if something's changed about them.

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PROFILE / BIO / CAREER

hi friends!!!! i'm jane, 21+, she/her! i'm so excited to join (and i'm sorry to the admins for asking so many questions along the way - i just got excited..... hehe) but this is my muse joo jaeyoon aka blue! (cheesy stage name, but midas picked it not me) below the cut is going to be a general rundown of jaeyoon bc i know his bio is way too long!! (also, i'm esl so i'm sorry for any typos and writing - i'm always learning!) pls give this a like, and i'll run to ur dms or d*cord to plot :)

BACKGROUND

jaeyoon comes from a run-of-the-mill regular middle/upper class family. his parents come from lower class roots, so they know how difficult life can get if you don't have stability. though they're both in tech / software jobs now (they're working parents), they still want their children to not go through the same things they went through as children

hence, jaeyoon and his sister have had the pressures of succumbing to the typical square lifestyle. his sister? succeeds, she gets into sungkyunkwan university as a doctor, and now she's a practicing physician. always stellar grades, typical picture perfect first daughter

jaeyoon on the other hand, is your troubled kid! he learns to start smoking at an early age, drinking, and doing all the things that your parents warned you about! but he had fun, and probably got exposed to it early because he was in this "underground" hip hop scene

as u can guess, his parents go nuts esp because he gets caught smoking in school / skipping classes. so, what do they do like any other korean parent household with a bit of money??? they send him off to america to study and homestay

he gets really sad at this time, basically abandonment issues lol (he also might have mommy / daddy issues, but that's for another day). tries to pretend like he's his sister, and lo and behold, it doesn't work after a year. but he learns to carve out and swallow his pride, and tell his parents 'plz let me come home' after a few years, swearing that he'll do better

psyche! he doesn't do better, and instead he reverts back after a year or so running with the same hip hop crowd / can't kick his nicotine habit. so, this time his parents threaten to send him to boarding school in the us, which he considers. but then he's street scouted by midas, and he decides this is a "sign" to escape the confines of his overburdening parents / current life

to this day: he sees his mom / dad / sister, but it's a bunch of superficial conversations where he doesn't say much

MIDAS

he joins midas, and does well for two years. enough so, that there's some speckle of hope that says he will debut. but guess what? skeletons in your closet come back angrier, haunting you to remind you that you can't cover your tracts that easily.

plus: there's rift between jaeyoon's musical drive and what midas has envisioned.

pictures resurface that he's underage drinking / smoking / dating, and suddenly he's pulled from phaze's lineup. (a bit bitter? yes because inside, jaeyoon thinks he would've made the group better and maybe he's deciding to practice a tinge of narcissism that day)

but what do you know, pretty face with a knack of talent - midas can't kick him out that easily. they basically put him on a short leash, and when they say jump: he says how high. he continues this tract for two years

he finally debuts! they try to market him as a hip hop idol rapper, but this vibe is far from his own personal music. there's a divide in what the company wants and what he wants. but still, he knows he's on a short leash and basically he does as they say

they reward him by letting him release bits and pieces of his own music throughout his discography

if we're making analogies: jaeyoon's discography is red velvet. the red is what midas wants, and velvet is what he wants - hence the divide in his music

but he's not popular lol some may say flop esp in korea.

ironically, he falls in love in 2022, and bc he's an idiot, the relationship ends! this causes him to be less prolific that year and literally only put out one release (please check it out bc it's my favorite piece of his discography)

now, that gets picked up by the american public. for some reason, american fans resonate with his loverboy sad boy aesthetic?? so now, he's marketing into a base that feeds into that. however, midas wants this to translate over to korea... so that's where he is at the moment, kind of stuck in limbo? it's like he never left that state of limbo.

PERSONALITY

ISTP!!

my personal favorite way to explain: he's a contradiction. he's not the bad boy of your dreams lol, but he's not an overtly happy-go-lucky guy. in fact, some may say he's flat, and rarely does get excited about anything

certified loverboy though, hence his discography and how much he writes and sings his feelings (probably because he has issues with saying these things outloud)

very introspective, and will probably have deep life conversations with you if you get him drunk enough? but sober? he doesn't have much to say apart from "hi" "how are you" and superficial ties.

as a friend: he's sturdy but selfish. if you're bored and want to hang? chances are he won't go outside, and will tell you to go bother someone else. if you're crying and distraught? he'll groan, and then probably come over with a bottle of whiskey (he doesn't care what you drink, he wants to drink what makes him happy)

as a lover: depends. most times, he'll play things out, but never follow through because he's probably still mourning his 2022 breakup lol. it's like you get half of him, and his heads are thoughts empty and elsewhere. but if he's really invested, then you get all types of rocky road ups and downs bc of his selfishness

probably smokes too much, and drinks too much. but die habits die hard, and he's engrained to press cruise control on his life

PLOT POINTS

i like plotting things out, so no plots pages. these are just ideas, but i'm really open to anything atm!

ideally: i'd like some phaze plotting! jaeyoon's kind of bitter, though he won't admit it. he knows he's a pretty boy, and thinks that he would've been center in the group (please clock him on this), and most popular. but he keeps these reservations, and would probably keep phaze members at an arms length. though, i can also envision a strong friendship that's entertwined with some level of morbid pity because jaeyoon never got to reap the benefits of debut with a popular group

friends! jaeyoon probably doesn't have any because he forgets to follow up on people since he's so hyperfocused on his own world, so anyone to clock him on the fact that maybe he's a shitty friend or someone who understands the mutual commiseration of being in the industry

anyone who likes hiphop?? idk, maybe people are into the underground hip hop music, and like his vibe. recommends his songs to their fans, and would like to collab at some point. his music isn't typical "k-pop" so, be interesting for someone to like his music or someone to only like the music that midas puts out for him

uncanny friends - i like the idea of someone in a very popular position to be jaeyoon's friend, and it's like?? how are they friends?? what do they talk about??? i imagine like irene being best friends with dpr live (just two random unrelated people), the public just being like wtf?

exes! he'd be a shitty bf, so probably bad ending. could be the love of his life too! idk these things i think require plotting, so it's left amorphous

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✩　midasmusic.com/artists/blue

001: profile.

legal name: joo jaeyoon stage name: blue age: 28 training period: 4 years company: midas music skeleton key: mms3

OLD DOG, OLD TRICKS / background

cookie cutter poise. it’s the little intricacies about finely shaped lines, carved out of dough to produce the perfect picture — yet, the way he looks, introspection’s a bitch. a closer look, and he sees the marred edges of perfection that get baked when put into the sun. it’s how life’s always been. a mom, a dad. a regular 9 to 5 family somewhere in pangyo. an older sister who spends each beck and call being the shattered mirror of what he’s supposed to be — put together, highly educated and tied together with a ribbon of vain.

but he gets it.

it’s the desperation of clawing your way through the trowels of the lower class, finding some speckle of hope along the way. the desperation of his parents’ past just become the hallowing echoes that he’d find his way in complacency. boring, plain, square — safe. yet, years pass and he’s still up to the same routine: wake up, skip school. find some corner store with friends, creating rhymes and martyred beats along the small nooks of the local PC room filled with the tinges of half-lit cigarette smoke. rinse, wash, repeat. a cycle that stays the same for many years till mom’s three little words become a hardened reality.

“we’re sending you to live in america.”

complacency’s a funny thing. the hard rewiring of your brain, and the subtle patterns of day-to-day now gone without a trace. (he passes his time by assimilating to the new unknown the only way he knows how — music, lyrics, daydreams.) korea feels like a fever dream, and he’s been martyred as the family stain, led to bleed dry.

mom sends her well wishes, and dad sends the yearly happy birthday. sister’s too busy with her own life, jaeyoon’s a distant thought. yearly visits to korea, he feels further isolated — a foreigner in either country. a quick cash grab for the homestay family — his face synonymous with lazy dinners and half-assed holidays. jaeyoon’s primed by now not to complain, not to utter a word. Instead, escapism comes in the form of smatterings spilled across the pages of his journal (loneliness is a hallow echo.)

a night of weakness, he calls home. “let me come home, please?”

his parents fold.

there’s an attempt at normalcy, but old habits die hard. hindsight is 20/20, and rose tinted optimism fragments when he’s back into the old tresses of used cigarettes, old friends, and a void of motivation. another threat, his eyes fall back and grumblings of a sigh escape his mouth.

but like fate, he finds his asylum.

one business card becomes his golden ticket, a one-way shot he makes with a dimpled pretty face. (tells mom, “bye.” a one-way decision, and by now, she’s too tired and brittle.)

too bad it doesn`t last long, and like the cycle goes — rinse, wash, repeat.

he sheds the marred crutch of the black sheep for the puppeteering strings bounded to his shoulders. pull up, he dances. pull down, he sings. yank side to side, he raps. music storylines don’t see eye to eye, and he becomes a mere piece they place their threats on — do this, you debut. do this, you don’t.

but see, humans are funny creatures. they’re hardwired by the heavy tactics of pattern generation. one stimulus linked to another, and he’s hardwired to believe: he’ll always fuck up. you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. slowly in the night, he reverts back to becoming human once more. clinks of drinks to wash away the hardened criticisms of the day in tandem with the drawl of the cigarette on his lips. a rose veil that washes his face with the beginnings of love. (click click, someone’s taking pictures).

like a draw of the hat, he’s chosen. this time, maybe he won’t fuck up. he hopes, can pride himself on coaxing himself into swallowing that this time he’d be a changed man. (freud’s laughing somewhere far away).

a minor threat comes in anonymously. one hard knock on the door a few days prior to the taste of freedom, and suddenly, he becomes shackled once more: “because you can’t explain these pictures, you’re not debuting.”

but there’s a silver lining, always. like the plasticity of human resilience. (or, maybe — he just amounts to nothing more than a pretty face). midas throws him the key: keep it in your hand safely, without temptation to unlock your own chain. then, maybe — we’ll show us the benevolence of irony tucked within human nature.he shows his own cards, learning to stand a bit taller with the puppet strings pulling on his back. two years later, he’s free.

002: image.

phaze sets the scene, instant success.

the rubble sets in after his own aftermath, and suddenly — jaeyoon’s building on sand. the pretty face does some dent that lingers after the tempest storm.

pretty boy, what a waste of talent.
he should’ve been in phaze
does he have dirt on the company?is that how he debuted alone?
let’s support him the best as we can!

it’s a walking hill he builds upon — one step forward, two steps back. the initial debut of an “idol rapper” becomes a stain on his own memory. now tied against the artistic liberation of his own volition, he tucks his chin down and goes by the movements. his songs get shoved to the back burner in lieu of “trendy” beats, loveless lyrics.

(sit dog, dog gets a treat).

he gets his praises in the form of freedom. little speckles of his own works thrown into the songs. it’s reverting back to that childlike innocence he’s lost, and he stays complacent with the settings he’s given. days pass, and the music earnings make him more akin to a soundcloud rapper than a given idol. the tempest waters of the company brews a storm when he becomes nothing more than a “minus-profit” for them. jaeyoon learns to keep afloat, toying with the music inside the studio.

his music: slow-moving, sing-song melodies that shed light into the pages created during late night drunken dazes. their music: happy-go-lucky, sing-song idol rapper. there’s no in-between, and joo jaeyoon becomes stuck in limbo.

2022 comes, and somewhere amongst the chaos of promotions, he learns to love again. he learns to lose himself to someone else, become engulfed in the suffocating love that it swallows him whole. but like a fall breeze, the love falls short, warm, then suddenly cold. caught by midas, it ends — he learns to rewire and redefine heartbreak. the palpable, visceral feeling rendering him numb at the end of each day. she paints him blue.

motivation falls, and he’s in the gray area of a walking zombie, left for dead on an island that feels more like a day-to-day mirage. desperation comes at a dead-end when he’s begging for a final adieu. they craft their own armistice, and he stands with both hands high in the air — no bite, no bark. it’s all tied together with the shift into rememberme.

his pain becomes midas’ treasure. a comment section filled with english words — a global market avenue. maybe, just maybe. there’s a glimmer of hope: this dog can be best in show.

they market him with this new found creative freedom with traces of the happy-go-lucky rapper. a greedy cash grab, and suddenly it’s a new homestay family he’s found. (dip your toes in the american market, don’t forget home). a mysterious boy, clean background, with a tendency to have fun.

fans slowly grow to love him, but he’s still lost in translation.

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SMOKE 🌫️ ENDING FAIRY 240901

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See, this? This is what the spark sounds like.