#but for me wang yao has been and always will be a red crowned crane

[mysticalmusicwhispers]

a small set of SK headcanons

These are mostly humanverse/non-historical headcanons because I don’t know enough about SK/Korea’s history to write much about it...

Also apparently this needs to be said but these are headcanons for South Korea/Im Yong Soo, not anyone else.

— 10 step beauty routine, spas on Saturdays.

— Looks fabulous without trying though (he’s really good at pulling off the “messily dressed” look, where everything looks thrown together and slightly hurried but also really pleasing to the eye)

     -> Related: wore eyeshadow for a whole day as a dare (in around the 1960s-1970s) and after looking in the mirror, decided to wear it regularly. Nowadays male presenting people + eyeliner/eyeshadow is more common, so the novelty of being stared at a lot has worn off, but he still wears it from time to time to look good.

— Well built, has substantial muscle and a good looking body

— Oscillates somewhere between pretty boy and jock depending on the day. Only in appearances though; he’s by no means unintellectual or standoffish.

— To me he feels like the type who’d write poetry on a whim, just small little drabbles of whatever comes to him in a sudden moment of contemplation. He scribbles them down and stashes them in a folder; sometimes he rereads it, sometimes he never reads one of his scribbles again. That doesn’t bother him; the small fragments of lines and bits of stanzas help him organize his thoughts, and save the ones he thinks worth remembering. To him, the act of writing is what makes it worth it.

— A hard worker when he puts his mind to it, focused and methodical. He’s devised his own way to get things done efficiently and it works pretty well when he’s not caught off guard by his hobbies/passions/new K-drama leaks.

— Has actually gotten into a few spats with China over various things and whether it originated in Korea or China. Japan wishes they’d just stop arguing over petty things, but neither Yong Soo nor Yao’s pride allows them to. (this mostly refers to the recent hanfu vs hanbok and kimchi vs paocai arguments.)

— What animal they’d be: either a Korean magpie (a national symbol representing good luck and happiness, both of which seem like his vibes, and they look pretty nice and can sing) or a tiger (another national symbol, representing courage, but also prosperity and good luck.) Bonus: His brother North Korea would be a cat (generally seems like a cat person, aloof + antisocial but still wickedly smart, witty, with a caustic tongue) or tortoise (likes to think of himself as steady, unshakeable, and the only one still left with tradition in a misguided, too-novel future. Also turtles/tortoises symbolize longevity, and I’m not sure how to articulate it, but it just feels like that would fit him. Also in folklore, the tortoise is one of the 4 cardinal animals and represents the north)