#pdw asks: min~ji seong

[plantdonutwrites]

spooky season question 👻 your ocs. do any of them believe in ghosts? are they at all superstitious? or do they tend to be skeptics? is there a difference between ghosts and demons, or are they one and the same? any other spooky details you'd like to share?

Oh my~, what a spooky and appropriate question for this time of year~ 👻

Bree

Bree's belief in ghosts is circumstantial; fickle, if you will. She is someone who doesn't really believe in pre-established superstition, but she definitely has her own unique ones that only make sense to her. Like if you leave your acrylic paints out for too long, it's bad luck and it'll ruin your entire canvas, or if you wash the graphite or charcoal off your hands before you're finished with a piece, it'll somehow act as self-sabotage. If you abuse your stuffed animals, you'll succumb to the worst kind of karma: and other stories.

As for her specific belief in ghosts or demons, she doesn't really differentiate (aka, thinks they're both close enough to each other and doesn't understand the difference). If she finds herself in an old, dilapidated building, it'd be easier to buy into the notion that it could be haunted rather than being in an apartment building that's been around for 10 years. Also, when she gets done watching a scary movie, she'll be "freaked out" and probably end up sleeping on someone else's floor for a night or two.

Yunsol

When it comes to the supernatural, she doesn't really give it the time of day. Ghosts, demons: it's all the same to her. It's mostly creatures and stories crafted by parents and grandparents to scare children into behaving: into eating their vegetables, coming home before dark, going to bed when they are supposed to. Up until Yunsol is introduced to Gwyn and the Turtles, she couldn't be bothered to think critically about these things. Outside of the morbid, gothic tales her cousin Jian writes, or the rpg-maker games her brother Junwoo creates as a hobby, that is. And that's all it is, in her mind: a creative outlet; it's all for fun. Not her kind of fun, but whatever works for other people.

Min-ji

I left Min-ji for last for a very specific reason. She does believe in ghosts, but she does not like to think about it. She doesn't really know what to make of demons--since that's more religiously charged and she's not religious--but ghosts... she goes back and forth on whether or not she has seen them before. She used to not be very superstitious either; even as a child, similar to Yunsol, she thought it was a quirky way to try and scare people. But that changed.

When the incident happened when she lost her arm, she was trapped in the subway for hours... with people who were injured, and with people who were dying and dead. Maybe it was the emotional stress; the mass hysteria, panic, fear, and suffering in the train among people who were trapped with her, counting down the minutes until they were dug out and rescued. Maybe it was whatever gases or fumes were released from the bomb in the subway, or the train itself. But at some point, Min-ji could have sworn she saw things down in that tunnel, beyond the horrors of what were actively happening in the foreground. She still doesn't know whether any of that was based in reality, or if her mind was playing tricks on her to protect itself... but she doesn't let herself think about it often.

[plantdonutwrites]

FOR MIN-JI: obligatory 🔵 Blue; but also 🪩 Disco Ball and ⚪️ White

OC Ask Meme (with the Colors) 🌈

🔵 Blue - How would your OC spend a single day of [un]interrupted peace? Where would they go or who would they be with?

The most 'boring', Occam's razor answer would be that she would be reading in bed. All day. Min-ji is one of those people who will read an entire book trilogy in one 24-hour sitting and be like "Hell yeah, day well spent." And good for her! But assuming she would want to be slightly more active than that: She would want to spend time outdoors near the water, be it a creek or a river or a lake (i.e. at the farmhouse probably). Maybe she'd bring her guitar, practice playing it, write music, all while sitting under a large, leafy tree that would provide shade. In terms of who she would spend such a day with, if she wasn't alone... probably Leo. Not just because they're dating, but because he wouldn't mind the quiet and sitting in stillness for a while. 🪩 Disco Ball - What was an achievement that your OC felt worthy of celebrating? Was it a personal victory or a big impact on everyone around them?

The one area of her life where Min-ji feels completely confident and empowered is her music. Whenever she finishes a concert, a recital, or some other big event where she is featured as a pianist... the high from that is exhilarating. Post-music related events is the only time where she may come off as more extraverted; more social, more charismatic... it's just an amplifier for personality facets she already has, but are usually softer and only reserved for her closer ring of friends and family. So musical achievements are definitely things she does not shy away from celebrating; she feels very worthy of those. And those sort of victories and accomplishments are contagious, as though Min-ji's post-performance high spreads to everyone else and gets THEM excited even though they weren't performing themselves. It's a nice change of pace for her loved ones, I'm sure!

⚪️ White - When was a moment in your OC's life that they felt the most vulnerable and exposed? Were they alone or surrounded?

Oof--the answer to this one could actually be its own dissertation, deadass. I'll try to sum it down to the cliff notes:

The first time was when she was on a train in the subway when said subway was bombed. She and hundreds of other people were buried alive in the tunnel and platform, and it took almost a full day to unearth all of them... some were alive, some dead. And she saw a lot of it firsthand. You can imagine how vulnerable and exposed that would make anyone, let alone an 11 year old child. She lost her arm, and her recovery--both physical and psychological--was hard, and at times brutal. It still lingers in her to this day, and how could it not?

The next time was a few years later--she was caught in a confrontation between the Foot and the Purple Dragons. All because someone who she was coming to trust decided to use her as a form of deflection from said confrontation, and ended up getting her involved. She was followed, stalked, attacked, spied on from all sides, to the point where she had no where safe to go anymore. It caused her to unravel in front of her four newly acquired ninja turtle friends, who took her in for a while to keep her safe. That's also pretty vulnerable rock bottom stuff, right there.

Sorry to keep a lot of this vague, but it is seriously so much. (I will include it in Min-ji's character profile when I eventually post it here)