#the model;blood guts and angel cake;celebrity verse

[mythvoiced]

“Are you sure you don’t want to join me in Milan?” It’s a question, but from Kang Aeri, it sounds more like a demand. An appeal if one were to put this interaction into legal terms.  “You wouldn’t have to worry about the cost or the language; I’m learning Italian right now and I’m very good. If you’re that worried about mooching off of me, I have something you could do for me in return.”

Casually, she links arms with them, her best friend and her favorite model. “C’mon Hyun-ah, think about it– no dispatch, no social obligations, no rules. We can even bring our partners along if they’re not too busy with their paperwork.”

( AND NOW I AM HERE!!! with the fashion bffs bc hyun needs a vacay and aeri is HAPPY to provide 🤩🤩🤩 especially if it means she gets to dress her bff however she wants :D )

@stillresolved | the 'girls' are planning~!!!!

Occasionally, Hyun will pretend. Or, well, to be quite frank, she does a lot more pretending than she does genuine emoting, which often leads to particularly interesting memories for the people around her.

She's mostly known for the stern demeanor, the coldness she emanates, look into her eyes when she's working and walk away knowing you've met something more powerful than you, at least because the will in her gaze would insinuate her to be so.

But with Aeri?

Well...

Every rule has its exceptions.

When Aeri links their arms together, Hyun lets her drag her in with the feigned eye-roll of someone who'd started considering relenting about ten minutes prior to the conversation even starting.

It'd be more sensible to remain in South Korea, hell, to remain in Seoul. She isn't the most savvy at her own public relation work - exhibit A the reason she supposedly needs a vacation - but even she would wonder, would going on a trip to Milan with a powerful, well-regarded fashion designer everyone knows her to be close to not just make her look...

Disinterest?

Arrogant?

She's in deep legal shit, after all, defamation lawsuits she's trying to start and others she's trying to battle, flounting money that isn't hers via a connection that is hers...

Wouldn't it be perfectly on brand?

Hyun turns to look at Aeri. The look in her eyes seems to insinuate Aeri is being both terribly tempting and awfully inconsiderate for attempting temptation in the first place. But isn't that what she likes so about Kang Aeri?

It's easy to forget how powerful Aeri's family is when in her presence solely because of how much more raw power she exudes. Wealth and status colour the air differently depending on if its new or old money. Sure, not even Hyun can say Aeri came from a poor background and worked her way up, she's a liar but not a dumb one.

But from the ground up Aeri worked herself anyway. Her background doesn't imply the freedom to do as she pleases. When her designs had started covering the racks she used to throw the brands of others she'd wear, they were sewn together by her own needle-pricked fingers.

And if Hyun were to say yes here, she'd say yes to Aeri's favour. Not the Kang's.

Which is perhaps where the real temptation lies: watching her best friend show off with things she's put together for herself, a ladder she'd not only climbed, but also built.

"You mentioned something I could do for you in return," she says, leaning away slightly to regard her with a teasing look. Honestly, she'd had her at the first hint of an idea of a suggestion here. Watching Kang Aeri turn heads in Milan while she upset the deeply Catholic country with her wife at her side, arms linked or around waists, all while said country could not say anything for how powerful her presence was, how lucrative it would be?

Witnessing that with her own hand stuffed in Boram's, all while she could sit by, smell like the finest of perfumes, dismiss people with 'I don't speak Italian, sorry' and pretend trouble doesn't await her back home?

Oh.

Yeah.

Definitely.

"You're lucky I'd do anything for you," Hyun says, reaching around with her free hand to pinch Aeri's cheek, which is about as obvious a 'duh, I'm coming' as the phrase itself would have been.

[mythvoiced]

They don't tell you often enough, but the company you do something with makes or breaks the activity itself. A world in which you could enjoy anything you set out to do independently from all the other faces present on lieu is a world of the kind of utopia not even films and books manage to portray convincingly.

There is no such world, where who's there or who isn't doesn't change the taste of the pill you swallow, willingly or less so.

So, it's the company, most likely.

Hyun doesn't know if it's in large part thanks to the lack of recognition in Suki's eyes, devoid of spark of assessment but overflowing with the spark of life, or a disinterest in mention if she had actually recognize Hyun for the smiling profile under headlines such as 'Supermodel Causes Controversy' or 'Is Ji Hyun A Devil In Disguise?', or if the larger part of Suki's demeanor that relaxes Hyun into forgetting she has Dispatch to worry about in the first place is simply and truly and organically... Suki's demeanor.

Refreshing. The easy responses, the lack of pressure, just a girl keeping her hands busy while a semi-girl wishes she could do the same. Hyun can't figure out if she misses a life in which people don't recognize her. But she certainly misses this, the notion of a normal conversation.

"Why voice-acting?" Hyun looks playfully affronted, the enforced habit of throwing in a smile when she's actually genuinely perturbed by whatever she's engaging with. Oh how well they teach you to pretend you're just suggesting when you'd rather stomp your foot, how well they teach you to laugh while you ask someone to stop.

"They can use make-up, screw them. Do you know how many of these new goons going into acting these days have tattoos? Ugly-ass tattoos that need a ridiculous amount of make-up to cover up?"

Hyun scoffs, reaching for the freshly finished fox with nimble finger-tips. She turns the paper miracle in her hands and puckers her lips to not smile any wider than she already is.

"Nah, not nepotism. Unless you consider me getting you the connections nepotism. Shouldn't nepotism be a blood thing only?"

Not that she'd have any sort of understanding of 'gaining privilege through your familial ties'. What ever are those, right?

"A cook."

Hyun falters.

A cook?

She blinks.

She didn't even know she had an answer to that question, what would she want to be if not an actor, if she's working so fucking hard to be one?

A cook?

"... I think?"

ji hyun. ➜ THE NAME ‘JI HYUN’ OUGHT TO RING A BELL IN HER MIND. But in this particular moment ( and time that came before that and the one before that one– ) it does not. Unless blacklisted supermodel Ji Hyun decides to tell Suki otherwise, then Suki will simply assume that they’re just another citizen trying to make their way through life in Seoul, South Korea. Not a notorious supermodel well known to dispatch.

They’re all got secrets in this city. Foreigners and natives alike. Suki’s just happens to border the line of legality. She nods, very seriously though. “It’s okay, they suggested that back in the States too even when I wasn’t working the front desk. Maybe I’d go with voice-acting instead.”

She tilts her head, the paper fox now sitting fully realized in her hands. “Are you sure? That isn’t like, nepotism or anything like that right?” Not that Suki has any plans of changing her job at this point in time. Her current one doesn't even ask for much these days anyways. Her hands start on another fox, the fully realized one hopping on the table between them. “It’s a big career change to make. If you didn’t want to be an actor, what would you want to be?”

[mythvoiced]

-. Ji Hyun - Celebrity verse (Under Construction)

Manifesting Ferre and Alex's bullet points power abilities, I'm compiling this little post with things about Hyun for this verse before polishing it and eventually adding it to their about (and bothering the SHIT out of Lynnie's characters, I MEAN-); I just need to put the brainstorm brain bubbles somewhere, YAOH-

Hyun is human for this verse, so all details of her main verse pertaining to her gumiho nature are understandably removed (hehehe, past lives though?).

She's physically perma-fem presenting, but she/they genderfluid (closeted, I mean, consider the industry, leans slightly more into 'she') Pansexual, but still very much single-ship with @theimpalpable 's Yeong Boram, that's just... the way it be, I love love. (Which, by the way, means her boyfriend is a CEO~ PLEASE read up on Boram, I love him so mUCH)

Hyun is a 30-year-old super-model of sorts in the South Korean modelling industry, she's made her debut some-time in her late teens and has climbed the ranks of relevance, desirability and brand-deals ever since. Even at an 'old age' such as hers, her youthful appearance (and expertise within the industry) still garners her love and admiration from especially the impressionable female audience following her on social media, and agencies who like working with someone who knows what they're doing.

A few years prior to the 'present', Hyun has publicly announced her interest in venturing deeper into the entertainment industry and stepping out slightly from the beauty industry: not a very welcomed move. Models transition into acting relatively often enough, and actors are almost always simultaneously models, brand deals, ads, sponsorships, not to mention you can only truly make it into both industries if you flex your pretty privilege. Which is why it's so much easier for the populi to forgive a bad actor for being bad if they're at least pretty. Not to delve into how race plays a part in determination of beauty standards, Hyun was set out to make the transition just as easily... so what happened?

If there's one thing people hate about women and fem presenting people... is that they're women and fem presenting people. A woman is adored... until she does something someone else considers 'stepping out of line' and BOOM, dead in a ditch. Hyun does like stepping out of line: prioritizing brands and agencies she actually likes, refusing to work with people she doesn't, caring more about the crew than whatever fashion designer shows their face around, openly expressing her general distaste for the fashion elite, honestly... a bitch. At least according to the people, once news of her 'ungrateful, unprofessional, diva behaviour' started flooding the internet.

A scandal ruined her chances of an easy transition from modelling into acting.

You might argue, WAHOO, feminism~ Hyun is a hero~ No. A lot of people get hurt all the time, a lot of women and fem presenting folks have fought and lost these battles. Hyun never even took political stances, pretended nothing bad ever happened to the world in her bubble of notoriety and fame. The world has never helped her, what does she care about helping the world. But now that bubble burst. And while Hyun doesn't crumble with the lack of it, it sure as fuck pissed her off.

Problem is... she's just a model. Most people in the regular world know her as mannequin of expensive things, she doesn't manage her accounts, she doesn't talk to people, she barely even shows up to places: her beauty is the primary reason for her success, not her PR-ing. So... how to move on from here?

The scandal: I have NO IDEA yet, but I do believe she intended moving into acting for very specific reasons, either to get back at someone or destroy something from within, Hyun may not act like it in any verse but they do actually absolutely hold grudges, one of the things most debilitating to their mental health at times; so whatever happened, was orchestrated specifically to ruin her reputation.

Someone did something they shouldn't have, something he shouldn't have, a man most likely, maybe some kind of harassment, maybe something along the lines of Pro.misi.ng Y.oung W.oma.n but kept hush hush, maybe it wasn't anything that serious but definitely a personal attack against Hyun and Hyun simply snapped, either way... she's hear to make a few pigs squeal in pain.

Hyun also doesn't partake in 'scenes' and 'public scandals'; if she's attending some big social event (against all odds) and you start shit with her, throw a drink at her, she'll laugh in your face (if she can be bothered) and bill you the damages. Head held high, continues sipping on her drink. There's a good chance she just goes get changed and comes back. She is very condescending to people who try to start drama. I'm saying shit like 'oh sweetie, I don't play with kindergarteners' or instantly cutting all ties if she sniffs that kind of behaviour. If befriending Hyun elevates your status, best believe she does not care and will get rid of you if you start shit, good luck keeping that status. This also works against her, if you play your cards right, making her look even more like a diva.

Her way of putting you in your place is not even deeming you worth the trouble.

Now, the question: is this attitude always possible in these industries? Nay~ There are always consequences, there'll always be people stronger than you, with better ties. That's the fun of the plot, though~

She works in the fashion industry specifically and has had some minor cameos in shows as herself mostly.

I tried to sweet-talk around her demeanour but she really simply is a diva isn't she lmao at least she doesn't lose her shit as quickly as Some Celebrity Characters

YOU KNOW WHAT SHE'D DO? She'd help Kang Yohan. I don't know why I thought of that but she'd fuck around and find out and help TDJ's Kang Yohan if he needed a model's services, she'd be down to mess around there.

She's... odd, when it comes to how willing she's to fight for human rights, things she actually does secretly care about, feminism and classism and queer issues and systematic issues, but... she never EVER uses what platform she has. Ever.

Her Instagram handle is @/rubonyhyun which stands for Ruby Onyx Hyun (reference to a pet name Boram has for them in canon verse, I will name-drop Boram as OFTEN as possible) and her PR team runs it... most of the time, at least. She refuses to get a TikTok (she has one, but it's private for mindless scrolling), and her KakaoTalk is obviously private.

[mythvoiced]

"Don't worry, my husband knows I'm stuck talking to a snake," the jab is easy to make, Hyun doesn't have enough personal feelings at stake to treat this relationship any kinder than it needs to be treated.

The mention of a husband though makes the tone of voice she uses to respond meaner than she'd intended to be. It strikes her like a faux pas, to mention someone so dear to her, to hear even the insinuation of Boram's existence tumbling from the lips of a man she'd rather not depend on.

Like a foul in a game she's only begrudgingly playing.

If begrudgingly is the right word, though, why did you call first?

It reaches her ears with the same kind of sourness twisting her face as 'Allegra' does. There's a reason Aeri doesn't allow that name into conversations and has a preference as to which name she responds to. They all feel like jabs she can only sit there and take, letting Bellamy ramble on because not only is he right, he has what she needs.

And yes, she could drop him as easily as he could drop her.

But is that really true?

There's nothing she could hold against him if anything were to come out. It'd be an easy feat to paint her as a disillusioned 'woman' so desperate to regain the fame she's yet to make but has already lost, that she'd fabricate a connection to someone like Bellamy Kang.

She isn't stupid enough to not understand the power imbalance. She can't claim anything about him. If she said 'he offered' she'll be ridiculed for being ungrateful, if she threw in a fake story relating to bodies and nights she'd be the unfaithful one, and even the mere thought of it makes her skin crawl in a way that suggests she'll call Boram right after this phone call ends.

He's fighting with a sword.

She with a knife.

Or better.

She with a sword.

He with a gun.

And, as the line goes...

And yet, somehow, that's where the deal lies. Hyun has nothing to hold against Bellamy. And all Bellamy could hold against her are things they've yet to do together. And even those things they will do together, well, what can be spoken of them?

An invitation somewhere?

That's all?

There are no deeper reasons and no deeper ties, but Hyun isn't stupid, and Hyun doesn't trust, and Hyun is angry and exhausted, and the more Bellamy keeps explaining to her why their alliance is so advantageous for the both of them, the more her teeth grit and grind.

Reassurance.

She's half-tempted to throw her phone against the wall, but she wants to keep her finances still for a little while longer.

"You misunderstand, chairman," her finger falters as she stumbles over a model she's worked with in the past. She hasn't heard from her in long enough for her to become half a memory, but not long enough to not notice how long it's been.

Long enough. Another connection lost because colleagues and fake friends prefer to safe their own skin. She looks stunning, of course she does, and Balmain suits her, of course it does.

"Let's just say I don't like simply doing as I'm told and waiting for the results. All the things you mention, the ways we can both benefit from each other, the ways we work oh so well together, vague nonsense," she blocks her former colleague. Why not. Not like she'd notice.

"I want concrete answers. Question number one: Will you try to turn me against Aeri? Question number two: Will you trick me into representing political views I don't support? Question number three: Will you involve Boram?"

She reaches for a nearby bowl of magnolia berries and pops one into her mouth.

"There are wrong answers."

  @mythvoiced has sent :   "I just want you to know that you're the least trustworthy person I know," Hyun shoves her phone between her ear and her shoulder. Meeting Bellamy in person if she wants to talk to him is a no-go for two reasons: she doesn't want to, that's the primary one, and it would be detrimental to whatever it is the symbolic head of Kakao is planning behind the scenes. Another, smaller reason, is also the irritation of not having what he has to do what he does: decide on whims who to support and who not. Unfortunately, the position that makes it difficult for her to have his kind of liberties, is the same that forces her into being contact with him at all. He's saved as 'the lesser Kang' on her phone. "How quick would you be to stab me in the back?" Another device is facing her. She's been scrolling and typing mindlessly for hours, looking at every social media account that has ever worn Balmain... and figuring out where they are now. That, and prodding at Bellamy to figure out what would get him to snap. Because men always do. "Be honest. I can take it." ((Hyun on the phone with the Kangs is such a wildly different experience if you compare this to her and Aeri-- HYELLO LYNNIE, MWAH ♥))

Seeing Ji Hyun's name on the screen brings a twisted little smile to his lips. The end of his day is dedicated to overlook some of the projects from the marketing team at the Kakao Corp headquarters. Answering through his free hand device, he still keeps an eye on the moodboard before his eyes, two hands down his pockets. Him and Hyun, the tango they have started to dance is Oh so entertaining to him. "Ji Hyun-sshi calling me on my cellphone. How intimate. Worry not, I won't tell your husband." Even through the phone, his smirk can he heard which he knows is annoying to her. "Aaah is this a We Have to Talk situation? I thought our honeymoon phase would last a little longer than that yet here you are, calling me the least trustyworthy person you know huh?" His smirk widens as he gestures to his assistant to bring him the second board, the one before his eyes not satisfying him so much.

"You know what I like the most about you Ji Hyun-sshi? You don't beat around the bush so let''s not bullshit each other into the illusion of a friendship and all should roll like I know it will. You hate my guts, so why would I trust you to be loyal to me for the better and for the worse yeah? We're not family, we're not fucking so I can tell, you will ride by my side as long as it's benefitial for you, as long as you don't feel indebted to me, in, I believe, respect for my business and without compromising your moral compass too much. However : you would ditch me if your boyfriend asks you to or if Allegra finds out about our little Histoire interdite so, expect the same from me." Honest, he couldn't be more than he is now, however he believes that's where lies the strength of their little secret. Hyun and him are nothing to each other so everything they will do will be strictly business; no dramas like he has with his sisters or his cousins, no sentimental yadiyadas, him and Hyun can go straight to the point, make bank and part ways when it's over, he likes that. "Isn't that why our alliance is so good? Nobody will know I go where you go, nobody will notice you go where I go, we can manipulate our away everywhere we want. By the end of the day, you get exactly what you want and I get exactly what I want, too." A pause as a thought crosses his mind. Something he's saving for later. "If it's the Power I have that worries you, I'm not like that. Getting you a seat to places only I can provide access to, is handing a piece of that power to you in order to maximize your influence. I'm not looking for an employee, I got enough for that. We can think ourselves as equels in our little duo." Another dismiss to board as he stands up from his seat as he now walks around the room, leaving his assistant behind, standing in front of the ceiling to flood windows, watching the sky darkening. "Is that what you wanted to hear, Ji Hyun-ssi? Reassurance? That are you're inviting me over for whiskey and cigars, and well, I'm free on sundays."

[mythvoiced]

-. MORE HEADCANONS for Hyun Celebrity Verse

The BRAINROT I have for this verse, gosh... (rat bastard character for this verse also coming up~ Lynnie, I WILL give you that bastard, MARK MY WORDS!)

Her first ventures into acting where actually classic MV cameos that models seem to do here and there; especially when she was first rising to fame, so early twenties, she'd be featured in that classic 'look at how cool this artist is he can get models~', eye candy and the likes way; the older she'd get, the likelier she'd be to feature as the actual love interest rather than a meatbag (and choose who to work with)

I like to think that she featured with artists like Ra.in yknow~ or people she'd actually enjoy, like Crush, Gray, or as a mate in Ta.eyeon videos maybe (if that's even a thing)

At one point her cameos became less 'oh a model' and more 'is that Ji Hyun?! OMG~'

YOU KNOW WHAT what if she's the voice at the beginning of Jessi's Spirit Animal, you know the one, that'd be so much fun what the fuck, she'd love Jessi (on that note, fluent in English queen~?)

She's not even that much into fashion, as I feel I've kind of established relatively well, the only fashion designer she can actually get behind is Kang Ae-ri ( @stillresolved ) because other than THAT'S HER BESTIE Hyun also feels like Ae-ri is one of the few people left in the business who actually has something to say, something to show, a passion for her craft, and not the performative kind where you call yourself eccentric to get away with being a douchebag, no, Ae-ri actually gives a shit, and Hyun respects that

Even though she's a clothing hanger (her words), when it comes to endorsing brands outside the fashion industry, Hyun likes perfume deals the most: she's a big fan of scents and the likes, she actually likes 'selling' perfumes she'd wear on herself

On the other end of the spectrum: skin-care products, she fucking hates that industry, oversaturated with scammers and bullshit

ONTO THE DEFAMATION LAWSUIT lmao I think I'm settling on a designer being the cause of her trouble: he publicly painted as an abuser who mistreats everyone around her, especially the crew and anyone easily painted as an underdog, this designer is someone Hyun has had issues with for years; she's kept herself relatively close-lipped and they simply had a very tense work-place relationship until Hyun's incoming departure from the fashion industry has prompted her to put him in his goddamn place for his mistreatment and abuse of the women especially who work for him; long story short, he did not like that and turned it around and against her

Hyun's mother is Old Money, Hyun's father owns a cruises company, Hyun's older sister is a former Olympic bronze medalist and now activist, a lot of people assume that's how she got into modelling in the first place, money nepotism, WRONG! She's never seen a cent of her mother's money for most of her life, Hyun's father kind of forgets he has children, Hyun's sister is dealing with her own shit and doesn't have a good reputation for being an LGBTQ+ rights activist anyway, so Hyun was....... scouted~ Like those classic kpop scouting stories you hear, you know

She was also offered to become a trainee, yknow, for the visuals only but she refused, it wouldn't have been for her, she's got no pronounced musical talent and even just thinking about learning choreos fatigued her (she also doesn't like dancing tbh)

In terms of how public Boram and her are, I'll have to talk to Alex about it, but prior to this relationship, she's been OF COURSE target of all sorts of dating rumours

Once she was approached about potentially dating a popular 2nd gen kpop idol and she laughed in their face... she had a public appearance & interview ban for weeks after that

I have to incorporate foxes into this verse as well, of course, so what if an upcoming potential role of hers was that of a gumiho 👀

Funniest about this is... Hyun is a good actor; translating the masking and trickster nature of a gumiho into this verse, it just makes sense, we could easily make her as good as P.ar.k Gy.u-yo.un.g herself

And she would actually like it, she doesn't know it yet BUT I DO, Hyun would love acting, she'd abandon the fashion industry as main gig real fucking fast

We need to cast her in something with Se.o In.-G.uk (NOBODY TOLD ME HE'S IN SOMETHING WITH PARK SO-D.AM RN, GOSH DARN IT)

While she avoids public appearances unless super necessary for whatever reason (such as the one Bellamy ( @usuhan ) is offering her 👀), she's likelier to attend if they're charity events... but she's a little picky there, too

[mythvoiced]

“Fancy party we have, uh, here.” Nervous laughter. Of course Nell laughs nervously before taking another generous sip of her punch. And of course the supermodel has to be in the vicinity while Myungdae and Alfred are busy carrying out their part of the plan. And of course the model had to recognize Myungdae earlier. And of course Nell now has to distract make small talk to said model while playing the waiting game as the Black Knight sets up the connection between the mainframe and her iPad.

How else could this possibly go wrong?

Another sip of the punch. “Uh, this is pretty good…punch? I can…I’ll get you a glass if you want.”

( also more nell vs small talk content...this time she gotta go lie to hyun since hyun already probably knows myungdae is up to no good JKFLSDJF :'D )

@stillresolved | NELL OH GOSH MY LOVE

Hyun's initial reaction is, unfortunately, instant displeasure and latent distrust. The displeasure isn't even all too misplaced, not in her field, not with her notoriety, and sadly enough, not with her social standing.

She has no idea who this foreigner is and while her Korean is perfect enough to suggest she may not be one at all, to Hyun and her world she may as well be. Her face is completely dissociated from any magazine covers and brand deals Hyun had memorized throughout the years, bombarded by her agent with 'this could be you's and 'this should be you's and whatever other phrase was supposed to function as incentive to get her to make them more money from yet another angle.

No actress. No model. Beautiful, yes, but natural, not as expensively pronounced as Hyun is.

The appropriate response for someone of Hyun's status is to, well, lift her chin, meet the woman's eyes solely to show and underline herself turning away again, and move on with the rest of her night.

Unfortunately for her marketing and fortunately for herself, Hyun only understands 'appropriate' as an adjective attached to morals that are actually morals... and not the rules of this little game.

"Do you speak English?" is the counter-question Hyun poses as she steps closer. There's some bias here, potentially, to pose the question just because her sudden conversation partner doesn't look traditionally South Korean, so to speak, but she shall continue to merely yearn the answer is yes.

"A lot of powerful girls here tonight don't, so...," she steps one final step to rest her hand on the woman's upper arm and lean in. "If you think this is fancy, then you must allow me to tell you how ugly it is," she smiles, and glows in perfect make-up, expensive Aeri clothing, and the sparkle of bejeweled earrings that annoy her every time they brush against her neck.

She looks around, conspiratorial.

"Also, I saw a suspicious looking person earlier and wanted to keep an eye on him, but I completely lost him in the crowd," she looks into the woman's startled - and admittedly stunning - dark brown eyes and chalks up her nerves to an environment she doesn't seem particularly used to.

She plucks the glass she's holding out of her hand. "The punch is mediocre at best. Allow me to lead you to a table with better alcohol. Now, as for that person, did you see anyone who looked out of place? Came with a cane, weird look in his eyes. Suggested I break into Samsung."

[mythvoiced]

OPEN STARTER | Ji Hyun (Celebrity Verse)

"I deserve compensation: either I get 500 million or I get to shoot him. I can't think of anything fairer than that."

[mythvoiced]

Unfortunately - god, how many times in a week can she think that word, huh? - for Hyun's reputation, Hyun is exactly the kind of person who barges in unannounced. She'd barely even regarded the assistant with a first, let alone a second look.

The insistent pleas to spare them of a loss of their job, to spare Gaya's with Hyun's interruption, had fallen on stubbornly, enraged ears, and Hyun had cared not, neither for whatever might happen to that poor thing as consequence to this, or whoever the fuck the man sitting in the chair she should be occupying is.

Not even children, she suddenly realizes, and the thought, the eerie thought of the sentence building on her tongue of, 'what do I care-' chokes her, slips down her throat and makes breathing, already difficult, just a tad less easy to perform.

She has to stop and stare, inhaling a few times to calm down. What kind of person would meet Gaya's calm demeanor with this scene. And what kind of person would be this very inconsiderate of everyone around them.

Well, Ji Hyun. Right now, at least.

She doesn't like the idea of relying on the heiress, but her reputation is no joke. Hyun had spent countless hours digging through every corner of the web that even barely mentioned Kang Gaya in passing. She'd never stooped as low as trying to cheat information out of Aeri, even though her cousin's name had stuck glued to her palate often enough while sharing a moment with her friend that she'd begun dreading uttering it.

Is this what desperation feels like?

Is this why Gaya is so good? Because she knows how to meet fury and storms with this icy calm, and get her clients hooked to the juxtaposition, until all their money lies in her account?

Until she wins the case?

Still, it's unnerving. Gaya doesn't even ask her to sit, and Hyun can't find it in herself to want to, anyway, even though the seat is perfectly vacated - by a man that will likely, once he figures out who she is, tell all his friends of the theatrics of her entrance.

Hyun's hand drags across her face. She halts to breathe into her palm for a second, before she does finally relent and drop herself in the chair opposite Gaya. It's comfortable, probably. She couldn't care less.

She mimics the attorney's posture, elbow on desk, face in hand, but where Gaya looks like this is the kind of field she thrives in with the kind of ease that makes traversing it boring, Hyun looks taut, exhausted, somehow both annoyed at the situation, and annoyed at the idea of being annoyed.

The only increase of energy she allows again is the glare she shoots Gaya. 'You're a star', she says. Hyun could be. if it weren't for stupid fucking scenarios such as these.

"You don't have to pacify me," she throws in, and despite her earlier tantrum, her voice is calm, if hardened, as she folds her arms across her chest and leans back. She crosses one leg over the other, long and alluring to all the people who care to look and put her on magazines for it.

Her height has always been an advantage. She wishes she could use the expensive silver attached to her feet in heels along with her height to stop the guy to death.

"I don't trust you," she answers easily, meeting Gaya's eyes. Oh to have that kind of self-control and disinterest, huh? "But I pay you. That's the next best thing in this context."

She shifts uncomfortably in her seat.

"... There's one event," unfortunately - there it is again - only made possible by your cousin dearest, but she'd rather not say that. Unless being in any way associated to Bellamy Kang isn't the advantage she wants it to be.

"I've been in the public eye like this long enough, if I show up anywhere and act too cocky or arrogant, it'll back-fire," she reaches out to pluck at the items on Gaya's desk. Her features remain relaxed, but it's difficult to not discern the gesture for what it is: nerves.

"Say, would you be as efficient in defending me in a case against me?" a smile, finally, the first of the encounter, tilted and angry enough to feel cold and hot on her own lips. "If I ever snapped and drove into that guy's house, for example."

It's a joke.

Right?

               @mythvoiced has sent :

"This, here," Hyun's fingernail clacks for a moment as she pushes onto the touchscreen too harshly, forgetting herself only because while there are few things that would make Hyun forget her personas, her training, her distrust, it's a good and well-nurtured grudge. She turns the device around, pushing it halfway across Gaya's desk, uncaring of whatever else may be piled on it. "It's my word against his. What if he presses charges against me? What then? Will you able to do anything then?" ((i wanted to go crazy loco but Hyun isn't warmed up to Gaya enough to start doing all the neurodivergent things she's capable of 🥺 gonna have her attempting to annoy the shit outta Bellamy tho HOLD ON--))

"Well." Gaya's eyes have no choice but to rest on the phone screen that arrives like a storm down her desk. It apparently is major enough for Hyun to barge in, cross Gaya's assistant who's still running behind Hyun like a furry 'Miss Kang has an appointment! I repeat Miss Kang has an appointment you cannot enter! Miss Kang does not like to be bothered! I'm going to lose my job again! There is indeed someone in there with Gaya, sitting right in front of her, a man with eyes slightly widened as Hyun pushes the work they seemed to be in the middle of. "Lee-sshi. Let's discuss our matter later in the day, it seems I have an emergency to take care of." Speaks the heiress. Of course whatever Gaya Kang orders, they do : the said Lee-sshi, eyeing Hyun from head to toe stands up before exiting the place. Ah right and the assistant by the door, apologizing a thousand times to Gaya from afar, closing the door quietly. "You got nerves. Your little interruption just caused 50 children to lose their home. Are you proud." A joke. A Kang Gaya's joke, cynical and sarcastic. Also not true, that previous meeting had nothing to do with no children. Her hand extends, wrapping around the phone to look from closer at the exposed matter. "You're telling me he's going public? Ugh. What is this, Single's Inferno? Fucking amateurs." Her usual desdain. "I told you I can do anything. This moron is speaking to the press before standing in front of Justice. What a bold yet weak strategy. Him and his laywer probably are trying to win the masses heart- Especially knowing your reputation isn't quite the best, he can pose as a victim and paint you as a she-demon. Tabloids love it." She puts the phone down, placing her head down the palm of her hand, elbow down the desk, thinking. "As said, it's weak and risky though. Our Mister over there might compromise himself the second he is put under pressure, shoot himself in the foot. By that I mean, the more he talks, the more public this gets, the more paparazzis will tailor him. There are things he is allowed to say, others that would jeopardize his case. He doesn't let us no choice but to jump in too, luckily we're better at Being Public than he will ever be." True. Isn't it. Them being used to the media is a powerful asset. "Don't you have events on your social calenders coming soon? Please tell me you have, it's important you do. Events I probably won't attend. I'm a business woman, not a socialite-" A roll from the eye as the last word is spoken. "I mean... No offense. You're a star." An immediate wide smile spreads on Gaya's lips to back up her line. "We must win the public's heart back, we will remind them you matter, remind them you have more social power than him if you want to. Once your name is on social media for galavanting reasons and not a scandal, that's where we fire back. I will tell you exact what you should say for your words to land in the right ears and for him to understand your version will be more heard of than yours. Do you trust me?"

            

[mythvoiced]

@wellfell | closed starter

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"You're young," Hyun drags her luggage closer to herself. It's usually for show, her struggle, when she's at airports, when she's at companies, when she's here or there and too lazy to carry her own stuff, or years ago, when she was younger, more trapped in the idea of 'what men want they shall get', and faked to be needy while her skin crawled.

She didn't struggle a breath while dragging the overflowing suitcase to the balcony of her hotel room. She stops. Opens it with a pleasant click, and breathes out, hands on her hips: gorgeous clothes, ugly clothes, a brand currently trying to destroy her.

"But you look like you've learned how to bite," she leans down to point a little smile and a perfect finger at Akina's eyebrow. "Or how to survive getting bitten."

She crouches down and digs her hands into expensive clothes designed by a man trying to destroy her. Her hair always moves so perfectly when she turns her head, now too, when she looks up at the Japanese woman that looks like she was written to die at the end of the book... but not without putting up a fight, of course.

"You're also very pretty. If you don't tell anyone about this, I'll owe you one. You should take advantage of that."

[mythvoiced]

@devangelis | ♥

"Kang Ae-ri is the only designer who doesn't make me want to get on the news for different reasons than my spectacular reputation. And what do you do?"

[mythvoiced]

@geaesaekki | ♥

"I'll get straight to the point: do you handle defamation lawsuits or is your father too important for you to take my case."

[mythvoiced]

@stillresolved | ♥

"Babe, you're the only fashion designer I like. I will endorse you as often as possible, what's stopping me, the law? Your brother?"

[mythvoiced]

@usuhan | ♥

"No, I do know who you are, don't worry. You populate the financial wet dreams of a lot of my colleagues."

[mythvoiced]

’ i’m weighed down with words too overdramatic. ’ for hyun!

@stamour | lost meme lmao

The environnement the entertainment industry provides is truly pathetic in its rendition, repetition, mirroring, and glorifying of what the very same entertainment industry loves to depict on its big screen.

Countless of films and tv shows, music and books alike, every corner of the world has taken it upon themselves to look at the entertainment industry and go, huh, isn't this a little fucked up.

For the likes of Ji Hyun, this constant realization comes with anger. It's unbecoming of a 'woman' such as herself, to be constantly filled with rage, but it is also very characteristic in a way.

Hell hath no fury like a being who's been through worse, and is still forced to bend her head and grit her teeth because some powerful man told her, well, it's either that, or picking up the pieces of what social humiliation will leave her with.

And would she care?

Should she?

She'd figured someone like Love Park wouldn't care. Less futile attempts than hers have been made at approaching the elusive star who's many impacts can't be simplified to the various descriptors applied to their name.

And yet, even here, standing right next to her, Hyun can't really claim she can discern anything from them. There's that friendly veneer, the sparkling appearance, everyone in the room must have seen him walk in before Hyun had even managed to sniff her out and that solely because, well, what are you likelier to notice?

The pigeon who nests on your balcony each summer?

Or the hawk suddenly perched there every few years?

"Oh, please," Hyun's sour mood does the talking for her. It's not her ideal evening, though they rarely are. The function is dull, and smells. It's the kind of place you drop in solely to say you were, for someone to shoot a picture, for someone else to be able to breathe in giggles and gasps that they were in the same room as you!

Maybe that's why Hyun is here. Here they are, bright, glamorous, expensive, pink, beautiful, upcoming director with the cult following putting the admiration of those who follow someone who's been making successful films since the 30s to shame.

An entry. Right? Even Hyun isn't above trying to approach those bigger than her... right?

The smile to drag her lips apart is stiff and sharp, it's only not a snarl because she's putting in the effort to keep it from being one, however futile. "Overdramatic words must be uplifting for someone like you, right?" she tilts her head. "A genius such as yourself... I've always figured masters of the arts as you are thrive on dramatics."

[mythvoiced]

@clemencetaught | ♥

Later, a little later Hyun, will curse herself out for wincing, however minutely as she does, when her concentration is disrupted by the voice of a person she had very much known to be there.

She doesn't like being caught off guard. The only thing saving her from chewing on this until her gums hurt is the fact that one thing she likes even less is chewing on issues until her gums hurt.

Call it indifference. Hyun prefers 'respecting my own energy'. Call that one a lie.

Either way, there is a minute wince when her focus is interrupted, and her gaze flickers as though expecting to be dragged into a tussle of all things. She has gotten her fair share of close calls with hair-pulling and screaming matches, and she can't claim she's always come out of them wholly unscathed.

But the gentleman who's cane she returns - almost begrudgingly, she'd enjoyed the weight of it in her hands - doesn't look like the kind of person who'd get her into trouble. Look at him. He's too... average might not be the right word.

Fine features, handsome enough, perhaps not as impressive as a queen or a king but... certainly not a pawn. A rook, maybe. A bishop. A knight. One of those pieces.

"Well, I didn't mean getting into it physically," she leans in, blocking off bystanders with a show of her palm to them, the back of her hand supposedly meant to cover her mouth as she speaks. "Unless you know what you're talking about, I'm not about to refuse good intel."

But it's only a joke, and the idea alone would be more detrimental to her brand than her being her brand, imagine how awful executing it would be. Still... an almost-girl can dream.

A heavy sigh. And then... focus.

Concentration.

She turns to stare at him.

"Is that what you're here for? I've never seen you at one of these. And I do make a habit of noticing."

[mythvoiced]

OPEN STARTER | Ji Hyun (Celebrity Verse)

"I got it."

The air is chilly at this time of year, this time of day. It's bright enough to pretend to be day-light, but the flashing lights and blinding brightness of cars and wealth are about as natural and healthy as her feet will be once she gets home in a few hours.

Hyun is distracted from it all. Hyun looks... utterly pensive.

"I need to scam my way into Samsung. It's the only way."