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February 21st,
2009 8:18 pm
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Player's Name: Tasja
Character's Name: Kim Bum
Character's IJ: ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) hybridtea
Nationality: Korean
What are they from? Actor; currently starring in Boys Over Flowers
Human/Mutant/Vampire: Mutant
Ability: Superb agility
Background: Kim Bum always used to think, back when he was a kid and was growing up in the country, that he was somewhat special. While other kids would constantly be enjoying themselves, be that digitally or in real life, he always preferred to be alone. When girls said they liked him, he didn't know how fast he had to get away from them. When boys asked him to hang out with them and have a smoke (as they all prematurely did), he always declined. This eventually got him simply ignored by the others. But then there was always a place for him to retreat and enjoy his time alone.
That all changed when the bio-engineering company his dad worked at started to grow exponentially and soon after, he was one of the few lucky employers to be asked to move to the central office in New York with his family, along with an upgrade in his paycheck. From a small Korean town suddenly to the bustling noise of a big foreign city at the other side of the world. His parents weren't any help either. He was always reluctant to trust them or be nice to them, not after they lied to him flat out when he asked about the rumour going around that he once had a younger brother, even though he'd seen the pictures of a face that his young mind hadn't been able to remember.
While Kim Bum had no trouble picking up English through the television in the Manhattan loft, there were some things he just couldn't get used to. Rich snobby kids at elite high schools being one of them. They caused him to drop all niceness, turning him from a docile television-study teenager into a much tougher but no less quiet personality hanging out with the lower-class kids (as they were the natural enemies of the elite kids, after all) more often than not, and resorting to crime for the sheer fun of it. Whenever he could bother a rich kid, he enjoyed it. It was his way of hanging onto something real in the maelstrom of so many things changed, to turn his back on his new social environment. But it did have a good side. Kim Bum's lone gunman side sort of vanished, too.
But then there was also that feeling of being different. Kim Bum had never paid so much attention to it before but now, sometimes it seemed like all of the world was clumsy except for him. Obstacles he had no problem dodging. Getting away after a shoplift was a piece of cake for him. He crept up fences faster than anyone else, and jumps from high locations barely got him a scratch. Anything gymnastic was no problem for him. He's still trying to hide it. It's not normal. On the other side it's that, in combination with his remarkably high intelligence, what makes him feel just a little superior over others.
Kim Bum finished high school only by being sent back to Korea to get away from his friends. Now, he's passing his time avoiding his parents who keep pushing him to enroll in university. He inhabits an old factory hall floor when he's not in the parental loft, and works as an assistant of an old Chinese alternative pharmacist.
Preferred RP Style: Paragraph, and over IJ preferably!
Anything Else: anything else you think we should know? Timezone is GMT+1 :D?
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