최승현; Choi Seung Hyun (dirrtycash) wrote in deviantstrain, @ 2008-03-15 21:14:00 |
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Current mood: | bouncy |
Current music: | big bang - lies (english version) |
CLAIM: Choi Seunghyun / Tempo / TOP
Player's Name: croissants master
Character's Name:Choi Seunghyun / TOP / Tempo
Character's IJ: dirrtycash
Nationality: S-Koreaann baby
What are they from? BIG BANG 8D
Human/Mutant/Vampire:human
Background: Seunghyun has been raised in the Bronx, which is, obvioulsly, not one of the best place to grow up normally. His mother was taking care of him by herself, or, well... should have. She didn’t care much and was more interested about her next one-night-stand than about taking care of baby Seunghyun. His father was nowhere to be seen, and he wasn’t even sure if what his mother had told him about him was true. But he learned how to live without that. Seunghyun had many friends in school and also people from the block around their building. It was them with who little Seunghyun liked to spend more time. They were older and full of experience to give him advices about the real world. But what Seunghyun liked the most was when they were turning the stereo on to make him listen to the latest rap and hip hop releases. When he turned 12, they also started to take him out in underground clubs.
Maybe those guys were not the best relations Seunghyun could have had, they were 20 and older, members of a gang from their district, sometimes drug dealers, sometimes beating or stabbing people during one of those numerous gangs’ fights... But it was the only one Seunghyun could have, and he loved them, they were his older brothers.
But Seunghyun wasn’t stupid and could perfectly see what was right and what wasn't, what he wanted to do and what he didn’t want. He also knew what he liked, it had been clear in his head since he had heard his first song by The Notorious BIG: he needed to work for music, to compose, rap and sing. That was his passion and couldn’t get over it. But for that, he didn’t want to stay in the ghetto, he needed to get out, attend university, meet new people, and not fall into the usual gangs, drugs and shot people -kind of life. The said Notorious BIG was a perfect example for that as well.
Since his entrance in middle school, he did his best to have always the best marks, not skip any class, and even look like a nerd to his classmates if he really had to, because in the end everyone around knew that he was one of the friend of the cobra’s gang, and they weren’t trying to bully him. And even if anyone had tried, that wouldn’t have stopped him. Seunghyun was too stubborn to let anyone annoy him. And he still is.
As he entered high school, he officially became a member of the Cobra’s gang. But that wasn’t stopping him to have great grades. It’s at that time that people started calling him Tempo or TOP, (..Seunghyun being just too long and complicated for non-Asian people). His bro were proud of him. Regrets to have given up high school was always coming back a few years after it was too late. And that made him become almost the 'brain' of their band.
When he finally graduated high school, he was already well known as a rapper and beatboxer in the district; he was performing every week end in some underground clubs and had managed not to kill anyone nor to become addict to any drug. His grades being very good, he got the scholarship he wanted to finally be able to leave his apartment and attend the university he was hoping for in the centre of New York. For the first time he was going to be able to live by himself without his mother around, and follow real classes with only people who really wanted to learn.
His first target when he had started to work in middle school was to be able to live of his music without getting killed. But all those hours studying and listening to the teacher had made him enjoy learning things, and his target was even higher now.
Tempo is now 20, in his second year at university. He has a part time job as an assistant of a radio broadcasting company. He is also still coming back to see his bro' as often as he can and is performing in his old club sometimes.
Preferred RP Style: paragraph over IJ or AIM are fine :] IJ better if you’re not from Europe, though.
Anything Else: I’m still French and still not bilingual… etc. xD;