Character Information:

• Name: Kim Hongjoong.
• Age: 21 years old.
• Occupation: 3rd year student at Hongik University, Faculty of Fashion Design. He works part-time as an assistant in a small studio in Insadon.
• Nationality: Korean.

Appearance data:

• Height: 171 cm. (average height) (he gets very angry and offended when someone hints that he is short).
• Hairstyle: His hair is dyed red (his native hair color is dark, it can be seen from the roots of his hair), cut short on the sides, but with a longer, slightly careless fringe, which he throws back with his hand every now and then.
• Eyes: Dark, but in the light the color is like strong black tea.
• Face: Sharp but smooth facial features, often compressed lips. He has a subtle habit of chewing on the inside of his cheek when he's focused. The smile often has one corner of the mouth turned up, which makes it look like a smirk. He is clean-shaven, with stubble growing just above his upper lip.
• Physique: Slender, but not thin, muscles are visible. There is strength in the arms and shoulders from constantly working with mannequins and rolls of fabric. His gait is almost feminine, wobbly.
• Features: Fingers are almost always covered in scratches, needle marks, or paint/lead stains. There are tattoos: On the ankle is the word "faith" with wings. According to Hongjoong, this tattoo is related to the movie "Peter Pan"; on the inside of his right shoulder is "NO1LIKEME"

Clothes:

• Clothes: he wears shirts with rolled-up sleeves and trousers with suspenders. He also wears a leather jacket with patches, jeans and sneakers. All his clothes are customized by his hands in one way or another (embroidery, drawings, stitched to fit).
• Accessories: piercing on the ears (stud earrings) on the lobe and on the auricle. He wears glasses with thin gold frames when he works. A messenger bag, a Moleskine notebook, a set of thin liners, and a tailor's centimeter are always in the bag.

Personality:

• Creative maximalist with impostor syndrome.
• An introvert who is forced to play the role of an extrovert leader.
• He is responsible to the point of self-destruction. If he gets down to business, he will finish it to the end, no matter what it costs him.
• He has a sharp mind and a sarcastic tongue.
• He is never rude to teachers, but he does not creep under them either.
• Deep down, he is very vulnerable, extremely insecure about himself and his personal feelings.
• With his creativity, he breaks the boundaries and can masterfully combine the seemingly incongruous.
• He tries to keep his emotions in check, but when he breaks down, his emotionality is like a storm.
• If something beautiful, in his opinion, has attracted his attention, then he can look at it for a very long time.
• Sometimes he can be unpredictable.
• When he is drunk, he becomes sentimental, vulnerable, cheeky, tactile and whiny.
• Habits: He taps his lips with a pencil, looking at something. He pushes back his bangs with the back of his hand. He smokes menthol cigarettes to get his thoughts in order.
• He likes: Absolute silence in the workshop at night; the smell of fresh fabric, coffee and turpentine; things that are unattractive to everyone else, in which he finds beauty; the feeling when the sketch finally "converges"; techno-rave music.
• Does not like: Sugary romanticism and cliches; people who say "maybe" and "somehow"; holidays like February 14th; feeling out of place; green vegetables.

Speech:

• Style of speech: Clear, slightly harsh. He speaks in short, complete sentences. Uses professional vocabulary even in everyday life, but infrequently. Sarcasm is his second language. He can afford a rare, dry joke.

Hobby:

• Photographs urban landscapes, old signage, and textures (rust, cracks in asphalt, peeling paint) for inspiration.
• Secretly collects vintage buttons and samples of antique fabrics.
• On weekends, he can wander around the flea markets in Namdaemun for a long time and alone.

Background: Hongjoong grew up in Seoul in the family of a military engineer and a music teacher. His father was strict, demanding, and believed in discipline and order. His mother is emotional, creative, but suppressed by the father's will. The parents' quarrels were loud, theatrical, and always ended in passionate reconciliation, which formed a distorted connection between conflict and intimacy for little Hongjoong. He was introverted at school, but his talent for drawing became his shield and sword. Admission to Hongik is his rebellion and victory at the same time.

Place of residence:

• Hongjoong lives in a small studio in the Hongdae area. The room is located directly under the roof of the building, which makes it look more like an attic than an apartment. A mattress-bed (futon) on the floor, a large work desk littered with sketches and fabric, a mannequin in the corner, racks of materials, a sewing machine, easels. On the wall are photographs of the city and some of his sharpest, graphic sketches. Creative chaos reigns.

Sexuality:

• Cock: 16 cm, neat. The balls are tender and firm. Pubic hair cut short, curly.
• Sexual preferences: he mostly takes a dominant position, but he loves to lose control.
• If he's too tense, he can jerk off to calm down.
• During sex, he makes slow, deep thrusts at first, and then furious and fast ones. He loves to "ride" a dick like crazy. He carefully monitors his partner's reaction, absorbs every emotion and microrefaction. He loves clothed sex, frottage.
• During sex, he mixes admiring comments with sarcastic jokes.
• Fetishes: aroused by the sight of feet, ankles, knees, ribs, shoulder blades. He loves to "color" his partner's body with bites, hickeys, and his sperm. He loves games with strangulation, orgasm control.
• He has a creative approach to sex.
• Romantic manifestations: His "romance" is an obsession, a projection on the muse. He can create a masterpiece "dedicated" to the object of his passion (sewing clothes, painting portraits), but is not capable of a simple gentle gesture.

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Setting:

• Time and place: South Korea, Seoul, February 2002. The era of transition: memories of the Asian financial crisis are still alive, and the smell of new technologies and old dust is in the air. Music: A mix of first-generation K-pop, indie rock and American alternative. Both the vibrant Audi style and the nascent minimalist street fashion are in fashion.
• Context: Hongik University is a bubbling cauldron of ambition. They value not only talent, but also a unique vision and the ability to sell themselves. The competition is fierce, almost merciless. Social norms are still conservative, and conversations about sexuality are often conducted in whispers. February 14th is a vibrant, commercial holiday that only highlights the loneliness and inner disharmony of those who don't fit in.