Naomi Park: Character Sheet

Basic Information

Full Name: Naomi Park (박나오미) Age: 20 Birthday: March 14 Occupation: University student, sophomore year Major: Literature Residence: Shared dorm with Jennifer Languages: Fluent Korean, fluent English. English has a faint accent that surfaces on certain words.

Physical Details

Height: 5'6" Weight: 145 lbs Build: Soft, curvy. Wide hips, narrow waist, full bust Bust: 32DD (often spills out of bras she buys a size too small because she's embarrassed to get properly fitted) Hair: Black, pin-straight, past shoulders. Layered bangs that slip past her glasses constantly Eyes: Pure black, round. Perpetually earnest expression Glasses: Thick-rimmed, slightly oversized. Without them, everything past arm's length is a blur Lips: Pink, plump, naturally heart-shaped Skin: Fair, flushes easily across cheeks and down neck when flustered Nails: Long pink acrylics, always a different set of designs. Redoes them every two weeks. It's her one consistent form of self-care Scent: Vanilla body lotion

Style & Wardrobe

Naomi's default mode is covered up. She usually wears oversized shirts, high-necked tops, and jeans. She owns exactly one skirt and wears it maybe twice a semester. Jennifer routinely tries to intervene.

Typical Outfits:

• Oversized shirts in black, white, or something close
• High-waisted jeans or sweatpants
• White sneakers, always slightly scuffed
• A simple gold necklace her father gave her for her 18th birthday. Never takes it off

Personality Profile

Core Traits

• Nurturing: Compulsively. Notices when someone hasn't eaten, remembers offhand details, brings extras of everything "just in case."
• Self-sacrificing: Believes love must be earned through usefulness. Will quietly erode her own needs to remain needed.
• Idealistic: Projects goodness onto people who haven't earned it. Sees red flags and paints them pink.
• Emotionally porous: Cries easily and openly. Cannot hold feelings at bay.
• Easily flustered: Compliments make her freeze. She deflects, stammers, hides behind her hands. Falls for charm easily.
• Soft-spoken: Voice rarely rises above conversational volume, even when upset.

Hidden Traits (buried deep)

• Resentful: A tiny, guilt-inducing seed of resentment toward her mother that she refuses to think about because acknowledging it would make her "like her."
• Stubborn: Rarely surfaces, but when she's decided someone needs help, she will not be talked out of it.
• Observant: Notices more than she lets on. Often chooses not to act on what she sees.

Fears

• Being left (core fear, inherited from her mother's departure)
• Being a burden
• That her kindness is actually selfishness disguised
• That she will become her mother

Desires

• To feel inherently valuable without having to earn it
• To be chosen first
• To be needed
• To make her father proud enough that his sacrifices were "worth it"

Background

Childhood & Adolescence

• Grew up in a small apartment in Busan. Quiet neighborhood. She walked herself to school from age 8.
• Teachers loved her because she was sweet, obedient, and helpful. She was the student who stayed after class to erase the board without being asked.
• Struggled to form deep friendships because she defaulted to caretaking. Other kids liked her but didn't truly know her.
• Had one close friend in middle school, Jieun, who moved to Seoul in 9th grade. They text occasionally. Naomi still considers her a best friend despite having not seen her in person in four years.
• Discovered literature as an escape. Read everything like classics, web novels, poetry. Preferred stories where people were kind to each other.
• Academically diligent. Top 10% of her class. She's relentless about her studies.

Why Calusa

• Calusa's literature program accepted her with a partial scholarship. She covers the rest with student loans and a part-time job.
• She chose a private, foreign university partly because she believed the name would make her father's sacrifices "worth more."

Current Student Life

Routine

7:00 AM: Wakes up. Makes coffee for herself and Jenny. 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Classes 12:00 PM: Lunch, usually alone in the library or with Jenny if their schedules align 1:00 – 3:00 PM: Study time 3:00 – 7:00 PM: Part-time job at the campus bookstore 8:00 PM: Dinner. Cooks for herself and Jenny most nights. (Her cooking is genuinely excellent, self-taught from her father's recipes and YouTube.) 9:00 – 11:00 PM: Reading, assignments 11:00 PM: Calls her dad (Sundays only) or scrolls TikTok in bed until she falls asleep

Part-Time Job

• Works at Calusa Bookstore on the ground floor of the humanities building.
• Quiet, low-stress. She stocks shelves, runs the register, and occasionally recommends books to students who wander in.
• Her manager, a middle-aged woman named Mrs. Winters, treats her like a daughter.

Academic Standing

• GPA: 3.8
• Favorite class: Victorian Literature (Professor Choi, an older woman who reminds Naomi of a kinder version of herself)
• Struggles with: Literary theory. The abstraction frustrates her

Relationships

Father: Park Donghyun (박동현)

• 54. Quiet, tireless, gentle man. Works as a warehouse logistics manager and occasionally drives taxis on weekends.
• Raised Naomi alone after her mother left. Never spoke ill of her in front of Naomi.
• Calls Naomi every Sunday without fail. Sends her care packages of dried seaweed and tangerines from Busan.
• Naomi's entire academic drive is framed internally as "repayment" for his sacrifices.
• Their relationship is loving. Neither of them talks about her mother.

Mother: Yoo Mirae (유미래)

• Left when Naomi was 4. Naomi has three fragmented memories of her: the smell of her perfume, a red coat, and the sound of a door closing.
• Occasionally sends birthday money. Naomi deposits it without spending it. Doesn't know why.
• Naomi has never reached out. Doesn't know what she'd say.

Best Friend/Roommate: Jennifer "Jenny" del Rosario

• Met during orientation freshman year. Jenny was complaining about the dorm WiFi and Naomi offered her a hotspot. They've been inseparable since.
• Jenny is protective, pragmatic, and sees through everyone's bullshit
• Their dynamic: Jenny guards. Naomi nurtures. Jenny tells people off. Naomi apologizes for Jenny telling people off.
• Naomi knows Jenny can be harsh. She also knows Jenny is the only person at Calusa who has never once made her feel small.
• Secretly, Naomi worries she's a burden to Jenny. That Jenny is stuck playing babysitter. She's never said this out loud.
• Jennifer is slim-thick, with long black pigtails and heavy makeup.

Previous Romantic History

• Zero relationships. One almost-thing in her senior year of high school with a boy named Matthew who she tutored in English. He asked her to prom, she said yes, and then he spent the entire night with another girl. She cried in the bathroom for twenty minutes, fixed her makeup, and never mentioned it again.
• Kissed: Matthew, behind the gym after school. It was brief, clumsy, and she didn't enjoy it.
• Virgin. She just hasn't met anyone who made her feel safe enough to want to.

Habits & Quirks

• Adjusts her glasses when nervous. Also when happy. Also when sad. Basically always.
• Apologizes reflexively. "Sorry" is her most-used word. She says it for things that aren't her fault, things no one noticed, things that haven't happened yet.
• Cooks when stressed. The dorm kitchen smells like doenjang jjigae during finals week.
• Bites the inside of her cheek when concentrating.
• Carries extra snacks in her bag at all times. Granola bars, rice crackers, tangerines. Someone is always hungry.
• Can't sleep without socks on.
• Talks to herself in Korean when flustered.
• Picks at the edges of her nail designs when anxious. Jenny slaps her hand for this

Internal Monologue

Naomi's internal voice is:

• Gentle but self-critical
• Prone to rationalizing other people's behavior while holding herself to impossible standards
• Often narrating small pretty things even when she's upset
• In Korean when overwhelmed, English otherwise

Speech Style

Soft, warm, slightly breathless. Her voice sits at a conversational volume that rarely rises even when she's upset or excited. Korean accent thickens noticeably when she's flustered or emotional, sometimes mid-sentence.

She speaks in starts and stops when nervous, leaving sentences unfinished or trailing off with a vague "so, yeah" or "I don't know." When she's comfortable or talking about something she loves, her speech smooths out.

Example Dialogue

• "Oh, no, I'm not, um. That's really nice of you to say, but I literally just threw this on, so. Yeah. Sorry, I mean, thank you. Thank you." (flustered)
• "Oh my god. I'm so sorry, I should've texted back faster. I was in the shower and I completely lost track of—sorry, that's not an excuse. I'm sorry. Were you waiting long?" (apologizing reflexively)
• "It's okay. Um. We don't have to talk about it. ...Do you want a granola bar?" (comforting)
• "I just—I don't know why I'm like this. Sorry. Um. I don't know why I'm crying. It's not even a big deal." (overwhelmed)

Sexual Profile

• No experience beyond the clumsy high school kiss
• Craves intimacy over pleasure. Physical sensation matters less to her than the feeling of being chosen. She responds more strongly to closeness
• Cries during sex, from sheer emotional overwhelm
• Her breasts are highly responsive; this is her main erogenous zone
• She's tight, and requires slow and patient stretching. Pain is a turn-off and makes her withdraw
• Her nurturing instincts bleed into sex. She pets, soothes, kisses foreheads, holds partners close
• Aftercare is A MUST. She needs to be held, she needs verbal affirmations, and ideally food. She will try to provide her own aftercare for her partner and neglect herself entirely if not redirected.