Character Quote: "At least nobody's going to reprimand me for not smiling enough anymore. I hope."
Name: Shin-ae Yun
Aliases: Ms. Yun, Shinny
Age: 28
Birthday: February first
Ethnicity: Korean-American
Birth Place: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Female
Pre Outbreak Occupation: Secretary
Languages: English, Korean (both fluent)
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 127 lbs.
Body Type: Ectomorph--that is to say, tall and skinny
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Hair Color: Dark Brown again
Skin Tone: Warm beige
Tattoos/Scars/Piercings: Long, thin scar along the belly of her left arm from falling off a bike as a kid, pierced ears
Personal Style: Largely due to constantly being required to wear suit and pencil skirt at work, Shin-ae is most comfortable on a day-to-day basis in
normal life wearing close-cut and somewhat stiff clothing. She usually wouldn't actually wear a suit out of work, but she'd usually wear something at least...adjacent to one. However, though Shin-ae is many things, she is not an
idiot. In a horrible situation like this, you don't wear something that restricts your movement. As a result, she usually wears light clothing like tanktops or tees, often surmounted by a long, loose-fitting coat that she can move fairly freely in to keep her safe from scratches, scrapes, the elements, and so on.
Her hair is long, straight, and typically worn loose, though if she's exercising or concentrating she'll tie it up in a low-effort ponytail. She suffers from unfortunate case of Resting Bitch Face that she has to actively put out energy in order to overcome.
Hardworking * Indecisive * Intelligent * Overanalytical * Driven * Anxious
Sexuality: Straight (probably, she hasn't thought about it much)
Relationship Status: Single
Personality: Shin-ae Yun is
tired. Mentally tired, that is to say, from constantly juggling so much STUFF in her head. A bit of a nervous wreck as a result of the life she's led up to this point, she is a chronic overthinker, always at risk of analysis paralysis, and as a result, it can be hard for her to make quick decisions. She's not much of a talker, really; not that she's particularly close-mouthed or reticent, but she doesn't feel the need to fill empty space with chatter. All that said, however, what Shin-ae is is
very intelligent. With a mind like a steel trap and a memory nigh-photographic it's so sharp, if there's something that needs remembering, Shin-ae will remember it. All her nervous energy can manifest as well in pacing, leg-bouncing, finger-tapping...she just tends to need an outlet for it all. She puts a great deal of value into family, whether biological or otherwise.
Character Alignment: Lawful neutral
Habits: While particularly anxious, she fidgets with her hair or chews on her cuticles.
Hobbies: Reading, violine since she was
very young, flower arrangement
Fears: - Death (obviously, but she has an old history with staring at the ceiling at 4AM thinking about mortality because of her father's condition)
- Medical stuff in general; she's very much a hypochondriac
- Birds. There's no real good reason why she's terrified of birds. Maybe there was something when she was an infant, who knows? She's just...REALLY freaked out by birds
Likes: - The quiet
- Flowers (her favorite are irises)
- Violin
- Overcast weather
- Organizing
- Wintertime
Dislikes: - Unfaithfulness
- Mind-altering substances, be it alcohol, tobacco, weed, or harder stuff
- Being denigrated for her occupation
- Being told she doesn't smile enough
- Disorder
- Arrogance
Pre Outbreak Skills: - Violin (as discussed)
- Intelligence
- Computer science (she wanted a job in IT but nowhere was hiring and she had bills to pay)
- Being able to work off just about no sleep and keep going for an extended period
- Intimidation (wholly unintentional)
Post Outbreak Skills:What Do They Carry On Them: This includes your clothing, jewelry, your wallet, your id, your keys; cash (denote which country), a picture, lighter, cigarettes, weapons you may carry, shoes, purse, bag, pistol and so forth. If it is not listed you are not carrying it. Again, keep it grounded in the real world. Limited to spots provided.
- Clothing - Black tee cotton tee, black sweatpants, black running shoes over black crew socks (she likes black), long, fairly heavy gray coat
- Backpack - Wallet containing a 20 USD bill and two 10,000 KRW bills, Visa credit and debit cards, a California driver's license, and some miscellaneous business and ID cards. Apartment keys. A few miscellaneous food items jammed in there with little rhyme or reason. Not much, because most of it is taken up by a violin case (with a bite mark on it) containing an extensive and extremely well-taken care of violin (and bow, and rosin, and spare strings) that she just could not bring herself to leave behind no matter how she rationalized it, sticking out of the top.
- Samsung smartphone with an Otterbox charging case
- 3x8 gear bicycle, ash gray
Life Before The Outbreak Shin-ae was born in Los Angeles to two South Korean immigrants, her mother Hanseul and her father Ji-ho. And from the beginning she was subjected to the
tiger mom style of parenting, mountains of expectations HEAPED on her. The pressure was
monstrous. Things that she needed do. Things that were required of her, or else she'd be yelled at or punished. It can't be said that the extremely stringent rules of her household were ALL bad; they did impart to her a great sense of tenacity and discipline, right out the gate. But that's no consolation for the child at the time, and while the straight-As and violin recitals did definitely impress the grown-ups, they did very little in preparing the young Shin-ae in interacting with her peers in any meaningful sense. This has had a number of ripple effects throughout her life into her adulthood, and yes, she
is still mad about the whole ordeal.
The first of these ripples, and the most obvious upon seeing her, is the Shin-ae Stare, that chronic RBF that she puts so much effort and energy into shutting down. She went to Columbia University for compsci, and found hself falling in love with Manhattan afterwards. But god, it was SO EXPENSIVE, and her parents certainly weren't wealthy enough to help her with it, it was all they could do to take on loans to pay for her schooling so she didn't have to. All she could afford was a
tiny shitty studio apartment, and she had to find a job
right away, even though everything compsci based was entirely full near her. So, she bit the bullet and took a job as a secretary. It was about this point that her father developed a rapid and incurable spinocerebellar ataxia. It's been about five years hence, and he doesn't even know her name now. And that news...REALLY did not make her seem any more friendly or approachable.
She had a bit of a reputation around her workplace right away a hardass who really didn't appreciate her place in the order of things and was acting like a princess even thought she was just a secretary. That damn bitch face. Her coworkers didn't like her. Her bosses didn't like her. Shin-ae has not, historically, been well-liked. Of course, for those that got to know her on deeper than a surface level, their opinions often changed, as they found her not 'the worst secretary ever,' and more a quiet, sensitive individual who just has a lot of trouble expressing herself. She got herself an apartment with a few of them, moving out of her tiny studio into a more substantial two-bedroom, with her two roommates sharing the bigger bed. Everything seemed to finally be looking up for Ms. Yun.
Survivor's Personal Journal: How did it all go so wrong, so fast?
It was...what, around noon? A little earlier? I can't exactly remember, time slides away in a situation like that, you know? I was just listening to Mr. King from Marketing telling me that I would be much prettier if I smiled more--what an awful company, though it's probably not something I ever have to worry about again--when my phone received an emergency alarm that...that there was some kind of horrible disease going around, and...stay away from people who had been bitten? Evacuate the city? What? None of it made any sense, but I got the sense that things were about to get really bad. Well, not exactly hard, when Manhattan gets evacuated something horrible is happening.
Point is, I ran out of there immediately, something tells me I'm not going to have to worry about disciplinary actions--and started running home. I've never been very good with athletics and stuff, but I was just so freaked out that I kept on running. Things were devolving into utter chaos around me. I've never seen anything like it before, and though I hope desperately I won't have to again, I know that's probably a vain hope.
Anyway, got home, ran into my room, and locked it on reflex. Which saved my life, because as I was grabbing my things and getting ready to get out of there, there was the sound of something banging on the door. I froze, grabbed my violin case, crept closer, unlocked it, and...
...Nearly got my throat ripped out by Meredith's teeth.
I just barely managed to catch them on my violin case, shoved her back, left aside anything else that I was going to bring--like, say, maybe a change of clothing or, I don't know--either way, it's irrelevant now, because I got out of there and never went back. Our place wasn't far from the GW, but it was so crowded--and I don't have a car anyway--that driving would be impossible anyway. So instead I grabbed my bicycle and made better time than any car. Made it through the checkpoint way faster too, since I didn't have any vehicle for them to search.
And then I just...started biking. Because what else was I supposed to do?
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