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⇒ ❝ 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘐'𝘮 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘳, 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦. ❞
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♔ 𝑭𝑼𝑳𝑳 𝑵𝑨𝑴𝑬

Chae-yeong Park

♔ 𝑵𝑰𝑪𝑲𝑵𝑨𝑴𝑬𝑺

She usually just goes by Chae, with Westerners

♔ 𝑨𝑮𝑬, 𝒀𝑬𝑨𝑹

21, Year 4

♔ 𝑫𝑨𝑻𝑬 𝑶𝑭 𝑩𝑰𝑹𝑻𝑯, 𝒁𝑶𝑫𝑰𝑨𝑪 𝑨𝑵𝑰𝑴𝑨𝑳

March 8th, 1998; Tiger

♔ 𝑯𝑶𝑴𝑬𝑻𝑶𝑾𝑵

Seoul, South Korea, though she’s spent quite a considerable amount of time at her family’s home in the countryside as well

♔ 𝑴𝑶𝑫𝑬𝑳

Bae Yoon Young

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♔ 𝑺𝑻𝑹𝑬𝑵𝑮𝑻𝑯𝑺/𝑺𝑲𝑰𝑳𝑳𝑺

Speaks English, Chinese, and Korean; she's quite good at calligraphy; has a knack for illusions and other forms of manipulative magic in the context of deception and concealment; very precise style of casting spells; very analytical-she's always several steps ahead of her opponents; certainly not the most powerful sorceress in terms of raw power, but she makes up for it with her tricksy spells and enchantments; can be extremely persuasive when she wants to be; can also be charismatic (albeit in a vaguely terrifying way); nobody has ever accused her of being less than perfectly attired; has a knack for spell webs and weaving spells together in overlapping layers; very much able to manipulate the fine balance of elemental/spiritual magic within a particular spell; not too shabby at scrying

♔ 𝑾𝑬𝑨𝑲𝑵𝑬𝑺𝑺𝑬𝑺

Can't sing for the life of her; cooking? What's that?; never confides in other people, even her closest friends; has a tendency to bottle everything up until it explodes in her face; not too great at shapeshifting-she's not that in-tune with the spiritual energies of other animals or whatever; also not that great when it comes to growth magic in general (but especially healing); sports and Chae just...don't go together; not the most empathetic of people; also not the most patient of people, usually; harsh and blunt, to the point of being curt/brusque; makes ten enemies for every friend she has; absolutely useless when it comes to relationship advice; hates being seen as weak/vulnerable and has a really hard time trusting others

♔ 𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑺𝑺 𝑺𝑪𝑯𝑬𝑫𝑼𝑳𝑬

Introductory Necromancy (TA) • Arithmancy • Theories of Magic: Yin • Illusions & Glamours • Magical Linguistics & Spell Creation • Calligraphy • President & Founder of 'Student of the Year'

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♔ 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑶𝑵𝑨𝑳𝑰𝑻𝒀

At a first glance, Chae is your typical bitchy (dare I say heartless?) queen bee. She has always firmly believed that it is better to be feared than loved (though she's been reconsidering this belief, nowadays), and she holds herself with an air of haughty aloofness. Chae is perpetually annoyed at something, though she rarely makes rash decisions because those take so much...effort. She's rather apathetic to most of her classmates' petty squabbles, holding herself above others with a cool indifference, though there are certain subjects-such as her family-that you do not want to bring up in front of Chae. Chae can be impossibly snooty, and really, really mean, when she wants to be (she's just generally not a very nice person), to the point of being absolutely vicious (trust me on this-werewolf claws have nothing on the metaphorical claws of queen bees. Nothing).

Sly, cunning, and shrewd, Chae's sharp intelligence and brutally analytical mind allow her to holistically assess any situation, no matter the circumstances. She is calm and collected under pressure, and she prefers not to mince her words, getting straight to the heart of the matter in the bluntest way possible. She can be cruel, if she wants, but she's definitely not one to sugar-coat things for the sake of someone else's feelings. Daring, independent, and more than just a little manipulative, Chae has always been somewhat of a risk-taker. She's not stupidly reckless like Angie, but nobody would call her a wimp, either.

Beneath the sheets and sheets of ice and glass that make up Chae Yoon Park, however, lies a certain deep-seated need for acceptance and validation stemming from her messed-up family life. Although she has long since cut ties with most of her extended family, memories of her family still color her interactions to this day, she constantly feels the need to make others recognize her talent.

Chae has vowed to never show anybody that side of her, however. She hates being seen as weak or vulnerable-she hates being seen as anything other than the perfect ice queen she's presented herself as. After she was resurrected, she was able to maintain her icy facade of flawless coolness, but she can feel it slipping. She knows that it's not long until she cracks, and she's doing everything in her power to keep that from happening-even if she knows, in her hearts of hearts, that she can't live this way forever.

But she will try anyway, and she will succeed. Because there's simply no other option.

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♔ 𝑺𝑻𝑼𝑫𝑬𝑵𝑻 𝑩𝑨𝑪𝑲𝑮𝑹𝑶𝑼𝑵𝑫

Ever since she could walk, all Chae ever wanted to be was perfect.

Perfect hair. Perfect grades. Perfect English. Perfect manners. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect.

She wanted to be like her sister, Ji-young, who ten years older than Chae and so effortlessly beautiful and charming and smart and witty and graceful, and her entire family loved her and they always told her to do what Ji-young did and Chae tried, she really did, but somehow, she always fell short.

Not that it mattered to her sister. Ji-young was her best friend; she helped her with her English and let her play dress-up with her gowns and helped her put on make-up. She told her about her friends and classes and boys when she came back for breaks, and the two of them would lie awake for hours at night, whispering back and forth. And Ji-young was never like those sisters on TV-she never thought that Chae was annoying or stupid or childish.

But when Chae was nine, Ji-young disappeared. And then their mother got really really sick and didn't do anything except sleep and cry, and when she died, Chae was left with her grim-faced father, who promptly shipped her off to school in the countryside. And Chae was lonely, so very lonely, but she got used to the loneliness. She spent her time watching her classmates and teachers from the corner, and after she'd finished six years of school, Chae was pretty certain that she knew what made each and every one of them tick.

During the summer before her first year at the Mei-Li Institute, her father said nothing to her except that he'd arranged for her to marry the wealthy (and considerably older) heir of another prominent sorcerer family. She already resented her father, but the letter-the letter changed everything.

Chae found the letter buried under a pile of her mother's old clothing. She read it with trembling hands- Your sister is alive, it said. Come talk to me when you know how to.

That summer, Chae furiously studied spiritual magic and communicating with the dead. And in August, she finally tried-the rituals were sloppy and rushed, the incantations shaky, the symbols hastily drawn-but it worked, it worked.

Chae dreamed of a dark sky and muffled voices and her father's bedroom. She dreamed of pushing a door open, of horror and a shrill scream when she caught sight of her sister and her father together in the room, of Ji-young's sobs as she tried to explain, of loss and misery when all trace of Ji-young had vanished by the next morning. I'm leaving, Ji-young had said. Tell Father not to look for me.

And when she woke up, Chae finally understood. And she knew that she wasn't going to let her father use her just for this stupid marriage. She just had to find a way around it.

During her first year at the Mei-Li Institute, Chae's family name easily won her a gaggle of fairweather friends (would it be too mean to call them minions?). By the end of her first semester, Chae had a rough plan in place. She didn't like it-it required trusting somebody else-but it was the only choice she had. And so she stole away to the library during her free time, devouring books on necromancy and resurrection and raising somebody from the dead. She made friends with the cold, no-nonsense professor who taught the single necromancy course offered at the Institute. And then she went to the headmistress.

Chae had known that Headmistress Sumei Liu was returning from her annual visit to a magic school in Europe with a new student in tow, thanks to one of her minions' connections to the Defense Committee of the High Council. She told the headmistress that she would keep said student under control, that she would essentially spy on the student for the headmistress. And in return, she wanted to be allowed to continue attending the Mei-Li Institute. Sumei agreed to it, of course, though not without a healthy amount of suspicion.

And finally, at the end of July, when her father left for the rest of the summer to do business in Europe, Chae could finally execute her plan. She went to visit her friend Lyra at her family's vacation home on a deserted island in Southeast Asia, and she told her what she was going to do. Lyra objected, of course, but Chae was stubborn, and Lyra gave in. It was a risk-Chae had only known Lyra for a year. And yet she and Lyra were as close as if they'd known each other since kindergarten. And Chae was willing to take a risk to get out of her stupid engagement.

Chae killed herself. Chae remembers the night, very clearly-balmy air, starry sky, waves gently lapping at the shore in the agreed upon spot. She swallowed the pills, and she assumes that the necromancer she'd been in contact with arrived shortly afterwards, and she assumes that everything went smoothly, because she was back in the material world not a month later, sans a heart. Lyra had done what she said she would do, and for that, Chae will never be able to repay her.

When her father found out what she'd done, he tried to hide it. Chae thought, fuck you, and broadcasted the information to her intended husband, who quickly backed out of the engagement soon after; a walking corpse bore no heirs, after all. By that time, Chae had already left. She magicked a considerable amount of her father's wealth into her own bank account (and even after Chae had stolen a considerable amount of money, her father was still unbelievably rich), packed her bags, and headed for Singapore for the start of the school year. She told her father that she knew what happened to Ji-young, and that she would take it to court if he tried to come after her. And that's the last she's ever heard of him.

At the start of her second year, Chae did as she promised and took the new student-Angie Ong-under her wing. When the headmistress approached her about determining the 'reliability' of her classmates in the case of a hunter attack, Chae agreed and set up Student of the Year. And at the end of her third year, when the headmistress approached her about keeping an eye on yet another new student, Chae agreed. Chae knows that the headmistress is using her. Fine. She'd rather be used as a spy than as a pawn to be married off for her father's benefit.

Chae is now in her fourth year at the Institute, and she's garnered quite the reputation for herself. Most know her as the aloof ice queen with more designer gowns than there are stars in the sky. Notorious for her extremely secretive and extremely exclusive annual competition, as well as for her mysterious parties and cold demeanor, the general consensus is that Chae is a heartless bitch.

....Well. Technically, they aren't wrong.

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