Choi Aera (Ban Jaeseong)

Jaeseong is a generally a man of moderate to tall height, with a lean build that is slightly more muscular than the average, largely due to his lifestyle and in that he sometimes works out (mostly on behest of his gangmates). With a handsome face and a cattish smile, he is quite conventionally attractive, in a sort of messy way -- adding his charisma makes him a great negotiator for the gang he co-leads, Bulgaemi [the Fire Ants].

Though Jaeseong gives off a relatively respectable aura to those that aren't very close to him, those who do know him would describe him more or less as very feline in generally how he moves and how he acts. Highly picky with who he chooses to be with, he is also generally known for being somewhat stealthy and more or less "slinks" around the place in private, occasionally to the chagrin of others.

He has dark hair that borders between black and dark brown, which is usually let to rest with a bit of a natural nicely bedheaded wave on his head -- as it turns out, this is done on purpose with hair mousse. One of his most enviable traits may be his overall good skin, for which he tells others that he washes his face with vinegar water, and most others aren't all that willing to do that regularly. Some others know this to be a lie, since Jaeseong only uses some nameless brand face wash from the drugstore and water. He has standard dark brown eyes.

Ban Jaeseong was born in New York, going by the English name "Jason" for easier assimilation, as the older brother of Iris Ban (Ban Aeri, 반애리) of three years. Their father was a small orchestra conductor, and mother a professional cellist both decently renowned in their line of work. With music running through the family, Jaeseong grew up learning the piano and his sister the viola and violin. They were close, and a musical pair as they often played duets in small recitals since young. In New York, they lived quite a normal life, if not a bit on the wealthier side. As children, they lived their lives undisturbed, with Jaeseong earning good grades for his studious nature, and especially earning good praise for his dexterity on the piano.

For Jaeseong, things began to shift when he moved to Korea for high school due to an offer his father received. Having grown up mostly in the United States, he had a notable lack of understanding of Korean norms when compared to his surroundings -- and the boys around him noticed, oft making jabs and little biting comments. As high school continued, the treatment escalated to physical bullying, often getting into fights where Jaeseong was often ultimately blamed.

It eventually reached a peak at the end of his junior year of high school, when he faced off with the worst of his instigators in a fight that abruptly ended when Jaeseong was hit in the head with a rock, knocking him unconscious for an astounding three days -- and he woke up to his sister missing, and his upset parents who blamed him for her accident, believing the move to Korea made him an unruly child and that caused her to be attacked by his assailants.

In reality, Aeri, angry at those who had attacked her elder brother, had gone after them -- and in a freak accident, slipped and fell into a river. She was rescued just barely, but fell into a coma that she would not wake from for six months. At the time, however, Jaeseong had mistakenly believed that his actions had led to Aeri being killed; as a result, he silently fled his home soon after, taking only a few belongings and Aeri's treasured viola in her memory.

With little elsewhere to go, Jaeseong stayed at a friend's house, helping out at their mechanic shop as payment, eventually becoming a proper worker and somewhat manager of the place a year later after his friend was arrested for distribution and possession of drugs. At 21, he first met Lee Seokwon, a 19-year old somewhat-regular who oft came for parts to his father's car. Eventually getting to know him, Jaeseong hired the boy and became friends with him -- a relationship that would continue well into Bulgaemi when they both joined.

At 23, he first met Aera and Eunseo, when they stumbled into his shop covered in rain and blood. Demanded of to not call the police at gunpoint, Jaeseong had little choice but to comply and let them hide out from their pursuers, bluffing to them when they came looking. He did ask for an explanation, given he was owed that much -- and by asking, he found himself roped into a new kind of life.

Keeping contact with them, Jaeseong would eventually become one of the founding members of Bulgaemi a mere three years later, later leaving the mechanics shop to be run by a younger part-time worker. He officially moved to the building that would become Bulgaemi headquarters, later recruiting Lee Seokwon into the ranks as a core member.

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