Yoon Sung-Min
Jun 9, 2019 21:15:13 GMT -8
Post by pandafox on Jun 9, 2019 21:15:13 GMT -8
Trainer Profile
Character Name: Sung-Min Yoon (Given Name, Family Name)
Nickname: Ogre Lady is a nickname only known in the underground scene.
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Trainer Class: Delinquent
Height: 5' 5”
Weight: 121 lbs
Ethnicity: Hagsangeese Djitsan
Birthday: October 27th 181 AG
Astrological Signs: Venconum the Drapion, Year of the Goomy
Hometown: Union, North-Central Godai
{Appearance Information}
Hair Color & Style: Long reddish-brown hair that is mostly straight. She wears this usually back in a ponytail or up in two buns for average days. If she is going to a fight, or just feeling like having a little fun she likes to twist and tie it up into two horn-like shapes near the back of her head. For fun, it is not uncommon for her to have fastened in clip-on shocks of neon pink or electric blue to accent her tresses. Sometiumes she has even tried out wigs for the evening. In more serious situations she braids it in rows of tight braids close to the scalp and ties everything back in a secure bun to give potential opponents less of an advantage over her without having to sacrifice her hair entirely.
Eyes: Hazel in color with long eyelashes. While not particularly vain, Seung-Min does not shy away from eyelinder and mascara that will highlight and accentuate her monolid eyes. Above them rest even, slightl curved, small eyebrows. The most common expression these eyes is one of concentration. Her eyes move quickly, constantly scanning her surroundings as if expecting trouble, except in the ring when they seem focused and calculating, or act as windows to an anger beyond words. There are days when these eyes do more talking than her mouth.
Clothing/Accessories: Sung-Min tends to wear more close-fitting clothing without limiting her range of motion. Yoga pants, jean shorts, tank tops, leggings, and t-shirts all feature prominently. While her footwear is varried between boots and assorted shoes, almost never does anything with a heel ever appear. The colors tend to heavily feature blacks, pinks, and purples, with the occasional blue or red thrown in for variety. When it comes to accessories Seung usually limits herself to simpler shapes and designs. Rarely if ever will she wear rings, and will usually stick with a simple choker and maybe some bracelets on a normal day. When she is choosing to dress up for a special reason or occasion she might try something that at least looks more gaudy and ostentatious but is usually in reality something quite cheap, and she usually cant afford to go in for such things. Despite the arguably bland selection Sung-Min takes pride in her ability to make a personal statement with her outfits and does her best to do so on her restrictive budget. She is particularly fond of stylish jackets. Usually with some image or statement on the back. Not being affluent enough to keep up with the latest trends here in Godai Or back in Hagsang, Seung-Min relies on her own personal taste and attitude to flavor her look. She likes to look nice or even showy at times but experience has trained her to be too warry of attention to be as flashy as she wished she could on an average day, and life on the road lends itself to this even less so. She may not be the most fashion forward but it sure beats a bright orange two piece uniform any day.
General Appearance:
From her phsique and the way she carries herself it is evident that Sung-Min lives some kind of active lifestyle. She is muscular without being so built that it becomes unsettling or alarming to some. At a glance one might guess she is a runner, swimmer, rock climber, or perhaps all three. However lightly tanned skin does not match up with the identity of someone who would spend that much time outdoors.
Sung-Min's smooth skin, rounded nose, and slightly pouty lips would make for a symetrical picture if it were not for the small beauty mark below her right eye, and the small scar in the middle of her left eyebrow. The latter of the two acting as the most apparent of subtle hints towards what her real active life is like. Since her lifestyle frequently prevents her from wearing much in the way of makeup these “blemishes” are rarely hidden in her day to day life.
Sung-Min's hands have a wide variety of small scars from long healed cuts and scrapes, but she does not seem to mind this. If there were something for her to decide to be self-conscious about it would be her feet which are a size or two larger than the average for a woman her size. Her finger and toe nails are always trimmed down cleanly, and frequently painted in fun colors as nail polish is one of the comodities she can afford and make last.
Sung-Min is not the sort of person to walk around smiling without an active and apparent cause, like friendly humorous conversation going on. Instead she tends to have the expression of someone focused on what is going on around them. Most of the time this expression is not unnapproachable but rather thoughtful if somewhat reserved. Though sometimes it can come across as more of a scowl depending on her mood.
Something about her usual posture makes Sung-Min never quite seem at ease when just standing, sitting, or walking about. Small restless fidgiting seems to acompany her when seated as if she is simply dissatisfied with being at rest. When standing her back is usually straight and shoulders spread wide, like someone trying to appear larger and more menacing. Some of these tendencies seem to lessen if not entirely dissappear when she is fairly certain she is alone, or on the rare occasion she feels she is in safe surroundings.
Hair Color & Style: Long reddish-brown hair that is mostly straight. She wears this usually back in a ponytail or up in two buns for average days. If she is going to a fight, or just feeling like having a little fun she likes to twist and tie it up into two horn-like shapes near the back of her head. For fun, it is not uncommon for her to have fastened in clip-on shocks of neon pink or electric blue to accent her tresses. Sometiumes she has even tried out wigs for the evening. In more serious situations she braids it in rows of tight braids close to the scalp and ties everything back in a secure bun to give potential opponents less of an advantage over her without having to sacrifice her hair entirely.
Eyes: Hazel in color with long eyelashes. While not particularly vain, Seung-Min does not shy away from eyelinder and mascara that will highlight and accentuate her monolid eyes. Above them rest even, slightl curved, small eyebrows. The most common expression these eyes is one of concentration. Her eyes move quickly, constantly scanning her surroundings as if expecting trouble, except in the ring when they seem focused and calculating, or act as windows to an anger beyond words. There are days when these eyes do more talking than her mouth.
Clothing/Accessories: Sung-Min tends to wear more close-fitting clothing without limiting her range of motion. Yoga pants, jean shorts, tank tops, leggings, and t-shirts all feature prominently. While her footwear is varried between boots and assorted shoes, almost never does anything with a heel ever appear. The colors tend to heavily feature blacks, pinks, and purples, with the occasional blue or red thrown in for variety. When it comes to accessories Seung usually limits herself to simpler shapes and designs. Rarely if ever will she wear rings, and will usually stick with a simple choker and maybe some bracelets on a normal day. When she is choosing to dress up for a special reason or occasion she might try something that at least looks more gaudy and ostentatious but is usually in reality something quite cheap, and she usually cant afford to go in for such things. Despite the arguably bland selection Sung-Min takes pride in her ability to make a personal statement with her outfits and does her best to do so on her restrictive budget. She is particularly fond of stylish jackets. Usually with some image or statement on the back. Not being affluent enough to keep up with the latest trends here in Godai Or back in Hagsang, Seung-Min relies on her own personal taste and attitude to flavor her look. She likes to look nice or even showy at times but experience has trained her to be too warry of attention to be as flashy as she wished she could on an average day, and life on the road lends itself to this even less so. She may not be the most fashion forward but it sure beats a bright orange two piece uniform any day.
General Appearance:
From her phsique and the way she carries herself it is evident that Sung-Min lives some kind of active lifestyle. She is muscular without being so built that it becomes unsettling or alarming to some. At a glance one might guess she is a runner, swimmer, rock climber, or perhaps all three. However lightly tanned skin does not match up with the identity of someone who would spend that much time outdoors.
Sung-Min's smooth skin, rounded nose, and slightly pouty lips would make for a symetrical picture if it were not for the small beauty mark below her right eye, and the small scar in the middle of her left eyebrow. The latter of the two acting as the most apparent of subtle hints towards what her real active life is like. Since her lifestyle frequently prevents her from wearing much in the way of makeup these “blemishes” are rarely hidden in her day to day life.
Sung-Min's hands have a wide variety of small scars from long healed cuts and scrapes, but she does not seem to mind this. If there were something for her to decide to be self-conscious about it would be her feet which are a size or two larger than the average for a woman her size. Her finger and toe nails are always trimmed down cleanly, and frequently painted in fun colors as nail polish is one of the comodities she can afford and make last.
Sung-Min is not the sort of person to walk around smiling without an active and apparent cause, like friendly humorous conversation going on. Instead she tends to have the expression of someone focused on what is going on around them. Most of the time this expression is not unnapproachable but rather thoughtful if somewhat reserved. Though sometimes it can come across as more of a scowl depending on her mood.
Something about her usual posture makes Sung-Min never quite seem at ease when just standing, sitting, or walking about. Small restless fidgiting seems to acompany her when seated as if she is simply dissatisfied with being at rest. When standing her back is usually straight and shoulders spread wide, like someone trying to appear larger and more menacing. Some of these tendencies seem to lessen if not entirely dissappear when she is fairly certain she is alone, or on the rare occasion she feels she is in safe surroundings.
{Personality}
Outwardly she presents herself as a slightly quieter person that seems to keep to herself. You might expect her to be an introvertive personality but when engaged by other people she generally seems to enjoy interacting. She can carry on a casual conversation with most people as long as it doesn't get too innane. Even in the later case she usually tries to find a polite way to excuse herself from it. While able to engage in lively banter and ammusing conversation with people, and enjoying their company, as soon as she is away from them the smile almost immediately fades from her face and she is back in her private world of thought. In all these conversations, Sung-Min rarely talks about herself and when she does it hardly goes very far beneath the surface.
In her active life she enjoys a good challenge and while fiercely competitive, once the winner is decided she can be a good sport win or loose. Despite being someone who likes to act, she prefers to think about things before she does them and rarely makes decisions without some reasoning behind them.
She involves herself in community service activities willingly, and seems to enjoy the work. She doesn't mind helping people and is willing to give the panhandler on the street a few dians out of her own wallet when she can spare it, and directions to a shelter when she can't. At the same time she is not the kind to talk about things like “loving your fellow man” and is not one who can easily accept gifts or help without paying it back. Similarly she is willing to listen to someone's problems if she has the time, but on her own life she would prefer “you stay out of my business.” She isn't the sort to give hugs or accept them either.
In fact Sung-Min seems to be adverse to physical contact with other people in general. A polite nod and eye contact serve to her what other people think of as a friendly handshake. In fact when being introduced to someone her hands will rarely leave the pockets of her jacket unless its a formal setting where the person she meets is someone like an interviewer for a job.
Her aversion to contact may be part of her personality or it might be something more borne from recent life experiences, just like her tendancy to watch her surroundings constantly. She rarely feels as comfortable with her back to an open space and lots of loud noise and sudden movements can put her very much on edge. This is because it is harder to watch what is going on arround her and be aware if someone is moving against her. Still, uneasieness aside, if out at a party or rave with friends while not necessarily her first choice, she would make an effort to get out there and join them on the dance floor. Woe betide the person that decides to get a little handsy that night.
While outwardly she appears to be someone quiet, calm, and thoughtful this is in part because inside Sung-Min is holding back tremendous anger in a multitude of forms. She is furious with the system, with her parents, her sister, with the law, with the people in the city, with big businesses, with herself, with everything. That anger feeds into itself constnatly and whether it is particularly strong or weak that day does not change the fact that it is always there simmering inside her.
The world around her felt predatory even before her time removed from it. She believes its out to get her and anything, or rather anyone, you choose to lean on can be snatched away or choose to leave at any moment. The only way to protect herself is to be strong and endure, and the only things she can rely on are things she has built up herself: her body, her instincts, and her mind. (With time, this could extend to her pokémon as well)
The anger inside her has been a constant companion only made stronger through all the setbacks and frustrations of her life. It has escaped from beneath the surface before and even with a means to channel it in to other things, could still do so again.
When confronted with an opponent, or even just working a bag, the inner and outer sides of Sung-Min reverse and combine to make the person she feels she really is. Furious, but focused, she will seek any and every opportunity to bring her anger down on her opponent to the greatest effect, even willing to sacrifice getting hurt if it will result in an opening that will hurt them more. Growling, roaring, snarling, and swinging with all her might she feels free, all the distractions of the world removed and the only goal being, destroy the person in front of her, and don't get destroyed. It is a adrenaline rush paired with a comforting uninhibited simplicity that she craves constantly.
Before a fight, the anticipation, excitement, and knowledge of what is to come puts Sung-Min in her element. She smiles some, acts smug, and carries herself with nigh-boastful confidence. That energy helps to psyche herself up for the big event.
After a fight, despite being sore and injured, if she won, Sung-Min feels her best. Relaxed, relieved, and riding that endorphine high, having overcome a challenge and vented her anger its the moment when she truly relaxes.
Outwardly she presents herself as a slightly quieter person that seems to keep to herself. You might expect her to be an introvertive personality but when engaged by other people she generally seems to enjoy interacting. She can carry on a casual conversation with most people as long as it doesn't get too innane. Even in the later case she usually tries to find a polite way to excuse herself from it. While able to engage in lively banter and ammusing conversation with people, and enjoying their company, as soon as she is away from them the smile almost immediately fades from her face and she is back in her private world of thought. In all these conversations, Sung-Min rarely talks about herself and when she does it hardly goes very far beneath the surface.
In her active life she enjoys a good challenge and while fiercely competitive, once the winner is decided she can be a good sport win or loose. Despite being someone who likes to act, she prefers to think about things before she does them and rarely makes decisions without some reasoning behind them.
She involves herself in community service activities willingly, and seems to enjoy the work. She doesn't mind helping people and is willing to give the panhandler on the street a few dians out of her own wallet when she can spare it, and directions to a shelter when she can't. At the same time she is not the kind to talk about things like “loving your fellow man” and is not one who can easily accept gifts or help without paying it back. Similarly she is willing to listen to someone's problems if she has the time, but on her own life she would prefer “you stay out of my business.” She isn't the sort to give hugs or accept them either.
In fact Sung-Min seems to be adverse to physical contact with other people in general. A polite nod and eye contact serve to her what other people think of as a friendly handshake. In fact when being introduced to someone her hands will rarely leave the pockets of her jacket unless its a formal setting where the person she meets is someone like an interviewer for a job.
Her aversion to contact may be part of her personality or it might be something more borne from recent life experiences, just like her tendancy to watch her surroundings constantly. She rarely feels as comfortable with her back to an open space and lots of loud noise and sudden movements can put her very much on edge. This is because it is harder to watch what is going on arround her and be aware if someone is moving against her. Still, uneasieness aside, if out at a party or rave with friends while not necessarily her first choice, she would make an effort to get out there and join them on the dance floor. Woe betide the person that decides to get a little handsy that night.
While outwardly she appears to be someone quiet, calm, and thoughtful this is in part because inside Sung-Min is holding back tremendous anger in a multitude of forms. She is furious with the system, with her parents, her sister, with the law, with the people in the city, with big businesses, with herself, with everything. That anger feeds into itself constnatly and whether it is particularly strong or weak that day does not change the fact that it is always there simmering inside her.
The world around her felt predatory even before her time removed from it. She believes its out to get her and anything, or rather anyone, you choose to lean on can be snatched away or choose to leave at any moment. The only way to protect herself is to be strong and endure, and the only things she can rely on are things she has built up herself: her body, her instincts, and her mind. (With time, this could extend to her pokémon as well)
The anger inside her has been a constant companion only made stronger through all the setbacks and frustrations of her life. It has escaped from beneath the surface before and even with a means to channel it in to other things, could still do so again.
When confronted with an opponent, or even just working a bag, the inner and outer sides of Sung-Min reverse and combine to make the person she feels she really is. Furious, but focused, she will seek any and every opportunity to bring her anger down on her opponent to the greatest effect, even willing to sacrifice getting hurt if it will result in an opening that will hurt them more. Growling, roaring, snarling, and swinging with all her might she feels free, all the distractions of the world removed and the only goal being, destroy the person in front of her, and don't get destroyed. It is a adrenaline rush paired with a comforting uninhibited simplicity that she craves constantly.
Before a fight, the anticipation, excitement, and knowledge of what is to come puts Sung-Min in her element. She smiles some, acts smug, and carries herself with nigh-boastful confidence. That energy helps to psyche herself up for the big event.
After a fight, despite being sore and injured, if she won, Sung-Min feels her best. Relaxed, relieved, and riding that endorphine high, having overcome a challenge and vented her anger its the moment when she truly relaxes.
{History}
A young woman, Angela Lee leaves Godai right after secondary-school looking to “get in touch with her roots” she visits the Hangsag region of Djitsi where she meets a young man Tae-Yong Yoon. They fall in love, get married and have a daughter they name Sung-Hwa.
When Sung-Hwa was 5 (almost 6) and Angela was pregnant with their second child, the couple decided to move back to Angela's home country of Godai. Using family connections Tae-Yong has a job lined up for him at the docks in Duskrim. He became a warehouse manager with a fishing company. Tae-Yong makes enough for his wife to be a stay at home mom. Their second daughter, Sung-Min, was born in Duskrim.
Sung-Min was 5, Tae-Yong lost his job because the company went under due to the conditions of Duskrim's harbors. He was able to get a lower paying job driving a truck for a company dumping waste in Rotshade forest. The family moved to Kotoba to be closer to his work while still being near good schools, and the mother takes a part time job making textiles. Tae-Yong was only able to come home once or twice a week due to his work.
Being the new kid in a new city, who looked and talked different from everyone else was hard for both children. When she started school for the first time Sung-Min frequently got into fights with the other children. To combat this problem, Tae-Yong's idea was for Sung-Min to be enrolled in martial arts classes. There she was taught discipline, control, and had a time and place that allowed her to channel her anger and vent her frustrations. She began to learn the art of Muay Phuouen.
It was another 5 years before hard times struck again. Due to heavy lobbying, protesting, and the resulting new environmental laws, the last of the companies dumping waste in Rotshade closes, and with it, Tae-Yong looses his job. Frustrated, vilianized, and humiliated, Tae-Yong decided to go back to Hangsag where he knew he could find a position of both wealth and respect. Angela refused to move with him, knowing he intended to use his family's ties to the Jopok. Instead she took the children and moved to Union in North-Central Godai. She got a full-time job that could cover their expenses, but could no longer afford martial arts classes for Sung-Min.
Starting 5th grade in a new city, Sung-Min started getting in to fights again. She didn't know anyone and being a strange new kid again. Her frustration as compounded by not quite understanding why her dad wasn't with them anymore. Life was harder, and her mom wasn't around much anymore. Her mom had to frequently take part-time jobs to supplement their income just to get by.
Sung-Hwa started taking her sister Sung-Min to the community center where she did homework. The center had other kids of low-income families to befriend and projects to get involved in. It also had classes and extracurricular activities the kids would otherwise not be able to afford. Of note, the center had a scholarship program with a nearby (human) gym. Kids who maintained above average grades, and involved themselves in the center's volunteer programs could have center sponsored memberships. The gym had classes and programs for youth MMA, Kickboxing, and even some martial arts programs. “Frustrations are vented safely in the ring, and kids that would fight anyway have a safe and controlled way to do it. Instead of brawling in the street, they learn discipline, restraint, respect, and control.” was their philosophy for the program.
Sung-Min made friends at the center. She also found the outlet she needed at the gym, which incentivised volunteering, and good grades. Additionally she was eventually able to attend the center's accredited pokémon classes which let the kids learn about pokémon and, at the right age, learn to become trainers.
When Sung-Min graduated primary school, Sung-Hwa graduated secondary school. Eager to be away from the city Sung-Hwa moved out immediately to attend college in far off Glosterice Town rather than even try to attend GSUC. Sung-Min felt abandoned and clung more closely to the center for support and stability. At that time the center had been having financial struggles as well, and there was an unspoken tension and uncertainty about the place which the kids picked up on.
Due to encouragement by her mother, and her mentors at the center, Sung-Min decided to continue attending school rather than drop out and join the TIS. This way she would have more opportunities for her future. Sung-Min continued to spend most of her free time at the gym and volunteering with the center through all of 7th Grade.
The center was struggling because smaller businesses in the area that used to donate and sponsor it were vanishing and being replaced by big businesses. Large corporations were promising to “revitalize the city” (by this point Metropolitan avenue had begun to more closely resemble what it looks like today). The center did its best to raise awareness about the good they did for the community. They petitioned for government aid, and petitioned to prevent the areas around them from being taken over by big corporations. More upscale transplants to the city began to move in following the jobs the companies created, and the population began to change. Some of these new-money types viewed the center as “an eyesore” As some of the poorer parts of town were demolished to make way for bigger buildings and wealthier people. Fewer people in the area understood the center's purpose.
One day Sung-Min saw one of her mentors arguing with an individual in a suit. She later learned that person was a representative from Apex Integrated Technologies. They had apparently made yet another offer to buy off the center's leadership so they would leave. AIT wanted the property which was now located in a very desirable spot. The offer was of course, refused.
Public opinion began to be turned against the center. The kids learned about petitions being made claiming the center fostered “unsavory elements”. Additionally a company called “Vista Nouveau Holdings” was petitioning to buy the land and replace the center with a park hosting all the modern amenities, which would offer recreational programs for kids “without promoting negative activity and behaviors” The opponents of the center were using the gym scholarship program as a tool against it. Additionally, the center's “Team Unity” shirts they wore to foster cohesion and inclusiveness on volunteer projects (as well as separate volunteers from attendees) were criticized claiming they fostered gang-like mentalities in the youth.
As the year went on, it was discovered that as a young man the center's leader had been involved with a group that protested the proposed demolition of the Tiensee Power Plant. That particular group had gone on from there to become an extremest anti-government group that was later linked to attempted terrorism and quickly and publicly shut down. The head of the center had left the group long before their dark turn, but his side of the story was drowned out and some parents began to pull out their kids.
Sung-Min watched as friends and role models who had helped her and the city she lived in were dragged through the mud and turned against by former friends and neighbors. Her anger issues began to increase again, and she was even suspended for a week from school for punching another student who had been antagonizing her about her associations with the group. That turned into big win for the centers opponents, who began touting it as proof that the gym program was fostering violence. By the time Sung was back in school, the gym program had been shut down just to try and save the center.
The summer after Sung-Min's 8th grade year was spent almost entirely at the center. She volunteered at every opportunity, got involved with every program, and did everything she could to stay in touch with her dwindling group of friends. All of this was done in an effort to save the place that brought them together. On a night in the middle of that summer, the center's name was spray-painted on public and private property all around the area, witnesses also claimed they saw kids wearing the center's team shirts committing the acts of vandalism. The center was immediately vocal about how they did not believe any of their kids were responsible, and they certainly did not condone any such actions. Furthermore, they organized, in record breaking time, a graffiti clean up project with all the kids still attending and the entire staff. By the end of that day all the graffiti had been painted over or washed away and it felt like they had proven themselves.
That night, teens and adults seen wearing the “Team Unity” shirts were caught destroying city security cameras, smashing windows, mailboxes, slashing tires, sabotaging construction equipment at nearby sites, and tagging businesses that opposed the center with the center's name as well as threatening messages warning against messing with it. When confronted by authorities, the suspects fought back with pokémon from the center's training classes and injured several officers. All the suspects were eventually subdued and apprehended that night, and when questioned, they all claimed the leadership of the center instructed them to do this. Considering two of the adults among them were on record as being employees of the center, their story had credibility. That was the last straw, the public would not hear the claims that the center were not involved. The courts did not believe that the kids arrested had either never attended the center or not been around in months or years, and they did not believe that two of the three involved employees had been let go recently for budget reasons. Evidence that the pokémon used in the crime might have been stolen earlier that evening was also disregarded or thrown out for various reasons. The leader of the center and several mentors and chief volunteers were arrested under organized crime laws and found guilty.
The center was surrounded with fences adorned with signs announcing the coming of Vista Nouveau Holding's promised new park. By the time the school year started again, those signs were replaced with Apex Integrated Technologies signs, announcing the coming of a new building.
Sung-Min had lost her support structure, betrayed by the whole city. She'd watched the police accuse them of things she knew they didn't do and take them away. The big company that had been against them got what they wanted. She was angrier than ever, and now, with nothing to fill her free time, had little to do but hang around with the rest of her disenfranchised friends that had no place to go. The dynamic of her social group began to turn towards the worse, and Sung-Min sought ways to relieve her frustrations, spend her free-time and dull her anger. The party and then rave scenes were natural progressions at first but did not seem to fill the void. She stayed in school more out of respect for her lost friends than the desire to do so, and her grades reflected that. She argued with her mother constantly and frequently skipped class.
In an attempt to regain some stability, Sung-Min got herself a part time job so she could earn some money for herself, and re-join a gym. Initially she returned to her old gym; but the place closed a month later having been collateral damage in the campaign against the center. She traveled further to find another affordable gym in the city, that would let her continue fighting. Shortly after finding such a place she was approached by someone offering her an opportunity to use her skills and make some money.
Sung-Min became involved in underground fighting. At first she was a spectator, but soon became a new contestant. Things seemed intense but manageable at first. Those involved helped her learn the ropes and knew how to cover their tracks. The money was good and winning was exciting, but after a few months, Sung-Min got thrashed, hard. She realized that the fights up to that point had been likely fixed to make her feel good, and draw her in. Probably also to rig betting and earn the organizers a tidy profit.
As Sung-Min recovered from her injury and the arguments with her mother reached epic proportions as her Angela grew increasingly frustrated with lies about roller blade accidents or simply unanswered questions. Sung-Min considered quitting while she could. She knew better than to say anything about the fights and had seen enough to see how quickly someone got picked up by the police for being careless. Still, by the time she had nearly recovered she found herself craving the rush and the freedom more even more than the now-spent money.
She returned to the ring a smarter and more aware fighter. Her abilities slowly improved as she trained and learned through experience, and she began making a reputation for herself in the underground fighting community.
One evening in the summer after her 9th grade year, she was walking home from the gym with her fellow fighter and old friend, Stacy. They had parted ways outside Stacy's building. Sung-Min had gone to the end of the block and rounded the corner on the way to her house when she heard a shout and scream coming from back towards Stacy's. She ran back to find Stacy with a black eye, and bleeding face staring horrified at the top of the flight of stairs that lead to a sub level outside her building. Upon arriving at her friend, Sung-Min saw a man at the bottom of the stairs un-moving. Sung-Min hurried to check the person for a pulse and while she did that, Stacy explained that she had been attacked and defended herself. In the struggle she had accidentally thrown her attacker over the guard rail and down the stairs. They recognized the unconscious man as a fighter Stacy had recently beaten. Stacy panicked as she realized he could die and she might go to jail, additionally she was shaken by the implications of being attacked by another fighter outside the ring. Stacy apologized to Sung-Min and professed that if the police didn't get her the life would, and fled the scene while Sung-Min called for an ambulance. Late that night, Sung-Min was picked up from the police station by her distraught mother after she gave her testimony about how the man attacked her friend and her friend acted in self defense. Sung-Min realized that because she did not actually see it, the officers did not seem to regard her story with much merit.
Frightened, furious, and frustrated, Angela sent Sung-Min to live with her sister in Glosterice for the rest of the summer, hoping that time away from the city, and around her hard-working sister, would do her some good and hopefully get her away from whatever it was she was wrapped up in. The rest of that summer mostly consisted of boredom and arguments with Sung-Hwa about how everyone should stay out of her business and stop treating her like a criminal. She argued about how Sung-Hwa had no right to say she cared when she had abandoned Sung-Min, and whether or not her friend had been right to run away from the scene, as well as whether or not Sung-Min knew anything more about how to get Stacy to turn herself in.
The victim survived and recovered from his ordeal but Stacy was still wanted for questioning. When school rolled around again, the police had not returned to question Sung-Min about anything else and the case had seemingly gone cold. Sung-Min had returned to Union only to find that many of the players she knew were missing or arrested, and found out from a source at her gym that it was not uncommon for the fighting scene to occasionally collapse or go quiet. She was told that with patience a new fight would inevitably surface again when things were calmer or new players decided to run the scene.
Sure enough by the middle of the school year the underground circuit was back with new faces, and Sung-Min made her return. The incident with her friend was almost entirely forgotten, as Sung-Min had a particularly good run of fights over the next few months, more of them ending in her favor than not. She felt good, strong, safe, and in control.
While Angela could not control her daughter's every weekend she could manage the larger breaks and so when Spring Break rolled around Sung-Min was sent back to her sister's. Trying to make the situation amiable at least Sung-Min was cordial and compliant as long as Sung-Hwa stayed out of her business. She helped around the house, did her homework, and found things to amuse herself that were aboveboard. While her sister was at work, Sung-Min was working on an assignment for Social Studies, involving news and current events. During her research, Sung-Min came across the obituary report of the center's leader. He had died of a heart attack in prison, for crimes he did not commit.
Shocked and overwhelmed, Sung-Min left the house immediately feeling like she wanted to curl in a ball and cry at the same time wanting to destroy everything she could put her hands on. Instead she walked the city in a daze for hours. It wasn't until late in the evening that she realized she needed to eat, and that Sung-Hwa was probably home and wondering where she was. Ducking in to a diner, Sung-Min unexpectedly ran in to Stacy. They shared a table and Stacy explained how she was doing a lot better, and had gotten out of the fighting game. She was handling her own aggression in other sports and had been at the batting cages earlier that day. She explained how she had a good job that paid cash and didn't ask many questions now, and was even seeing a nice guy. They exchanged sympathy and condolences about the loss of their mutual mentor and eventually Stacy left to head home. Having checked her phone to see 17 missed calls from her sister, Sung-Min stayed a while longer, in no rush to get home and be lectured.
When she left the diner a little while later, Sung-Min heard the sound of shoes pounding the pavement and saw someone being chased. After a moment, Sung-Min realized it was Stacy, being chased down by an officer and something deep inside her snapped. Before she realized fully what she was doing, Sung-Min had bolted across the street, shoved Stacy out of the way, grabbed the handle of the bat protruding from her bag, and swung with all her might. In the next instant, Sung-Min realized what she had done, dropped the bat, raised her hands and was already dropping to her knees when she felt the taser darts hit her in the stomach.
Sung-Min Yoon was arrested for interfering with an arrest and assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon. She plead guilty on both counts.
Despite her guilty plea, her defense lawyer made a strong case that Sung-Min may not have realized the person chasing her friend had been an officer and she may have merely been trying to help. Sung-Min refused to testify on her behalf but did issue a formal apology to the court about what she had done, leaving the court to determine for itself what her motives had been.
In the end Sung-Min was sentenced to prison with the eventual possibility for parole. She was sent to Juvenile Detention where she finished her Secondary School education and then was transferred to a women's prison. While she was inside, Sung-Hwa had finished college and gone on to law school where she became a defense attorney and convicts rights advocate.
Sung-Hwa pleaded Sung-Min's case in an appeals court looking to have her sentence reduced on the grounds that the initial sentencing had been too harsh for a minor with no prior convictions who had been so compliant, and may have simply made an error in judgment. She argued that the prosecution may have been trying to make an example of the poor girl, based on the nature of her crime in a city with lots of unrest towards the system. Reviewing Sung-Min's spotless prison record showed she was a model prisoner. Her sentence was reduced, and Sung-Min was slated to be released on parole for six months during which she was to engage in community service.
She spent her time serving at a pokémon rescue for 'dangerous' pokémon where she came to respect her co-workers and especially the founder. The founder wished she could afford to keep Seung-Min on as a paid employee but the shelter couldn't afford it. As a parting gift they gave her a pokémon that had taken a liking to Seung-Min much to her chagrin.
So once her perole was up, Sung-Min had to find a way to help support herself rather than be a burden on her mother. She eventually settled on becoming an official TIS trainer as that was a job where her history wouldn't prevent her from being hired, and would allow her to explore her affinity with pokémon.
A young woman, Angela Lee leaves Godai right after secondary-school looking to “get in touch with her roots” she visits the Hangsag region of Djitsi where she meets a young man Tae-Yong Yoon. They fall in love, get married and have a daughter they name Sung-Hwa.
When Sung-Hwa was 5 (almost 6) and Angela was pregnant with their second child, the couple decided to move back to Angela's home country of Godai. Using family connections Tae-Yong has a job lined up for him at the docks in Duskrim. He became a warehouse manager with a fishing company. Tae-Yong makes enough for his wife to be a stay at home mom. Their second daughter, Sung-Min, was born in Duskrim.
Sung-Min was 5, Tae-Yong lost his job because the company went under due to the conditions of Duskrim's harbors. He was able to get a lower paying job driving a truck for a company dumping waste in Rotshade forest. The family moved to Kotoba to be closer to his work while still being near good schools, and the mother takes a part time job making textiles. Tae-Yong was only able to come home once or twice a week due to his work.
Being the new kid in a new city, who looked and talked different from everyone else was hard for both children. When she started school for the first time Sung-Min frequently got into fights with the other children. To combat this problem, Tae-Yong's idea was for Sung-Min to be enrolled in martial arts classes. There she was taught discipline, control, and had a time and place that allowed her to channel her anger and vent her frustrations. She began to learn the art of Muay Phuouen.
It was another 5 years before hard times struck again. Due to heavy lobbying, protesting, and the resulting new environmental laws, the last of the companies dumping waste in Rotshade closes, and with it, Tae-Yong looses his job. Frustrated, vilianized, and humiliated, Tae-Yong decided to go back to Hangsag where he knew he could find a position of both wealth and respect. Angela refused to move with him, knowing he intended to use his family's ties to the Jopok. Instead she took the children and moved to Union in North-Central Godai. She got a full-time job that could cover their expenses, but could no longer afford martial arts classes for Sung-Min.
Starting 5th grade in a new city, Sung-Min started getting in to fights again. She didn't know anyone and being a strange new kid again. Her frustration as compounded by not quite understanding why her dad wasn't with them anymore. Life was harder, and her mom wasn't around much anymore. Her mom had to frequently take part-time jobs to supplement their income just to get by.
Sung-Hwa started taking her sister Sung-Min to the community center where she did homework. The center had other kids of low-income families to befriend and projects to get involved in. It also had classes and extracurricular activities the kids would otherwise not be able to afford. Of note, the center had a scholarship program with a nearby (human) gym. Kids who maintained above average grades, and involved themselves in the center's volunteer programs could have center sponsored memberships. The gym had classes and programs for youth MMA, Kickboxing, and even some martial arts programs. “Frustrations are vented safely in the ring, and kids that would fight anyway have a safe and controlled way to do it. Instead of brawling in the street, they learn discipline, restraint, respect, and control.” was their philosophy for the program.
Sung-Min made friends at the center. She also found the outlet she needed at the gym, which incentivised volunteering, and good grades. Additionally she was eventually able to attend the center's accredited pokémon classes which let the kids learn about pokémon and, at the right age, learn to become trainers.
When Sung-Min graduated primary school, Sung-Hwa graduated secondary school. Eager to be away from the city Sung-Hwa moved out immediately to attend college in far off Glosterice Town rather than even try to attend GSUC. Sung-Min felt abandoned and clung more closely to the center for support and stability. At that time the center had been having financial struggles as well, and there was an unspoken tension and uncertainty about the place which the kids picked up on.
Due to encouragement by her mother, and her mentors at the center, Sung-Min decided to continue attending school rather than drop out and join the TIS. This way she would have more opportunities for her future. Sung-Min continued to spend most of her free time at the gym and volunteering with the center through all of 7th Grade.
The center was struggling because smaller businesses in the area that used to donate and sponsor it were vanishing and being replaced by big businesses. Large corporations were promising to “revitalize the city” (by this point Metropolitan avenue had begun to more closely resemble what it looks like today). The center did its best to raise awareness about the good they did for the community. They petitioned for government aid, and petitioned to prevent the areas around them from being taken over by big corporations. More upscale transplants to the city began to move in following the jobs the companies created, and the population began to change. Some of these new-money types viewed the center as “an eyesore” As some of the poorer parts of town were demolished to make way for bigger buildings and wealthier people. Fewer people in the area understood the center's purpose.
One day Sung-Min saw one of her mentors arguing with an individual in a suit. She later learned that person was a representative from Apex Integrated Technologies. They had apparently made yet another offer to buy off the center's leadership so they would leave. AIT wanted the property which was now located in a very desirable spot. The offer was of course, refused.
Public opinion began to be turned against the center. The kids learned about petitions being made claiming the center fostered “unsavory elements”. Additionally a company called “Vista Nouveau Holdings” was petitioning to buy the land and replace the center with a park hosting all the modern amenities, which would offer recreational programs for kids “without promoting negative activity and behaviors” The opponents of the center were using the gym scholarship program as a tool against it. Additionally, the center's “Team Unity” shirts they wore to foster cohesion and inclusiveness on volunteer projects (as well as separate volunteers from attendees) were criticized claiming they fostered gang-like mentalities in the youth.
As the year went on, it was discovered that as a young man the center's leader had been involved with a group that protested the proposed demolition of the Tiensee Power Plant. That particular group had gone on from there to become an extremest anti-government group that was later linked to attempted terrorism and quickly and publicly shut down. The head of the center had left the group long before their dark turn, but his side of the story was drowned out and some parents began to pull out their kids.
Sung-Min watched as friends and role models who had helped her and the city she lived in were dragged through the mud and turned against by former friends and neighbors. Her anger issues began to increase again, and she was even suspended for a week from school for punching another student who had been antagonizing her about her associations with the group. That turned into big win for the centers opponents, who began touting it as proof that the gym program was fostering violence. By the time Sung was back in school, the gym program had been shut down just to try and save the center.
The summer after Sung-Min's 8th grade year was spent almost entirely at the center. She volunteered at every opportunity, got involved with every program, and did everything she could to stay in touch with her dwindling group of friends. All of this was done in an effort to save the place that brought them together. On a night in the middle of that summer, the center's name was spray-painted on public and private property all around the area, witnesses also claimed they saw kids wearing the center's team shirts committing the acts of vandalism. The center was immediately vocal about how they did not believe any of their kids were responsible, and they certainly did not condone any such actions. Furthermore, they organized, in record breaking time, a graffiti clean up project with all the kids still attending and the entire staff. By the end of that day all the graffiti had been painted over or washed away and it felt like they had proven themselves.
That night, teens and adults seen wearing the “Team Unity” shirts were caught destroying city security cameras, smashing windows, mailboxes, slashing tires, sabotaging construction equipment at nearby sites, and tagging businesses that opposed the center with the center's name as well as threatening messages warning against messing with it. When confronted by authorities, the suspects fought back with pokémon from the center's training classes and injured several officers. All the suspects were eventually subdued and apprehended that night, and when questioned, they all claimed the leadership of the center instructed them to do this. Considering two of the adults among them were on record as being employees of the center, their story had credibility. That was the last straw, the public would not hear the claims that the center were not involved. The courts did not believe that the kids arrested had either never attended the center or not been around in months or years, and they did not believe that two of the three involved employees had been let go recently for budget reasons. Evidence that the pokémon used in the crime might have been stolen earlier that evening was also disregarded or thrown out for various reasons. The leader of the center and several mentors and chief volunteers were arrested under organized crime laws and found guilty.
The center was surrounded with fences adorned with signs announcing the coming of Vista Nouveau Holding's promised new park. By the time the school year started again, those signs were replaced with Apex Integrated Technologies signs, announcing the coming of a new building.
Sung-Min had lost her support structure, betrayed by the whole city. She'd watched the police accuse them of things she knew they didn't do and take them away. The big company that had been against them got what they wanted. She was angrier than ever, and now, with nothing to fill her free time, had little to do but hang around with the rest of her disenfranchised friends that had no place to go. The dynamic of her social group began to turn towards the worse, and Sung-Min sought ways to relieve her frustrations, spend her free-time and dull her anger. The party and then rave scenes were natural progressions at first but did not seem to fill the void. She stayed in school more out of respect for her lost friends than the desire to do so, and her grades reflected that. She argued with her mother constantly and frequently skipped class.
In an attempt to regain some stability, Sung-Min got herself a part time job so she could earn some money for herself, and re-join a gym. Initially she returned to her old gym; but the place closed a month later having been collateral damage in the campaign against the center. She traveled further to find another affordable gym in the city, that would let her continue fighting. Shortly after finding such a place she was approached by someone offering her an opportunity to use her skills and make some money.
Sung-Min became involved in underground fighting. At first she was a spectator, but soon became a new contestant. Things seemed intense but manageable at first. Those involved helped her learn the ropes and knew how to cover their tracks. The money was good and winning was exciting, but after a few months, Sung-Min got thrashed, hard. She realized that the fights up to that point had been likely fixed to make her feel good, and draw her in. Probably also to rig betting and earn the organizers a tidy profit.
As Sung-Min recovered from her injury and the arguments with her mother reached epic proportions as her Angela grew increasingly frustrated with lies about roller blade accidents or simply unanswered questions. Sung-Min considered quitting while she could. She knew better than to say anything about the fights and had seen enough to see how quickly someone got picked up by the police for being careless. Still, by the time she had nearly recovered she found herself craving the rush and the freedom more even more than the now-spent money.
She returned to the ring a smarter and more aware fighter. Her abilities slowly improved as she trained and learned through experience, and she began making a reputation for herself in the underground fighting community.
One evening in the summer after her 9th grade year, she was walking home from the gym with her fellow fighter and old friend, Stacy. They had parted ways outside Stacy's building. Sung-Min had gone to the end of the block and rounded the corner on the way to her house when she heard a shout and scream coming from back towards Stacy's. She ran back to find Stacy with a black eye, and bleeding face staring horrified at the top of the flight of stairs that lead to a sub level outside her building. Upon arriving at her friend, Sung-Min saw a man at the bottom of the stairs un-moving. Sung-Min hurried to check the person for a pulse and while she did that, Stacy explained that she had been attacked and defended herself. In the struggle she had accidentally thrown her attacker over the guard rail and down the stairs. They recognized the unconscious man as a fighter Stacy had recently beaten. Stacy panicked as she realized he could die and she might go to jail, additionally she was shaken by the implications of being attacked by another fighter outside the ring. Stacy apologized to Sung-Min and professed that if the police didn't get her the life would, and fled the scene while Sung-Min called for an ambulance. Late that night, Sung-Min was picked up from the police station by her distraught mother after she gave her testimony about how the man attacked her friend and her friend acted in self defense. Sung-Min realized that because she did not actually see it, the officers did not seem to regard her story with much merit.
Frightened, furious, and frustrated, Angela sent Sung-Min to live with her sister in Glosterice for the rest of the summer, hoping that time away from the city, and around her hard-working sister, would do her some good and hopefully get her away from whatever it was she was wrapped up in. The rest of that summer mostly consisted of boredom and arguments with Sung-Hwa about how everyone should stay out of her business and stop treating her like a criminal. She argued about how Sung-Hwa had no right to say she cared when she had abandoned Sung-Min, and whether or not her friend had been right to run away from the scene, as well as whether or not Sung-Min knew anything more about how to get Stacy to turn herself in.
The victim survived and recovered from his ordeal but Stacy was still wanted for questioning. When school rolled around again, the police had not returned to question Sung-Min about anything else and the case had seemingly gone cold. Sung-Min had returned to Union only to find that many of the players she knew were missing or arrested, and found out from a source at her gym that it was not uncommon for the fighting scene to occasionally collapse or go quiet. She was told that with patience a new fight would inevitably surface again when things were calmer or new players decided to run the scene.
Sure enough by the middle of the school year the underground circuit was back with new faces, and Sung-Min made her return. The incident with her friend was almost entirely forgotten, as Sung-Min had a particularly good run of fights over the next few months, more of them ending in her favor than not. She felt good, strong, safe, and in control.
While Angela could not control her daughter's every weekend she could manage the larger breaks and so when Spring Break rolled around Sung-Min was sent back to her sister's. Trying to make the situation amiable at least Sung-Min was cordial and compliant as long as Sung-Hwa stayed out of her business. She helped around the house, did her homework, and found things to amuse herself that were aboveboard. While her sister was at work, Sung-Min was working on an assignment for Social Studies, involving news and current events. During her research, Sung-Min came across the obituary report of the center's leader. He had died of a heart attack in prison, for crimes he did not commit.
Shocked and overwhelmed, Sung-Min left the house immediately feeling like she wanted to curl in a ball and cry at the same time wanting to destroy everything she could put her hands on. Instead she walked the city in a daze for hours. It wasn't until late in the evening that she realized she needed to eat, and that Sung-Hwa was probably home and wondering where she was. Ducking in to a diner, Sung-Min unexpectedly ran in to Stacy. They shared a table and Stacy explained how she was doing a lot better, and had gotten out of the fighting game. She was handling her own aggression in other sports and had been at the batting cages earlier that day. She explained how she had a good job that paid cash and didn't ask many questions now, and was even seeing a nice guy. They exchanged sympathy and condolences about the loss of their mutual mentor and eventually Stacy left to head home. Having checked her phone to see 17 missed calls from her sister, Sung-Min stayed a while longer, in no rush to get home and be lectured.
When she left the diner a little while later, Sung-Min heard the sound of shoes pounding the pavement and saw someone being chased. After a moment, Sung-Min realized it was Stacy, being chased down by an officer and something deep inside her snapped. Before she realized fully what she was doing, Sung-Min had bolted across the street, shoved Stacy out of the way, grabbed the handle of the bat protruding from her bag, and swung with all her might. In the next instant, Sung-Min realized what she had done, dropped the bat, raised her hands and was already dropping to her knees when she felt the taser darts hit her in the stomach.
Sung-Min Yoon was arrested for interfering with an arrest and assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon. She plead guilty on both counts.
Despite her guilty plea, her defense lawyer made a strong case that Sung-Min may not have realized the person chasing her friend had been an officer and she may have merely been trying to help. Sung-Min refused to testify on her behalf but did issue a formal apology to the court about what she had done, leaving the court to determine for itself what her motives had been.
In the end Sung-Min was sentenced to prison with the eventual possibility for parole. She was sent to Juvenile Detention where she finished her Secondary School education and then was transferred to a women's prison. While she was inside, Sung-Hwa had finished college and gone on to law school where she became a defense attorney and convicts rights advocate.
Sung-Hwa pleaded Sung-Min's case in an appeals court looking to have her sentence reduced on the grounds that the initial sentencing had been too harsh for a minor with no prior convictions who had been so compliant, and may have simply made an error in judgment. She argued that the prosecution may have been trying to make an example of the poor girl, based on the nature of her crime in a city with lots of unrest towards the system. Reviewing Sung-Min's spotless prison record showed she was a model prisoner. Her sentence was reduced, and Sung-Min was slated to be released on parole for six months during which she was to engage in community service.
She spent her time serving at a pokémon rescue for 'dangerous' pokémon where she came to respect her co-workers and especially the founder. The founder wished she could afford to keep Seung-Min on as a paid employee but the shelter couldn't afford it. As a parting gift they gave her a pokémon that had taken a liking to Seung-Min much to her chagrin.
So once her perole was up, Sung-Min had to find a way to help support herself rather than be a burden on her mother. She eventually settled on becoming an official TIS trainer as that was a job where her history wouldn't prevent her from being hired, and would allow her to explore her affinity with pokémon.
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3x Pokéball
3x Oran Berry
1x Poison Gem
TM 026 Earthquake
TM 006 Toxic
TM 120 Mimic
PokéDex
Journal
Holocaster
Black Cape
Luck Incense
1x Protien (10%)
