MOCK ROUND
Week 1
Arrival with Mishima and Nine
Is Kaoru Zen's sister?
Can we invite Phantom Thieves to the party?
Henry the scary roommate
Meeting Natsume
Talking about games with Jake and Mishima
Learning about the bird apocalypse from Dr. Iwamine
Pizza party with Terra and Maya
Talking about animals with Henry
Talking about a hottie with Aiden
Making corgi cookies with Akira and Hanamaru
Disembodied voices!!
Week 2
Heckling Vivi about Kaoru.
Welcoming back Kaoru.
Wiping himself out playing LOLOL as he suffers from the motive.
Trial
*Is this really your justice?
*Let's vote for Holmes!
*I can't believe you went after my gaming cred, man.
*We're going to throw desks at him?
* Execution
Pizza is ruined now
Failure results in punishment.
Finger guns at robots
Hoarding laptops
Magenta House

MAIN ROUND
Alive
Week 1
Dragged in late by Todd.
Monika Journal Get!
Meeting.
* Talked to Rantaro.
* Talked about Viral the Beastman.
* Talked about Mock Round coercion (also Grantaire called him low level and he was silently butthurt.)
* Henry's missing memories.
Trust falls.

Week 2
Mike are you ok.
Gogol plays with (Yoosung's) food.
Yoosung fruitlessly investigates the textbooks with several classmates.
Viral gets a mattress.
Yoosung picks fights and is generally useless @ Motive
Mitarai says he will reach him too.
And then they found his body...

AI
Week 3
Meeting, suffering and healing with Mishima. (Phantom Guild is established.)
Staring at the pool.
Catching up with Aiden.
Reuniting with Henry... and Grantaire?

Week 4
Comforting Vivi.
The Phantom Guild is officially instated.
Encountering 2D.
Reunion with Maya.
Puzzling Riddles. (He comes in toward the end. Important things happened, they gave the pool a name!!)

Week 5
Day in the Guild life.
Darts with Yuuki.
Meeting Mike.
Vivi did a swear!!

Week 6
Beginning of cooking endeavors.
Omurice!
MEETING: Decoding and summoning Lucian.
MEETING: twins??
MEETING: We Are AI...
Yoosung was present at the seance.
Burgers! Existentialism!
Connor's AI Class:
* Connor and Hank.
* Maya.
* Lucian.
* Mishima.
* Eve (Inquiring about CODE EDITING!!)
Connor's Posters.
Happy Birthday to Yuuki!
Meet Awry.

Week 7
Robotics Lab Investigation.
Let's celebrate Chuseok! (secretly Yoosung's Date Event.)
Shooting with Hank.
Connor's AI Class 2.
Clownfrontation!

Week 8
Yoosung gets glasses and two love confessions.
Connection Established.
Chat: Poe, Terra
Festival with Rebecca.
Waver Red Velvet Cake.
Mishima's Frame Advance.
KURUSU NO!!!
Chat: Poe & Rantaro
Eating Mitarai's ramen.
Simulation School Explodes....
Yoosung rewrites the stars!
An opera house.
Chat: Poe, Terra

Player Name: Des
Preferred Pronouns: She/her
Contact: Des#0723
Timezone: PST
Link to Reserve: here

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Character Name: Yoosung Kim
Canon: Mystic Messenger
Canon Point: Yoosung Bad Relationship Ending 1
Age: 21 (Korean age, internationally he would be 20)
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Bisexual, somewhat female leaning on account of being naively heteronormative and coming from an otome game, but there are lots of suggestive moments as well as instances of him calling specific men hot.
Background: Wiki Link, and the endings list is also worth checking out because his page only covers his good ending.

Personality:

Yoosung Kim is basically the quintessential slacker college student - he's happy-go-lucky on the outside, depressed on the inside, and never sleeps because he's addicted to video games despite having a heavy workload for his classes. As he is one of the love interests in the game, he fills the role of the adorkable youngest member of the charity organization the characters belong to. He is typically the most naive and emotional, as well as the most down-to-earth and relatable compared to the other male love interests who are a corporate heir, a rising star musical actor, and a secret agent. He can switch back and forth between being the butt of jokes about his inexperience and being the straight man lampshading the others' over the top lifestyles. It's also common for Yoosung to be tricked by his best friend 707's pranks and mischief, although Yoosung claims he's merely particularly gullible when it comes to 707 because of how much he trusts him and respects him for being an actual genius. Yoosung has a strong sense of goodness and justice that he can get really fired up about. He just gets really angry seeing anyone being treated badly and will do whatever he can to help. A lot of this is actually due to things Rika taught him - where he used to be more disillusioned and apathetic when they first met, she helped him find a passion for volunteering and bringing happiness to others. In all routes, he is grieving his cherished "cousin-sister" and mentor, Rika. She supposedly committed suicide just before his high school graduation, which left him gutted and rendered him completely aimless. While before he was rather prim and excessively diligent and qualifying for his scholarship to a top university, he became a much 'looser' person in order to cope with his loss. Gaining an addiction to a League of Legends spoof called "LOLOL" (League of Loneliness of Life), it became a huge crutch for him. Yoosung mentions at one point that it's incredibly painful for him to go on living every day, and that most of his cheerfulness is pretense at this point. Although, it is worth noting that the facade is more of a coping mechanism than an actual mask. Yoosung typically wears his heart on his sleeve anyway - whether it is his affection for MC or something more negative, he is not hesitant to put it on the table. He'll gush or vent as he needs to get his emotions out, and really, he hates secrets. But there's only one thing worse than secrets: V's secrets (but if he is in that Office meme and someone just says "V" after pulling away the piece of paper, he would be like, you know what you're right. He sucks!)

See, the circumstances of Rika's death were extremely mysterious and suspicious, and as her body was never found, they were basically relying solely on the testimony of her fiancee, V. Yoosung suspects V of lying and covering up her death. As well, the other members trust and refuse to doubt V, which creates a feeling of isolation from the rest of the RFA and Yoosung. He is always frustrated and hates V for his lack of transparency in either emotion or information, and on the other hand is stubborn to defend Rika's memory. This goes double in any route where he learns the truth that V really was lying to everyone and furthermore Rika was engaging in criminal acts as the leader of a cult. Yoosung is quick to take Rika's side and insist that V must really be the one at fault. The main takeaway you can get from these depression modes is Yoosung has a very difficult time letting anything go, whether that's loyalty, grief or a grudge. Several of the game's bad endings reveal an occasional tendency for Yoosung to have episodes in which he suffers from delusions, such as the one where he insists everyone is actually a robot, formerly a human that's been brainwashed by Seven and V to fill a role in the game, or the one where he thinks the main character is an incarnation of Rika and rushes to her side ignoring the situation that will put them in danger because of that recklessness. But while Yoosung is obviously incredibly prone to escapism whether it is via gaming or his thirst for femdom, he can be reliable when the chips are down and with his feelings motivating him. At the end of his route he is brave enough to tackle a cultist holding the detonator to a bomb and survive an attack that blinds him in one eye - he also matures enough to finish his studies and become a distinguished vet.


Three Strengths:


- Caring. Yoosung is always really invested in the lives of his friends, so if something is going wrong in their life it will often affect his mood in a big way. He gets really angry or sad on other people's behalf. Other than being a good friend who's always got your back, he also is serious about volunteering for charity, has had an honest conversation with Jaehee about feminism, and generally seems to actively want to make the world a better place.

- Trustworthy. He has a lot of integrity, is honest and loyal, and will ride or die for anyone he loves. He has a strong sense of righteousness and isn't afraid to go to bat for it.

- Huge well of untapped potential. For what? That's kind of malleable, but he is capable of becoming really serious and motivated to an end goal once he finds the inspiration to do so. In other endings he's often shown embarking on a promising career, though it's not always the same one. For example, in his own route he finishes his vet degree, while in Ray's route he goes to Paris to become a patissier. I guess you can say he's the least static member of the cast, and also that he's hard-working when he wants to be. Good End Yoosung becomes the ultimate malewife so there's that!!

Three Weaknesses:

- Immature. A big point of his route is that he needs to finish growing up. The grief of Rika's suicide left him stunted. He's whiny, he overreacts to stuff, has emotional outbursts, and he picks fights at times the other members find inappropriate. Also, the potential is called untapped for a reason. Pre-character development Yoosung always wants to procrastinate and shirk responsibilities to play LOLOL.

- Can't let anything go. He is the longest to hold onto grief upon hearing Rika died, but other than that. When Yoosung has a grudge, he holds it forever unless something is done about it. There's a route where V dies and Yoosung goes to his funeral with everyone, and he still says "I hated him" to his friends at the funeral. On the flip side, if he trusts someone, it will be difficult to convince him away from them even if someone tells him they've done harm. He gets defensive and won't even consider the possibility if they don't have proof.

- He can be self-sacrificing to a ridiculous degree. There's a bad ending where he voluntarily becomes a guy's torture slave because he thinks it will keep his love interest safe. (The masochism I will express in the next section has nothing to do with it. This was actual torture.) He also romanticizes self-sacrifice of this degree, in another route where it's someone else sacrificing himself for the MC, he expresses deep admiration for him. Otome games smh

What does your character want in a relationship: He has in fact had this question posed to him in a semi-canonical interview within the RFA handbook. His answer was "Someone who's kind? I'm not very experienced, so I'd like the other person to be understanding! Oh, and also someone who tells me directly what they want! I want her to be comfortable with me."

But to elaborate, he's also expressed interests such as:
- Someone who encourages and inspires him, like Rika used to
- Friends to lovers relationship where they slowly discover things about each other, like a treasure hunt (Probably not feasible for a showmance, but eh!)
- Wants to wear matching outfits and be disgustingly affectionate with each other in public. Not like making out, but fluffy sappy holding hands cheek kisses type stuff.
- Actually, he's just really hype for anything Korean couples like to do in popular culture. I'm using this as a reference but he brings up this kind of stuff all the time.
- Someone responsible who will decide everything in his life for him so he doesn't have to think about it
- Being locked up
- Being someone's cat or dog
- Being insulted while acting as a maid


So yeah! Ya boi is canonically super down to be someone's kinky sub! NOT THAT I THINK HE'D ADMIT THAT ON TELEVISION BUT.... on the other hand he told MC the last one while he was on the phone in the middle of a line of people at the grocery store so like. vOv If these showrunners are the type to dig up dirt for ratings, I can provide the calls! And sometimes pride does not exist when you need to shoot your shot! They're in this answer instead of the next one because he does admit them with less needling than you'd expect from the character who is supposed to be the innocent one, he gets way too excited and flustered if the idea comes up so he can't really hide it. Sorry for him!

(...For some reason he keeps blurting out stuff like that but he can't bring himself to say the word 'kiss'....)

What does your character need in a relationship: Since he's from an otome game and they don't want to misrepresent him as a love interest too much for the fans, I think to an extent his canon answer is the correct one! But it's fairly obvious that his desire to relinquish control of his life is due to his depression, so it would be in his best interest if his partner wasn't interested in taking him up on that too much - at least not to the degree he "jokes" about. The best case scenario would be if they were someone who would instead want to rely on him, because this is what really gets him going on the path to maturation. The ability to provide or take care of someone is the biggest confidence booster possible for him.

I think the part where he wants his partner to be patient and understanding is particularly important because Yoosung is.... uh.... somewhat yandere. Like he's fairly harmless about it but he can at times project some pretty wild delusions onto people as stated in the personality section. Furthermore, he's really clingy, insecure and jealous. So whoever he dates needs to be able to speak up for themselves and keep him in line if he gets like that.

In short, my mental image of Yoosung's ideal partner is like... Kind and honest person, likes to show off that they're a couple, whose love language (receiving) is acts of service, and love language (giving) is words of affirmation, with bonus points given if they seem like they'd be into safely practiced BDSM.

Player Information
Name: Des
Age: 33
Contact: deathdesu
Other Characters: none baby!! this is the first!!

Character Information
Name: Yoosung Kim
Canon: Mystic Messenger
Canon Point: Common Route Day 4, before midnight.
Age: 21 (Korean), 20 (International)
History: wiki! It is worth checking out the endings page as well since Yoosung's main page only covers the events of his good ending.

Personality:

Yoosung Kim is basically the quintessential slacker college student - he's happy-go-lucky on the outside, depressed on the inside, and never sleeps because he's addicted to video games despite having a heavy workload for his classes. As he is one of the love interests in the game, he fills the role of the adorkable youngest member of the charity organization the characters belong to. He is typically the most naive and emotional, as well as the most down-to-earth and relatable compared to the other male love interests who are a corporate heir, a rising star musical actor, and a secret agent. He can switch back and forth between being the butt of jokes about his inexperience and being the straight man lampshading the others' over the top lifestyles. It's also common for Yoosung to be tricked by his best friend 707's pranks and mischief, although Yoosung claims he's merely particularly gullible when it comes to 707 because of how much he trusts him and respects him for being an actual genius.

When it comes to others outside the organization as well as the Main Character (MC), Yoosung is very friendly and empathetic. From the beginning of the game, he does his best to make MC feel welcome, including asking how she feels out of concern when the other RFA members treat her with suspicion at first. It's also established that Yoosung has a ton of random acquaintances, both on and off line, that he may have shallow relationships with but still remember well enough to give anecdotes about off the cuff. You could definitely say he's a 'people person.'

Sometimes this can be to a fault, as he only really seems to find motivation when it is for another person, and he often longs to have someone else make decisions for him. His desire for the approval of others is said to be his fatal flaw. He can indeed be quite insecure about this, leading him to all kinds of attention-seeking behavior and sometimes deeply jealous tendencies. Yoosung tells MC a lot of embarrassing things about himself in a way that seems like it is just to make her pity and pay more attention to him - and this runs a full gamut, anywhere between "I accidentally wore mismatched socks today silly me" to "my fetish is being insulted while dressed as a maid" (he tells her this WHILE HE'S IN LINE AT A GROCERY STORE!) He also feels weird and unhappy when she's having a good time with the other men in the RFA, and wants her to only give her words and attention to him, calling it jealousy outright. Seven calls him a yandere at one point, though he's never shown harming anyone so it's basically a joke. Still, he can be pretty intense.

If there is one social arena he considers himself completely inept in, it's romance. Yoosung is initially single and very loudly displeased about it, referring to himself dramatically as a 'forever-alone' while crying about how he wants to have a girlfriend. It is possible that he's angling for pity dates as of course he talks about this in front of MC, and in fact he later admits in the past there were some girls who asked him out that he turned down because he wasn't interested. It is possible that he simply didn't know them very well at the time, as Yoosung idealizes the concept of a slow-burn romance with a close friend. Hilariously, as he is a character from a game where the characters fall in love over the course of 11 both IRL and IC days. In practice, when Yoosung finds someone he loves he attaches to them at lightning speed and is willing to devote himself entirely to them, or even die for his object of affections as evidenced by his reckless actions in many bad endings.

This is as good a time as any to give context to Yoosung's depression. In all routes, he is grieving his cherished "cousin-sister" and mentor, Rika. She supposedly committed suicide just before his high school graduation, which left him gutted and rendered him completely aimless. While before he was rather prim and excessively diligent and qualifying for his scholarship to a top university, he became a much 'looser' person in order to cope with his loss. Gaining an addiction to a League of Legends spoof called "LOLOL" (League of Loneliness of Life), it became a huge crutch for him. Yoosung mentions at one point that it's incredibly painful for him to go on living every day, and that most of his cheerfulness is pretense at this point.

Although, it is worth noting that the facade is more of a coping mechanism than an actual mask. Yoosung typically wears his heart on his sleeve anyway - whether it is his affection for MC or something more negative, he is not hesitant to put it on the table. He'll gush or vent as he needs to get his emotions out, and really, he hates secrets. But there's only one thing worse than secrets: V's secrets (but if he is in that Office meme and someone just says "V" after pulling away the piece of paper, he would be like, you know what you're right.)

See, the circumstances of Rika's death were extremely mysterious and suspicious, and as her body was never found, they were basically relying solely on the testimony of her fiancee, V. Yoosung suspects V of lying and covering up her death. As well, the other members trust and refuse to doubt V, which creates a feeling of isolation from the rest of the RFA and Yoosung. He is always frustrated and hates V for his lack of transparency in either emotion or information, and on the other hand is stubborn to defend Rika's memory. This goes double in any route where he learns the truth that V really was lying to everyone and furthermore Rika was engaging in criminal acts as the leader of a cult. Yoosung is quick to take Rika's side and insist that V must really be the one at fault.

The main takeaway you can get from these depression modes is Yoosung has a very difficult time letting anything go, whether that's loyalty, grief or a grudge. It also shows that he is in fact wiser and more observant than he normally acts, since he was the only one to see through the lies from the beginning - although the surprising intelligence also ties back to him being a book-smart and organized student council president prior to everything that brought him so much trauma. A lot of this is because Yoosung has a strong sense of goodness and justice that he can get really fired up about. You see it in a smaller scale where Yoosung is passionate about sticking it to trolls and assisting newbies in LOLOL, but he also just gets really angry seeing anyone being treated badly and will do whatever he can to help. A lot of this is actually due to things Rika taught him - where he used to be more disillusioned and apathetic when they first met, she helped him find a passion for volunteering and bringing happiness to others.

While Yoosung is obviously incredibly prone to escapism whether it is via gaming or his thirst for femdom, he can be reliable when the chips are down and with his feelings motivating him. At the end of his route he is brave enough to tackle a cultist holding the detonator to a bomb and survive an attack that blinds him in one eye - he also matures enough to finish his studies and become a distinguished vet. This is him at the height of his potential where he becomes a little more like the diligent person he was before Rika died.

Of course as he is from a multi-route game there are multiple other possibilities as well. Several of these endings reveal an occasional tendency for him to have episodes in which he suffers from delusions, such as the one where he insists everyone is actually a robot, formerly a human that's been brainwashed by Seven and V to fill a role in the game. In another one, he sincerely believes the MC is the reincarnation of Rika and rushes to her side to 'protect her', though his action gets them both killed by a bomb. In another one, rather than tackling the cultist he allows him to kidnap him as some kind of torture slave, while convincing himself it's the best thing he's ever done because he's keeping him at bay from the woman he loves. Yoosung Kim contains multitudes, and ultimately it's reactions that decide whether he's going to blossom or careen off the deep end.

Abilities & Skills: He's good enough at a video game to be second place in a ranked multiplayer online league and he can kind of cook good. He also has a small amount of college veterinary know how (that does not necessarily translate to being good with animals before he actually becomes a vet.) That's about it, the boy's a normie.... oh, but Mystic Messenger as a whole can be meta sometimes (as in having rare moments of clarity where the characters make nods toward being in a video game and such) so if that counts as an ability I'll claim that as a potential one since Yoosung kinda goes full undertale in the ending where he thinks they're robots

Inventory/Companions:
lifted directly from a canon supplemental material, Yoosung has a bag that contains:
1) Cell Phone (I don't really use them for communication, other than with the rest of the RFA...)
2) Student ID (I actually got a new one. I lost the first one.)
3) Plaid Wallet (I'm running low on finances T_T What part-time job should I get...?)
4) Pink Bunny Pencil Case (I carry it with me because there's this cute character printed on it.)
5) Class Printouts & Notebook that matches the pencil case (What elective should I choose...?)

Choice: Roulette - Fae, Chimera or Faun
Reason:
First of all Yoosung is already struggling with regular school, let alone magic school, so I think he'd fail too much as a witch. Second, the ferality of monsters will potentially let me play with his darker traits, and Yoosung makes too many animal metaphors for me to ignore it

Fae is because he's a cutesy twink whose plot role is he sees through lies!!! Also he gets drunk kind of often in canon so this is more honest to his character than alcohol-tolerant fauns. If he gets this I want to make him a glowing insect to fit his name which means falling star. I would probably base it off a glowworm beetle because their antennae are glorious

Faun is because of this canon image (although I also asked about korean musk deer's vampire fangs ages ago and got a greenlight so this will be a tossup) - it also fits him because he's horny and can be jumpy. I would probably mess with his head to make him more promiscuous.

Chimera is kind of the "unfitting" choice, but I would make him a wolf/sheep chimera because again that image but also Yoosung wished he could be MC's dog once and well... well. I don't want to be nice to him and make him a cute puppy turnskin. In any case, if he gets rolled as this I am planning to use the social disadvantages to send him down a dark path.


Sample: from musebox! from a murdergame!

SPOILERS AND CONTENT
Surprise, Yoosung is from a bad end! So now there is a risk that threads with him could contain allusions to or conversation about abuse of a potentially physical, verbal or sexual nature - canon is somewhat vague on the details yet certain implications are made about his abuser in all of the routes he appears in. I will likely be keeping to a similar level of vagueness on most occasions, though certain things could trigger him so it'd be good to know which comfort lines not to cross. This post is your opportunity to tell me what sorts of content you'd like to opt-out of. Or even if you just don't want any Mystic Messenger spoilers or something!! Feel free to bring any comments or concerns.

LOCKDOWN
Now on to the other thing, Yoosung's code-reading abilities that he got from Eve!! This allows him to look at your character through his special glasses and read their AI data, which can include information on... basically anything you want I guess??! It is their entire makeup as a person, so analyzing their personality as well as physical, mental and emotional states are all technically possible.

So this is obviously a fuck ton of code that he would have to actually bother to read in detail so for the most part he's not going to! He especially does not want to invade anyone's privacy that much so he's going to be staying out of mental and emotional states unless absolutely necessary. (honestly he's so inexperienced with using this that I bet even with this ability he still won't know exactly what the heck is going on in there even if he looks at them, because thoughts and emotions are complicated af.) But even focusing on physical state, he'll be able to determine things like heart rates so he can tell who you have a crush on-- None of this is relevant for 15 Strangers as the glasses are nerfed there.

Anyway, with all this being the case, this post is where you can tell me what parts you want to opt in or out of as far as having him analyze you!! If your character would even prefer him to take the glasses all the way off when hanging out with them, he would definitely comply. If you are opting in then feel free to list things you want him to discover, or just point it out in your bracket text. Default state of his code reading will be not analyzing it and just keeping an eye out for abnormalities, so that is what you can expect if you don't say anything either way. Comments are screened.

I ALSO DO SMUT
F-List is here for smut preferences. Obviously more relevant to PSLs than to games so you can ignore this if you're here for the latter!