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yi-seul PARK
WAND 7 inches, alder, kneazle whisker, bendy
APPEARANCE 5’5”. Same as playby. | pronunciation ee-sul (similar to easel) nickname None. age & birthday 25 06 dec 2001 gender & pronouns Female. she/her/hers. blood status Half-blood. sexuality Straight. face claim Park So-dam | ||||||||||
PERSONALITY An ambitious young actress, Yi-seul has done her best at sabotaging her own connections through her family to try and give herself a true shot at stardom. She has had an excellent view on what success looks like from a young age and wants to make sure that she achieves that on her own volition, as opposed to being hand-fed along the way. Her parents’ political status definitely has its positives and negatives, and she knows how to effectively navigate situations where both arise. This has helped her throughout her own journey into the film industry, especially when dealing with non-magical colleagues and the difficulties that can come with working with them. Both in and out of her work she comes across as a very excitable and talkative individual, always trying to find a common ground in conversations where she can learn something new. Despite disliking the constant moving throughout her childhood, the best outcome of it all came in the form of giving her a better understanding of the world and what it had to offer. In her current careers this has been helpful, allowing her to share her own experiences and to listen to others. Finding similar interests with a stranger leads her to want to be fast friends, believing that having a thousand acquaintances is just as good as having one or two best friends. While that doesn’t always play out in her favor, she still does it nonetheless. Keeping an upbeat and positive energy tends to help her more often than not, in her experience. Rejection has been a hurdle that she is still trying to overcome, especially with auditions and losing out on roles that she was positive she did well on as of late. Being told that she has an easy fall back into politics because of her parents is not the sort of encouragement she wants to hear because it’s not what she wants to do in life. Getting around what is expected of her and what she wants to do has been difficult enough, though she thinks she manages that better now that she’s graduated from WADA and has had a few small, albeit semi-successful roles. Failure still generates a funk that can take her a bit to get out of, but every time she lands a role she feels like that sort of feeling will be further and further behind her than it had been before. ORIGIN & RELATIONS Cheongdam-dong, Gangnum, Seoul, South Korea Park Ji-hun – father, International Magic diplomat for South Korea Choi Eun-sook - mother, International Magic diplomat for South Korea Park Hana – younger sister, current student, b.2009 HISTORY To get all the way to the “exciting” life Yi-seul now lives in London, a lot of years were spent being shuttled from country to country, and from school to school. Calling her formative years as anything other than disjointed would be doing herself a disservice, as they absolutely broke her in a number of ways before she could pick all of the pieces back up and do things the way she wanted to. Being born as the eldest of two to the Park family certainly didn’t help, as her parents were both diplomats for South Korea’s International Magic division. The life of traveling the world as a small, curious child seems great to most, and for a while it was since there weren’t any obligations on her end to fulfill. Schooling during younger years was typically done by whatever system the country they lived in at the time did for magical children, and things were good that way. She even got a little sister when she was eight, and having someone else to watch and play with took up the empty time where both of her parents were at work or dealing with other political figures. The Park family was living in the United States when Yi-seul first turned eleven, and had been for a couple of years already. It had become the most permanent of the few places she had lived during her short time on Earth, and with her eleventh birthday that meant finally attending a magical school! Traveling to Ilvermorny for school wasn’t nearly as stressful for her as it was for her peers, as being shipped off all over the world was fairly common for her already. A new adventure for new experiences, no different than the other handful of countries she had lived in up until now. Yi-seul, now a first year at Ilvermorny, joined the Pukwudgie house, and that was how she ended up completing her first two years of schooling. Finally having the chance to meet other witches and wizards like her that weren’t just children of her parents’ colleagues or other politicians was amazing. They all had their own stories and fun ways of viewing the things around them, and she liked sharing her own travels with them. With her childlike understanding of the vast reaches of the United States, everyone she met had something new to offer. Learning magic was pretty cool as well, but that sort of got in the way of her wanting to explore the world through other people’s experiences. As is fairly common with foreign diplomats, staying in one place for work isn’t always possible. When her parents first tried to explain to her that she had to leave Ilvermorny and all of her friends behind to move again, she didn’t quite understand it at first, and when she finally did, was unable to communicate how she actually felt about it. There were always “friends” – in the sense that they were children in a similar position like her where they were forced to attend events with their parents – but she actually had real friends this time around. And the move was fairly abrupt too. Packing up and leaving where they had lived the past several years to head across the Atlantic Ocean to England was not how she thought she would spend the summer before her third year of school. Her parents tried to encourage her by saying this new job was more stable and that they were less likely to move again before she graduated from Hogwarts, her new school. The bribery of having her own wand, which wasn’t a thing at Ilvermorny, was even brought up. As if that would actually persuade her. Being transferred into a class that had already known each other for two years, like how she had known her friends at Ilvermorny, was a hard adjustment. Sorted into Hufflepuff, her fellow housemates picked up on her struggle quickly and made what should have been a tough year of adjusting, a rather easy one. Not everything was equitable to Ilvermorny, but she learned that the Hogwarts students were just as intrigued and interested in her life and travels as her old friends had been. With the promise of this being her new home, she felt comfortable and figured it wasn’t all that bad. Until that promise became a lie and a second abrupt move to France happened right after school finished. She had willingly gone along with the first move, knowing there wasn’t much she could do to stop it. And while she couldn’t actually prevent this second one from happening, Yi-seul finally knew how to make her voice heard. Her feelings on the matter were dashed rather quickly, and the next two years were spent attending Beauxbatons. Thankfully most of the students were bilingual and were fine with practicing their English on her, but classes became increasingly difficult in her crash-course French mumbling. Even with a tutor, trying to add that on top of her regular school work was unbelievably difficult. There was no reason for a fifteen year old to be that stressed and worried about her education, but there she was worrying away. The assignment in France was never supposed to be permanent but ended up lasting the entire two years (in which she had again been promised wouldn’t happen). Once it was complete, it was back to Hogwarts, where she was again told that she could finish her schooling there. At least this time she sort of knew people, though having to answer the hundreds of questions about why she had left and where she had gone did start to get annoying after a while. All she wanted was something permanent. Hogwarts had been promised to be that twice. And that promise was broken twice. The final move, to Japan, was an actual fight. Yi-seul attempted to run, the voice in her head convincing her that if she managed to evade her parents until September, Hogwarts would take her back for her seventh year no problem. She lasted two days, forgetting that the hotel room she had gotten with the credit card given to her by her parents was easy to find and track. There was no use at that point, as it was just one more year. She barely scraped through at Mahoutokoro, which was easily the most difficult and demanding of the four magical schools she had attended, and no one was ever interested in what she had been doing her whole life. She passed the time by reading or finding ways to avoid school work altogether. Non-magical fiction books that bordered being modern fairy tales of difficult struggles and achieving dreams, and she realized that she was sick of being forced to do what her parents wanted, simply because she wasn’t allowed to make decisions for herself. Obviously that freedom came the second she graduated. Yi-seul would have run all the way back to England if it was physically possible to do so from Japan. During her year at Mahoutokoro she had developed an interest in acting, as nothing in her magical studies remotely caught her attention anymore with how disjointed it had all been. There was a school for that in England though: the Wizarding Academy of the Dramatic Arts. She found that there were less problems joining this institution than she initially suspected there may be, as opposed to a non-magical equivalent where she figured she would probably need to have her own agent already. WADA worked the way she hoped, and her new interest flourished at the school. It was the first place where she felt like she could integrate and stay, seeing as the course structure took three years to complete. While a fast three years, it was amazing to see how beneficial staying at one school could actually do for her. Getting a consistent amount of acting gigs right out of school was a bit too optimistic for her though, and she spent the first year following her graduation attempting to break into her home country’s industry. It took a while, but with the assistance of her new ties to WADA, she was able to get a part in a K-drama called Singing Story. Being a part of a multi-episode series was an amazing feeling, compared to the background parts in the commercials she had been doing up until then. Of course, her minor success for one role led to a few other bit parts for singular episodes, both in Korea and outside, but there wasn’t much more than that. To try and keep herself afloat and busy outside of when she had roles, she returned to London and found a part-time job as a receptionist for a magical record company. It kept her around her people while also allowing her to continue doing what she wanted, but without the constant stress of needing to find the next job. Since 2025, Yi-seul has continued her job at the record label and picked up new acting gigs here and there, though she feels like she still hasn’t had her big break. One of these days though… OOC
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