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name :: kim chaewon
age :: 22
occupation :: part-time barista at the cafe (mon-fri mornings), receptionist at the doctor's office (wed-sun afternoons), server at the restaurant (fri-sun nights); if you want to see her, she's free weekend mornings and mon/tue afternoons but she's also probably busy picking up side gigs
timezone :: -8 GMT or -7 rn idk daylight savings s me up
hardworking, a team player, excels at not only school but sports as well. she'd always been praised for her talents. her teachers held their standards for her high, knowing she was too big for this small town and would soon go on to bigger things once she was older, but everything changed when her father died saving a teenager [ connection here please ] from drowning, only to drown himself. ever since then, she'd been unable to swim, unconsciously afraid she would come to the same fate as her father even if she knew what a ridiculous fear it was.
after her father passed away, her mother became the sole provider of the family, taking on part-time jobs anywhere she could to support their family of now only three (is this too late to mention she has a younger brother adfkgjh). but her mother overworked herself ill with back pain and inflammation in her joints, migraines that wouldn't go away, chronic fatigue that she credited her work for despite never being able to feel rested no matter how much she slept, rapid weight loss that must have happened as she never let herself rest, but she finally found out the reason to all of this wasn't due to just work alone, but a rather aggressive fourth stage cancer and she had very little time left to spend with her family.
our little y/n, ms. part-time, was a high school junior when her mother came home with a death sentence. first, her father, and now her mother. what was next after that? she was already making plans to graduate early and go to a local college (originally a big college, but her pops passed away and she didn't want to be too far from home) in the spring, but there was no time to do that when her mother was dying. so she put down her books and began to work with her mother no longer able to do so. she wanted her mother to live the rest of her life easy, so she dipped into her college savings and made sure she was getting the best treatment they could afford. one part-time job wasn't enough, so she took on another one, and another one, until instead of graduating early, she dropped out of school to take care of her mother and brother.
years have gone by since then. her mother is gone now, but she was able to send her brother to college and still gives him an allowance with the part-time jobs that she continues to pursue. her home is exactly the way her parents left it, with only her coming back at night. she looks around the town and sees her peers gone and off to do great things while she's stayed in the same place, bound by grief. however, she's beginning to slowly, but surely, get her life back on track and the first step to that is to get her high school diploma (in the form of a ged).