What Lies We Breathe

Common Otter · Rogue

Appearance

Personality

History

Yujin was born to a Korean Mother and an upper-class American father in Santa Monica California. When he was four his parents divorced, and he was left in the custody of his father while his mother returned to Korea. When Yujin was seven his father remarried (after getting his secretary pregnant). A year later his new mother gave birth to his younger brother Micah.

During middle school Yujin found out he was attracted to the same sex and struggled with that knowledge. He was often teased and occasionally bullied for acting ‘gay’, making him severally repress that part of himself.

In high school Yujin fell in with a rougher crowd, he began smoking and dressing in punk clothes. He also fell in love with one of his classmates, Darcy, but scared to appear gay he instead he mocked and degraded Darcy. This caught the attention of another classmate, Pier, who found out about Yujin’s feelings and blackmailed him. Everything came to a head the night of prom, where Darcy confronted Yujin who was forced to confess by Pier. Terrified of the backlash Yujin stopped going to school and missed the last month and a half of senior year.

Wanting to leave everything behind Yujin applied to colleges on the east coast and was accepted by the Lavender Heights university. A few weeks before he was to leave, Micah dragged him out into the California wilderness for a three-day camping trip. During this trip they found an injured otter. Yujin lost his phone in the river while trying to pull the otter to the bank. With his brother urging him on, he attempted to do rudimentary first aid on the animal but ended up getting bit and scratched instead leaving him with a scar on his right wrist.

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