Hyesung Seo

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**Hyesung Seo** (Korean: 서혜성, *Seo Hye-seong*) is one of the main characters in Buried Stars. He was in the lead for several weeks due to his engagement with fans on the social media website Phater, but support for him declined suddenly when it was discovered that he was an "Ex-Con" who had committed an act of violence in high school. At the time of the collapse, he is in 5th place with 787,478 votes.

## Appearance

Hyesung is a young man with almost average height and build, though he tries to present his height as slightly more than his 170cm. He has warm brown eyes and short red hair that is spiky on top and shaved on the sides and back. He wears a light brown jacket with pockets near the waist and a left breast pocket with a safety pin and a large shield-shaped badge that has a cat skull, crossbones, and a star on a red background. His jacket has gray lining with round silver studs, and on the left he has a gold badge saying "carpe diem" under a circular metallic pin with a star over blue and red stripes, like a shooting star. Under the jacket he wears a cream sweater vest over a white, untucked, long-sleeved dress shirt, and a red string ribbon serves as the tie. He wears tight black pants with thin white grid stripes, and black high-top sneakers with a strap around the ankle. The overall impression is like a Korean high school uniform.

## Relationships

### Do-yoon Han

Hyesung listed Do-yoon as "The TOP 5 Contestant I’m Closest To". After the collapse, Do-yoon is the person Hyesung can have the most reasonable conversation with. He even affirms that Do-yoon did not really betray his bandmates (though this is actually an incorrect assumption). In Hyesung's good ending, he visits Do-yoon regularly.

### Inha Oh

Hyesung and Inha had an antagonistic relationship even during the show, telling each other to speak more nicely.

### Juyoung Min

Hyesung and Juyoung were friendly to the point that Juyoung was surprised he did not list her as "The TOP 5 Contestant I’m Closest To". He even said he would have "come on strong" (presumably romantically) had they not met as contestants.

### Gyu-hyuk Lee

Hyesung listed Gyu-hyuk as "My Rival in the TOP 5". Though griping about Gyu-hyuk's "silver spoon" status, he respected his talent and niceness. After the collapse and S\_seungyeon's threats, Hyesung successfully blackmailed Gyu-hyuk into forfeiting and had a flabbergasted grateful attitude; however, he recorded their conversation, which provoked Gyu-hyuk to attempt to murder him. In the B Route where Hyesung survives, he ends up not revealing anything. However, several months later, he is looking to spice things up in his quest for fame and does declare to Do-yoon that he will reveal the truth now.

### Seil Chang

Hyesung constantly mocked Seil both during the show and after the collapse.

### Seungyeon Shin

Seungyeon actually approached Hyesung to form a secret romantic relationship at one point during the show. She dumped him suddenly saying that he should get through the finals on his own, which was also a way of abandoning him after the scandal about his high school violence. He did not try to win her back. These romantic feelings contributed to his anger after her death.