Cha Hyun-su

**Cha Hyun-Su** is the main protagonist of the live action series *Sweet Home*. He is portrayed by Song Kang.

## Biographical Information

### Species

Neohuman (also known as "Half-Monster", "Special Infectee")Human (formerly)

## Relationships

### Friends

Lee Eun-Yu
Han Du-Sik
Yoon Ji-Su
Jung Jae-Heon
An Gil-Seob
Seo Yi-Kyung
Seo Yi-Kyung's unnamed child

### Allies

Lee Eun-Hyuk
Pyeon Sang-Wook
Park Yu-Ri

## History

Cha Hyun-Su was a high school student who was severely bullied, therefore, he refused to go to school and became closed off to the world and didn't get along with his family. After surviving the car crash that took the life of his whole family, he moved to Green Home Apartment Complex.

## Throughout the Series

### Episode 1

On the the 8th August 2020, Cha Hyun-Su arrives at Green Home Mansion Apartment. After settling in his apartment, he sits in darkness contemplating whether he should kill himself. Hyun-Su eventually heads up to the rooftop and looks over the edge. However, he’s distracted by Lee Eun-Yu, who advises him not to die as it would cause problems for everyone in the building. Later, Hyun-Su received a text announcing that he’s been selected as a tester for an upcoming new video game, sets on the 25th August, he scheduled it as the day he'll suicide.

A week later, Hyun-Su finds his newly delivered package of ramyeon scattered all over the hallway, leading directly to his starving neighbor’s blood-soaked room, where he saw the detached head of the owner's cat being dragged away by a bloody hand. He cowers back to his room, but the neighbor promptly arrives outside his door, pretending to be scared and begs for help, pleads with him to open up his door and stay with her. When he asks to see her arms through the doorbell camera, she becomes aggressive with blood oozing from her nose. She scurried away after hearing the music from Ji-Su's room upstairs. As he heads outside to look for the woman, he finds Sang-Wook in the hallway and passes out right in front of him.

### Episode 2

Hyun-Su wakes up 8 hours later and changes out of his bloody clothes. While looking at the burning city from his apartment window, his nose starts bleeding. While he's reading an article about the Crucru curse, the internet gets cut off. He's hungry and he remembers the ramyeon box is still outside of his door, he goes outside to get it but he encounters the blind monster, he stays silent until the monster goes away.

Later, he contemplates whether to die now because so he'll die as a human. He's distracted by the crying of the children downstairs. After trying to save the children from the eye monster, he gets attacked and constrict by it. Han Du-Sik saves him, give him more knowledge about the monsters, upgrades his weapon so that he can ventures out and gets the children to safety.

While getting the children to safety, his nose starts bleeding again as the monster within him attempts to take over his body by reminding him of his unfair life.

## Personality

He used to be a regular outgoing teenager who went to high school, cared about his classmates and had a lot of friends but after being victim of constant bullying he became an introvert. He no longer talked much to others and when he had to do it, he did in very low tone of voice. He locked himself in his bedroom and spent all his time playing video games, barely going outside even after his mother pleaded him to go on a trip with the family.

After his family died, his depression became worse, he's suicidal. He moved to Green Home and spent most of his time playing online video games and eating ramyeon.

After the monster apocalypse began, Hyun-Su tried to help his neighbors in everything he could, even if sometimes it wasn't appreciated enough.

## Physical Appearance

Cha Hyun-Su is a tall, young man appearing in his late teens, with a slender build as his diet consists of only eating ramyeon. When he went to high school he had short hair but after his classmates began to bully him, he stopped caring about his physical appearance. His hair grew longer and looked messy and he had dark eye circles because of the lack of sleep. Despite his shabby appearance, he is noted to be handsome by a few of the Green Home residents. In episode 8, he cuts his hair shorter after receiving a pep-talk from Eun-yu to establish a new beginning in his character.

**Inner Monster**: Whenever Hyun-Su's monster side takes control, his eyes turn completely black, however, in season 2 it appears that he can also change his eye colour to blue. When entering his monster form, his eyes go completely black and his right arm is transformed into a wing.

In Season 2, after the time-skip Hyun-Su has shown to have built some muscle as his figure looks more fit, most likely due to his time in the research facility performing as a lab rat, resulting him in getting stronger and looking more manly whereas in Season 1, he had more of a scrawny appearance.

## Powers and Abilities

**Monster Physiology**: A half-monster who has the ability to transform his right arm into what resembles an angel's wing. His wing has shown to be suitable for both offense and defense when in combat as his wing consists of sharp like daggers used to impale his victims. He also has the ability to secrete some kind of acid from his wing. He can also use his wing to block and shield himself from incoming attacks. His first transformation occurred in the last episode of season 1, though he was unable to control it as he was about to kill Eun-hyeok, Eun-yu and Ji-su but was stopped just in time by Han Du-sik. In season 2, it seems that after the time-skip he has gained better control over his powers.

**Inner Desire**: Hyun-Su's power to transform into his monster form is derived from his alter ego. A monster who is a manifestation of Hyun-Su's deepest desires, wields the power to allow Hyun-Su's transformation.

**Flight**: Uses his wing to fly.

**Regenerative healing factor**: As a result of becoming infected, he has the ability to rapidly heal any injuries.

**Enhanced Strength**: Hyun-Su was able to push Jung Ui-Myeong through a brick wall. When he was in the car fighting with Pyeon Sang-Wook, who actually turns out to be Jung Ui-Myeong possessing his body, he manages to pull off the steering wheel with ease.

**Superhuman Durability**: Is quick to recover from any injuries, including fatal ones. This is especially shown when after the car crash, he is quick to be up on his feet, despite his limbs being broken. He even still had the strength to pull and drag Jung Ui-Myeong just minutes after the crash.

**Memory Reading**: Can see the memories of monsters from when they were human. While viewing their memories, his eyes turn cloudy, which we see happen twice in season 2. The first time we see this happen was when Hyun-Su struggles with a monster who served as a test subject at the facility; the other was with the monsterized Seo Yi-Kyung.

## Appearances

Season One
* *Episode 1*
* *Episode 2*
* *Episode 3*
* *Episode 4*
* *Episode 5*
* *Episode 6*
* *Episode 7*
* *Episode 8*
* *Episode 9*
* *Episode 10*

## Notes and Trivia

* He lives in Room 1410.
* He likes to order fast/instant food.
* He is a gamer.
* His webtoon counterpart has several minor differences with some of them being.
	+ Rather than waiting to be a game beta tester, he was waiting for the release of a movie of an anime called "Maria in the sky"
	+ When he fully transforms into a monster in order to give the survivors more time to escape from the roof, his monster resembles the appearance of a character in "Maria in the sky"
	+ In the end, he eventually reverts back to human form after his monster was stopped by Lee Eun-Hyeok monster, and eventually made his way to a military camp where the other survivors were and was welcomed by them.
	+ In the webtoon, he is attracted to Yoon Ji-Su.