Sun Hwa-yeon

## Sun Hwa-yeon (선화연)

Hwayeon is one of the four announced characters of Chinatown Heroes alongside Iliana, Miro and Nagomi. She was born in northeast North Korea and had a family who used to work as elite detectives for the government spanning generations whom she defected with to China and Russia with her younger brother.

## Profile

* Name: Sun Hwa-yeon (Hangul: 선화연; Hanja: 先化演; MR: Sŏn Hwayŏn)
* Nickname: Yeon
* Gender: Female
* Race: Human
* Birthday: June 14
* Age: 17
* Zodiac Sign: Gemini
* Zodiac Sign (Chinese): Rooster
* Appearance: Black-brown shoulder-length hair, brown eyes
* Height: 160 cm (5 ft 2 in)
* Weight: 50 kg (110 lbs)
* Personality: Loner, Daydreamer, Vindictive, Cautious, Kind
* Likes: Taking a bath, easy fights, drawing, exorcism
* Dislikes: Spies, intense fights, plagiarism, ghosts
* Weakness: Ghosts

## Biography

### Prologue

Hwayeon was born as her original birthname Ahn Yun-seo (안윤서), in Chongjin on June 2005, to her father Ahn Yun-seok and her mother Yeon Jung-hwa. Her parents used to work as elite detectives for the North Korean government and they always come home late at night, and despite that, they truly loved and cared for them by sending them gifts to their house. Thus, her maternal grandparents raised her and her younger brother Minjun, who was born 2 years after her, as much as they could, at least until the former leader of North Korea passed away in 2011 and her parents had no choice but to quit working for the government, and upon realizing the consequences, her grandfather told his son-in-law and wife to stay with him and his daughter to leave Pyongyang with the grandchildren for their safety.

As a result, her mother wore a long black coat, a black hat and sunglasses as well as taking Yunseo and her brother Minjun with her north of Pyongyang, near the Chinese border, where they crossed the frozen Yalu river, without the security guards noticing them, before arriving in Dandong and 2 days after settling in a shelter there, a man belonging to a group of sex traffickers, pretending to be an scout for an modeling agency promising a high-paying job, abducted them, and instead, Yunseo, Minjun and their mother were abused and exploited online through an empty room in Blagoveshchensk, until the room got raided by Russian authorities, who would go on to seize all of the devices used by the traffickers and arrest the other half of the group, before letting Yunseo and her family live in a shelter in St Petersburg for 3 years.

After 3 years living in St Petersburg, Yunseo and her mother went to Moscow in order to request a name change with legal documents along with her passport in order to change her name from Yun-seo to Hwa-yeon, and therefore she was now Ahn Hwa-yeon. After her name change, Hwayeon and her family moved to Kaliningrad, located between Poland and Lithuania, where she learned how to speak Polish, while keeping Korean as her mother tongue and at the same time, she no longer believed in the ideology of Juche and chose to believe in Taoism. After graduating from elementary school and attending middle school, she told her brother Minjun that they should tell their mother that they wanted to go to South Korea, but when they came back home, their mother was gone.

Thus, 8-year-old Hwayeon and 6-year-old Minjun began to search for their mother's whereabouts throughout Kaliningrad, but nobody there didn't know about their parents so they wandered south to Poland, where they reached out to an aspiring Polish fashion designer called Ms. Nowak who welcomed them to the European Union and she was very kind to them by agreeing to help them find their mother, in which they were driving across the German border where Saphir's father saw her with them and told his mother about the terrorist organization Nowak allegedly belonged to through a phone call, which led to the three getting stopped in Le Havre where the municipal police told them the truth about her; according to them, she is wanted by Italy for participating in a terrorist organization related to the kidnapping of their mother as well as specializing in human and drug trafficking through the Mediterranean Sea.

Thanks to Saphir's father and the French municipal police's help, Hwayeon and Minjun managed to betray Ms. Nowak and went to Italy to surrender her to the authorities, in which they were called heroes by the Italian people whose parents were victims of her and soon the siblings find their mother alive and they soon reunited. Nobody knows what happened to their father and grandparents in North Korea, except that their paternal and maternal grandfathers were killed in a reeducation camp and their father left to live in South Korea and changed his legal name to Sun Moon-soo. Later on, they decided to travel to Mongolia, where the three were granted a free air ticket to Seoul, and now that they finally arrived to their destination, the three were able to reunite with him after 6 years of being isolated from each other, and he took the two children to change their surnames from his former surname Ahn to his current surname, Sun, and she was finally able to put an end to her middle school years and start her high school life in Daegu in 2020.

1 year later, during the summer vacations in Korea, 15-year-old Hwayeon saw an poster of Chinatown Heroes on a convenience store whom she was going shopping to in Daegu after school and instead simply went to the convenience store and brought some snacks before leaving and while on her way home, she ran away from the rain and suddenly fell to the ground due to the slippery floor, with Yeonhee helping her out by carrying some of the bags, and the latter thanked her before walking away from each other. As she was about to enter her house, she met Mingyu, who had just started his group with Mochi, and he had nowhere to stay for the night in Daegu.

Realizing his true intentions, she invites him to her house, where they had a conversation with each other about themselves and Chinatown Heroes itself. Upon hearing about her past, he got angry and wanted to get revenge against her traffickers, but she told him that they were all arrested for human trafficking in China and Russia, to his relief. Afterwards, he asked her if she could join his group, and she at first initially rejected it, but after changing into her current clothes, she eventually agreed to join him and the others on their mission to restore the Chinatown in question.

## Relatives

### Family

* Ahn Won-jae - Grandfather (deceased)
* Kang Hye-young - Grandmother
* Yeon Suk-won - Grandfather (deceased)
* Sun Moon-soo - Father
* Yeon Jung-hwa - Mother
* Sun Min-jun - Younger Brother