Pyeon Seeun

> **tw: depression, homophobia mention, domestic abuse mention, bullying,**
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 Personality

Seeun is very friendly and kind when she wants to be, but she tends to come off as a bit cold. She's active and adventurous, but prefers to stick to routines and only spends time with her teammates. She's ashamed of her sexuality and keeps it hidden from the world. The fear stems from her parent's strict rules and their stances on sexuality, so she keeps it a secret from most people, but especially her parents.

When it comes to cheering, she is hard working and passionate, never letting anything stand in the way of her and her accomplishments.

## Biography

Seeun grew up along side her older brother in the suburbs of Itaewon, under the watchful eye of her military father and subservient mother. As a child, the two siblings were inseparable and they spent all their time together. While they loved each other, it was more of a survival tactic. If they stayed together and protected one another, they would surely be able to withstand their father's aggression. As they grew older and began to take interests in different things, the siblings drifted apart, which made it easier for their father to target one or the other. Unfortunately, their father found her brother as an easy target and often took out his annoyances on him. When her brother came out as bisexual, he was kicked out of the family house and sent to a military school abroad as a way to avoid the 'shame' that might befall their family.

Being only twelve at the time, Seeun didn't know what to do. It was the first time being the only child in the house and she was scared of what was to come. Her father forbid ever speaking of her brother and before long both of her parents began to pretend he didn't exist. They took down his photos that hung on the wall and replaced them with Seeun's cheering pictures, as though she were now their pride and joy.

Seeun's mother often sent money and gifts to her son abroad and Seeun promised to come visit him as soon as she saved up enough money. She detested her father and wanted nothing to do with him. She feared him and what he would do to her if she ever 'stepped out of line' like her brother had. This feeling of pressure and fear only grew strong when she entered high school.

It didn't take long for Seeun to notice her attraction towards girls. While the other girls chattered on and on about the hottest boys in the school, Seeun spent all her energy trying not to stare at her teammates while they changed. She didn't want to be this way, but she couldn't help it. She thought it had to be a mistake. Maybe her dad was right and her brother was somehow contagious. Maybe she had caught the homosexual bug and it was turning her into a pervert. Desperate to prove herself wrong, she tried her hand at dating. Her friends set her up with their best candidates of boyfriends and even then, Seeun didn't feel like it was right. Kissing her boyfriends felt wrong and it only got worse when her peers began to have sex.

The following summer, Seeun waved her boyfriend goodbye as she left for cheer camp. It would be for a few months and she couldn't wait to be away from the pressure of being a doting girlfriend. She didn't want a boyfriend, but she didn't want to look suspicious either. Every girl on the cheer squad had a boyfriend and she couldn't be an outlier. But summer camp proved to be insufferable when her bunk mate kissed her behind the cabins late one night. It was the first time Seeun felt anything even close to love and their summer fling blossomed into a routine. Every night for the rest of camp, the girls would meet in secret and kiss until their lips were swollen. Seeun dreaded the thought of returning home, but the end of the summer came and the girls were forced to say their goodbyes. No longer being able to deny her feelings, Seeun asked the girl where to go from here. To Seeun's surprise, the other girl shrugged and left without another word. No contact information or any explanation. She was left feeling alone and betrayed.

When she returned to school, Seeun was a changed girl. She could no longer pretend to like her boyfriend. Not when she knew what she really wanted. She came up with excuse after excuse to put off any physical contact with her boyfriend, but she couldn't hide the fact that she was heartbroken. All her thoughts were on her summer fling and she felt like a lost puppy, longing for its owner. Her boyfriend wasn't dumb and he soon caught on to her aloofness. He accused her of cheating on him at summer camp, thinking she had an affair with one of the few male cheerleaders or coaches. She couldn't lie to him, even if she didn't love him, so she admitted it. She made up a story of flirting with one of the male cheerleaders and soon enough rumors were spreading around school that Pyeon Seeun was a slut.

Her teammates were supportive in fending off bullies and sticking up for their friend, but it didn't stop her mind from spinning. When news of her 'infedelity' spread to her parents, Seeun was terrified. Would she be shunned like her brother? Would she be kicked onto the street? She didn't know what to expect, but the reality was far worse than she could've imagined.

Her father loved her more than her brother, that much was obvious, so he decided to have mercy on her. Instead of sending her abroad to military school, she was forced to transfer to an all-girls school. Her father hoped this would dissuade her from getting involved with any more boys and left it at that. But to Seeun, this was a far worse fate.

She still cheers along side her former classmates, since the team isn't bound to schools. But keeping her secret became harder and harder when all of her new peers were girls. As pretty as some of them were, Seeun knew better than anyone that girls were experts at snooping and it was only a matter of time until they found out about her sexuality. She couldn't let that happen, so she carefully covered her tracks and played the part of an average girl until graduation.

Even after graduation, Seeun held on to her secret. She survived her high school years without too many issues, but she still had to suffer through University. Thankfully, she was skilled at lying by now, but it was safe to say she was exhausted. She still feared her father and her mother became more and more distant by the day. All she had to look forward to was cheering and she pooled all of her energy and time into making herself the best she could be.

She trains hours a day and spends most of her free-time in the gym. She tends to stick closely to her cheering crowd, but otherwise prefers to be a loner.