Mirae Seo

* Season 1 (2nd half)
* Season 2
* Past

**Mirae Seo** (‎Korean: 서미래, *Seo Mi-rae;* born **Seo** **Se-ha***,* Korean: 서세하), is one of the main characters of *Odd Girl Out*. Even though she appears to be cheerful and sarcastic, she actually has low self-esteem and has been taking antidepressants for years until recently due to her hateful past. Currently, she is a second year student at C.H. High.

## Appearance

Mirae is biracial; her father is German, and her mother is Korean. Due to her mix, she stands out at her ethnically Korean schools. She is tall, with long legs and arms. Mirae has large reddish-brown eyes. Mirae's natural hair color is a somewhat dirty-blonde, but she dyed her hair a brighter blonde later on. When she was a child, her hair was quite short, though she then grew her hair out. From Chapters 1 - 112, her hair was tied in a ponytail, but in Chapter 113, Mirae cuts her hair short.

## Personality

Mirae appears to be cheerful and happy-go-lucky, but she actually has a hard time bonding with people because of her past. With her friends,Seonji, Nari, Yuna, and Wookyung standing by her side, she becomes more confident in herself.

When she was a child, Mirae was very straightforward and unintentionally rude, which the other students overlooked, making her not realize how her awful personality really was. Mirae was a child model, something that her mother was proud of and boasted about a lot, and treated her harshly. Mirae also took acting lessons courses in a place called "Rainbow Academy" and was noticed by a malicious producer by the name of Shin and was enrolled a bit forcibly because Mirae's mother seemed to be happy about her accomplishments, so Mirae went along with it. Her role was to play a part of a TV series "Children's Village". Mirae is not mean, but she can come off as rude and snarky, which she showcased on the TV series. Producer Shin took advantage of that and put her being rude to the other cast members etc. Due to the editing, the episodes in which Mirae was misbehaving/acting rude were the episodes with the highest ratings. She found the Internet viciously insulting and cursing her, which made her depressed and refused to open up to others, believing they would hurt her.

## History

Mirae went by **Se-Ha** in elementary school. She was always popular and had many friends. However, she was very brutally honest about things and often hurt others' feelings without intending to, such as double-booking herself a lot and cancelling plans with her friends often. She went to an acting academy called Rainbow Academy, which Yuna Lim also attended. She was a talented actor, and was accepted to star in a reality TV show called *Children Village* set in a farm. At first, she disliked it there and was very outspoken and blunt, often giving her honest but harsh opinion to all the other child actors. When the first episode was aired, everyone saw Se-Ha as a selfish and cold-hearted person due to the producer sensationalizing, and she instantly became disliked by the internet.

Se-Ha came to a realization about how mean she was acting after having a talk with Wookyung Jung and in the next shooting, she tried her best to be as nice as possible. However, when the next episode aired, she realized that the producers had edited the scenes to only show all the negative things she had done once again, which attracted even more criticism online. She became a target of online bullying by viewers of the show, and even had a hate website and anti-fan café made about her by her own classmates. She eventually ended up quitting the show, and stopped acting and going to school because of the bullying.

Se-Ha quit her acting classes at the Rainbow Academy around the same time that Yuna was planning to. Seeing Yuna as similar to herself, and being bitter due to her terrible experience with those she thought were her friends, Se-Ha bluntly told Yuna that she should quit acting, as she thought Yuna would attract criticism in the same way she did. Yuna took offense at this, as she did not see herself as similar to Se-Ha, and proved to Se-Ha that the difference between them is that Yuna had a true friend, Nari Oh. Se-Ha was surprised to realize that this is true, commenting that Yuna is "lucky" as they left.

Despite their rocky start, Yuna was the only person who Se-Ha relied on in the years after she quit acting. On the times when she was feeling her lowest, she would ask Yuna to meet up with her and they would sit together, mostly without talking much, other than throwing insults. Despite this, after their meet-ups, Se-Ha still felt better. In all the time they had their meet-ups, there was only one time that Yuna called Se-Ha to sit with her, instead of the other way around.

Se-Ha had a difficult relationship with her mother after she quit acting. She was mostly homeschooled since that incident, but decided to go to the same high school as Yuna before starting high school. She decided to make a fresh start with high school, changing her name to Mirae Seo, and also becoming friends with Nari Oh.

## Relationships

### Yuna Lim

Mirae, who was going by Se-Ha at the time, first met Yuna at an acting school named Rainbow Academy. They mostly insulted each other, developing an interesting friendship. When Mirae hit rock bottom, she stopped going to school and socializing and/or interacting with anyone from the outside world, apart from Yuna. They met up occasionally, still throwing insults at each other, but Mirae also admitted as Yuna was getting up to leave after being insulted, that she didn't want her to go. When Yuna started going to high school, Mirae decided that she was going to go to the same school as her.

## Trivia

* Mirae is noted to be loud and frequently posts .gif files in the group chat by Nari, though she considers this superficial.
* She is a big eater; she enjoys everything and won't refuse food.
* In Season 2, her artistic skills improved.
* Mirae usually wears t-shirts, shorts, sweatpants, hoodies, and crew neck sweaters.
* Mirae is well-liked by girls at C.H. High. In Season 2, Episode 12, she received a lot of gifts from girls for White Day (a Korean holiday that takes place in March - similar to Valentine's Day). Mirae didn't understand why, and Seonji replies it's because she is prettier and cooler than the guys.