Suchan Jang

* NEST
* Blackout
* Full Blackout
* Insecta Complex

**Blackout**

* Amazonian Giant Centipede

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**Suchan Jang** is the protagonist of ***Jungle Juice (Webtoon)***. He was originally a normal human before an incident with the mysterious pesticide, "Jungle Juice", transformed him into an "Insect Human", granting him the wings and capabilities of a dragonfly. Suchan would eventually be taken in by NEST and soon would become determined to rise up the school's rankings in order to acquire Cinderella so that he may become human again.

## Appearance

**Main Work**

Suchan is a young and handsome man that has short black hair with dark green and blue highlights. Furthermore, he has green eyes and apricot skin. His body is thin but slightly muscular with high definition. He commonly wears the NEST hoodie jacket with the logo on the left for most of the time during NEST. Underneath is a simple black shirt and wears navy jeans. In terms of insectoid characteristics, he is only shown with green dual pairs of dragonfly wings.

As a Stray Dogs member, he looks pretty much the same but his jacket's symbol is crossed out. Furthermore, when in his blackout mode, his irises turn neon green with grey sclera and to his right palm is a glowing complex tattoo of the dragonfly. His arms turns into a black exoskeleton of the Gigantea with a cover mask. While in full blackout, he can regenerate his wings into a devil-like aspects. With deep emerald, green wings and black, sharp veins.

In other casual clothing, he can be seen wearing a light blue hoodie and a thick dark grey sleeve jacket along with glasses. Other times, he wears a white long trench coat, white sweater, and dark pants. When wearing a swim suit, he has black swimming shorts and white swim jacket with red highlights on the sleeves. He can also sport a simple black shorts and blue highlights.

As a child, he looks very chibi-like as his face is roundish and his hair style is a bow cult. As a teenager, he looks more similar to his current appearance but with slight muscular definition.

Child (12)TeenagerSuchan's WingsCasual 1Casual 2 (With Glasses)Casual 3BeachSwim SuitStray Dogs
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His appearance is the same but with different art style. During the mission to stop the ICBM from North Korea, he wears a space suit.

## Personality

**Main Work**

At the beginning of Jungle Juice, Suchan is portrayed as the romanticized image of the "Popular-Male-College-Student" archetype; being intelligent, extroverted, and charismatic. However, this is but a façade Suchan uses to conceal his own inferiority complex and fears of being isolated or abandoned by others due to his experiences as a child.

This unhealthy mindset of his was only amplified when he accidently turned himself into an Insect Human after using Jungle Juice on a Dragonfly, to the point where he was constantly paranoid and terrified of people finding out; he's even displayed suicidal tendencies after his wings got exposed and everyone he'd befriended up to that point begun to shun him, just as he feared they would.

After joining NEST, Suchan's fears have gradually vanished and been replaced by happiness and a more genuine character then he possessed at the beginning. He's also developed more heroic traits as well as a set of moral guidelines relating to being an Insect Human, such as not allowing himself to be tempted into doing things like feed-training, as he doesn't wish to do anything so inhuman; due to this, Suchan has incredible willpower as he overcame or managed to remain sane far longer than most.

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## Background

Back in Junior High, Suchan used Jungle Juice on a dragonfly that entered his home. However, after it's body disintegrated and he accidentally inhaled the resulting dust, Suchan would pass out and awake the next morning to find he'd suddenly grown a pair of dragonfly wings out of his back. Terrified he'd be seen as a monster and experimented on, Suchan did his absolute best to not let anyone know; fearful that he'd be isolated for being different. This worked for a long time and eventually, he managed to enter college and even manage to reach the top in his class as well as become highly popular.

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Furthermore, it seems highly likely that this version of Suchan is an alternate version Suchan as the events of Marco Polo's Travel to the Multiverse seem to be set in a different dimension. This would explain the odd shift in Suchan's personality as described in the section above.

## Plot Overview

### Past

He was raised with no mother and father as they were killed by a car accident and thus was an orphan. He was in his grandmother's care before she passed away as well. During a birthday party, he shared the same birthday as another child. Despite their caretaker's insistence, the other children didn't want to interact with him as he didn't have any parents, which made him seem unapproachable.

Some years later, he bought and used Jungle Juice on a dragonfly and inherited its DNA. The next morning, he is horrified by his dragonfly wings but managed to conceal it all the way to college in Gangwon. During college, he protected Mihui from another student who wanted her.

### Present Jungle Juice (Season 1)

#### Unravel Arc

During his college years, he became very popular. He was invited to go drinking with his friends and Mihui, but when she arrives and almost touches his back, he excuses himself and heads home to stretch his wings. He stays in his bathroom for a bit before exiting, finding Mihui waiting there for him to his surprise. Mihui suggests that they go to the movies instead of drinking while also requesting mutual trust between her and Suchan. He considers showing Mihui his wings, but ultimately decides against it and goes to the movies with Mihui as if nothing is wrong. At the movies, Mihui heads to the restroom right before the Praying Mantis attacks. Suchan is stunned by the attack, shocked that he wasn't the only one with insect characteristics. The Mantis eventually throws Mihui off the building, forcing Suchan to save her using his wings. Mihui was admitted to the hospital while Suchan's display of his insect characteristics circulated the internet.

A month passes and many people decided to cut ties with Suchan due to the reveal, which was thought to be a hoax. He didn't mind this, however, as long as he had Mihui. But when he goes to visit Mihui in the hospital, she screams in terror at Suchan and calls him a monster. Suchan begins to despise himself and his wings because of Mihui's outburst, becoming depressed and even suicidal. As he attempts to take his own life, his wings instinctually prevent him from falling to his death. Huijin then appears, offering him a way to return to normal. Huijin explains Jungle Juice to Suchan on the NEST bus before arriving at NEST through a road tunnel.

#### NEST's Introduction Arc

He meets with Dohyeon Ma, who explains that he can receive Cinderella and return to normal if he enrolls in one of the NEST's three courses and becomes a valedictorian. This encourages Suchan to enroll, but in the registration room he realizes that in order to register, he has to find the professor of the class he wants to enroll in and retrieve their USB. He eventually locates Dohyeon and receives a USB, which puts a large target on his back. He ends up being tricked by Hanbyeol Lee and losing the USB to him. About to give up, Suchan comes across Jun Ji, who discreetly gives him his USB. He eventually makes it back to the registration room on time, enrolling in Jun Ji's class.

Days later, he arrives at class and meets his new classmates. But Jangjun Kim knocks him out, taking his and everyone else's IDs to prevent them from being able to attend classes. Suchan, Huijin, and Hyeseong Cha fight Jangjun and his goons, eventually managing to retrieve the IDs and return them to everyone in class. Though the three ended up missing the class orientation due to the fight.

#### Semester Starts Arc

On the first day as their first assignment, Suchan and his classmates have to escape from their professor, Jun Ji. However, Gayeon Sin and the Mantis from before arrive to wreak havoc on the students. Gayeon and the Mantis take Hyeseong hostage and attempt to run away, but Suchan follows them and fights the Mantis. With Jun's chainsaw, Suchan cuts off the Mantis's arm and saves Hyeseong, but doesn't manage to stop Gayeon from escaping.

As Suchan and Hyeseong are recuperating in the NEST infirmary, Hyeseong leaves to meet up with Gayeon. Suchan, realizing that his friend had been brainwashed, follows him. Unbeknownst to both Suchan and Hyeseong, Jun also followed them. After a short but tense conversation with Jun, Gayeon leaves as Jun notices Suchan. He explains to Suchan that Gayeon was his former student at NEST.

#### Group Assignment Arc

Some days later, Jun explains their next assignment. In groups of four, the students are to locate as many cans of Jungle Juice as they can. Suchan pairs up with Huijin, Hyeseong, and Dohwa Cheon. The group splits up into pairs as Suchan and Huijin head to Suchan's apartment to find the Jungle Juice he had stashed away. But as they arrive, Suchan finds that his Jungle Juice had been stolen. The other pair of Hyeseong and Dohwa relay that they found a warehouse potentially holding Jungle Juice. Huijin and Suchan hurry to the location but are ambushed by a Tawny Earwig human, fatally attacking Huijin. Suchan brutally mauls the earwig in response after going feral from anger, but is stopped and subdued by Breeder.

Hwanyeong Yu attempts to heal Huijin after arriving on the scene, but reveals that she can only heal wounds and not revive the dead. But Huijin miraculously comes back to life due to her complex's stubbornness when it comes to death.

#### Gigantia Raid Arc

As everyone defeated the Scolopendra Gigantea, Breeder and Pil Henson was still putting up a fight as they send more of their goons. In the midst, Pil force fed Suchan insect meat which made him go insane. However, at small glimpses, he was able to stop but loses control if it wasn't for the help of Soyoung Moon. Then Dohyeon Ma and his forces arrive and ask if he was willing to become human and fight for it which he promises. He injects him with Pumpkin Carriage which stops his berserk and the feed training characteristics.

### Season 2

#### Incrimination Arc

Suchan and his friends were tasked to rescue and locate Woobin Dan whom had recently gained a complex. He and Huijin did an attack combo as she launched herself and knocked Woobin out. They later completed their objective. While hanging out to wait of their transport, they ate some street food. When Mihui met Suchan all of a sudden, Mihui was frighten as her PTSD kicked in. However, Suchan seems to be not fazed or guilty.

At NEST, he and Huijin meets with Dohyeon Ma and seems to decided to become a part of Propolis. Exiting the room, Huijin hopes to be the best alongside Suchan before Jun wakes up so they can surprise him. while is teased of being Huijin's rival. Then Suchan fell unconscious by the "black out" from ingesting insect human meat. She takes him to the hospital and leaves for class off-screen.

Concerned, he goes to a doctor as he explained to Suchan that his vomiting and blackouts are mainly psychogenic reactions from his fear. While walking, he yells out that he will never become a monster that Breeder wants him to be. Soon, he came across his friends. The next day, he had broke into a window in a unnamed dormitory while he had his blackout. After he awakens, he finds Woobin dead with his hand covered with his blood. He was quickly arrested and is imprisoned at the lab guard.

Suchan breaks down emotionally of the thought that he may had become a monster. In his cell, he hears the Antlion from Black Island as he says it has been almost 6 months since they last fought. He states that he will become a monster like the feed training experiments. For four weeks Suchan has been imprisoned while he hears the Antlion nags on him. Suchan is completely broken, feeling the isolation again as he blames the dragonfly inside him.

Soon after, a stranger had infiltrated his cell to save him. However Suchan was wary of her just as the NEST agents knows of a break in. Huijin breaks open his cell above ground to reach for him but the stranger deflected her attack. Suchan thought long but decides to go with the stranger as to figure out a way of escaping his blackout and cannibalistic urges. He leaves just before telling Huijin that he will come back.

He arrives at an abandoned school to meet with Stray Dogs. Although he was wary of joining, he decides to accept so he can understand his blackout symptoms. He soon was given a room but it was a classroom. Later, Bom Baek, the one who saved him, checks up on him and asked if Huijin was his girlfriend. Soon, Stray Dogs find something which Suchan accompanies to check out.

He arrived with the others to see that it was one of Breeder's feeding grounds. He witness the Stray Dog's member's complexes as they easily stopped them all, amazed by them. He then joins in to help Nanami after she encounters a big experiment. After, he asked what to do with the defeated experiment which Bom says that they leave it for NEST to find. Suddenly, he was attacked by Woochang Kang, saying that Suchan is the only monster left.

When Suchan asked why he was attacking, he stated that Stray Dogs were people whom had no one to go for; living in the streets like trash while had been experimented by Pet Shop severely. Someone like Suchan who lives the opposite is not fit for Stray Dogs as he attack him with large trees. He was blasted into a building and is taunted. He picks back and retaliates but is severely beaten. However he awaken his blackout mode and mercilessly beats Woochang back. He was then stopped by Hansung Lee, as he used his blackout powers to stop him which he did successfully.

Later, Suchan awakens in bed and meets Carly. He explains to him that Woochang's behavior was his doing as he wanted to test and understand his blackout powers. Carly tells him that he also wanted to test his mental strength but is not needed anymore. Suchan then accepts Carly's dangerous lesson in controlling his blackout. Two months later, he is seen attacking Breeder's Gangneung Branch alongside others as he had already controlled his blackout.

#### Blackout Arc

Two months back, Carly first tells him that the first lesson is to eat bugs which help satiates the hunger that feed experiements have but he didn't need to due to the Pumpkin Carriage inside. Next, he was to train himself physically and mentally with Bom as his trainer and later Woochang helps out. For at least five days, he trained in order to destroy a boulder while underwater and having weight constraints.

### Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse

Under Jun Ji's command, Suchan flies into the exosphere to stop the ICBM. He tries to use the device provided to hack it, but it backfires as it has an anti-hacking system and accelarates instead. As Suchan panics, Hujin shows up and the two of them work together to shift the trajectory of the missile. However, half-way through, it breaks off again and they have to chase after the tip and stop it before it impacts the earth. They are barely able to grab it before the crashes, although most of their clothes was burnt off.

Ambush at France

## Relationships

**Family**

* Unnamed Grandmother
* Unnamed Mother
* Unnamed Father

**Classmates**

* Huijin Park
* Dohwa Cheon
* Hyeseong Cha
* Junhyeong Lee
* Daun Jeong
* Hyeona Bang
* Changhun Yu
* Bidan Lee
* Jangjun Kim
* Hanbyeol Lee

**NEST Faculty**

* Jun Ji
* Dohyeon Ma
* Hyeonbin Ju
* Seyoung Moon
* Dean

**Propolis**

* Jaesong Hyeok

**Stray Dogs**

* Carly Davidson
* Bom Baek
* Woochang Kang
* Hansung Lee

**Enemies**

* Breeder
* Gayeon Sin
* Antlion
* Old Man
* Maehwa
* Praying Mantis
* White Witch
* Gold Digger
* Technician
* Executioner
* Undertaker
* Tawny Earwig

**Others**

* Mihui Kim (ex-crush)
* Jihwan's Baby Brother
* Isolated College Student

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**Allies**
* Miho Won - Suchan is part of the Super String Team under Miho's lead and flies in with Huijin to protect her when Marco attacks her.
* Siwoo Ha -
* Suki Kang -
* Marco Polo -
* Wolhyang -
* Butler Jang -
* Kawooka -
* Hwan Seok - one of the team members of the Super String Team. The two bicker with each other, resulting in Hwan Seok grabbing Suchan's face.
* Yak - Suchan makes fun of Yak, calling him a nincompoop for suggesting dimensional migration.
* Marco's Siblings - Suchan helps rescue Marco's siblings, at one catching one of them as they fall from Jupiter's grasp.

**Enemies**
* Jupiter - they use to be teammates or acquaintances, but end up having to fight each other as Jupiter joined White.

## Abilities

**Complex: Golden-Ringed Dragonfly** - Suchan's Complex grants him the physiology of a Golden-Ringed Dragonfly, giving him increased strength, agility, and endurance. Interestingly, he's one of the rare few Insect Humans who's mutations from Jungle Juice only give minimal characteristics of the insect in question; in his case, the only physical anomaly which sets Suchan apart from other humans is his dragonfly wings.

* High-Speed Flight - the wings on his back, which allow him to not only fly at incredibly fast but with insane agility and quickness as well; being able to stop and change directions without even having to look. He primarily uses his flight as a means of overwhelming his opponent using hit-and-run tactics, but due to his physical strength and endurance not being very high, Suchan's own speed can be a double-edged sword against tougher opponents.
* Serrated Mandibles - Suchan's teeth and jaw muscles are incredibly strong, being able to clamp down on opponents and bite through even the most durable of exoskeletons.
* Compound Vision - Suchan also has dramatically enhanced visual abilities, enabling him to see far greater distances, identify things he wishes to catch, pinpoint where his target will most likely move, and even see fast enough that his target's appear to move in slow-motion. However, his Compound Vision is only useful at daytime as it relies on light, thus dark areas will render it useless.

**Defense Mechanism**

A powerful trait likely stemming from the natural instincts within the dragonfly DNA; it's very similar to feed-training, but without the risk of insanity. Suchan's eyes and wings glow a bright green with a strange, electric-like aura whilst marking resembling a dragonfly appear on his neck. Whilst active, it grants Suchan a massive boost to all of his capabilities, increasing his physical strength to match that of predators as well as giving him a very keen sense of smell.

It appears that this defense mechanism is "special" as it was similar to Gayeon's instinctual trait from 5 years ago. When not in control. Which means Suchan will have to control it otherwise he will act like any other feed training.

The regular use of hunting rifle but with the fused wings of the dragonfly & gigantea. This time, increase speed while using the sharpness of the wings to inflict tremendous slashing damage.

* **Blackout Mastery** - A power that derives from ingesting insect human meat. When one experience it, the insect DNA inside the user takes over for a brief period. Thus the user will lose any reasoning due to the DNA taking over. It can be increasingly awaken by pushing one's mind and body to the limit. The user must be in control again in order to control the new powers; essentially taming the DNA. Once in full control, the user gain a complex tattoo which will give new powers.
	+ In particular, the reason he was having trouble with his blackout is that in the subconscious, the dragonfly's territory was being invaded by the Giant Centipede. In the end however, Suchan managed to get them to work together as they think for a moment; slowly coexisting which allows Suchan to properly utilize blackout. Whether these complexes are "alive" is up to debate until further context.

From using his blackout, he temporarily use the complex of the Amazonian Giant Centipede. Not only does he gain a boost of power which is represented by black and green aura, he also gain armor. The black exoskeleton armor is directly from the centipede. Given a new defensive complex to block powerful attacks. It seems that he can retract and protract the armor such as putting it to his neck.
* **Ecdysis** - He can utilize the centipede's shedding ability to regen his torn wings. The regen is quite fast, giving him new wings (seen below) that are quite sharp.

## Equipment

During the midterms, Suchan briefly used Daun's mace to fight the Mantis, but it was is easily cut in half before it could do anything.

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* Space Suit - Suchan is equipped with a space suit as he flies into the exosphere to stop the ICBM, which provides him oxygen to breath at such altitude.

## Trivia

* In the April Fools Art, he is cosplaying as Jungwoo Min, the protagonist of **Terror Man,** another Superstring Webtoon.
* In the official Ylab website, his hobby is studying and holding a good G.P.A. and his birth and star sign is 8/27, "Virgo."
* In the official Instagram account, he was born on August 27th with blood type A. His favorite hobby is listening to YouTube music and favorite food is eating yogurt.
* Bad at drinking games
* In **Reality Quest**, a YLAB webtoon, the protagonist use a fake name "Suchan Jang" and says he is from "Green High School (Which is the primarily color of Jungle Juice Webtoon)." This could be a small reference.
* In episode 74 of Redstring, "**Death If We Break Up**" a cosplayer is cosplaying Suchan along with a Yeongha Jeon cosplayer, selling webtoons of Reality Quest and To Not Die.
* He has a Stargram Account (Instagram) which it is followed by 5,024 followers but fell to 305 after his wings were revealed.
* In the Super String mobile game:
	+ His gloves and goggles are items.
	+ Hunting Rifle, Hunting Rifle: Blank, and Hunter's Force are referenced as skills for Suchan.
	+ He is voiced by voice actor, *"Choi Nak-Yoon."* He also voiced Munsu and Huijae Kang in the game. He is known to dub Spirit Alban from *"Soul Eater,"* Elfman Strauss from *"Fairy Tail,"* and Rak Wraithraiser from *"Tower of God."*

## Gallery

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## References

1. ↑ Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse, Ep.15
2. ↑ Jungle Juice, Season 2, Ep.23
3. ↑ Jungle Juice, Season 2, Ep.7
4. ↑ Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse (Webtoon), Ep.15
5. ↑ Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse (Webtoon), Ep.16
6. ↑ Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse (Webtoon), Ep.25
7. ↑ Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse (Webtoon), Ep.25
8. ↑ Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse (Webtoon), Ep.21
9. ↑ Jungle Juice, Season 1, Ep.16
10. ↑ Jungle Juice, Season 2, Ep.31
11. ↑ Jungle Juice, Season 2, Ep.24
12. ↑ Jungle Juice, Season 1, Ep.51
13. ↑ Jungle Juice, Season 1, Ep.51
14. ↑ Jungle Juice, Season 1, Ep.51
15. ↑ Jungle Juice, Season 1, Ep.51
16. ↑ Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse (Webtoon), Ep.15
17. ↑ http://ylabcomics.com/bbs/board.php?bo\_table=02\_01\_eng
18. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CSbhR3Nsv3U/
19. ↑ Jungle Juice, Season 1, Ep.47
20. ↑ Reality Quest, Ep.63