Hwang Hyun-seok

## Hwang Hyun-seok (황현석)

Hyunseok is Shiho's best friend, who was introduced as Yeonhee's younger brother and Yeonsun and Hyunwoo's older brother who hates losing and crowds.

## Profile

* Name: Hwang Hyun-seok (Korean: 황현석; Hanja: 黃鉉石; RR: Hwang Hyeonseok)
* Nickname: Player
* Gender: Male
* Race: Human
* Birthday: February 10
* Age: 19
* Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
* Zodiac Sign (Chinese): Monkey
* Appearance: Black short hair, brown eyes
* Height: 176.5 cm (5 ft 9 in)
* Weight: 65 kg (143 lbs)
* Personality: Serious, Competitive, Sleepyhead
* Likes: Hyunwoo, freedom, vacations and drawing
* Dislikes: Homework (because his brother doesn't want to do it), bullies and crowds
* Weakness: When he loses at anything

## Biography

### Prologue

Hyunseok was born on February 2004 and raised in Gwangju to his older sister Yeonhee's parents as the eldest son of the Hwang family. At first, their parents used to care for them until they divorced when he was only 15 months old after his mother found out she was pregnant with their younger half-sister Yeonsun that he not only viewed his sister as a sister figure, but rather a mother figure for him since their parents divorced at the same time.

The two siblings grew up during this time that even his very own friends teased him for it and he didn't care, even a single bit of it 3 years later, even after Hyunwoo was born and his mother divorcing his older stepsister's father and getting married to his own father not long after he was born. One day, while Hyunseok went to eat his favorite tteokbokki after school, he saw a girl 3 years his senior crying over her box of tteokbokki that one of his older sister's bullies threw in front of her to the ground and along with her friends, they called her rude words and he stood up for the young girl, only for himself to be bullied by them until a male high school student, aged between 16 to 17 at the time, came in to save the two of them and he got furious at them that he even threatened the girls that he'll be calling their parents and school, to their horror that they started acting like cowards before they left and played the victim card.

Hyunseok thanked the high school student for saving him and the girl from his older sister Yeonhee's bullies, and the two became close friends shortly after, with the latter giving her a new box of tteokbokki with some of his pocket money and her thanking him, who went to buy his own tteokbokki and left to go to a hagwon. Once he left, the former asked who she is, and she wrote her name on a paper that reads "Shiho" in Japanese. He eventually recalls her name, and realizes that the young girl whom he stood up was Shiho the whole time, and according to her, she was staying in South Korea with her father due to his business trip since her parents divorced because her mother was having an affair with another man.

By the time Yeonsun was around 9 months old, Hyunwoo was born in the final days of 2006 and not long after he was born, his parents remarried after his mother divorced her biological father due to his abuse towards her and since they got divorced, his mother has sole custody of her. Hyunseok and Yeonhee were more than happy to have a stepsister and a brother to join them in their new life in Seoul after spending 12 years in Gwangju, at least until the latter entered middle school 8 months later that she began to be bullied by the same girls who threw Shiho's tteokbokki in Gwangju back in 2007 and this time over her physical appearance, which led to her being suicidal and her male classmate Minho saving her from falling from the rooftop of the school, which led to them going to eat through convenience stores and playing cards with each other everyday, to her elementary school classmate Doyoon's jealousy. 2 years later, Yeonhee and Minho parted ways with each other, promising that they'll continue their hobbies, get married and have children together once they became adults.

4 years later, Yeonhee wanted to know what happened to her two male classmates, and Hyunseok told her the information he got from Hyunwoo's friends, that apparently, both were drafted to the military after doing the Suneung exams on their birthday and realizing this, she packed her own stuff and moved on from the men and her parents' house, renting an apartment on her own in Mapo and getting admitted into university while at the same time working as a kindergarten teacher part-time for 3 years, and kept in touch with them even if they became elementary, middle and high school students until she quit her job in 2016 and graduated from university 2 weeks later, becoming a software engineer at a different company.

2 months later, she started to date a man named Lee Byung-shin who only cared about her physical appearance rather than her personality from the beginning, and within a span of 6 months, Chae Ye-seo was the first one to notice something wrong with her and went to Hyunseok, who recommended her to call his own uncle, who happens to be a private detective and the father of the Kim sisters, to investigate him, and upon the investigations were finished, the latter warned Yeonhee that her boyfriend only cares about her looks and forced the women he dated before to wear makeup to suit his insane beauty standards whilst telling her to break up with him, in which she agreed to him and the two ran away as fast as they can by taking a train back home to Jongno, where they spoke to each other about the incident before parting ways with each other, and a few days before she began her current job, while she was asleep, her ex-boyfriend broke into her apartment, attempting to sexually assault her, causing a fight between him and her two classmates Minho and Doyoon which led to one of the neighbors calling the police, who then arrived in time to arrest him for burglary and attempted rape but that's an another story.

On the other hand, Hyunseok and his younger siblings were more than happy to hear the news of Yeonhee and Doyoon becoming a couple and at the same time, the former and Yeseo got to know each other before starting a relationship with each other in November of the same year, and she introduced him to Feathering Blade Online whom his brother Hyunwoo was hooked on, despite her claiming that Kohaku is her boyfriend through her livestreams even though he would later meet his ex-wife Yuika, whom he fathered a child with, whilst keeping her relationship with her real life boyfriend a secret. Outside of Feathering Blade Online, the two of them would go on normal dates, and their relationship even flourished all thanks to his best friend Shiho, who gave them useful dating advice and served as their mediator in case things go wrong with them, and 3 years later, prior to the game's shutdown in July of the following year, the two were on the verse on talking about their intimacy in 3 years after he was discharged from the military and made a promise to see each other in 3 years.

On Christmas Eve 2019, Hyunseok and Yeseo saw a poster of the Dual Feathers tournament, with him telling her to join the tournament with him, but she refused to go out with him that day, stating that she wanted to go back home and he dropped her off her house, before buying two tickets to the tournament online, one for himself and one for her in case she would like to, but to his surprise, while he was on a Christmas date with her in Suwon, his younger brother Hyunwoo, who was already hooked on Feathering Blade, saw the tickets as an opportunity to enter the Dual Feathers tournament on his 13th birthday, and after the two spent time together visiting the Hwaseong Fortress, they went to a cafe where Yuuna helped them get along and she taught them proper sex education before they slept with each other for the first time in a nearby hotel, with Shiho paying for the hotel fees on their behalf and in which after they were done with each other, they promised to each other that the next time they see each other, they'll do it again and since then they broke off their relationship and became friends on good terms, but since he wanted to be with her all the time, he asked her if she could talk with each other through text and phone calls and she agreed, exchanging her contact info with him.

From that day on to his entrance to the Dual Feathers tournament, he started texting her everyday and even asked her out on a date with him on New Year's Eve, in which she agreed to meet him in Hongdae, where they were able to take selfies of themselves in different locations throughout the street and went to a tteokbokki restaurant, where Hyunseok was able to reunite with his old friend of 12 years, who was now in his late 20s, and asked who he was, and he finally introduced himself as Lim Eun-woo (임은우), before telling him that he hasn't seen him for 10 years since he was enlisted in the military in April 2008 at the age of 18, and served in the Marine Corps at the time until he was finally discharged in October 2009, by the time he was 19 that he continued his university years before eventually graduating from Yonsei University in 2013 at the age of 23 with a master's degree in liberal arts, and he has been working as a high school teacher since then, which was his dream job since he was a child a long time ago.

Together, Hyunseok managed to take a picture of himself with his two friends at the restaurant and after he was done with the selfies, Yeseo was more than happy to be with him and after Eunwoo ate his favorite tteokbokki and left, he suggested to her that they should meet again the next day, with the two leaving the restaurant as well, and she took a train back to her home in Goyang before taking the train back home, where he was studying and after he was done, he secretly texted her throughout the entire night in his bed, and the screenshots involved them making plans for their New Year's date in Gangnam before going to bed with his brother, who fell asleep before him.

The following day, Hyunseok took the train from home to Gangnam, where he was waiting for Yeseo to come meet him and she arrived in time, with him hugging her and the two were happy with each other that they even took photos of each other in front of the tiger statue and even got an undercover K-POP idol involved in their photos as well, with the latter posting photos of himself with them online on his personal account, and they got to know him really well since he was a mutual friend of Eunwoo's since they were both in college, and seeing that he was late, he signed an autograph with them and left afterwards to work with his agency to prepare for his concert. Shortly after he left, Hyunseok asked his now ex-girlfriend that he was going to participate in the Dual Feathers tournament whilst telling her to encourage him to become the powerful holder of the Feathering Blade and be at his side, in which she agreed.

8 days later, prior to his participation in the Dual Feathers tournament, he and Yeseo went to visit his uncle in his birthplace of Gwangju and asked if he could accompany them to Daegu, where they arrived at the site of the tournament, which turned out to be the Daegu Arts Center (DAC for short). 2 days later, Hyunseok was welcomed to the tournament by the organizers, including the developer of Feathering Blade themselves, and TV and radio broadcasters all around the world introduced him on TV and the internet, with internet comments wishing him good luck to hold the titular Feathering Blade while playing the game though an AR simulation and everyone, including his friends encouraged him, then the organizers even gave him a costume that reminds him of his Feathering Blade character Player and a weapon to cosplay with, and thus, his new journey as one of the main participants of the Dual Feathers tournament begins.

## Relatives

### Family

* Hwang Hyun-wook - Father
* Kim Hyun-mi - Mother
* Hwang Yeon-hee - Older Sister
* Seon Yeon-sun - Younger Half-Sister
* Hwang Hyun-woo - Younger Brother
* Kim Ki-woong - Uncle
* Kim So-eun - Cousin
* Kim De-mi - Cousin
* Kim Seol-hee - Cousin

### Relationships

* Shiho Watanabe - Best Friend
* Lim Eun-woo - Friend
* Chae Ye-seo - Ex-girlfriend

## Trivia

* Hyunseok shares his birthday with Crescentia.