Chae So-yeon

Soyeon is Seolhee's childhood friend from elementary school, who is an online hacker who usually calls herself Electra. She may be a black hat or white hat hacker depending on the situation.

## Profile

* Name: Chae So-yeon (채소연)
* Nickname: Electra, Soy
* Gender: Female
* Race: Human
* Birthday: December 12th
* Age: 19
* Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
* Zodiac Sign (Chinese): Monkey
* Appearance: Black bob cut hair, blue eyes
* Height: 166 cm (5 ft 5 in)
* Weight: 57 kg (127 lbs)
* Personality: Otaku, Clumsy, Cold-hearted
* Likes: Ushio, Umiko, Seol-hee, hacking and computers
* Dislikes: Bullies, talkative people and crowds
* Weakness: When her hacking progress isn't successive

## Biography

### Prologue

Chae So-yeon was born in Jeju and raised in Yeosu by her father Chae Ho-sung and her mother Cheon Seon-mi. Growing up in Yeosu as a child, her father taught her how to ride a bicycle and swim whenever they had the chance to go outside, and owned a repair shop, where he showed her how to repair hardware behind the scenes while working with his customers. After spending 4 years in her hometown, her parents decided that it was the best for them to move into Goyang, where they settled in an apartment. The following year, her cousin Yeseo were reunited with her, along with their cousin Choa and aunt Hyuna in Incheon after spending most of her early years in France, and at first, she wasn't used to the timezone, but got used to it after living there.

Things were going well for the entire Chae family, and despite being an introvert, Soyeon became good friends with Seolhee in her second year of elementary school and got along very well, until her mother passed away 4 years later in late April 2013 due to brain cancer, and as per Korean funeral traditions, her funeral was held in a hospital and while the entire Chae family were mourning for about 3 days, since they didn't have a son, the eldest daughter, who was none other than Soyeon herself, was chosen as the chief mourner, despite being only 8 years old at the time of her death, and on the day of the funeral, each family member arrived at the altar room and paid condolences to her, and it lasted for about 3 days before her corpse was eventually cremated, allowing for her family members to collect her bones and put in a jar before burying them in a cemetery north of Goyang, and her friend moved to Seoul in order to live in an apartment with her family.

However, Soyeon couldn't stop crying about her mother until her family and friends convinced her that she was gone and needed to move on from her, in which she agreed and moved on under her father's care. 2 years later, she went to a PC bang in Seoul where she got hooked on a video game called Feathering Blade Online ever since its closed beta test in 2014 and while she was playing the game under the aliases of Soy, she encountered a live streamer using hacking tools and caught him red-handed by attacking his character during a PVP match, through a video recording of the match, receiving unanimous praise from the game's community, whom one of them referred to her as "The Queen of Feathering Blade" in Korean.

Now as the "Queen of Feathering Blade", Soyeon used this to help others and the developers of the game deal with the cheaters in the game, at least until she was 10 years old in 2015 that she started to research on hacking and adopted an new hacking aliases that is different from her Feathering Blade username Soy, known as Electra, to secretly investigate a 15-year-old North Korean state-backed YouTuber and social media influencer living in Paju, near the DMZ, whose entire family was on good terms with the state government since her father worked for a state-backed cybercrime group and her mother worked at the North Korean embassy in London, and secretly hacked into an illegal dating site that could be only accessed through the Kwangmyong intranet whose website allegedly purchased and used a social media website template only with a few modifications.

Instead of literally posting the influencer's personal information, Electra saved all the information about her on a USB drive and once she left the PC bang, she sent the drive through an envelope destined for Finland, and while she was going back home to Goyang as usual, she met the streamer who she had caught cheating online, now living a miserable life ever since he was permanently banned from the game after investigations from the developers found out that he was not only using cheating tools in Feathering Blade, but in Pixel Fantasia as well, as outside of their games, which also included two third-party games, one of which called Cordelia Blast, whom Kage was familiar with and the game whom he was banned from a few days ago, at some point in 2020 and the other called Soul Nemesis, which was released 2 years prior. Instead of being called by his online aliases, he gave her his real name, Yoon Jun-woo (윤준우) and called her by her real name, which creeped her out, and she ran away from him as much as she could, only for him to stalk her all the way to her apartment that her father even tried to talk with his parents about his behavior, but he got even infuriated because of the fact they both enabled his predatory behavior in the first place and had enough of Junwoo, so he reported him to the police, who then arrested him for stalking.

However, this wasn't his first arrest, as he had a criminal history, in which back in July 2011, he was arrested for robbing the Hwang family's apartment and raping Yeonhee, who was around 18 at the time, while he was serving his supplementary service as a social worker, which led to the police arresting him for robbery and rape, and therefore he was sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison, thus he was released by 2014, at the age of 26, that he bought a SatelliteLive and a copy of Soul Nemesis for the first time, and on the other hand, prior to his second arrest in 2015, he started playing Feathering Blade Online, made by the same makers of Pixel Fantasia, and bought cheats for it which led to his account getting banned for using cheats after getting exposed by Soyeon and the developers themselves through a video that was later uploaded to YouTube.

4 years later, in November 2019, the North Korean YouTuber whom Soyeon secretly hacked into in 2015 arranged a meeting at the Mapo Bridge in Seoul with her for December of that year, willing to tell the truth about her content, and one month later, the two of them met each other at the bridge, and she introduced herself as Cho Su-jin (조수진) and her English name Stacy Cho. The latter got confused on whenever calling her, in which she told her to call her Stacy, and she eventually reveals the truth about why she did this in the first place. According to what she had said, back in December 2014, while she was living in North Korea at the time, a state-backed MCN reached out to her parents to produce state propaganda videos and outsource them to an another company with close ties to the country, based near the southern part of DMZ and the following year, Soyeon secretly hacked into her personal life, which made her cut ties with her parents, stating that she wanted to live in South Korea on her own and be like the others.

The two of them got along very well, and became close friends to each other, that she even introduced her to not only the global Internet but to her real life friend Seolhee, and those around them, including the Chae family, and they parted ways with each other amicably. The following month, 2 weeks after her 15th birthday, Soyeon's father purchased a ticket on her behalf for the Dual Feathers tournament before allowing her to participate in the tournament as her Feathering Blade character Soy, for her first match with Kokoro in which if she defeated her, she'll move on to the second match with Hyunwoo, and now, with the goal on her mind, she's determined to become the powerful holder of the titular Feathering Blade no matter what it takes, even after she's eliminated by the latter from the tournament.

## Relatives

### Family

* Chae Ho-sung - Father
* Cheon Seon-mi - Mother (deceased)
* Chae Il-sung - Uncle
* Chae Chun-ja - Cousin
* Chae Hong-gi - Cousin
* Chae Cho-ah - Cousin
* Chae Si-eun - Cousin
* Chae Nam-il - Cousin
* Chae Do-yeon - Uncle
* Chae Ye-seo - Cousin
* Chae Hyun-a - Aunt

### Relationships

* Kim Seol-hee - Friend
* Cho Su-jin - Friend