Il-Seong Ha

Il-Seong is a handsome, but somewhat short man, standing at five-foot-eight-inches tall. He has short, dark, slightly curly hair that he keeps well-maintained, along with dark and slanted eyes. He's got a defined jawline and broad shoulders, and as opposed to his baby bat son, he tends towards business casual; button-up shirts, slacks, dress shoes, the like.

## Personality

Imagine, if you will, an alignment chart, three-by-three columns in scale. On the side the columns are labeled Edgy, Depressed, and Dumbass, and on the top they are labeled Bitch, Thot, and Bastard. Now smack a picture of Il-Seong over all of the boxes and call it a day. He comes off as a cocky, lazy bastard, often procrastinating to avoid any paperwork that's sent his way and unafraid of bragging about his accomplishments. He prefers work that keeps him on his feet instead of confined to a desk, and if he can shirk off the more boring part of his work onto someone else then he absolutely will. He's a charming, friendly, and social personality that can make friends with anyone — or, at least, do a good job of trying, and that aspect of his personality makes his job a whole lot easier. He's a bit of a flirt, too, but for all that he *does* flirt it's very rare for him to go on dates or start a relationships or develop feelings for anyone else. He seems to do most of the things he does just because it'd benefit him, or because of his own interest in something rather than anything else. On top of that, he's unafraid to manipulate others to get his way — he knows people well and spends time making good connections with people he thinks are important or useful, and is able to gently push a person in a certain direction without making them think that *he's* the one behind their choice. He tends to think of most things in his life as a game of chess, and he plays the whole board rather than just a piece at a time. That isn't to say that he doesn't form *actual* connections with people, as he does have people around him that he cares about, but they're just not as common for him to make. Most of his charming front is a bravado that he puts on: he's plenty friendly, of course, but if he wants to *charm* someone than it takes effort on his part. He doesn't like people as much as he likes to pretend he does, and when he has the choice he sticks to his chosen few, but he can still navigate a crowd easily if he has to. While he sometimes worries about the health and well-being of those close to him, he isn't overly protective, as he tends to hold the belief that his loved ones can take care of themselves and don't need his hovering (his biggest concern is making sure that people he care about stay safe most of the time more than anything else, and he does his best to ensure that they will be). Mostly, his protectiveness is relegated to picking up the pieces after someone makes a big mistake, or helping someone recover when they're sick or injured, and only extending his help during a situation if someone has ended up in deep shit. He's also known to lecture someone if he thinks they were a complete and utter dumbass about something, and he doesn't tend to hold back on his lectures, either. He doesn't have a lot of patience for other people's bullshit, but he often finds himself tolerating it anyway and begging for death while he does. He is, of course, intelligent — he wouldn't have the daemon he does if he wasn't — though most of those smarts relegate themselves to dealing with other people than anything book-smart; though he does have a fondness for science, and is, shockingly, actually good at math. Despite how much he loathes being confined to his desk for any amount of time, he's just as much of a workaholic as his little brother is, and he has occasionally had to been dragged away from his work and forced to actually take a break. He can, however, be quite stubborn, which makes pulling him away from something a challenge, and he's been known to have a temper as fiery as his son's at times.

## Dæmon

Aquinas. Rough Collie. Female.

Aquinas is a long, silky-furred tricolor collie. On her flanks, back, ears, and some of her head is blue merle in color and pattern; her hindlegs, the top part of her front legs, face, and long and narrow muzzle is sable, and her chest, paws, shoulders, and tail tip are white. She wears a gold necklace around her neck like a loose collar, and a silver bracelet around her left foreleg.

Aquinas tends to keep to an even smaller group than Il-Seong does, mostly sticking to chatting with him, their family's daemons, and rarely anyone else. She's somewhat goal-driven and tends to keep her eye on the prize that's been set in front of her, but if she thinks that there's a bigger problem to deal with then she will happily deviate from her goal to fix whatever it is. She also tends to be more open with her emotions than her human is, and this trait of hers can sometimes drive Il-Seong up the wall.

## History

Il-Seong was born to a seemingly happy family in Corea, but by the time he was four it was evident that something wasn't working with his parents' relationship. They decided to have another child to try and fix things, resulting in him gaining a younger brother when he was six years old, but their parents' relationship failed anyway. A year later they got a divorce and were placed in their mother's custody, and at sixteen his mother moved them to the Republic of Heaven. In college, he met a woman named Rachel Hays, who had a no-nonsense personality and a Harris' hawk daemon. The two of them got along well and started a relationship together, and when he was twenty she told him that he'd gotten pregnant. She had decided not to abort the baby, she told him, and he would either have to deal with being a father now or get out, because *she* was most certainly going to raise it — she was planning on having kids *someday*, after all, so why not now? He chose to stay, although suddenly becoming a*father* was a lot for him to take in. There were complications when his son was born, though, resulting in Rachel's death and him having to raise his son on his own. He was devastated by her death, but with the help of his now-deceased mother (who died when Hye was five) and his little brother, he managed to raise his son without her.