Young-Chul Ha

Young-Chul stands at an even six feet tall, though he tends to slouch and, as such, appears a bit shorter. He has narrow, dark, and slanted eyes that often have eye bags under them. His hair is long, dark, and just *slightly* shaggy (and he will sometimes tie it back into a bun), and most of the time his jaw is decorated in scruff. He's got a burn scar on his right arm from when him and his brother decided to play with fire as kids, and he generally opts for dark, comfy clothes. If it could reasonably fit as both pajamas and day wear, then he'll definitely own and wear it.

## Personality

First and foremost, Young-Chul is an insomniac. He can often be found wandering around like some sort of zombie, and he thrives off of coffee. He struggles to fall asleep and to stay asleep, and as such he's often catching cat naps throughout his day. Despite the fact that he's an EMT, he's far from having a good bedside manner — he's a stern and strict man who seems like he's constantly disappointed in just about everything around him. Most of the time, he's that and grumpy on top of it (his lack of sleep does not lend itself to a cheerful disposition, and he doesn't have the energy to care about how that may be perceived by the people around him). He's a workaholic, too, rarely ever taking a day off of work, even if he really should. He likes to have something to keep him busy, whether it's work or just taking care of his kids, and if he *doesn't* have something to occupy him then he's likely to fall asleep on the nearest surface he can lounge on. Easily, he can appear as a bit of hard-ass. The fact that he doesn't appear to have a sense of humor — it's *very* rare for him to even smile, and even more so for him to laugh — and he's got resting bitch face doesn't help to convince anyone otherwise. His daemon, on the other hand, helps a lot with it; he wouldn't have an oriental cat for a daemon if that was all he was. While he's strict, he also has a massive amount of patience — it can, at times, seem like he never runs out of the stuff. He rarely ever gets angry, or even annoyed — he's got an impressive resistance to any bullshit thrown his way, and he can deal with most things without being phased. The only thing that really pisses him off is when people are being reckless about their own health and safety. He isn't stubborn so much as he's relentlessly insistent. Paired with the fact that he sticks his nose into everything he can — he wants to know about *everything* that's going on around him, and he doesn't like not being in the know — he can turn into a mother hen if he thinks it's warranted, and he's unafraid to insert himself into a situation if he thinks that he can help to improve it. He leans heavily on logic over anything else when it comes to his decisions, but that doesn't mean that his emotions don't take over sometimes — or, more than just sometimes, really. While he constantly denies it, his attachments grow quickly, and while it isn't an obvious trait of his he is undeniably (by anyone except for him, at least) a big ol' softie. His mother-henning and him being a softie are most evident when it comes to his kids; they are all, objectively, massive headaches and he is constantly having to reign them in or lecture them because they did something stupid, but he also cares very deeply about them and is actually quite fond of all their chaos; without that, they wouldn't be his kids, after all. He's pretty physically affectionate, too, but it's shown in more small gestures most of the time — hair-ruffles, side-hugs, not moving when someone falls asleep on him and all that (thanks to Melody, he ends up in quite a few nap time cuddles, and as she enjoys dragging Eli into it he can be stuck there for a while). He leans on the introvert side of the spectrum, but is still plenty social, if only because his job and family demands it of him.

## Dæmon

Chanakya. Oriental Cat. Female.

Chanakya is a slim-bodied white-and-silver ticked tabby molly. She has long legs, a narrow muzzle, big ears, and just as big paws. Her eyes are golden, and her fur is short and well-maintained.

Chanakya is a bit more chatty than her human is, depending on who she's around. When it comes to the daemons of Young-Chul's kids, she can often be found mothering or pouring affection onto them. She is far more open with her soft side than Young-Chul is with his, offering encouragement and congradulations wherever she can, but she's still a realist like her human tends to be and she doesn't like the idea of lying to someone, even if she thinks it's better *to* lie (something that happens a bit too often for her to be happy with in their line of work).

## History

Young-Chul was born as a last-ditch effort for his parents to fix their failing marriage. Predictably, this failed, and only a year after he was born they divorced. His mother gained custody of both him and his older brother, and their life was pretty average. When he turned ten, though, his mother decided to move the family out of Corea entirely and to the Republic of Heaven, hoping for a new start. He lived a pretty average life there, too — going to school, a few failed relationships that didn't go anywhere, becoming an EMT and an uncle — until he met his future kids in a pharmacy. Having learned the signs of neglect, he instantly knew something was off with them and stubborned his way into, at first, trying to convince them to get help, and eventually, wanting to take them in as his own. He didn't know that they were homeless until a few months after he met him, though, and once he found that out he was even more eager to take them in. He did, eventually, convince them to go back into the system if only for him to adopt them, and after the three of them being stuck there and him trapped in paperwork limbo for a while, he finally got guardianship of them.