Moon Yeon-joon

## Physical information

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## Relationships

 **Moon Yeon-joon** is a character in *CRiTORA*. He is a Bulletproof Scout CRiTORA from the Tech District.

## Description

***"The Bulletproof Scout CRiTORA**. Top star with the spotlight, Moon Yeon-joon flies into the stage to light it up like dynamite! This charismatic CRiTORA is a youthful spirit by coding, always willing to inspire younger CRiTORA into thinking that anything is possible. Just like his fans defend him, Yeon-joon is protective towards his fans, and should the stage be threatened, he will drop the microphone and strike back! You can't stop him loving himself!"*

## Character

### Physical appearance

Yeon-joon has a lilac, rounded head. His eyes are square-shaped and have rounded, pink irises, his gums are black with a gray rhombus pattern -reminiscent of a microphone's texture, and he has purple hair divided by three fringes. On his left 'ear', he wears a black earpiece with a pink button.

Yeon-joon has a lilac body resembling a microphone's handle, completed with pink edges and a black surface with a pink button on his chest. His shoulders are lilac and hold purple pauldrons with pink edges. He has rubberhose limbs that are black; the hands are black microphones with purple wrists, and he wears black belted moccasins with purple and pink layered socks.

Yeon-joon has gray wings with purple and pink lights on the front, and purple and pink segments on the back.

### Powers, abilities, and weaponry

* **Stretchy limbs:** Yeon-joon can stretch and contract his rubber hose arms and legs.
* **Microphone hands:** Yeon-joon's microphone hands can become blasters, Gatling guns, or lances to fight threats.
* **Popping Bullets:** Bullets with a bubble-like appearance that swarm the target.
* **Scout's Shield:** A shield that surrounds the target -or himself- and provides resistance towards ranged attacks.
* **"Layibolala?":** Earpieces playing loud music that are integrated onto the target, causing it to get distracted and possibly disorient it once the effect ends.

### Housing

Yeon-joon's house is in the Techno Forest, modeled after his head, and surrounded by microphone-shaped flowers, a beat-pulsing tree, and stage lights. The backyard contains a stage where he practices his choreographies.

Inside, Yeon-joon's house's main colors are indigo, purple, pink, and seafoam green. He has a basic kitchen, a living room with comfortable couches and a box of light sticks, and his room serves as his studio; it has his name written in Hangul as a neon sign, a professional keyboard, a wardrobe full of outfits ready for the occasion, and he sleeps with a turquoise koala plush toy.

### Diet

Yeon-joon loves spicy food and says it boosts his music ideas and performances. His mornings are never complete without a good cup of coffee. What he eats the least is sweets with refined sugars, even though he is a fan of ice cream and donuts. He strongly dislikes the taste of carbonara.

## Development

Yeon-joon was conceptualized in Mid-2023 as a replacement of Emire Deep, a microphone CRiTORA designed by RetroMaster94, who, for unknown reasons, left the CRiTORA production crew.

### Design

Yeon-joon is based on K-Pop and a microphone. He is principally inspired by BTS, and his design carries several references to them:

* His color palette was chosen based on V's phrase *"I purple you"*, utilized as BTS' way to show their trust towards ARMY.
* His hairstyle is reminiscent of RM's in *Dynamite*.
* One of his skills' names, as well as his dislike for carbonara, is derived from Episode 41 of *Run BTS!* in which Jimin misunderstands 'carbonara' and says 'layibolala'.
* When posing downwards, his wings resemble the BTS logo. When posing upwards, they resemble the ARMY logo.

### Name

His name is a corrupted portmanteau between *Yoon-gi* (SUGA's real name) and *Nam-joon* (RM's real name). He could also be named after Yeonjun from TOMORROW X TOGETHER, though LastyGhost states this is unintentional.

## Trivia

* Yeon-joon is the first CRiTORA to have the character model contributed to by LastyGhost.