Daina Sakong

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Portrayed By	Han Seung Yeon
Full Name	Daina Joo-Eun Sakong
Birthday	April 28, 1993
Age	17
Class	Junior
Clique	The International Crowd
Position	Student
Employment	Groundskeeper at North Beach Country Club
Sexuality	Bisexual
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uninterested 1 mild - 5 interest

Reputation

People who don't know her well might find her cheerfulness annoying and expect her to be naive or easily manipulated. People who try to use her usually find themselves wishing they'd done otherwise - she's not a pleasant enemy to have, and anyone who's made an enemy of her would know this.

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Character Details

Personality

Vivacious! Daina Sakong has a deep love for life, and is usually bright and cheerful. She's seen things that would leave most people jaded, and isn't really naive - she knows how bad things can get and how unpleasant people can get; she just prefers not to let that bother her very much. Bright clothes,

Details

Daina's father is a first-generation Korean immigrant; her mother is a third-generation Korean-American. She was born in Watsonville, but spent most of her childhood in Salinas before her father got a promotion and the family relocated a couple of years ago to Seaside. Her life has been through many steps - most of her childhood was spent in a rather rough neighborhood in Salinas, where she saw firsthand parts of the worst that humanity has to offer. She lost a close friend to gun violence when she was eight, which is still one of her main formative moments.

However, her response to seeing the bad in the world has always been to try to find the good and help it grow. She is a girl of many causes - a rabid reader of political and social literature, a student of philosophy. She does volunteer work and tries to educate the people around her about what's going on in the world. It was when she was on her way home from a shift at the animal shelter that she was attacked. She was twelve, and to this day she has no idea what her attacker wanted - if he was maddened by drugs, trying to rob her, or planned to rape her. She escaped with only minor injury because a police officer on patrol happened by before anything worse happened, but she decided at that point that she wouldn't let herself be helpless again and started taking self defense classes.

When she was fifteen, her father got a promotion within the software company at which she worked and, within a month of that, her mother finished law school. Daina's family responded to its newfound middle-class status by buying a house in Seaside, where they have moved.

Class Schedule

Period 1	8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	US History
Period 2	8:45 AM - 9:30 AM	Philosophy
Period 3	9:30 AM - 10:15 AM	Adventure Education
Period 4	10:15 AM - 11:00 AM	Psychology
	11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	Lunch Break
Period 5	11:45 AM - 12:30 PM	Geometry
Period 6	12:30 PM - 1:15 PM	Public Speaking
Period 7	1:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Weight Training
Period 8	2:00 PM - 2:45 PM	Band

Clubs: Debate Club,

Sports:

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Relationships

Family

Name	Relation	Notes
Chin-Hai Sakong	father	54-year-old first-generation Korean immigrant; computer programmer. Daina is close to her father, and has learned a lot about her heritage from him.
Rachel Soon Sakong	Mother	49-year-old, third-generation Korean-American, lawyer. Rachel returned to school to study law when Daina was a child, in addition to working part-time. Daina doesn't really know her mother very well, but she respects her.
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Friends

Name	Relation	Notes
Victoria Blackwell	Partner in jogging and making out	Victoria is responsible for Daina's newly-intensified focus on fitness and her relabeling of herself from straight to bisexual. Daina's feelings toward Victoria are a combination of intense attraction and honest fondness.
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Neutral

Name	Relation	Notes
Kitty Mao	Acquaintance	The school administration dropped Kitty into Daina's care when she first enrolled, and Daina feels a bit protective toward Kitty. That doesn't really mean she likes the girl, though - Kitty's standoffishness and prudishness rub Daina the wrong way. She'd have Kitty's back if things went sour.
Emmanuelle Maier	Acquaintance	Someone else Daina is protective toward. Daina honestly likes the shy artist, though her opinion might change if she knew the direction of Emma's work toward "self-improvement."

Enemies

Name	Relation	Notes
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Additional Photos

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Finished Threads

Title	OOC Date	IC Date	Quick Description
Rituals	July 9-11	July 9	In which introductions are made and distances traveled. - On her first real day in Seaside, Victoria goes for a run and meets an unexpected friend in the person of Daina Sakong.

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