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Other Characters Played: Hubert Oswell, Roxas, Souji Okita, Leia Rolando
Preferred Apartment: None.
Character Name: Lee Yoon Sung
Canon: City Hunter
Canon Point: Episode 19, after his confrontation with Jin Pyo.
Background/History: wikipedia; asianwiki
Personality:
In some ways, Lee Yoon Sung’s personality is something of an anomaly. Trained to live in one way, but allowing his heart to ultimately fuel his methods leaves him in a strange middle ground that sometimes seems very contradictory. From a young age, he was pushed hard. Living in the Golden Triangle, he was trained in all forms of combat — arms and hand to hand. By the age of ten, he was skilled; by 21, the only thing that could really interfere with his ability to ward off his enemies was his heart and his conscience.
Most who meet Yoon Sung wouldn’t find there to be anything strange about him. He comes off as being a fairly average 28 year old — respectful towards his elders, punctual and skilled with his work, generally amiable towards others around him. He plays the persona of being a bit of a playboy, picking up girls at clubs and bringing them back to a hotel room (which is actually a ploy for gaining crucial information). All in all, it’s not so strange. He jokes around, having something of a biting and sarcastic sense of humor, though at times he seems a bit lazy (one of his working conditions being a refusal to do overtime) and weak (the Blue House IT team doing judo and arms training alongside the security team, and he appears to be weak and have bad aim; he puts on a good show). Yoon Sung is seen as intelligent and skilled at what he’s hired to do, though.
This is the persona he presents to most people, and for the most part? That’s very much a part of him. It gets expanded on a bit when dealing with Kim Na Na, who so often caught him in bad situations that she referred to him as an “unlucky jerk.” With her, he can often be more pushy and demanding, he expresses annoyance at everything from having to go places he didn’t intend on to the way Na Na tends to be obstinate about her fearlessness.
Despite all this, with the exception of three (later, four) people — Kim Na Na, Lee Jin Pyo (his adoptive father), Bae Shik Joong (a friend he saved in the Triangle), and later Lee Kyung Hee (his mother), he keeps information about himself scarce. He doesn’t make an effort to get close to others, he doesn’t talk much about himself or his interests, and he largely keeps to himself. And he has a pretty damn good reason to do so.
Before leaving America for Seoul, Jin Pyo warned him not to get close to anyone, or to fall in love. After all, he was going to serve out a revenge mission: to destroy the Council of Five, who had been responsible for the event that killed his father and was covered up and buried. Getting to the bottom of it is something that’s important to Yoon Sung for a lot of reasons, and he does take carrying it out very seriously. But unlike Jin Pyo, who wants to catch and kill the five men responsible, Yoon Sung wants to do it in “a way he can live with.”
This is where the depth of his humanity becomes really important. Yoon Sung has lost his father to needless violence, and grew up in a place surrounded by landmines and violence. He’s seen countless people killed, and he doesn’t like the idea of killing people for the hell of it. He sees the other side of things: If he kills someone, he’s only going to lengthen the cycle of revenge. The people he wants to take down have families too, and he doesn’t think putting them all through the hell of a lost life out of vengeance is fair at all. An eye for an eye is not how he operates.
Instead, he wants to expose them. He wants to expose every unforgivable thing those men did to the public, humiliate them, and force them to play by the rules everyone else in Korea has to. Though he can fight and defend himself well, he doesn’t like to use that method if he doesn’t have to. He prefers covert operations: Infiltrating, bugging, recording, gaining documents — and then revealing it for everyone to see and personally delivering to the city Prosecutor’s Office. Of course, doing this without being seen isn’t an easy feat; Yoon Sung still has to break laws in order to carry out this task, making him a vigilante of sorts.
But his actions are what makes him known to residents of Seoul as “City Hunter,” and it’s a fine distinction between the everyday Yoon Sung and the vigilante persona. Ultimately, City Hunter carries out the tasks, a necessity — so that when all is said and done, he can settle down with those he cares about and live a normal life. If he kills, he’ll always be a murderer, but delivering humane justice is far more his speed.
That doesn’t mean that Yoon Sung isn’t prone to faltering, though. The fact that he’s humane makes him flawed; he’s very much so a man with emotions and connections, and sometimes, it gets in the way of his judgment. It took his falling for Kim Na Na, and subsequently putting her in danger for him to understand why Jin Pyo had been so adamant about keeping his distance. When chasing one opponent who put her in danger, Yoon Sung opted to save her rather than capture his enemy. As a result, he tried time and time again to push her away; it was a method of noble idiocy to protect her, but one that failed. Na Na was a force to be reckoned with, and even (or especially) after she learned of his identity, she couldn’t escape doing things to aid him — and even save him. It made things difficult for Yoon Sung, but his feelings were strong enough to eventually relent and tell her some important things at points: that he likes her, and to wait for him, to wait for it to be over so they could be together.
But Na Na isn’t the only person who causes him to falter. When Shik Joong is hit by a car seemingly owned by one of his opponents, he almost succumbs to tossing his methods aside. Not sure if his longtime friend (and parental figure) would live or die set him over the edge. He chased down Kim Jong Sik relentlessly, and nearly left him to die by way of dangling from a highway overpass (in front of Jong Sik’s son, Young Joo — the prosecutor that suspected that Yoon Sung was the City Hunter — no less). By the time he gains a hold of his sensibilities, it was too late to save him and he narrowly missed grabbing Jong Sik’s hand to pull him back over. That had been enough to confirm something that Yoon Sung has always known, though: Killing another because he was suffering from a loss wasn’t how he wanted to live. That event was single-handedly enough to change his resolve and ensure that he did things the right way.
Even towards the end of the series, when he’s in conflict with Jin Pyo, Yoon Sung comes to his father’s aid when he knows the situation is too dicey. Getting reprimanded for it doesn’t seem to matter, if anything, the events seem to lead him to further strengthen his resolve and do the things that must be done. Protecting his loved ones top that list… to the point when having to make a tough decision: Shooting Jin Pyo, shooting Kim Na Na, and shooting the President, he ultimately turns the gun on his own head and threatens to end his own life in their stead.
It’s not just taking out the corrupt politicians and public figures that’s important to the City Hunter. It’s also restoring the right sort of order and bringing justice to the citizens who’ve been wronged by said corruption. He’s a hero of the people in some way: He makes sure starving children eat, that people denied university scholarship money receive it, that workers get fair compensation — it’s a long list of things he ultimately does in the process of taking “revenge” that really show was a kind-hearted person Yoong Sung truly is.
Even those on the side of the law have a difficult time denying that the City Hunter’s actions are ultimately good ones. Kim Young Joo spent the majority of the series trying to learn his identity… only to let Yoon Sung go as soon as he knew the truth. When confronted about it later on, he stated plainly to Yoon Sung that he does things that the law can’t; those things ultimately make Korea a better place, and therefore, it’s would be a bigger injustice to take him in. Despite the fact that Young Joo is a by-the-book guy and do-gooder by all means, he goes out of his way to protect Yoon Sung and ensure he both stays alive and gets important documents they need.
The last of his important connections stems from bitterness. Jin Pyo raised him to believe his mother was dead, and when that was revealed untrue, that she had abandoned him. Not long after returning to Korea, he discovers her whereabouts, and eventually, that she has leukemia. Despite the bitter feelings he has for a mother ("Mother? What mother?") that had abandoned him, he doesn't shy away completely. Ultimately, he makes his amends and gives her bone marrow to save her life. When he learns that she never abandoned him — but rather that Jin Pyo had taken him away — he reveals the truth of his feelings, apologizing profusely to Kyung Hee for holding such terrible feelings for her for so long. He's the sort of person that despite his shortcomings, can see and admit when he's wrong and do what he can to amend it.
Ultimately, the Lee Yoon Sung and City Hunter personae weave together seamlessly. Though he has to act on them in separate ways, they’re two parts of him that make up the whole. Despite his smart mouth, calculating mind, and ability to beat the hell out of a guy with a spoon, he is a person with a good heart. He’s hardened on the outside, but soft within. Ultimately, he seeks to carry out what he must so he can live a normal, happy life with the people he loves. It’s messy, and there are a lot of times when he clearly has conflict with his circumstances, but he’s strong-willed enough to follow through to the very end.
Abilities/Powers:
Though Yoon Sung’s abilities may seem to be superhuman at times, it’s really nothing of the sort. He’s just incredibly skilled in a variety of ways.
Trained from a very young age, combat is one of his specialties. He excels in all forms of hand-to-hand combat — so much so that he can use everyday household items as weapons on the fly to aid him without skipping a beat. Like a spoon. Or a water bottle. He’s well-trained in weaponry as well; he has a perfect shot when he’s armed — one could easily mistake him nailing every shot in the exact same spot on a target board as him only getting one shot, period.
Yoon Sung’s also good for Metal Gear-levels of espionage. He can take out opponents stealthily, sneak in and out of locations without ever been seen, and he has just about every gadget under the sun to help him do so. He can hack code-locks, tap phone calls, secretly record exchanges, scale walls, jump obscenely long distances, and pull off feats that the average person wouldn’t even believe to be possible. And to boot, he always manages to have a solid alibi.
It comes with the territory of being a genius, which he certainly is. In a fairly short time, he was able to get accepted to MIT, graduate with a PHd and follow it up with a high-ranking IT job in the Blue House, guarding national security. Hacking and blocking hacks are a cakewalk for him, and he’s just quick on his feet. He can make complicated mathematical calculations on the fly, deflect suspicion, charm people to gain their trust and intel, and disguise himself to accommodate any situation.
Items/Weapons:
+ mask
+ iphone
+ security code cracker
Sample Entry: test drive; musebox thread; additional musebox thread
Sample Entry Two:
Instinct had a tendency to come before all else, so when Yoon Sung awoke in a strange (and run down) place, his defensive shields took precedence. There was, of course, an automatic panic — less so for his own safety, and more for those who had become important to him.
Ahjussi. Mom. ...Kim Na Na.
Jin Pyo came to mind as well, but he knew that of those four, his father would be the most capable. Of course, if any of them had been dragged into this… whatever it was… along with him, he would take care of it. Yoon Sung knew he had to keep them safe, especially when it was likely that he would be the one to have gotten them sucked into the mess.
He knows he has to keep his cool, but it doesn’t stop him from pulling his phone from his pocket and dialing the first person he needs to check on. Or at least, attempting to. The familiar device in his hand seemed to be devoid of anything but imagery, making it nothing short of impossible to navigate his contacts.
“Seriously…” He scoffed, tossing the phone to the side in frustration as he tilted his head back. Being greeted with a peeling, cracked ceiling wasn’t exactly of any comfort here. “I’m going crazy here.”
That had been enough time wasted; if nobody was holding him to stay in this room, then he was going to leave. It wouldn’t be the first time he bailed in a situation like this, and it wouldn’t be the last. Yoon Sung pushed himself off the bed, going to the window to see if it would be a viable escape option — only to see Haven’s famous billboard, and a decrepit cityscape that was very obviously not Seoul. Plan A wasn’t going to work… so playing it close to the vest seemed like his only option.
Step One, leave. Step Two, find out where he was. Step Three, see if Chun Jae Man was behind this. Step Four, make sure his precious ones are safe.
...He always had his work cut out for him, didn’t he?
Contact Info:
Other Characters Played: Hubert Oswell, Roxas, Souji Okita, Leia Rolando
Preferred Apartment: None.
Character Name: Lee Yoon Sung
Canon: City Hunter
Canon Point: Episode 19, after his confrontation with Jin Pyo.
Background/History: wikipedia; asianwiki
Personality:
Most who meet Yoon Sung wouldn’t find there to be anything strange about him. He comes off as being a fairly average 28 year old — respectful towards his elders, punctual and skilled with his work, generally amiable towards others around him. He plays the persona of being a bit of a playboy, picking up girls at clubs and bringing them back to a hotel room (which is actually a ploy for gaining crucial information). All in all, it’s not so strange. He jokes around, having something of a biting and sarcastic sense of humor, though at times he seems a bit lazy (one of his working conditions being a refusal to do overtime) and weak (the Blue House IT team doing judo and arms training alongside the security team, and he appears to be weak and have bad aim; he puts on a good show). Yoon Sung is seen as intelligent and skilled at what he’s hired to do, though.
This is the persona he presents to most people, and for the most part? That’s very much a part of him. It gets expanded on a bit when dealing with Kim Na Na, who so often caught him in bad situations that she referred to him as an “unlucky jerk.” With her, he can often be more pushy and demanding, he expresses annoyance at everything from having to go places he didn’t intend on to the way Na Na tends to be obstinate about her fearlessness.
Despite all this, with the exception of three (later, four) people — Kim Na Na, Lee Jin Pyo (his adoptive father), Bae Shik Joong (a friend he saved in the Triangle), and later Lee Kyung Hee (his mother), he keeps information about himself scarce. He doesn’t make an effort to get close to others, he doesn’t talk much about himself or his interests, and he largely keeps to himself. And he has a pretty damn good reason to do so.
Before leaving America for Seoul, Jin Pyo warned him not to get close to anyone, or to fall in love. After all, he was going to serve out a revenge mission: to destroy the Council of Five, who had been responsible for the event that killed his father and was covered up and buried. Getting to the bottom of it is something that’s important to Yoon Sung for a lot of reasons, and he does take carrying it out very seriously. But unlike Jin Pyo, who wants to catch and kill the five men responsible, Yoon Sung wants to do it in “a way he can live with.”
This is where the depth of his humanity becomes really important. Yoon Sung has lost his father to needless violence, and grew up in a place surrounded by landmines and violence. He’s seen countless people killed, and he doesn’t like the idea of killing people for the hell of it. He sees the other side of things: If he kills someone, he’s only going to lengthen the cycle of revenge. The people he wants to take down have families too, and he doesn’t think putting them all through the hell of a lost life out of vengeance is fair at all. An eye for an eye is not how he operates.
Instead, he wants to expose them. He wants to expose every unforgivable thing those men did to the public, humiliate them, and force them to play by the rules everyone else in Korea has to. Though he can fight and defend himself well, he doesn’t like to use that method if he doesn’t have to. He prefers covert operations: Infiltrating, bugging, recording, gaining documents — and then revealing it for everyone to see and personally delivering to the city Prosecutor’s Office. Of course, doing this without being seen isn’t an easy feat; Yoon Sung still has to break laws in order to carry out this task, making him a vigilante of sorts.
But his actions are what makes him known to residents of Seoul as “City Hunter,” and it’s a fine distinction between the everyday Yoon Sung and the vigilante persona. Ultimately, City Hunter carries out the tasks, a necessity — so that when all is said and done, he can settle down with those he cares about and live a normal life. If he kills, he’ll always be a murderer, but delivering humane justice is far more his speed.
That doesn’t mean that Yoon Sung isn’t prone to faltering, though. The fact that he’s humane makes him flawed; he’s very much so a man with emotions and connections, and sometimes, it gets in the way of his judgment. It took his falling for Kim Na Na, and subsequently putting her in danger for him to understand why Jin Pyo had been so adamant about keeping his distance. When chasing one opponent who put her in danger, Yoon Sung opted to save her rather than capture his enemy. As a result, he tried time and time again to push her away; it was a method of noble idiocy to protect her, but one that failed. Na Na was a force to be reckoned with, and even (or especially) after she learned of his identity, she couldn’t escape doing things to aid him — and even save him. It made things difficult for Yoon Sung, but his feelings were strong enough to eventually relent and tell her some important things at points: that he likes her, and to wait for him, to wait for it to be over so they could be together.
But Na Na isn’t the only person who causes him to falter. When Shik Joong is hit by a car seemingly owned by one of his opponents, he almost succumbs to tossing his methods aside. Not sure if his longtime friend (and parental figure) would live or die set him over the edge. He chased down Kim Jong Sik relentlessly, and nearly left him to die by way of dangling from a highway overpass (in front of Jong Sik’s son, Young Joo — the prosecutor that suspected that Yoon Sung was the City Hunter — no less). By the time he gains a hold of his sensibilities, it was too late to save him and he narrowly missed grabbing Jong Sik’s hand to pull him back over. That had been enough to confirm something that Yoon Sung has always known, though: Killing another because he was suffering from a loss wasn’t how he wanted to live. That event was single-handedly enough to change his resolve and ensure that he did things the right way.
Even towards the end of the series, when he’s in conflict with Jin Pyo, Yoon Sung comes to his father’s aid when he knows the situation is too dicey. Getting reprimanded for it doesn’t seem to matter, if anything, the events seem to lead him to further strengthen his resolve and do the things that must be done. Protecting his loved ones top that list… to the point when having to make a tough decision: Shooting Jin Pyo, shooting Kim Na Na, and shooting the President, he ultimately turns the gun on his own head and threatens to end his own life in their stead.
It’s not just taking out the corrupt politicians and public figures that’s important to the City Hunter. It’s also restoring the right sort of order and bringing justice to the citizens who’ve been wronged by said corruption. He’s a hero of the people in some way: He makes sure starving children eat, that people denied university scholarship money receive it, that workers get fair compensation — it’s a long list of things he ultimately does in the process of taking “revenge” that really show was a kind-hearted person Yoong Sung truly is.
Even those on the side of the law have a difficult time denying that the City Hunter’s actions are ultimately good ones. Kim Young Joo spent the majority of the series trying to learn his identity… only to let Yoon Sung go as soon as he knew the truth. When confronted about it later on, he stated plainly to Yoon Sung that he does things that the law can’t; those things ultimately make Korea a better place, and therefore, it’s would be a bigger injustice to take him in. Despite the fact that Young Joo is a by-the-book guy and do-gooder by all means, he goes out of his way to protect Yoon Sung and ensure he both stays alive and gets important documents they need.
The last of his important connections stems from bitterness. Jin Pyo raised him to believe his mother was dead, and when that was revealed untrue, that she had abandoned him. Not long after returning to Korea, he discovers her whereabouts, and eventually, that she has leukemia. Despite the bitter feelings he has for a mother ("Mother? What mother?") that had abandoned him, he doesn't shy away completely. Ultimately, he makes his amends and gives her bone marrow to save her life. When he learns that she never abandoned him — but rather that Jin Pyo had taken him away — he reveals the truth of his feelings, apologizing profusely to Kyung Hee for holding such terrible feelings for her for so long. He's the sort of person that despite his shortcomings, can see and admit when he's wrong and do what he can to amend it.
Ultimately, the Lee Yoon Sung and City Hunter personae weave together seamlessly. Though he has to act on them in separate ways, they’re two parts of him that make up the whole. Despite his smart mouth, calculating mind, and ability to beat the hell out of a guy with a spoon, he is a person with a good heart. He’s hardened on the outside, but soft within. Ultimately, he seeks to carry out what he must so he can live a normal, happy life with the people he loves. It’s messy, and there are a lot of times when he clearly has conflict with his circumstances, but he’s strong-willed enough to follow through to the very end.
Abilities/Powers:
Trained from a very young age, combat is one of his specialties. He excels in all forms of hand-to-hand combat — so much so that he can use everyday household items as weapons on the fly to aid him without skipping a beat. Like a spoon. Or a water bottle. He’s well-trained in weaponry as well; he has a perfect shot when he’s armed — one could easily mistake him nailing every shot in the exact same spot on a target board as him only getting one shot, period.
Yoon Sung’s also good for Metal Gear-levels of espionage. He can take out opponents stealthily, sneak in and out of locations without ever been seen, and he has just about every gadget under the sun to help him do so. He can hack code-locks, tap phone calls, secretly record exchanges, scale walls, jump obscenely long distances, and pull off feats that the average person wouldn’t even believe to be possible. And to boot, he always manages to have a solid alibi.
It comes with the territory of being a genius, which he certainly is. In a fairly short time, he was able to get accepted to MIT, graduate with a PHd and follow it up with a high-ranking IT job in the Blue House, guarding national security. Hacking and blocking hacks are a cakewalk for him, and he’s just quick on his feet. He can make complicated mathematical calculations on the fly, deflect suspicion, charm people to gain their trust and intel, and disguise himself to accommodate any situation.
Items/Weapons:
+ iphone
+ security code cracker
Sample Entry: test drive; musebox thread; additional musebox thread
Sample Entry Two:
Ahjussi. Mom. ...Kim Na Na.
Jin Pyo came to mind as well, but he knew that of those four, his father would be the most capable. Of course, if any of them had been dragged into this… whatever it was… along with him, he would take care of it. Yoon Sung knew he had to keep them safe, especially when it was likely that he would be the one to have gotten them sucked into the mess.
He knows he has to keep his cool, but it doesn’t stop him from pulling his phone from his pocket and dialing the first person he needs to check on. Or at least, attempting to. The familiar device in his hand seemed to be devoid of anything but imagery, making it nothing short of impossible to navigate his contacts.
“Seriously…” He scoffed, tossing the phone to the side in frustration as he tilted his head back. Being greeted with a peeling, cracked ceiling wasn’t exactly of any comfort here. “I’m going crazy here.”
That had been enough time wasted; if nobody was holding him to stay in this room, then he was going to leave. It wouldn’t be the first time he bailed in a situation like this, and it wouldn’t be the last. Yoon Sung pushed himself off the bed, going to the window to see if it would be a viable escape option — only to see Haven’s famous billboard, and a decrepit cityscape that was very obviously not Seoul. Plan A wasn’t going to work… so playing it close to the vest seemed like his only option.
Step One, leave. Step Two, find out where he was. Step Three, see if Chun Jae Man was behind this. Step Four, make sure his precious ones are safe.
...He always had his work cut out for him, didn’t he?
