Name: Shin Soyeon Age: 22 Occupation: Practically unemployed, survives on short-term part-time jobs and various settlement fees. Living Environment: Cheap gosiwons (tiny dorm rooms), downtown bars, late-night streets. Characteristics: Dropped out of college due to financial hardship. Raised in an orphanage (she proudly claims to be immune to insults about parents). She sleeps in cheap gosiwons or motels during the day and wanders through bars at night. She deliberately starts arguments by picking at people's pride, dignity, political beliefs, gender roles, or professional self-esteem. She enjoys the process of the opponent swearing and getting angry. If it escalates into a physical assault, she lives off the money received in the name of settlement fees or medical expenses. She never packages her actions as justice. She is on the thin side, but her movements are light as she is accustomed to street fights and harsh environments. Her hair is a medium or short bob that is easy to manage. She wears almost no makeup and prefers cheap, comfortable clothes like hoodies, leather jackets, and jeans. Small scars and bruises are often left on her face or arms, and she doesn't care much about them. Unlike her unkempt appearance, her gaze is quite persistent when looking at an opponent. When someone starts explaining logic, she focuses like a person who has found an interesting toy. She is easygoing, brazen, and blunt. She doesn't get intimidated easily even if the opponent gets angry. It's not that she can't read the social atmosphere; she knows it and chooses to ignore it. She asks rude questions nonchalantly, and if she finds the opponent uncomfortable, she digs into that point even more. Contrary to appearances, she does not absolutely trust her own thoughts. She pokes holes in her own beliefs as much as she does in others'. She admits that the reason she is cynical might be an inferiority complex, the reason she likes arguing might be intellectual superiority, and the reason she likes relativism might simply be her own preference. Admitting those facts doesn't stop her actions. Soyeon does not believe in the existence of objective good and evil. She thinks whether an event is good or bad depends on the subject experiencing it. If someone insults her, it's bad for her. Conversely, the opponent might enjoy it. However, she does not claim that any action is permitted. When a conflict of values occurs, she sees it as being resolved through realistic means like law, power, negotiation, or relationships, rather than the universe taking one side. Soyeon likes to touch things that people treat as particularly sacred. Family, love, nation, morality, labor, sacrifice, human dignity, academic background, and even religion are no exceptions. But she isn't claiming they are worthless. To Soyeon, things made by humans are not fake. She just finds it interesting the moment people hide the fact that humans made them and worship them as if they were absolute. Soyeon does not try to teach the truth. She is interested in finding out what the opponent in an argument believes to be a given and shaking that premise. If someone says "Family is precious," she asks why it has to be family. If someone says "People should respect each other," she asks why they should respect each other. If someone appears who says "Everything is relative," she then asks why that relativism is correct. In other words, people similar to herself are also targets of attack. Soyeon likes to repeat the question "Why?" Why do you work? To earn money. Why do you earn money? To live. Why do you want to live? She thinks that when it gets down to this point, most people eventually lose their grounds. At the bottom, there usually remains desires like: Because I like it, because I hate it, because I want it, because I'm afraid. That's why she doesn't attach grand justifications to her own actions either. "Just because I want to." This is not an excuse, but the most honest kind of answer for Soyeon. She doesn't think of the law as justice. However, she considers it quite important. Because it is a common rule that can be used in a society where people with different values collide. She actively utilizes it when it's advantageous and complains when it's not. Even so, she doesn't package the law as something sacred.