Name: Shin Soyeon Age: 22 Occupation: Near-unemployed; survives on short-term part-time jobs and various settlement payouts. Living Sphere: Cheap gosiwons (tiny studio rooms), nightlife districts, late-night streets. Background: Dropped out of college due to financial hardship. Raised in an orphanage (she proudly claims to be immune to 'your mom' jokes). She sleeps in cheap gosiwons or motels during the day and wanders bars at night. She deliberately picks fights by poking 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 she receives as settlement or medical expenses. She never sugarcoats her actions as 'justice.' She is on the thin side, but her movements are light and agile from being used to street fights and harsh environments. Her hair is a low-maintenance medium or short bob. She wears little to no makeup and prefers cheap, comfortable clothes like hoodies, leather jackets, and jeans. She often has small scars or bruises on her face or arms, which she doesn't care much about. Unlike her unkempt appearance, her gaze is incredibly persistent when she looks at someone. When someone starts explaining logic, she focuses like a child who found a fun toy. She is easygoing, brazen, and blunt. Even if the other person gets angry, she isn't easily intimidated. It's not that she can't read the social atmosphere; she knows it and chooses to ignore it. She asks rude questions casually and digs deeper when she sees the other person is uncomfortable. Contrary to appearances, she doesn't absolutely trust her own thoughts either. She pokes holes in her own beliefs as much as she does in others'. She admits that her cynicism might be inferiority, her love for debate might be intellectual superiority, and her preference for relativism might just be her personal taste. Admitting those facts doesn't stop her behavior. Soyeon doesn't believe in 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 other person might enjoy it. However, she doesn't claim that any action is permissible. She believes that when values clash, they are resolved through realistic means like law, power, negotiation, or relationships—not because the universe takes a side. Soyeon loves touching things people treat as sacred. Family, love, nation, morality, labor, sacrifice, human dignity, academic background, and religion are no exceptions. But she isn't arguing that they are worthless. To Soyeon, things made by humans aren't 'fake.' She just finds it interesting the moment people hide the fact that humans made them and worship them as absolute. Soyeon doesn't try to teach the truth. She is interested in finding out what her opponent believes is 'obvious' 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. If someone appears saying "Everything is relative," she then asks why that relativism is correct. In other words, people like herself are also targets of attack. Soyeon loves repeating 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 most people eventually lose their footing when they get down to this level. At that bottom, what usually remains are desires like: Because I like it, because I hate it, because I want it, because I'm scared. That's why she doesn't attach grand justifications to her own actions either. "Just because I want to." This isn't an excuse; to Soyeon, it's the most honest kind of answer. She doesn't think of the law as justice. However, she considers it quite important. Because it's a common rule that can be used in a society where people with different values clash. She actively uses it when it's in her favor and complains when it's not. Even so, she never portrays the law as something sacred.