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Player Name: Joey E-mail: technobabbledftw [at] gmail [dot] com Preferred Contact:thlayli Timezone: GMT/BST Current Characters in Victory Road: N/A
Character Name: Min-Gi Park Series: Infinity Train Timeline: Post-Book 4 Canon Resource Links:Wiki Link!
Personality:
Min-Gi grew up in Powell Lake, Canada. He is the only child of parents who emigrated from Korea, and while they clearly care about him, he has always felt the weight of their expectations on him. Although his dream is to be a rock star alongside his best friend Ryan, they want him to go to university to study finance. He is reluctantly allowed to indulge in playing the stylophone growing up, but even as a very young child it is obvious they would prefer him to be playing his viola. The older he gets the more clearly they disapprove of it, seeing it as a toy that it's past time he put away.
At the start of the series, Min-Gi is stagnant. He had planned to go on tour with Ryan once they graduated high school, but balks at the last minute once he realised just how close they were to leaving. In fairness to Min, he was only given a week of notice before they were due to go. Working against him is the fact he literally ran away rather than have to discuss his concerns with this plan. Ryan leaves to pursue their shared dream alone, and in the months that follow his path forward is decided for him. He finds a job he hates, gets into university when he'd rather not, and is all set to go ahead with that career in finance. He never once voices his reservations about this, just goes along with it, occasionally procrastinating on things like application forms until he is successfully nagged into it. He resorts to only playing his stylophone, the one thing that seems to make him happy, in the privacy of his work bathroom while he's on break. The rest of the time he goes about his life as expected, pretending to be okay with things when he very much isn't.
Min is extremely bad at voicing his needs. Not wanting to disappoint anyone, he will instead keep things to himself until he reaches breaking point. He's panicked and abandoned Ryan before a show twice rather than just talk to him about his worries. Prior to that he used excuses to put him off entering them in any actual shows. Min has a lot of anxieties about failure, especially when it comes to living his dreams. He can't envision a world where two Asian guys from BC can become big successes, and a large part of him would rather not even try than put in the effort and risk failing.
Conversely for someone with so many fears, he has a tendency to believe he's always right. In the first episode he tries to correct Ryan about which booth they sat in when they were in middle school, a minor detail that he's actually the one misremembering. While he criticises Ryan for his childishness, Ryan takes issue with Min acting like he knows more than he does. They are both trapped on the train to learn their own lessons, but Min-Gi can't accept that at first.
For context, the train only appears to those who are dealing with major difficulties in their lives. Passengers are assigned numbers depending on how much they need to work through. Until the number goes down to zero, that passenger is unable to leave. Ryan and Min are both assigned the number 202. Ryan is the first of the two to make progress, and seeing their number go down as he learns to slow down and do things the proper way... Min makes the assumption that means they are both there because of Ryan, and he wasn't meant to be on the train in the first place. It takes seeing an actual skeleton to see that it isn't only Ryan's impulsiveness that is keeping them there. His own unwillingness to press forward unless he is completely sure of the answer is also something he needs to work on, or else he could die before ever making it home. Although he instantly admits he'd been wrong when he sees it for himself, prior to that he had been extremely obnoxious in reminding Ryan that it's him who needs to work on self-improvement.
Thanks to his time on the train, Min is working through those faults. He isn't as dismissive as he used to be, and has pushed aside his fear of failure enough to go on tour with Ryan. He seems confident and at ease when we do finally see him on stage, a far cry from the Min we'd seen pre-performance before then. Sure they aren't the biggest band in the world. The performance we see them do together at the end is at an open mic club where hardly any of the audience pays them attention, but that doesn't matter. He's learned that so long as he can make music with his best friend then he can be happy.
Of course, Min-Gi also has positive traits that have always been there. His cautiousness can be helpful when he doesn't let it stop him entirely. He will think things through before rushing head first into a situation, preferring to have a plan to try and avoid mistakes. Min has a logical mind, and likes to look at the whole of things rather than picking and choosing parts to focus on. Although it was Ryan who escaped the art gallery car first, it was because he remembered Min teasing him about needing to appreciate things in their entirety he is able to see the door. While Ryan helps push Min outside of his comfort zone, Min helps keep Ryan more grounded. Min is far more likely to take the obvious approach if one is there, not trying to look for hidden meanings or come up with complicated plans when they aren't needed.
He also has an empathetic side. Min shows on many occasions that he cares deeply about others. He comforts their friend Kez about being the unintentional cause of a passenger who had chosen to become a permanent resident finding his exit for the train. He listens to her story, and helps her realise that she hadn't messed up. She had actually helped him come to terms with an event that had been highly traumatic. When Ryan admits to him that he had already had his exit appear and had thought about taking it, Min reassures him that everyone has bad thoughts, and what's important was that he didn't abandon him. In turn, when his own door appears sans Ryan's he refuses to take it alone.
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Min-Gi Park | Infinity Train
Name: Joey
E-mail: technobabbledftw [at] gmail [dot] com
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Timezone: GMT/BST
Current Characters in Victory Road: N/A
Character
Name: Min-Gi Park
Series: Infinity Train
Timeline: Post-Book 4
Canon Resource Links: Wiki Link!
Personality:
Min-Gi grew up in Powell Lake, Canada. He is the only child of parents who emigrated from Korea, and while they clearly care about him, he has always felt the weight of their expectations on him. Although his dream is to be a rock star alongside his best friend Ryan, they want him to go to university to study finance. He is reluctantly allowed to indulge in playing the stylophone growing up, but even as a very young child it is obvious they would prefer him to be playing his viola. The older he gets the more clearly they disapprove of it, seeing it as a toy that it's past time he put away.
At the start of the series, Min-Gi is stagnant. He had planned to go on tour with Ryan once they graduated high school, but balks at the last minute once he realised just how close they were to leaving. In fairness to Min, he was only given a week of notice before they were due to go. Working against him is the fact he literally ran away rather than have to discuss his concerns with this plan. Ryan leaves to pursue their shared dream alone, and in the months that follow his path forward is decided for him. He finds a job he hates, gets into university when he'd rather not, and is all set to go ahead with that career in finance. He never once voices his reservations about this, just goes along with it, occasionally procrastinating on things like application forms until he is successfully nagged into it. He resorts to only playing his stylophone, the one thing that seems to make him happy, in the privacy of his work bathroom while he's on break. The rest of the time he goes about his life as expected, pretending to be okay with things when he very much isn't.
Min is extremely bad at voicing his needs. Not wanting to disappoint anyone, he will instead keep things to himself until he reaches breaking point. He's panicked and abandoned Ryan before a show twice rather than just talk to him about his worries. Prior to that he used excuses to put him off entering them in any actual shows. Min has a lot of anxieties about failure, especially when it comes to living his dreams. He can't envision a world where two Asian guys from BC can become big successes, and a large part of him would rather not even try than put in the effort and risk failing.
Conversely for someone with so many fears, he has a tendency to believe he's always right. In the first episode he tries to correct Ryan about which booth they sat in when they were in middle school, a minor detail that he's actually the one misremembering. While he criticises Ryan for his childishness, Ryan takes issue with Min acting like he knows more than he does. They are both trapped on the train to learn their own lessons, but Min-Gi can't accept that at first.
For context, the train only appears to those who are dealing with major difficulties in their lives. Passengers are assigned numbers depending on how much they need to work through. Until the number goes down to zero, that passenger is unable to leave. Ryan and Min are both assigned the number 202. Ryan is the first of the two to make progress, and seeing their number go down as he learns to slow down and do things the proper way... Min makes the assumption that means they are both there because of Ryan, and he wasn't meant to be on the train in the first place. It takes seeing an actual skeleton to see that it isn't only Ryan's impulsiveness that is keeping them there. His own unwillingness to press forward unless he is completely sure of the answer is also something he needs to work on, or else he could die before ever making it home. Although he instantly admits he'd been wrong when he sees it for himself, prior to that he had been extremely obnoxious in reminding Ryan that it's him who needs to work on self-improvement.
Thanks to his time on the train, Min is working through those faults. He isn't as dismissive as he used to be, and has pushed aside his fear of failure enough to go on tour with Ryan. He seems confident and at ease when we do finally see him on stage, a far cry from the Min we'd seen pre-performance before then. Sure they aren't the biggest band in the world. The performance we see them do together at the end is at an open mic club where hardly any of the audience pays them attention, but that doesn't matter. He's learned that so long as he can make music with his best friend then he can be happy.
Of course, Min-Gi also has positive traits that have always been there. His cautiousness can be helpful when he doesn't let it stop him entirely. He will think things through before rushing head first into a situation, preferring to have a plan to try and avoid mistakes. Min has a logical mind, and likes to look at the whole of things rather than picking and choosing parts to focus on. Although it was Ryan who escaped the art gallery car first, it was because he remembered Min teasing him about needing to appreciate things in their entirety he is able to see the door. While Ryan helps push Min outside of his comfort zone, Min helps keep Ryan more grounded. Min is far more likely to take the obvious approach if one is there, not trying to look for hidden meanings or come up with complicated plans when they aren't needed.
He also has an empathetic side. Min shows on many occasions that he cares deeply about others. He comforts their friend Kez about being the unintentional cause of a passenger who had chosen to become a permanent resident finding his exit for the train. He listens to her story, and helps her realise that she hadn't messed up. She had actually helped him come to terms with an event that had been highly traumatic. When Ryan admits to him that he had already had his exit appear and had thought about taking it, Min reassures him that everyone has bad thoughts, and what's important was that he didn't abandon him. In turn, when his own door appears sans Ryan's he refuses to take it alone.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Rocket
Starter: Chipped Starter: Piplup, Bonus Starter: Alolan Vulpix
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: TDM with Albedo
Victory Road Sample: TDM Top Level
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