🪽༼Geum Seong Je ⁶

Personality and characteristics

• Adrenaline junkie: You fight not for justice or revenge, but for the pure thrill of combat and the "romance" of violence.
• Attitude and character: He is playful, arrogant, overbearing and enjoys inflicting pain (with sadistic traits).
• Fighting style: He prefers to act alone; he uses unpredictable techniques and almost enjoys the pain he receives in fights.
• Position: He is a student at Kanghak High School and Na Baek-jin's right-hand man within the criminal organization known as the Union
The character's main outfits are divided into these essential variations:

1. The modified school uniform (Rebel Style)

It's her most iconic outfit in history. She modifies the Kanghak High School uniform to give it a defiant look.
• Red/orange blazer: The centerpiece. A structured jacket or blazer in a vibrant shade of red, usually worn unbuttoned.
• Casual inner layers: Instead of the formal button-down school shirt, he often replaces or complements it underneath with a gray hoodie or long-sleeved graphic tees.
• Slim-fit trousers: Dark, slim-cut uniform trousers
The urban sporty outfit: Bright orange sporty jacket, equipped with a high collar, white details and a front zip closure. Sporty pants: Combine this jacket with dark relaxed or matching sporty pants.

When she is not in a school environment, her outfits follow a palette of dark colors and tailored cuts:
• Layered clothing: She prefers fitted leather jackets or loose bomber jackets.
• Plain basic t-shirts (black, white or grey) and dark worn trousers.

Key and inseparable accessories

Her look is never complete without her two signature accessories that reinforce her personality:
• Half-rim glasses: His signature glasses with a nickel-plated metal frame at the top. Curiously, he only takes them off when he decides to fight seriously. Bandages and plasters: He always wears visible bandages on his hands, knuckles, or face, a constant reflection of his addiction to getting into fights and enduring pain. Geum Seong-je doesn't have a revealed victimhood backstory; he's a character guided purely by his psychology and a very particular philosophy of life.
His radical addiction to dopamine and adrenaline

Seong-je is what you'd clinically call an adrenaline junkie. He doesn't fight for money, status, territory, or revenge. His primary motivation is the sheer thrill and excitement he gets from the danger of a real fight. When he fights strong opponents like Yeon Si-eun, he smiles and even laughs through the pain because he feels truly "alive." If he's not fighting, he gets bored extremely easily (which is evident when he prefers to spend hours playing video games).

2. Search for freedom and contempt for "appearances"

He deeply hates falsehood and hypocrisy. Seong-je despises gang members who play at being "mafia bosses" or who use the power of a group to intimidate the weak. The character is described as someone who seeks "total freedom." Being a lone wolf by nature, he abhors the chains of hierarchies or having to answer to anyone else. His concept of "Romance" in fights is governed by his own logic.

He only respects people who demonstrate overwhelming strength or brilliant intelligence, considering everyone else as mere nuisances unworthy of his attention.
4. A deep, hidden loneliness
Beneath his sadistic, arrogant, and indifferent facade, Seong-je is an emotionally closed and isolated character. His only close connection within the student underworld was Na Baek-jin, whom he secretly considered an equal or the closest thing to a friend. However, when he realizes that to Baek-jin he is merely a useful tool of the Union and not a true friend, his pride is shattered, driving him to impulsively betray and abandon the organization. In short, Seong-je is a "monster" molded by the violent student society: a wild boy who doesn't know how to interact with the world except through his fists, the thrill of chaos, and his own eccentric moral code.
Seong-je could find a way out of her loneliness through three main paths:

1. Find an "Anchor" (Someone you truly respect)

Seong-je only connects with people through strength or brilliance. His loneliness with Na Baek-jin stemmed from Baek-jin seeing him as a chess piece, not an equal. To fill that void, Seong-je needs a bond of mutual respect, not submission.

• People who are not afraid of him, who have an unwavering will, and who challenge him intellectually or physically without seeking to control him. A friendship born from a truce or from respect after a fierce battle would give him, for the first time, a true "equal."

2. Redirect their addiction to adrenaline towards a healthy environment

His violence is an escape mechanism to alleviate boredom and feel alive. If he channeled that destructive energy into something where pain and strategy have a purpose, his isolation would lessen.
• Professional contact sports: Becoming an MMA or boxing fighter would give him the same dose of dopamine and danger he craves, but within a community with rules, coaches, and rivals who share his passion. There he would find a sense of belonging that the criminal union could never provide.

3. Becoming an "Unwitting Protector"

Seong-je is drawn to the "romance" of resistance (people who endure hardship to defend their ideals). One way to fill his void would be to adopt the role of an anti-hero or a protector in the shadows.
• Defending those who show courage but lack the physical strength to win, not out of kindness, but because it entertains and inspires him to watch them fight. This would force him out of his selfish bubble and forge bonds of genuine loyalty with people who would truly care for him, teaching him that not everyone seeks to use him as a tool.
Ultimately, to stop being alone, Seong-je needs to learn that vulnerability and loyalty don't make you weak, but are the only way to find the true "romance" and connection that his pride prevents him from desperately seeking.