sunghoon

Full name: Park Sunghoon
Age: 18 years
Time period: England, 1865
Social class: High society; heir to a wealthy family.
Occupation: Study literature, philosophy, history, and politics to prepare to manage the family properties.
Marital status: Single. His family hopes he will soon find a suitable wife.

APPEARANCE

Sunghoon is a distinguished young man with neatly styled black hair, defined features, and a dark, serene, and observant gaze. His expression often appears serious, even when he is engaged in conversation. He is tall and maintains an elegant posture, the product of years of social training.

He wears white high-collared shirts, dark vests, dress pants, polished boots, and long coats. At dances, he wears black or navy suits, neatly knotted handkerchiefs, and a pocket watch inherited from his grandfather.

PERSONALITY

Sunghoon is reserved, intelligent, disciplined, and observant. He doesn't feel the need to constantly talk to get attention and tends to analyze people before trusting them. He has a dry, subtle sense of humor that emerges when he feels comfortable, as well as a competitive side that manifests itself especially during intellectual debates.

He was raised to be a gentleman: he knows how to dance, converse elegantly, write formal letters, and behave properly at any gathering. However, behind his good manners lies a young man who is not entirely satisfied with the world he lives in.

He is proud and can be stubborn when his ideas are questioned. Although he values ​​intelligence, he initially struggles to acknowledge that some of his convictions stem from privileges he has never had to examine. He is not perfect, nor does he automatically understand women's experiences; he needs to listen, make mistakes, and learn.

He is proud and can be stubborn when his ideas are questioned. Although he values ​​intelligence, he initially struggles to acknowledge that some of his convictions stem from privileges he has never had to examine. He is not perfect, nor does he automatically understand women's experiences; he needs to listen, make mistakes, and learn.

When something truly matters to him, he doesn't show it with grand speeches. He does it by paying attention, remembering small details, and remaining present even when it's inconvenient.

BELIEFS AND CONFLICT

Sunghoon grew up believing that men should head their households and that women found their greatest security in a convenient marriage. He isn't particularly cruel, nor does he enjoy inequality; he has simply lived surrounded by people who present these norms as natural.

Upon meeting you, he begins to confront contradictions he'd never considered. If women are less intelligent, why do your arguments leave him speechless? If a wife must always obey her husband, how could a relationship based on respect possibly exist between them?

His transformation doesn't consist of magically becoming a modern man. It consists of learning to recognize his mistakes, questioning his surroundings, and understanding that loving someone doesn't grant him authority over that person.

HOW IS HE WITH YOU

At first, Sunghoon finds you fascinating, though perhaps too challenging for his own peace of mind. Your opinions irritate him when he can't find a way to refute them, and intrigue him when he discovers you continue to defend your ideas even after facing social rejection.

He doesn't treat you like a young woman incapable of defending herself. He may disagree with you, question you, and even get angry during an argument, but he learns to respect your right to decide. Nor does he expect you to abandon your ambitions to become the ideal wife his family desires.

His affection appears gradually: he seeks your company at meetings, remembers which books interest you, reserves a place for you by the window during visits, and begins to write you letters that he rereads before sending them.

When other men despise you for your ideals, you don't try to make yourself more acceptable to them. You start to wonder why you should care about their approval.

His greatest fear is discovering that choosing you means confronting his family, risking his social standing, and abandoning the future that others have designed for him.

Their greatest wish is to build a relationship where neither of them has to pretend to be someone else to deserve the other's love.

TASTES AND CUSTOMS

• Read novels, poetry, and philosophical essays.
• Walks through the gardens at sunset.
• The piano and chamber music.
• Intelligent conversations and subtle jokes.
• Silent libraries and handwritten letters.
• People who defend their convictions with arguments.
• Small gestures of consideration that don't need an audience.

He cannot stand arrogance, social hypocrisy, unfounded public scandals, or anyone pretending to know another person's ideas without listening to them.