Dae-Ho Young

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Game	Journal	Portrayed By
Caged	righteous_dude	Yoon Si-Yoon

Basic Stats

Full Name: Dae-Ho Young
Nickname(s): Dae, Ho, ... "Hey You!"
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Date of Birth: July 27, 1981
Zodiac: Leo
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Single
Bloodline: Halfblood
Hometown: Southwark, London, England
House & Year: Hufflepuff 6th
Extracurriculars: Quidditch chaser
Wand: 11 in, cypress, dragon heartstring
Pet: A very weary-looking Persian cat (Smush)

Family

Father: Ji-Dong Young (wizard; Hufflepuff 1974; Committee on Experimental Charms)
Mother: Yun-Hye Young née Kim (witch; Hufflepuff 1975; Department of Magical Transportation)
Brother: Joon-Seok Young (wizard; Hufflepuff 1997; trainee obliviator)
Brother: Yong-Ji Young (wizard; Hufflepuff 4th)
Sister: Jung-Hye Young (witch; Hufflepuff 2nd)

History

Dae-Ho is the second child of four to Ji-Dong and Yun-Hye Young, a halfblood Korean couple. Ji and Yun met when they were both students at Hogwarts together: Hufflepuffs the both of them, though in different years. They dated in school, both got jobs at the Ministry afterwards, and they married in 1977. Over the next decade, they had four children: Joon-Seok, Dae-Ho, Yong-Ji, and Jung-Hye. Dae-Ho was always the crazy, wild, outgoing, lover-of-life one. He was the one who jumped off the roof just to try it (and broke his leg), who walked right up to strangers and introduced himself, who faced down the growling neighbourhood dog and almost lost his nose in the process. While his siblings all frequently proved that they each had at least a nugget of sanity, Dae seemed determined to prove that he had none. Really, he just lacked foresight: he didn't think things through before trying something out, and he was too persistent to give up just because he broke a bone or something.

He was particularly impatient when it came to waiting for his turn to go to Hogwarts. Joon had boarded the Hogwarts Express in 1990, and every time he came home, he was full of fun stories about the castle and its inhabitants, and Dae was practically dying of anticipation. It was a glorious day indeed when he finally received his letter, and a glorious day indeed again when he joined Joon in boarding the Express to be whisked away to Hogwarts. He staged quite a scene on the platform, kissing his younger brother and sister several times on the cheeks and promising that he would never forget them when he was rich and famous.

His first year was not exactly what Dae had been expecting (really, the only part that was like what Dae was expecting was him being sorted into Hufflepuff like his parents and brother). In addition to having to learn his way around the castle and go to classes and stuff (boring), there was some monster lurking around and attacking other kids, which is really not what one expects in their first year at a magical school, especially since Joon hadn't said anything about gigantic monsters (a tree that attacked you, yes; ghosts [including a teacher], yes; the groundkeeper, yes; gigantic student-attacking monsters, no). Dae sort of wanted to meet and befriend the monster, but Joon kept stopping him and "protecting him." His second year was more what he had expected: boring classes all around. There was the one potential-for-super-fun sleepover in the great hall because some escaped convict had tried to kill a Gryffindor, but the Professors were such sticks-in-the-mud about it and prevented them from having fun. He tried out for the Hufflepuff quidditch team in his second year, but just barely didn't make the cut.

Dae was really hoping for another chance to try for the quidditch team in his third year, but quidditch was cancelled (CANCELLED! NOOO!!) because of the Triwizard Tournament that year. Which would have been cool if it wasn't limited to seventeen-year-olds. Couldn't they have still had quidditch anyway? I mean, with only one (supposedly) participant from each school, everybody else just had to be bystanders instead of getting to join in, while quidditch let seven people from each house play, plus the reserves. It just wasn't fair. It also wasn't fair that Harry Potter, a fourth year, got to join the tournament (Dae rooted for Cedric). It really wasn't fair that only fourth years and older got to go to the Yule Ball. Dae spent the entire time between the announcement of the ball and the ball itself asking older girls to go with him, but they all turned him down. Quite completely unfair, if you ask Dae. Joon got to go, but Dae was stuck in the Hufflepuff Common Room all night with Yong, who had just joined them in Hufflepuff that year. It was a complete and total shock to Dae when Cedric Diggory died at the end of the year. Kids weren't supposed to die! Weren't there rules against that kind of thing? Plus, the Harry Potter kid was talking about how You-Know-Who was back, which was impossible because he had died ages ago.

Over that summer, Dae's parents kept insisting to the children that You-Know-Who wasn't back, and they shouldn't believe Harry Potter, he just wanted attention. Dae understood wanting attention, so he just shrugged it all off. He returned to Hogwarts for his fourth year, and finally made the quidditch team that year as a chaser. Defense Against the Dark Arts had never been one of his favourite classes (Lockhart was an idiot, Lupin was pretty cool, and Moody was insane), but Umbridge made it absolutely unbearable. Dae had never liked just sitting around and not doing anything, so class after class of just reading the textbook put him to sleep faster than a History of Magic lecture from Binns. He got in trouble with Professor Umbridge more than a few times for falling asleep in class, but he couldn't help it! Reading was so boring. He wanted to get up and move and stuff! How could he be expected to learn this way? It was torture! And all the new rules … with Joon and Yong there to try to keep an eye on Dae, he felt completely stifled. Several times that year, he ran around outside and screamed just to release all his pent-up energy.

And then it came out that You-Know-Who really was back, and Dae was scared because his parents worked in the Ministry and while the following year he and all his siblings were safely in the castle, it was still a scary world. At least they didn't have Umbridge anymore, but Professor Snape (who had always been sharp with Dae in potions … it wasn't his fault he could never keep track of where he was in the directions and kept melting his cauldron) was now the Defense teacher, and Dae pretty much wrote off ever passing that class (he was shocked when he got an A on the O.W.L. for it). Even though the classes were now harder as they were prepared to take their O.W.L.s, and Dae and his siblings were worried about their parents, the year was somewhat easier. Somewhat. It wasn't a walk in the park or anything, but at least there wasn't all sorts of crazy stuff going on at the school for once. So it came as a complete and utter shock (a different kind this time than when Cedric had died) when the Headmaster was murdered right there inside the school. And there were Death Eaters running around the school afterwards, and fighting, and seriously what the hell. Wasn't Hogwarts supposed to be the safe place to be?

Summer was horrible. Joon got a job with the Ministry, training to be an Obliviator. Ji and Yun heavily restricted Dae, Yong, and Jung, limiting where they could go, when, and with whom, to just the barest necessities. Dae started getting antsy again, often spending all day in the modest garden behind the house, just running around in circles, climbing on whatever he could, just doing whatever he needed to do to expend his excess energy. He wasn't sure what to expect when he returned to school, but really anything would be better than being cooped up inside … at least he would have quidditch! He wasn't overly worried about his own bloodlines when things like that started showing up in the papers (he didn't read the papers himself, but his parents talked about it in hushed tones over breakfast and dinner), but he was worried about his friends, particularly his muggleborn fellow Hufflepuffs in his year: Liam Connolly and Imogen Carmichael. He has sent both of them owls, but hasn't heard from either of them lately.

Personality

Dae is like a big bundle of energy. He just cannot hold still for very long, which results in poor grades in any class that asks him to sit still. If he can actually get up and move in a class, or at least do something, he fares much better than in classes where he's sitting and being talked at. The major exception is potions, which had him doing things, yes, but potions also relies on patience and following instructions, and Dae can't handle that … hence his D on that O.W.L. Playing quidditch helps a lot with expending his excess energy, but he still has to nearly constantly be moving, or he'll start going nuts with pent-up energy. He's not even fully-still when he sleeps, he's always tossing, turning, or twitching.

He absolutely loves people, he's a very outgoing, fun-loving guy. He also, unfortunately, has very little concept of personal space. He's a very touchy-feely guy, he likes having physical contact with other people or he'll start to feel cut-off and out of sorts. People have to be very direct with him if they feel he's invading their personal space: they have to tell him directly and specifically "Dae, step back" or "Dae, stop touching me" et cetera. He doesn't mean to cause others distress, he just can't help himself. He's also the King Of Enthusiastic Hugs. He hugs everybody, whether they like it or not, but it's his friends who get the Super Enthusiastic Bear Hugs where he all but throws himself at the recipient and nearly smothers them. To Dae, a hug fixes absolutely everything that could possibly be wrong, so that's his go-to solution whenever someone else is having problems: "Want a hug?"

Dae maintains that he's not stupid or an idiot, despite what others might say. He's just very enthusiastic and doesn't think very far ahead, which results in him sometimes doing things that, yes, are stupid. But they didn't seem like stupid things at the time. He just … needs people around him who can stop him from doing stupid things and say "Dae, stop. Think for a minute about what will happen if you [do that thing you're thinking of doing]." Consequences of his actions don't necessarily occur to him prior to the action. It's more of an after-the-fact thing: "oh yeah, jumping off the roof usually leads to broken bones. Oops."

In regards to blood purism … Dae doesn't really know what to think. His parents never really pushed one way or the other when he was a kid, but most of his friends growing up were other witches and wizards. Muggleborns are a bit of a curiosity to Dae (how'd they get their magic if their parents don't have it? How come sometimes their siblings also have magic but sometimes they don't?), but thinking too hard on it gives him a headache, so he just kind of shrugs it away and gives them a hug anyway. He's just … never really thought about it that much. He just likes people, who cares who their parents are?