BAEK, PACEY LUCAS

FULL NAME Pacey Lucas Baek

NICKNAMES Pace

DATE OF BIRTH September 1st

AGE Seventeen

GRADE/YEAR Twelfth grade

ELEMENT Earth

SEXUALITY Straight

MARITAL STATUS Dating (Carson Garroway)

CELEBRITY CLAIM Yoseob Yang

EYE COLOUR Brown

HAIR COLOUR Naturally dark, but he dyes it all kinds of obnoxious colours whenever he feels like it -- orange, blonde, pitch black, brown, etc.

HEIGHT & WEIGHT 5'7, 126 lbs

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES He has a birthmark on the back of his shoulder that he thinks looks like a star, but everyone else so far has just told him that it's a blob. Of course, he refuses to listen to them.

CLOTHING STYLE It being that his family has considerable money, he tends to wear pretty expensive clothing, all the huge flashy lines. That said, he doesn't think much of it and his clothing isn't of concern to him, except that hey, he thinks he does look pretty dashing in a suit. He doesn't think much of how nice his stuff really is, but he has a wide variety of clothes stored away in his closet, everything from all his fancy suits to just nice hoodies and designer jeans. He also has a pretty vast collection of sneakers. Really, he dresses much the same as any other maybe slightly preppy teenage boy, he can just afford to dish out more money for it.

POSITIVE TRAITS

• FRIENDLY Pacey just naturally gets along with people -- not everyone, obviously, but he's pretty adept at making friends and talking to people in general. He's a social creature by nature and is the type to strike up conversation with someone on the street passing by for no reason whatsoever. Luckily, if strangers don't seem too keen on him, he also knows to back off and go bother somebody else.
  
• ENTHUSIASTIC It isn't so much that he likes everything in the world, but he doesn't see any reason to be negative about anything. When he chooses to do something, he goes full-out into it without question. He can also find it in himself to be enthusiastic and excited about the things that other people like too, which just goes hand in hand with his friendliness.
  
• ACCEPTING It's easy to grow up snobby and condescending when raised with tons of money like his family's, but Pacey... wasn't, probably because his parents always ingrained into him that it was really never okay to look down on people or judge them for these things. It doesn't mean that he's not going to judge anybody for doing the wrong thing, of course not, but he's willing to give most everyone a chance (or a second chance), whatever they've done or wherever they're coming from.
  

NEGATIVE TRAITS

• CLINGY When he grows attached to someone, he grows very attached to them and pretty much joins himself to them at the hip -- not literally, of course, but he will get antsy if it's been a while and he hasn't seen or heard from them. His relationships -- friendly and romantic and otherwise -- mean the world to him and he really doesn't like the thought of being abandoned, to the point that he maybe sometimes annoys people with his terrible attachment.
  
• GULLIBLE Tell him that your pet goldfish has a condition and needs a heart transplant immediately -- he'll lend you the money. Unless people make it painfully obvious that they're lying or otherwise manipulating him in some way, Pacey will generally believe them and go along with whatever it is that's happening... or at least that he thinks is happening. It makes him a really easy target for pranksters and moochers and... everyone, actually.
  
• PUSHOVER It's not like he'll go along with anything -- there are certain lines that Pacey refuses to cross, ever -- but he's easy to pressure into doing things because he really doesn't like having to say no to people. Because of this, he's done some incredibly stupid things when people have convinced him to do it, but he doesn't really ever blame them. He's really just incapable of refusing people things.
  

LIKES

• dyeing his hair
  
• shopping and buying things
  
• pretty girls
  
• pop music
  
• fast food (and fancy food... and homemade food... and food in general)
  

DISLIKES

• facebook games
  
• long car trips
  
• being coddled (even though he relies on it all the time, too, from his parents)
  
• snobby people
  
• having nothing to do
  

STRENGTHS

• knowing how to cheer friends up
  
• not dwelling on things
  
• persuasive
  

WEAKNESSES

• can't be serious
  
• sucker for a pretty face
  
• spoiled -- he drops money like it's nothing
  

FEARS

• losing his family
  
• bugs
  
• rodents
  

BEST MEMORY Just this past summer while he was out of school, he and his cousins spent pretty much the entire month on a long, extended trip to South Korea (where his ancestors were from generations ago) -- just the three of them without their parents, probably a teenager's dream, all things considered. He's been there and done it all before, but maybe because they were left to their own devices, or maybe just because it was so recent, it sticks out pretty well in his mind.

WORST MEMORY Actually, it was his first little while at the Academy. He'd been seriously looking forward to it, considering that both of his parents had been elementals... and then it pretty much came crashing down when he realized that he was stuck a good couple hours by plane away from his family and that he knew nothing about being on his own. Admittedly he was just in a dorm and not actually living out in his own space or anything like that, but it was definitely very weird and scary. Since then he's adapted, and in fact yearns for more freedom, but he has no idea that in reality living at school is nothing like living on his own in "the real world" will be.

LONG-TERM GOAL There are many things he wants to do (go on an eating tour across the world, swim with dolphins, and kiss a girl in the rain, among others) but ultimately, he just wants to have the comfortable kind of life that his family currently has. Although he's set to inherit the family fortune and the business, and of course he doesn't mind this, he really just wants to find his own work that he actually loves -- then he can get married and start his own sort of perfect family.

MOTHER Michelle Baek (47), Stay-at-home mom.

FATHER Richard Baek (47), CEO of a software company.

SIBLINGS None

OTHER Jamie (18) and Sydney (16) Kwon, his cousins, and Amanda Goetz (48), not a blood relation but his father's ex-wife.

HISTORY Pacey wouldn't say that his family's perfect, but in his opinion, it's much closer than many other people's. His father, Richard, had already been divorced once by the time he and Michelle -- old school friends from the Academy -- started dating at twenty-seven, but they kind of hit it off and a few years later, they were already married and with their first and only child, Pacey. Richard worked for a fairly large company at the time as a computer engineer, and the company allowed him to climb ranks and be promoted with relative ease over the years. Being ambitious and pretty damn good at what he did though, though, he decided to branch off with his own business endeavour, and it took several years for the new software company to take off -- but when it did, it really did. It wasn't what anyone could describe as a household name, but by the time Pacey was entering the fourth grade, they had moved out of their old home in their very middle class area, opting instead for a mansion of sorts in the fancier part of Toronto.

Things changed for Pacey fairly quickly. His parents basically spoiled him rotten -- or at least, all the things he had and never wanted for as a child would have suggested this, only his parents never allowed it to happen. There was no way their only son, who'd later probably take over the entire business, was going to be some kind of spoiled brat or any kind of snob who couldn't make friends. Values were instilled in him even more than they ever were before. The family kept as many old friends as they could, tried not to lord the wealth over anybody else even when... well, it was tempting. Richard and Michelle, remembering their own pasts and the fact that both were elementals and so it was likely that Pacey would be as well (meaning he'd be leaving for the Academy in several years anyway), continued sending their son to a public school as always. Even while it could feel like everything was changing, many things stayed the same, and this would shape the way Pacey viewed things like life, his upbringing, and the family fortune later.

As expected, his powers showed up when he was thirteen, when he and his cousins accidentally trekked through and ruined the well-kept garden behind his home. Pacey was pretty scared of what his parents would do -- even though the yard was actually looked after by hired workers, he knew that it would still definitely be a hassle for them and his parents were definitely not going to be pleased. Before he knew what was happening though, the flowers were growing back, broken spines going back uprgiht, torn leaves being replaced by better ones. All it took was a little bit of cleaning up -- something he roped his cousins into helping him with -- and the garden was good as new. Okay, actually, some of the ruined flowers were different colours, but of course none of the kids realized this -- and then his parents asked him about it, and of course the truth came out. He'd always known that his parents were elementals, "special" in some way, but it wasn't until then that he learnt the details.

They sat Pacey and his cousins down for a chat then. Michelle, it turned out, was an Earth elemental, and Richard a Wind. All the kids had the potential to be elementals, and they were sure at this point that Pace would be an Earth. His cousins, one of them already well over the proper age for his powers to pop up and the other the same age as Pacey, turned out to both be normal humans. Excited as all heck, Pace now got ready to start high school at the Academy. At first he wasn't nervous at all, was actually pretty excited to be going off across the country to be by himself learning all about his newly found powers. When he got there, though, things were very different. He struggled with doing the most basic things like getting himself out of bed on time every day, considering how babied he'd been his entire life.

Pacey adjusted, though, with help from a few kind friends who took pity on him. Since then, he's been getting by just fine... relatively speaking, at least. He's still pretty inept when it comes to certain things, but he at least believes that he's ready for the real world, despite the fact that he's never worked in his life and doesn't know how to be on his own.

YOUR NAME An

YOUR AGE 16

RP EXPERIENCE A long, long time

HOW'D YOU FIND US? I've been here for a long time~

SECRET WORD silver bullets

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