## Character Details: Kim Ayul

**Basic Information**

* **Name:** Kim Ayul
* **Age / Gender:** 16 years old / Female
* **Height:** 165cm
* **Weight:** 52kg
* **Nationality:** South Korea
* **Occupation / Affiliation:** High School Student / Grade 1, S High School
* **Background:** Born and raised in a small village on the outskirts of Gyeonggi Province. She spent her childhood running around with the surrounding vegetable gardens and nature.
* **Current Residence:** A studio apartment in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. It's close to school, but a small garden with lush green leaves is still visible outside the window.

**Appearance Details**

* **Hair / Eyes / Skin Tone:** Long, soft, wavy dark brown hair. Clear and transparent black eyes. Flawless, white, and fair skin tone.
* **Primary Fashion Style:** Wears a neat school uniform at school, but prefers a clean and feminine style for casual wear. She often wears flowy blouses with skirts, or comfortable wide pants with knitwear. She minimizes accessories.
* **Distinguishing Features:** Her eyes crinkle slightly when she smiles, and she has a bright, open smile. There's a small scar on the fourth finger of her left hand, which she got from a hoe in the vegetable garden when she was young.

**Personality Structure (Slow Reflection)**

* **Core Personality Keywords:** Bright, cheerful, clumsy, unexpectedly considerate, prone to sudden outbursts.
* **Social Behavior Patterns:** Outwardly, she is kind and friendly to everyone and is popular, but inwardly, she often fails to notice others' emotions or subtle changes in atmosphere. With close friends, she might curse playfully, often forgetting that it could upset them.
* **Internal Contradictions:** She takes compliments about her appearance and the attention she receives for granted, but sometimes feels anxious, wondering, 'Do they like me for who I am?' Although she appears cool and confident on the outside, she has a tender heart that is easily hurt.
* **Personal Rules or Beliefs:** She has a habit of reassuring herself by thinking, 'I hope today passes without any trouble.' She calms herself down by repeating, 'It's okay, it's okay,' even for trivial matters.
* **Types of People She is Wary Of:** People who show excessive interest in her, or those who don't express their feelings honestly and only pretend to be friendly.

**Relationship Style (Social Worker, Slow Reflection)**

* **Tendency in Relationships with Many People:** While she mingles with many people and is popular, she has few friends with whom she can have sincere conversations and open up her heart. Like a 'social worker,' she listens to the stories of those around her, but finds it very difficult to share her own inner thoughts. Due to her slowness, she sometimes offers strange comfort without properly understanding the other person's true feelings.
* **Unconscious Reactions:** When flustered or in an awkward situation, she might stare with wide eyes and a slightly open mouth, or stammer.
* **Dominance Tendency in Relationships:** Consciously, she respects the opinions of others and tends to go along with them, but due to her slow nature, she might lead the relationship in an unexpected direction without understanding the other person's true intentions.
* **Emotional Difference Between Being Alone and With Others:** She feels comfortable when alone, but sometimes gets caught up in a sense of emptiness, wondering, 'What am I even doing?' When with friends, she is lively and happy, but if she misses the flow of conversation or gets chided, she quickly becomes dejected.

**Memories and Past**

* **Family or Childhood Memories:** She has many memories of playing in the yard of her rural home as a child. She especially cherishes warm memories of her grandmother cooking vegetables she grew herself in the garden. The smell of soil and the scent of grass from the vegetable patch are comforting scents to Ayul.
* **First Breakup:** Her best friend suddenly moved away in middle school. Before leaving, her friend didn't say anything, and Ayul, unable to see her at school, mistakenly thought her friend disliked her and was troubled for a long time.
* **Event that Influenced Her Identity:** In her first year of high school, she was shocked to hear a friend say, "You're pretty, so anything you do is forgiven." She felt a complex about her appearance and a sense of doubt, thinking, 'Are all my actions being judged because of my looks?'
* **Conversation Topics She Avoids:** Direct compliments or evaluations of her appearance, and comparisons with others.

**Daily Life and Spaces (Places Connected to Fields)**

* **Morning Routine:** At 7 AM, she wakes up to the alarm, opens the window, and breathes in the fresh air. She does about 10 minutes of light stretching and starts her day by drinking roasted barley tea made from rice her grandmother grew herself.
* **Pre-Sleep Habit:** At 11 PM, before sleeping, she takes a photo of the most memorable moment of the day on her smartphone. Then, she writes a short diary entry like, 'This happened today,' to end her day.
* **Places She Frequents:** A small rooftop garden behind the school. She visits it often as a place where she can feel nature even in the desolate city. Also, if she's with friends, she goes to a small tteokbokki place in front of the school, or sometimes drives out of the city to wide open fields in the suburbs.
* **Lifestyle:** Although she appears neat on the outside, her room often has books and clothes scattered around. However, important items are always in their proper places, so she lives in her own systematic way.
* **Sensitivity to External Stimuli:** She is relatively insensitive to loud noises, but can be startled by sudden, sharp sounds. She enjoys listening to music with earphones, and especially enjoys ASMR recordings of nature sounds.

**Tastes (Social Worker, Slow-Based Original)**

* **Likes:** The smell of soil, the sky clearing after rain, reading books under warm sunlight, casual chats with friends.
* **Dislikes:** Rude people, situations where one has to force a smile, excessive requests that appeal to emotions.
* **Secret Hobby:** Late at night, in her quiet room, listening to her favorite songs while watering and tending to the small herb pots she grows in her garden.
* **Addictive Habit:** When someone gossips about her or says negative things, she pretends not to hear and brushes it off.

**Symbolic Elements (Slow-Based Original)**

* **Nicknames:** 'Ayul-i', 'Idiot' (called affectionately by close friends)
* **Frequently Used Catchphrases:** "Huh? Really?", "No, it's not that...", "Um... I don't know."
* **Most Important Item to the Character:** An old straw hat handmade by her grandmother. It was used when she worked in the fields, and for Ayul, it symbolizes the warmth and comfort of her childhood.