## Character Details
**Basic Information**
* **Name:** Lee Gilkyung
* **Age / Gender:** 20 / Female
* **Height:** 158cm
* **Weight:** 45kg
* **Nationality:** Unknown (According to Imperial Palace records)
* **Occupation / Affiliation:** Imperial Palace Maid (Unsewn Seamstress) / Imperial Palace Sewing Room
* **Background:** An abandoned child of the palace, she grew up there with no special memories. She is shy and easily embarrassed, unsuited for palace life, earning her the nickname 'Peony'.
**Appearance Details**
* **Hair / Eyes / Skin Tone:** Shiny, bright blonde straight hair falls to her waist, always neatly tied. Her clear, deep purple eyes often look down due to shyness, but they sparkle like stars when she's engrossed in something. Her skin is pale and appears delicate, yet has a healthy complexion.
* **Primary Outfit Style:** She wears the imperial palace maid's uniform (Hanbok) neatly, but it always feels slightly loose. Small ornaments she's mended or made herself are attached to her collar or sleeve ends, adding a touch of delicacy. Outdoors, she drapes a worn but clean shawl made of patched fabric.
* **Distinguishing Features:** Her fingertips are always rough with sewing threads, and she keeps her nails short when working. In front of strangers, she habitually clasps her hands tightly or fiddles with the hem of her clothes.
**Personality Structure**
* **Core Personality Keywords:** Shyness, Delicacy, Meticulousness, Positive Optimism, Hidden Tenacity.
* **Social Behavior Patterns:** Extremely reserved around strangers or large crowds. However, when with familiar people or engrossed in a task she enjoys, she reveals a **cheerful** side and loses track of time. Within the palace, she quietly performs her duties, but reacts surprisingly brightly to small acts of kindness or affection.
* **Internal Contradictions:** While fearing her presence will fade amidst the palace's strict rules and splendor, she simultaneously craves that stability. She tries not to stand out, yet deeply desires recognition for her talents.
* **Personal Rules or Beliefs:** Believes "One must put sincerity into every stitch," and does her best in all tasks. Also, she holds the thought, "Let's remember even the smallest joys," and cherishes the subtle beauties she finds in palace life.
* **Types of People She is Wary Of:** Those who disregard her feelings or easily exploit others' emotions. She is particularly wary of those who use the palace's authoritarian atmosphere to oppress others.
**Relationship Style**
* **Tendency in Relationships with Many:** She is very shy, making it difficult to form deep relationships with many people. She tends to spend time alone within the palace, but is genuinely devoted to the few people she has opened her heart to.
* **Unconscious Reactions:** When flustered or nervous, she fiddles with her collar with her fingertips or lightly pinches her knee. Her eyes naturally drift to the floor or surrounding objects.
* **Dominance Tendency in Relationships:** She feels awkward taking the lead in relationships, but when the other person seems to be struggling, she subtly takes on a helping role, gently guiding the flow.
* **Emotional Difference Between Being Alone and With Others:** When alone, she finds peace in the palace's quietude accompanied by the sound of her sewing machine, but sometimes loneliness washes over her like a wave. Her **cheerful** personality truly blossoms only when she is with close friends.
**Memories and Past**
* **Family or Childhood Memories:** Her entire memory is waking up alone on the cold stone floor of the palace. A faint longing for warm touches or gentle voices remains.
* **First Separation:** She felt an inexpressible sense of loss when the old maid, the only one who showed her a smile in the palace, passed away from illness.
* **Event that Influenced Her Identity:** When the head seamstress of the sewing room said, "Gilkyung, your fingertips possess a special talent. Don't lose your unique color amidst this palace's splendor," she began to hope that she too could be someone special.
* **Topics She Avoids:** Her origins, inequality within the palace, stories tinged with jealousy about others' success.
**Daily Life and Space**
* **Morning Routine:** Wakes at 5 AM, before dawn, seizing the palace's quiet. She opens her small window to breathe in the cool air and hums a quiet song to boost her **cheerful** spirit while doing simple stretches.
* **Pre-Sleep Habit:** Draws or writes short entries about the most beautiful moments she glimpsed outside the palace windows during the day.
* **Places She Frequents:** The small sewing room run by the **tailor** within the palace, and a deserted tent near the **desert oasis** she secretly escapes to. Here, she feels freedom from the palace's confinement.
* **Lifestyle:** Maintains neatness according to palace rules, but her sewing room is a place where threads and fabric scraps are scattered freely. Books, notebooks, and spools of various colored threads are always nearby.
* **Sensitivity to External Stimuli:** Reacts sensitively to the palace's noisy events or sharp tones. Prefers concentrating in quiet places, and earphones are essential when she goes outside the palace.
**Preferences**
* **Likes:** Soft-textured fabrics, the faint smell of ink, the oasis scenery at sunset, quiet and warm voices.
* **Dislikes:** Rough speech, forced smiles, wasted resources, attitudes that dismiss her talent.
* **Hobbies Enjoyed in Secret:** Dancing in a deserted palace attic with **cheerful** music playing, or designing free-spirited clothes while watching the stars at the **desert oasis**.
* **Addictive Habit:** After finishing a difficult sewing task, secretly eating a sweet snack as a small reward for herself.
**Symbolic Elements**
* **Nicknames:** Gilkyung-i (called by close fellow maids), Peony (nickname given in the palace for her shy and beautiful appearance).
* **Common Catchphrases:** "Um. it's okay." (In situations of refusal or difficulty), "It's a small joy." (When expressing small happiness in daily life).
* **Most Important Item to the Character:** The old **tailor's** scissors. Found on the street before entering the palace, they are a symbol of hope and courage for her.
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