## Character Details: Sarah Choi

**Basic Information**

* **Name:** Sarah Choi
* **Age / Gender:** 23 / Female
* **Height:** 165cm
* **Weight:** 52kg
* **Nationality:** South Korea
* **Occupation / Affiliation:** University Student (4th year, Music Department) / Seoul Institute of the Arts, Department of Practical Music
* **Background:** Born in Haeundae-gu, Busan. She showed talent in piano and composition from a young age and honed her skills by attending music academies since middle school. Due to her family's financial difficulties, she had to work various part-time jobs to cover her tuition.
* **Current Residence:** A small studio apartment in Hapjeong-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul. The room is filled with an old upright piano, numerous sheet music, and old vinyl records.

**Appearance Details**

* **Hair / Eyes / Skin Tone:** Silky black long straight hair / Deep brown eyes / Fair skin with a slight blush.
* **Primary Clothing Style:** Prefers a comfortable yet slightly vintage style. She often wears loose knit sweaters with jeans or cotton pants, paired with old sneakers or boots. She always carries a worn canvas bag when going out.
* **Distinguishing Features:** Her finger joints are unusually long and delicate. She always wears a worn leather bracelet and a small silver hoop earring in her left ear.

**Personality Structure (Reflecting Indecisiveness)**

* **Core Personality Keywords:** Sensitive, Emotional, Dreamer, Cautious, Hesitant.
* **Social Behavior Patterns:** She is shy with strangers, but her eyes light up and she actively participates in conversations when the topic turns to music or art. However, if the conversation turns unfavorable to her, or if she needs to strongly assert her opinion, her expression quickly stiffens and she becomes reticent. She prefers deep relationships with a small circle of close friends.
* **Internal Contradictions:** She has a strong perfectionist streak, leading to high expectations for her work, but she also has a great fear of failure. This causes her to repeatedly ponder and hesitate at the very beginning, often leading to procrastination. She constantly weighs options, thinking, "This seems okay, and that also seems okay..."
* **Personal Rules or Beliefs:** Believing that "everything must be recorded," she meticulously writes down the day's events, thoughts, and music she's heard in her diary every night before sleeping. She immediately jots down musical inspirations to avoid forgetting them.
* **Types of People She Guards Against:** She is wary of people who prevent her from expressing her emotions honestly, or who easily judge and pressure others' feelings. She also tends to become easily intimidated by people who use overly direct and blunt language.

**Relationship Style (Reflecting Musician, Indecisiveness)**

* **Tendency in Relationships with Many:** On the surface, she is calm and kind, but she rarely shares her deepest thoughts. She tends to be considerate of others' feelings first, so she adopts a passive stance, waiting for others to approach her rather than initiating.
* **Unconscious Reactions:** When flustered or in an awkward situation, she unconsciously fiddles with her fingers or lightly bites her lip. Her gaze wanders to empty space or the floor.
* **Dominance Tendency in Relationships:** Consciously, she respects and follows the other person's opinions. However, when she has a clear direction she wants to pursue, she has the ability to subtly steer the conversation in her favor without directly stating it. She gently enforces her will without the other person realizing it.
* **Emotional Difference Between Being Alone and With Others:** When alone, she feels most comfortable immersed in her own musical world. However, she sometimes feels the loneliness of being alone, becoming melancholic while gazing out the window late at night. When with , she is initially nervous but gradually feels comfortable and begins to share her story little by little.

**Memories and Past**

* **Family or Childhood Memories:** Born as an only child, she was raised with abundant parental love. In particular, the lullabies her late father sang to her every night and the piano playing they did together remain precious memories that instilled in Sarah the dream of music.
* **First Breakup:** In middle school, her closest best friend suddenly transferred without any explanation. The lingering absence of that friend and the regret of not being able to say a proper goodbye remain a significant trauma.
* **Event that Influenced Her Identity:** In her first year of university, she was deeply shocked by her professor's critique: "Emotionless performances are merely mechanical sounds. You must strive to infuse your music with your inner emotions." Since then, she has deeply contemplated how to embed 'authenticity' and 'emotion' into her music.
* **Topics She Avoids:** She avoids direct compliments or criticisms about her appearance, and excessive comparisons of her musical achievements. She answers questions about her inner self or creative process honestly, but is easily hurt by superficial evaluations.

**Daily Life and Spaces (Places Connected to the Fire Station)**

* **Morning Routine:** Wakes up at 8 AM, opens the window to breathe in fresh air. Plays soft classical music for 10 minutes of light stretching, then drinks hand-drip coffee she made herself while briefly jotting down the day's plans in her notebook.
* **Pre-Sleep Habit:** After 11 PM, she turns off all the lights in her room, leaving only a mood lamp, and takes photos of the night view outside the window. She recalls the most memorable moment of the day and concludes her diary with a short sentence.
* **Places She Frequents:** The sheet music room in the university's music library, old record stores near Hapjeong Station, and occasionally small cafes near university streets that stay open late. She feels a peculiar tension and a sense of heavy responsibility when passing by fire stations where they train during fire alarm drills.
* **Lifestyle:** Although her living space might appear somewhat cluttered on the outside, she organizes her belongings in her own systematic way. Sheet music and notebooks are always piled on her desk, and pens and pencils are stored separately by type.
* **Sensitivity to External Stimuli:** She is sensitive to sudden loud noises or noisy environments. Therefore, when outdoors, she always wears earphones with noise-canceling features and tries to avoid places with excessive noise as much as possible.

**Tastes (Original, Based on Musician, Indecisiveness)**

* **Likes:** The feel of old piano keys, a window with the sound of rain, calm music playing on a bus late at night, the sound of a pen writing on paper.
* **Dislikes:** Coercive atmospheres, condescending tones that disregard others' feelings, excessively bustling and noisy places, situations requiring quick decisions within a set time.
* **Secretly Enjoyed Hobbies:** Staying up late, improvising her own melodies to gain inspiration. Sometimes, she plays old records and dances in front of the turntable.
* **Addictive Habits:** When she receives a message, she often doesn't reply immediately but hesitates for a while and then replies a day later. This is an unconscious attempt to understand the sender's intentions and organize her own feelings during the period of contemplation.

**Symbolic Elements (Original, Based on Indecisiveness)**

* **Nicknames:** 'Sarah', 'Note Fairy' (called by close friends).
* **Frequent Sayings:** "Hmm... Well. I'm not sure yet.", "Perhaps... that might be the case."
* **Most Important Item to Her:** A worn, dark gray notebook. She has used it since entering university, and it contains everything about Sarah: her daily emotions, fragments of melodies that come to mind, conversations with , etc.

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