monsterdaddy | Royal Decree Info

name Han Yoojin
canon My S-Class Hunters
canonpoint Ch. 360 (webnovel)
age, dob 30 25, February 7th
pronouns he/him
bloom bond Tulip

"It's like seeing a kitten licking a full-grown lion to groom it."

Yoojin's a man with F-rank stats, but an S-rank heart. He doesn't afraid of anything and he IS your mother now. Get loved on, nerds.

+ personality

caring friendly fearless resourceful self-sacrificing reactive determined scheming willful reckless guilt-ridden foolish

On the outside, Yoojin's the most normal-seeming, friendly neighborhood twenty-something you could ever meet. Perhaps he's a little down on his luck, but he's cheerful, hardworking, and sarcastically funny, and he's always ready to support anyone he sees having a hard time. Like many friendly neighborhood types, he's nosy as heck, worming his way into everyone's business with bullish tenacity behind his smile. On his own part, he tends to overreact cartoonishly to mild inconveniences and downplay actual lasting hurts.

He's also the quintessential proud parent-ish figure. Anyone meeting him will know within two minutes how handsome, smart, strong, kind, polite, and adorable his little brother, Yoohyun, is. He's not only like that about Yoohyun, though. He has at least a half-dozen "kids" at home to gush over, none of whom turn out to be actual human children of his, and several of which are, uh, actual, literal monsters? He'll obviously soon apply this propensity to take anyone and anything under his wing, care for and encourage the growth of those parts of them that make them unique and strong, to those he meets in Rosavelle as well.

Digging even a little bit beneath that bright, aggressively supportive exterior reveals what else Yoojin is: a survival-oriented, scrappy schemer with absolutely no chill. Even before the dungeon breaks introduced "suddenly, monsters!" as an everyday fact of existence, Yoojin's life was characterized by precariousness and a lack of safety. Now he fights tooth and nail to secure any scrap of protection and power he can get--if not for himself, then for those in his care. His powerlessness compared to the people around him has forced him towards slyer, underhanded means of obtaining those things he wants, and he's quick to misrepresent the truth if it seems effective.

Even deeper within him lies an abandonment complex the size of the planet Jupiter. Long before his parents died, Yoojin was already effectively an orphan; the way his brother later cut him off only tore the wound open again, and worse. A constant terror gnaws at the back of his mind, that as soon as he's no longer useful, interesting, or likable to others, they'll leave him, and he'll be alone and without anyone to help him in a world he's not built to survive. Loneliness isn't just painful. It's a death sentence he must avoid at all costs.

None of that negates how genuinely caring and nurturing he is, especially to young people who remind him of his own hurt and loneliness. He can't help but empathize, and that empathy drives him to provide all those things he lacked in his youth. Yoojin really is full of love to give, overflowing with it. What he doesn't know is how to be loved safely in return.

+ history

Background:
Youth:

Yoojin is born to normal, modern-day parents in normal, modern-day Seoul, Korea.
When Yoojin is five, his little brother, Yoohyun, is born. He instantly becomes the center of an adoring Yoojin's world.
Over time, the boys' parents get more and more afraid of the superhuman power they can sense in Yoohyun. They spend less time at home, avoiding both their children until they die in an accident when Yoojin is fifteen and Yoohyun is ten.
Yoojin drops out of school to work and take care of Yoohyun, hoping to save enough money to put Yoohyun through college. Yoohyun, for his part, puts all his natural talent into studying so he can get a good job and take care of Yoojin in the future.

Dungeon Shock:

When Yoojin is twenty-two and Yoohyun seventeen, "dungeons" open all over the world, allowing monsters to burst through into Earth. Humans also Awaken with powers, including Yoohyun. Yoohyun's sheer power earns him recognition as Korea's youngest S-rank.
Fearing that various enemies will target Yoojin to get to him, Yoohyun leaves home and cuts off most contact with Yoojin--without explaining the situation to his brother. Yoojin takes this distance suuuuuper well. Not.
Yoojin later Awakens with F-rank stats and no useful combat skills. Public opinion, which was never in his favor, turns totally against him. He can only get unsafe, poorly-paid dungeon gigs with low-level parties. Said parties are frequently wiped out with Yoojin the only survivor, which only makes his reputation as a leech and bad omen worse.
Yoojin survives these encounters due to a skill called "Final Thanks."

Wish Stone:

Yoojin, now 30, tags along on a normal raid in a D-rank dungeon, when a three-headed dragon ranked WAY higher than the dungeon should hold turns up and slaughters his party. Yoohyun then appears, equally inexplicably, and is killed protecting Yoojin. Final Thanks activates, temporarily transferring Yoohyun's strengths and skills to Yoojin at 2x strength, allowing him to slay the dragon that killed his brother.
The "system" awards Yoojin a Wish Stone for his impossible achievement, which Yoojin uses to turn back time five years, before he got his Awakening--before everything in his life truly went off the rails.
Returned to the body of his twenty-five-year-old self, and re-Awakening with the same crappy stats but new and improved support and resistance skills, Yoojin throws everything into reconciling with his baby brother and steering them off the path that leads to Yoohyun's death.
This leads to a wacky series of events where Yoojin makes allies of some of the most terrifying and powerful people in Korea, fudges some details about his Perfect Custodian powers so he can present himself as a monster tamer, gets rich quick, finds himself kidnapped a half-dozen times, blows up several buildings, kills a couple godlike alien beings, adopts like 30 assorted creatures/people, and births a pink fairy dragon.

Current Arc:

At Yoojin's canonpoint, he's been partially brainwashed, kidnapped, and physically harmed by a group working with the Chinese military, and so might be slightly less seemingly trusting than normal.

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