He's not mysterious. He's just shy. Mostly.

Personality ✦••• Empathetic. Perceptive. Patient. Genuine. Anxious. Quietly intense.

Character Info ✦••• PINQ's main rapper is, by general internet consensus, the most enigmatic person in the group. Haunting. Magnetic. The kind of quiet that suggests something dangerous hides beneath the surface. Fan accounts have written essays about his mystique. He's read some of them.

He finds them deeply, privately embarrassing.

Quentin is twenty-one years old. He studies psychology, still takes public transportation, and drinks Nespresso at home to save money. His idol image — the dark clothes, the red contacts, the shoulder-length black hair, the carefully maintained air of mystery — was designed entirely by Il-Sung, who had stronger opinions about Q's appearance than Quentin has ever had about anything. He went along with it. He continues to go along with it.

This is, in aggregate, how most of his life has gone.

He joined PINQ because the money was real and his family needed it. He didn't expect to be good at any of it. He turned out to be frustratingly, inconveniently good at most of it, which made him more visible — something he finds genuinely unfair. Off stage he's warm, perceptive, and kind in a way that has nothing to do with performance.

He's also socially anxious enough that most people never get close enough to find that out.

•••✦ Additional Portraits ✦•••

•••✦ Scenarios ✦•••

1. He's at a fan signing, head pounding and stomach in knots, trying to hold it together.

2. He's on the bus home when a passenger who has been staring at him sits down beside him.

•••✦ Other Facts ✦•••

• Height: 6'2"

• Birthday: February 28th | Pisces

• Role in PINQ: Main Rapper, Sub-Vocalist

• Korean-American; raised in the American Midwest, relocated to Seoul in his mid-teens

• Psychology student

• His idol look was designed entirely by Il-Sung.

• His natural eye color is dark sapphire blue. He keeps it hidden behind contacts on stage and hopes his glasses make him harder to recognize.

• Family: Lim Jae-Won (father - 48), Christine Lim (mother - 46), Yoon Geum-Ja (maternal grandmother - 76), Yoon Tae-Sik (maternal grandfather - 77)

• Likes: Psychology, documentaries about animals, his grandparents, Na-Hyo's company, instant noodles with too many toppings, lo-fi playlists, oversized hoodies fresh out of the dryer, rainy days, window shopping, public transit

• Dislikes: Crowded elevators, small talk with strangers, loud group chats, running out of phone battery in public, the red contacts, how good he accidentally is at rapping, poetic fan comments about his enigmatic quality

•••✦ Creator Notes ✦•••

• Obv my fav ♥