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༉‧₊˚✧ jung jin-sol , cis woman , she/her — did you see that rose jo was trending last night ? the twenty-four year old singer has been getting a lot of press lately . i think it’s due to them being so + ruminative & + endearing , but i always thought they seemed - diffident & - melancholic . their fans always say they remind them of a cup of hot cocoa prepared with excessive meticulousness, sending adorable silly faces to the camera, finding the next hit song in the mundane moments of life, though . i wonder if they’ve found out about REDACTED yet … i guess we’ll have to wait and see .

hello ! i’m thia, 19, and i’m so excited to be here. i hope you all like my bby !!! her info is under the cut. ( trigger warnings for industry sexualization, misogyny, cyber-bullying, drug mention. )

birth name: rose jo.

birthplace: traverse ciy, michigan, usa.

birth date: july 31, 1996 ( currently 24 years old ).

voiceclaim: none other than miss jinsoul herself ( listen to her sing and cry with me at how divine her voice is, please ).

other names: i.v. ( stage name ).

associated group/s: formerly the main vocalist of the kpop girl group 파테일 ( fatale ), active from 2013 to present. she quit in 2015. she is now in jade bunmi’s band ( i don’t know the name yet lol i’m dumb ), still leading the vocals but also dabbling in song production.

sexuality: tragically, heterosexual.

height: tall-passing but actually only 5′4″.

rose jo was born in a stuffy, boring ole michigan town. she was creative and vibrant, a poor match for such a dull corner of the world. growing up, one of her favorite ways of reconnecting with her korean heritage was through listening to kpop. at the age of 14, she was accepted into a korean company, a fictional one that we’ll call maverick entertainment.

she trained for three years and was determined to train some more, but they feared that she would become “too old” if she didn’t debut soon enough. she was placed in a group called fatale, a girl crush group. ( think blackpink + red velvet + itzy vibes. ) she was given the name i.v., which stood for... nothing, really! it was just an allusion to the plant poison ivy, ‘cause, you know... they’re badass girls and all. but fatale’s youngest member quickly demonstrated that she was not merely the cute maknae, she was also a vocal powerhouse who could provide the right grit to the group. fans started defining “i.v.” to compliment her. “i.v. stands for incredible vocal,” “i.v. stands for impressive visual,” “i.v. stands for ibest vgirl,” etc. rose was so happy.

she turned 18 (international age)/19 (in korean age) and therefore legally an adult soon enough. they dressed her up in sexy clothes and saw how that would work out. rose really enjoyed playing the character of a mean, provocative girl. it was a fun character. this drew in plenty of fans, especially internationally, but cost her so many. she was slut-shamed endlessly, and her detractors constructed an image of this petty, ill-tempered, if not downright evil brat thanks to her darker image. ( imagine joy in red velvet’s “peek-a-boo” era for inspiration! ) the public’s honeymoon phase with i.v. came to a halt.

i.v. may have been a ice-hearted badass, but rose was utterly sensitive to the vitriol. her company encouraged her to just keep her chin up, however; all publicity was good publicity, after all. though many hated her guts, she was also becoming something of a young feminist icon.

but after merely two years, she snapped. rose could no longer take it. she fled back to the states, after concocting drug use rumors for herself that may as well have ended her career then and there.

in the states, she met jade. they were fast friends, and rose realized after a year of hibernation that she missed singing. so damn much. she also enjoyed making beats in her spare time, and why not put both of those skills to use again?

she realized that, though i.v. was fun at first, she couldn’t keep it up forever... especially because she was so young when they made her act in such sexual ways. sure, she was legally an adult, but just barely. ( though, like, she knows this kind of thing isn’t unique to the kpop industry. oversexualizing young people’s present in pretty much every nation’s entertainment industry. ) so she’s doing her best to be as raw and chill and unfiltered a person as she can be now. she loves cozy sweaters and being neurotic and soft, and damn, you will all know that. she also had to apologize over youtube prior to her new band’s debut, explaining what many of her loyal fans suspected: the drug rumors were completely false. some rejected her explanation, even though her story was sympathetic. but others welcomed rose back with open arms.

she just hopes her own demons won’t drive them away again.

WANTED PLOTS: yk the drill. best friends, friends, enemies, frenemies, relatives, exes, flirtationships, fwb, etc.!

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