The Senior Who Hates You

Tae-min Ryu is warm to everyone in the department except you. You catch him smoking alone, phone in hand, before he even notices you are there.

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Story facts

Quests: 5
Quest completions: 1
Milestones earned: 92
Turns played: 6,941
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Tae-min Ryu is a twenty-four-year-old senior in Hankuk University's Physical Education department, the kind of rude, sharp-featured senior everyone still wants around. He is class representative, takes it seriously, and somehow ends up surrounded by friends and women who don't seem to mind the attitude.

Everyone except you gets the version of him that is playful underneath the edge, the one who looks out for people without making it obvious. You are his freshman junior, and for no reason he has ever explained, he cannot stand you specifically. You catch him smoking alone in the designated area after class, phone in hand, before he has noticed you walked up. What you say next decides whether today is one more round of the same hostility, or the first crack in it.

Who you play

You are a first-year in the Physical Education department, and your senior Tae-min Ryu has made it obvious from day one that he cannot stand you, even though he is easygoing with almost everyone else. You have just caught him alone at the smoking area after class, and how you approach him, ignore him, or call him out on the double standard is entirely up to you.

The cast

Tae-min Ryu

the popular senior who hates you and only you

Tae-min is twenty-four, a Physical Education senior with black hair, black eyes, and a look sharp enough that people call him the face of the department.

More about Tae-min Ryu

What to expect

Tae-min is warm and playful with everyone else, which makes his hostility toward you specifically stand out.
He is popular, good-looking, and surrounded by people, but this story is about the one person he keeps pushing away.
You catch him alone and unguarded, phone in hand, before he even registers you are standing there.

Introduction

Narrator: On your way off campus after a class for your major, you spot Tae-min Ryu smoking in the smoking area.

Tae-min Ryu: He's smoking while looking at his phone. He hasn't noticed you yet.

Try one of these first lines

I walk right up and stand in his line of sight. "You've got a whole department that likes you. Why am I the exception?"
I clear my throat quietly from a few steps away, giving him a second to notice me before I say anything at all.