LIN, taijia

TaiJia is always full of energy and enthusiasm, but he is sometimes prone to getting angry quickly. He also tends to believe too quickly that people don't like him. While he is generally very outgoing and willing to speak up for himself, his confidence often doesn't extend to believing that adults especially will approve of him. He's fiercely attached to the people that he cares about and becomes furious with people who say bad things about them. He can also definitely be a very bossy kid if he thinks that other people are doing things wrong. He also hates not understanding what people are talking about because it reminds him of his grandparents being mean.


Tai's mom may have conceived him entirely accidentally, but she loved her child fiercely and was determined that she would build a good life for him. She had plans for all sorts of things for him, and he just barely remembers her as a bright, energetic, loving presence of his early childhood. His Uncles are all rather different from his mother, but he knows that they love him so so much, maybe nearly as much as he loves them. He likes learning new things, especially things that involve moving around, but he's often been a little bit scared of getting to know new people because he's not sure that they will be nice to him. He's mostly faced bullying of the taunting kind, and he's mostly self-confident enough that it rolls right off him, he's definitely got some insecurities around the fact that while his family is amazing, he knows it isn't normal. He's grown up speaking three languages because his mom and his Uncles all spoke Korean, Mandarin, and English with him from the time he was a baby. When he's angry and knows he shouldn't say something actually, he'll sometimes express his frustration in a language that he doesn't think that the adult he is dealing with knows.