Name Daniel 'Changkyun' Im D.O.B. / Age 26, January 1998 / 24 Proportions 5'11½" / 176 lbs / * Residence Chicago, Illinois Family Homes Dover, Massachusetts
Pine, Colorado
Occupation Entrepreneur, Architect, Home Designer Alma Mater Cornell University Pet Gladys & Wheatley
from womb to tomb, we are bound to others.

In the beginning, there were the lights and then there was creation. As dawn on the first notion of life came to exist, so too did a measure of things: eternity itself was born of the light, created unto itself, and that is as it would always be. The creator, the lights, eternity and creation. All other things came from this: death, life, destiny, right and wrong. The worlds would spin and unravel, and life would cycle until the end of the universe before things began again. It has been this way for all of time and will continue as such until the end of all things. Revni itself has existed through hundreds of cycles of eternity, hundreds of births of a universe, hundreds of ends. The years are measured now in numbers there are no words for and through it all there was Eternity, building and breaking, giving time to all things.

At times, Eternity necessitated a host. A temporary form, a physical nature that it could take over, just to manage a better understanding of the nature of mortal things. It would have been impossible otherwise to properly measure what a lifetime could mean, what quick sparks of passing days managed to exact into. Every time has been different, a rejection of full understanding thanks to hosts that did not match the true nature of Eternity. That, too, is as it has always had to be, until Daniel Im.

Daniel was born into grace and privilege. Kallai Im was the son of supreme judge in Seoul and his devout religious wife when he'd met Juliétte and fallen in love. She was traveling then, the summer of '85, and Kallai might have lied a little about his age to try and show off and impress the young French woman. It was a passionate romance and swept them both up; they ran off from Korea the instant they learned that Juliétte was pregnant, landing in America with some friends from the military. They were married in a quick ceremony before Siphrah was born — a marriage they renewed, properly, later in life when all had been amended. Things were difficult, at first, with parents not supporting the way either of them could have hoped for. But they had their friends and America was meant for opportunity.

They moved around for a while and at some point (when Sif was 8, Daniel has heard, though his parents never confirm) Kallai's parents reached out. They helped, and then Juliétte found solace in her family soon after. Michigan to California, Florida and finally Boston, where Daniel Im was first born years after everything had settled. Grace, and privilege, from the start. His father a Reverend in a well-to-do church at the time, rising the ranks and Juliétte, well, she had found a small space to open a chocolate shop that had gone further than she ever hoped for. It kept them busy while Daniel was young but, well, it kept the house full and it kept things from ever being too difficult, which was a hardship Sif suffered in silence before him.

Back then, they were living in the Back Bay area, right down with the congregation. Just a walk away from Trinity Church with their father always working, and a bus ride in the other direction to Cocolat where their mother spent most of her time, steps that lead her to become a lifestyle mogul and the First Lady of Chocolate in the food industry. No matter their busy days, they always had time for family; for holidays spent well, for dinners together around a table, for school shows and project assistance. Sif and Daniel were only on their own sometimes and well, they made the best of that like children tend to do.

Sure, it meant some trouble here and there — there Was that time Daniel swore he could do a backflip off Christopher's porch into his pool and he didn't quite synch the landing and shattered his right hand in three places — but nothing was ever that difficult, either. They wanted for nothing and were raised to be giving folk. Learned not just of the bible but other religions, other philosophies of life, they spent summers doing charity work and helped at the church three times a year, at least. They could and would do anything they wanted, with full support, and they always made sure that was clear as day. It made everything peachy keen and comfortable, even the uncomfortable coming out as gay Daniel had to undergo later in life.

There was only one thing, one memory Daniel would have forgotten in another life — a memory that has faded in other lives, in other universes that mirror our own — and it was no result of working hard or busy parents. Hanging out with his best friend, Barbra, and doing their homework together (which, really, meant telling dirty jokes they'd heard and needed to master the language of), Daniel was first met with tragedy. True tragedy. A drive by shooting against some local gangster sent bullets spraying into Barbra's bedroom. At just 9 years old, Daniel watched her chest start to bleed out and her mouth dribble red. Unsure of what to do, a change began in him and the world slowed. He didn't know what he was doing exactly but Daniel did feel it; he felt the way the universe did not want to give her time, did not want to let him take it so easily. So, he pushed outward instead of trying to swallow in. The streets filled with noise and it was Daniel who faded instead, glows of him drifting off his skin to wrap around Barbra.

One life, for another.

And with an instant, Daniel was not in Boston anymore. He was not in a princess pink bedroom with a dying friend bleeding into his hands. He was somewhere with more lights than he could count and he was glowing, aged and young and born and dead all at once. The glow around him began to speak, first in words he didn't understand and then in a voice of power he'd always respected. It told him what he was doing, asked why he would do that. "Do you want to die?", Revni asked. "Of course not," the boy replied, voice a quiver and mess. "But I don't want Babs to die." It tried, reasoned with an understanding of morality, or life and death. Explained to the child that his family would be sad, surely. That he had things to do. But he persisted, demanding, pulling at the force around him to save her no matter what it took.

So, Revni agreed; Barbra rose from her bedroom floor and time itself rewound. No broken glass, no bullet, no gunshots. Her mind wrapped around the absence as a daydream, as some nightmare she'd have a few times in her life then forget again with a fresh drink of water. But Daniel stayed there in the room with too many lights and endless bright. And the glow began to grow, to culminate before him in something brave and kind as Daniel looked through and saw Barbra alive. Revni didn't quite understand it but as its wings took to color it sent the boy away, trying to finish a becoming that it had never had to face before.

Daniel figured it was something like a dream, too. But his didn't become nightmares the way it did for Babs. He dreamt of heroes, of fighting crime and saving lives. He had dreams of wild birds that took to the sky and made the sun spin backwards out of time, and glows that turned dark and dangerous streets into something safer and kinder again. All the while, Revni persisted, altering the plans just enough. Daniel was not to get his powers just yet; his gift had already done enough to alter Revni and the entity of Eternity was not quite ready to understand the how and why of that. So, he lived a normal life, his family choosing to move out of Boston after his relationship with Joshua came to an end; no more shooting chances, as Barbra herself found a way to leave the streets of it, to find a place on runways and in stardom.

Small changes for eternity, but large branches of new for mortal lives.

Hope persisted and Daniel always yearned for something like a new form of bad trip. His imagination had never quit — his dreams became daydreams and Daniel found himself drawing out new scopes, new worlds, new escapes all through his life. So, he'd enjoyed some things like being a youth pastor at his church, like making fun songs now and again but when it came time for defining decisions in life he chose architecture and design and got himself into Cornell University for it. But then, life found its way, as persistent as these things could come to be. Death found Daniel, technically, in 2017. The collision of universes without meaning kept even Revni confused but the instant it found him, chaos unraveled. The boy bled until his blood was black and then — he vanished.

The day after, in his place, was Revni; a mimic of Daniel whose soul not only called to Revni but took its hand and asked to be let go of. Eternity persisted, and then it became him, living as a mortal for the first time in its older-than-ancient life. Things were overwhelming to say the least, and Revni hadn't actually managed to take over the way it normally would, either. Daniel took the reigns, now and again, but caught in his crystal — that came to rest on Mount Greylock at some point in time through 2017, though no one has ever been exactly sure of when — he had other things to tend to. So, Revni functioned off his baser instincts; it felt what Daniel felt, it knew what he knew and it reacted in its best approximation.

For two years, it did things oddly. Once, it ate a tire, the first week of living trapped in real flesh and urges. It made relationships strangely and it took to sex like it was in heat. These things became conversations Daniel had through time and space, trying to appease Revni, trying to guide and teach it; it was forced to protect people, to help people, not just live as selfish wants and wishes. And Daniel, well... he learned what Shiim'd Ti was really for and about.

The nearly two years on Earth became ages for Daniel trapped in a spiral of eternity. There, he met cascades of death, various reapers, eminations and gods of mortality from every universe known and unknown. Daniel was forced to build for them; to learn the weight of a soul, the heaviness of decisions. As Revni learned the complex absurdity of being a mortal, Daniel learned the endless work of eternity. Respect not just for souls but choices, actions and results, building a heaven, a hell, a new cycle for all the lives that required it... while he lived a few million years this way, building and toiling and understanding, it never felt like long at all. Time, for the One-True, becomes ephemeral.

The culmination of their time together peaked on March 18, 2018. Though the fundementals of church had always gone over Revni's head, the love that Daniel's family had not just for one another but every person who entered Trinity Church was a defining trait of human nature for the entity. As Daniel, it celebrated Sundays, played with children and took to the altar with no faith but Love and was welcomed. Good, bad or indifferent, it felt his strength in this and welcomed it. But others did not so much and Jack Meachum tried to take matters into his own hand. The first shots rang out and Daniel's flesh alerted Revni to it more than anything; he rose up from the front of the church and it was Revni taking action before it even understood why. Protect, it thought. Not a fear of death but a fear of losing. And the body it had lived in, as Daniel, tried to calm the shooter before it knew what was happening.

Most of the bullets hit Daniel Im. The reports discussed it. A full clip let loose from a semi automatic weapon, but somehow the gun had pointed down the boy's body and torn him through. The church was to be closed for further notice, the family in greiving, and then things got strange. The crystal that had found itself on Mount Greylock began to hover higher and higher, began to glow more and more. By the next Sunday, news reports around it were already eclipsing the arrest and trial of Jack Meachum. By the Sunday after, word was different. Because the crystal had peeled open like thick velvet and from it Daniel had emerged again, until the whole of the darkness and light had dripped over his shoulders and turned to new clothes.

The gung-ho absurdity of being some second coming died out soon — not nearly soon enough for Daniel, who tried to get back to studying instead of focusing on anything else — but it was there. It drove new crowds to Trinity Church, it called reporters to doors and Daniel ignored everything he could. Because he was changed now, as was the soul inside of him. He was no savior, or second coming at all; he was something new, altogether, a First in all of history that had been before history had even begun. One-True. It didn't stop his idea of life, didn't even falter him longer than it had to as he went back to Cornell and finished his degree.

It simply gave time a new view, his costume on for odd nights where he slipped through the cracks of time and made things a little better, a little more of a haven for those who had need now, before their own eternity came to be.

Eternity belonged to no man for a reason, however, and the urges Revni felt had consquences beyond making Daniel a bit of an ass or a bit of a fool. In galaxies beyond our own things did as they were always meant to do; worlds died and stars collapsed but this time they fell out of time, their energy expanding into the nature of the cosmos and becoming something dark, something worse. Forevers with no purposes, Forevers with hunger and craving and needs now.

For years, they've stirred and grown, fading into darkness before being caught or found. And now, the True Forevers have taken notice of the loss and begun their journey to find why Revni has ceased its runs of creation and allowed itself to learn of hunger, and horror and want. They aim to solve the problems however they need to, no matter what horizon awaits thereafter.

Yul Im
paternal grandfather
Retired Seoul Supreme Court Justice, Yul has always been a steady man of the community. Quiet and obtuse, he keeps his opinions to himself and follows what's considered right and just. Yul was wise with money and invested as he worked which has kept he and his wife afloat since retirement.

pb: shin young kyun
dob: 11/06/38

Alexis Im
paternal grandmother
Alexis herself is a quintessential homemaker and dedicated her life to her children and her Catholic groups and friends. Alexis is who thought a move to America was vital for the family; she has since taken to traveling with Yul five or six times a year.

pb: alexis rhee
dob: 05/18/44

Kallai Im
father — dr. reverend
Born in Seoul, Kallai immigrated with his family as a teenager to America. He ended up meeting and falling for an older woman and the rest, as they say, is history; married young, they came together and each chased their dreams in turns. He worked his way up the church rankings to become the Rector of the Trinity Church in Boston. Kallai is a progressive leader for the church and has turned it into something of a megachurch serving over 4,000 extended families — or, roughly, 11,000 individuals.

pb: song kangho
dob: 01/17/67

Alain Bellerose
maternal grandfather
A recently retired French conductor, Alain dedicated his life to music and the arts, working as musical director for the Orchestra of Lille for over 30 years and recieving several distinctions and national honors for his work. Now retired, Alain has settled into a home that Daniel bought and upended for he and his wife and spends most of his time in France, traveling to America only twice a year.

pb: alain delon
dob: 11/08/35

Brigitte Bellerose
maternal grandmother
A retired ballerina and star of the stage, Brigitte now stars as vice-president of the Paris Conservatory as well as a member of the board of the CSA. Brigitte's love for sweets is where Juliétte recieved her own chocolate fascinaton and she has a brand of chocolate and bourbon croissants in Cocolat named "Bibi Breads" for her nickname when on stage.

pb: brigitte bardot
dob: 09/28/34

mother — lifestyle mogul
Juliétte's dreams started small: a chocolate shop named Cocolat that she could dedicate herself to. The brand expanded, however, and she got popular enough to write a cookbook that threw her dreams into a spiral. She's expanded Cocolat into a chain worldwide and created something of a lifestyle brand for herself: catering, housekeeping, entertaining and general well-being while balancing working, family and her own business. Juliétte has recieved several honors including: Legion d'Honneur, Chevalier (2020), National Woman's Hall of Fame induction in 2019, James Beard, Julia Childs and ICP awards for her cookbooks, a seat on the Women's Foodservice Forum Board of Directors and the title of 'First Lady of Chocolate' internationally.

pb: juliette binoche
dob: 03/09/64

sister — writer
A three-time Emmy Award winning screenplay writer, Sif, as Daniel has always called her, got lucky. Her father knew someone who worked for Lifetime and the rest was, well, history; she'd always excelled at writing stories but she's come to find a niche she finds cute and fun with writing cute novelty romance novels and novelty films like her most famous — A Christmas Prince.

pb: pom klementieff
dob: 05/03/86

Do-Yeon Im
paternal aunt
Doyeon, known as Deborah in America, hated the move. She moved back to Seoul as soon as she was old enough to and opened up her own dentistry there. She met her husband and fell into a family together; Daniel has only ever seen her for big holidays and family events, really.

pb: jeon do-yeon
dob: 02/11/73

JiCheol Gong
uncle
Daniel has met JiCheol five or six times and mostly knows him over phone calls and FaceTime conversations more than anything. He's a nice guy if a bit quiet. Currently a police captain, he aims to work his way up the ranks in Seoul. He has one younger sister that Daniel has never actually gotten to meet.

pb: gong yoo
dob: 07/10/79

Frédéric Bellerose
maternal uncle
A playwright, novelist and film director, Frédérick has kept up the honors of his parents well enough in France. While some of his work has managed to travel on stage, he's really only know outside of France for The Libertine and he is just fine with that.

pb: hippolyte girardot
dob: 10/10/57

Lazarra Bellerose
aunt — frédéric's wife
A former model and journalist, Lazarra is currently an editor for French Vanity Fair. She is a full force to be reckoned with, constantly, red hair sweeping like fire as she speaks a thousand words a minute. She's kind, though, and always worth a riot of laughter with the wild stories she can tell. Lazarra has two brothers and a sister who all still live in Queens, New York.

pb: bernadette peters
dob: 02/28/50

Aurélia Bellerose
maternal aunt
Aurélia is the boring ones of her siblings. Never too creative and always rather prompt, a bit of a nag, she took a long time to find happiness. She accepted herself as gay when Daniel was about 14 and has been with a few women until she found Jasika and married her. Since, she's risen to become the executive editor in chief of the Hachette Book Group in Paris.

pb: aurélia petit
dob: 04/18/71

Jasika Bellerose
aunt — aurélia's wife
Jasika met her Aurie through work. An illustrator mostly for children's books, and there were some people in need of a cover in France and they brought Jasika in. One thing lead to another and, well, she's made her wife an immensly happy woman. They live together and raise two small dogs with dreams of one day soon adopting a child or two of their own. Jasika is the youngest of six girls and one boy which has made larger family holidays a massive thing.

pb: jasika nicole
dob: 04/10/80

parisian sylveon
After Victor, Daniel made a move to Paris. He worked on homes for his family, built a reputation and mingled with strangers. One of them happened to be Hoseok, someone he met at a Halloween party in 2022. With the holidays and all the traveling that came there after, they kind of fell out of touch before Daniel moved to Chicago to open a hub for his company.

pb: wonho
dob: 03/01/95

Eva Keresoka
mother's assistant
Eva is hard working and dedicated, though she's never had much luck in the way of life outside of work. Few friends, less lovers, she is always working for Juliétte. She gets to travel and taste fabulous foods and meet amazing people so she considers it a fair trade. It did, however, lead to one sad Christmas when Daniel was 19 and Eva and he got stuck in the family winter home together. Revni had recently taken Daniel over and with both parents not able to make it for the holiday, Eva and Daniel's body got drunk and spent the weekend making bad decisions. They've only spoken of it once, since, and decided it was better to never tell his parents.

pb: paula patton
dob: 12/05/1975

Former youth pastor and currently a Safe Haven professor and trainer thanks to the nature of his requite and the variances of his ability to guide and protect others. Joshua and Daniel grew up together in church and were always the best of friends. While Joshua's parents were originally reluctant when their son came out as gay, it was his dating Daniel that made them feel comforted about it. From thirteen to fifteen they were pretty much inseperable, until Joshua's father got moved out of state and... well, young love ends eventually. They were each other's first everything.

pb: joshua hong
dob: 12/30/95

best friend
Babs and Daniel grew up together, nearly from womb to tomb themselves. She was right there the first time Josh and he kissed and he was right there the first time she punched a boy in the nose. It was Babs' being shot that almost triggered Daniel's requite in their youth, as he tried so hard to force time back into her; Revni interrupted it and the brush with the celestial entity forced Barbra's body to adapt into a requite of its own. Now, her very heartbeat drives the force of novas through her and she only vaguely recalls the day she'd nearly died in her bedroom. Babs is a model now and doing very, very well for herself.

pb: barbara palvin
dob: 10/08/95

Jaxon Lee
co-director
The Co-Founding Director of Auryn, Jaxon is the Director of Sales and Digital Marketing. He and Daniel met at Cornell and Jaxon was in the business department — they were actually introduced by Xukun. But they stayed in contact after all was said and done and Jaxon was supportive of Daniel's goals in both architecture and business so they decided to become partners together. His family — a software developer for a father and financial analyst for a mother, both well-to-do in their fields — financed the start up and they have since bought back full ownership in just a few years time, proving their competance with at least business if not much else.

pb: lee jooheon
dob: 10/06/96

A magnetic kind of boy, Xukun was someone that Daniel met while touring the Cornell campus and searching for possible universities. He and Daniel were dating when Revni took him over and it caused a big heartache in Xukun after the fact. They've mended, since, but Xukun moved on and was engaged to a boyfriend by the time Daniel and him met up again. It's for the best, though; he's a great guy. He's a tour promoter now.

pb: cai xukun
dob: 08/02/98

Manny was the first sweet thing when Daniel returned to this form. So they dated for a couple of months and Daniel made the most of it, but adjusting was still awkward. So, he broke it off with him. Manny ended up moving to London the next spring, so it all worked out in the end, anyway.

pb: manu rios
dob: 12/17/98

A pre-med student that Daniel met through some charity work, Abraham had a similar enough history of family to Daniel's for them to click. But they were more sexually attracted to one another than ignited in some lovely passion so what started off as a spark filled two weeks ended up two months of not much growth at all before they both knew it was better to split up.

pb: abe kim
dob: 09/15/98

When they met, Daniel honest to God had no idea what Lee did for a living. A requited gay porn star, Lee and Daniel tried to make a go of it anyway. After all, you shouldn't cast judgement. They worked for a while but between Daniel's studying and traveling and Lee needing anything but big surprises, they broke it off after a few months.

pb: scott gardner
dob: 06/18/94

A Brazilian ballet boy who transfered to America for dance, Daniel and he met at a bar when Daniel was traveling. Daniel was fascinated by his passion and his grace but they really weren't the same kind of crowds together. Daniel eventually heard about Cipriano drunkenly making out with someone and that was a good enough reason to end things.

pb: joão pedro sampaio
dob: 11/17/95

A cellist in the symphony that Daniel's grandfather was directing, Antoni was a fun little French adventure but it was honestly just that. Both of them had their dreams and after five months of trying they both decided it much better to simply be people who knew one another.

pb: adam feng
dob: 08/17/91

Another youth pastor, she was the first girl Revni met that Daniel had feelings for. The affection and kindness he felt seemed like lust, to Revni, and it acted on that. But Keleigh was aware of the change in him enough to not let things develop more than a couple of weeks into it. Daniel explained it to her after his "ressurection" and she has been ever understanding and kind.

pb: keilah kang
dob: 04/21/96

Valeria's gift of perception allowed her to understand Revni's true nature right away. She didn't shy from the situation, however, and Revni found itself capable of asking intricate questions of her nature of attraction and living. Daniel thanked her when he was able to get control again and they're one of the closest of those that Revni held a relationship with.

pb: yasmine chanel
dob: 10/01/96

Grace Caetano
An olympic diver, they met and she seemed more to the variety of what Daniel liked; she was more masculine, Revni noted, and started a relationship with her. Flirting, sex, even surprising her with gifts and appearances. But like all others, Revni's capacity to maintain that interest faded over time and... well, Grace was forgotten about.

pb: ingrid oliveira
dob: 05/07/97

Amaryllis Kane
A type of empath, Amaryllis intrigued Revni for a further understanding of the complexity of human emotions. Their coupling was short lived but educational, a kind of fundemental final spiral out of control of the human live Revni had tried to string together.

pb: alyssa barbara
dob: 12/10/89

Raphael Bonnel
A social media influencer, Raphael was an interest piqued and satisfied by Revni in a matter of 25 days. Not really a relationship at all but, hey, it got Daniel put on a few popular videos and instagrams at the time and that felt like a perk, to Revni.

pb: pierre amaury bouvier
dob: 11/12/97

Bosco Teng
Bosco is an asshole. But he has always wanted to find someone to dominate him and Revni took this as a challenge. It was rough and harsh and fully domineering which kept Bosco interested for far too long. Three months, to be exact, even as Revni was with others. Daniel and him met after the return and had one brief weekend together but honestly, he was way too much for Daniel to want to deal with.

pb: wilson lai
dob: 03/23/94

Johann Crowne
Johann was the very last attempt for Revni, as he was young and soft, passionate and strange. But after two weeks together it seemed to unravel; still he wept when the body died and he was there when Daniel came back which... meant at least trying to be kind to him. But they were not a match, at all, and haven't spoken since Daniel took over his life again.

pb: sparkdise
dob: 12/23/98

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