Felim Yoon¶
Role: Piercing artist; co-owner of Ink & Iron, Ceres
Background: Irish-Korean heritage (AMAB); descended from Irish artists
Relationship: 1D — Rin/Lin (former lover, reconciled friend; did her piercings)
Overview¶
Felim is the golden-hearted half of Ink & Iron's ownership team: the one who decorated the shop, the one who handles what advertising there is — the occasional magazine interview, the artists' convention circuit, which has taken them to Luna several times. They make much of the jewelry the shop sells with their own hands, and what they don't make, they source at top quality only. (The bone-and-feather jewelry is theirs.) A darling and a customer magnet, Felim receives a steady stream of propositions from the clientele and typically accepts none of them.
They are an active community member, mostly via the business — Ink & Iron is the kind of place that anchors a block.
Rin¶
Rin got her work done at Ink & Iron, and then hit on Felim — conveniently running into them on the street after their workday, offering to buy them takeout dinner. What followed was an eight-month relationship that Felim ended, because Rin didn't trust them, hid things from them, and wouldn't commit more deeply.
Then Felim found out why.
Apologies were swapped on both sides, and contact resumed. Felim even spent time with Rin's siblings back when she was "babysitting" — coming to spend nights with her at the hostel with the kids. What they are now is settled and warm: the person who did Rin's piercings, the ex who understands, the friend who stayed.
At the Table¶
Felim is a door into Ceres community life — they know everyone, because everyone eventually wants jewelry or a piercing, and everyone talks in the chair. If the crew needs the texture of a neighborhood, Felim has it, beautifully displayed.
As played — Session 16¶
The reveal. A stranger named Lin asked for a Unity symbol carved for her navel piercing, then — back to the security cameras — had Sweetie return her face and neck tattoos to their original design. Oleksiy's design. The one he made for Rin, when she was dating Felim.
Felim spoke first; Oleks understood first. The shop closed early — something Oleksiy never does — and while Oleksiy worked the new piece (the Tiamat-and- cetacean mural, the nested worlds, the Rin-silhouette holding the Unity symbol with light radiating from her heart), Felim fed their girl and helped her finish in time to be teleported to a raid. The five-person dinner — Rin, Kyle, Elias, Oleksiy, Felim — was Felim's question made flesh: "Okay, you've told us about the corporate. Now tell us about the other guy."