#6. Designing A Place A Day - Day 2 A Convenience Store

And today's place is: a convenience store!

It's been a while since I've been to one. :(

Well, but CVS is a necessary part of moder.. well, at least urban life in Korea! 

A town without it is absolutely unimaginable!

So I googled again and read stuffs about it--what it does, what it sells, who comes when, and also about the difficulties of working there and having to deal with the caprice and ill-manners of customers, especially at night time. X( 

I made the below character improvisationally.

I needed someone working there, I didn't want it to be anybody.

I had someone in mind for the manager. He is a rather passive man who can be.. well, messed around by upset or naughty customers. Then what I needed next was of course the opposite of him.

Someone that cannot be messed around.

So here she is, the temporary worker, Nari Gong (23). Her character in one word: A PUNK.

Nari is a name for a flower (below).

Not.. really fit (?) for a punk she looks like. But she likes her name. She dyed her hair in this bright orange color. X)

So, she is huge, I mean, tall and well built-up. She is not unkind, but she looks pretty scary to other people....
She looks straight into your eyes when she says in her low and coarse voice, "hullo..." "thank you..." and "good bye...". And, in part because of her height and her heels (she wears above-knee leather boots), she looks down at you with her glaring eyes! Imagine you are an underage trying to get a cigarette. She would not let that happen. No chance at all.

But of course, she is more than what you see. She enjoys reading when she is not busy with her work. Her favorites are travel books with, err... self-introspective aspects in them. :)
And she is very observant, though she doesn't look so, and have a pretty good memory.
So she is not simply an interesting extra character in my story.
A convenience store is where people from vastly different backgrounds intersect. And there she is, observing the network of people revolving around it.
Thus she is one of those holding.. hmm, if you may call it, hidden keys that can unlock the secrets in my characters and plot.

One complaint I have about this week's project is that it is unintentionally time-consuming. :/
Any project would, though.
I need to balance my study, story, and health...