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Anon · 1y

Hi! I recently read Degrees of Grey, and I love it. I came here because I've got a doubt: What is the major of the characters? Maybe it is irrelevant to the story, but I'm curious, hehe.

hello 😊 thank you for reading and even sending me this (and saying you love DoG!) it means a lot!! you won’t like this answer lmao but there really isn’t like a specific major. okay so obviously the whole thing isn’t too realistic and in my country there’s not even the concept of, for example, dorming at your college lmao so i did just make a couple of things up for DoG, generally speaking, though some things i based on /my/ reality and other things are just what i see(?) in movies. they’re all arts majors but think of it as like a very General, very wide thing. like you can do music and you can do song writing and you can do acting (which hyunjung does, but soobin does not. that part i planned lol though hyunjung and juyeon took acting — together —, soobin has not and she no plans to either). it is sort of irrelevant to the story in the sense that i won’t have them graduate or something like that, i kinda just needed a background??? of sorts. like i needed them to fit somewhere. but yeah, sometimes it matters if you think about how hyunjung and juyeon literally meet in class. that’s relevant!! i have not thought a lot about this, i will be honest. but i can discuss it with anyone who wants to talk about it!! i would say (not set in stone btw so definitely open to other opinions), hyunjung is more of a practical girl? like if there was a singing class or a class to learn an instrument, she would take those. like 100%. soobin, however, she is more interested in the theoretical aspect of things. like how does an instrument work. how does one write songs/melodies/lyrics/whatever. she would be the type to take a class on the classics like fucking mozart and beethoven and stuff like that, meanwhile hyunjung kinda just wants to act and sing and all that. juyeon is originally the smartest out of them all so she wants to do everything — and she does so successfully and with little effort btw so if she’s ever at the library, just know she’s not studying. no, she already knows everything she needs to know. she’s there to pick up girls. some women (juyeon) are just that smart. sojung does not particularly excel at anything lol but she is sort of like soobin. they’re interested in the How Does This Work aspect of things. so you can think of it this way — they Know each other. like yes, sojung is soobin’s bestie’s roommate but the two of them have also seen each other a bunch of times because they essentially took the same classes. okay kinda went on a dissertation here when really only like 20% of what i just wrote was, effectively, planned. do let me know if you’re satisfied with this answer and thanks again for reading 🥹❤️

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