Character List for Good Luck <3
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Class 2-5
Lee Cheong-san
- Ambiguously Bi: Depending on what the 'incident' Woo-jin refers to actually is.
- Defiant to the End: Chooses some of the worst moments to taunt Gwi-nam.
- Dumbass Has a Point: As On-jo makes very clear, he tells off Gwi-nam when the other boys is armed and clearly dangerous, which leads to so much trouble for him and the rest of them after the fact. Doesn't make what he's saying any less true.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Opens episode four with a monologue about how he hates that he's the main character in a show that is killing off his friends.
- Noodle Incident: Woo-jin mentions that Cheong-san knows that he likes boys and later tells On-jo there was an 'Incident' with him when he mistakes On-jo's questioning as being over Cheong-san.
- Patient Childhood Love Interest: He's liked On-jo for a while now. She doesn't realize she likes/loves him back until the second to last episode.
Nam On-jo
- Broken Bird: Her entire worldview is shattered and her innocence is lost after the deaths of her best friend, father, and Cheong-san, as well as all the other terrible things that they have to witness in the show.
- Missing Mom: Not even I-sak knows what happened to her mom.
- Meaningful Echo: In the very first chapter, On-jo says she hopes that the show won't be too hard to get through. At the end of chapter twenty-two, her reaction episode, she says that it was absolutely hard to get through.
- Oblivious to Love: No matter how many times her friends tell her Cheong-san likes her, or what's shown on screen, she doesn't believe her friend has feelings for her. It's more to do with just witnessing Na-yeon's death, but even when they get to the love confession, it takes her a minute to process it, and when she does, she's absolutely shocked.
Lee Su-hyeok
- Reformed Bully: One of the reasons he gets episode one is because of the focus on the bullies. He feels quite guilty about his past actions as one of them.
- Understanding Boyfriend: Like he is in the show, he is very kind about Nam-ra's hambie status. It's slightly easier since it's only in the show and she's not infected in their timeline, but he's nothing but accepting of the things that happen in the show.
Yoon I-sak
- Ascended Extra: Doesn't get a lot of screen time due to dying in the second episode, which wasn't even very focused on her the way episode three was focused on Gyeong-su. Here, she's much more of a Breakout Character, with many scenes dedicated to her shipping the other characters and her developing relationship with Gyeong-su. In fact, the entire final chapter is a brick joke focusing on her and Gyeong-su.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: Say what you will about her, she was right about every couple she shipped together.
- Disabled in the Adaptation: Autistic and clearly has a special interest in her friends' romantic affairs.
- Genre Savvy: Possibly the most savvy out of all of the characters, at least in the relationships department, being able to accurately predict every couple that gets together.
- The Matchmaker: Only really towards Namyeok, pushing Nam-ra to get closer to Su-hyeok. Everyone she ships together gets together in the end anyways.
- Shipper on Deck: Exaggerated. She ships every major couple not involving herself. She has a list. She gets distracted from the actual show multiple times because of her ships. She nearly combusts when Su-hyeok and Nam-ra get together.
Choi Nam-ra
- Disappeared Dad: Her father left her and her mother.
- Hidden Depths: Apart from her desire to have friends, there are several details about her interests that are quite surprising to Gyeong-su and even I-sak when they question her about her interests her. She's even seen Train to Busan.
- Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: Is hated by her classmates but is actually quite sweet after she starts to bond with them and stays close friends with the others.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Like I-sak, knows which characters are romantically involved in one another, but assumes that every couple was already dating one another.
Han Gyeong-su
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: For I-sak. Notably when they're trying to get to know Nam-ra and he counters her more inappropriate questions with more reasonable ones.
Yang Dae-su
- Large Ham: When it's announced to be lunch time, he falls to his knees and yells out, "THERE IS A GOD!!!!"
- Ship Tease: With Hyo-ryung. In fact, they're the only major couple yet to get a Relationship Upgrade.
Jang Woo-jin
- Break the Cutie: His reaction chapter is episode nine, one of the most devastating of the season. He's forced to contend with him and his friends being abandoned to die and nearly shot to death. He's also quite unhappy to see On-jo's father, a trusted adult, abandon a pregnant couple on the streets to keep his focus on saving them. And then, of course, the episode after that is the one where Joon-yeong dies...
- Cope by Creating: A few times during his episode he distracts himself by thinking about the artistry of how a scene looks. After he returns, he paints the scene where all the kids stand in the rain, a notable part of his reaction.
- Nice Guy: Comes off as very kind, and it's noted that he never actually hated Nam-ra like his friends did, merely not making any attempts to befriend her.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Acts quite cold, distant, and angry after Joon-yeong's death.
- Out of Focus: Not so much in the actual fic, but in the show. This is occasionally lampshaded by other characters.
- Transparent Closet: Played With. Those closest to him have no idea he's gay, but I-sak realized very quickly after meeting him. It's said that both Min-jae and Cheong-san (along with Gyeong-su, who found out through I-sak) knew, but that was it. Both Ha-ri and On-jo figured him out thanks to his reaction to Joon-yeong's death. Nam-ra was under the impression that him and Joon-yeong were already dating. And most bizarrely, Yeong-ju, a one-off character from the show who isn't friends with the group, mentions that she's figured out that he likes boys despite most of her assumptions about the group being wrong.
Oh Joon-yeong
- Cooldown Hug: Gives one to Woo-jin to calm him down after Gwi-nam kicks over his zombie.
- Death Wail: Screams after he sees Nam-ra snap Woo-jin's neck.
- Despair Event Horizon: Is completely inconsolable after Woo-jin's death.
- Face Death with Dignity: When he watches himself die, tries to be as smart and practical about it as he possibly can be.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: His reaction to Woo-jin's death.
- The Smart Guy: Of Class 2-5. Is the most levelheaded of the group. Most of the time.
Kim Ji-min
- Despair Event Horizon: After her parents die, she's inconsolable. Also, after she abandons Hyo-ryung and things become awkward between her and her friends.
Seo Hyo-ryung
- Out of Focus: The only member of Class 2-5 (aside from Hee-su) to not get an episode dedicated to her reaction to it.
Lee Na-yeon
- Character Development: Eventually grows to hate herself for killing Gyeong-su and regret her old ways. She accepts all punishment given to her.
Park Hee-su
- Teen Pregnancy: Pregnant as she is in the show. After it's revealed, she eventually stops trying to hide it.
Other Kids
Jang Ha-ri
- Berserker Tears: Sobs over her brother, hits and threatens Mr. Lee, and then cries into her brother's arms
- Big Sister Instinct: As always, Ha-ri is quite protective of Woo-jin. When he dies, she hits Mr. Lee for creating the virus in the first place, as Min-jae predicted she would.
Jung Min-jae
Yoo Joon-seong
Park Mi-jin
- Must Have Nicotine: Mentions that she wants a cigarette several times throughout the first have of the story. When Nam-ra tosses her one, she's so thrilled she kisses the girl.
Min Eun-ji
- Easily Forgiven: No one understands how Cheol-soo can forgive her after she bites and kills him.
- Villainous Friendship: She eventually forgives Cheol-soo... after he abandons Class 2-5 and prevents their rescue. For the rest of the fic they bond over wanting to watch the world burn.
Kim Cheol-soo
- Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: He had feelings for Eun-ji in the show, which she implies she returns by calling them, 'Two losers who like each other'. However, she rebuffs him as it would only make their bullying worse and after he lets her go alone, which would lead to her death, she's angry enough to kill him. Here, she learns of him leaving the other kids because of something she said and they form a much more genuine, if toxic, friendship.
- Villainous Friendship: Only manages to gain Eun-ji's affections after he stops the helicopter from saving Class 2-5.
Adults
Assemblywoman Park Eun-hee
- Best Friends-in-Law: "Best friends" might be a stretch, but she gets along with Su-hyeok surprisingly well as she sees how protective he is over her daughter.
- Mama Bear: Is quite protective of Nam-ra.
- Struggling Single Mother: Put a lot of pressure on her beloved daughter as a result of her husband leaving and her own family's pressure.
Captain Nam So-ju
- Papa Wolf: With On-jo, as always.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Gets one after leaving the man and his wife to their fates in episode nine.
Commander Jin Seon-mu
- 0% Approval Rating: After episode nine, when he makes the choice to abandon the kids and shoot them if they protest too much, not a single other person watching can stand him.
- Cold Equation: Sacrifices around 60,000 survivors to save the rest of the world.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Stands by his show self's actions as it's his job to save the majority, which unfortunately meant sacrificing all of Hyosan, including the students.
U-sin
- Even the Guys Want Him: During the scene where he, Assemblywoman Park, and her colleagues are taken away, Woo-jin notes that while the rest are disheveled from their human shield, U-sin looks fine 'in more ways than one'.
- Undying Loyalty: Stands by So-ju after everyone gives him a What the Hell, Hero? for leaving the man and his pregnant wife.
