Hey there (hopefully) future K-Pop Idol Diaries readers!
It’s been a while since we revealed a member of featured idol group SKS-7 from
our debut novel series coming out on July 21st. Therefore, we
thought we’d make up for it by revealing not one, but two members of SKS-7. We hinted for you to prepare for trouble, and
any OG Pokémon fan should’ve connected the dots to “make it double” – as the
last two members of SKS-7 are identical twins Michael & Jordan! Just as we
did with the previous reveals, we’re here to shed a little more light on the
“wonder twin” maknae of SKS-7, so let’s get right to it.

Being identical twins ourselves, it
was a no-brainer that we had to include identical twins in our story, and what
better way to include twins than to make them the highly favored maknae of the
group – after all, who doesn’t have a soft spot for the maknae of their fave
idol group (Jungkook, Taemin, I.N., Haechan)! The maknae is an important
position to hold in any idol group, so it would’ve been hard to develop one
member for this coveted role in our story, so that solidified our position to
just make two! They’re both pretty cute, right? UwU

As identical twins, it was somewhat
easier to develop the characteristics of the twins than some of the other
members, because we’d be able to use our experience as twins to flesh out more
depth than most twins in other stories. Honestly, aside from the Hitachin twins
from the Ouran Highschool Host Club, twins are usually stereotypes – good and
evil twin, carbon copies with little to no personality differences, or just
jokesters always trying to confuse others who can’t tell them apart (hmm, now
that we think about it, were the Hitachin twins tropes too?!)

Well, to avoid feeling one, or two
dimensional, we took traits from ourselves and assigned them to the twins so
they’d feel like two distinct individuals who just happen to look exactly the
same. For example, Michael and Jordan are born a minute apart – just like us -
and the twins look exactly the same, but are quite different. Michael is the
older twin and is more extroverted and loud compared to his younger twin, who
is shy, introverted, and would prefer to read manga than go out. Yep, that’s us
alright…well, except that we both enjoy reading manga, whereas Michael is more
into sports – more on that in a minute. We guess readers can look forward to
seeing what other differences the twins possess and will probably end up having
a favorite one. Although we’re completely fine if you grow to love them both
the same.

So back on the sports conversation,
yes, the twins are named after basketball GOAT Michael Jordan, and since
basketball is our favorite sport, we assigned that trait to Michael, who came
up with the name as homage to the GOAT in his quest to be in one of the
greatest idols of his generation. Another name idea was Kobe & Bryant for
obvious reasons, but Michael & Jordan just suited them better in the end.

Because the twins borrowed a lot of
elements from us, they probably went through the least changes story-wise, but
style wise, they went through the most. Besides their hair color, which we
quickly settled on bright red so that the twins could easily pop and stand out,
the faces of the twins went through various transformations. The first
iteration we drew had the twins looking much older than their current age of 15
– they arguably looked older than Bae, the 20-year-old hyung of SKS-7. That
look was abandoned in the second iteration, shown below, which looked closer to the twins
today, but the twins didn’t really look identical – Michael (on the right) looked a tad bit
older than Jordan.

Guess the third time’s the charm, because the third
iteration is the version you see before you today. We’re pretty happy with the
result.

Well, that about wraps up our behind the scenes look at the
boys of SKS-7 – which reminds us that the Gangnam Goddess herself is lacking a
detailed blog of her own. Guess that’ll be the next one in our blog series.
Stay tuned, and if you haven’t already, be sure to read the blogs of the other
members of SKS-7, as well as the FREE preview of vol.1 to get excited for our
book launch! ‘Til next time!

Fun
Fact: The burgundy blazers the twins are wearing are the uniforms
for the RisingStars Program hosted by One-Shot Entertainment, from which the
twins graduated before being placed in SKS-7.