Lee Hoon

Lee Hoon (이훈) also known as Hooni (훈이) is a suicidal 17-year-old high school student who is the main character and protagonist of the Korean manhwa Suicide Boy.

Appearance
Hooni has messy black hair, and dark eyes with bags underneath. He typically wears a white t-shirt, black short shorts, and black socks. In school, he wears a shirt with a brown covering. He has been seen sporting other outfits as well. He has many bandages and gauzes visible on his face, his arms, and his legs, presumably from self harm and other injuries. Despite being 17, he has a quite young look to him, which many people would describe as ‘cute’. He is quite short in stature and has a mostly thin build, though he does have some softness around his thighs and stomach.

Personality
Hooni often displays self destructive tendencies, whether they are on purpose or not. He is easily embarrassed and seems to get hung up on his past mistakes. He also seems to have troubles picking up on social cues, e.g. talking to Jaehoon when he clearly wants to be left alone. Despite all of this, Hooni can become extremely smug, as seen in the scenes where he believes he can beat Soorim in Street Fighter and when Jaehoon apologised to him. In addition, he has no problems with lying as he seems to do it without issue, especially to Sana. He also has questionable morals, almost stealing Harim’s money to buy food for himself.

Jeong Soorim
Initially, Hooni was very intimidated by Soorim, seeing as he was popular. When Soorim started to accompany Hooni more often, Hooni discovered that perhaps he wasn’t so bad after all, even though he seemed quite scary.

Hooni sees Soorim as one of his closest friends and they walk to school together along with Jaehoon everyday.

Jeong Harim
When Harim first met Hooni, she immediately ‘fell in love’ with him, ceasing to think of any ‘homosexual thoughts’ she may have been having. She made many attempts to catch his attention: showing up at his house more often, dressing cutesy, and more, but to no avail. She even went as far as to dress up in a tracksuit and motorcycle helmet to stalk and protect him, but she only ended up scaring him. As she began to lose hope, she stopped by his house one more time and immediately fell in love with him again as soon as he said ‘thank you’ to her as she was leaving. However, this is one-sided as Hooni does not seem to have any romantic feelings towards her.

Jeong San-a
Sana first saw Hooni walking home from school one day and discovered that he was his neighbour. He talked to Hooni in order to get inspiration for his new webtoon “A Loser’s Survival”, which was based on Hooni and his friend. His motives towards Hooni were all but friendly, and he even spoke badly about him to Soorim behind Hooni’s back.

Kim Jaehoon
Hooni and Jaehoon have a complicated friendship. Jaehoon initially started hanging out with Hooni in order to make sure that he was not harming himself. He also helped him study and quickly grew attached to him. However, he was willing to throw Hooni under the bus a few times, even going so far as to hit him so that he would not be a target for the bullies. He soon regretted it once he saw how much worse Hooni was doing and apologised to Hooni, who suggested that Jaehoon should buy him a burger. After that, they seemed to get along better and Jaehoon also started to appreciate their friendship more.