Lee Boksoon
Lee Boksoon is a veteran wanderer and sniper whose abrasive humor conceals a protective, self-sacrificing loyalty to Lee Sookyung's community.
Biography
The disaster who refuses the role
On Peace Land, Boksoon is designated as a disaster but turns against the scenario's intended destruction. She uses Three Shots, then completely abandons her disaster rights, accepting exhaustion and system censure rather than continue harming the world. Her choice makes her a major contributor to resolving the crisis and establishes that she values people over scenario rewards. (Chapters 124–129)
A wanderer and surrogate elder
Back in the Dark Castle, Boksoon fights Kim as one of the Wanderers' highest-ranked members, drawing power from Stories she has accumulated. She later gives her ranking to Jung Heewon and stays behind with Lee Sookyung. Her story of raising six younger siblings lets her comfort Sookyung from experience, making her rough grandmotherly manner a form of practical care. (Chapters 173–185)
Defense of the industrial complex
Boksoon remains among the wanderers defending the industrial complex. She fires her sniper rifle against returnees, continues fighting as the defenders are injured, and reacts in alarm when Sookyung walks out toward the attackers. Years later she still stands beside Youngran, joking about the hardship they once endured while waiting for bread. (Chapters 308, 326, and 342)
Appearance and personality
Boksoon is an older woman repeatedly described as a tough grandmother. She speaks bluntly, laughs readily, and can be combative, yet her treatment of Sookyung and the wanderers shows a deeply nurturing temperament shaped by raising six siblings. (Chapters 124–125 and 185)
Abilities, attributes, and stories
Boksoon combines sponsor-derived marksmanship with Stories earned through hardship, while her strongest stigma exacts severe physical and mental exhaustion.
Three Shots
Three Shots is a sponsor-derived stigma used through Boksoon's firearm expertise. It delivers decisive long-range attacks, but its activation causes severe physical and mental exhaustion; after using it on Peace Land, her body rapidly shrinks back from the disaster state and she can barely continue. (Chapters 124–125)
Sniping and accumulated Stories
Boksoon combines a sniper rifle with Stories built through her life and scenarios. Those Stories strengthen her attacks beyond ordinary gunfire, and she can contribute against returnees at industrial-complex scale. The ammunition rules and maximum range are not specified. (Chapters 175 and 326)
Abandoning disaster rights
She can voluntarily renounce the scenario rights attached to her disaster role. This is a moral and systemic choice rather than an attack: it removes the role's advantages and draws the Star Stream's attention because she acts against the scenario's intended behavior. (Chapter 125)
Relationships
- Lee Sookyung: Her leader and companion, whom Boksoon supports with both weapons and hard-earned family wisdom.
- Cho Youngran: A fellow high-ranking wanderer and partner in defending the industrial complex.
- Jung Heewon: Receives Boksoon's Dark Castle ranking so she can advance.
- Kim Dokja: Fights and later cooperates with Boksoon across Peace Land and the Dark Castle.
Items
No recurring notable item is assigned to Lee Boksoon in the scoped item inventory.