BIRTHDAY: June 24th, 1991
GENDER / PRONOUNS: Cis Woman - She/her
OCCUPATION: Biological Scientist
PLACE OF BIRTH: Windrip, NP
NEIGHBORHOOD: North Valley
HAS LIVED IN ASTORIA FOR: 9 years
What are the reasons why you’re still living in Astoria? What makes it home to you?
Aleyna couldn’t contain the smile that broadened by the mere acknowledgement of the question offered to her. “It’s a chapter that gave me different reasons to stay and, sometimes, enough reasons to want to go back to the loving arms of my family. I considered home the small and plain house I’ve lived my entire childhood with my family back in Windrip, but Astoria became really close to that picture.” In fact, the past few weeks had been a blessing to say the least. More than Aleyna could ever expect. “This city was supposed to be the place where my dreams would come true. And I won’t say it did so easily, I had high expectations that in this city I’d finally be able to study and work on something I really loved to learn more about. The plan was to graduate, get a job and help my family with my income. However we don’t really have control over life and what will happen when we don’t really know the future, do we? Yet, I couldn’t have a pessimistic vision of what will come next. The bumps on my road while living here led me to my greatest gift: my child.”
How would you describe your relationship with others? Are you close to your family?
“It’s passionate. When I like someone and I truly welcome them in my life. I’ll care about them deeply and make sure they are aware of it. Which, listen,” she chuckled, “my mother used to say that was both marvelous and terrifying, because I’d give so much of myself to others and she was afraid that I’d lose a few pieces of myself here and there whenever someone walked away from my life. And mothers always know what they’re talking about because Naomi wasn’t wrong at all.” Aleyna shared, a smile forming as her lips moved upwards, the kind of changes in her demeanor that happened whenever she talked about her family. “And yes, I’m close to them. Though we don’t live in the same district, we keep in touch. At least one call or two every week, so they can see Andy growing old. My parents are my everything and so are my siblings. They are the reason why I feel so loved and why I became the woman that I am today. And aside from my family, the ones that raised me. I have my biological father and his family, people that with time I found out to care about. Just… in a different way. It’s just a long story that gave me answers that I wasn’t looking for.”
What’s something about your past you could share with others?
“It’s not really so old, but I think it’s been what changed me for good. I could share the beautiful and, yet, traumatic event when I discovered about Andy, but talking about your offspring is such a cliché,” and that was because she had never been the kind of mother to talk about her child all the time. “I met a man and it’s not like that, we weren’t– you know. He was really kind, he had always been. He wouldn’t openly share that he was rich, but it was easy to notice. We grew close to each other, he helped me a lot in a moment that I was in need, Andy liked him so much, and it was almost a tiny family with him being my friend, fully aware that I didn’t have feelings for him. Sometimes I think he’d get it, sometimes I think he didn’t, I don’t know. But – the day I was turned, the day an out of control werewolf bit me. It had seen the same kind eyes I’ve always met when I looked at him. And, well… In the end I found out that it was him.”
Please elaborate on any violent circumstances you may have been involved with in the past.
“It depends of what you’re considering to be violent. It could be the night I was turned, it could be a night I was robbed or the countless times costumers had a harsh attitude towards me during one of my previous jobs before I was finally able to go back to studying and got this amazing opportunity as a trainee.” A light shrug was her addition in between sentences. “What I’m saying is that: there’s violence everywhere. From the most tragic and traumatic ones to those so subtle we may not even perceive them.”
What are your weaknesses and strengths?
"Do I really need to? It’s strange to talk about myself to others. “I’d say that I can be really moody, I’m unpredictable when it comes to my emotions and this had been even worse when I was turned into a werewolf. Which also made my lack of patience worse. I’d say that for a whole while I was also reckless, perhaps becoming a mother helped me get more centered. My strengths would be how much I care about others, how I’m completely extroverted and honest. I really do try to live my life at its fullest, some people say I’m intense. And perhaps, I am.”
Your thoughts about supernatural beings.
"It’s ironic because now I’m one, and before that I could care less. There was no difference between who I was and all of those supernatural beings living around me. My family is human and so was I. For me we are all the same. The difference is that each one of us faces some struggles that are part of who we are. Our genetics. And trust me, I could bore you with information that won’t add much for you about this unless you were really interested in biology. Did I tell you that I’m part of a great study now? Anyway, in the end, we’re all flawless beings trying to make the best out of this strange and unique thing called life.” Perhaps one of the main reasons why it mattered so much was that she was being part of that clinic trial. The certainty that she was part of something big and important that could alter the life of so many people.
FACECLAIM: Hande Erçel
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