aspen hamilton | thirty | doctor
BASICS.
Date of Birth: December 12, 1991 Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius Place of Birth: Vancouver Gender: cis-female Sexual Orientation: heterosexual Relationship Status: single Language(s) Spoken: English, French, Japanese Hobbies: ice skating, playing piano, swimming, hiking, volunteering Neighborhood: Kitsilano Time in Vancouver: Until 18 and she left for school, has been back for 5ish months
BIOGRAPHY.
Trigger warnings: cancer
Born to a teenage mother, Aspen was the child that no one really wanted nor could take care of. After struggling to raise her as a single mother, barely a child herself, Aspen was given up with the hope that she would be given to another family who was more deserving of her. A family who could give her the life that a child ought to have. At three, just as she had started to recognize and remember her mother, Aspen found herself separated from the woman. For another year, she would live in an orphanage, growing up with other children who had either lost their parents, or whose parents abandoned them. Aspen, she had a mix of both. An absent father and an abandoned mother.
Good fortune shone on her when she turned five. She was old enough to know that the parents who would be taking her home were not her birth parents. They were just the ones who would raise her from here on out. Henry and Ryan were the sweetest dads that she could have asked for, and yet Aspen was cautious at first. After all, what guarantee was there that these parents wouldn’t also abandon her? It took her some time to warm up to them as she was unfamiliar with the sense of normalcy that came with having two parents who split the responsibility of looking after her. So used to taking care of herself, she was almost uncomfortable when she got presents at Christmas or a new backpack without having to specifically ask for it.
But they truly were the best parents she could have asked for and it was hard for her to not grow attached to them. Eventually, her walls came down and she accepted that they were not going to abandon her. This was her family now and she was grateful that they had taken her in, giving her the life that many others had not been as fortunate to receive. She worked hard in school as if to repay her debt to Henry and Ryan through her success (though her young mind didn’t understand the feeling as such). They had taken a chance on her (and she had been given an opportunity to be more than before) and she would not let them down.
At thirteen she declared that she was going to become a doctor and years later, that is exactly what she did. She left Vancouver for the States, pursuing undergrad and then medical school there. In med school, she met Varun who she thought was her soulmate. They were together for almost four years when he proposed. Engaged and pursuing a career that she had always dreamt of, Aspen truly couldn’t have asked for anything more from life. Yet naturally, as things seemed to always go with her, happiness never lasted too long. Things couldn’t be too perfect.
She got a call from Ryan one night, thinking it was going to be a conversation about the floral arrangements at their wedding. Instead, it was a diagnosis. Multiple myeloma. Somehow everything around her seemed to come crashing down. Weeks and months were spent away from her home in the states and accompanying Henry to doctors appointments. She would spend nights scouring his reports, talking to everyone she knew about what could improve his odds of fighting this. Though Varun was with her, she could feel herself pulling away from him. She tried her hardest to make it work but she keep having this feeling like things were all getting out of control. She felt like one day she would wake up and realize all that she had around her was just a dream. It was in one of those spirals, when she learned that Henry’s condition was worsening that she left for good. Ring on the table, a letter of apology, she dropped everything to be with her family back at home.













