SOME BASIC STATS
Name: Avi Persaud.
Age: Thirty-Two.
Gender: cis male, he/him.
Sexuality: Bisexual.
Birthday: March 15th, 1990.
Location: Seattle, Washington.
Birthplace: Seattle, Washington.
Career: Advertising Graphics and Marketing Freelancer.
ABOUT HIS LIFE
( tw pregnancy )
Avi Persaud would be the first one to tell anyone that there wasn't anything special to tell about his life. He was born to two loving parents in a cute home on a neighborly street by a good school in Seattle, Washington. But the truth was, his past just wasn't something he wanted to talk about. Sure, he was born to loving parents in a loving home, but the moment his dad walked out of their yellow front door, everything changed. He watched his mom struggle to keep them afloat as he grew up, taking on odd jobs as soon as he was able to to contribute and care for his mom the way she cared for him.
The days he'd spent drawing with sticks in the mud and chalk on the sidewalk throughout his childhood, an actual talent for putting a marker to paper, was traded for something more reasonable as he worked his way through college, coming out on the other end with a marketing degree. It wasn't much, but it allowed him to get some low ladder sales job to take care of himself and his mom.
The big break came when two of his friends, brothers with big dreams and not so bad ideas, came to him with a pitch for an app and a request to borrow some of Avi's unused artistic talent. Not thinking much of it, he helped out and continued on with his nine to five office job to bring in a consistent paycheck. The day the app took off and the brothers showed up with his cut felt otherworldly, Avi having no clue what to do with the money outside of putting it in a savings account and allowing it to collect interest while he processed what he had achieved.
And while the money stayed in that account for years, he found himself having more courage to abandon his office job in sales and combining his passion for art and his knowledge for marketing, chasing after his dream, with the successful app on his resume, and finally achieving it. His work started for local companies but eventually grew to catch the attention of a larger scale of clientele, some of the most notable brands coming to him for his advertising art in logos, graphics, and commercials.
It was only after he'd had his daughter, Mila, (leaving his history with the mother up for discussion with her wanted connection) that Avi touched the money in his savings, pulling out just enough for a safe SUV and a new family home in Sudden Valley, one with a separate suite for his mom, who helps him care for his Mila as her mother left soon after she was born, and a decently sized backyard for his daughter to grow up in.
With his career blooming in ways he couldn't imagine, mostly working freelance jobs so he could work on his own schedule from home, and his mom traveling often to stay with a man she was now dating in another state, Avi ventured back into the dating world and met Aksel, a woman he found himself having a difficult time not falling for, even introducing her to his then two year old daughter, things seemingly going amazing until they weren't, the woman abruptly putting a stop to things and taking his heart with her.
The last year brought about a lot of changes for Avi, including his daughter's mother coming back into their lives and moving in with him as they decided to try (and are currently failing) to make a relationship work for their daughter.
HEADCANONS
Even though Avi's father walked out of their lives through a yellow painted door, he still agreed to paint his own door yellow when his three year old daughter recently requested the color because it made her happy, healing some of his childhood trauma in the process.
His coffee order is a grande hot cappuccino. He finds the premade dispensable ones from gas stations okay, but always spends a few extra dollars on ones from the coffee shop when he needs a pick me up (and always spares a cake pop for Mila when he makes the trip).
