AGE: Twenty-nine years old
BIRTHDAY: February 1st, 1991
OCCUPATION: Private Detective
PLACE OF BIRTH: Rotterdam, Netherlands
HAS LIVED IN ASTORIA FOR: On and off since 2006
tw: memory loss and homelessness
Ayla doesn’t remember her life before she was 12, it’s a blank canvas. Nothing but stretches of darkness that remain a mystery to the brunette. The first memory she can truly remember is waking up on a rain soaked pavement alone, her nightgown torn and bloody and no memory of who she was, or where she had come from. She spent weeks hidden from the streets in whatever she could find for shelter, from abandoned warehouses to dumpster bins. She found out she could shift by accident, when a rough encounter with some of the rougher life causing her fear to trigger a shift into the first thing she could think of, a fox. It allowed herself to give them the slip, and she began to try and figure out how to use her power to her advantage.
She began practicing, honing her skill. Spending a lot of time in fox form she would scout out locations and homes, shift when she felt threatened and spent a lot of time in animal form. She discovered her ability to shift into people quite accidentally, bumping into someone whilst thinking about shifting and the next minute there she was… staring at that persons face in the mirror. This new skill opened more opportunities to provide for herself, and she began to imitate people in order to con. It started small, imitating them to gain access to the phone they’d stolen in their pockets which she’d then wipe and sell. Before long, she was gaining access to homes to steal food. Never too much, never more than she needed.
Just weeks before her fifteenth birthday ( or the day she claims as her birthday ), she took on the appearance of a man she saw seemingly staggering from a ramshackle house. He was barely paying attention to her as he slammed into her, and she made a show of grabbing his hand as she “steadied” him before quickly pretending to walk away. When she thought she was alone, she broke into his home to look for food. What she hadn’t realised was that he was onto her, and he knew exactly what she was. She had screamed, in his voice, when she turned away from the fridge and saw herself standing at the entry to the kitchen, dropping the bread that had been halfway to her lips. “Not so much fun when someone does it to you, huh kid?” It was the man that she had bumped into, he was like her.
The man had taken pity on her, and after the two of them shifted back to their natural states that he explained what they were and that she had to be careful. That he originally came from a city far from here, one for people like them. So he took her there, and over the years he has trained her and in turn she gained a father figure. Not the most responsible, Ayla turned into the one that would take care of him most days. But she doesn’t mind, because of him she had a home and a city and a chance. She’s turned her life around in the past fourteen years, she managed to graduate high school at twenty and get her PI licence at twenty four. All thanks to him, so taking care of him is not something she resents.
+ Enigmatic, Confident, Astute
- Sarcastic, Cunning, Withdrawn
FACECLAIM: Melisa Pamuk
PLAYED BY: Lake
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