â° âââ maika harper. cis woman. she/her // you donât know ? thatâs BRENDA ANGULALIK ! theyâre a THIRTY TWO year old former professional gymnast from JUNEAU, ALASKA. as part of manhattanâs elite, the damsel out of distress is known to be RESILIENT & STUBBORN. most people recognize them by bullet journaling, ice cold water, dangling jewelry, calloused palms.
hey everyone! iâm natalie! native (feel like i should always throw that out there to explain why i only play native muses jhgfghj), 23, she/her pronouns, and live in pennsylvania. and i suck at intros but this is my second time playing brenda though this version of brenda has lots of differences from my last time so yeah! uh some information regarding brenda:
tw: anti-inuit racism, emotional abuse/gaslighting mentioned.
brenda gabriella angulalik was born on february 29th, 1988 - which, yes, does make her a leapling and she is happy to be one of the truly elite (hehe) who can say she is
she is the literal middle child of her parentsâ five children. she has: an older brother, born 1982), rick. an older sister (born 1985), margaret. a younger brother (born 1991), joel. and a younger sister (born 1994), whitney.
coming from an inuit family, she was originally born in utqiagvik, alaska but her talent was recognized at a young age. the only place to learn gymnastics in utqiagvik were living room classes hosted by one woman in her house, and even then she focused solely on girls under the age of 8 and teaching them basic gymnastics. but she recognized brendaâs talents, and so did brendaâs family. so when brenda was 6 years old, right before she was to graduate kindergarten, the family moved down to juneau for her to study at the southeastern alaska gymnastics academy.
most girls that practiced at the academy, and who went to the school she went to, were white, and brenda recalls her time in juneau as filled with racist comments directed at her based on inuit stereotypes. luckily, by the time she was 11, she would be moved to getting homeschooled as she needed to focus on her athleticism but it didnât stop the comments at the academy.
she did, however, have two friends at the academy, victoria and kelsey, who were both tlingit. but neither would progress to the elite levels.
national champion by age 13, world champion and pan am champion by age 15, her coaches put her up for the olympic trials for the us womenâs team for the 2004 summer olympics. at 16 years old, she would barely qualify, but it was the next logical step in her career.
and brenda did make the team, competing in the 2004 olympics in athens at age 16, and again in the 2008 olympics in beijing at age 20. at 24, she would go with the 2012 team to london, but served as an alternate. an alternate that was never called upon. at that point, she retired from the sport and set out to live a ânormal lifeâ. of course as normal as a two-times olympian could be.
she also had something better at the time, at the 2008 olympics, she met logan moore, who was 26 at the time. he was from salt lake city, she was from juneau. he was on the rowing team, she was on the gymnastics team. but the two kept in touch and met again at the 2012 olympics, they caught up and as they say, sparks flew. when she returned and announced her retirement, she moved from juneau to a manhattan penthouse with him.
the next four years would be rocky, the two constantly fought and brenda constantly caught him cheating on her but he would âsomehowâ just speak to her and she would âcome to her sensesâ. she wanted a pet, he didnât. they never got a pet. in almost any situation, he would gaslight the hell out of her. and in december 2015, she fell pregnant. something she still wonders how exactly happened with how safe they were being.
but nevertheless, she gave birth to their beautiful twins on august 3rd, 2016 (just two days before the 2016 olympics in rioâs opening ceremony): portia and cressida angulalik-moore.
as much as the pregnancy was untimed and relatively unwanted, the twins definitely werenât unwanted, they brought so much renewed light into her life. and she did, suppose, the timing was almost perfect. except for that, the day after she gave birth, logan was on a flight down to rio.
but the way she had continued her steady stream of income was in partnerships with brands like gk, smartwater, puma, etc. and appearing on talk shows or others to talk about the sport. since it was 2016, this was the 2016 teamâs time to be featured in all of that. but she knew, because of her contracts, the 2016 team wouldnât outshine her.
the twins also helped in another way, it made more people come into her life, and in september 2017, she broke up with logan.Â
she is currently working on a memoir about her times in training. she supposes she may do a memoir in the future regarding her personal life, but she doesnât want to air out everything with logan just yet, especially as their twins are only 3 years old.
while she can no longer do everything she once could, she still visits a gym in nyc and practices, never letting her body totally lose what it had from years of gymnastics. her downstairs neighbors may hate her, as she does randomly do cartwheels, round-offs, and handsprings in her penthouse. her twins are in mommy & me gymnastics classes, but she would never push them to follow in her footsteps.
she was to fly to tokyo with the us team to be a commentator on the womenâs gymnastics competitions, but as the olympics have been pushed back to 2021 she is unsure anymore although that is still currently the plan.
okay iâm even shittier at talking to the personality section but sheâs an enfj-a. and her natal chart:Â
FAST FACTS SECTION!
she follows the russian orthodox faith as her family had decades ago been converted during the time of russian alaska.
she speaks english and inuktitut fluently. she is currently trying to learn russian to feel more connected to her faith.
she is bisexual and biromantic.
tattoos follow canon to fc so those tattoos you see on maikaâs gifs ... do imagine those are on brenda.
her favorite to least favorite event, in order: balance beam, uneven bars, floor exercise, vault.
she has joint custody with her ex, the twins spend a week and a half with her, a week and a half with their father, and so on.
basically native nastia liukin, okay?
ALCOHOL: YES (only on times when her ex has the kids) / CIGARETTES: NO / WEED: YES (only on times when her ex has the kids)
iâm open to basically any sort of plot, so yeah like this. or message me (here or on discord, though discord is preferred) if you wanna plot.
