meet demet!
Hey is that HANDE ERÇEL? No, that’s just DEMET KARADAŞ. They’re TWENTY-NINE, and have spent ONE WEEK in Dayton. I hear that they’re kind of SWEET but also can be GULLIBLE. CONFETTI-FILLED BALLOONS, BRIGHTLY COLOURED CLOTHING, AND THE SOUND OF LAUGHTER remind me of SHE/HER. Can’t wait to see them at the next party!
TRIGGER WARNING: foster care, pregnancy, domestic abuse, miscarriage
Demet has always been full of life, a sweet smile and always ready to laugh. Despite the fact that she never knew her biological parents, she never let that affect her negatively. She has always tried to see the bright side of things, including that. In fact, if she hadn’t been in foster care, she never would’ve been adopted by the Karadaş family. Her new parents had unfortunately been unable to have children, so they did what they could by adopting. Along with Demet, they adopted nine girls total. Thanks to them, Demet had a family. One she loves and one that loved her in return.
As she grew up in England, she lived a happy life. She made friends rather easily and was always ready to give everyone she met a chance. Which, unfortunately, has done her some trouble. The girl was too trusting, believing to see the good in everyone and making up an excuse as to why there were flaws. That those things were rather temporary, that’s all. This sort of view on the world was considered admirable, but it worried her sisters. She was the youngest of the group and all of them made sure to protect her. To ensure that no one took advantage of her sweet nature and hurt her.
But even then, when she has been hurt by others before, Demet had been quick to forgive them. Wanting to believe that it had been an accident, that they hadn’t meant to hurt her. It was an ongoing thing for her, causing her sisters to be frustrated. Eventually, some of them began to stop trying to protect her. Believing that maybe, she needed to learn a lesson and to not trust everyone so blindly. And unfortunately, that would eventually happen with her first love.
Xavier had been the perfect gentleman, sweeping her off her feet. He had been the perfect Prince Charming and she believed that she would marry him one day. That is, until Demet found out she was pregnant. With Demet sixteen and Xavier nineteen, there had been a lot at stake. For the first time in her life, it was hard to keep her positive demeanor. The two were constantly fighting, neither of them telling their families yet. For twelve weeks, they fought about what to do. Constantly yelling and screaming and crying. Things only got worse after Demet had done a Chorionic villus sampling, soon discovering that her baby had Down syndrome.
Her boyfriend had been pissed. His insults soon translated to his fists, taking his anger out on Demet and their child. Finally, after beating her black and blue, she lost the baby. Demet had been distraught, her heart broken. She finally came clean to her family, about Xavier, about the baby, about everything. Everyone had been in complete shock at the news and began to do everything they could to help her, to show her love and support. It would soon take awhile before Demet was back to her usual self, back to being filled with so much love for the world. To bring back her never-ending faith that everyone is inherently good. While she hasn’t fallen in love again and her sexual experiences have been sorely lacking, the young woman didn’t mind that. She was able to work on and focus on herself. While the pain of losing her baby has never left her, she has found herself determined to live her life to the fullest. Not just for her, but also for her child.
Which would soon lead her to event planning. Sure, Demet has always held a love for celebrations. Festivals, parties, events, everything that was worth celebrating. She soon began to find a great love to being a party planner, with trying to find ways to have the perfect celebration. She attended college in Athens to earn a double major in business and hospitality, eventually moving to New York after graduation to work on becoming an event planner.
While the beginning had been rocky, she soon found her place in the industry. Eventually, Demet became one of the top event planners in the world. Starting up her own company and hiring more event planners to work with her under Joyful Celebrations’ name. And at the beginning of 2021, she soon launched her very first magazine. Talking about everything and anything with event planning, working on a wedding, curating a birthday party, and so much more. After the rough patch she went through a decade before, she found herself genuinely happy.
So… Why has she come to Dayton of all places? She had learn of the party city, how it resembled Las Vegas in a way. Demet’s curiosity got the best of her and she decided to come out here, opening up another building for her company. Deciding to make it the main location for the West Coast. She has only been here for a few days and still has yet to be fully inversed with the lawless city’s ways. Her roommates Yasmine, Laurel, and Nofar have been trying to prepare her for Dayton, yet the women couldn’t help being nervous. Demet was a soft woman- who knows what Dayton may throw at her to try and threaten that?
