⌠ HAFSUNAR SANCAKTUTAN, 20, GENDERFLUID, SHE/THEM ⌡ welcome back to gallagher academy, ELVIRA YILMAZ! according to their records, they’re a SECOND year, specializing in LINGUISTICS, CULTURE, & ASSIMILATION + COVERT OPERATIONS; and they DID go to a spy prep high school. when i see them walking around in the halls, i usually see a flash of ( laughter with a false note lurking beneath, half-smiles and swallowed secrets, dark undereye circles ). when it’s the cancer’s birthday on 06/28/1997, they always request DONDURMA from the school’s chefs. looks like they’re well on their way to graduation. ⌿ minnie, twenty five, she/her, est ⍀ @gallagherintro
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TRIGGER WARNINGS: depression; manipulation; unwilling murder; grief
THE YOUNGEST AND ONLY DAUGHTER OF THE YILMAZ FAMILY, elvira was raised only to be beautiful, to build the network her parents cultivated. every interaction was meticulously planned, every connection contrived and evaluated... for all intents and purposes, elvira was raised to be a bargaining chip for social and political power in turkey.
while her brothers followed the rule and reign of her father, elvira was coddled by her mother. she was told they were beautiful and superior to the rest. that they were meant for greater things, that they could become the most important person in turkey — the world, if elvira wanted. and they believed it. she drank it up, and became the most poised and calculating young woman among her peers.
she had few true friends, but she didn't need friends; she had a posse, each of them hand-selected by her parents to further the yilmaz influence. elvira led the pack, bright and bold and unbelievably snobby.
WHEN EMIR RAN AWAY, elvira was heartbroken. with so few friends of their own, elvira's family was their entire reason for being. after all, they were raised to do anything and everything for the yilmaz name and their family. they fell into deep depression, and where nurturing parents might see sorrow, elvira’s parents saw opportunity.
they whispered to her of the ways elvira could make emir proud, so much so that he might return home. become a spy, they urged her, become the spy emir could have been. in this, elvira could honor him. in this, elvira could keep her oldest brother in her life.
pulling every string they had, her parents enrolled her in a prestigious spy prep school where elvira threw herself into her studies. she would graduate late due to starting late, but she managed to graduate on time — something she's rather proud of, after all she'd missed.
they were happy enough when they received her acceptance into gallagher, but they were elated when emir returned home. the sun re-entered their veins, it filled the craters that had only grown in his absence. at last, their family was whole — and so were they.
SHE DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS POISON. she thought it was medicine, meant to help her older brother and grow his strength. then he died, and elvira was horrified. she took the remaining bits of "medicine" she had in her bedroom and had it studied at gallagher. when she learned it was poison, elvira spins off her axis. the universe crumbled, splintered into pieces in which there were no sun, moon, stars, even sky — she was utterly, irreparably shattered.
elvira took a gap year from gallagher, realizing her parents had deliberately entrapped her so they could blackmail her the same way they blackmailed emir (something she also hadn't known about until then). she spent the time traveling, claiming she wanted to relax after working so hard while emir was gone. emir was the only person she talked to during this time, and even then, elvira acted as if all was well. through it all, elvira was firm on her decision: she wouldn’t tell emir. not until she was ready.
she returned to gallagher with a greatly shaken faith in her sense of purpose and confidence, but to the naked eye, they are the same person they were a year ago. on the surface, they are still the same personable, confident person who left gallagher for a gap year. they hide their grief in secret and deals with it the only way they know how: ACTION. retribution, to be precise. she will dissolve her family’s reputation, she will pull the strings that hold the yilmaz name in high regard, and watch as her parents tumble far below, where they cannot hurt or even see their children again. only when she and emir are free will elvira ever confess to emir all that their parents have done… and what sins she, too, has committed.
𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘
their first year at gallagher, elvira was very social, bright, bubbly, always at the center of a crowd. a practiced conversationalist, they could be counted on to discuss controversial subjects with tact and make people laugh with their wit. they had always been a hard worker, but there was a palpable sense of freedom to the way they moved through life at gallagher during their first year.
once elvira returned from their gap year, more or less seemed to be the same. only those who are closest to elvira notice the differences. the way elvira isn’t the last to leave the party, the way every word seems to be intentional and calculated and measured. they don’t swing their head back when they laugh. they don’t let a single secret slip; they can no longer afford to. she remains pleasant and charming and lovely, but the moment she can, she withdraws.
her closest friends know something is up, but it seems almost like she’s going through a phase. around emir, though, elvira puts up all pretenses. she tries hardest to make him believe there is nothing wrong, but it’s clear to those who knew her during her first year at gallagher that something has changed — perhaps irreparably so.
𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓 & 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄.
