(deniz can aktaş, male, he/him) Someone said they saw EMIR ȘAHIN around Rift Valley the night of Miles Logan’s murder. People are wondering if they had something to do with it. The 32 year old claims to be [ON A LATE NIGHT JOG] at the time of the murder. They are said to be [INTUITIVE], which can play to their innocence until you consider they are also [RUTHLESS]. But who knows if they are telling the truth? Rumor has it, they ARE NOT a witness in the investigation. Regardless, the [CIVILIAN] who happens to be the [REGIONAL DIRECTOR] is a suspect, but so is everyone else.
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Name: Emir Hakan Sahin
Nicknames: Emmy(only by family)
Faceclaim: Deniz Can Aktas
Gender & Pronouns: Cismale, he/him.
Age: 32
Birthday: October 25th, 1994
Occupation: Regional Director of Atlas Hotels/Entrepreneur
Time in Rift Valley: A few years.
Birthplace: Manhattan, NY
Favorite Song:
Personality
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
Positive Traits: Intuitive, Smart, Protective
Negative Traits: Ruthless, Power Hungry, Abrasive
Hobbies: Gambling, Working out, Playing Golf.
Likes: Money, Tequila, Old Movies
Dislikes:
Bio (tw; drugs, alcohol, violence)
He was raised like an heir, with his father always knowing that he would have to one day take over the business completely. He pushed his son to the extremes, making sure he wasn't only academically superior, but physically capable of representing the business.
He was never allowed to let off steam growing up. If he wasn't studying, working, or at the gym, he was keeping an eye on his sisters, chaperoning them, making sure they stayed out of trouble, and ensuring no trouble came to them.
When he started college he slowly learnt to let off steam. It started with a few drinks with his room mate, which branched out to a couple of frat parties, which then started Emir down a road of alcohol, sex, and eventually drugs.
He started going out every night, whilst somehow managing to keep on top of classes and everything else, all without his father ever clocking on to his behavior.
Having grown up with a heavy focus on business, money, and being taught that's all that mattered, Emir started to find new opportunities in college to make a little extra cash and put that big business brain to good use.
It started with selling fake IDs to freshman out of his dorm room, and then after a while that all led him to the ultimate shady side hustle, selling drugs.
He made bank. Selling to idiot freshman, and knowing when to raise the price, ensuring he was the go to guy on campus for that kind of things.
Graduation came around faster than Emir could have anticipated, and he was suddenly back living under his parent's watchful eye.
The degree seemed pointless, since he was already destined to take over the hotel chain, but his father never let him have anything unless he worked for it.
And so he did, he started back at the hotels working, but not in any high level position, his dad had him washing sheets, and then checking out guests, and then after a year he made it to management, and up, and up, working hard for every promotion like his father didn't own the whole thing.
It was as if he was being punished somehow, as if his father knew how much fun he got up to in college, and this was his penance.
By the time he made it to the bigger leagues Emir was completely exhausted. Physically, mentally, emotionally. He had worked for years, morning, noon and night, and still there was no sign of him being handed the position he was born to take over.
So Emir got sick of waiting. He got sick of making less than he deserved, and started finding other ways to make it big, having learnt how to keep his father out of his business after all of this time.
He started selling again, this time in smaller areas, where the business was a little light, but it made him plenty. Then he got back into gambling, hitting the casinos, counting cards, and managing to stay out of trouble.
When that all got boring he started to think a little bigger. Then came an idea. He had hotels at his disposal, why not use them. So he did, in any way he could think of.
He'd hold illegal poker tournaments in the hotel ballroom, under the guise of a charity event, he'd host bare knuckle fights in the basement, where the stakes were high and the bets even higher, and the rooms, all 708 rooms all with their own potential, most though he'd simply rent out to girls and guys wanting to make a quick buck, turning a blind eye to any dirty dealings of course.
The hotels still make money, the business still makes money, and Emir's father still makes money, but of course, he makes a little more. All without anybody knowing.
He's now set his sights on Rift Valley. The hotels practically run themselves, so Emir is taking a bit of a break in town, making use of the beach, clubs, and everything else the town has to offer him, whilst still keeping a watchful eye on his sisters.
The more time he spends in town though has him thinking that maybe it's time to expand the 'business' and that all the recent incidents in town might be the perfect opportunity to do so.
In Short
Heir to large hotel chain owned and currently run by his father.
Was raised to be business minded, power hungry and physically capable of taking care of the company when he eventually takes control.
Went to college, but spent most of his time making money through ilegal side hustles and shady dealings, all without his father finding out.
Left college, expecting to be handed the company, or at least a high position with it, but was made to work from the bottle up, and soon got tired of working so hard for nothing.
Started making money again through little side hustles and then eventually started using his hotel(s) to run ilegal poker tournaments, fight clubs, and other nefarious money making schemes.
Has been living in Rift for a few years, mostly to keep an eye on his sisters(asena & dilan) but has been recently debating get into it with the gangs, and possibly bringing his 'business' ideas to town.
Headcanons/Other stuff
He can speak five languages; english, turkish, spanish, german and french.
He buys a new car every couple of years, with it not taking him too long to get bored of one.
He has been visiting and staying in Rift Valley for just under a decade, but only recently bought a house here.
He looks grumpy as fuck most of the time, and he probably is, it doesn't take much to piss him off.
He loves his sisters dearly and would do anything for them. He tries to avoid being too overbearing but has been known to muddle heavily in their personal lives.
He has been engaged twice in his life. Once when he was twenty four, which lasted two months before Emir cheated, and then again when he was twenty seven, that lasted a year and a half but Emir called it off, never giving a reason why.
He plans to make big changes to the business if his father ever gives it over to him, he thinks his dad knows this though and that is partly why he hasn't.
