ย ย ย ย โ โ you know, as sadistic, morally-corrupt and awful as it sounds, iโm a little jealous that i didnโt manage to make something as powerful as that toxin thatย seraphina spoke of. you have to admit that the people whoย created it are gods, cruel and vicious gods, but gods nonetheless,โย she muses out loud, probably louder than she should, stuck in a thankfully empty and dark hallway while she tries to fish her apartment keys out of her side pocket. for a great inventor like her, neelam ought to remember to attach some sort of light to them, or perhaps even try to create keys that glow in the dark, but wait, hasnโt something like that already been invented?ย
โ itโs my fault. i shouldโve majored in chemistry or biomedicine. but i only have one life and 365 days in a year like the rest, โ itโs not that she regrets going into psychology, of course not, the main wall in her living room tells the tale of her pride as itโs decorated with her diplomasย and academic achievements, but sheโs always been an overly ambitious girl, ready to bite the hand that feeds her on the wrist; ambition is a malady from which you can never fully recover.โ and make yourself at home, val,โย asย the door opens she takes off her shoes, beckoningย valentina to follow. โ by the way would you like something to drink?ย โย itโs a formality, but she goes straight for the tray of drinks in the living room, pouring herself a full glass of imported bourbonย that most resembled the colour of burnt caramel, and without waiting to her valโs response, sheย sprawls out on the sofa like a bored feline,ย taking up half the space. โ so where were we?โ
NAME neelam nadine thevenoud
ALIAS ย franz pfannl
DOB/AGE ย 23
ORIENTATION bisexual
BIRTHPLACE ย la rochelle, france
CURRENT LOCATION ย new york city, usa
FATHER arnaut thevenoud
MOTHER gita patil
SIBLINGS she says none, but she has two half-brothersย
GENDER cis woman
PRONOUNS she/herย
SCHOOL ย school la genette
UNIVERSITY ย NYU department of psychology
DEGREE ย psychology, licensed marriage and family therapist
OCCUPATION ย divorce counselor, weapons specialist
BRIEF HISTORYย
tw: abandonment, tw: slight mention of xenophobia and racismย ย
neelam was born and raised in la rochelle, france ( also if youโve never been here, itโs a recommendationย from yours truly ), which is a costal town of france, and itโs also the place where her parents fell in love. itโs been said that it was true love, love at first sight, the sort of love that poets and writers can only dream of. and for a while they did love each other.ย eventually they had neelam, but things changed once her father just... vanished. not to worry, he was completelyย fine, heโs just a bastard.ย
neelam doesnโt remember him, as she was only two years old when he packed his suitcase and left with a new woman and moved to spain. from what sheโs last heard, he lives in a beautiful costal town and has two kids.ย she likes to think that it didnโt impact her view on life, but boy, it did.
however, the vital info here is that her mother never recovered from the breakup. have you ever heard of those swans that just die of a broken heart? well her mother didnโt die, but her soul just wasnโt the same. she became distant, lost, resentful, and after a while, neelam just started to live in a world of her own. but no matter what, she always tried to love her mother.ย
even as a child, neelam was definitelyย an inventor, which of course included stealingย mechanicalย parts from her motherโs washing machine and kitchen mixers. a true child prodigyย ๐
but the biggest challenge that neelam had to face was moving to the states at the age of 12. she was left in the care of her distant but surprisingly interesting aunt; a self-made woman who never married or had kids, and you have to admit that girl knew what she was doing. while eccentric at times, she always treated neelam with respect and gave her a lot of freedom. her mother on the other hand moved to the hamptons where she worked for the rich and kept sending money to support neelam. this was the final degree of separationย betweenย neelam and her mother, itโs just that she had no idea back then.ย
of course neelam struggled quite a lot in nyc, especially because she was the new kid on the block who didnโt speak english. the kids in school teased her, but she never exactly took it personally? okay she did, but she just didnโt show it. and she also didnโt understand what they were saying for the first year so that was also helpful. besidesย revenge is a dish best served cold and neelam became fluent in just under a year, and not only that, but she also became the top student in her class.ย
nothing was better than sitting in class with a smug face while the rest could only grit their teeth with frustration.ย
now onto her little secret. she learned english with the help of comic tv cartoons and generallyย trashy american shows, but the best part is that those very shows inspired her and kept fueling her creative side. thatโs how she for the first time started designing weapons. all alone, in her room, with a physicsย assignment on her table, and a comic tv show in the background. she completelyย disregarded the assignmentย and focused on the show and had a sudden epiphanyย to turn the weapon she saw on tv into reality.ย ย
at the age of 15, she started hanging out with the rebels in herย neighborhood,ย and just like that she found herself in a much different world and for her 16th birthday, she got her very first tattoo!ย
of course, she kept designingย weapons in her free time, just because they were herย obsession, and she even had plans to get into a prestigious engineeringย universityย until she was persuadedย to stay away. basically she had this one friend who saw her sketches and offered to pay some money for them, and unbeknownst to her, he began to sell her sketches for more than she were told.ย they both kept her in the dark, advised her to work for them and stay away STEM colleges.ย she had too much potential in her opinion to waste it on STEM. besides, as they once said: whoโd want to see an immigrant woman handling their weapons? and while awful, she knew that there was some truth in that, especially because she knew that the american system was rigged.ย
so she turned to psychology, specializing in marriage and family therapy in hopes of saving other families and kids from the pain she had to endure. besides, it was already too late for her.
so she still worked for them both, and they for big corporations and exporters of weapons, which in return made hrt a part of their endless ring. usually, she stayed anonymous, going under the name neal as she spent her nights designing and testing new prototypes in shooting ranges, and days in college, mastering the intricate aspects of human interactions and mind. the funniest part is that most believed that she was a man, due to her name and brilliant skills, until of course the day she found her worth and quit.ย
neelam really thought that it was the last time, that sheโd have to say goodbye to the world of weapons and then the invitation came and now sheโs better than ever baby.ย
in general, sheโs had a complicated life, which in return makes her a very complicated person who doesnโt trust most at all, and she also doesnโt believe in love. for someone who holds a degree in psychology, she does like to collect her grudges like trinkets, but obviously she canโt psycho-analyze herself. thatโs a whole mess that she doesnโt need to deal with. but the rest do lol.ย
alsoย ย o put it into perspective, franz pfannl was a famous austrian watchmaker and manufacturer most famous for his 2.7mm kolibri pistol, designed in 1910 and neelam is basically a big fan.ย
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