𝙸𝙽𝚃𝚁𝙾𝙳𝚄𝙲𝙸𝙽𝙶 ...
𝐌𝐄𝐊𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐀 ❛ 𝐒𝐊𝐘𝐄 ❜ 𝐃𝐔𝐁𝐎𝐈𝐒 ------ a 𝑇𝑊𝐸𝑁𝑇𝑌 𝑆𝐼𝑋 year old all the way from 𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐘 𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐋, 𝐍𝐉. 𝑆𝐻𝐸 is currently studying 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍'𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐒 at the interchange. ( nala, she / her, est ) // pinterest | dossier.
tw: brief hints / mentions of fertility issues, car accident, death, sexism.
𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙱𝙴𝙶𝙸𝙽𝙽𝙸𝙽𝙶 ;
born to a loving mother and father, mekhala was the moon in their sky(e). the couple had been trying to grow their family for awhile, but to no avail. failed attempt after failed attempt, the pair continued to push forward. to support one another. to never give up hope, until one day, they were told the news of their beautiful little miracle. it wasn’t an easy task, carrying the child .. fear & incessant worrying often crept like a dark cloud off in the distance, but her parents were fighters and mekhala made it to full term and two finally became three.
at one, skye is left with a babysitter. her parents deciding that they’ve vetted the college girl looking for pocket money long enough and had earned their first date night since bringing their bundle of joy home. the agreed upon arrival time back home was 10PM, the babysitter needing time to make it back to her dorm before curfew, but by 10:07PM, her parents weren’t the ones coming to relieve the babysitter of her duties.
a drunk driver, they said. we did all we could, they said. it just wasn’t enough, they said. i’m sorry, they said.
and, just like that, skye is uprooted from newark & moving to cherry hill with the only family who wanted to take on a young child: her paternal aunt.
at six, she starts school. despite being as young as she was during the time of the accident, it was a difficult transition and her aunt believed it best to focus their attention on helping skye settle, which included personal tutors for preschool. being around so many kids is a new experience for her, but kids can be cruel towards those who are different. she’s picked on for being the child of a single mother until the children learn she doesn’t actually have any parents. the reasons why are irrelevant and this is the first significant experience she has, witnessing the difference in treatment of men vs. women; single fathers praised for stepping up, for their sacrifice while single mothers are shamed for being unable to keep a husband or having a child out of wedlock, for wanting a career for themselves.
at twelve, she has her second significant experience. dressing up like her aunt in celebration of career day, skye’s outfit makes her look older and she learns from a male teacher across the hall that the glasses on her face make her look like a sexy librarian. the comments roll off of her like water on rubber, skye pretending to be busy practicing the speech she planned to give to introduce her aunt, but she tells the story over dinner than evening and strangely .. never sees that teacher again.
at fourteen, she has her third significant experience in the form of catcalls, disrespectful comments, and ridiculous dress code violations.
women shoulders are distracting, they said. it’s important she doesn’t disrupt the boys in her class, they said.
now, however, skye is well aware of the unfair treatment that exists within society after countless conversations with her aunt and it doesn’t take long before the campfire grows into a wild one. she organizes protests, walk outs, generates petitions, even ends up in front of the school board, but the headway she makes is minimal at best. their cries, their demands, their hurt .. everything falls on deaf ears and skye makes it her mission to bring about as much change as she can for her school before she’s forced to leave.
at eighteen, skye graduates high school, but she’s unsatisfied. sure, she was able to get some wins under her belt, but there’s so much work to be done and with her aunt finally running for a position in local government, there’s no time for higher education --- she has to hit the ground running.
by twenty six, her successes have grown, yet so have her battles. so has her anger. for every positive step forward, society takes a handful back, but as much as she wants to continue doing more, she has to become more. she needs experiences, she needs opportunities to be put in the faces of others, she needs to make connections, she needs to learn & grow. when she’s done with school, skye plans to aim higher than her aunt ever did. the second female governor of new jersey, perhaps? or maybe congress? who knows, maybe she’ll even run for president.
𝙱𝙴𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙳 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙼𝙰𝚂𝙺 ;
imaginative. in order to change the world, one has to be able to think outside the box. nothing is off limits for skye and there’s no such thing as a dumb idea or question. she can often get lost in her head because she’s a fixer, but she doesn’t get so lost that she fails to follow through. if there’s something skye says she’s going to do, you can always count on her to do it. one way or another.
bold. big risk taker. truthfully, no risk is too big --- she lives under the belief that higher the risk, higher the reward. despite that, however, skye isn’t dumb by any means. she never goes all in in one place. she knows what she wants, she knows what she deserves, and she’ll make damn sure that she gets it.
vindictive. this one is simple: she wants revenge. she wants revenge for every woman who has come before her, for every woman that exists beside her. don’t get her started on this. she’ll go off on a whole rant and i’m not trying to be here long enough to write pls thx.
reckless. doesn’t think about consequences. as previously stated, if she wants something, she’ll get it. very much i am woman, hear me roar. i’m not really sure how else to explain it.
𝙰𝙳𝙳𝙸𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝙰𝙻 𝚃𝙸𝙳𝙱𝙸𝚃𝚂 ;
inspiration. reggie rocket ( rocket power, cartoon ), elle woods ( legally blonde, movie ), gloria steinem ( journalist & activist ), shego ( kim possible, cartoon ), and much more, i just can’t think of them all right now.
name. mekhala means goddess of the moon, so her mother gave her the nickname sky when she was pregnant with her. after the accident & she was sent to live with her aunt, it was decided to make it a bit more americanized by spelling it skye --- she prefers it that way, too.
the art of language. is fluent in english, thai, dutch, and german. her aunt felt it important for her to continue what her parents had started by teaching skye the mother tongues of each of them. she hopes to learn more because learning about different cultures and their languages would be extremely helpful in pushing her closer to her goals.
both bark & bite. whereas skye tends to be very vocal about everything, especially injustice, she doesn’t have any issue taking it further than that if necessary. this definitely plays into her recklessness because she’s 10000% the type to put herself in a dangerous situation so long as it means another is not.
okay, this is unnecessarily long especially considering there’s a lot of details i haven’t quite ironed out yet, but i’ll update everything as they come. if you’ve read any of this, pls know that ily and you deserve all that’s good in this universe for being a real one xoxoxo