Geraldine Viswanathan | they/she | non-binary | Have you met [Sami Duwhan] yet? They’re the [27] year old [influencer] that lives around [West Point Homes]. I think they’ve lived in Seattle for [five years]. From what I’ve heard, they’re [perky] but they can also be [awkward] if you get on their bad side. When I think of them, I usually think of [mirrorball by Taylor Swift]. (OOC: Kirby, 24, she/her, CST)
Stats
Name: Sami Uma Duwhan
Age/D.O.B: 27, July 29th 1995
Hometown: Adelaide, Australia
Gender/pronouns: non-binary, they/them & she/her
Sexuality: pansexual/panromantic
Occupation: YouTuber/streamer
General appearance: photo for reference
Positive traits: perky, creative, friendly
Negative traits: awkward, anxious, dramatic
Hobbies: video games, make up, reading, baking
Family: Dev Duwhan (father, 57) Uma Duwhan (mother, deceased), Ari Duwhan (brother, 20)
Bio (bullying tw, death tw, illness tw, depression tw)
Sami was the first born child to Dev and Uma Duwhan, a very happy couple that met and fell in love in their late 20s. The couple was settled down together within six months, and within their first year together they welcomed little Sami.
They were a happy child, surrounded by love. Their life at home was laidback, easy-going, and encouraging. Sami was an excitable, loud kid at home with their parents where they felt safe. School was a bit of a different story. While they were the same old kid, they realized that a lot of people weren’t quite so accepting of rambunctious, weird kids that interrupted class to show the teacher the song their dad taught them over the weekend. They got picked on quite a bit, which never really broke their spirit but it taught them to be more reserved around others.
When Sami was seven, Uma and Dev welcomed their younger brother, Ari, and Sami had a wonderful relationship with him. Their age difference never impacted their bond, even when Sami was saddled with babysitting for their parents. The siblings were very close and always have been.
As a child and a younger teen, Sami was very confused by their gender and sexuality. They cut off all their hair by themself in the bathroom once, hoping the “masculine” haircut would help them understand themself a little better, but it didn’t. Nothing did - until they were around fifteen and stumbled upon the concept of genders outside the typical binary. It clicked in their mind so easily and they/them pronouns felt so right. It took a while for them to muster up the courage to tell their parents, who were entirely supportive even though they didn’t fully understand. They became experts at correcting themselves and others whenever their eldest child got misgendered.
Their happy life was interrupted very abruptly when they were sixteen and Uma got sick. She just wouldn’t get better, and when they went to the doctor and got the diagnosis, it was already too late. She died within six months, making their tight-knit family a little smaller and a lot darker. The three remaining Duwhan’s were thrust into a depression that consumed them all pretty entirely.
Sami’s spirit had been stamped out pretty hard as they graduated school, turned eighteen, enrolled in university... everything they’d been so excited for. The only solace they had was locking themself up in their bedroom and booting up their computer. Games helped, games distracted them and kept them happy. Watching others playing games online helped, too, and when they were nineteen they decided to give that a try. They uploaded their first YouTube video, awkwardly and quietly starting a Sims 3 series for their beginning audience of zero. It was fun, and eventually picked up some traction. Within their first year online, Sami had amassed over 50,000 subscribers on their channel.
It snowballed from there. 50,000, 100,000, 250,000 - all until their channel hit a million subscribers just shy of Sami’s 22nd birthday. Their videos and livestreams had become their livelihood and their career. They adored it and how comfortable they felt in front of their camera. Though they still lived at home in their childhood bedroom, they’d been flying back and forth to the States a lot for whatever convention, partnership, meet-up, whatever their team at YouTube wanted them to do. It eventually became obvious that they’d just have to move to America. So they did that in September of 2017, setting up shop in a two-bedroom townhouse at West Point Homes.
They’d lived there for five years now, happy as ever, and their channel boasts over two million subscribers now. Sami’s joyful, energetic spirit has returned, despite still being a little wary of others that they aren’t close with. They’re a happy, cheerful person, always excited to talk anyone’s ear off about The Sims, Minecraft, Stardew Valley... the list goes on.
Fun facts/wanted connections
Sami is a very very very tightknit person - if you are their good friend, you are their family. I would love some close friends for them, maybe some neighbors they’re homies with?
They have a Stardew Valley tattoo, a Minecraft tattoo, a Sims tattoo, a soot sprite tattoo, and their family members’ birthdays tattooed.
Their apartment is very messy... almost always. The only part that looks nice is their office, where the camera can see. They are not organized in the least.
They have pretty much no friends back in Australia; when their mom died, they shut themself off from everyone and lost a lot of friends in the process.
They love Twilight... like.. a lot...
It’s pretty normal for them to get kinda bored and lonely and poke around on Tinder or Bumble for a while, just to get anxious whenever the talking stage gets to the ‘let’s meet up and grab a drink’ stage so they go ghost
Taken connections:
Close friends with @darcexmoreau
Tinder ghosted @budddywells
