✱ STRAIGHT FROM INTERCEPT: DARIA SAAD ! — as written by mel ( they / she / he )
NAME : daria saad | GOES BY : daria | GENDER & PRONOUNS : cis woman ( she / her ) | D.O.B. : february 3rd ( 30 ) | FACECLAIM : mika abdalla
known to be CHARMING, CONFIDENT, GREGARIOUS, and RESILIENT, but also OUTSPOKEN, CYNICAL, RECKLESS, and SARCASTIC, they have been in intercept ALL THEIR LIFE, currently working as a LIFEGUARD at astroland and BARTENDER at club enigma.
Looking For Connections.
➥ OLDER SIBLING: there is some resentment here, because daria feels like she gave up her life to take care of their parents, while this character was already away at school and building a career for themselves. my idea was that this character is a lawyer, government official, or maybe works as a respected doctor at the local hospital. either way — comparison is the devil, and daria constantly finds herself constantly feeling like a failure in comparison to this sibling. ➥ ROOMMATE: daria and this person together moved in together about two years ago. they’re very comfortable around each other, and even would go as far as to call each other close friends. their personalities may seem different sometimes, but when they’re similar, it works.
Digging Deeper.
THIS BIO CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING TRIGGERS : cancer; parental death
daria was born and raised in rural intercept into a family of produce farmers — who were successful enough to put food on the table for themselves and their two children, but not successful enough for little luxuries. a quiet, sweet girl soon blossoms into quite the confident little thing when she becomes of school age, her flamboyant personality finding her in her first acting class at the age of ten — which lit a spark that would soon take her through the rest of high school.
in town, she became a local celebrity. valedictorian, the lead in every school musical, cheerleader and prom queen. and yet, everything changed when her mother got sick when she was sixteen. everything at the farm fell apart, and she found herself asking herself one question: does she take the time to work at a “survival job” and defer her time at nyu’s tisch program — or does she go, and nearly drown in student loans?
deciding on the first option, daria sits her father down and tells him that she plans on staying home to help him. and yet, even after her mother passes from lung cancer when daria’s in her early twenties — she finds herself feeling stuck. she’s made roots here now, and has blossomed not into the person she expected to be: but it’s something.
daria has made herself a bit of a staple in the astroland community ( despite it being less than ideal ), and she’s found herself making some amount of peace with her life — even if she’s come to realize that “making peace” is sometimes something someone says to make themselves feel better. if you can’t find her at astroworld, you can find her behind the bar a couple of times a week at club enigma — a position she she took on a couple years ago when she realized that her bills were getting higher, but her paycheck wasn’t.
her father has found some stability now thanks to some assistance from daria herself, but some people closest to her worry that she’s stretched thin between working two jobs to make ends meet and taking care of her dad. and yet, she just flashes her prom queen smile and shrugs it off — she’s doing fine. or so she says.
Extras.
aquarius sun, leo moon, taurus rising. daria is incredibly confident, intelligent and possesses a natural charisma that draws people to her. and yet, she also requires a certain amount of stability in her daily life and surroundings.
one would consider daria a regular in the local thrift shops and vintage stores. she has an electric sense of dressing that one would almost describe as effortless — and now has slowly begun to fall under what one might call the “90’s grunge” subgenre.
their apartment isn’t much, but it’s home. again, it’s filled to the brim with trinkets, art pieces and plants. she also has a cat named janis, after the musician janis joplin.