THE WILD & WONDERFUL APPALACHIA WELCOMES…
ariella ‘ari’ shteynhoyz as written by erin ( she / her ).
✱ affiliated with AFTERGLOW RESEARCH SOLUTIONS
✱ working as RESEARCHER & DOCTOR
✱ has taken up residence in AFTERGLOW COMPOUND
✱ born on JANUARY 1ST ( 29 )
✱ identifying as CIS WOMAN ( SHE / HER )
✱ known to be EMPATHETIC, CARING, FOCUSED, DEPENDABLE, HUMBLE
✱ also know to be QUIRKY, BLUNT, OBSESSIVE, TIMID, NAIVE
✱ portrayed by TAYLOR DEARDEN
DIGGING DEEPER.
Some of Ari's earliest memories were from within the chaos of the emergency room walls. She often found herself situated in the break room of the ED with a coloring book or an assortment of 'playschool' doctor toys to keep her busy while her father worked. But more often than not, it was the chaos of the department that drew her interest the most. As she grew older, she'd venture out to the nurses' station, spinning on one of the chairs with the charge nurse. She helped organize files and keep track of patients and their care, walking along side the nurse like her little shadow. But, mostly, she watched as the doctors saved lives over and over again. One of those doctors was her very own superhero, her father - Yanni.
It was only natural that she'd follow in her father's footsteps and start learning the ins and outs of medicine from an age younger than typically expected. She absorbed everything like a sponge, just watching from the corner and learning how all sorts of different procedures and techniques were performed. Soon enough she moved from a shadow of the charge nurse to her father's in her teenage years, and growing into herself and her skills as a doctor in her own right.
But even more so than being in the middle of all the chaos of the emergency department and helping to save lives, Ari found she loved finding new solutions and innovations in the medical field. She wanted to not only assist in the road to recovery of her patients, but make the road of recovery even easier and quicker. It was how she had gotten started in the research sector of Afterglow, hoping to find new ways to help and heal.
EXTRAS.
headcanons :
Ari can often be caught using sign language while speaking. This is due to her half-sibling (on her mother's side) being born deaf. One of the research projects she hopes to make a breakthrough on is developing technology to restore (or at least, improve) her sibling's hearing ability.
Georgie didn’t even know how it happened. One minute she was following Aldo, the next a rowdy group of people swept them up. And suddenly she was alone. She didn’t see her security guard anywhere, even as she spun around in a circle and called out to him. She spotted another group of people barreling towards her, so she ran - just far enough to get away before they overtook her. But now she was really lost, she didn’t even remember which way she was going. And just as she was beginning to despair, a familiar head of fiery locks appeared and she ran to her friend. “Ariella! What- what the hell. I don’t know- Where are you going? Are you okay?”
“Do you have any Advil or something?” Gunner blurted to the first person beside him. A combination of the heat, dehydration, and continuous loud party music that surrounded him everywhere he went was apparently catching up to him in the worst way, “My head feels like it’s the size of Jimmy Neutron’s or something. Gotta blast. Y’know what I’m talking about?” @femmefatclle