was that AVAN JOGIA walking around town ? oh, no ! that was just DEVI MULANI, a TWENTY FOUR year old SAGITTARIUS. i heard he’s currently a YOUTUBER/VIDEOGRAPHER and has lived in marble for FOURTEEN YEARS. something i noticed is that he can be FLIGHTY but also FUN-LOVING and LEATHER JACKETS, RINGS, HALF-EMPTY JD BOTTLES, LIT-UP LAPTOP SCREENS IN DARK ROOMS AND SILLY SMIRKS always remind me of him.
devi is a lil shit lets just get that out of the way first
in regards to his childhood it’s kind of weird because it wasn’t completely plain sailing by any means, but it wasn’t bad enough in his mind to warrant it being a ‘rough’ childhood? compared to a lot of other people it really wasn’t all that bad lmao
he lived a pretty charmed existence up until he was about 10 when his parents got divorced
his mom ended up getting custody of him and his two older sisters, and she moved them all upstate to marble in order to be closer to her family
his dad still had part-custody though and they saw him every other weekend - although all three stopped going so much as they got older, and devi especially just grew further and further apart from his dad until he felt like they barely even knew each other. not that they had an awful lot in common in the first place. he wasn’t a bad guy necessarily, just more of a traditionalist, and they didn’t see eye-to-eye. even to this day when devi’s doing decently well for himself his dad is still tutting and pestering him to ‘get a real job’ lol
he got away with a lot of shit because of a combination of factors. the fact that he was the youngest child, the only boy, his mother feeling guilty in some ways about the divorce, and his eventual stepfather not feeling like it was ‘his place’ to discipline his wife’s kids
tends to make the joke that he “wasn’t spanked enough as a kid”
he was a class clown growing up and tended to show off for attention, and was observant enough to realise that was his ‘in road’ to making friends, and he’s been playing a similar role ever since
wasn’t overly academic, never could quite find his groove in any school subjects that he actually tried in. he was smart enough to pass, but never excelled
looooooooved movies and (slightly oddly) documentaries and biopics as a kid, used to ‘direct’ his toys and stuffed animals in little mini productions to show off to his mom. so he’s always had a creative eye.
eventually it all clicked into place for him and he went to college to study media production, and that’s where he met danny, who was coincidentally from marble as well
right now his career is as a youtuber, in which he has most notoriety as being ‘the cynical one’ in his and danny’s paranormal investigations - even though he likes to argue he has a healthy curiosity in all that ‘stuff’ - he just hasn’t been presented with enough evidence or experiences to make him believe in it all completely. basically homeboy is waiting for a demon to possess him before he admits defeat.
although that takes up most of his attention he’s also started vlogging and other videography/freelance video editting projects, which he hopes to pursue more in the future
as i’ve said, he’s a little shit. sarcastic as hell with a dry sense of humour.
he’s incredibly fun-loving but not quite extreme enough to describe himself as a ‘hedonist’. loves to party and get wasted and ‘enjoy his youth’, but equally enjoys lounging around in bed with snacks and wes anderson movies or parks and rec
is kind of bluntly honest; can come off as rude or off-hand sometimes even when he’s really not trying to be
is affectionate with his friends
very chill, easy-going ‘type b’ guy
a bit of a ‘lazy perfectionist’ - when he has the motivation for something, he becomes very thorough and detail-orientated and drives himself crazy trying to make things perfect. this, however, is emotionally exhausting and therefore sometimes puts him off doing things/taking certain opportunities and that in itself makes him annoyed at himself
not something he’d really admit to or feel comfortable talking about but he can be very insecure? particularly when it comes to what people think about him. he gives the impression that he doesn’t, but trying to recognise and reevaluate how people are viewing him is something he does by instinct constantly and can’t escape.
comes off as kinda aloof but he cares reaaally deeply for his friends, and is the first person that’ll be there for you in a crisis
has suffered with insomnia since he was a teenager
identifies as pansexual/queer and is very go with the flow up until this point in his life in regards to polyamory/casual relationships. he’s a bit of a commitmentphobe (nothing to do with his sexuality; just who he is as a person) and he just wants to experience everything life has to offer. it’d take someone special to get him into something serious but it’s… not something he’s completely closed off to if it happens. whether it's related or unrelated to his proclivity for flings/casual relationships, he has a kinda jaded image of love and relationships after living through his parents’ kinda messy divorce. if he's going to tie himself down he's gonna be extra sure it's what he wants to do and that it's the right person
basically boy gets around a bit lmao he loves experiencing sexual/romantic affection
he’s more of a cat person than a dog person