[non binary and she/they] Welcome to Aurora Bay, [USAKI "SAKI" GREY]! I couldn’t help but notice you look an awful lot like [KAYLEE KANESHIRO]. You must be the [TWENTY EIGHT] year old [ACTRESS]. Word is you’re [CHARISMATIC] but can also be a bit [ESCAPIST] and your favorite song is [MIRRORBALL BY TAYLOR SWIFT]. I also heard you’ll be staying in [AURORA BAY DRIVE]. I’m sure you’ll love it!
BIOGRAPHY INCLUDES: pregnancy mention, substance abuse, parental death
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BASIC INFORMATION !
FULL NAME: Usaki Grey
NICKNAME(S): Saki
AGE: Twenty Eight
GENDER & PRONOUNS: Non-Binary & She/They
SEXUAL & ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: Homosexual & Homoromantic
BIRTH PLACE: Fredericksburg, Maryland
BIRTHDAY: 6 February
ZODIAC: Aquarius
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single
HEIGHT: 5'8"
OCCUPATION: Actress
EDUCATION: High School
NEIGHBORHOOD: Aurora Bay Drive
LENGTH OF TIME IN TOWN: Since 2022
PARENTS: Unknown (Father) — ???, Laurel Grey (Mother) — Deceased, Maura Linderman (Foster Mother) — Living, Wyatt Walton (Grandfather) — Deceased
SIBLINGS: None
SPOKEN LANGUAGES: English
PETS: None
BIOGRAPHY !
Laurel Grey never expected to get pregnant after a one night stand, but that was her fate. Living from couch to couch in LA, she never got her acting career stable enough for it to be a career so when her friend got her a job at the front desk in an accounting firm, Laurel moved from sunny California to Maryland. She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl who she named Usaki to honor her own Japanese roots. Laurel did her best to raise her daughter, but from years of being on the party scene and struggling with addiction, she passed away at the age of thirty two from alcohol poisoning. With no remaining family and her mother having no will, Usaki moved in with her mother’s friend Maura Linderman who fostered her from the age of five until she left home at eighteen after a fight.
Usaki’s childhood was rough with not really knowing her mother or father and being raised by Maura. Sure Maura did her best to support Usaki, but the girl was headstrong. Maura didn’t want to erase Usaki’s mother, but at the same time she didn’t want the young woman to fall into the same patterns. She was nothing if not tough and overprotective. Saki grew up with a strict curfew, she was required to go to church with Maura, she wasn’t allowed to date, and she got grounded if her grades dropped below a B. For the most part Saki didn’t really have too many friends. She stuck to herself, having a couple of friends here and there that usually dropped her when she wasn’t allowed to come over for a sleepover. Saki grew up feeling like an outcast, looking at photos of her mother who she knew so little about. So she made up stories about her mom, pretended what her life would be like with her there.
When she went to high school, she was only allowed one after school activity and when she told Maura she wanted to join the school play, Maura became outraged by the thought. She refused to let Saki try out for the school play. For three years, Saki joined other clubs, though nothing stuck and every year she looked at the play longingly. But senior year Saki found a way around that, she told Maura she wanted to join the mathletes and even convincingly lied enough that her foster mom let her. Yet, she never joined mathletes, instead she tried out for the play and got the lead role. Usaki felt incredibly excited. Suddenly she went from having no friends to suddenly being called over to sit with her cast mates at lunch. She patiently waited for Maura to go to bed so she could run lines and when it came time for the school play, she made sure her foster mother was busy with some church function that Saki so graciously suggested they have. Unfortunately, Maura did find out about the play and she was livid. She kicked Saki out of her house and Saki spent the rest of the school year couch jumping various friend’s houses.
Saki ran to LA the second she graduated after grabbing her mom’s belongings from Maura’s house and stealing the car that was rightfully hers. She landed in LA, a far too young, far too impressionable woman who was angry. She got a job as a cashier, found someone looking for a roommate, and started to try and make her name in the acting world. And she didn’t get very far. The first year she only got a singular callback and didn’t end up booking the role. But Saki was determined to make it. She knew she had talent, people just needed to see it. She went to audition after audition and had nothing to prove it. No one wanted to book her. But it was right when she was about to call Maura crying and crawling back to Maryland did she see an advertisement in a paper for an indie movie. The pay was atrocious but it was the passion project for a small group of friends who were more interested in making the movie than anything else. She walked into the audition and blew them away. Usaki was incredibly happy to book her first role and although the project ended up not making too much money, it got her contacts and people saw her talent.
At twenty four, Saki wanted to see if she had any family and try to see if she had half siblings or who her father was. She did an ancestry test to see the results and didn’t get anything interesting. But it left her with some sort of hope that one day she’d have a family to call her own. Saki forgot about the test and continued on with her life. Until a mysterious email made its way into her inbox. Saki read the email only to find out that her grandfather had also been an actor. He had a short romance with a woman for a summer which resulted in Laurel, but he never knew about her. Since Saki was the only living relative of his, found by the ancestry test, she inherited his entire fortune and mansion in Aurora Bay. The twenty four year old found herself in town, going through her grandfather’s things, finding out information about family she did have, even if they were gone. She read letters her grandfather sent her grandmother before her grandmother left. She watched her grandfather’s movies, now knowing where she got her talent and passion from. And yet, she’d made it all on her own. Gossip sites got hold of the information and Saki found herself blowing up overnight. Before she’d only done smaller indie movies and while she got some fans from it, suddenly they were interested in her story as Wyatt Walton’s granddaughter.
She got offered more roles and eventually got cast in as one of the leads in a show that she conveniently got them to shoot in Aurora Bay–so her commute wouldn’t have to be as far. Saki’s life in Aurora Bay is kind of lonely, not because she doesn’t have friends but because has an entire mansion all on her own and no one to share it with. Although navigating the dating scene is incredibly difficult as an actress with a famous grandfather. Still, she does her best to navigate the life of a young actress still trying to find herself in the world. Only recently did they come out as nonbinary, changing their pronouns online and making a bigger effort to spend time and donate money to Queer organizations. Saki also recently started a charity foundation for people with alcohol and substance abuse problems in order to help people struggling like their mother. Although Saki has not reached out to make any amends with Maura, sometimes they feel there’s too much bad blood between them for anything to ever feel straightened out.
HEADCANONS !
She's a huge movie buff, but really loves old films and music more.
Saki has been trying to learn Japanese.
They go by both she and they pronouns, fine with either, but will correct someone if they're using the wrong pronouns.
