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tell me 𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐀𝐒; what is heavier? the 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 or its people’s HEARTS ??

𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒔𝒉 !! i’m bri ( 25, est tz, she/her ) + i’m writing for miss PREEDA MAES. under the cut, you will find more info about preeda like her stats, personality, & background as well as wanted connections i’m interested in! if you have any questions or are interested in plotting, shoot me an im on tumblr or on disco @ mothman fan account#3531 🥰 [ ... ] psd by gunshzt + coloring by cavalierfou.

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name, preeda elise maes

nicknames, pree

age, 30

birthday, may 12th

gender, cis woman

pronouns, she/her

sexuality, bisexual biromantic

occupation, costume designer for the queen elizabeth theatre

current residence, apartment in gastown she shares with her cousin, jordan mitchell

faceclaim, davika hoorne

personality

positive traits, creative, dedicated, passionate, playful, kindhearted, generous, accommodating, loyal, levelheaded, considerate

negative traits, obsessive, self-sacrificing, jealous, overprotective, doesn’t trust easily, scatterbrained + forgetful outside of work, anxious, non-confrontational

zodiac, taurus sun + rest of chart TBD

moral alignment, neutral good

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preeda is a FIXER, always has been and working on not always being. she grew up fixing her family and trying to keep the peace. and so she really hates confrontation and chooses instead to channel her frustrations and anger into hobbies like knitting and crocheting. she’s also an anxious baker but do NOT accept any of her baked goods.

she was born in thailand and is a dual citizen of thailand and canada. when she was small, her parents raised her as they traveled internationally doing research and writing. upon the birth of her younger brother, kasem, and her mother getting a job offer, the family moved back to her father’s hometown ... where they came face to face with all of the unresolved tension and conflict between her father and his family :) enter fix it preeda.

preeda’s very much a “” creative “”, and was always interested in performing arts that explored fantasy and historical genres. in college she studied costume design and history as a dual major and eventually went on to pursue a career in costume design. she first began as an assistant designer and in the past couple years earned a lead costume designer position at the queen elizabeth theatre.

she’s a huge workaholic because she’s obsessed with her job, but when she finally gives herself a break she takes her time off seriously, soaking up all of her free time as much as she possibly can. when she’s not feeling the pressure from work, she’s a very playful and spirited person. a really good friend too but in the way where she never talks about herself and wants to make sure that her friends are okay all the time. hides a lot of her personal anxiety and other things she’s grappling with.

i luv her even if she’s a bit of an odd duck and slightly inspired by edna mode DFKLSJF

wanted connections

since day one, preeda’s first friend in vancouver!! they’re really close so it’s the kind of friendship where they’re not afraid to call each other out on their shit or to be one another’s confidants. or maybe they used to be really close and recently they’ve begun to drift apart? this is probably the first person who recognized preeda’s habits of focusing on everyone around her so she doesn’t have to worry about her own shit, one of the few people who checks up on her even if they’re drifting apart.

you again, preeda is a creature of habit and for that reason she’s been living on the same street in gastown for the past seven years she’s been in vancouver. she’s switched apartments of course, especially after her pay raise with the queen elizabeth theatre gig but she likes her neighborhood. she especially likes her regular haunts. this connection would be either employees at places in gastown or other regulars. very much a we only talk because ur literally here every day what do u even do for a living. possible haunts: roxy burger, red cat records, holy chow asian eatery, + cobblestones, or maybe our muses go to the same coffee place each day and gossip after bonding and becoming friends? also this is permission for anyone who works in gastown to know preeda by name.

hangover club, i imagine a small group of friends who go out together and then no matter how bad the hangover is, they always meet up for a late breakfast the next day to recap and chow down on some greasy breakfast food. they have seen preeda probably at her lowest points like making bad choices at 2 am fighting with a bouncer lowest points. maybe they don’t see each other as super close friends but just going out pals and then all the sudden they have to work together or see each other more regularly and it’s kinda awkward?

annoyance to friends to lovers, kinda similar to enemies to lovers but i rlly like the idea of preeda finally finding someone who pisses her off so much that she actually confronts them but it’s more of a u are so goddamn annoying will u shut up kinda deal with a playful undertone. they get her to open up, she takes care of them, there’s always a sort of tension underlying their interactions. give me sunshine x grump plS

whoopsie, a drunken hookup that turns into a regular occurrence? like if preeda or this muse doesn’t find anyone else to hookup with when they go out, they show up at the other’s apartment door. i love the idea of this connection being like they hookup and then talk about their fucked up dating lives and why they haven’t found anyone and are like what is wrONG WITH US??

muse, preeda can’t stop sketching your muse, all the sudden she met this person and they’re her inspiration for everything ... she’s kinda embarrassed. she designs a couple costumes because they inspired her and she awkwardly shows them and then immediately wants to Die.

creative support group, a group of artists, writers, actors, whoever who get together and basically help one another work through blocks and bounce ideas off of one another?

out mom the mom friend, this is my favorite trope give it to me. the person who, even if the two of them aren’t too close, always figures out a way to get preeda to actually answer how are you truthfully. reminds preeda to take care of herself and gets annoyed when she refuses to talk about herself.

general ideas, friends through work / similar projects, they just can’t get along no matter what, exes that ended on good terms, exes that ended on bad terms, neighbors, they’re always bumping into each other for some reason, old friends, rivals, if you have any ideas pls throw them my way !!

full biography

[ tw: mentions of cheating and mental illness ( mainly anxiety ). ]

for preeda, she never had both feet firmly grounded in reality. her childhood was spent pouring over books and films, all tales of magical adventures and fantasy escapes, while her family traveled internationally. her parents, both professors ( her mother in history and her father in literature ), only encouraged their daughter’s exploration of the fantasy genre. her mother specifically guided preeda through thai folklore, in hopes of anchoring her to her culture and home country. preeda herself is a dual citizen of thailand and canada, though she was more of a world traveler as just a baby, her family traveling around asia and europe up until her younger sibling was born. that and a job offer her mother couldn’t refuse prompted the maes to permanently relocate to preeda’s father’s hometown.

unbeknownst to her at her young age, it was a shock that her father even stepped foot into his hometown with his family, let alone relocate. neil maes had up and left his family as soon as he had his college degree under his belt; traded in a life of prestige and wealth for that of a backpacking grad. in his travels he met kamala, the woman he would marry and start a family with. both had a keen interest in folklore and mythology with their aims ultimately set on teaching and writing. together, they made quite a formidable team. neil returned to bangkok with kamala where the two lived for the majority of their dating period and then early marriage. aside from the few relatives who made the trip to bangkok for neil and kamala’s wedding, none of the maes thought they would see neil again. it was his hometown’s worst kept secret that he clashed with his parents and siblings, even as a child; he didn’t agree with their principles, their values, not even the way they spent their weekends. neil couldn’t find a single thing he had in common with his family. and for those reasons, he found it hard to imagine wanting to return there when he had been so welcomed into kamala’s family. when preeda and her younger sibling came along, it made it that much more difficult to imagine leaving bangkok, but kamala was offered a position with a university near his hometown that they couldn’t turn down.

so back home he returned, not the prodigal son but willing to try to mend things. it seemed like the wounds he and his family had inflicted on one another went too deep though, fights beginning almost as soon as he and his family arrived. and preeda, though still young, noticed these growing tensions. she took it upon herself to try to keep the peace between the family, first just as a naive child with distracting conversation and childish antics. but as she grew older, her attempts became more sophisticated; preeda worked to accommodate everyone in her family, sacrificing her own comforts just to avoid a yelling match between her father and uncle.

and so that continued for much of preeda’s life. what was worse is that it became expected of her to adjust for the sake of someone else’s comfort. things grew tougher when her father became aware of her uncle’s transgressions with a woman who was not his wife, resulting in a pregnancy. where her uncle would try to sweep it under the rug, her father hated the idea of leaving the mother completely on her own. it was her father’s own wish to at least extend a friendly hand to the mother and child, ultimately leading preeda to meeting her cousin, jordan.

preeda spent her teen years playing family peacekeeper, leaving her to crave a life that was just her own, not a byproduct of the maes legacy and spite. her involvement in her family’s conflicts was a large source of her anxiety and guilt, those feelings playing up when she wasn’t quick enough to resolve things and family gatherings ended on a sour note. and so when the time came, college became just the getaway preeda needed, much like her father when he left his home behind. in history and art classes, preeda forged her own passion, something of her own that was separate from her family and the person she had become to keep them intact. she never thought she would land on costume designing as a possible career, but it seemed right, a marriage of her interest in fantasy and historical media with creative arts. she had been part of the costume and props department for her high school’s theater, but it never seemed like it could be steady until she met the right people and had the path laid out before her. suddenly, she had remembered what it was like to immerse herself in the fantasy of fiction, like when she was young and engrossed in fairytales and folklore. nostalgia mixed with passion created a formidable drive in preeda. she fully committed, joining both her university’s performing arts and history departments in hopes of pursuing historical costume design. but when she graduated, passion wasn’t enough to sustain her at first. in vancouver, preeda worked odd jobs as she continued to perfect her craft and work with young and independent artists like herself in small film and theater productions. she ultimately landed an assistant costume designer position with a smaller theater in the city. and to her, it was enough.

her dedication and creativity didn’t go overlooked, especially when preeda spent most of her evenings attached to the sewing machine so she could truly perfect pieces. it came as no surprise to her friends and family that she was a bit of a workaholic. no matter what it was, preeda needed a project to devote her time and energy to. with the goal of becoming a recognized costume designer, she could barely look past her work to remember to be a human being. but when she did come up for air, preeda remained a protective, compassionate person who often put others in front of her own needs. though that’s not to say it was very obvious to others, with preeda disguising her sabotaging and self sacrificing habits behind her mask of eccentricity and vibrance. she had years to perfect her guise so that no one worried about her. for preeda it was all about the distraction and redirection; turning how are you’s on their head so suddenly the asker was talking about themselves. it was easier for preeda to focus on others, old habits die hard it would seem.

but in her defense, preeda learned to keep her distance from the majority of her extended family to preserve her own sanity —— except for jordan. after losing touch with her cousin, preeda opened her doors to jordan in hopes of helping her out and reconnecting. as for the maes, preeda keeps them far away from herself with the help her parents and sibling. they know all too well the mental toll family drama took on preeda, her father especially after realizing and apologizing for his role in it all. but still preeda finds herself jumping back into the fray to keep her family from burning themselves to the ground whenever the holiday season rolls around. she hasn’t learned how to brush off the all too familiar feelings of anxiety and guilt when those old fights flare up again, having come to see herself as the glue that keeps the maes together. if she’s not there to stop them, then who’s to say the maes would stay together at all?

it’s better that she’s not at home and has struck out on her own. her passion and talent even earned her a job offer from the queen elizabeth theatre as a costume designer a couple years back. it seems like preeda has everything she ever wished to have, though she can’t help but worry it will all be taken away because of one wrong move.

#vcintro #i literally cant shut up im so sorry about how long this is alfkdj #anxiety tw #˛ * ✱ 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐀 𝐌𝐀𝐄𝐒 ‚ filed under —— dev .

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