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( mahira khan fc, 36, cis female, she/her ) do you think maya azhar knows the stories about club éclatant? the heterosexual taurus is pretty good at keeping quiet, if so. no wonder they stick to their day job as a meeting planner. i guess it helps that they’re so + efficient and + generous as well as - unyielding and - stubborn. wild wind tousled dark hair, abandoned wine glasses next to coffee mugs, perfectly tailored coats, overflowing day planners.

𝐵𝑖𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝𝘩𝑦

Maya comes from a second-generation immigrant family, all very well educated but incredibly traditional. Her parents both surgeons with high expectations of their three children, Maya especially being the oldest. Caught between her parents' expectations for academic excellence and maintaining piety she learned to put her desires and needs on the back burner. It was the sort of conditioning that took her twice as long to unlearn.

Due to her inability to stand the sight of blood and gore following in her parents' footsteps was out of the question. So she went for business after a long formal conversation with her parents. Not halfway through they decided it was time for her to get married. To a guy she’d known growing up from her parents' circle of friends. Casual friends, he was nice enough, a doctor as well her father having been a mentor figure of sorts to him. Without the freedom to openly date and knowing in the end she would be marrying someone her parents chose for her she said yes without arguing too long.

The problem was at twenty-two she had yet to learn herself, her desires, what she wanted of her life having grown up so closely monitored. Always putting her desires to the back, giving until she was empty with no one to pour back into herself.

The wedding was a blur, she got along with her husband well enough they could be friends which was a blessing from the beginning. And she tried to love him, so very much but it just never happened. With her parents' interference in her decisions having disappeared for the first time she was able to decide what made her happiest. It started with switching her major to event management to pursue her passion and fascination with all things events. Deciding fairly quickly the exhibition and tradeshow side of the events industry was the right fit for her.

Things went on that way for several years where the only source of passion in her life her work, going through the motions at home. Trying to have a child and continually failing, and honestly not caring about that much either even though it was all anyone around her could talk about and remind her of. Then she met Jack Bardet, and he was like a shock to her system. He intrigued her, and she was drawn in like a moth to a flame and before she knew it she was crossing boundaries never before explored. When she realized she felt for him the way she’d never felt for anyone else was a wake-up call to her that burst the bubble of bliss she was in.

She’d barely come to terms with her feelings when she found out she was pregnant, she knew it had to be his and a test confirmed it. Suddenly he was ready to go all in with her and there was pure joy for but a moment until she thought of all the forces that be in her life. It was a wash of cold water to her system. At this point in her life, Maya had spent very little time choosing herself and doing what made her happy, but the indoctrinated cultural norms she grew up with and was constantly faced with were not so easy to turn her back on. Not when the stakes felt so high in her family there were a hundred reasons to stay and just her happiness and his to leave.

In the end, she couldn’t say yes to him and he disappeared. The despair she felt in the aftermath was unlike anything else. The pregnancy was difficult enough, but the postpartum depression she fell into afterward was even worse. Thankfully she had so much family to take care of the child when she could barely take care of herself. Unable to look at her baby some days as she would only be reminded of the lie she was telling everyone around her and what she’d given up.

When she finally got the help she needed to get better it was exactly what she needed to face not only the post-pregnancy trauma but also the negative cognitions and conditioning that ran so deep. Not long after she filed for divorce, ready to live life on her terms and do what was best for her and her baby's wellbeing. Within a year or so that was settled, and she was able to spend time rediscovering and loving herself once more. At a much better place now she decided it was time Jack met his child, finally she feels ready to apologize and makes things right, this time on his terms as she’d taken that choice away the last time. No idea how far removed his world is from hers, and in for a huge surprise.

𝑊𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑠

Best Friend

New Friends/Acquaintances

Someone who introduces her to the world of Eclatant

I’m blanking and will expand on this later but i’m down for anything!

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