#━━ ❛❛ // MALIA JAIDEN ! ¦ there’s something in the static i think i’ve been having revelations . 「 headcanons ! 」

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( zendaya, 28, cis-woman, she/her ) ☼ i know it’s a small town, but i run into MALIA JAIDEN every time i go to WIZARD’S TOWER. it’s like they practically live there and not THE CINDER SAP FOREST for THEIR WHOLE LIFE. it must be because they’re ADAPTABLE and COLD. come to think of it, that’s probably why they’re an NURSE too. but i did hear they want to SELL THEIR MOM’S HOUSE, and sometimes they like to TEND TO THEIR SNAKES. rumor has it they also like PANCAKES, but dislike RUBIKS CUBES. what do you think?

full name — malia jaiden nickname(s) — none name meaning — malia: calm and peaceful. jaiden: god will judge, thankful one. age — twenty-eight date of birth — october 25th place of birth — stardew valley star sign — scorpio sun, scorpio moon, virgo rising  current location — stardew valley gender — cis-woman pronouns — she/her sexual orientation — lesbian religion — atheist  occupation — registered nurse  education level — bachelor of science in nursing family — mila jaiden ( deceased ), david harris ( father, estranged ), emma harris ( step-mother, estranged ), avery & celeste harris ( half-sisters, estranged ) finances — getting by  spoken languages — english, spanish

inspos: cristina yang ( greys anatomy ), jo march ( little women ), aragorn ( lord of the rings ), lip gallagher ( shameless ), jonathan byers ( stranger things ), monica geller ( friends ), chidi anagonye ( the good place ), kat stratford ( 10 things i hate about you ), theo crain ( haunting of hill house ), riley flynn ( midnight mass ), jamie ( haunting of bly manor )

tw: mentions of alzheimers, death of a parent, absent father

 “i want to stay with you forever,” malia says, staring up at her mother who reminds her of honey and little specks of everyday magic. she remembers her mother laughing, “forever is a long time. you might get bored.” it’s hard to tell a six year old no, even harder to remind the sixteen year old that once upon a time all she wanted to do was be with her mom. malia had plans after high school. she was going to become someone, except she had no idea what she wanted to do, she just knew that she needed to go. 

throughout her life traveling had always been a thing that her and her mom did when it came to sports that malia played, and for her graduation present they were going to go to europe. then, malia’s mom got sick. 

“i want to stay with you forever,” quickly turned to, “i will stay with you forever,” malia got the acceptance letter to columbia and told her mother that she didn’t get accepted, and by the time it mattered her mom forgot. 

malia took on the caregiving role, and commuted to the nearest school that she could to get her bachelors to become a registered nurse. her mom used to say if she had been smarter she would have been a nurse, and malia remembers braiding her hair and telling her that she could have if she wanted to, but that she was just fit to be a teacher. the first few years were hard, malia realizing the kind of impact her mom had on her community and how much unlike malia was to her mother was startling. where her mom was kindness, malia had a coldness to her. where her mom was gentle, malia pushed people away. it hadn’t always been like this, or maybe all of her bad qualities that had laid dormant came from her dad. 

her mom died about a year ago and she’s been living in her house ever since with the intentions to sell it but being unable to. she wouldn’t know where to go if she did. 

other stuff: 

malia is a vegetarian and has been her whole life

when she was a kid she used to "rescue" snakes ( she would actually snatch them poor things ) and ask her mom if she could keep them. eventually when she was old enough to have a pet her mom bought her a snake. she's had many snakes over the years and is obsessed. her snakes now are mexican black king snake, a corn snake, and a ball python

owns a little black cat named bitty

malia smokes :/// she shouldn't as a nurse but she simply doesn't care

only has had one serious relationship that she ended due to not being able to be there for people emotionally

her mom was probably most if not all of the valley's school teacher lol

malia is a good nurse and is excellent at her job but her patients often tell her that she needs to smile bc she has a permanent sad face asdokfas

knows self defense and taekwondo because her mom thought it was important for her to be able to hold her own in case anything happened

her mom's house is a cottage with a beautiful garden that malia is desperately trying to tend to but she is not a botanist and tries hard to not be home to care for it :/

she needs a hug probably adlfasaslk;f

[psychcpomps]

to: the marvelous marcel,

my name is malia. when my mother named me she said it was because she found it by accident reading zuzu's newspaper and she just liked it. she had kept the name in her pocket for ages until she realized she was pregnant with me. my dad wanted to name me something else but my mother said she was growing me, so of course, she got to name me. my dad isn't in the picture anymore and he gave the name to his other daughter, so i guess my parents both got what they wanted in the end. there's a lot to a name, it puts weight on things. there's a reason why people say don't name your strays because it leads to attachments. then there's the argument of naming strays to give them importance, because they matter too. so, i don't know. my mother's name was mila, and people used to get us confused because our names were so alike in some ways. it's bittersweet now that i think about it, i looked up what my mom's name was and it means miracles. all of this to say, talking about names, what does your name mean? and how did you pick the marvelous part of your name? i'm not saying that it isn't true -- i don't know you very well but from what i've seen is that you do fit the name. i don't really think i fit mine. it means calm and peaceful, but in other translations it also means wished-for-child, star of the sea, and also bitterness. sorry, i tend to ramble and i'm horribly awkward and don't know how to talk about things super casually so this letter is a whole lot of nothing other than me rambling about names but i think it's fascinating what they mean. so, tell me about you, if you want. i feel like everyone knows everyone elses business in the valley which is about as awful as it seems. i used to want to leave so badly, and in some ways i still do. if you could live anywhere where would it be? and why did you pick that place? what does home mean to you? do you have any pets? i have a cat and a lot of snakes, and i'm sure some spiders that i let live in my house but i've grown to like them. i even named them. awkwardly yours, malia.

@ohvalleys

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malia’s summer bucket list !

start planting peppers for the garden 

start planting flowers for the garden 

repaint the front of the house 

fix up inside the house - get new wood flooring ?

talk to an agency and get an idea of how much mom’s house would be 

look at apartments in zuzu city??? 

garage sale? need to finish cleaning up mom’s room 

donate mom’s books to the library 

go on a date with a girl who also isn’t a nurse 

harness train bitty so he can hike with me 

look into nurse practitioner program 

reptile convention in july ?

look into travel nursing jobs ?

finish decorating and organizing the clinic 

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🐍🐈‍⬛ 🏥 malia's schedule !! 🐍🐈‍⬛ 🏥

malia has always been a creature of habit, though when she was in school to be a nurse and caretaking for her mother it was quite hectic. while she misses those days more than anything there is also a part of her that is happy for a schedule that she knows how to deal with. most of her days are divided on her commuting to zuzu city at the hospital and then the days where she is working at the clinic. she works between 8 and 12 hour shifts in zuzu city hospital as a nurse. ( if you ever wondered what kind of nurse she is, she used to work in the emergency room before that burnt her out and now she is an action nurse, she still frequents the emergency room, but now that she's been a nurse for almost eight years she has a bit of seniority. )

4:00 a.m. — malia wakes up with often her cat bitty on her chest, her cat will meow and want food. she will tell her cat that, 'yes okay, let's go to the kitchen' because of course her cat also eats in the kitchen with her. malia will start the coffee pot, put the well rounded scoop of food in her cats bowl and then open up her snake's tank and wrap it around her neck while she figures out what to bring for lunch. ( normally something that joshua has nicely made for her, if we're being honest. )

4:30 a.m. — she will finish her breakfast ( pancakes, if she's feeling up to it but honestly mostly it's just finishing her coffee and a granola bar. ), put her snake back in it's tank and petting her cat on the head before heading to the bus where she will probably smoke a cigarette while she waits.

5:00 a.m. — granted that the bus isn't running late she will make it to the hospital and clock in and divulge with the night shift on what happened during the night and then get started on her morning rounds with her patients. ( she doesn't have very many work friends, but she does have a lot of elderly women who want to feed her and kiss her cheeks. )

6:30 a.m. — malia will have her second cup of coffee and wish that she could bring her snake to work because she thinks that some of the peds patients that she sees would like them. and then she'll get embarrassed at thinking of how fond she is of children even though she doesn't want any for herself.

10:00 a.m. — 10:30 a.m. — is one of her favourite times because that means it's lunch time! malia will eat whatever it is that joshua has made for her, or whatever old lady in her nursing station that insists that malia eats that she's made ( that's always somehow made vegetarian. it's very obvious to anyone that made it with the intent for her to eat it ) and smoke a cigarette outside on her break. it normally doesn't take long for her to eat, it's eight years into this career, she eats quick and uses the rest of the time to nap.

1:30 p.m. — if it's her eight hour shift she will get off at one-thirty and head to the bus and also will be dropped off immediately at the clinic to start her shift there until six.

6:45 p.m. — on her eight hour shift days she will likely restock everything they used at the clinic, make orders to zuzu city on what they need to be delivered, call back patients that have left voicemails, and then make her way to stardrop saloon.

7:00 p.m. — 10:00 p.m. — is probably the most chaotic time for malia depending on how the day went. somedays she will be stoic and drink her beer and smoke a cigarette and stare into nothing, or she will be playing darts and thinking about her dad and wishing he taught her how to play, or listening to someone that notices malia and saying how much they miss her mom and malia saying, 'i miss her too, thank you for telling me that,' or talking to someone who asks malia a medical question and her begging them to visit her at the clinic tomorrow.

10:30 p.m. — she will be back home, grabbing her snake from her tank and putting him around her neck and letting bitty trail her in her mother's garden while she listens to the sounds of nature. the porch light will be on and she can admire her mother's garden in the dark and wish that she took better care of it ( even if she doesn't know how ), and smile for a moment at how nice it feels to be surrounded by something that her mother loved and was most proud of. ( malia is included in this even if she doesn't add herself, of course. )

11:30 p.m. — malia will attempt to go to sleep. she knows that she should go to sleep early for her morning shifts, but she's also a creature of habit.

on the days that she works 12 hour shifts her schedule only change slightly.

6:00 p.m. — she will still go to the clinic even if it's closed and listen to voicemails and do inventory, and also do home visits to patients but only if needed.

8:00 p.m. — 10:00 p.m. — stardrop saloon, more often alone, eating dinner there and going home.

10:30 p.m. — 11:00 p.m. — malia, her snake, her cat keep normal routine. but, malia will also go to bed early and start the day over again.

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