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Marwa Al-Muhit and Tayo Bankole for @dagdagsims ‘Beguiling the Heirs’

Bios below the cut

Marwa Al-Muhit

Age: 23

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bi

Applying for: Both

Likes: Fashion, being the centre of attention, going out partying, travelling and exploring new places and on location fashion shoots. In her quieter moments, she likes reading, coding little websites and apps and doing puzzles like Sudoku. 

Dislikes: Not getting enough attention, stupid people, boring parties

Occupation: Model

Location: San Myshuno

Favs: Middle Eastern food - Shawarna, Stuffed vine leaves, Kofta and Baklava, Fashion - Marwa likes mixing it up with what she wears and often chooses eye-catching combinations in her outfits. She loves shopping for clothes and accessories in the countries that she visits and prefers one-off handmade items or vintage pieces to expensive, high fashion. She likes to read different kinds of books - feminist poetry, political non-fiction, science and novels - her favourite author is Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 

Aspiration:World Famous Celebrity

Traits: Self assured, Snob, Ambitious

Bio: Marwa is adopted. She was born in Kenya but was adopted by an Egyptian couple who moved often, so she grew up in a few different places around the world. She has albinism and early on, decided to embrace what made her different. She considers herself a citizen of the world, can speak 3 different languages and is familiar with many different cultures. She became a model at a young age and left home to live in San Myshuno and pursue a career in modelling. She made a name for herself very quickly and is sought after to work with. Her favourite photographer is Tayo, who is also her best friend. They met on a shoot and he managed to melt her usual fierce, bold look to get some shots of her looking more vulnerable. She sees him like a brother. 

Marwa is highly ambitious and is aiming for the top of her profession. She is fiesty and won’t hesitate to tell you how she feels. She is impatient and sometimes sharp, verging on mean. She can also be loud and crass and often rubs people up the wrong way. She doesn’t tolerate ignorance and is unashamed of her own intelligence and knowledge of the world. 

Marwa is mainly applying for ‘Beguiling the Heirs’ because she knows Tayo is looking for love. She is a bit disdainful of the idea of falling in love but is curious about Atticus and Imogen and wonders if either of them have what it takes to make her go weak at the knees...

Tayo Bankole

Age: 27

Gender: Mostly male 

Sexuality: Gay

Applying for: Atticus

Likes: On point looks, taking and editing photos, meeting new people, seeing his work published, visiting art galleries, travel 

Dislikes: People who are stuck up, prejudice, short-notice deadlines, being out of phone signal range

Occupation: Fashion Photographer

Location: San Myshuno

Favs: Tayo favours black and white or bold colours. He likes Japanese and Thai food or traditional Nigerian cooking - his favourite is groundnut stew. He likes browsing fashion and photography magazines for inspiration, particularly moody black and white ones. He loves to travel but favours big cities. He likes to check out the night-life wherever he goes and will dance to any music but his favourite type of music is Afro-beats or hip hop. 

Aspiration: Friend of the World

Traits: Creative, Dance Machine, Perfectionist

Bio: Tayo is short for Adetayo. 

Tayo grew up with Nigerian parents and two sisters in Oasis Springs. He has a good relationship with his parents but always felt like he didn’t belong and moved to San Myshuno as soon as he could, working first as a model and then as a Fashion Photographer. He has built up a reputation in fashion because of his artistic eye for lighting and angles and also because he is always a sweetheart with his models, making them laugh and feel comfortable. 

He appears confident but does struggle with anxiety and is always trying to please people. In the superficial world of fashion, it is difficult to tell if friendships are real but he knows his friendship with Marwa is real. He also struggles with his perfectionist tendencies and the urge to keep working at things; he often has to stop himself so he can submit work and then is anxious he will get negative feedback.  

Tayo is a romantic at heart and would really love to fall in love. Secretly, he would love to spend time walking on the beach holding hands, reading under a tree or having a candle-lit dinner for two. The partying, high fashion lifestyle is exhausting sometimes. 

Tayo has been in several superficial relationships but has never been in love in a relationship. It took him a long time to get over an unrequited love from his school days (Jordan: very straight, on the football team, big arms, gentle eyes). He is very interested in getting to know Atticus.