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ALWAYS LOVE AN ANCHOR
"A ship loves an anchor the same way a hearth loves a fire. With enough passion to make it a home."
Personality
Dramatic and full of a rock-solid certainty in who she is, Gaila can come across as a lot to plenty who meet her. She is unapologetic, righteous, and grasps all of life's opportunities with both hands. She upsets many with her determination to live life to its absolute fullest - which also includes all the fun of life alongside the serious aspects. She loves with her entire self and throws herself into her passions with reckless abandon. She is passionate, vibrant, and leaps without looking.
sTYLE
Disaster. Tends to wear bright colors and vibrant patterns. Every outfit can be spiced up with bright colors, frequent application of spicy buttons, patches, embroidery, or accessories. She enjoys being underestimated by those around her for her vivid and "childish" fashion choices, and is frequently mistaken for just about anybody but her actual self. Everyone desires her carnally.
Brief History
Gaila's father died in debt to lowkey mafia group, and her mother worked herself to death when she was 13 trying to pay off dad's gambling debts. Gaila worked as an escort/sex worker until she was around 17 when she was hired by a haughty college student to be on his arm at a party, and he took her home after. Unfortunately for him, his grandfather (and head of the family business) had gotten home early. The client panicked and lied, telling his grandfather that Gaila was a classmate which ended up with Gaila and Mr. Kambosos chatting the entire light and getting along like a house on fire. Hallom Kambosos kept telling his grandson to bring Gaila over because she was savvy (she absorbed a lot from her clients over the years) until Gaila eventually told him the truth about her occupation and that she wasn't a student.
Hallom immediately paid off her debt and got her tutors to get her caught up so he could sponsor her into university because "she's the first intelligent conversation he's had in a long time."
They're super close, and eventually Hallom legally adopts her (unbeknownst to his bio-family), though he considers her an adopted granddaughter. He actually has rewritten his will to leave almost everything to Gaila rather than his biological children, though he has left trust funds for his underage grandchildren (or great-grandchildren). Gaila is unaware of this. She graduated university and got her higher education and started work as a labrat (lined up to become the next head of R&D at the company).
Hallom brings her to all of his meetings because he is frequently deeply amused by people underestimating her and also Gaila IS very business savvy and observant and he gives weight to what she thinks. Gaila just considers this fun bonding time and is very happy to hang out with him all the time, which to his lonely old man self is a balm and also half the reason she's getting everything.
She's besties with Jay, who she took under her wing when she met him in a bar and he matched her toe to tip. He told her he was looking for work in town for a few months and she immediately hired him as a lab assistant and proceeded to half-mentor him and half-bully him while also pissing off a bunch of people. He ended up really enjoying working with her and got a passion of his own for being an artificer. She sponsored him into university where he built JUSTES as his thesis project. They are besties with benefits but Gaila just calls him her "benefit," and despite Jay's world traveling and Gaila's busy job that often takes her various places, they tend to orbit one another. Any time they're together they fall into each other like no time has passes and generally confuse everyone around them (which Gaila lives for).
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Details
Hobbies / skills
Knitting / Crocheting
Gaila often listens to audiobooks or watches shows while either knitting or crocheting. These creations are often abominations of patterns and colors that she gleefully gifts to those around her - no one is actually sure if she is serious or just pulling a long running gag.
Dancing
Gaila's partying is no secret - she's a familiar face at pretty much all the local clubs and often goes out. She absolutely loves dancing, and any music with a good beat and that's fun to move around to. Her good mood is often contagious and she's persuaded many to have a great time.
Reading
Gaila's favorite activity is curling up in a corning with a good book - and by good, she means trashy. Seriously, the sillier and smuttier the premise, the more likely Gaila is to enjoy it. She particularly enjoys reading the atrocious sex scenes aloud to Jay or any willing audience.
Pole Dancing
Gaila has a group of friends from the old days that she keeps in contact with, and one of the ways she does is by practicing pole dancing with them. It's a great core muscle exercise, is fun, and has actually come in handy on more than one occasion.
Checkers / Chess
Gaila always plays chess with her gramps, though she's not quite as keen on the game as he is. Actually, one of her favorite games is checkers! Though she'd never say it to his face - she continues to be a dutiful granddaughter and plays (and even beats) him at chess every Tuesday.
Spontaneity
Spontaneity is something Gaila prizes. She is always willing to try new restaurants, ideas in the lab, and hobbies. She likes to say that world's biggest problem is that people don't help each other - so she does her best to give people the benefit of the doubt and help where she can.
Trivia
"Not soulmates but it always had to be them. And they weren’t destined to be together but they were doomed to be but also it took everything for them to get here and also it was never supposed to happen but also it always was and had to happen this way. Hope this helps."
- LIKES
- Fun patterns and colors
- Bodice ripper penny novels
- Knitting/crocheting (weird things)
- Soap operas with convoluted plots
- Checkers and puzzles
- Gossiping with Jay or gramps
- Being underestimated by old men
- Dancing - especially pole dancing!
- DISLIKES
- Going to bed early/taking naps
- Being condescended to
- High alcohol content drinks
- Boring clothes
- Business meetings
- Entitled individuals, to her time or body
Aesthetic
Jay Wesson
[ best friend ]
Jay is Gaila's bestie-with-benefits, as they like to call it. Both of them love and are committed to one another, and plenty of people think they're in love. In love is different from just love though. They circle around like they're caught in one another's orbit, each is the most important person in the other's life, and nothing will change that. They are best friends, first and foremost, and they will always be there for one another.
Hallom Kambosos
[ grandfather ]
Hallom is Gaila's adopted grandfather. He all but took her under his wing after being introduced to her as his grandson's classmate under false pretenses. Despite the initial deception, the two hit it off and became odd friends. Hallam formally adopted Gaila and sponsored her into University, where she thrived. She doesn't know that he's decided to leave his entire business empire to her in the will.
J.U.S.T.E.S.
[ family ]
JUSTES is Jay and Gaila's other best friend, and it certainly doesn't matter that she was built by Jay during his university years. Gaila absolutely adores JUSTES, and she's the only other person who is recognized as an operator and allowed to look at JUSTES's inner workings and tune her up if necessary. The two enjoy gossiping and teaming up on Jay behind his back - in a lot of ways, they're family.
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