acquired taste

what’s the word around alessandro fonseka in capri these days ? don’t look at me like that,  you know them — they go by ale,  you know,  the twenty-nine year old local.  you can probably spot them at sabbia de spiaggia,  having their nocciola gelato and taking a break from being a mechanic at corsa blu garage and bartender at casa miraflora, where people describe them as argumentative and dense,  but others swear they’re loyal and fervid if you catch them at the right moment.  they fit somewhere between falling just before the finish line and your grace is slowly running out, though most people associate them with having a lack of social awareness

born in naples.  both of his parents were from capri so he went back and forth a lot, but his schooling was all done in naples. 

people thought he would go places, naming him as some sort of football prodigy,  and he loved the attention.  and purely through attention,  he was recruited into one of the most prestigious youth football clubs in italy. 

it was fun at first. being independent and away from family.  doing nothing,  but practice football all day,  feeling like there was a clear purpose in his life where all of his other friends were doing the same mundane things everyday where he felt like he made it. 

then the matches became more difficult,  the practices were more like torture and he hated being told what to do by his coach and his teammates.

it was better when he was the star.  now,  there’s no longer a gap in talent between players.  the guys on his team were just as if not,  more talented than him. 

his ego couldn’t comprehend that people better than him existed.

he played professionally for a few years before quitting.  and he didn’t want to quit by saying he didn’t want to be a football player anymore or because he didn’t like the sport. he had to come up with a reason so his family wouldn’t be embarrassed about their failure of a son! 

he lied to his friends and family that he had torn his acl.  he even went the extra mile to use a wheelchair as his main mode of transportation as well as crutches. 

too embarrassed to be seen around naples,  he moved to capri permanently where he at least can receive pity and be spoiled by his grandparents. he’s been there for around five years now.

personality

hates to be proven wrong

things are very black and white to him

he takes him a while to understand or comprehend something especially when he's already so strong on his own opinion

grumpy most of the time

name : suvanant chokprajakchat nickname : ploy, suvi ethnicity : thai ( paternal side ) & iranian/persian ( maternal side ) age : twenty-nine years old height : 170 cm / 5'7" gender : cis woman, she/her sexual orientation : bisexual occupation : public figure, reality tv star, "entrepreneur" vape flavour : peach ice languages : thai, farsi, arabic, english & very broken italian pet : a cat named kateyki

𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚

a nickname is given to every thai child to be referred to in their day to day life. the nickname given to her by her father was ploy. however, she is mostly commonly referred to as suvi due to her legal given name being suvanant. the reason for the change being — there were always two other ploy's in her class and she was sick of having such a basic nickname. she successfully rebranded herself as suvi during elementary school.

𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮

her family has a very dysfunctional background. her father was originally married to someone else back in melbourne. he would take business trips to bangkok and would meet samira who had recently moved from iran. samira gets pregnant and has suvi. her father lives a double life going back and forth from bangkok to melbourne. eventually the lies catch up to him, but because he had been gone for most of the year to stay in bangkok, his wife in melbourne had also cheated on him several times and having children with another man without his knowledge. she had managed to keep the pregnancies a secret since they were hardly ever intimate after birthing their first child. naturally, this all led to a divorce which surprisingly ended off rather amicably. he moves to bangkok permanently with suvi's older half-sibling and moves in with samira and suvi. during this time of her life, suvi wasn't aware of what her father was doing or what he did. she didn't learn until secondary school. she thought it was so fascinating and dramatic. she used it as inspiration for a creative writing assignment in her english class. she didn't bother to conceal the identities of her parents or her father's first wife, she felt like it would lose its authenticity if she had used aliases. her teacher was concerned and told her parents what she had written.  and for the 100th time in her life, she was grounded. and with all the trouble she got into, she was scared of her parents to an extent. if she didn't get into a degree they approved of, they would cut her off ( they've threatened her many times ). and the only thing she feared was losing access to money.  she had to figure out how to make her own money. 

she started doing elaborate story time youtube videos by making things up or over exaggerating her life for views.  and when the views did start to rise,  she realized money was great,  but fame,  fame is what she truly wanted.  she figured if she started documenting everything in her life,  people’s interest in her would turn to obsession.  and once she started filming her videos in english,  she noticed her analytics soared even more.

her first major scandal and first viral moment was when she documented her rhinoplasty.  it was still considered taboo to blatantly reveal what cosmetic procedure you had done.  it didn’t help that she was only 16 at the time,  but it was being offered to her for free!  and forging her parents signature was too easy! her fans defended her,  saying it’s her choice and she could do whatever she wanted to her own face!

being so polarizing online paid off, she was offered a spot on a reality show called made in LA. it required her to move to LA and pretend to be another cast members supporting friend. she wasn't rich by any means, but she was more than willing to fake it until you make it. she was so loved by the audience, she secured a regular position for the next three seasons until the show's cancellation.

second scandal: she would tell her past situationships and boyfriends/girlfriends that one of her family members was dying and that she wasn't in the right space for a relationship. she's learned to become more honest after being called out for it on an instagram story with screenshots by multiple people. her fans defended her by digging up the past of her exes, and justifying suvi’s behaviour by labelling them as toxic.

netflix producers ended up contacting her to be apart of bling empire after the scandal. convincing her this would widen her audience and how her scandal would be the perfect way to promote the show.

third scandal: she started djing.  she used it as an excuse to party and get paid a lot while doing it.  she pretends as if she's actually doing something with her life when really she has a playlist playing from someone who mixes for her.  it was caught on video by someone who was backstage at a music festival.  she was clowned on,  but instead of letting it affect her,  she used it as a moment to poke fun at herself by making tiktok videos mocking the situation.

fourth scandal: she was paid a good amount of money to promote a new malatang restaurant in bangkok that ended up being a money laundering drug front. and ofc her ad and photos were on every headline regarding the whole ordeal even though she had no idea about the criminal activity!

and with all the scandals,  her fans paint it as something iconic and camp rather than problematic.  her virality is what makes her successful.  her candidness,  lack of filter and quick wittedness are considered an asset and talent.  you can learn acting,  singing lessons,  a sport,  an instrument or change your face,  but you cannot teach someone to have a personality.  her brand deals haven’t stopped and she’s only become more loved by the public.

she's now in her last year of her 20’s and her team is urging her to take a different approach for the next steps of her career.  they tell her what she’s done and has been doing won’t fly when she reaches 30 and certainty not in her 40s if she wants longevity.  they tell her that now would be a good time to start her memoir.  to show some depth and relatability. the timeline would be to shoot another reality show in congruent with the book, hoping this time it would show a different side to her.

𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮

definitely an instigator, causes drama and then surprised she's in drama.

she has a very fowl mouth and a born pessimist.

she holds a grudge and it takes her a long time to get over something, but she hates when a grudge is held against her.

admitting fault is the hardest thing for her to do.

very dumb

idk she's just a classic hypocrite

name : xue wenyi age : thirty-seven height : 170 cm gender : cis female, she/her ethnicity: chinese occupation: human rights lawyer status : divorced children: fei ( f, 12 ), jun ( m, 10 ), jia ( f, 5 )

born and raised in shanghai.  eldest in her family, amongst the cousins as well.  she had an immense amount of pressure to become successful and to set the standard for the family.  her parents forced her into multiple cram schools, tutors, extracurriculars that added no significance to her life other than her parents using her as a show pony. 

she left shanghai to attend university in singapore and once she left home she hadn’t realized just how sheltered her life had been throughout the last eighteen years.  her view on romance and relationships were skewed.  she was incredibly naive and innocent and lacked street smarts which led to her experiencing betrayal, heartbreak and love for the first time in her life.  she never imagined she would ever miss being under the watchful eye of her parents.  she would rather be forced to play piano for six hours than deal with your friends becoming your enemies by dating your crush.  no amount of studying could ever prepare her for what a girl goes through in her early adult life.

her earlier thought — the one where she’d rather be under her parents' surveillance than having to deal with any sort of conflict because of a boy… yeah…  she instantly took it back.  when she went to visit home after that first summer break,  she left early to go back to singapore under the guise of signing up for volunteer work.  her parents didn’t disapprove, instead they were pleased with her work ethic.  since then,  she had only gone home for a week at a time.  mainly only to see her siblings and to bring more of her things over to singapore to hopefully fully transition out of her life from shanghai.

the distance from her family wasn’t enough for her to overcome the trauma from her upbringing.  honestly, she didn’t even consider it as trauma.  it seemed normal.  not only to her,  but all of her friends dealt with the same situation. perhaps the parental neglect is what resulted in her moving to london and getting married at twenty-two. long story short,  she fell in love during an exchange program in bologna during her sophomore year with another exchange student from london in the same program.

the marriage was kept secret for years. up until she was able to start working in case her parents cut her off.  not as if she necessarily needed their money,  but what she feared was being disowned by her parents and being the disappointment of the family.  in the end, her parents didn’t disown her simply because she was working at doughty street chambers. 

many years later and with three kids,  she received a call from an unknown number making threats toward her and her family.  she remained calm,  assuming it was from someone involved in the opposition in one of the cases — but they told her to ask her husband why they were calling.  confused and concerned, she approached her husband.  and at first, he told her it’s nothing,  but someone who says nothing while not being able to make direct eye contact is always lying.  after a few hours of going back and forth,  he finally confessed his gambling problem.  he had borrowed money from multiple people and the debt was way more than he could handle and what she could comprehend.

through sickness and in health… — this was not the type of sickness she signed up for.  this type of sickness was the worst type of parasite.  one where there is no definitive cure for.  

the divorce was messy,  it lasted for two years.  in the end,  wenyi had full custody of their children while he had visitation rights until he worked out his debts and remained sober from gambling.  she resents him even more for making her a single mom.  they were already judged so heavily as a family since he was the primary caretaker but due to his recklessness,  she’s now playing the position of both parents.  i mean,  she wasn’t as bad of a parent as her parents,  but she was bordering on being just as neglectful.