there they go, THE PROJECTION, greenhike’s own SASIKA MATTHEWS. they’ve lived around here for TWO DAYS, but i mostly see them frequenting THE WRAITH'S DEN. if you stop to chat with them, don’t be surprised if they’re HONEST and SELF-CENTERED, since people often say they remind them of A LINGERING WHIFF OF EXPENSIVE PERFUME, A TEAR THROUGH AN OLD FAMILY PORTRAIT, BLOWING KISSES WITH GLOSSY LIPS. there’s rumors that they’re at greenhike because [redacted]. do you think it’s true ?
INTRO.
character name: sasika renee matthews
nickname(s): sassy, sask, kia
age & dob: march 17th, 1998 (26 years old)
zodiac: pisces ☀ scorpio ☾ gemini ↑
gender identity & pronouns: female, she/her
hometown: manhattan, new york
sexual orientation: bisexual
relationship status: single
occupation: tiktok / instagram influencer
positive traits: honest, adventurous, outgoing, adaptable
negative traits: self-centered, flaky, meddlesome, undisciplined
faceclaim: ella purnell
CHARACTER INSPO.
gina linetti ( brooklyn nine-nine ), serena van der woodsen ( gossip girl ), rachel greene ( friends ), tahani al jamil ( the good place ), cher horowitz ( clueless ).
BIOGRAPHY.
BIOGRAPHY:
( tw: illness, parental death, drug abuse )
From the moment she was born, Sasika's whole life had been sucking on silver spoons and never wanting for anything.
With big beautiful eyes and a straight smile, her mother saw her only child as a prize. Put into beauty pageants as soon as she was old enough to stand on her own. By the age of eight, Sasika was taking the pageant scene by storm. First, she was crowned Little Miss New York, then it was Little Miss USA and then finally, competing for Little Miss World. While she didn’t win and she certainly wasn’t Miss Congeniality with her snide comments and little bitchy attitude, Sasika got a taste for the spotlight and she thrived.
She loved the glitz and the glam, not to mention the attention. Sasika also loved that her mother was obsessed with her, they spent all their time together while her father was off travelling for business. Just the two of them, Sasika thought they’d spend the rest of their lives this way.
14 February 2009, Sasika was awoken in the morning by a piercing scream. Cynthia Matthews was found dead in her bed by their live-in maid at the age of 35. The coroner later determined that her mother had taken one too many sleeping pills with her nightly glass of wine. She hadn’t felt any pain or suffering. She had simply gone to sleep and never woke up, something that granted her 12 year old daughter little comfort.
With her whole life turned upside down, Sasika had never felt more alone. Her father had never held any interest in his only daughter but Sasika never had any intention of being ignored. To get his attention as a young adolescent, she started acting out. By the age of 13, she was going to wild parties and getting into all kinds of mischief. Despite the fact she went through puberty quite young, she needed other ways to look older. Lots of make up and revealing clothing, she was sneaking in bars and clubs with her older friends with her fake ID.
It wasn’t until one of her friends got caught driving while under the influence and it was splashed across the front page of page six that Marcus even noticed his daughter’s night-time activities.
In response to the scandal, Sasika was shipped off to boarding school in the Swiss Alps where she was promptly.. shipping right on back.
She lasted a little over a month before the headmaster of TASIS (The American School in Switzerland) decided that despite the very hefty sum gifted by her father, Sasika was not worth the trouble.
Upon returning back to New York, Sasika continued on as she had before she left, enjoying pushing every boundary that her father bothered to bestow upon her. Half the time he was flown across the country for months at a time, so his punishments lost their luster by the time he was home.
And when he returned in the summer of 2016, Marcus did not come back alone. In tow was his new wife and her son. After a whirlwind romance, the couple had gotten hitched on the shores of Maui, a beautiful ceremony to which Sasika was not invited. With a young twenty-something Stepford wife, her father decided to suddenly become Mr. Family Man for the first time in Sasika's life. While this should have brought her some sense of peace, instead it only festered into deep resentment and jealousy.
She was spending more time out of their brownstone to avoid being a part of the Brady Bunch reincarnation that her father was acting out and as high school drew to a close, questions around her future started popping up more and more. Sasika contemplated college but from what she’s seen, academics was not where her interests lay.
Accustomed to a certain lifestyle and genetically blessed, Sasika's instagram had always had a steady stream of followers. However, people started talking more about influencing and if there was one thing Sasika loved more than talking about herself, it was buying things and bragging about it. Soon it was brand deals and make up hauls, she had an active community interested in everything she said and did.
While her father didn’t understand but the money she was earning was enough to move out of her brownstone and take the leap to Los Angeles, where the rest of the influencers were migrating. Since her niche was fashion and beauty, it didn't take long for her agent to start peddling the idea of creating a "lifestyle brand" with overpriced clothes and accessories that her 12 million followers were all too willing to buy.
While she preached a holistic lifestyle, it was really a lot of drug-fuelled nights and hook ups with wannabe B-listers, stories that would be shared with her girlfriends hungover over brunch and mimosas. But it wasn't long until those fun, party nights turned into something more sinister and rising to the top means that there's only further for you to fall.
Videos leaked of Sasika snorting cocaine off an IKEA dinner plate and soon, the world was waiting for her head. There were rumors of mistreatment within her fashion empire, which Sasika blatantly denied. It wasn't until Deux Moi posted a video of the influencer screaming at an intern that Sasika's fate was sealed. With a well-crafted apology video on her YouTube channel, she promised to do better. Admitting to "the demons she was battling" through her drug addiction and that she was taking some time offline to focus on her health and mental wellbeing.
At first, Sasika thought she would just lay low in her beach front condo, but her publicity team insisted that she actually get help. She was given a one way ticket to Camp Greenhike and the promise that it would be enough to save her reputation.
