ABOUT — Selin Yilmaz
name: selin yilmaz
nickname: sel, aunt selly ( billie's nickname for her )
age: 36 years old
neighbourhood: beach front
career: development real estate
time in briar ridge: most of her life apart from five years ( living in new-jersey ), but she's been back for 6 months
IN-DEPTH —
Selin grew up as the second eldest child of the yilmaz family, but often dealt with the middle child syndrome. It presented itself as a young child in regards to her parents but vanished when she grew and her older brother took the reigns as the glue that held the family together. He was always attentive with his relationship with each sibling and how he brought them all together as a close knit group. Despite his efforts, the sentiment of feeling inadequate returned when every one of her siblings trickled out of their family home and pursued their own lives and careers in bigger cities. There was a sense of being left behind by them while their once face to face relationship shifted to accommodate group texts and facetime calls.
She remained home under the guise of helping her father but the truth was that there wasn't much determination or purpose to pursue anything in her life outside of working odd jobs she couldn't keep and wasting her money drinking with people she would normally look down upon. When she believed her life couldn't get any worse, it crashed and burnt with the passing of her brother and the head of the family. With his passing, she felt a loss of the family she once knew as they all began to grow separate while they mourned in their own ways. Selin only dived further into her lifestyle until she woke up at the bottom of the barrel and no where else to go but up.
The decision to leave town was made on impulse, moving as close to the big apple as she could get and working her butt off to give her real estate license a fair shot. It was hard work as she commuted two hours to the city every day but she soon reaped the benefits when her checks came in. Within a year, she'd shifted towards bigger projects as she took on development real estate. Her desire was to turn land and large buildings into something more that could attract tourism and have a ripple effect across neighbourhoods and communities. It was a vision she soon dreamt about for her hometown. The wasted farm land could become something that would benefit the town as a whole and all she had to do was convince them to believe in the same dream that she had.
After five years, she returned to her town as a changed person. More determined than ever to bring her name and reputation to briar ridge, she's set up an office and has already started knocking on doors and turning her town around. Despite having expected that she would ruffle some feathers with her blunt, no nonsense, and assertive personality, some reactions have still caught her off guard but she isn't one to run away from any challenge set in front of her.
CONNECTIONS —
CHILDHOOD BEST FRIEND: a close friend that she's had since she was a child. they may have been estranged a bit while selin was gone but they had many phone calls and time doesn't change much with their friendship. they always put up where things left off.
OLD FRIENDS: whether it be friends she no longer talks to or catches up whenever they see each other, that could be fun.
RIVALS: other real estate people in town or even people she's kind of trying to get them to sell their land. she's going to be pushy because the money is good but it'll definitely rub people the wrong way
EXES: she dated someone in high school but she was on and off after that so it could have been someone she dated for a bit, hooked up with, or had a fling with on and off as well.
HOOK UPS / TINDER DATE: I love the idea of things ending badly or dates going wrong and then forcing them to interact and it be awkward or horrible so i'd love a lot of these
NEIGHBOURS: people that live next to her and bonus if they don't like each other over some stupid reason. maybe one of them had a loud party and the other made a complaint
WORK / EMPLOYEES: she's opening up her own business so she'd love people to work with or for her. whether it be other real estate agents or a secretary, etc.
MORE TO COME AS WE PLOT















