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MEET SAFIYA KHATRI.

NAME: Safiya Hazel Khatri.

NICKNAMES: Saf.

BIRTH ORDER: Oldest.

AGE: Twenty-three.

HOMETOWN: Bihar, India. 

GENDER IDENTITY/PRONOUNS: Cisfemale, she/her. 

ORIENTATION: Heterosexual heteroromantic. 

OCCUPATION/EDUCATION: Student at Harvard Medical School.

FACECLAIM: Naomi Scott.

SAFIYA’S LIFE SO FAR.

POSITIVE: Genius, organized, reliable. 

NEGATIVE: Sarcastic, cynical, hard. 

** TW SEXISM, PHYSICAL ABUSE, MENTAL ABUSE, & RAPE **

When you’re in the Khatri family, you have to learn two important things: never ask any questions and Ishaan Khatri is always right, no matter the circumstances. When Safiya was thrown into the world, she learned these things from a young age. After leaving the country of India, the Khatri family found themselves living in the city of Manchester – as some would call, the heart of England. Though they left Bihar behind, their culture and beliefs were present as ever. Safiya’s first lesson on ‘your father is always right’ was when he sat her down on her bed at the age of three and explained to her that her only goal in life was to be the perfect wife. Being as young as she was, Safiya saw nothing wrong with this. A bright smile was her response, along with nodding in agreement. Soon enough, Ishaan had engrained into Safiya’s mind that she was good for nothing other than becoming a wife and stay-at-home mother.

Instead of playing outside with the other kids, Safiya was helping her mother cook and clean. Though Prisha had told her to enjoy herself and ‘be a kid’, the young girl knew better than that. She needed to prepare herself for the life ahead of her: pleasing the man that she was to marry.

When the Khatri family made the move to Boston, it was more apparent that their culture and beliefs weren’t the majority. Those in her classes viewed Safiya as odd due to the fact that she never wanted to play with them, and instead spent her weekends holed up in their apartment with her mother. It was when they met the Bhatia family that Safiya’s life changed instantaneously. Ishaan fell in love with the family – or rather, their money. They had a young son, the same age as Safiya, by the name of Samar. After only two weeks of knowing the Bhatia’s, Safiya was informed that she would be marrying Samar. Her response? She was thrilled, as she enjoyed playing with the young boy. The only catch was that Samar’s father insisted she must have the best grades in her class, as he refused to have his son marry someone who wasn’t the best.

Around fourth grade, things got harder for Safiya. Even though their teachers graded them by stickers and stamps, that wasn’t enough for Ishaan. He made a call to the school, making sure that a happy face sticker meant having an A+. All Ishaan wanted was to please the Bhatia’s, and make Safiya into the perfect wife for Samar. Her education slowly began to be almost unbearable, as she was forced to read for hours a day – making sure she was at least four grade levels above what she needed to be. From fourth grade on, it was always this way for Safiya. She had to work harder than anyone else in her school, making it near impossible for her to make any friends. When she was in seventh grade, her teacher’s noticed that she was above the rest of her class and had her take a placement test, which placed her in ninth grade. That made Safiya a twelve year old high school Freshman.

This called for absolutely no friends in high school, so she could just focus on her grades. Anything that her father told her to do, Safiya would agree. When she was old enough, around fourteen years old, Safiya and Samar began dating. It was enough inspiration for Safiya to do well in school, but oddly enough – he was a bad influence. Samar would constantly tell Safiya to skip school and let loose for once, to really feel what it was like to be a teenager. And so, she listened. The first time Samar convinced her to take a drink of alcohol was the first time Safiya felt like she could be free of her father. Even though she loved Samar, she realized that she had no desire to be married to him at such a young age. But before she knew it, she was getting married at seventeen – and she had absolutely no say in it.

College was the same for Safiya. Being married during her first year in Harvard along with the fact that she had just turned seventeen made it a lot harder for her to make friends. And even when she wanted to make friends, Samar wouldn’t allow it. Even though she loved him, Safiya had an itch to go out and explore the city like a true college student. Days when Samar was too busy to see her are days when she went to parties. Safiya would take her hijab off, dance and let herself be free. It was around then that she started to realize exactly how trapped she had felt with Samar. Her whole life, she had thought her purpose was to be a wife. At the age of twenty, she realized she wanted anything but that. Though Ishaan told her that she was to do nothing with her education, Safiya defied her father’s wishes for the first time and decided to enroll in Med School.

This decision is what changed a lot of things for Safiya, even if she hadn’t realized it. It angered Samar to know that she was going to be more successful than she was, and he began to put his hands on her. It happened slowly. So slow, in fact, Safiya didn’t realize the gradual build up until a glass lamp had been flung at her. Even if Safiya went to Ishaan with bruises, he just told her to 'get over it’ and 'let Samar get his anger out when he needs to’. Feeling trapped in the marriage, Safiya stayed out of fear of what he could do. It was often that Samar would force himself on her, making her have sex with him when she wanted to do anything but. It was a struggle to be studying medicine with such a controlling husband, but Safiya knew that there wasn’t much that she could do.

After one night when Samar held a knife to Safiya’s throat, forcing her to have sex with him while threatening to kill her – she decided, with the help of her best friend, that she was going to be divorcing him. Surprisingly enough, Samar agreed to the divorce (saying she was a used up whore, anyway) and they got divorced in a matter of weeks. Almost immediately, Safiya decided to make the move to King’s Terrace. She needed to start over, and to live somewhere that wasn’t anywhere near her parents or Samar.

After living at King’s Terrace for only a couple of months, Safiya realized that she was pregnant. She wasn’t quite sure what to do at this point but ignore it. Med school was a lot more important than what was going on with her body, and she promised herself that she would just deal with it later. For now, she was going to be a normal twenty-three year old med student. No one would know of her past, and that’s the way she preferred it.

SOCIAL NETWORKING.

@safiyakhatri: On my Pediatrics rotation and I’ve just realized kids are tiny demons in disguise.

@safiyakhatri: Coffee at 11PM. Normal? For Saf, yes.

@safiyakhatri: Just binge watched The People V. OJ Simpson and dude, what the hell?

OUT OF CHARACTER.

OOC: Haley, 24, EST, she/her.

SHIPS: /chemistry.

Guess who's been watching some Hindi cartoons? :3

I first saw Little Singham (Based on the film Singham) on Netflix a while back, so I decided to go back and watch some episodes. (had to find an alternative, as the show is no longer on Netflix.)

An intense, slow burning study of resentment that connects film score detail with alternative pop songwriting.

Shamoon Khatri has spent much of his career writing for the screen, shaping music for films, adverts, and documentaries after formal studies in contemporary, jazz, and film composition in London. With the Antipathy EP, he turns that experience inward, focusing on a personal and compact project that feels closer to an art film than a standard single.

Antipathy, the title track, circles around the idea of deep dislike and emotional distance. Rather than leaning on shock or melodrama, Shamoon traces how resentment builds over time. The arrangement reflects this psychology. The song opens with a restrained mood, almost claustrophobic, then gradually thickens as guitars, bass, and percussion grow more forceful. By the final section, the performance feels raw and exposed, as if the emotion has finally pushed past politeness.

Megen Simpson’s vocal delivery is central to that effect. Her phrasing is calm on the surface yet edged with tension, suggesting a narrator trying to stay composed while old grievances resurface. William Louis provides guitar and bass parts that move between atmospheric chords and more pointed riffs, giving the track both space and weight.

The production is meticulous and clean, typical of someone used to placing sound in precise dialogue with moving images. Every element sits clearly in the mix, from the low end that underpins the groove to the higher textures that flicker in and out, like passing thoughts. The companion instrumental, Karahat Mazzika, revisits the mood without vocals, highlighting Shamoon’s interest in blending ambient pop, electronica, and neo soul colors with South Asian inflections.

With Antipathy, Shamoon Khatri condenses his wider career into a focused release that treats emotional conflict with the care and nuance of a well crafted film scene.

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