#sarala devi

Sarala (she/her) is my main OC! She’s a 49 yo woman who has lived a very difficult life, having lived in an extremely abusive household up until the age of 15, when she was kicked out after accidentally becoming pregnant. From there, she struggled with poverty, pregnancy, childbirth, and then being a young single parent all up until university where she meets her lifelong best friend, Frank DuPont (dedocated post for him coming soon). More struggles come her way with a second unplanned pregnancy and her splitting up with her boyfriend who’s the father, and even later on losing her beloved husband to brain cancer. But through it all she works very hard and graduates, eventually becoming an acclaimed scientist in the fields of biology, dermatology, and arachnology (science of arachnids, spiders, scorpions, etc)

Sarala’s a complicated woman to be sure; while having heavily overcame the trauma from her parents and having put in the work to ensure she never continued that cycle with her own children, she still has her struggles and denial that leads to her unintentionally hurting other people in her life, usually her romantic/sexual partners. She’s queer, under the bi umbrella, but very blazé and dismissive about this part of her identity, resulting in a kind of internalized homophobia towards herself. She fully and unashamedly supports her children and their queerness, but sees something like being publicly married to a woman as something frivolous that she doesn’t need or want (very much giving “im probably nonbinary but i have a job so idrc about that rn” lmfao /ref)