[cisgender female, she/her] Welcome to Aurora Bay, [ LALITA DANDEKAR]! I couldn’t help but notice you look an awful lot like [RITU ARYA] You must be the [THIRTY] year old [LOCAL RADIO (MUSIC) DJ ]. Word is you’re [INTOXICATING ] but can also be a bit [ABRASIVE] and your favorite song is [OH BONDAGE! UP YOURS! By X-RAY SPEX]. I also heard you’ll be staying in [SEABROOK QUARTER]. I’m sure you’ll love it!
Tw: fighting, alcoholism, emotional abuse
FAMILY
Mother: Indira Dandekar
Father: Anupam Dandekar
Sister: UTP
Cousin: UTP
Spouse: UTP
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Biography
Some people follow the rules and some were born to break them. Lalita was born to be the later. Born in London to parents who had struggled to have children initially; Lalitas birth had proved to be a turning point for the couple in many ways. They were grateful to finally have a family but soon being the older sibling meant that Lalita was forced to be the perfect child. The Dandekars had high expectations for the sisters and in turn it made Lalita struggle to fit in with what they wanted for her. Growing up in one of the more fashionable and eclectic areas of the city opened doors for Lalita to expand her interests and rebel against what was considered popular. She also had a knack for getting into trouble much to the dismay of her family. After getting caught after committing several minor thefts the Dandekars thought that a change of scenery would help out the growing situation.
When she was fourteen; the family of four moved to the U.S.; eventually settling in Los Angeles, California. The move did little to change Lalitas growing disdain for her family situation however. The pressure as still on her and she only began to feel more restless. Living in a family that seemed to value achievement over creativity became more stifling. Due to her reckless behavior; Lalita stopped being seen as the perfect child and her younger sister took her place. While she felt relieved by some of the focus being pulled away from her, she also became more privy to the dysfunctional aspects of her parents marriage and the competitive streak her sister had when it came to her. Even worse the less focus on her meant Lalita had more time to get into trouble; and get into trouble she did. She still had a tendency to steal anything not nailed down, would get into fights, and break into abandoned buildings in the city to spend all night partying. Her biggest brush with trouble involved breaking a man’s hand during an argument. The act of aggression made her parents realize Lalita was growing more out of control and she had to start to settle down and take life seriously regardless if she was seen as the perfect child or not.
She was growing dissatisfied with the way things were being done. The more unhappy her parents were; she mirrored that opinion from her own perspective. In order to make some sort of compromise; Lalitas parents sent her to live with her aunt and uncle in Aurora Bay to finish out her high school years. Away from the watchful eye of her parents and without being compared to her sister; Lalita started to flourish. She felt like she could finally breathe and started to take life more seriously and began to mellow out more. She still had her wild edge, but Lalita was using it for more constructive things. She also had a much closer relationship to her cousin than with her sister; whose she always felt like she was being pitted against, which in the end wasn’t fair to either of them.
When Lalita became an adult, she felt slightly aimless. She had gone to school for music and had wanted to be a rock producer, but in many ways the industry was about who you knew to get in and Lalita was not someone who had connections. Instead she spent a lot of her nights going to punk shows and making friends with the bands that were also struggling to succeed in a fickle industry. Eventually she settled into becoming the local radio DJ in Aurora Bay, where she picks the music and will not take requests if the band sucks in her opinion.
Her personal life seemed just as up and down as her professional life with a string a various lovers walking in and out her door. She was the type of person who wanted one night stands over a real relationship because she wasn’t even sure if she had ever wanted to settle down. When she spent her nights with others who wanted to party and drink till the sun came up it wasn’t easy to make a solid connection. Her family still tried to keep in contact with her but it always ended in them trying to insert themselves into her life and change who she really was. Eventually she cut them off from contact with her for a couple years.
When she wasn’t looking for it;love bit her and then it destroyed her when she let her guard down. Lalita had fallen for a guy who seemed completely not her type. He seemed more structured and button down, while she was messy and chaotic. And yet they seemed like a perfect match. They were both the kind of people who were forced to live up to expectations and it made a bond form between them that led to a proposal and soon planning for a wedding. All was not what it had seemed and Lalita had actually been manipulated by her parents through her supposed fiancé. He had been too good to be true because he was. Half of who he had been was faked to appeal to her; all so her parents could still try to manipulate their oldest into making the decisions they wanted. The reveal caused the the engagement to end and Lalita went on an all night bender.
The girl who existed before she had gotten engaged came back in full force and by the time she woke up, a huge change had occurred. That night, she had asked someone she barely knew through her cousin to marry her; just to lie to her parents and say she was happily married. It surprisingly worked but now Lalita is married to someone she barely knows and she isn’t actually sure if she wants to stay friends or be more than that. There’s also the complicated relationship with her sister and cousin where she feels more like a sister to her cousin and feels like a stranger to her sister. While she may be a “ married woman” now; that hasn’t stopped Lalita from still trying to have as much fun as possible. You may find her dancing the night away or hearing her voice on the radio. She’s not the kind of girl to get into trouble with the law anymore but it doesn’t mean that past doesn’t come back to haunt her either and Lalita has a colorful past that makes her memorable.
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