FULL NAME zakariya kareem — NICKNAMES zak (most commonly used), ariya (preferred) — AGE thirty7 — GENDER cis man — PRONOUNS he/him — ORIENTATION bisexual — OCCUPATION cmo of bulletin broadcasting company — PLACE OF BIRTH london, england — EDUCATION mba from oxford
HEIGHT 5'9 — TATTOOS lower back tattoo from years ago... done on a dare lol — PIERCINGS had earlobes pierced, they have since closed — SCARS nothing major — STYLE ariya has to be the hottest person in the city at any given time. a little gothic. big fan of long coats and turtlenecks and expensive jewelry.
ALLERGIES peanuts — SLEEPING HABITS gets a perfect eight hours every night and even on the rare times he doesn't, he wakes up looking refreshed anyway. — EATING HABITS he loves to cook and prefers to eat homemade food rather than going out to eat — SOCIABILITY 7/10. he's extroverted but in the way that some cats are extroverted... — DRINKING / SMOKING / DRUGS yes / yes / yes
TRAITS confident, organized, hedonistic, egotistical, untrusting, jealous, superficial, short-sighted, resentful, passive, irresponsible, immature, insensitive, there's nothing good about him really but at least he's sexy.... — LIKES tea, one night stands, buying shiny new things, overdressing for any occasion, being better than others — DISLIKES phone calls, actually working, answering emails, showing up for meetings on time, talking to family — WEAKNESSES family..., pretty people, critical thinking, meetings that happen before noon (he's asleep...) — STRENGTHS talking his way out of tickets, ignoring family events like its an olympic sport, having money and looking good? — FEARS becoming his father — HABITS ending up in a stranger's bed, running hand through hair, squinting when he doesn't trust / believe someone, rolling eyes — HOBBIES nothing substantial
MOTHER nazia, deceased — FATHER saad, executive of apex biomedical — SIGNIFICANT OTHER none. let's hope it stays like that — SIBLING(S) amar kareem, was a director at apex, is currently in prison for insider trading — CHILDREN none — PET(S) white persian cat named princess
— BIOGRAPHY —
we're doing a quick and dirty tl;dr sorry im tired womp womp
saad kareem had 2 children with his late wife. she died when the youngest, zakariya, was five years old. until that age, ariya remembers saad to be kind and loving, but afterwards he was not-all-there. he threw himself into his work, went back for his phd in biomedical engineering, and quickly climbed the ranks into the c-suite of apex biomedical
ariya's older brother, amar, was always smarter, more talented, and overall more beloved by their father. ariya hypothesizes it's because amar is the splitting image of saad, while ariya sees more similarities to their mother. womp womp part two.
nothing ariya ever did really pleased saad, even when he did everything that amar did because then he was just 'jealous and copying his older brother' boooo... amar went to oxford, ariya went to oxford, amar got an mba, ariya got an mba.
amar went to jail for insider trading, ariya is sitting pretty in his corner office. haha!
we're skipping ahead too fast. long story short ariya refused to get help from his dad to get work and ends up finding his way into an internship and entry level job at comoedia and became very very close to some people in order to climb ranks there. he left after a couple years because he was offered a much better position at bulletin broadcasting, and very easily cut off his so called 'friends' at comoedia.
around the same time that zakariya got his position as cmo, amar was caught for insider trading at apex. ariya knows that he's taking the fall for their dad, who it most likely actually was, and is actually very bitter about that because like wtf how dare you do basically the ultimate sacrifice for the man that didn't raise them. anyway.
is zak happy with his current title? yes and no… he wants to prove something to his father but still isn't sure what. his dad is in the c-suite of a prolific biomedical company and has always touted zak's elder brother's success. mind you, said elder brother went to jail for insider trading but that's neither here nor there.
zak absolutely wants a promotion. he feels that, despite being cmo, that the title is somehow below him. is he doing anything to prove that he deserves a promotion? hell no. wants one, doesn't want to put in the work for it. he ended up at bulletin as a director of marketing through a combination of manipulation and nepotism and hasn't put in as much work into this job since getting into an executive level position.
he is absolutely proud of himself! look at where he is! executive member of a bulletin subsidiary! and look at his brother! rotting in white collar prison! zakariya wins again! good for him! (mind you, he is unbearably unhappy and unfulfilled. he has little to no real personal relationships, he doesn't care about his job as much as he should, his dad still won't look at him properly, but he doesn't do anything to change any of this.)
— CONNECTIONS —
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