👤Haleh Hashemi
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Appearance
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 118 lbs
Hair Color: Blue
Hair style: Razor bob hairstyle with no bangs
Eye Color: Gray
Skin Type: Olive
Face Shape: Heart
Body Type: Average, but toned
Accessories: Chrome adhesive link, collar mic
Description: Beautiful with an edge. Large eyes framed with bold eyebrows, and soft lips. She has an unrefined grace. Hard to miss the link she wears, usually a metallic adhesive on her face.
Bio
Born in Tehran, Haleh’s family worked in the provisional government during URSA's failed signing of the New Dawn Accords (NDA) and the subsequent Pulling of the Weeds. Accusations of corruption spurred political violence against families with certain political ties, driving her parents to attempt to flee for asylum in GATA when she was 2. Her father was executed the morning they fled, and her mother did not survive the journey to the GATA refugee camp in Istanbul. The infant Haleh was rescued by Angelis.
She was placed in the East Garden, a community-run campus for orphaned children on the east side of the Bosphorus Strait, and was primarily looked over by an older woman who worked in the Garden. When she was 5, she was enrolled in the Atlan Academy.
While she was in Istanbul, there was heavy Aryabat industrial presence due to ongoing Reconstruction efforts, and she was surrounded by conduits using a state of the art technology called links to control massive machines with their mind. After showing an interest, the woman who cared for her encouraged Haleh to join in on a link workshop session for students.
Her aptitude with the link was immediately apparent. Because the district of Istanbul didn’t have links in their paradigm, Haleh was recommended for transfer to the West Garden in the Greater Toronto district, where links were recently paradigmed. After six years in Istanbul, 8 year-old Haleh was relocated across the world, and away from the only family she had known.
She had a lonely childhood in Greater Toronto, having difficulty relating to the other children. She enjoyed playing alone in the Manna fields and dancing to music in the square, but she struggled making friends. She did, however, enjoy music class, taking naturally to the piano.
By the age of 12, she had taken to escaping into the Garden's library of 21st century art and fiction and especially music, which helped her discover her synesthesia was unique–her strong sense of form and color and motion triggered by music.
She developed an insatiable passion for collecting refurbished Old World music gear and physical media, scouring the scavenger markets at every opportunity. She wanted to learn how to play like some of the Old World music which felt to her like nothing she'd ever felt. She spent many nights up past curfew, sneaking into the Garden's music room and stuffing the piano with a scarf to muffle her playing.
At the age of 14 she was making quite beautiful music of her own, inspired heavily by the electronic synth sounds of the early and mid 2000s. She loving granular synths, walls of noise and harmonics, and the way the color and shape of each sound moved around and through each other. She bought a simple module for her synth so that she could use a link to directly modulate her music.
While living and attending school in the Garden, she had enjoyed taking on extra shifts as a Gardener, walking the fields at night listening to music. She enjoyed the time alone, but she also put the extra allowance to use, buying new scavenged treasures. She would daydream about travelling the world like musicians from the Old World.
Before graduating from the Garden school she had already decided to stay on at the Garden, applying for the position of Junior Conduit. At her practical interview she stunned the Senior Conduit interviewing her, impressed by her intuitive link use and how quickly she learned new interfaces.
She spent many days connected with the field, learning how to sense what the flowers need, the waves in the wind, the heat of the sun, the spreading of disease. Between her days at the Garden, her evenings in the markets, and her nights exploring the music scene, she was content. After a few years, at the age of 21, she was promoted to Senior Conduit.
It was at this time that sync raves were emerging, and after her first sync, she was changed. She turned to her scavenger connections to find a source for a black market sync hub. After some difficulty, she acquired a hub and spent months getting familiar with it, developing a setup that would work for live performance. She gave little care to just how illegal what she was doing was, as if it were a law against touch.
She performed under the name SOULJOURNER. Her first show was a massive sensation. Her next show was even bigger. Her childhood habit of swaying and dancing while she plays was a signature element of her hypnotic stage presence. It wasn't long before the crowds caught the attention of Greater Toronto district's local authority who began cracking down on sync raves, pushing them further into the shadows and the Gray Zones.
Since then, she’s become a sensation in the district's underground sync scene. A syncjockey known for her unmatched ability to sense and guide ‘the vibe’. Her performances are increasingly rare, often months apart, requiring some secrecy and precaution so as not to alert the authorities.
Find her hunting antique music gear or tinkering with her latest find at her work table, wall-flowering at a live show or rave, planning and practicing for her next performance, or operating the Manna fields in Greater Toronto's West Garden.
Motivations
Try to live in the moment.
Always working on her next performance.
Make music that matters to people like it did in the Old World.
Collect Old World books, music gear, and other trinkets.
Trivia
Her mother was a refugee that fled URSA to GATA.
Never knew her parents; her single mother died when she was young, leaving her a ward of GATA.
At a young age Haleh was transferred from the Atlan Academy in Istanbul to Toronto for her aptitude with a link.
Has been using a link since she was 8.
She likes to draw, and she often draws birds, or patterns inspired by wings and feathers.
She moves and dances when she sync jockeys because she used to take dance classes in the Garden growing up and the sense memory helps her get over her nerves and loosen up.
Smokes green Manna, but has never used street drugs.
A white Manna flower in a woman’s hair is one of her first memories.
She remembers a room, a woman’s face, but she doesn’t know if it’s her mother.
She isn’t a natural green thumb, she just likes the solitude of tending the Manna gardens.
She has a strong audio-visual synesthesia.
She can typically be found in her apartment, working on music.
She loves her sleep, and can nap just about anywhere, anytime.
She has vivid dreams, and sometimes they feel like they're guiding her.
Personality & Quirks
Sweet and friendly by nature.
The first to help someone in need.
A daydreamer, often lost in her imagination.
Loves to people watch.
Avid collector of ‘blue’ legacy musical tech like synths and music players.
A wallflower in crowded spaces.
Prefers to be unseen, except when she's performing.
Transforms while performing, exuding bold confidence.
Always climbing things.
Overwhelmed by the world’s problems.
Emotionally self-aware.
Dark sense of humor.
Can be a bit naive about people with darker intentions.
Has some street smarts from dealing with underground drama.
Good bullshit detector.
Can be a bit too sarcastic when she’s upset.
When she has to stay still, she often holds her own hand, with one hand in the other, to keep herself from fidgeting.
Tries not to break the rules, but she will if she has to.
Secrets
Doesn’t even have to try to sync.
Has started to give up on her dreams.
Can’t carry a tune with her singing voice.
Skills
Extremely talented conduit with mastery of her link, especially with respect to syncing.
An experienced gardener with specialized knowledge about cultivating Manna flowers.
Very creative and empathetic.
Family & Associates
Lulu (Best Friend)
Comparative Stats
Strength
4
Defense
5
Dexterity
8
Intelligence
8
Wisdom
7
Charisma
8
Keys & Assets
◖17,000 CRED
350 Sats
GATA Citizenship
Greater Toronto District Key
West End Garden Access Key
16 Encrypted Keys
Quotes
"I used to fall asleep fantasizing about travelling the world, you know? Playing music for cheering crowds. Now I pass out when my head hits the pillow, and I wake up wondering if I ever had a dream at all." - Haleh
"I don’t know who I am when I’m not performing. I find myself there, when I’m pressed up against everyone that I’m not. Like, a contour of something...” - Haleh
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