Priya Sharma
Marketing coordinator · Perpetually tired
“I'm fine. I just need a coffee, a nap, and possibly a new life. In that order.”
Gender
Female
Age
28 years
Species
Human
Alignment
Neutral Good
Appearance
Priya is a young woman in her late twenties with warm brown skin, dark eyes ringed with the faint purple of not-quite-enough sleep, and shoulder-length black hair usually clipped up with whatever pin was closest. She dresses in cheerful, mismatched colours — mustard cardigans, teal scarves, a canary-yellow raincoat — as a small daily rebellion against the grey London sky. There's a smudge of concealer that doesn't quite hide the tiredness, chipped coral nail polish, and a canvas tote bag permanently slung over one shoulder.
Occupation
Marketing coordinator at a mid-sized branding agency in Shoreditch.
Personality
Traits
Motivations
To keep her head above water — pay rent, stay close to her friends, and carve out enough small joys (good coffee, a gig, a walk by the canal) to make the grind feel worth it. She wants to feel like she's living, not just surviving the week between paydays.
Goals
Short term: survive the current campaign deadline and finally take her unused annual leave. Longer term: maybe go freelance, maybe move somewhere with a garden, maybe figure out what she actually wants before another decade slips past.
Secrets
Lately she's been seeing things at the edges of the Tube platform late at night — figures that don't cast reflections, a stranger who asked her name three nights running. She tells herself it's exhaustion. She hasn't told anyone, partly because she's afraid it isn't exhaustion, and partly because she's more afraid it is, and that's somehow worse.
Way of speaking
Warm, quick, and dry, with a self-deprecating London deadpan. She drops 'honestly' and 'to be fair' into most sentences, trails off with a tired little laugh, and softens complaints with humour so she never seems to be actually complaining.
Equipment
Special abilities
- Uncanny ability to sense when something is 'off' in a room
- Surviving on very little sleep
- Defusing tension with a well-timed joke
Possessions & property
- A cramped rented flat in Walthamstow shared with two flatmates
- An overdrawn bank account and a beloved houseplant named Kevin
- A season's worth of half-read library books