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Timur is 6' (183 cm) and weighs 140 lbs (63.5 kg). His skin is tan and he has dark brown eyes. He keeps his hair short and its natural color, mainly for convenience's sake. The most he'll style it is brushing his bangs out of his face. He tends towards business casual when going out, but at home is perfectly happy relaxing in sweats and other lazy clothes.

Timur is actually rather artistic for how STEM-minded he seems on the surface. He loves music and art, and sketches in his occasional downtime or sings during car rides. He also really likes comics and manga, as well as reading book-books.

Ever since he was still a kid himself, he remembers being awkward with kids. It caused a pretty big rift between him and his siblings, and though he tries to stay in their lives (especially now that Inkar is grown up and he realized his siblings are actual humans with actual lives), he's very awkward when interacting with them. Especially once his siblings reached the "same age as my friend's kids" category.

He isn't necessarily shy, but he is often quiet during conversations and just listens. Growing up, he often heard people say he must think a lot to be so quiet. He didn't really get the relevance, but he did think a lot so their assumption was true, though maybe not in the way they were thinking.

He keeps secret that he's gay, though he did finally tell Inkar. He's out to his friends, but not most his family, and it kind of kills him inside but he's also scared of how his parents would react based on most Kazakh attitudes towards the LGBTQ community. After positive notes from Inkar, he finally came out to his mom in early 2021.

MOTHER
Name: Aliya Ibekova Mun
Birth Year: 1972
Occupation: Preschool Teacher
Feelings Toward: About an equal amount of love and frustration. As a little kid he asked about having siblings often and his parents always seemed to ignore his requests, and now suddenly he feels like he fell into a rabbit hole and can't get out. He loves his mom, and has to admit she's a great mother for how many directions her attention gets pulled in, but he sometimes misses being an only child. He was relieved when she took his coming out well, and was glad she agreed to keep it secret from his dad until he was ready.

FATHER
Name: Maxim Mun
Birth Year: 1965
Occupation: Aerospace Engineer
Feelings Toward: He's always respected his father, and deeply admires him. He knew since he was a young child that he wanted to become an aerospace engineer and become like his father, and when he did reach that point, he was in a bit of shock. The novelty has worn off a bit, however, and with the arrival of even more new siblings, he's a little bitter.

YOUNGER SISTER
Name: Inkar Mun
Birth Year: 2000
Occupation: College Student @ UW Bothell (class of 2023)
Feelings Toward: Now that she's grown up, he finds her easier to talk to. Until very recently, however, he had a hard time finding any way to relate to her. He feels a bit regretful for ignoring Inkar as she grew up, but doesn't really know how to repair that without going back in time. He is appreciative she is giving him another chance, and is pleased to find they even have a few things in common with each other.

YOUNGER SISTER
Name: Aiday Mun
Birth Year: 2002
Occupation: College Student (Expected Grad Date: 2025)
Feelings Toward: He's learning to interact with her. She holds a much stronger grudge against him for ignoring her as she was growing up than Inkar did, but he hopes in time she'll accept his attempts to make up for that.

YOUNGER BROTHER
Name: Aibek Mun
Birth Year: 2005
Occupation: High School Student (Expected grad Date: 2023)
Feelings Toward: He often gets told Aibek looks up to him, so he's trying to pay attention to his little brother, but the age gap between them is painfully wide, so he has a hard time properly interacting with him. He's learned bringing Aibek books makes him happy, so he's been doing that often, and has found he almost even enjoys spending time talking with him.

YOUNGER SISTER
Name: Inzhu Mun
Birth Year: Early 2007
Occupation: High School Student (Expected Grad Date: 2026)
Feelings Toward: He's awkward around her when he does try to interact, and in general gets overwhelmed by her and Erasyl.

YOUNGER BROTHER
Name: Erasyl Mun
Birth Year: Late 2007
Occupation: High School Student (Expected Grad Date: 2027)
Feelings Toward: Exasperation. He has to wonder if he ever had that much energy. Just watching Erasyl tires him out. Trying to interact with him is difficult because their personalities are just too different.

YOUNGER SISTER
Name: Anara Mun
Birth Year: 2010
Occupation: Middle School Student (Expected Grad Date: 2024)
Feelings Toward: Timur finds Anara very cute. He often gets hugs from her, or flowers, and he learned to make flower crowns just so he could teach her. That being said, any conversation he tries to have with her is awkward at best, even when he lets her steer it.

YOUNGER BROTHER
Name: Serik Mun
Birth Year: 2012
Occupation: Elementary School Student (Expected Grad Date: 2023)
Feelings Toward: Awkward around him. Knows he should try to be closer to him, but can't figure out how.

YOUNGER TWIN SIBLINGS
Name: Dastan (♂) and Guldana (♀) Mun
Birth Year: March 23, 2019
Occupation: N/A (Toddlers)
Feelings Toward: He's pretty exasperated at this point. The thought of the crying and general babies existing put the final nail in the coffin to convince him to move out.

Timur was the first born and only child born in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He had a pretty normal childhood; begged his parents for siblings or a pet, went to school, had friends, it was all good. Then when he was nine, his mother announced he'd be getting a younger sibling. By this point, he was happy but also frustrated. He was nearly ten years old - he had wanted a sibling when he could still relate with them. Anytime family friends would come over with their children, he didn't know what to do with the smelly tiny humans they brought with them, and often just ignored them. Before his sibling could be born, however, it was announced they'd be moving to America. He wasn't really opposed to it, but didn't really want to leave his friends, either. When his sister was born, he loved her, of course, but just ignored her. When she cried, he turn his music up louder, when she wanted to play, he'd say he was busy with homework (though that wasn't always a lie).

Partially because of his new sibling, and partially because of culture shock, he had a hard time adjusting to life in the U.S., but thankfully found a niche of Korean and Russian - and even another Kazakh - speakers and life got a bit easier. Well, at least until he realized he was gay in seventh grade.

A substitute had come in to take over for a teacher on maternity leave, and Timur had never before that point had a crush on anyone. But damn, did he excel in that class after the substitute began. He knew nothing would actually happen (mostly because he was a student and this was a teacher, but also because he often talked about his wife), so he kept the crush to himself, but often heard the girls chattering about the substitute as well. With the climate for LGBTQ folks in Almaty, however, he was always too nervous to come out to his family, though he's been debating telling Inkar at least. Even in elementary school he heard talks of some kids beating up on others for "seeming gay," so he didn't even want to know how his parents would treat his confession.

He spent a good few years trying to sort himself out from the internalized homophobia he had for himself, and eventually joined the GSA his sophomore year of high school, though he told his parents he had joined the Asian-American club. He had his first boyfriend when he went to college, though after only one semester in the dorms, Timur moved back home as the silence was... strangely jarring. He and his boyfriend had a mutual breakup after college, as Timur wanted to stay in Washington and his ex was moving to Maine.

Now that Timur comfortably has a job he loves, he decided to go ahead and try the moving out thing again. It's been less than a month since he moved into his apartment, a simple one bedroom, but this time around, he quite appreciates the silence.

Hello! My name is Redeim!
I was born in 1989.
My pronouns are he/him.
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