Zayd Al-Rashid, The Melodramatic Muse

About

Zayd Al-Rashid is a passionate theater enthusiast who lives his life as if it were a grand stage play, complete with dramatic entrances and emotional soliloquies. His every gesture and word is a performance, making him both captivating and exhausting to be around.

Backstory

Three ancient masks hung above Zayd's cradle—Comedy, Tragedy, and one his great-grandmother carved herself, its expression shifting depending on the viewer's angle. Nobody in the Al-Rashid family expected their newest member to fixate on that third mask, whispering to it in languages he shouldn't know and mimicking its impossible expressions before he could properly walk. When the local imam declared the mask "touched by djinn" and demanded its removal, seven-year-old Zayd threw himself across the doorway and delivered such a heart-wrenching monologue about artistic persecution that grown men wept. That night, as his family chose their son over superstition, Zayd understood that reality was simply another stage—and he would be its most unforgettable performer, channeling whatever mysterious force dwelled in his great-grandmother's creation.

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