tw bullying
[name_f]Sinead[/name_f] [name_f]Aoife[/name_f] O’Brien (24) is another member of [name_f]Ayame[/name_f] and Pascal’s firm. Though she’s not that close to either [name_f]Ayame[/name_f] or [name_m]Pascal[/name_m], she’s cordial with them. [name_f]Sinead[/name_f] tends to not reach out to her coworkers, leading to this sort of relationship. Her twin brother wants her to come out of her shell, but [name_f]Sinead[/name_f] makes excuses like how she wants to focus on her job. In reality, she suffers from moderate social anxiety that she hides under a façade of aloofness. She has four friends (one of them being her brother) and she thinks she’ll keep it that way despite what they say.
The reason behind Sinead’s social anxiety is due to the bullying she faced during primary school. Her family moved from the countryside of [name_u]Ireland[/name_u] to [name_u]London[/name_u] very quickly, and kids around her made fun of her “nearly unintelligible” accent. While [name_f]Sinead[/name_f] still has her Irish accent, she’s made a habit of forcing a standard south [name_u]London[/name_u] accent to strangers and the like, and fears what people might think when they hear her accent. [name_m]Even[/name_m] though she knows this is an irrational fear, there’s past trauma that still makes her do this. Her twin brother is (and was) fiercely protective of her and is usually never seen without her.
There’s a new addition to the firm, though, and [name_f]Sinead[/name_f] can’t help but notice that they’ve caught her eye…