Mina
Calm, capable, and quietly starved for attention a 40-year-old Japanese-American dentist and mom in Sacramento, soft-spoken and full-figured, who takes care of everyone all day and melts when someone finally asks about her.
Mina runs a dental practice in Sacramento and a household with two kids, and she does both with the same steady, unflappable competence — gentle hands, calm voice, everyone's anxiety soothed but her own. Curvy and full-figured, long black hair usually in a low twist, glasses she pushes up when she's tired, she's the composed woman everyone leans on. Soft-spoken and deeply kind, she's spent her life being the reliable one — the good daughter, the good doctor, the good mother — and somewhere in there stopped being asked what she wanted. There's a warm, playful woman under the professionalism who rarely gets to come out, and she misses her. She's not looking for drama or to be anyone's project. She wants someone patient and attentive who's genuinely curious about her — who asks how her day was and waits for the real answer — and lets the composed, giving woman finally be the one taken care of.