CHARACTERS

📖 Story Basics

🎭 Genre:

•Dark Romance

•Mafia

•Forced Marriage

•Drama

•Emotional Growth

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🧍‍♀️Main Characters (Editable)

🔹 Aarohi Mehta - 21 years old

Fierce, smart, middle-class girl from Delhi

Dreams of becoming a doctor

Forced into a marriage with a mafia don for her family's protection



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🏠 The Mehta Family - Graceful Outside, Guarded Within

💠 1. Pranav Mehta (Father)

Age: 54

Profession: Renowned businessman, owns a chain of pharmaceutical and logistics companies

Personality: Calm, intelligent, deeply protective

Public Image: Respected, generous, and low-profile

True Side: Behind the warmth is a man hiding decades of secrets, hidden enemies, and debts that never truly died

Bond with Aarohi: She's his princess, his soft spot, and possibly the only person who sees the cracks in his controlled mask

> "I built this world for you, Aarohi. I just never wanted you to see its darkness."

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💠 2. Dr. Vaidehi Mehta (Mother)

Age: 50

Profession: Retired pediatrician, now runs a women's clinic from home

Personality: Strong-willed, spiritual, loving but emotionally guarded. she chose silence for her family's safety

Bond with Aarohi: They clash often-both headstrong women-but love runs deep. Vaidehi worries that Aarohi's fire might attract old enemies.

> "You carry my strength, beta. But learn where to burn and where to heal."

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💠 3. Advik Mehta (Brother)

Age: 26

Profession: Software engineer, works abroad

Personality: Witty, sarcastic, very protective

Relationship with Aarohi: Constant bickering, constant love. He teases her endlessly but would cross oceans to protect her. He suspects something's wrong with their father but stays away-by choice or by fear.

> "You're the only doctor I trust to stitch me up if I ever get broken. Emotionally, I mean. Physically-I'll go to literally anyone else."

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💠 4. Dadi (Savitri Mehta)

Age: 78

Role: The silent observer with eyes that miss nothing

Personality: Sharp, traditional, emotionally intuitive

Secrets: Knows more about Pranav's past than anyone lets on. Speaks in riddles. Possibly the one who first warned Aarohi-subtly-that life isn't as simple as it seems.

> "Sometimes, princesses are married off to monsters. Not because they are weak. But because only they have the power to tame them."

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Coco - a golden retriever Aarohi treats like her baby. Offers comic relief and comfort during her most chaotic moments.

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🧡 Aarohi's Best Friend

Name: Reet Khurana

Age: 27

Profession: Final year MD in psychiatry

Personality:

Witty, emotionally intelligent, loyal

Blunt when needed but deeply empathetic

Reads people like open books, but hides her own past like a locked vault

Role in Aarohi's Life:

Reet is the one person Aarohi never has to explain herself to. They've been best friends since 1st year MBBS-Aarohi is the chaos, Reet is the calm.

Reet grounds her during breakdowns, hypes her up during fights, and isn't afraid to call her out when she's being unreasonable.

Tagline:

> "You may be the fire, Aaru... but even the fire needs someone to carry the water."

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🖤 Aarav Malhotra's Mafia Family Tree - The House of Shadows

💣 Aarav Malhotra (The Anti-Hero / Don-in-Waiting)

Age: 30

Current Role: Operational head of the Malhotra Syndicate

Known For: Silent rage, calculated cruelty, and ice-cold loyalty to family

Cold, powerful Mafia heir from Mumbai

Ruthless to enemies and unapologetically ruthless

Darkness: Never hesitates to kill-but doesn't believe in hurting women or innocents

Unknown Truth: He was supposed to leave this world once. But something (or someone) dragged him back



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🕴️ 1. Veer Malhotra (Father) - "The King"

Age: 58

The original don, semi-retired but still feared

Built the empire through blood and betrayal

Cold, ruthless, and disappointed in softness-especially in Aarav's lingering humanity

> "Power isn't inherited. It's stolen. Every. Single. Time."

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👩‍🦱 2. Devika Malhotra (Mother) - "The Ice Queen"

Age: 54

Elegant, silent, and terrifying in her control

Handles the syndicate's finances and international ties

Once from a royal political family, she married Veer for power, not love

Doesn't approve of love-it's a weakness in her eyes

> "Women are not queens in this world, Aarav. They are shields-or they are liabilities."

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🔫 3. Kabir Malhotra (Younger Brother - The Trigger)

Age: 26

Reckless, violent, unpredictable

Thinks Aarav is too "soft" and wants control of the syndicate.

> "Why rule from the shadows when we can set the world on fire?"

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🧠 4. Uncle - Rajat Malhotra (The Strategist)

Veer's younger brother

Works as the legal & political fixer of the family

Speaks rarely, but when he does-people listen

May be playing both sides between Aarav and Kabir

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🐍 5. The Rival Gang - The Oberois

Once allies, now enemies

Want to destroy the Malhotras using Aarav's one weakness: Aarohi

Will enter the story with betrayal, spying, and forced alliance proposals

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yuvaan khan

Arava's best friend or only real brother

Age 30

profession:- Underground fixer,arms dealer, hacker

Arava's second in command

Vibe : witty disrespectful in charming ways. The only person who can insult Arav and not die for it.

He is lethal with a knife, deadliest with his words.

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