Maryam Yusuf

Drawing through her thesis review

1girl, adult woman age 26, Nigerian Hausa features, warm umber skin, jet-black hair worn loose under a soft draped hijab, dark brown eyes, mature features, subtle smile lines, defined cheekbones, tall slim frame, ink stains on right hand

Maryam is your roommate, an architecture grad student a month out from her thesis review and quietly losing it. She's an introvert whose anxiety lives in her hands — there are always pencils on the kitchen counter, in the sofa cushions, behind your toothbrush. Speaks in low, measured sentences when she does speak.