ASLI BAYRAK
Fantasy Crafter @ Faunwand
Video Game Designer @ Faunwand Studios
Video Game Designer @ Faunwand Studios
BIO
Banned in three timelines. Worshipped in a fourth. Heavily footnoted in a fifth.
Some say she was born during a cosmic tantrum thrown by the universe inside a broken library.
Others insist she is the lingering daydream of a tentacled eldritch linguist who spilled ink and never looked up again.
Others insist she is the lingering daydream of a tentacled eldritch linguist who spilled ink and never looked up again.
She was, in fact, unleashed, accidentally summoned during a ritual involving scented candle, aggressively incorrect Classical Latin and an annotated copy of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
She:
• Once seduced a library book. It has refused to be checked out since and now hums when it hears her name.
• Corrects your pronunciation telepathically. You will *feel* it.
• Collects languages the way ravens collect bones: compulsively, mysteriously and with unsettling precision.
• Taught a cactus how to process heartbreak. Spikey, now sings 19th century Italian opera under the moonlight.
• Allegedly taught Schrödinger’s cat how to file a complaint.
• Was voted "Most Likely to Haunt Her Own Memoir" by a panel of unreliable narrators.
• Is said to be AI’s first crush by some Silicon Valley cults.
• Once seduced a library book. It has refused to be checked out since and now hums when it hears her name.
• Corrects your pronunciation telepathically. You will *feel* it.
• Collects languages the way ravens collect bones: compulsively, mysteriously and with unsettling precision.
• Taught a cactus how to process heartbreak. Spikey, now sings 19th century Italian opera under the moonlight.
• Allegedly taught Schrödinger’s cat how to file a complaint.
• Was voted "Most Likely to Haunt Her Own Memoir" by a panel of unreliable narrators.
• Is said to be AI’s first crush by some Silicon Valley cults.
Her shadow has an NDA.
Her handwriting caused a monk to leave his order and become a barista specializing in espresso.
Her existential crises are stored in antique glass jars labeled Tuesday, Copenhagen and Almosts.
Her handwriting caused a monk to leave his order and become a barista specializing in espresso.
Her existential crises are stored in antique glass jars labeled Tuesday, Copenhagen and Almosts.
Time is optional around her.
Reality flickers like a dodgy VHS tape.
And at least once, she whispered to a machine and it whispered back in perfect Dothraki.
Reality flickers like a dodgy VHS tape.
And at least once, she whispered to a machine and it whispered back in perfect Dothraki.
Known Side Effects of Prolonged Exposure to Asli:
• Sudden urge to read poetry aloud to inanimate objects.
• Fluency in a language you’ve never heard of and will never hear again.
• Waking up with metaphors in your hair.
• Involuntary empathy.
• Sudden urge to read poetry aloud to inanimate objects.
• Fluency in a language you’ve never heard of and will never hear again.
• Waking up with metaphors in your hair.
• Involuntary empathy.
This is not a biography.
This is a coded message.
Or a love spell.
Or both.
Look back... She’s already behind you.
This is a coded message.
Or a love spell.
Or both.
Look back... She’s already behind you.
If you wish to contact Asli, you must say her name three times while staring into a cracked mirror or if you're short on mirrors, just DM her here: @faunwand.
● Thanks..
..to an implacable wanderlust, I’ve had the chance to meet numerous talented people who inspired me to keep doing what I love with passion.
..to an implacable wanderlust, I’ve had the chance to meet numerous talented people who inspired me to keep doing what I love with passion.
Sean Astin (1)
(2) His comment on my art utterly made my day.
Sir Patrick Stewart
Doug Jones
Tahmoh Penikett and Michael Trucco
Battlestar Galactica Family
Bear McCreary
Craig Parker
Edward James Olmos
Michael Hogan
Michelle Rodriguez and Danny Trejo
Danny Trejo
Faun logo illustration by Gökhan Eren