Tariq Sabanci

**Tariq Sabanci** is a resident of Lower Duck Pond.

Sandy Dupont

Lars Emeriinne

Lizzie Escamilla

Alexa Thorn

Jeremy Whinger

Chance Chaker O'Hara (brother)

Kurt Sabanci (brother)

Sevgi Sabanci (nephew)

## **Biography**

### **Early life**

Tariq was born in Kars, Turkey on 4 October 1997. His family migrated to Toronto, Canada when he was two years old, but within a year migrated again, to Hydroelectric City.

Tariq graduated from high school at the age of 17, and started working as a busboy at a restaurant. In September 2017, he started writing articles for *Turbo & Torque*, an amateur car news website. He did this as a hobby, without earning a single cent. He also started making voice recordings of himself reading his own articles for a friend of him, who was visually impaired. Despite the webiste's unfortunate name, it gained city-wide recognition.

### **Adult life**

On 16 October 2018, Tariq moved out of his childhood home, and started living in a small apartment in Hydroelectric City. He rented the apartment and had a decent relationship with his landlord.

In January 2019, the website became a legitimate company, and was reborn as "*T&T*". Tariq started working for the company full-time. He was encouraged to record himself discussing his topics in videos. This format proved to be effective, and Tariq started mainly making these rather than releasing articles. He also occasionally made videos in which he reviewed cars, primarily showroom models provided by Autohaus.

In August 2019, the T&T website was aquired by Hydroelectric Newspaper. This decision was made to turn the website into a supporting website for HN's own car magazine, Hydroelectric Car Magazine, which until then was exclusively a physical magazine. Tariq, being a creator T&T's youtube channel, stayed at the original company. Despite HN now having a website and physical magazine for its HCM brand, as well as a separate car related TV show, T&T was more succesful with just its youtube channel.

During a simplification of HN's lineup of brands in February 2020, HN made an agreement with the T&T company. HN merged all three of its car related brands under the T&T brand, and T&T became a sub-company of HN. This proved to be favorable for all parties involved, T&T gained access to all of HN's resources while being able to keep operating under the T&T name, while HN gained a popular brand in its lineup. Tariq now presented most videos on the website and the youtube channel. As the quality of the videos and his presenting skills improved, Tariq built a reputation for himself in the world of car journalists.

Tariq started filming his reviews in Lower Duck Pond, as the streets of Hydroelectric city were crowded with traffic.

#### **Airport incident**

Tariq was invited to present the unveiling of an important electric sports sedan in Germany, which took place on 5 January 2021. This would've given him even more recognition and immensly boost his career. As he was invited only three weeks beforehand, Tariq worked through the holidays to finish his text, spending days locked in his apartment writing it and studying the performance figures of the model he was about to present. Tariq planned to travel to Germany only three days before the event, and was even studying on the airport. His efforts were ultimately wasted as he encountered Fabio Brewster, who, after deciding Tariq was too much of an annoyance, found the young man asleep in the airport's coffee shop and stole his luggage before departing on his own plane. Because of this, Tariq could not make it to the event in time, causing a delay for the entire event. The unveiling happened a day later, with not Tariq, but people who worked on the development of the model on stage.

### **Life in Lower Duck Pond**

#### **Moving to Lower Duck Pond**

Just days after the airport incident, Tariq received a notice from his landlord about the rent rate increasing to an amount that Tariq would be unable to pay for. In the next few days, he started making preparations to move to a town house in Lower Duck Pond.

He moved in on 14 January 2021, and quickly became friends with the members of Razor Heart.

Tariq soon developed a good relationship with his neighbors, Luna and Jeremy, and the two households often walk into each other's houses without warning.

## **Personality**

Tariq is a charismatic person. He is easy to talk to and can maintain a conversation for a very long time. He has well-developed presenting skills and is ambitious, and uses all of these traits to present his videos. He has a bit of a specific humor, and often makes very subtle jokes. He hardly ever lies about his opinion, says practically anything that comes to his mind out loud and could be seen as a "brutally honest" person. Tariq's "honest" nature maintains when he gets angered or upset, but he will also say rude statements. This rude stance is shared with his father and his brother Kurt, although their father is known to always be rude, while Tariq and Kurt only really do it when they become upset.

Tariq is known to be very forgetful with small things, like returning a neighbor's sugar, grabbing his phone and typing out his notes on a computer.

## **Appearance**

Tariq, like most of his family, is fairly muscular. He has dark brown hair that's usually in slight curls, and tan skin. He usually wears slightly formal, but mostly casual clothing, with colorful tops. He also likes wearing rope necklaces with pendants.

## **Hobbies**

Along with Tariq's passion for cars, Tariq also likes staying active, and enjoys doing activities such as hiking, rock climbing and swimming. He also likes camping, and does this often to escape his busy city life.

Tariq has also recently started to play guitar.

## **Trivia**

* Tariq's daily driver is a 2021 Mazda3.
* Tariq has never kissed anyone.
* His favorite band is Razor Heart.
* Tariq is bisexual.
* Tariq has a mild mushroom allergy.
* His favorite foods are his mom's baklava and vampire tacos.
* Tariq loves pandas and owns a panda plushie. He also regularly uses the panda emoji.