Name/Alias/Title: Isla
Appearance: Stands 5'7", average weight/build, light tan skin, grey white eyes, long dark brown hair, burn scars running up her arms
Quote: I can smell your fear. I can hear your heart race. I can taste the sweat trickling down your neck.
Age: 24
Gender: female
Sexuality: heterosexual
Race: human
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Bio/History:
Isla was born in a small village of less than 100 people. Most families were self sustaining- gardening, herding livestock, weaving, etc. Most everyone got along in the community, and absolutely everyone was human.
Isla was the only daughter among her parents seven children, and loved to wrestle with her brothers growing up, being very much one of the boys. Each child was expected to learn a skill to serve them after they grew up, and Isla took after one of her older brothers and became excellent at bow hunting. She and that brother, Hugo, would go have hunting trips and bring home meat to their family, and life was good.
Until the Magic users attacked. A small group passed through on horses in the dead of night, laughing evilly and shouting as they wreaked havoc. Isla isn't sure if all of them were fire users, but some were, and one destroyed her home. She managed to crawl out of the blazing hut, but when she looked around her, none of her family had emerged with her. Panic induced adrenaline set in and the 17 year old girl leapt back in, smoke filling her lungs, flames lashing her skin, and embers popping into her eyes as she grabbed the only two bodies she could find in her half blind state and pulled them out. She spent the next several hours smacking and yelling at the bodies of two of her younger siblings, demanding they wake, until her voice began to crack. Then she sat in silence, listening to the few other survivors walk around, but unable to see them.
Isla recovered for a year, taken care of by a few of her surviving neighbors, but never regaining her sight. They tried to prevent her from leaving, but revenge was a thorny vine digging into her heart and mind, not allowing her to think clearly. So she set out with a satchel, a few weapons, and a cloak to hide her face so she wasn't immediately known as blind and then attacked as an easy target. In the last 6 years traveling alone, Isla has killed numerous magic users. She has also been attacked multiple times but has lived through it. She still continues her travels, intent on killing any magic user she can.
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Appearance: Stands 5'7", average weight/build, light tan skin, grey white eyes, long dark brown hair, burn scars running up her arms
Quote: I can smell your fear. I can hear your heart race. I can taste the sweat trickling down your neck.
Age: 24
Gender: female
Sexuality: heterosexual
Race: human
Habits/ticks/quirks (etc):
- Turns her ear towards someone when they speak, rather than looking at them.
- Keeps her guard up longer than most, finds it very difficult to be trusting.
- Often creates awkward silences in conversations as she tends to over think, and have little conversations in her head so she forgets the other person is there.
Skills/Talents/etc.:
- Great at close range combat with a short blade (thus her collection of daggers)
- Able to hunt deer using her longbow despite her blindness.
- A survivor. She has been taking care of herself for 6 years now and is not easily fooled or foiled anymore
Likes:
- Dancing
- Swimming/the water
- Hand to hand combat
Dislikes:
- Very loud noises
- Sleeping
- Fire
Personality:
Isla is basically a giant ball of emotional scar tissue. She has a good core, and used to be a very happy, open, and loving girl. Now she presents a very real mask to the world, one that is suspicious, angry, stoic, and yet strategic and thoughtful. She is an ally and friend to most every human, and a pain for any magic user. She has travelled with humans in the last 6 years and made friends, but all have died or settled in places visited while traveling.
Bio/History:
Isla was born in a small village of less than 100 people. Most families were self sustaining- gardening, herding livestock, weaving, etc. Most everyone got along in the community, and absolutely everyone was human.
Isla was the only daughter among her parents seven children, and loved to wrestle with her brothers growing up, being very much one of the boys. Each child was expected to learn a skill to serve them after they grew up, and Isla took after one of her older brothers and became excellent at bow hunting. She and that brother, Hugo, would go have hunting trips and bring home meat to their family, and life was good.
Until the Magic users attacked. A small group passed through on horses in the dead of night, laughing evilly and shouting as they wreaked havoc. Isla isn't sure if all of them were fire users, but some were, and one destroyed her home. She managed to crawl out of the blazing hut, but when she looked around her, none of her family had emerged with her. Panic induced adrenaline set in and the 17 year old girl leapt back in, smoke filling her lungs, flames lashing her skin, and embers popping into her eyes as she grabbed the only two bodies she could find in her half blind state and pulled them out. She spent the next several hours smacking and yelling at the bodies of two of her younger siblings, demanding they wake, until her voice began to crack. Then she sat in silence, listening to the few other survivors walk around, but unable to see them.
Isla recovered for a year, taken care of by a few of her surviving neighbors, but never regaining her sight. They tried to prevent her from leaving, but revenge was a thorny vine digging into her heart and mind, not allowing her to think clearly. So she set out with a satchel, a few weapons, and a cloak to hide her face so she wasn't immediately known as blind and then attacked as an easy target. In the last 6 years traveling alone, Isla has killed numerous magic users. She has also been attacked multiple times but has lived through it. She still continues her travels, intent on killing any magic user she can.
Equipment/Tools/Items/etc.:
- Several small daggers hidden on her person
- A long bow (for hunting) and arrows
- A satchel with survival supplies (jug for water, matches, ointment for cuts, a bit of money and food, etc)
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