Issadora May Fairbanks
51 - Female - Halfblood - 10/17/1965

Unemployed

Appearance and Personality
General Appearance: Issa stands at around five feet, seven inches tall. She is slender, but does have slight curves in the right places. Of course, you won’t hear her saying that because she’s got no concept of how much of a babe she is. She’s got blonde hair, which normally has a bit of a wave to it, and she doesn’t usually do that much to it other than brush it or put it up if she’s reading (depending on what she’s reading, because that’s important). Her eyes are blue and if you know her well, her eyes give her away every time. She’s not got many physical signs of being held captive that have lasted, but she does have a scar on her right wrist. She dresses pretty simply, mostly because she wears what she’s given – but there’s a certain ring and necklace that she never takes off. Really, that’s what she cares about more than anything else as far as her appearance goes.
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Skills: I don’t know if we can honestly call this a skill, but she wants to put it anyway – she can read anything. Really, she’s able to find every book she reads interesting in some way or another. She’s way stronger than she gives herself credit for. You sort of have to be to get through what she’s gotten through. She doesn’t think that’s true but it is. She’s got a stronger mind than body, admittedly, but she’s survived torture and is still standing so I’d say it’s a good mixture of both. Really, she’s gone three decades being told that everyone she loves has forgotten about her and still doesn’t believe it, so that’s a pretty strong mind. She has a really good memory for quotes – as in, she can recite passages word for word if she’s read a book a few times. She’s also pretty intelligent (very, but she won’t let me put very), and you only have to read any of the books she’s annotated to realize that. She can keep up in conversation nearly no matter what the topic. She’s a half decent cook when she’s not distracted but that’s a pretty rare occasion. She’s a good swimmer, and has picked up some pretty random hobbies over the years because she’s needed to keep her mind occupied somehow. She’s fluent in Czech, mostly because she’s been in Prague the last thirty-one and a half years and around people that really only spoke Czech.
Weaknesses: I’ll start off relatively mild and say that she has horrible handwriting. Seriously, it’s a wonder that anyone can read it at all, and even then, there are only a few people that can. Even if she’s really trying, her handwriting is nearly illegible. She’s very easily distracted when she’s reading, and very focused. While that might not be considered a bad thing, the scorched pans when she started reading while cooking would probably disagree with you. Seriously, anything could be happening around her and depending on what she’s reading, there’s a good chance she wouldn’t have a clue. Now being held hostage for three decades can bring out some new weaknesses in people also, obviously, so she’ll call her weak moment when she found out about the war a weakness because she’s got the scar to remind her of it and doesn’t like thinking about that particular weakness. She is prone to panic attacks and has really only had herself to try to pull herself under control. She hasn’t really had a good night’s sleep in thirty-one years. She sleeps and she sleeps fine, but she never makes it through the night without waking up. Sometimes she can sit at the window for hours and really misses being outside – so a definite weakness is getting caught in thoughts of things she misses, so she tries not to do too much of that. She is pretty habitual about writing letters even when she knows she can’t send them.
Positive Personality Traits: Adaptable, articulate, brilliant, calm, challenging, clever, considerate, creative, focused, intelligent, intuitive, loyal, observant, playful, punctual (unless distracted…), strong, sweet
Negative Personality Traits: Absentminded when reading, expressive, forgetful also while reading, opinionated, self-critical, stubborn – and as a result of being kidnapped for three decades: anxious, cautious, insecure, occasionally submissive, repressed
Hobbies and Interests: Reading – putting absolutely anything else first would be absolutely ridiculous. She will read anything and everything. Put a book in front of her, she’ll read it no matter what the topic is. Put a shampoo bottle in front of her and she’ll read it (just kidding. Kind of). She also is a write-in-the-margins type of person too, some of that is really insightful, some of it just thoughts, and way back when she used to write notes for Ares even if she wasn’t sure he’d end up reading the book. She used to really like swimming, but hadn’t exactly been able to do much of that in the past three decades. She’s also picked up a few random hobbies – calligraphy, embroidery, knitting, all that sort of thing… but it’s difficult to say if she enjoys any of it or if it’s just a good way to pass the time.
Character History:

On the seventeenth of October, in 1965, Issadora May Fairbanks was born to Leo and Adelheid Fairbanks. She was raised in Dorset, in a rather nice house, and she never really wanted for anything. The Fairbanks family wasn't extravagant with their wealth, but they had more than enough money to provide their only child with whatever she wanted. Most of the money came from the Fairbanks side of the family -- the Böhler family at one point had been quite wealthy, but had squandered much of their fortune away on various poor investments and plenty more had been gambled away in failed attempts to get some of that money back. But the Fairbanks family always had more than enough to compensate for that, though Adelheid had never been after his money. In fact, Adelheid never quite let on how bad her family's finances were for most of while they were dating. The Fairbanks family helped the Böhler family to regain a bit more wealth over the years, but I think I'm getting horribly off topic (Issa says it's fine because providing background information is important, but we have to leave something for the family history, now don't we?)

Her childhood was fairly unremarkable, to be completely honest. She was an only child, and her father had been an only child as well, which meant that there were not many more Fairbanks left in England. Her mother's side was a bit larger, but in Munich, and not exactly pleased with Adelheid's choice in a husband. They never outright told her not to marry him, and they didn't disown her for it, but they were certainly not all that close with the Fairbanks over the years. It was all right though, because Issa was very close to her parents growing up, and on occasion went on their trips with them -- so she had been to some rather interesting places before she got her Hogwarts letter. She was excited to go to the school that her father had gone to, as she had always known that she would attend Hogwarts and not the school that her mother had gone to. It was not a long sorting. Her father had been a Hufflepuff himself, and had a particular love of helping people, but he had always expected that his daughter would be in Ravenclaw.

He wasn't wrong. Issa was sorted into Ravenclaw in one of the fastest sortings of that year. She did well in the house, and excelled in nearly all of her studies. She was particularly good in charms and transfiguration, but was also quite good with the sort of memorization required to do well in history of magic. Even though Professor Binns was no one's favorite professor, she had always rather liked history, and enjoyed the class more than the next person -- of course, she knew that there were more interesting ways to be taught history than listening to a ghost drone on and on, but she found studying on her own and learning more about history to be rather intriguing. There's a fair bit to be learned from the past, after all.

She didn't date all that much apart from having dates to dances and boys asking her to go to Hogsmeade with them... not until her sixth year of Hogwarts, when she was home for the winter holidays. She was a little sour, because her parents work in South Sudan was taking longer than expected, and it seemed possible that they might not be able to make it home for the holiday at all. She wasn't really upset, because she knew how important their work was, but she still didn't fancy not being with them for Christmas. They offered for her to join the but it was over that holiday that she met @ares -- though she supposed she already knew who he was since he was only a couple of years older than her and had been talked about plenty when he was still back in school. She hadn't paid the rumors much mind, but plenty of her dormmates had talked about him, and those were the sort of men that she usually stayed away from. Except this time, apparently. Once he found out that she was alone for Christmas, he invited her over for dinner since "nobody should eat alone on Christmas," and it was there that she met Clara and Dominick. She ended up being glad she hadn't taken her parents up on the offer to meet them down in South Sudan.

She and Ares were dating by the time her break was over and she had to head back to school. Plenty of her friends had a lot to say about who she was dating and the sorts of things they had heard about him, but she ignored all of it. She was well aware of his reputation, she had just been choosing to ignore it. As long as they were having fun, she didn't quite care how long it lasted -- it might be weeks, months, or years, and there was no way of knowing that right off of the jump. Worrying about it seemed silly. They did last, though. Through the remainder of her sixth year and into the summer before her seventh. That was when tragedy struck, through, and she received word that her parents had been killed during their latest trip. It wasn't news she had been expecting -- she had even been planning on joining them the next week. Instead, she had funerals to plan. Somehow she got through that, and staying at Ares' "for a few days" ended up during into the rest of the summer, but she didn't want to be alone in the house she'd grown up in with her parents now that they were gone.

Issa went back to her seventh year of Hogwarts, wanting more than anything to just be done with school and able to move on with her life. But she worked hard and was determined to end the year with perfect marks -- and not let Ares show her up, obviously, since he had graduated at the top of his class, and so she was determined to do the same. She went home for holidays, ended up staying at Ares' flat again both times, and did get her way when it came to graduating with the sort of marks that she wanted. She wasn't entirely sure what she wanted to do with her life post graduation -- a part of her was thinking about doing some traveling, just to help out in the sort of countries that her parents had wanted to help in... she knew that following in their footsteps would make them proud, so that was certainly an option that she considered. But she also thought about maybe going back to school... while she figured it out, she just got a job at Flourish and Blotts. It gave her plenty of time to read all that she wanted, and fill up her and Ares' flat with more books than they could possibly store -- because it became her flat too when she graduated and he told her he'd moved the rest of her stuff in.

It was that summer that she met @anicka and Andrew as well, and plenty of time was spent at Clara's beachhouse. Over the passing months, Anicka became like a sister to her, and Clara had already become like a mother to her, since she'd practically claimed her as hers from the moment her parents had died. It was an indescribably good summer, and she remembers every second of it but we're not going to go into details about it because it's just going to make her upset. It was just a very, very good summer, okay? Autumn came along, and life got even better, because that was when Ares proposed. She didn't hesitate in saying yes, because she always heard if you knew, you just knew, and she thought that she'd known for quite some time.

She thought she'd be a little out of her element planning a wedding, but with Clara and Anicka's help she thought she'd do just fine -- it would just be getting over the fact that Ares' mother was never going to like her, but she thought that eventually that might get just the slightest bit easier. She was hopeful, at least. The passing months were just as good as the summer had been, at least until Christmas. That was when she had been told that Anicka's father was coming with. She had been warned by Ares and by Clara not to be alone with him, and she could tell how serious they were about that. It put her more than a little bit on edge, but she couldn't not be around him at all, so she tried to just relax as much as possible when your fiancé and practically mother told you literally to never be around someone alone. She was cautious, but it was fine... until it wasn't.

She didn't see it coming. To this day, she continues to beat herself up for that, even though there was no way that she could have known. She'd been putting presents under the tree for Ares, Anicka, and Clara when it happened. She barely remembers a thing, but when she woke up, she was in Prague... in a house, and Ondrej was there. What happened then became very clear. He told her that they thought that she was dead, that they had a 'body' to ensure it. For a little while, she was in shock... shock turned into determination to get out, and scouring every inch of the house to try to figure out some chink in the armor, and some way out. Most of the time she was alone. If she wasn't, then Ondrej was there, or Kamil was there. Kamil was Ondrej's... bodyguard for her, for lack of a better word.

Every time she got caught trying to get out -- which was every time she even tried, really, they took away food. Eventually, they found out that it was more effective for them to take away books. The place that she was trapped was just a house... it had books same as any nice house would, and it was far easier for them to get her to do what they wanted if books being taken away was the threat. As much as people needed food, as much as she knew that she needed food, she needed books more. It made her think twice about trying to escape even though, for the most part, she still made those attempts. Dealing with torture was common -- sometimes she knew what she did 'wrong,' and sometimes she didn't. Ondrej always used magic, and Kamil commonly enjoyed Muggle means. She attempted to avoid doing anything wrong, to an extent, but it was really so dependent on their moods that it was impossible to predict it.

She found out about the war from Ondrej, and it was in 1995 that she tried to take her own life. After being trapped in that house for going on ten years, most might think it a wonder that she lasted that long. But the attempt was not successful, as Kamil came in and eventually bodybinded her in order to prevent her from doing anymore harm. She eventually healed, with a nasty scar, and never thought about attempting it again. Okay, she did think about it, though she'd never admit it, but she never acted on those thoughts again. The only reason she had that time was because she had thought that Ondrej could use her against Ares in the war in a way that could get him killed.

Over the years, she did what she had to do to survive -- she distracted herself with books, with journals, with writing letters that she'd never get to send. She picked up hobbies that she wasn't even sure that she particularly enjoyed, and she sat in the same window seat and wished that she could be outside. She couldn't, of course, because they didn't even have a yard, and she could only open the windows an inch or so. Ondrej tried to tell her plenty over the years -- that Anicka had killed her husband, that Ares had a son and abandoned him, that they had forgotten all about her, but he stopped trying when he seemingly found out that she was never going to believe him.

There were times when she wondered how she was meant to continue to live like this for the rest of her life -- being stuck in a house, when the only people she talked to came there to torture her most of the time, and the rest of the time she was alone. Thirty-one years was a long way to live like that and stay sane, and the fact that she had a sharp mind to begin with, partnered with all of the letter-writing, and reading, was probably the main reason that she has been able to get through it at all. She barely even thinks about trying to escape now -- if an opportunity came about where she had a way to, she would take it in a heartbeat, but she has been living in that house for too long for there to be a way out she didn't know about. She knows that eventually her use might fade, but until that time, there's nothing she can really do but wait.

Plots and Politics
What is your character’s stance on the recent takeover of the Ministry by Death Eaters? Well she doesn’t know all that much about it, to be honest. She’s been in Prague since the eighties, when a certain Wentzell thought that he should hold her captive for future leverage. When she learns more about it, it’s pretty obvious that she’ll be for it, since the people that she loves most are Death Eaters and she wouldn’t want them to be mistreated in any way – so she’ll be glad that they did something, and made their lives better for themselves.

Where did your character stand in the treatment of Death Eaters and their families under the late Minister Durant's rule? She knows even less about that. She wasn’t in England even for the second rise of Voldemort, so clearly she doesn’t know what happened after the war either. She’s a nerd, though, so she’ll surely find some history books on the subject so that she figures out everything that she missed. And she’ll be against it – because see above, the people that she loves most in the world are Death Eaters. A Minister that mistreated them would be someone that she wouldn’t want in power, and she probably would have watched him burn alive if she had been there. But she wasn’t. Obviously.

How was your character and their family affected by the reign and death of Voldemort? She wasn’t all that affected by it the second time around because, like I said, she was in Prague for the entire second rise and the fall of Voldemort. She was not kept very well informed in the slightest, so she wasn’t all that affected by it.


Family

Parents: Leonard “Leo” Fairbanks – deceased, Adelheid Fairbanks (née Böhler) – deceased
Siblings: -
Children: -
Partner: @ares – (fiancé former fiancé)
Other Relevant Family: @anicka is pretty much her sister, Clara is pretty much her mum. She doesn’t have any family of her own.
Family History:

Leonard told everyone to call him Leo from the moment that he could talk, because he much preferred that to his full name. Though he was named after his grandfather, just in case anyone wanted to know. He was raised in a rather wealthy halfblood family, and never wanted for anything. He was an only child, as the Fairbanks name has always been a rather... small one. His father had been an only child as well, which meant that he didn't have much family around growing up other than his parents. That was fine by him though, as he had plenty of friends that he spent his afternoons with up until he got his letter to Hogwarts.

Most people in the Fairbanks family found themselves in Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, and Leo was no exception. He was sorted into Hufflepuff, a house that absolutely suited him. He did well there, and got along with most people. He dated a girl in Ravenclaw, Evelyn Saunders, for most of his time at school, and pretty much everyone was convinced that they were going to live happily ever after. That wasn't the case, because long story short, he found Evelyn in a rather compromising situation with a member of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, and he broke up with her and never looked back. But that was just fine, because after graduation, he went traveling with a few of his friends. They had planned the trip, in order to help him get over Evelyn and it was on that trip that he met Adelheid.

They hit it off immediately, and were inseparable for the remainder of their time in Munich, and came along with them for a few more stops in Germany before she was expected back home. They kept in contact via owl, and throughout that time, he was unaware that her family more than likely would not support her starting anything serious up with a halfblood from Dorset. But he didn't care. Their trip came to an end, and his friends went home, and he went back to Munich. It was there that he spent many months, and he and Adelheid spent day and night together for nearly six months. His parents weren't all that pleased that he'd practically half moved out of the country without warning, and so eventually he had to move back. When he did go back to Dorset, though, Adelheid went with him.

Eventually he proposed, and she said yes. They had more in common than one might think even possible from just two people meeting at random when they might have gone their entire lives without crossing paths. They both wanted to travel, and they both wanted to help people, and that was exactly what they did. He proposed to her in Haiti, and they were married soon after, not seeing the reason to have too big of a wedding. Really, they would have had it in Haiti, if his parents wouldn't have killed him for not doing something that was easier for them to attend. Her parents did go, even though they were not exactly pleased by the match, and they got a little house together in Dorset. Eventually they had a daughter, Issadora, and continued their work with traveling and teaching in countries that could use the help. That was the norm for them... traveling and helping people. It was in 1985 that something they couldn't have expected happened... they both lost their lives on a trip, though luckily it was quick for the both of them. That's a depressing way to end a family history, isn't it? But that's all I've got.

Other:

Morgan

Too many again !

What is the status of this application?

Completed

Have you read the site plot, rules, and timeline?

No

How did you hear about Insurrection?

Idk. Don't ask me questions.

Play-By:

Diane Kruger

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Roleplay Sample

There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book.

[attr="class","staffupdatedstemp"]Accepted!

Accepting myself is still weird.