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Isaura
Topic Started: May 17 2008, 01:38 PM (230 Views)
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General Information

Name: Isaura
Gender: Female
Age || Birthday: 20 || 5th October
Race: Mortal
Location:Athens, although much of her time is spent travelling to and from small farms.
Trade/Occupation: Merchant

Appearance

General Appearance: Isaura's most striking feature is probably her eyes; although a dull, dark brown in colour, their size and almond shape makes them fairly unusual. Her wide eyed stare has a tendency to make people look away quickly, as the lack of sparkle makes it seem she is mentally elsewhere. Other than this, her face is fairly plain: she has a straight, thin, slightly upturned nose; high, medium thickness brows; cheekbones that offer very little definition; and lips so plain there's little else to say about them. All of these features set in a oval-shaped face that reached a soft curve at the chin.

Her dirty-blonde-almost-brown hair is long, but most often it is twisted into a bun or similar style to keep it out of her face. She can't, after all, afford for it to get in the way when she is traveling if she wants to keep her cargo safe.

Her skin is an olive tone, lightly tanned from her time on the road. She has several small scars on her legs from various falls, tumbles, and arguments with her horse. She has a small build, and is quite scrawny from lots of time moving round and not really eating enough, or the right types of food, to make up for it. Her muscles are wiry, but don't show too much. She isn't very strong, but has good stamina when it comes to walking. She is also a little bit on the short side; in fact, if it wasn't for the fact that half the time she is trying to persuade a cranky horse pulling a cart to move, she would easily get lost in crowds.

Weapons: A small knife, which is more suited for cutting the strings that hold parcels and boxes shut than anything else. Realistically, Isaura would not use this in a fight unless she had no other option.
Items/Personal Belongings/Ownings: A house, a market stall, a cart, and an old horse named Deos. Although, technically, all of the previously mentioned items are her father's, Isaura likes to pretend they're hers.

Personality

General Personality: Isaura, like her father, is fairly greedy when it comes to money and expensive objects. She is generally nice and kind until her money is threatened. She is fairly contemplative, and easily blends into crowds. She makes friends easily, but isn't the sort of person who will initiate a conversation; she waits for people to come to her. She isn't very patient, and has a tendency to rush around. She is hardworking, but when she gets free time she suddenly becomes as lazy as possible, which tends to irritate people.

Isaura is not fond of conflict, and tends to attempt to be a peacemaker whenever people she knows are in arguments. When she herself is in one, she will often simply agree that the other person is right, unless the subject is money. She is also easily frustrated; and has a tendency to shriek loudly when anything that annoys her happens, so long as no-one else is around to see (or hear).

She likes traveling, and being on the road. She is also fond on money, expensive things, and having free time.
Hobbies: Being lazy; all her other hobbies are part of her work.
Quirks: She has a tendency to shriek when alone and annoyed. She also mimics other people's habits without realizing she is doing so.

Fighting

Favourite Weapon: Isaura's favourite weapon is her body; she never trained with any weapons. She, after all, has no need to fight. Her father is willing to hire guards for their stall and cart if he's worried about thieves, bandits, and anyone else who might need some friendly persuasion to leave their stuff alone.
Weapon Skills: None, unless you count the basic idea of how to stab someone with a small knife.
Strengths in Fighting: Stamina when it comes to running away. She can keep going for ages, at a reasonable speed.
Weaknesses in Fighting: Having to stick around. In a real fight, she's very unlikely to win. One or two well placed blows could easily have her down for the count.
Special Abilities: None at all.

Background

Isaura is the daughter of a reasonably well off merchant, Cleon, and a flighty woman who disappeared with another man soon after her daughter's birth. Her father, deciding that he wanted nothing more to do with women other than his daughter after this event (which, really, was just because women tended to find him annoying) raised his daughter alone.

This upbringing had it's effects on Isaura; she grasped the basics of running a market stall from a young age. She also picked up many of her father's habits and traits. She inherited his love of money and expensive things, and reached the conclusion that when she grew up she would go on travels to find pretty things to sell.

Her father, realizing that he would probably never have a son, made sure she knew how to read, write, and do arithmetic; he wanted to make sure she could run the stall for him and keep him well fed even when he became too old to work. He also made sure she knew how to act like a woman (by making sure she observed any ladies who came to the stall) hoping to marry her off to a nice young man- preferably rich- some day.

He also became very aware of the fact that she was a much more trustworthy, loyal, and cheaper, worker than his current collecting-and-delivering employee. As such, at the age of 16 he began to send her on errands to farms and traders who provided him with items to sell, entrusting the family horse and cart to her.

Isaura responded well to the responsibilities given to her; she was always hard working, keeping an eye on deals and funds, and making sure she looked her best to attract could-be husbands. She enjoyed being on the road an seeing other travellers.

Other than this, her life was fairly normal, but she did still have big dreams. Privately, she still wanted to travel further than a few miles away from home, and she wanted a husband who would do the same. Admittedly, she would never tell her father this, but her aspirations remained.

Roleplay example

To say she was surprised would be the understatement of the century. Millennium, even. In fact, the girl couldn't even begin to process what had just happened. One thought ran through her mind, a split second before she paled and began to run after the pile of boxes that was now rolling surprisingly speedily down the hill; 'Father is going to kill me'.

Dust, small stones, and small pieces of leaf debris flew up behind both her sandaled feet and the boxes, some of which had opened as they rolled, leaving a trail of wheat and barley that was beyond selling now. Isaura let out a low growl at the sight, the sense of impending doom growing as she went.

Deos, now free from the overturned cart and fully recovered from his slip, moved along at a leisurely pace behind her, stopping to munch on a bunch of wheat. The old horse was barely startled by the screech that rose from further down the hill. It wasn't the first time he had heard his caretaker's frustrated yells. The young woman often made similar shrill noises when things went wrong.

Isaura, who had finally reached a stop where half of her goods now lay, dirtied and destroyed beyond anything salvageable. Mentally, she counted how much money would be lost from her bad decision on which path to take; a habit she had picked up from her money-grabbing father. She cursed mentally, before muttering aloud. "Oh, Father is really going to kill me."



OOC Information
Name: Lizi
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Country: England
How did you find us?: RPG-Directory
Edited by Isaura, May 17 2008, 02:51 PM.
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Yah! Welcome ^_^. That was a great profile and nothing's wrong with it! You will have quite a lot of Rp'ing possiblities with her because she also travels around. Good job and hope to RP with you soon (I got an RP thread open with Olymp in Athens on the Agora if you're interested ^^) See you around and hope you'll stick around and be active and help us to get this RPG started!
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