the mortal sun has risen and set a thousand thousand times, and helen of troy is yet bound to the earthly realm, the reincarnation loop continues. this time their mortal coil has taken the shape of eiza gonzalez, a human born on 26th of december, 1992, a capricorn and named isabella dolores da costa.
CHARACTER BASICS
NAME: isabella dolores da costa (maiden name) NICKNAME: bella, isa, izzy AGE: twenty-nine DATE OF BIRTH: december 26, 1992 ZODIAC SIGN: capricorn GENDER & PRONOUNS: demigirl, she/they ORIENTATION: pansexual STATUS: married (but it's complicated) HEIGHT: 5′6″ OCCUPATION: cleaning staff at white island hotel DEITY COUNTERPART: helen of troy ABILITIES/POWERS: the ability, whilst wearing or carrying a rose quartz, to lower inhibitions through her innate pheromones; the ability to use her natural charms to make others more susceptible to her points of view or suggestions whilst maintaining eye contact; their presence aboard a vessel guarantees a safe journey at sea. LOCKED POWERS: to harness the ability to compel people to do her bidding through eye contact and use of her charms, bless those who journey in the sea to guarantee them a safe voyage, and for those who have strong affections for her, she will harness the ability to compel them to commit literal or figurative 'acts of war' to win her affections. NEIGHBORHOOD: rose park RESIDING FOR: three months FREQUENTING AT: the library of muses
ABOUT
isabella is the product of an affair between a maid and a sotto capo. he was already married when her mother, camila, started working for them, but that didn’t stop him from pursuing the younger woman. upon realizing that she was with child, she immediately left because she didn’t want to raise her daughter in that kind of environment.
camila was only twenty-two when she had isabella; she struggled to make a living for the two of them since she was an undocumented migrant. to survive, she part timed here and there and they lived with her mother's boyfriends from time to time. her mom still believed that having a father figure for her could give them a better life. however, some of those men turned out be physically abusive towards her mom and bella swore to never be like her mother.
bella didn’t exactly grew up in a healthy environment but her mother loved her and cared for her as best as she could. she studied in public schools and they always had a roof over their head. however, things turned for the worse when her mother started getting frequent headaches. camila was then diagnosed with a brain tumor and that’s when she decided to finally reach out to bella’s father. as much as she hated that kind of life for bella, she knew that her father wouldn’t turn her away because she is still his blood and family meant everything to them.
isabella was thirteen years old when her mother finally passed away and she moved to her new home. for someone who lived in impoverished parts of the town, this was a drastic change for her. she wasn’t used to people attending to her needs and having a bedroom that’s bigger than their old apartment. her stepmother didn’t take kindly to her at first, but her half-siblings did welcome her with open arms—well except for her brother who was in the same grade.
she was enrolled to the same boarding school that her half-siblings were attending. although she had a hard time catching up at first, she slowly integrated to it. whether she liked it or not, this was her life now and she was nothing if not adaptable. she learned how to make friends, say the right thing to get into the right groups and even got good grades due to her wit. it was also during her teenage years that she began to notice the affect she had on people, how it was easier for her to persuade them to see her point of view. she also became popular with both the boys and the girls.
although they didn’t exactly tell her what kind of family her father had, the armed men coming in and out of their casa clued her in that it wasn’t exactly a legal type of business. but she didn’t know the extent to it until she heard her older siblings casually talking about the family business. isabella just finished high school around this time and it suddenly made more sense now on why some people they knew kept on disappearing.
isabella turned a blind eye to this and continued her studies, studying fashion in paris and new york. she didn’t really have any interest in the family business at this point, but that changed when her stepmother insisted that she marry the heir to another crime family to strengthen the alliance between them. it was obviously just a façade to finally get rid of her since she was the second oldest and was still a threat to the family line. her father thought that this was a brilliant idea and even if she didn’t want to, she also didn’t want to disappoint her father.
at twenty-four, she was married off to a man she barely knew. but over the time, she has grown to care for him. their married life is tumultuous at best and more often than not, she wants to strangle him. but unlike her family, he included her in their business affairs and she grew a likeness to it. her skills in persuasion came quite handy, especially when they needed information from tight-lipped people.
over the years, she has done despicable things and got her hands dirty. but she never crossed the line on taking someone’s life. she has seen people die but never in her hands. not until four months ago when she pulled the trigger on another high profiled ally they had. even though it was considered self-defense, the guilt was still eating her . what more is the rush that she felt, making her question if a part of her actually enjoyed it.
after the incident, she found herself packing her bags and leaving with enough cash to settle down somewhere. she never used her cards and always used cash, traveling from one place to another until she found magnetic island. it seemed like a place small enough that she can go off the grid and something about the island seemed to call to her.
currently, she’s living in rose park and working as a cleaning staff in white island hotel, trying to keep her presence somewhat low. she’s probably got some acquaintances here and there but only a few people that she would actually consider as friends.
HEADCANONS
she’s into sustainable fashion and likes to rework stuff she bought from the thrift shop. a lot of the pieces she used to wear were her own creations, but she’s also into designer stuff that she keeps at the back of her closet now.
the library used to be her escape during her childhood since it was the one place where she could get lost in someone else’s story. she didn’t exactly have much money back then to buy books, so she was always in the library during her free time.
could not survive without coffee. don’t even try to talk to her in the morning when she hasn’t had one yet. she’s not much of a morning person after all.
loves to travel by sea rather than plane
for some reason she couldn’t still quite fathom, she had a way to make others tell the truth while maintaining eye contact which was very useful when they were interrogating people.
more to be added probably
WANTED CONNECTIONS
acquaintances
maybe a good friend or two?
people she met during her travels abroad from before? they could have kept in contact or not.
antagonistic relationships where they just don't get along or even enemies
a will they won’t they kind of relationship? (she and her husband doesn’t exactly have an open relationship but theyve had their fair shares of affairs over the years, though it was more during the start of their relationship rather than the latter)
her husband (tho i’ll probably put up a wc for this one)
anything that could work tbh! just give this a like and ill slide into your dms for plotting
