๐ * [ barbie ferreira + cis female + she/her ] โโ have you met isadora oliveira ? they are a twenty-one year old sophomore currently studying fashion design & merchandising. they live on keating house, and word around campus is that this aries is loyal + warm, as well as self-objectifying + obsequious. i wonder if theyโll make it out alive. chocolate covered strawberries, gothic platforms, lingerie under leather jackets.
hiii bbies itโs me (gabby) finally here again to post this finalized, messy version of isaโs intro! sheโs a brand new never-been-played muse of mine so itโs def bound to be a bit more scattered & less developed than ezraโs, but also much shorter? so i mean thereโs a bonus lmao alright here we go:
so isadora (also known by many nicknames such as isa, izzy, iz, & dora the explora if ur trying to piss her off vgbjhksjs) was definitely not brought up in a world of prestige and recognition like the one sheโs become so accustomed to in attending holloway university
growing up in the small town of lisbon, maine the only reality isa knew during her childhood was that of living as the only child of a woman who was (TW) both a compulsive liar & and compulsive hoarder. their house was floor to ceiling with things her mom collected as well as garbage built up over time- her condition had already driven isaโs father out of the house when she was just three years old, and she never had a relationship with him as a result
she was still fairly young when she realized the true severity of her own situation, just how abnormal it was compared to that of her friends. she missed out on so many rights of passage during her upbringing like birthday parties, sleepovers, etc. for much of her life her own living space / bedroom were just as bad off as the rest of the house, given her momโs inability to keep from passing her hoarding tendencies onto her daughter. isa simply didnโt know any better at the time. to her, that was normal.
not only was her mom a compulsive liar & hoarder but she was also extremely neglectful, often leaving isa to her own devices in the dangerous environment they called home. as a result of this she (TW ED) developed harmful coping mechanisms surrounding food, regularly overeating to combat negative feelings of loneliness, and this went on from the time she was just a little girl all the way until she was in high school
high school was rough in many ways- she suffered depression, anxiety, experienced bullying at the hands of the more popular kids for her weight & her motherโs financial situation, and was all around extremely isolated from her peers- the only person she really had to depend on was her cousin (WC)ย . she had so much respect and envy for her cousin, they had more of a sisterly dynamic than anything, she was just so gorgeous and everything she did just seemed so effortless, to the point isa couldnโt help but idolize her and consider her a best friend.ย
like, remember when spongebob said he hoped that by being in squidwardโs presence some of his artistic ability would rub off onto him? that was deadass isa & (WC) in high school jhbksnjs my girl was so sure if she just spent enough time with her sheโd inherit some of her pretty & cool
high school was also where she reached a turning point when it came to her home environment, able to put a name to her momโs condition after years of struggling with her strained and toxic relationship with her mom, and ultimately changed the rest of her life. she stayed the night at (WCโs) one night and after she fell asleep, isa stayed up watching TLC- it was there that she first discovered the TV show โhoarding: buried aliveโ and realized there was a name for her motherโs infliction- but more importantly, learned that there was help available for her condition
when she went home to excitedly tell her mother that sheโd basically discovered a cure, a means to change everything for them... she certainly hadnโt been expecting the reaction that came: her mom, whoโd always been so indifferent toward her, so lethargic and uninterested in what she had to say, was suddenly listening very clearly- and she was not happy. isa had never heard her mom scream like that, had never really heard her express any heightened emotion, but it was in that moment at 17 years old, just a few weeks away from her 18th birthday, that she realized what she needed to do. she had no choice but to make plans to leave her mom behind.
the final weeks leading up to the big day she was counting on as a turning pointย consisted of her cleaning out her own space, little by little, enough that she had somewhere to set up her secondhand laptop and webcam. blowing out the candles on her 18th birthday cake came with wishing for a whole new life, and she was determined to make that for herself by any means necessary.
(TW SEX WORK) isa spent half her 18th year in her room working as a successful camgirl, showing everything but her face, & of course always being careful not to dox herself. she eventually earned enough money to start buying herself nicer clothes, but it didnโt take her long to realize she wanted more from life than just rotting away in her hometown. she bought herself a higher quality webcam to keep making money... and a nice sewing machine, something sheโd always dreamed of owning.ย
all her life sheโd been drawing and sketching as a means of escapism, itโd always been therapeutic to her to be creative and conjure up unique designs for outfits in her mind, drawing models in all shapes and sizes to represent her fantasy outfits. but she never felt like a visionary, even though anyone with an eye for fashion who got a look at her work could see that she had the natural talent and potential to be.ย
isa had been an a straight-A student her whole life despite having almost no support at home from her mother growing up, and with plenty of encouragement from (cousin WC), she plucked up the courage and applied for holloway university, with ivory falls being far enough from her hometown of lisbon, but still in the same state so that she could go and see her mother from time to time (bc although their relationship is quite strained now, she still loves and worries about her)
the next summer she received her acceptance letter at holloway u for the coming fall semester, and the fact that sheโd been able to make it into such a prestigious school made her feel so proud of herself that she completely underwent a massive arc of character development; evolving into someone so much more confident. realizing that plenty of people found her desirable as she continued to earn money through cam shows had been part of that transformation, but realizing she was talented enough to get accepted into the fashion design and merchandising program at her dream school had a completely different effect on her.ย
( TW BODY IMAGE ISSUES ) isa decided that as she entered college, she was no longer going to be the meek, insecure girl constantly playing the role of the doting, loyalย fat best friend to theย โprettier main charactersโ sheโd always been sidekick to- she told herself that she wasย the main fucking character in her life from here on, and has spent her entire college experience up to this point just,, navigating as she figures out what that really means to her
still has a terrible underlying tendency to be overly-loyal and a bit obsessiveย with girls she closely befriends, ifย she has any kind of jealousy towards them. but ! is a lot more confident than she used to be, and it shows in the way she dresses and carries herself, as well as in her long-term goals (to transfer to FIDM for her final years of university)
( TW ED MENTION ) as a young adult, sheโs mostly sheโs replaced the compulsion to deal with her body image issues by using food to cope that she had as a teenager... by using sex to cope instead, so sheโs definitely a bit promiscuous but does her best to keep that Her Own businessย
personality-wise she has a massive heart & is loyal to a fault but is also wild AF & loves a good time! never rly dabbled in drugs until she got to college but since then has acquired an interest in trying everything under the sun, even if itโs just one and done. mostly though she just likes to get really drunk & stupid. used to feel like she was constantly living in her cousinโs shadow, & in some ways she still does, but sheโs trying hard to make herself believe that sheโs reached a place where she wonโt be playing second fiddle to anyone, ever again
iโm gonna shut the hell up now & stop pretending i know this character better than i do bc i deadass do not jbhnjss like sheโs literally brand new so lemme go head & leave plenty of room for development!
same story as ezra iโll have a full connections page posted for her soon but in the meantime some ideas i have are: friends, frienemies, ex friends, high school bullies, classmates, old high school friends, people she gets fuckt up with on the reg, people she hooks up with on the reg (any gender, sheโs bisexual / biromantic), someone she had a crush on in high school / has pined for from afar maybe?? someone who used to watch her cam shows?? someone she almost kinda dated but Not? someone who she hooked up with while they were dating someone else?? idk thatโs what i have for now but thereโll be more where that came from <3 xoxo like this or hmu !
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