(anya chalotra, cis female, sheher, twenty five) ** ♔ announcing ISLA MOSELE, the LADY IN WAITING OF AUSTRIA ! in a recent portrait they seem to resemble ANYA CHALOTRA. it is a miracle that SHE survived the last five years, considering they are GRACIOUS, ADROIT, and MOROSE. i hope the plague has not changed them. they are FOR working together with the other kingdoms
hello ! it is me , taylor , back at it again ( already ) because i have no ability to wait ! i loved anya in the witcher and she has beautiful resources from it so i figured y’know .... why not ? not going to lie i know little to nothing about austria not my historical niche but that’s why it’s fun so i’ll be doing more research into this as i continue to right isla ! if you want to plot with here please do my discord is emotional support cowboy#2758 !
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trigger warnings : parental death , child neglect and childbirth .
isla is the second born two noble parents ( father from austria and mother from muhgal empire ) who married for well, the sake of an alliance . they planned to have another child several years after isla but tragically both the child and her mother due to complications . she was roughly two at the time and does not remember her mother which has been a sore spot in most of her life .
her father was woefully underprepared to care for two children and only two years after the death of his wife, he remarried another woman and had a child with her . while she always kept it to herself, isla did not care for them much as gradually over time her father became disinterested with his other children .
jealousy might be an ugly trait but isla was deeply hurt by her father’s disinterest in her growing up . he was not much more than a man who shared the same last name with her and bought her nice things to keep her content . she loved nice things but they never filled the void .
her older sibling ( who will be a wanted connection soon wink wink ) and her, i’d imagine were close . she always looked up to them and for most of their lives they had to take care of one another rather than depend on anyone, at least that was the case when those hired to educate them and take care of them were not around . her younger sibling however she strongly lacks connection with, it might be due to the fact that they have everything that isla could have asked for but she would never admit it .
she has visited india a handful of times when she was much younger to connect with her mother’s side of the family but for the most part was raised in austria . she keeps in contact with her maternal grandmother through letters and often wishes that she would have taken them in after her mother’s passing rather than her father . their father bringing them there was one of the only nice and considerate things he had ever done for both isla and her sibling .
has been fascinated by love since she was a young child, just due to the fact that she has never seen it up close . it was in books she would read about and old plays but she always had a hard time placing if that was real or if it was all fiction . still cannot make that distinction .
she is a lady - in - waiting ( presumably to one of the princesses, which i don’t know ) and she doesn’t mind it . it certainly isn’t what she wants to do for the rest of her life but she is not unhappy, more content where she is now than where she has been in the past
the most important piece and memory she has left of her mother is a necklace with a small bird upon it . she often wears it though it sometimes remains hidden under cloaks and the like . she would be a mess if it were to become lost .
has a significant love of the ocean but does not get to see it often and will take advantage of it in france depending how close they are to the coast . she does not have much explanation for it other than it has always brought her comfort .
character inspirations : sansa stark ( game of thrones ) pandora ( greek mythos ) elizabeth bennet ( pride and prejudice ) wanda maximoff ( marvel comics ) padme amidala ( star wars )
tropes : big little sister , born unlucky , dark is not evil , broken bird , oblivious to love , fatal flaw , hope springs eternal , innocently insensitive .
