Opens the door, checks the hinge, then walks in.
I am here for more questions. Isla and Donnie pretty pls. 2012 and/or 2018(Rise).
I HAVE HEARD NOTHING ABOUT THEM AND I WANNA KNOW EVERYTHING. THIS WAS ORIGINALLY GONNA BE QUESTIONS FROM THE SHIP HEADCANONS LIST BUT I REALIZED THIS AND AM NOW SHAKING THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE OVER HERE.
OK THAT'S MY BAD. How about I start with some info on Isla? (These are the general/across all iterations ones. I'll go in depth on the other later) So her name is pronounced (Eye-luh). She's hispanic, specifically from Spain. Her birthday is July 17th. She's hoh, from an infection that she got when she was younger that went untreated. She has a baby sister, five years younger than her named Marisol. Her mom died of breast cancer when she was six, and she's very close with her dad. Her full name is Isla Sofiá Abril. And she struggles with an ED because of guilt of not having enough food despite how much her dad works. It was too hard for them after her mom died, and she was taking care of her baby sister. So she felt a lot of guilt around food, knowing if she ate, it would take away from her sister. All my girls struggle with mental health issues, mb girl.
Now for the Rise specific facts.
First her appearance: Height:5'3 ; Hair color/type: Coffee brown with caramel highlights, and coiled curly hair; Eye color: brown ; Skin Tone/type: honey ; Face shape: round ; Birthmarks: a small slightly lopsided heart behind her right ear. Her mother called it her special protection mark (matches Donnie's shell a lil bit);
She and Donnie had actually met a few times online while faking their ages and documents to take classes they weren't old enough for/didn't have the right documents for. Not old enough for Isla, and both for Donnie. And they don't figure out that they had those classes together, and were the ones debating in the class chats until much later
They end up meeting through one of the purple dragon's schemes. Donnie had found out they were up to something, and took April to go stop them, to find them trying to steal Isla's tech. They immediately click, though claim it's just as friends. And they exchange numbers once it's over, and start texting. Then they start meeting up, and eventually he shows her the lair.
She has scars around her ears from the infection damaging her skin, and she also later gets a semi-colon tattoo for Donnie once she learns about his depression, and suicidal thoughts (post-movie).
She wants to be a computer programmer when she's older along with coding, and she also designs apps in her free time.
Her hobbies include crochet/knitting; Embroidery, true crime podcasts. She likes to knit/crochet (mostly crochet cause she prefers it) Donnie sweaters, gloves, scarfs and such out of the soft yarn he likes. She also sewed him a purple jacket one time, and embroidered a mad dogz design on the back for him
Her nicknames include Izzy, Isa, and Donnie calls her Lala
Other than Donnie, she gets along best with Raph since they like to sit and do things together, or talk quietly through ASL. Raph eventually even gets to where he feels like he can vent to her
As for the 2012 facts for her
They meet while he's out looking for mutagen early season 2. He quite literally runs into her while he's chasing down a canister of mutagen. They see each other again by accident on patrol two nights after while she's on the balcony of their apartment. And he finds himself drawn back there again and again as his mental health gets worse due to what's going on with April, and his guilt over what happened. Isla helps him through it, and that's how their relationship begins and starts to flourish
He has a plethora of pet names for her in this iteration, but her only actual nickname from Donnie is Isa. Mikey calls her Izzy, and every else calls her Isla
She gets along the best with Mikey since they're both creative, and love finding new crafts to do together spur of the moment when she comes over, and Donnie ends up being busy. It typically ends with them making a mess, but it's fine, and they end up laughing the whole time they clean it up too
Her hobbies include painting, drawing, cooking, crochet, and sewing (her and Leo bond by him joining her and Willow in the kitchen, and sometimes just her and him if Willow's busy or too tired to cook)
Her and Willow also sew together sometimes
She comes over like it's her second home, far less reserved here. This also helps her tremendously with her ED, being around them, and so much less guilt and it's a lighter atmosphere all together. So all she has to do is make food for her sister at home. It takes a lot of the weight off of eating, and off of her to provide for them
She ends up teaching all three of Donnie's brothers ASL, because they ask her to, especially since she doesn't always wear her hearing aids since they cause her discomfort, and it's harder for her to read their lips than human's lips. Donnie already knew ASL
She's really into documentaries, true crime, nature, any of them
As for her appearance, she looks the same, but just a little taller
She does get mutated into a wolf-hybrid in this iteration. And her fur colors are black and two tones of brown, like her hair
I think that's plenty about just her. Um... I'll only get into a few ship headcanons since I've blabbed enough. But if you have any specific questions, or if you want to just hear me rant about them more, you can let me know, and I'll do another one of these. I'll blab about any of my girls tbh LMAO
Rise
Donnie tends to make her little things since he's not good with words, so he shows his affection in that way. He also shows it by taking care of her, knowing that she hasn't had that much, but that she loves it. So he gets her drinks even when he doesn't need one, pulls out her chair, and opens doors for her, even tho he doesn’t regularly think of these things. He makes it a habit for her to feel loved. He’ll makes her bed for her while he's visiting, sometimes coming over just to convince her to take a nap while he cleans up the apartment before her sister gets home from a friends house. He gets her an old car, and fixes it up for her, so she has her own car to drive. Even giving her money for insurance each month.
He also slips money into her bag for food and other things a lot since she's too proud to just take it from him. She catches on eventually, but is too touched to say anything. He also brings her something any time it makes him think of her, a trinket, jewelry, materials, or on one memorable occasion, a completely bedazzled rabbit statue. All the gems were in the colors of a real rabbit, and she loves rabbits. She had one that she took care of when she was younger, and he later bought her a matching necklace. It was a flat little bunny, that was encrusted with diamonds, and had a tiny emerald for the eye, and he refused to tell her if the gems were real or not, which was honestly enough of an answer itself.
As for Isla, her biggest way of showing Donnie affection is with her words. Now that's not normally how she shows love, but she randomly told him that she was so proud of him one day and saw his face completely change. He lit up, and then cried for an hour after she left. But she realized that his love language is words of affirmation. So she gives him compliments, tells him all the things she loves about him over and over again, and tells him every time she's proud of him, or thinks he's doing a good job. Other than that, she will make him things when he's having a bad day. So she'll made a little cheerful animation of his favorite characters from shows/movies and send it to him. She'll crochet him miniature turtles, one for each type of turtle, him and his brothers. He also has a variety of little things strewn across his desk that she crocheted him at different points. She'll also call him if he seems stressed over text, and will stay on the phone until he falls asleep.
Another fun thing is that they randomly steal each other's clothes since they're a similar size. So Isla will steal his hoodie, and he'll take some of her graphic tees. Everything eventually ends up in the right closet again, but it confuses his brothers when he walks in wearing an oversized t-shirt, and Isla comes by later wearing one of Donnie's hoodies.
Isla collects bracelets, the rubber band ones we all made as kids, metal ones, beads, all of them. And eventually Donnie starts wearing one that she made him on his left wrist since his gauntlet lives on his right arm. And that one turns into four really quick, but it makes him happy when they rustle against each other, and all of the small noises they make are very positively stimulating for him. Beads are his favorite, especially since he can fidget with them. (not projecting with that one at all btw)
Ok, we'll skip out on the 2012 hcs for now since this is way too long already. Sorry, but here you go, I hope you enjoy my ramblings about my girl and Donnie!