Need for Speed Bio || Fast and Furious AU
Name: Izzie Diamante
Age: 24
Height: 5'9
Weight: 135 lbs
Sexual Orientation: Straight (okay, maybe a little bicurious.)
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Driving Style: When it comes to driving, Izzie knows it's not all about going fast. Sure, speed is important, but one also needs accuracy, and to know how to strategize. When she's behind the wheel, she's calculating and cunning, but safety is always in the back of her mind. She won't try to run another driver off the road, but rather find a way to maneuver around them. All three of her cars are equipped with NOS, though she only uses it when she's in danger of losing, which isn't often.
Cars: 1970 Plymouth Barracuda (Her pride and joy, lovingly called "Cuda")
1959 Ford Thunderbird
2013 Ford Mustang 5.0 (The only car in her collection that isn't vintage)
Background: Growing up as a Mafia Princess isn't as glamorous as it sounds. If you're materialistic and power-hungry, it could be great. But when all you really want is a normal family, well...you're shit out of luck.
Izzie's parents were killed when she was fourteen. Her father died on a job, while her mob boss of a paternal grandfather had her mother taken out because the poor woman knew too much. He pretty much raised Izzie after that, making sure she was never left wanting for anything. For seven years, she led a blissfully ignorant and spoiled existence-- and then she learned the truth. An overheard conversation informed her of the particulars about her parents' deaths, and that she was meant to carry on the "family business" after Granddad retired. After learning what had really happened to her parents, Izzie was having none of that. She grew to hate her grandfather and everything he stood for, especially his mafia, and vowed to get away from it all. To find something that was hers, and only hers...something not even Granddad could take away from her.
That's when she fell to cars. For her sixteenth birthday, her grandfather surprised her with her very first car: a black and purple 1970 Plymouth Barracuda, and Izzie fell in love instantly. After her family's dark past came to light, she turned that love into a passion. She immersed herself in it, made a living by working on and building cars, used it as an excuse to hide from her seemingly inevitable future as a mob queen. And then she decided to run away. She could no longer take the constant nagging, or Granddad's never-ending, twisted reminders of what was in store for her. She put an entire country between herself and her home state of New Jersey to get away from it all, and finally ended up in LA.
She opened up an auto body shop and got into street racing. The road promised freedom, and the thrill of the race made her forget where she came from, if only for a little while. She's well aware that she will spend the rest of her life running, but as long as she has LA and her Plymouth, she knows that she'll be okay.
Personality: At first, Izzie could come off as pretty intimidating. She hides her kind heart behind a hard mask of overconfidence, which often translates as cockiness. But once one gets to know her, and if she decides to let that facade fade, she's sweet and loving. Get on her good side and you'll have a loyal friend that will stick with you through anything, and will go to any length to keep you safe. She takes care of her friends, almost to the point of being overbearing at times, because deep down she's afraid to lose anyone else.
