I was such a disappointment to you ♛ application for scorched

player name: Brandon
player livejournal: wayitcomes
playing here: N/A
where did you find us? Several friends of mine on Plurk are in the game or have applied. Katie (ex Sylar, Cordelia) and Crystal who currently apped. Also, Suu and Laura (Caroline) are friends!
are you 16 years of age or older?: I’m 23.



Character Name: Isobel Flemming
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries (TV)
Timeline: Just after her death in 2x17 “Know Thy Enemy.” Isobel yanks her necklace off and drops to the ground, fire consuming her.
Character's Age: Age-wise, she’s 33 but she looks to be in her mid to late twenties and will look this way forever.

powers, skills, pets and equipment:

being a vampire, Isobel canonically has...

∞ enhanced speed
∞ the ability to jump really high
∞ enhanced strength
∞ the ability to compel – erases a human’s memory or controls their mind to do her bidding (there would be a permissions post when not involving an NPC)
∞ the need for blood, requires it to live
∞ enhances sight, smell, taste, and especially hearing. Vampires can overhear conversations across a room
∞ when she vamps out, her eyes go black with reddish black veins protruding
∞ and the ability to be standing behind you. Unnoticed – they’re super quiet.

∞ on the opposite coin, vervain weakens her and without the necklace she wears around her neck, she would burn in the sun. she can be killed by being staked. She can still be cut, shot, etc. It just hurts like a bitch. If she removes a bullet/arrow/knife, the wound closes over.

In game, I want her to have gained the power of empathy. Isobel makes an effort to not feel. She pushes her own feelings to the back of her mind. What’s worse than feeling what others feel when you do your best not to? It will tap into the more human side of her and it could go a long way when it comes to the so-called ‘switch’ she pressed after first being turned.

As for equipment, she’ll awaken clutching her necklace (with a blue stone) in her hand, with the clothes on her back and a cell-phone which will most likely have no reception and die in the first few hours. She’s wearing a short purple dress and a black peacoat. On her right hand are two silver rings, one on her ring finger and one on her middle finger.

canon history: WIKI link to her history.

personality:

Isobel has very little regard for human life. She tells her own daughter not to look for redeemable qualities in her. She doesn’t hesitate to threaten or hurt others. She compels strangers because she feels like it. Back in Mystic Falls, she had two servants, a gay cowboy (who she compelled to please her when she felt like it) named Frank and a lounge singer named Cherie. She has a strange affection for them but to her? They’re pets. She enslaved them. She taught them French. They did her bidding. Frank injured Matt for her the first time she came to town. He also captured Elena’s brother Jeremy. She compels a man to tell Elena to stop looking for her before getting him run over. In a lot of ways, human life doesn’t mean anything to her. A stranger dying? She’ll shrug. Humans in the crossfire or standing in the way of what she wants? Necessary casualties. She threatens to go after Alaric’s history students. She threatens Elena’s family. As I said, she injures her friend, Matt.

But, there are two exceptions to this rule.

At sixteen, she had her only daughter, Elena. Heartbroken, she gave her to John Gilbert’s (the older man who’d impregnated her) brother, Grayson and his wife. But, she knew Elena would have a better life with them. A big part of her coming back, besides doing Katherine’s dirty work, is Elena’s eventual well-being. The reason she wanted John Gilbert to have Jonathon Gilbert (his ancestor’s device) is because it was harmful to vampires. Isobel sees where being between Salvatores has gotten Katherine and she wants better for her daughter. She wants to ensure her daughter lives a better life, a life away from vampires. And she terrorizes people and leaves a horrible impression to do it. On that, her and John Gilbert agree. She just has a more ruthless approach. She will kill to get what she wants. And Elena being embroiled with vampires will get her killed, or worse, turned. She fully believes this.

Before becoming a vampire, Isobel met and married Alaric Saltzman while attending Duke University. She makes it very clear at the end of “Isobel” that she loved him. He is her biggest regret and that being turned was indeed a mistake. But, she compels him to move on from her because a part of her wants him to be happy. Then again, she has no qualms with strangling him up against his car or threatening his students as I said before. She shows that she cared because she gave John Gilbert’s ring to Alaric. She told him to always wear it, that it would protect him. (This is the ring that protects the wearer from a supernatural death.)

As a human, Isobel threw herself into her work, becoming for all intents and purposes obsessed. She researched into the supernatural, digging until she found what she was looking for and then digging more even after that. Alaric used to tease her about it, humoring her really. He believed she believed. It frustrated her but she really loved him. And because of that, she kept a lot of that side of her a secret. Thanks to John Gilbert, from a young age, she'd become - curious to a point about the vampires and the supernatural. In the TVD world, a human's strongest traits are amplified. Isobel the human was determined, she kept things to herself. She was a bit of a shady lady. And she didn't stop until she found or got what she wanted. And finally? She was selfish. She said it herself. As a vampire, she's twice - maybe three times as selfish.

Isobel is a woman of contradictions. She really is at war with herself. According to Damon, vampires of this world have an off-switch when it comes to their emotions and Isobel pushed it. And a part of her has. She doesn’t really… feel and if she does she hardly shows it. She tears up while compelling Alaric and when admitting to Elena that she was a disappointment to her daughter. So, she feels. But, she’s too far gone in her eyes. Somewhere, in her way, she loves Elena. And she will always love Alaric Saltzman. In a way, he’s the one that got away. In “Know The Enemy” she not only betrays her daughter but Katherine as well and this is due to being compelled by Klaus. She regrets this and she feels guilt. She knows she’s done horrible things. But, what can she do? This is in her nature now. She kills. She manipulates. She makes everyone else’s lives a living hell to get what she wants. Deep deep down, she feels but admitting that? She can’t.

She can come off as child-like, easily amused. She speaks with a detached, smooth, breathy, often aloof tone. She’s very softspoken unless she’s angry and even then, she hardly raises her voice. She always comes off as very calm and aloof. She doesn’t ramble or meander when it comes to what she says. She cuts straight to the point – except when things she has to say are hard to get out, like admitting what she did to Elena, that her parents had lost a daughter.
Do not fuck with her or fuck her over. Isobel won’t hesitate to break legs to get what she wants. Again, she’s ruthless. Persistent. She won’t simply drop something. If she puts to mind to it, if she wants it bad enough, she’ll succeed and God help anybody that gets in her way.

Isobel has only been shown having one real friend in the series and that is Katherine Pierce (or Katerine Petrova.) Katherine tracked down Isobel after hearing of her turning – spurred by her own genetic curiosity. They have a real affection for each other. They are best friends and they trust each other. Betraying Katherine hurt Isobel. Besides Klaus, Katherine was the only person Isobel would do a favor for. Part of her going to Mystic Falls the first time around involved Katherine wanting John Gilbert to have the device. If the tomb vampires were killed? Another loose end gone. Like Katherine, Isobel hates loose ends. They’re messy. And they leave a trail.

She has an expensive taste and she doesn’t live in squalor. When she arrives somewhere, her MO is to settle in the most expensive foreclosure she can find. She likes being comfortable. She has a sexual appetite she won’t hesitate to sate. And she can be a little bit vindictive, petty. She rolls into town the second time and knocks on Jenna’s door all to upset Jenna and Alaric’s relationship. She can be jealous. She can’t help it. There are still little parts to her that are human in nature. Unlike when she was human, she doesn’t hesitate to act on an impulse. In a lot of ways, Isobel acts from her id. What she desires, she gets.

Damon Salvatore is the vampire who turned her. She seeks him out. She begs him to turn her. She had a sexual relationship with him. Even now, she has a sexual attraction despite him clearly being in love with her daughter. It’s all very twisted, a little bit Greek. She has a fondness for him but again, she won’t hesitate to end his life. Especially if he becomes a danger to her daughter. She implements a plan and hopes he and his brother will be wiped out. But, if she’s feeling it, he can be an ally. Just not often.

She describes John Gilbert as a teenage waste of space. Yes, at one time, John Gilbert loved her. She was 16, he was in his 20’s. She visited Mystic Falls and the two began an affair. He is the father of her child and he is the ally she can use in order to ensure a great life for their daughter. Elena’s the best thing she’s ever done but like she’ll ever verbalize this or let John know. She trusts him as far as she can throw him and if he doesn’t succeed, she steps in. He’s a little bit useless. She asks her minions to beat him and then removes his ring so that he can suffer. She doesn’t care about him. She didn’t when she was a child. John was also the first person to tell her about vampires. He spurned her curiosity.

Speaking of? Isobel is naturally curious. Because of John’s tall tales, she majored in Parapsychology and folklore. She was a dedicated researcher. Even then, she had a hunger for learning. She became a professor there. She had an effect on a student, Vanessa Monroe, who chose to go into folklore as well. She is an expert researcher and great at finding things, obscure or hidden. She uncovered the curse of the sun and the moon, werewolves, doppelgangers – she did her due diligence.

Isobel is situationally aware. She has a constant awareness of what’s going on around her and because of that, she’s great at needling someone with just the right jab to hurt – figuratively speaking. She knows how to twist the knife in your heart. She can see what you fear, how you react, and she remembers. She points out that Elena is lying when her daughter says she hasn’t thought about being a vampire. “That’s your first lie,” she says. She also expects her daughter to lie. She lies to herself daily. Everyone lies. She lied to her husband.

At the end of the day. Isobel has a lot of regrets. She’s still a young, misguided girl who thought she wanted immortality and what comes with it. She was restless and she always wanted more. Maybe, on some level, she regrets becoming a vampire, but she can’t change the past so what good does regretting do? Elena will always be a priority for her. She could be a good influence over time but she’s very set in her ways and she’s pushed away so much of what she’s felt for so long.

There are glimpses, though, that imply she’s not a complete lost cause but, does she think she can be redeemed? That she deserves to be?

She doesn’t.

why do you feel this character would be appropriate to the setting?

Well, this game is a darker one with strong survival and psychological horror accents. Isobel deals in psychological horror. It plays to her darker aspects and to the ‘too far gone’ part of her but, at the same time, having Elena there and moving past her inevitable suicide (thanks to Klaus) she has a lot of potential. She’s unpredictable. She changes on a dime. But, unlike Katherine she’s not…completely self-satisfying. She isn’t her first and last priority. Elena is. Where Katherine is out for herself. Isobel is until you hit Elena. And she’ll protect that girl till the world ends. I’m so curious regarding how she’ll react to this kind of a setting with all these other different variables.

Network Post Sample:

[ she addresses nobody first. Because she realizes she’s been punked. She thought she was free. She can never be free. ]

No. You couldn’t let me kill myself. Then you wouldn’t be able to use me again.

[ When she does address the network, she has a cool, yet calculating, maybe even friendly? Smile. Because after talking to herself, she checks out the Forge. She doesn’t see signs of Klaus. But she recognizes three people. ]

Hello, Anatole.

[ She looks off to the side. ]

There are parallels. To, Alice in Wonderland. Or, is that, Alice: Through the Looking Glass. That one was darker. I seem to have fallen down a rabbit hole. Funny, I don’t remember chasing one.

[ Stefan is the vampire that likes rabbits. Or, he used to. He was drinking human blood now. Good thing he got that little problem under control.
You can bet she knows how to work a lock. ]

Damon Salvatore. You wouldn’t mind filling in an old friend. I do appreciate when I know what’s going on.

[ Hell, she always knows what’s going on. This? Not knowing what’s going on? Pisses her off. But, she does peruse the network.
And another lock.]

Caroline? Do you remember me? I came up to you at school and you went on and on about your friend, Elena. I’d appreciate some of that enthusiasm.

[ There doesn’t seem to be reason for another lock. ]

If anyone is wondering? immolation hurts like a bitch.

Third Person Sample:

She sighed. A smile was evident on her lips. Isobel was finished. She was done. She’d done what Klaus had compelled her to do. She was free in more ways than one. But, she had one last thing she had to say.

“I’m so sorry, Elena. I was such a disappointment to you.”

The phone had rung. This was it. Where could she go from here? She’d betrayed her best friend and her daughter, her flesh and blood in one fell swoop. She’d betrayed John too but he had had the ring. He was going to live. And she could give or take his existence as a whole. When he was useful, he was very useful. Like, at the Lockwood’s. He had made a perfectly good distraction. But, this? She thought she had delivered Elena to the lion’s den, but instead, Klaus had moved the pawns where he wanted. He continued to delay his ritual, his sacrifice and she had been caught in the crossfire. She didn’t usually think about innocent victims. Bystanders. Anyone besides a select group of people didn’t fit into her moral code. But, she had been pulled in.

She looked into her daughter’s eyes. Nothing she was saying would repair a relationship savaged by lies, secrets, and threats. There was a part of her that cared, that loved, that had wanted to live. And that part didn’t have say anymore. She had brought Elena , thanks to Klaus’ sick sense of humor, to make amends, to illustrate how much she loved her daughter, how Elena had met the “other part” of Isobel, not the part that always dreamed of having a daughter, as she said. The doppelganger, her daughter, was safe, now. Which was funny, because she wasn’t. Elena wasn’t any more safe. She was probably less so. Katherine had been in the Salvatore’s court before landing on Team Isobel – and how wrong she had been to put her money behind her old friend.

She brought her hand to her chest. A part of her wanted this. That was the thing. There were parts to her. Warring parts. The human, somewhere under skin and bone who needed to gain some form of closure . But, for the most part, she was about to do this because she had been told to do it. Klaus hated loose ends.

She ripped her necklace off, raising her arms. Within seconds she caught fire. It burned, her flesh bubbling. She cried out and unable to stand, she fell to her knees and then to the ground in a heap, the fire consuming her.

She awoke, her eyes darting open. She had never been the soundest sleeper. She pushed the memory of being burned alive to the back of her mind. She was great at compartmentalization and that was a memory best kept locked away entirely. She said up, the necklace in her hand. Eyes traveling to the window and the beam of light hitting the floor, she instinctively tied her necklace around her neck.

The Forge sat untouched on the nightstand. She gave her room the once-over. This had Klaus’ handywork all over it. Or, Klaus’ witches. Klaus and his witches. This wouldn’t do. She was done. She had nothing left in her. Well? She wouldn’t go down without a fight. She picked up the Forge, preferring to focus on that.

Anything else?

“That was your first lie.”