Isabella Ferrocerva

Signs of Life App

Name: Isabella Ferrocerva
Roster: Pheremosa, Milotic, Gardevoir, Roserade

1. State your character's general concept, in terms of their intended playstyle and what it is that they're trying to accomplish.

Isabella is a former pauper who grew up on the streets of a Rosario metropolis called Formaggio. Raised by her loving parents, they had a bit of a hard life. Her dad was an unsuccessful and fraudulent psychic, more akin to a snake oil salesman with a hint of mysticism. Her mother was a worker in a clothing factory, and for as long as Isabella could remember, she was too. Many a long day was spent working her fingers to the bone with needle and thread, making fine garments for people who could afford to spend more money than she could ever imagine simply on the way they looked.

Now, however, her life has completely changed. Since encountering the Concept Beast Peitho, the Anticipation of Beauty, she quickly climbed the ranks of the social hierarchy. First it started with a loan that she won by nothing less than a miracle of persuasion. Then, a business that boomed out of control. Whether it was subtle influence from her Beast or merely the awakening of a self confidence and dominating drive within Isabella herself, Ferrocerva became a Rosarian household fashion name within years, and she found herself owning the factory she had worked in as a child, as well as many more. She never speaks of her past to polite company, but she has made somewhat of a reputation for herself for the humanitarian working conditions she pushed for within her facilities, her embrace of machinery in said facilities, and the iron heel she would drive into competing businesses.

She is inclined to stay back in a fight and direct it, but her petite frame packs a surprising punch if she's pushed into entering the fray herself.

2. What's your character's home like? What made them stand out to be scouted as EGGs? Were they glad to be able to leave home to serve the League, or do they get homesick and have to come back every now and then?

Formaggio is a filthy city, for the most part. A clear class divide remains in place to this day, and unemployment rates are high. Rumor has it that on occasion, lower class citizens competing for jobs will bleed each other in the streets for the right. It was Isabella's rapid success that caught the eye of the Extranormal Guidance Group, and when it was discovered she had made contact with a concept beast, she was immediately scouted by the group. As for leaving home... Isabella tires of that city easily. It reminds her constantly of worse times, and she welcomes the change of pace offered to her by the organization. She only returns home to make sure her businesses are being run to her specifications. Often without warning to her managers.

3. What's the most important thing to your character that they've lost in their life? It could be a person, an opportunity, a philosophy, anything.

Her childhood. The magical sense of wonder and discovery, the opportunity to let yourself be free and playful. Isabella never had it. She still longs for something to make her feel that way.

4. What legendary does your character have? The legal legendaries are most Trios, mascot characters, (ie Mew or Jirachi), and other more "minor" legendaries. If you're unsure if a legendary is legal, ask me. What Concept does this Pact Beast represent? (Legendaries will have a single Aura, which will have effects based on this Concept. Don't worry about confining them to the ones in Blessed and the Damned) In the process of bonding with this Conceptual Pact Beast, what kind of trial did they have to overcome? (Be creative. A test of character of some sort related to the Concept is preferable to a straight trial by combat.) Despite the previous oneshot, all the legendaries are still open for use, just make sure you fluff the legend differently and have them embody a different concept. Fakemon are okay, as are especially snowflakey variants of non-legends.

Peitho, the Anticipation of Beauty. She is a Pheremosa that approached Isabella in a dream one night to see what a child thought beauty was. The results were not what she expected at all...

https://pastebin.com/XB4qbDxm

Peitho is a moody and fickle creature, but has bonded strongly with Isabella.

5. What does your character hate? If they don't truly hate anything, why? Can they stay calm around it? What does your character find most satisfying to do? Do they have any hobbies?

Isabella hates the exploitation of the weak. She is known to become extremely petty towards those she sees mistreat the poor, service workers in restaurants and stores, or the like, arranging various bits of 'misfortune' for perpetrators, sometimes resulting in something as mild as vandalism, and sometimes taking it to the point of their financial ruin.

On the other hand, what Isabella loves more than anything else is to attend social gatherings. Aside from the free wine and cheese as well as the chance to show off her fashions, it gives her ample opportunity to learn about fellow attendees... and adjust her own plans accordingly. Her hobbies include grooming Pokemon, tennis, and writing romantic fiction for young women.

6. How did your character bond with their first Pact Beast? Do they still use that Pact Beast, or was the Pact dissolved? Did that relationship mean anything for that character?

That was Peitho, as she could not afford a Pact Disk beforehand. Beyond that, however, her first pact was with a Ralts, whom she promised to make as beautiful outside as her spirit was inside. To this day, their bond is strong and her Gardevoir is treated much the same as a human friend would be, with clothes to wear, a bed to sleep in, and more.

7. What does your character see themselves trying to accomplish in the future? How does that tie in to their work as EGGs right now? Does your character believe in destiny?

Isabella wishes to clean up the city of Formaggio, give jobs to the needy and reduce the inhumane conditions of said jobs. She wants to make the city itself beautiful, inside and out, to become a centerpiece of Rosarian culture. She does not, however, believe in destiny. She knows her place in society was earned through hard work, not through something as laughable as predestination.

She hopes to use the contacts and influence she's made within EGGs to bring businesses of all kinds to her home town to expand their horizons.

8. Pick a song that resonates with your character, preferably something you can link on youtube or whatnot. Why does it resonate? Don't worry about it being an outright defining "theme", it doesn't have to be that strong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVQF7fEBzow

Cold and beautiful, with a hint of warmth underneath.

9. List any expectations you have for this oneshot SHORT CAMPAIGN, any input you want to give on the setting, and other general things here.

Fun RP, ridiculous fights!

10. List your availability. Currently, I, the GM, am available on Thursday nights and all day Saturday, but I'll be having my Sundays open up sometime in July or August so if that's when people are available I'll postpone the game starting until that opens up.

Currently just early in the week (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) but things can definitely clear up before game, and you know my sundays will open up at some point. I technically don't have anything going on thursday right now, but there's a game then on hiatus, and fridays are an unknown. Saturdays I participate in a bi-weekly game.