Description

Personality

PERSONALITY
Personality Description
Isa is somewhat odd, to put it mildly, considered strange by many even amidst the menagerie of cybernetically or synthetically altered humans currently inhabiting America. The only thing keeping her from being considered legally insane is her ability to function, even tested thoroughly by many an addled psychologist. It can sometimes be hard to put a finger on why she is so blaringly peculiar mainly because it does not stem from one specific quirk or trait. Izzy is highly intelligent extremely close to the point of being considered a genius however this intellect is rarely directed conventionally and often obfuscated for ‘comedic effect’.

Isa is, unfortunately, also the sufferer of a form of Manic-Depression (also known as Bipolar Disorder) called Cyclothymia though it may have progressed to a worse variety. It causes her to switch from manic highs of emotion to depressions quickly and fairly easily though this is generally mistaken for a simple personality quirk. However Izzy is fortunate to spend most of her time in manic episodes; easily excitable, enthusiastic and hyperactive. This is the cause of much of her strange behaviour including her tendency to partake in increasingly ridiculous and unwise dares which was in fact the reason she became a cyborg. She also is fond of jokes and pranks no matter how inappropriate, dirty or ill-timed with a habit of multi-tasking in admittedly uncommon ways. Sadly this is often to cover up her lack of self-esteem and, sometimes, self-loathing with her depressions potentially violent.

Unsurprisingly, Isa struggles to think practically but does possess the ability to reason and use logic. Her form of logic is generally different to that of most people, taking a different path to reach a conclusion. She also tends not to take into account factors relating to the possibility of survival immediately as well as other practical things. It has allowed her impressive mind to come up with creative, ingenuitive ideas or plans and her imagination is notoriously disturbing. Izzy well and truly hates authority of practically any kind including that of The Anarchists, valuing freedom above most things and frankly being a little paranoid of control.

Quirks
-Cyclothymia
-Tends to start singing or humming random songs whilst walking or doing things
-A tad hyperactive most of the time and highly enthusiastic (when not in a depression)
-Is known to read novels whilst walking from place to place in open streets without looking away from the book often even when crossing the road
-Has difficulty remaining still and twitches noticeably when excited (hence her alias)
-Listens to her watches ticking when upset or stressed
-Poor mental grasp of money and time
-Her speech can be sometimes bizarre, combining complex and technical language with over simplified, often rude terms as well as describing things… Interestingly.

Fears
-Dying/death
-Small spaces
-The Government (to a surprisingly logical extent)
-Being 'sectioned' again

Goal
To disrupt the current government and prevent the Guardian Act from being passed. Additionally to find a way to reverse the process of becoming a Devoid as well as understand it better. (Everybody needs a hobby, right?)

Likes
-Pretzels
-Music
-Biology/Biochemistry/Science
-Exercise
-Fighting
-Surprizes
-Exploration/New things

Dislikes
-Authority
-Small spaces
-Death/killing
-People in uniforms
-Guns
-Ferns

Strengths
After years of relentless training Isa has gained an impressive physique, practically the best body you could hope for without artificial enhancements. She is far more than just brawn, however, almost considered a genius by others and may well be within the field of Biology. She also has an impressive scientific knowledge, using this to her advantage as well as her innate creativity. Due to her training and this biological knowledge Izzy has become a formidable, and admittedly difficult to predict, fighter with her cybernetically enhanced senses and impressive hand-eye coordination giving her practically perfect aim.

Weaknesses
Due to her mental condition and personality Isa is unfortunately also extremely mentally unstable; mood swings easy to set off and often dangerously intense. In her depressions she has been known to self-harm or become otherwise violent, though not often, and her manic episodes are not always beneficial. Normally her self esteem is very low as well, albeit veiled by humour. She is also very disorganised and irrational at times, refusing to use firearms and to kill in most situations. Her enhancements are not prefect either, the glowing tubules and her nature making her easy to spot and if her ear is not protected loud noises can disorientate her.

Equipment

EQUIPMENT
Abilities & Skill & Combat Rating

[perfect] - [excellent] - [good] - [above average] - [average] - [below average] - [poor] - [very poor]

Clothing/Armor [Below Average]
Isa rarely, if ever, wears large amounts of armour, generally just sticking to her normal clothes and natural wiles. However her fellow Anarchists have managed to make her at least wear a Kevlar vest reinforced with a knife-resistant resin when on missions. She normally wears black denim jeans held up by piano key patterned suspenders over a light grey T-shirt with some witty or strange slogan printed on it in white. She has large but light black leather boots with a perhaps excessive amount of straps and ‘1+1=0’ painted on their sides in blue. She also has three wrist watches of varying colour and type on her right arm usually wearing a long black linen trench coat over her clothes.

Combat Prowess
[Excellent] Hand-to-Hand: Isa is a natural fighter with excellent physical strength, speed, agility and her cybernetic senses are impressive, this alone making her a formidable opponent. She has also spent many years training relentlessly in karate, having now ascended to the rank of Black Belt 3rd Dan. In addition to this her creativity and manic style makes her hard to predict however she does only know one form of martial arts which could prove a disadvantage.
[Good] Melee Combat: While she has received no formal training in the use of melee weapons years of living in a cess-pool like Frankston has taught her a few tricks in using improvised weapons. She is particularly good with her cricket bat, Boris, and prefers non-lethal weapons.

Abilities
[Perfect] Cybernetic eyesight: Despite the somewhat clunky and substandard look of her ocular implant it is in fact one of the most advanced cybernetic eyes available. It can detect well beyond the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum and able to detect infrared and ultraviolet easily. It has also been known to pick up X-rays and microwaves, possibly able to find more extreme frequencies with some difficultly. Of course, this impressive vision is possessed only by one eye and presents a slight disadvantage if depth perception is require for anything detected beyond the visible spectrum. This eye also rotates freely from its fleshy neighbor, a fact that somewhat disturbs some people.
[Perfect] Cybernetic hearing: Like her ocular implant her replacement ear is highly advanced, able to pick up the faintest sound when on the correct setting and frequencies well above or below that of human hearing. She usually sets it on a less sensitive mode, however, due to the amount of noise associated with modern life and sometimes even then loud sounds can cause disorientation and pain.
[Above Average-Good] Inbuilt two-way radio:
[Good] Air filter:

Skills
[Excellent] Borderline genius level intellect: Isa is highly intelligent to the point of near genius levels, even considered to be one by some when it comes to her chosen scientific field(s). Her intelligence is rarely applied to anything outright good and it is difficult to get her to use it on solving anything practical at times, she herself describing her relationship with reality as 'long distance'.
[Excellent] Biological/Scientific Knowledge and Understanding: Isa has great interest in science and biological sciences in particular, ever increasing her knowledge and understanding of its principals. Her courses in Biology and Biochemistry have obviously made her most knowledgeable in them but, her father being a physicist and possessing great curiosity as well as intelligence, she has impressive knowledge of other scientific fields. She has been known to engineer her own, new kinds of serums and biochemical substances which has earned her a little attention.
[Excellent] Musicianship: Isa has always had a musical aptitude and an interest in almost all music. She has played piano since the age of 3 and her skill in this has become impressive, practicing diligently and often. She also taught herself to play both guitar and bass many years ago, attaining a similar level of skill. She was able to undertake a university course in music and successfully received a bachelor's degree in the subject, this course greatly improving her general musicianship.
[Perfect] Marksmanship: Due to Isa's perfect eyesight, mental ability and impressive hand-eye coordination she is capable of perfect marksmanship, even taking into account environmental conditions. Of course, she has little to no experience with guns nor does she seem eager to gain any and thus this skill is applied more to throwing/hitting grenades.

Weapon
Name: Boris
Type: Wooden cricket bat
Ammo: Grenades (generally less conventional kinds) or small-ish objects
Information: A souvenir from her time in Australia which she, despite never playing much cricket nor being a fan, is quite fond of. It’s somewhat battered with repeated use and has its name painted on the handle. No one knows why she calls it Boris as her reason changes practically every time she’s asked. She’s a good shot with it too, liking to hit smoke bombs or even biochemical grenades at her enemies when they are too far away to hit in the normal fashion though she does try to block her ‘good ear’ first. It has been coated in a fire-retardant resin amongst others and can take a fair hit from energy based weapons.

Equipment (Most of which is contained in her satchel)
- ‘Boris’: See Above
- 5 Hand Grenades (2 smoke; 1 CS; 1 sleeping gas; 1 incendiary):
- 1 Vial of ‘Skunk’: Possibly the most disgusting and wretched mixture ever concocted by a human being. It is a substance of Isa’s own design, able to induce a series of reactions from this repulsive vial in most humans. The smell of ‘Skunk’ can cause nausea and vomiting to the unprepared, its smell is very powerful and once spilled on something it is extremely difficult to remove.
-Several grams of 'Dirt' powder: This substance was derived, by Isa and several of her fellow students, from the drug known as 'Dust' and looks remarkably similar though it is reputed to have a lesser 'sparkle'. Like the original drug it produces hallucinogenic visions however they are of a higher intensity and nightmarish also causing heightened feelings of fear and apprehension.
- A Neon Blue Satchel; Appears to be an average bag however it contains a form of Flat-Space technology, allowing it to hold her wide variety of equipment and junk within it otherwise impossible. The pocket dimension is not particularly large as far as FS Tech goes, holding about twice the volume of the actual satchel.

Accessories
-A Plastic Spork
-Several Advanced Biology/Biochemistry Textbooks
-A Screwdriver
-Earplugs and nose plugs
-Several Guitar/Bass Picks
-A Blue Pen
-‘1984’ By George Orwell
-Several pages of her own notes on Devoids/Devoidification labeled 'To Do List'

Memorabilia
-‘Boris’
-Old, wind up wrist watch that once belonged to her mother. Ornate, eloquent and made of high quality silver, it is always working but never on the right time.
-Children's wrist watch which is brightly coloured and, unlike her other watches, broken.

History

HISTORY
Religious Affiliation
None (Atheist), legally listed as a ‘Seventh Day Advent Hopist’

Group Affiliation
The Anarchists

The Guardian Act
Against

Marital Status
Single

Relatives
Rosemary Donndubháin [Mother] - Deceased, Car Crash
Dr. Eoin Donndubháin [Father] - Living in East Melbourne, Australia
Brian Donndubháin [Brother, Elder] - Location Unknown, Presumed Deceased

Residence
Lives on campus at New York University

Education
Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Biochemistry and Music
Currently completing an Honours year in both Biology and Biochemistry (studying abroad)

Occupation
Student, Musician

Birthday
14 July, 2426

Bio/History
Isa Donndubháin was born in The Republic Of Ireland to Irish father (Eoin), a respected physicist, and an American mother (Rosemary), a musician. The family had only moved the Ireland a few years ago following a train wreck, of which the two parents were the miraculous survivors, losing a child to the accident and moving back to Eoin's homeland to escape the memories of him. Isa was, unsurprisingly, an odd child similar to her lost brother in many respects but startlingly different in others. A most notable difference was that Brian had always been very quiet whereas Izzy learned to speak before she could walk, utilizing this skill with... What you might call great enthusiasm but rarely much more sense than your average toddler for many years. She was also always highly temperamental as well, an early indicator of her mental condition which was simply ignored as a personality trait or a phase to be passed. That being said at this stage it was not at such an alarming level as it would grow to be. She was also very intelligent from a young age, learning very quickly and beginning school a year early. Her mother taught her to play piano at age 3 at the young daughter's request, greatly enthused by music of most kinds. Ireland, Eoin and Rosemary decided, was not host to the best schooling system for their daughter nor was their much work for either of them to support the family with. At the age of 7 Isa and her family moved to Frankston, a large sea side town in East Melbourne, Australia, and her father took a post as a professor of Physics in a Melbourne university.

Whilst still not providing perhaps the best schooling Isa flourished at her new environment, quickly becoming the best student in all her classes and perhaps one of the most disruptive. Due to already being a bit off to your average observer she was somewhat of an outcast amongst her peers, her high intelligence hardly helping fit in, which only fueled her mental 'problems'. Her interest in biology became apparent quickly but when she began eagerly watching videos of surgeries on TV her parents began to realise she was not just eccentric. Worried, they sent to her see a psychiatrist... and then another and another, many of them unable to diagnose her with anything. The only thing they could agree on was that Isa was profoundly weird but, as she was able to function in everyday life, there was no pressing need to 'cure' her. This did not stop her from being sent to therapy sessions against her will, however, until she began to take some more... extreme actions to derail their efforts until her parents eventually gave up; the details of her method never having been shared by her or the traumatised psychiatrists in question.

As Isa's schoolwork progressed her social status further deteriorated, even her small group of friends finding it difficult to keep up with her mood swings. Bullying started when she was 11, first verbal and then more physical. Tired of putting up with this she began training in a modern style of karate and undertaking in track and field sports, at least lessening the intensity of the teasing and harassment. At 16 she undertook weight training and soon began teaching herself to play guitar and bass quite successfully, even starting a band of her own called 'Weenus'. All this physical and musical activity gave Izzy a little more mental stability, less frequently having mood swings and her schoolwork consequently improving in quality. At 17 she completed her VCE with an ATAR score of 92, applying for a course in music at Monash University and was accepted. A year later a she was finally diagnosed with Cyclothymia but, being legally an adult by this stage, the choice of whether or not it should be treated was left to her. Naturally she, against her parents' wishes, decided not to have her mind mended, quite happy with her yoyo-ing emotions at the time.

It took only another two years to complete her bachelor's degree in music, her mother organizing a celebration at a local restaurant in which they would meet Isa's father. Unfortunately it seemed this was not in the cards as they were caught in a hover car accident when Isa was at the wheel.

More is coming, don't get your knickers in a twist.