I-A-S Application: Isabella (Izzy) Ronso

   Name: Isabella Ronso

   Ability: Golem Sculpting

   Age: 26

  Sex: Female

  Weight: 153 lbs. 

  Height: 6' 1" (Tells everyone she's 5' 11")

  Eye color: Light Brown

  Hair color: Clay-Red

  Nationality: U.S.A

  Ethnicity: A mix of Native American, French Canadian, and a tiny bit Italian 

  Birthday: July 7th

  Horoscope: Cancer

   Personality: Izzy, as she likes to be called, is as brazen as she is rash. Her upbringing was surrounded by squabbling brothers she needed to compete with and protect, leaving her little time to pick up social graces typical of her gender. Though not gifted with patience or couth, she has a warm heart and a friendly nature that's quick to offer warm hugs and mud fights.
 

   Positive traits: Passionate, Friendly, Kind-Hearted, Strong, Loyal, Adventerous, Rambunctious, Curious, Strong-willed, Determined
   
   Negative traits: Lacks 'Intelligence' (Book Smarts), Impatient, Arrogant, Prone to Moodiness, Lacks hygenic habbits unless coarced, Messy, Competitive, Stubborn, Quick-tempered, Mildly Sexist   

  
   Ability in Use: Golems are figures of clay imbuined with life. In this case, the 'life' they are imbuned with is connected with Izzy's own life force as she sculpts them. The figures act on both basic instincts that feign their own personalities, but is actually branches of Izzy's subconcious and emotions. Control over her creations is dependant on her ability to focus her will while whatever she makes uses up her strength. Her physical body becomes stiff and useless with this concentration, and if disturbed her golems will fall lifeless into their original forms. 

    At her current level, she is only able to make three or four inch figures come to life, and only two at a time, at most. Though durable and flexible, the clay figures are limitted by the material they are made of: Their bodies must remain wet for them to move, they can be crushed with enough force, and are limited in their actions to whatever form she originally created them to be. For example, a small clay cat will only act in a feline manner, while a small human-like sculpture will have the actions of a human, but not of a beast.

    Though she does not have the ability to percieve what they percieve or feel what they feel, Izzy is bound to her creations and is able to 'sense' where they are at all times She is able to explore through them by feeling their path and manipulating their steps until she tires and they return to lifeless clay.     

   Background: Izzy grew up in a small dusty town in Southern Arizona, with her three brothers and her mom. Her father had left when she was just a baby, and her brothers were born out of her mother's floundering search to find love and failing to make the family she wanted. As the oldest of four, she was not only the most responsible, but the one whom the role of disciplinary figure fell. Throughout her life she wrestled each of her siblings into young men while her mom worked several jobs to keep their small family afloat. Despite all of her hard work and rough love, Izzy was the only one of her siblings that managed to finish high school, if only just, while also working nights to earn money for her one true passion: throwing clay. 

    The young teen was 13 when she discovered that her father was an artist, finding his sketches hidden away in one of her mother's closets and his supply of old clay and worker's wheel in a shed in their backyard. The young girl became instantly entranced. She picked up the art of throwing clay partially out of a will to know a small part of the man she'd never met, and partially out of the need to escape the chaos of life. Despite the reasons she began, Izzy quickly fell in love with the experience itself: the gentle spinning of the wheel, the grit of cold earth between her fingers, almost as if it were a part of her. Little did she know how close she was to the truth. On her 16th birthday, on a whim, she rolled the clay in her fingers and sculpted a little figure... which suddenly came to life in her palm. Though the experience left her physically drained, she had never felt so alive.

    Izzy kept her powers to herself, experimenting between her multiple part-time jobs and applying to different art colleges until she finally focused on her original love of throwing pottery to further her studies. After all, what good could come of such powers? But, at age 23 when she flunked out of her expensive private college for her clay-work being too "safe" and "uninteresting" she felt an anger burn in her that she'd never felt before. The artist went on a rampage with her clay golems, smashing and destroying her peer's work as she could get her hands on until she collapsed in exhaustion. Izzy became a fugitive overnight, fled from her college and couldn't go home either. She travelled around the country as a hitch-hiker, doing small jobs as she criss-crossed the nation. As for her gift, she worked with only the clay she'd brought with her, still dusted with the red soil of her home state and its nostalgia. 

    Eventually, the young woman escaped to Europe, where she picked up news of the I-A-S through whispers and rumors, and travelled to Vienna in hopes of gaining entry into this world where she could possibly belong...     

    Ambition: Izzy seeks to find her place in the world, as Golem maker, artist, and now supernatural investigator.  

   Specialized Skills: Throwing Clay (I.e., the art of making pottery on a wheel)

   Hobbies: Sketching, Wrestling, Exploring

Random Trivia: Is actually self-concious about her height, even more so than her weight or any other feature. However, she's not afraid to lean on shorter people or generally use her height to her advantage.  

 Likes and Dislikes: 
Likes: Being messy, chatting in large groups, kicking things 
Dislikes: Any mention of art school at all, Art as an institution, using her hands for anything other than sculpting or nuggies

Plzs:      

Songs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HCdrV…

RP Preference: CHAT || NOTE || COMMENTS || SKYPE || GOOGLE DOC

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Whew! That was fun to make! I look forward to rping with you all as soon as I get this thing in order!