1) Height: Purely a guess, but around 6'3 - perhaps a little more when he's rockin' those high-heeled thigh-high boots. That's right, this is CastleVania art by Ayami Kojima we're talking about.
2) Weight: No idea. But I'd describe him as being leanly built. He’s got that wiry strength to him.
3) Eye color/Hair Color: Very red hair. The reddest hair ever. His irises are white and he's got this naturally occurring faint red eyeshadow going on. He was born with it or maybe it's maybelline?
4) Age: 26 in canon, 28 in Luceti. He doesn’t exactly know the day he was born because he was saved as baby, but it’s sometime in December.
5) Physical features: Tattoos that start at his forehead and go on and on, front and back. He has a number of piercings including three over the left side of his ribs, about nine over the right bicep, three under his navel, and a great deal in R-rated places. There are scars camouflaged by the tattoos, but you’d have to be very close to notice them of course. Thanks to circumstances having to do with the draft in Zompania, he now has a scar across the length of nose and a sharp, vertical one slicing his upper lip and catching a bit of the lower one.
6) Voice:Liam O’Brien is the VA. From vicious snarls to a cultured, lilting drawl, Isaac has it all!
7) Who do they live with and how are chores divided in their house/apartment?: He lives alone in a ‘renovated’ cave in the woods. Inside it is a series of tunnels and chambers furnished to be castle-like, with carpets, paintings, and candles ensconced in the walls. He got his devils to help out a lot with the construction years ago.
8) Their favorite (and least favorite, if you want) foods and who does the cooking in their house/apartment?:
He cooks for himself, though doesn’t make a habit of spending a long time in the kitchen. His favourite food is cheese (with good, bittersweet chocolate as a close second). Red wine’s always nice.
9) What they do during an average day in Luceti: Train with his devils, hunt, carve, sketch things, study gems/magic, experiment, people-watch, dance with himself, flirt and snark over the journal or in person, and dwell on his miserable life. He's very, very restless.
10) Their general sense of fashion: Basically those tight, low-riding leather pants from canon, thigh-high boots, and leather gauntlets with the addition of a black, collared shirt that laces at the front and the sleeves. No metal collar or slim pieces of armour, although he will wear a leather breastplate when he seets fit. A poncho-like cloak is donned in colder weather. LEATHER LEATHER LEATHER BLAH BLAH He was clearly history’s first punk-goth dude.
11) Do they have any hobbies? Did they come up with these hobbies in Luceti, or was it something they always did?: Carving and sculpting things. Also, forging armours and weapons. These are all hobbies from back home. Smutting it up would definitely be a hobby if he had bedfellows. More crap, if you're curious.
12) Has the situation in Luceti changed their view on certain topics/the way they react to different things?: He’s *not* the villain he was in canon. Or any villain now, really, now that he’s curse-free. He talks to people with a little less pre-programmed resentment now. And while he's beginning to think more about the people around him and reconsider his approach every now and again, trust issues will continue to be a problem and recent disappointments mean he'll scoff even harder at the subject of love and friendship. These are largely unattainable things for him.
13) Do they have a weapon? If so, do they carry it at all times or just under certain circumstances?: He always carries at least one dagger with him. I suspect he'd also have the Chauve-Souris or his Laser Blade with him almost all the time if not ALL the time, on his back.
14) Do they have any pets? Would these pets be at their homes, or do they hang out with the character in question?: Baco, the gargoyle-dragon thing that Hector made him. And while they’re not pets, he’s made a number of chimera which he has set loose in Luceti. Maybe you'll find a spiderpede in your shoe.
15) Who are their neighbors?: Woodland fauna. And Hector's a ways off in his awesome cabin.
16) Who are their best friends in Luceti? How often do they spend time with them and doing what? Well… Isaac doesn’t really have a best friend. And things are tricky with Hector right now. But he still talks with Zev every now and again.
17) On the flip side, is there anyone they actively don’t get along with? How do they interact, and would people know about this? Many people who don’t like Isaac much. He greets them with a defiant smile and uses his purring drawl regardless.
18) Their favorite areas/stores/hang-out locations?: Rooftops at night, Good Spirits, the woods, the highest points in the village. He tends to enter the village more often in the evening than during the day. Old habits die hard.
19) Do they belong to any clubs or organizations? Which ones? Do they go regularly, or just occasionally? n/a
20) Wing color and how do they deal with their wings?: They’re red as his hair and he keeps them out of sight. No desire to have them be a glaring weakness and all. He has torn out feathers in fits of frustration but they’ve since grown back.
21) Did they change or grow in any way physically since coming to Luceti?: Barring new tats and piercings, his hair is longer overall and he’s got nose and lip scars.
22) What do they miss the most from home?: Julia. But she would end up leaving again, he figures, so it's best he doesn't see her at all.
23) What does their handwriting look like? Do they write the way they talk, or is there a clear difference between the two?: He does write similarly to how he speaks, but all his chuckles and laughs and pauses don’t quite translate into text. His penmanship can be basically described as neat cursive.
24) Is the way they act in person different from the way they act over the journal system?: Nah, he's equally slick, snarky, and salacious in person as he is over the journal. He prefers face to face encounters. You can commence waggling those eyebrows.
25) Did they gain/lose any personal goals during their stay in Luceti?: He was dead before Luceti, and sadly, he’s without major goals atm. He's not used to this -- usually he's had thoughts of revenge to power him through.
26) Is Luceti a technological upgrade, or downgrade for them? Have they adapted to these changes well?: Definite upgrade. The journal is the most useful thing to him and still fascinates him. He has no electricity in his home so he isn't exactly 'with the times'.
27) FOR STUDENTS: What is their favorite class? What is their least favorite class? What about their general behavior in school?: n/a
28) FOR DRINKERS: What is their favorite drink? What is their least favorite drink? Do they prefer Good Spirits or Cloud Nine? What's their attitude about and while drinking?: Red wine and tuica are his drinks of choice. Champagne is kind of boring to him. He rarely binge drinks (that being only if his emotions are really out of whack) and has a high tolerance for alcohol. First comes easier laughter, and then sadness and dissatisfaction with his life tends to increase along with the consumption of alcohol if he’s left alone.
29) Do they have any special talents? If so, what are they?: Creating, taming, and commanding demonic life. Teleporting, unsettling Loki (?), and forging armour and equipment on the go through some snappy magical process. Flexibility, taking ridiculous amounts of damage and coming back at you with a grin, and making regular weapons do strange things, like having a plain short sword spin through the air before snapping back into his grip like a boomerang. Also, making people feel awkward with a single glance.
30) Have they learned any new skills or abilities in Luceti? If so, what are they? Why and how? He’s been studying each one of the elemental spirits. He’s left Nala for last, probably because it’s easiest. Isaac’s always working on novel ways to manipulate and apply his powers.
31) What kind of habits do they have on drafts? Are they willing to kill or do they prefer to avoid fighting? Very willing to kill - he's all for the chaos and the thrill of battle. Given his years in Dracula’s service as a general, showing enemies mercy is a pretty damn foreign concept. It's kill or be killed on both sides, as far as he's concerned. He *has* avoided fighting at times, though... and by avoid, I mean crept up on someone from behind and jammed a dagger into their back.
32) What kind of habits do they have on missions? What is their reason for going on them? What do they intend to use their points for? He likes combat missions and taking orders only from himself. Points are good – he’s thinking about purchasing elemental rings and other accessories with them.
33) How long have they been in Luceti? Has that length of time impacted them in any way?: At his current canon point, he has been around since March of 2012. The power-dampening effect of the barrier makes him feel useless at times and he’s often unhappy for no small number of reasons, though he does his best to hide it. It’s a long story and he’d rather not get into it.
34) How do they unwind and get back to normal after a brutal experiment, event, or draft? Because he does suffer from a recurring sense of self-loathing, loneliness, and frustration with his existence and at what he's lost, he has a tendency to engage in self-harm to regain a sense of control. It’s typically how he finds a sense of freedom when things are hurting very badly inside. He drinks a little, too, and then will snark and laugh with people as if entirely unaffected and/or poke at their wounds. Being able to fake composure is important to him. He doesn't want to be seen at his worst -- in the environment from which he came, he imagines he'd only have been mocked and thought as a lesser being for it. There are few, few people he’d share anything with, and even then he tends to feel rather uncomfortable with the idea.
35) What is their worst experience from an experiment or kidnapping? Were there any that they actually liked?
The worst? Oh boy. Any time when he has been possessed (Eg. Apep, Twila) was pretty damn bad. It’s a sore point with him given canon crap having to do with Dracula and the curse. Some shifts were fun to him like that Space Opera/Gangster Land/Ice Age event where he got to scare some samurai and steal their swords. He likes his mischief!
36) Anything else you want to note?:
- It bears repeating that Isaac is not the villain he was in canon and he’s spent two curse-free years in Luceti. He won’t hurt or attempt to kill anyone for no reason at all, and in the past two years he’s only killed two Luceti folk – one out of mercy and another attacking him as a vampire.
- I STILL ought to put up a headcanon page for him because canon reeeeeally doesn't offer much in the ways of juicy details and there’s a lot I’ve built up around what canon suggests.
- With Dracula's magic still flowing through him, anyone who can sense auras/magic will note that he gives off demonic vibes.
- He flirts whether or not he's actually attracted to your character. Mostly dudes, but he'll try the ladies too on occasion. If you'd rather he didn't, you can hit up his Opt-Out thingy on his journal. It's no problem.
- He's always open for business with tattooing and making equipment / something cool, or whatever
Isaac
2) Weight: No idea. But I'd describe him as being leanly built. He’s got that wiry strength to him.
3) Eye color/Hair Color: Very red hair. The reddest hair ever. His irises are white and he's got this naturally occurring faint red eyeshadow going on. He was born with it
or maybe it's maybelline?4) Age: 26 in canon, 28 in Luceti. He doesn’t exactly know the day he was born because he was saved as baby, but it’s sometime in December.
5) Physical features: Tattoos that start at his forehead and go on and on, front and back. He has a number of piercings including three over the left side of his ribs, about nine over the right bicep, three under his navel, and a great deal in R-rated places. There are scars camouflaged by the tattoos, but you’d have to be very close to notice them of course. Thanks to circumstances having to do with the draft in Zompania, he now has a scar across the length of nose and a sharp, vertical one slicing his upper lip and catching a bit of the lower one.
6) Voice: Liam O’Brien is the VA. From vicious snarls to a cultured, lilting drawl, Isaac has it all!
7) Who do they live with and how are chores divided in their house/apartment?: He lives alone in a ‘renovated’ cave in the woods. Inside it is a series of tunnels and chambers furnished to be castle-like, with carpets, paintings, and candles ensconced in the walls. He got his devils to help out a lot with the construction years ago.
8) Their favorite (and least favorite, if you want) foods and who does the cooking in their house/apartment?:
He cooks for himself, though doesn’t make a habit of spending a long time in the kitchen. His favourite food is cheese (with good, bittersweet chocolate as a close second). Red wine’s always nice.
9) What they do during an average day in Luceti: Train with his devils, hunt, carve, sketch things, study gems/magic, experiment, people-watch, dance with himself, flirt and snark over the journal or in person, and dwell on his miserable life. He's very, very restless.
10) Their general sense of fashion: Basically those tight, low-riding leather pants from canon, thigh-high boots, and leather gauntlets with the addition of a black, collared shirt that laces at the front and the sleeves. No metal collar or slim pieces of armour, although he will wear a leather breastplate when he seets fit. A poncho-like cloak is donned in colder weather. LEATHER LEATHER LEATHER BLAH BLAH He was clearly history’s first punk-goth dude.
11) Do they have any hobbies? Did they come up with these hobbies in Luceti, or was it something they always did?: Carving and sculpting things. Also, forging armours and weapons. These are all hobbies from back home. Smutting it up would definitely be a hobby if he had bedfellows. More crap, if you're curious.
12) Has the situation in Luceti changed their view on certain topics/the way they react to different things?: He’s *not* the villain he was in canon. Or any villain now, really, now that he’s curse-free. He talks to people with a little less pre-programmed resentment now. And while he's beginning to think more about the people around him and reconsider his approach every now and again, trust issues will continue to be a problem and recent disappointments mean he'll scoff even harder at the subject of love and friendship. These are largely unattainable things for him.
13) Do they have a weapon? If so, do they carry it at all times or just under certain circumstances?: He always carries at least one dagger with him. I suspect he'd also have the Chauve-Souris or his Laser Blade with him almost all the time if not ALL the time, on his back.
14) Do they have any pets? Would these pets be at their homes, or do they hang out with the character in question?: Baco, the gargoyle-dragon thing that Hector made him. And while they’re not pets, he’s made a number of chimera which he has set loose in Luceti. Maybe you'll find a spiderpede in your shoe.
15) Who are their neighbors?: Woodland fauna. And Hector's a ways off in his awesome cabin.
16) Who are their best friends in Luceti? How often do they spend time with them and doing what? Well… Isaac doesn’t really have a best friend. And things are tricky with Hector right now. But he still talks with Zev every now and again.
17) On the flip side, is there anyone they actively don’t get along with? How do they interact, and would people know about this? Many people who don’t like Isaac much. He greets them with a defiant smile and uses his purring drawl regardless.
18) Their favorite areas/stores/hang-out locations?: Rooftops at night, Good Spirits, the woods, the highest points in the village. He tends to enter the village more often in the evening than during the day. Old habits die hard.
19) Do they belong to any clubs or organizations? Which ones? Do they go regularly, or just occasionally? n/a
20) Wing color and how do they deal with their wings?: They’re red as his hair and he keeps them out of sight. No desire to have them be a glaring weakness and all. He has torn out feathers in fits of frustration but they’ve since grown back.
21) Did they change or grow in any way physically since coming to Luceti?: Barring new tats and piercings, his hair is longer overall and he’s got nose and lip scars.
22) What do they miss the most from home?: Julia. But she would end up leaving again, he figures, so it's best he doesn't see her at all.
23) What does their handwriting look like? Do they write the way they talk, or is there a clear difference between the two?: He does write similarly to how he speaks, but all his chuckles and laughs and pauses don’t quite translate into text. His penmanship can be basically described as neat cursive.
24) Is the way they act in person different from the way they act over the journal system?: Nah, he's equally slick, snarky, and salacious in person as he is over the journal. He prefers face to face encounters. You can commence waggling those eyebrows.
25) Did they gain/lose any personal goals during their stay in Luceti?: He was dead before Luceti, and sadly, he’s without major goals atm. He's not used to this -- usually he's had thoughts of revenge to power him through.
26) Is Luceti a technological upgrade, or downgrade for them? Have they adapted to these changes well?: Definite upgrade. The journal is the most useful thing to him and still fascinates him. He has no electricity in his home so he isn't exactly 'with the times'.
27) FOR STUDENTS: What is their favorite class? What is their least favorite class? What about their general behavior in school?: n/a
28) FOR DRINKERS: What is their favorite drink? What is their least favorite drink? Do they prefer Good Spirits or Cloud Nine? What's their attitude about and while drinking?: Red wine and tuica are his drinks of choice. Champagne is kind of boring to him. He rarely binge drinks (that being only if his emotions are really out of whack) and has a high tolerance for alcohol. First comes easier laughter, and then sadness and dissatisfaction with his life tends to increase along with the consumption of alcohol if he’s left alone.
29) Do they have any special talents? If so, what are they?: Creating, taming, and commanding demonic life. Teleporting, unsettling Loki (?), and forging armour and equipment on the go through some snappy magical process. Flexibility, taking ridiculous amounts of damage and coming back at you with a grin, and making regular weapons do strange things, like having a plain short sword spin through the air before snapping back into his grip like a boomerang. Also, making people feel awkward with a single glance.
30) Have they learned any new skills or abilities in Luceti? If so, what are they? Why and how? He’s been studying each one of the elemental spirits. He’s left Nala for last, probably because it’s easiest. Isaac’s always working on novel ways to manipulate and apply his powers.
31) What kind of habits do they have on drafts? Are they willing to kill or do they prefer to avoid fighting? Very willing to kill - he's all for the chaos and the thrill of battle. Given his years in Dracula’s service as a general, showing enemies mercy is a pretty damn foreign concept. It's kill or be killed on both sides, as far as he's concerned. He *has* avoided fighting at times, though... and by avoid, I mean crept up on someone from behind and jammed a dagger into their back.
32) What kind of habits do they have on missions? What is their reason for going on them? What do they intend to use their points for? He likes combat missions and taking orders only from himself. Points are good – he’s thinking about purchasing elemental rings and other accessories with them.
33) How long have they been in Luceti? Has that length of time impacted them in any way?: At his current canon point, he has been around since March of 2012. The power-dampening effect of the barrier makes him feel useless at times and he’s often unhappy for no small number of reasons, though he does his best to hide it. It’s a long story and he’d rather not get into it.
34) How do they unwind and get back to normal after a brutal experiment, event, or draft?
Because he does suffer from a recurring sense of self-loathing, loneliness, and frustration with his existence and at what he's lost, he has a tendency to engage in self-harm to regain a sense of control. It’s typically how he finds a sense of freedom when things are hurting very badly inside. He drinks a little, too, and then will snark and laugh with people as if entirely unaffected and/or poke at their wounds. Being able to fake composure is important to him. He doesn't want to be seen at his worst -- in the environment from which he came, he imagines he'd only have been mocked and thought as a lesser being for it. There are few, few people he’d share anything with, and even then he tends to feel rather uncomfortable with the idea.
35) What is their worst experience from an experiment or kidnapping? Were there any that they actually liked?
The worst? Oh boy. Any time when he has been possessed (Eg. Apep, Twila) was pretty damn bad. It’s a sore point with him given canon crap having to do with Dracula and the curse. Some shifts were fun to him like that Space Opera/Gangster Land/Ice Age event where he got to scare some samurai and steal their swords. He likes his mischief!
36) Anything else you want to note?:
- It bears repeating that Isaac is not the villain he was in canon and he’s spent two curse-free years in Luceti. He won’t hurt or attempt to kill anyone for no reason at all, and in the past two years he’s only killed two Luceti folk – one out of mercy and another attacking him as a vampire.
- I STILL ought to put up a headcanon page for him because canon reeeeeally doesn't offer much in the ways of juicy details and there’s a lot I’ve built up around what canon suggests.
- With Dracula's magic still flowing through him, anyone who can sense auras/magic will note that he gives off demonic vibes.
- He flirts whether or not he's actually attracted to your character. Mostly dudes, but he'll try the ladies too on occasion. If you'd rather he didn't, you can hit up his Opt-Out thingy on his journal. It's no problem.
- He's always open for business with tattooing and making equipment / something cool, or whatever