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Update: Added few little touch-ups to the backstory and info


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My second entry for SDL ( Samurai Duelers League ) -->

S.N: 00664

STATS: ( WINS=0 / LOSES=0 / FORFEITS=0 )

TEAM: Le Corsare di Seles (Seles's Corsairs) [link]


Character's Profile:

Name: Isadora Ricardo

Nationality: Spanish

Nickname: The Weeping Widow / Schizophrenia Queen

Age: 29

Personality:

Normally she is timid, depressed, pessimistic and hesitant to ridiculous levels, on the good side she is normally pure of heart, quite and feels happy ( for very short periods ) when she sees anybody around her happy ... but there is more to her than just that !!!


Tools:
Two weird masks ( Blanco / Diablos ), a metal arm-piece with fangs ( an armor piece she can't remove ) and a Spanish sword she calls "Espada Lagrimoso"

Likes:
To be left alone, to weep, anything black, Theater plays, Masks & Mantels, Memories.

Dislikes:
Being called a Witch or a Bringer of Bad Luck, Seeing somebody getting hurt or Killed, People staring at her, Animals, Japanese cuisine.


Abilities:
I was hesitant to call those abilities but here they are:-

-A Triple Personality Disorder "form of schizophrenia"
-Rumored to bring bad luck to whoever sticks around her !!!
-Weeps a lot !!! ( specially when she recalls her bad memories )
-Skillful with a sword ( although in her normal persona she wouldn't use it )
-Flexible and athletic body ( again, in her normal persona she wouldn't make use of that !!! )

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The Triple Personality Disorder :

(Isadora, Diablos, Blanco) are three personalities that share the same body and mind !!!


( Diablos as her sub-conscience burdened by all the tragedies in her life and Blanco as her pure and innocent heart fighting back the presence of Diablos )


She wears a mask that represents each persona and switches the side of her double faced mantel to match thee mask ( the masks and mantel are just cosmetic tools to her persona shifting .... as in her mind they shield her from the world around so that she in no longer recognizable even to herself in a mirror )


Switching between the three personalities is out of Isadora's hands .. and doesn't give her any special powers or abilities .. rather it forces her to use her already strong and fixable body in combat and take more positive acts that she wouldn't do normally.. since she is so timid she won't fight or defend herself or anyone even if she can.


Diablos

(The Black Demon Persona)

( Abuses Isadora's body and trains it harshly/ is a manifestation of her fears, anger, hatred, depressions and grief/ Has a violent in-your-face close combat style/ Vicious, Envious and Merciless )

Appears when...
-Isadora life in extreme danger ( usually by an enemy )
-Isadora sees the sight of blood (lots of it)
-When Isadora suffers from extreme depression and haunting memories .. usually faints when she does


Blanco

(The White Joker Persona)

( Sarcastic, loves black comedy, satire and playing cards/ an embodiment of her happy moments and good times specially with her first husband whom she loved so much/ Acrobatic combat style with throws and defensive moves/ Appeared as a counter measure against Diablos and to help Isadora escape her own madness and despair in a positive way/ Tries hard to maintain the balance between protecting Isadora and protecting everyone she cares about )

Appears ...
-To save someone in danger
-To stop Diablos madness
-At rare occasions Isadora is able to switch to this persona when she wants to do something so bad

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-She usually returns to normal after a little period of the personality switch ... and also when the masks are forcefully removed ( eventhough they are cosmetic they mean a lot in her mind .. and are important to maintain her personas ... but in extreme rare occasions her persona might stay even if the mask is removed )

-And if needed and the situation becomes critical to Isadora's life Blanco can remove Diablos persona forcefully.

-Her bad luck is more linked to Diablos personality than anything else ... the more her Diablos Personality appears the more bad things that occur !!!

-While Diablos and Blanco are actually Isadora .. she is still unable to communicate with them .. also Diablos and Blanco tend to have long conversations inside her head without her knowing about any of it ... same way she never remembers anything done by her while she is in her Diablo's or Blanco's persona.

-Actually if it weren't for Blanco's efforts Diablo would have taken over Isadora a long time ago and she would have been either dead or turned into a blood lustful, mad and murderous monster


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BackStory:

Born and raised in Spain, her young life was normal and almost happy if it wasn't for her friends bullying her all the time for being timid and silent, and her sisters playing with and breaking her theater dolls and masks she liked so much.

Until her father's farming business went downhill, few months later a lot of strange things happened .... her father suddenly had a change of character and strangely along with that his business too started flourishing again, but people started disappearing mysteriously near her father's farm and doubts started rising around him, the town folks became quite suspicious and decided to sneak in his farm and search it .. and things only got worse from this point on.

Nobody other than those who went to the farm knew what they found, cause those who came back didn't talk about what they saw there at all, they only said that Ricardo ( Isadora's father ) is evil and has to be cleansed, they convinced everyone to pick up whatever tools or weapons they find and then the angry mob rushed towards Ricardo's house.

And it was a night she would never forget for the rest of her life, when the angry mob came to the house her father was in the basement doing something, Isadora came down to warn him ( despite hating the place because of its terrible smell ) at that moment he heard the noises and screams from outside so he locked Isadora inside the basement and ran up to see what was happening ... only to find his wife and three of his daughters dead by the angry mob who condemned them of being the helpers of the evil necromancer .. enraged by their deaths he attacked the town folks and they both fought while Isadora was trembling in the dim light of the basement with all those screams and noises reaching her ears down there, that's when she saw a strange black mask on the floor ( left by her father ).

Scared and worried she tried to find another way out other than the locked door but instead she found a not-very-well-hidden secret room which the terrible smell in the basement was coming from, she stepped inside only to have the shock of her life ... in a single moment of time she understood everything ( how her father returned back from being bankrupt, the people who kept disappearing, the angry mob, the change in her father's personality, his daily journeys between the farm and the house and the awful smell that comes out of the basement to fill the house whenever its door was open ) ... she understood it all !!!

At that moment the angry mob attacked the basement door after they noticed the smell and tried to break it down with all their might.

Isadora was so shocked and scared that she almost lost her mind from what she saw and what was happening around her, it was so much for the 13 year's old Isadora who then lost her ability to stand and fell fainted on the floor.

After failing to break down the reinforced basement door the angry mob decided to burn both the house and the farm to clean the town of the evil things that took place there, but the fire went out of control and almost burnt half the town, some say that it is Ricardo's curse that he spewed before they killed him, some say that it was his missing daughter that caused the great fire to avenge her father .. but no one ever knew what happened on that day or ever saw Isadora again.

Isadora herself didn't know what happened other than the fact that she woke up to find herself miles away from her town ( with that black mask she found in the basement tied around her waist ), and the fact that she doesn't know or remember what happened after she fainted in the basement didn't make her feel better too, but in her travels after that nightmares kept hunting her in her sleep, in those nightmares she saw her dead family faces' crystal clear as if she really saw them dead with her own eyes, she would then wake up and weep the rest of the night.

She walked miles and miles seeking her grandmother's house on the other side of Spain, sleeping on the streets or in random barns she spent those days in complete loneliness and grief over her lost family, and eventhough she got attacked few times by bandits, every time they corner her she would faint/blackout only to wake up in a different place with blood stained clothes.

After few weeks she reached her grandmother's house by a miracle, she weeped a lot and tried to tell her grandmother about what happened but she couldn't, her grandmother calmed her down and soothed her pain.

Years later ( between nightmares and strange occurrences she couldn't explain ) her grandmother insisted on marrying Isadora to a famous theater actor who was a friend of the family, Isadora first refused, but after meeting the actor she actually liked him ... he always tried to cheer her up and tell her funny jokes and stories .. sometimes he would wear a white funny mask and act like a clown just to make her laugh ... she found him to be very gentle and sincere .. she loved him so much thinking that finally life is starting to smile at her again.


But her life went from tragedy to tragedy after that, she got married to the him but he died one year later when the theater collapsed on him during one of his plays ( she kept the white mask Blanco which she liked to remember him with ), later her grandmother didn't want her to be labeled a widow or bad luck so she married her to an armada ship captain only for him to die at the hands of pirates two month later ( from him she kept the sword "Lagrimoso" which he treasured since it belonged to his grandfather), then under pressure from her grandmother she agreed to get married for the third time to a Merchant from Vince, and again he died after falling off his balcony one day after the wedding ( from him she kept the clothes she wears now, since he bought it specially for her )



After that she started hating herself thinking she is responsible for their deaths ( she could see that in the eyes of people around her and could hear the whispers between those who brand her "Witch" and those who brand her as a harbinger of "Bad Luck"), so she sneaked out of Spain aimlessly on a trade ship .... but the ship got attacked by sea monsters and sank deep into the bottom ocean, Isadora woke up to find herself lying on some shore along with the ship wreckage, somehow happy to be a stranger in a strange land.

She wanders Japan looking for a solution for what she thinks is a curse or a black magic spell, and whenever she looks at those two masks tied on her belt she feels a cold shiver down her spine as no matter how many times they are broken or lost they always come back on her belt somehow !!!

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Sorry for the very long Backstory .. it was necessary to flesh out Isadora's complicated character ^_^

When she is available for battle i'll let you know