Name: Isaiah Zähne (pronounced TSAY-nuh)
Nickname: Ice; a hefty list of pseudonyms may count for nicknames
Age: 26
Birthday: November 13th
Sign: Scorpio
Gemstone: Topaz
Blood Type: O-
Fav. Food: The plastic fruits that sit in dishes and never spoil.
Hated Food: The edible kind.
School: Has master's degree and no plans to continue schooling
Hobbies: Charcoal drawing - As one of Isaiah’s primary mediums, charcoal is both a pleasure and a pain to work with. The depth in contrast proves appealing, but the medium itself produces such a messiness that charcoal dust often coats everything around his workspace before he finishes a project. His favorite subjects for charcoal rendering are still life arrangements and people (although he prefers to feature people with tweaks to the maxillofacial area). He does not sell his drawings, he does not showcase them, and most often they end up in a box in a closet as part of his ‘archival’ process. Charcoal supersedes watercolor and ink as far as favored fine arts practices go.
Trespassing - Destiny City has the perfect setup for anyone interested in breaking and entering. Due to the high volume of crime and death related to the terrorists, there isn’t much police coverage allocated to the steadily growing number of abandoned buildings that are otherwise trapped in legal limbo. Isaiah thoroughly enjoys taking advantage of this predicament to make use of these abandoned spaces and convert them to small grottos. Additionally, he has little trouble with breaking into owned homes, though he is much more vigilant and careful in doing so. He has gotten caught in the past, and knows he will get caught in the future - it’s simply a matter of how it will go down.
Counting Calories - Eating is a numbers game. A can of soup houses 220 calories, with 90 calories from fat. That leaves 130 calories from other sources, and how many of those calories are actually empty? Diets are fascinating, nutrition facts are fascinating, and everything surrounding the act of eating and its cultural significance triggers Isaiah’s interest. He will often spend an hour in the grocery store picking up items and reading their nutrition labels over actually shopping. He also likes to regale people with stories on how many calories are in that salted caramel frappuccino because they often feel guilty for drinking it, and guilt looks good on most faces.
Transgressive Fiction - What
is stranger than fiction? Reality provides a nice foil, but transgression takes the cake for taking the bizarre and adding a shade of darkness. Isaiah reads, writes, and animates transgressive fiction to a delighted degree and has no compunctions about impressing its uncomfortable nature onto others. He has written transgressive shorts in the past, and started a commendable collection of the books alongside other cherished favorites. He finds their stories quite palatable and applicable to some of the running themes of real life. He does not often share this hobby with other people, but there have been many occasions where he starts developing transgressive vignettes starring the particularly boring fellow sitting across from him at the bistro.
Virtues: Curious - The world around him does not reveal secrets without questioning, so why expect it to unveil without doing so? Isaiah wants to know how the world works, how people work, what they think about, what to do with them, and why he himself is the way he is (among a plethora of other questions). Sometimes this curiosity manifests childishly, but mostly it shows his interest and reflects favorably to the people around him.
Attentive - One does not learn by being absent; Isaiah is both highly grounded in his surroundings and highly interested in them. He is one of the people who internalizes the fact that this person has unusual purple eyes ,and that their leaf green hair works as a particularly potent contrast. When told of a hobby concerning underwater basket weaving, he will remember it at a later date where other conversationalists might not. He finds people highly interesting, just as how he finds adjusting symbols to reality highly interesting. Isaiah will also recognize when noted features of a room shift and change, which might make him a candidate for gaslighting. He is also someone who typically doesn’t step into potholes and break his ankle. It’s important to know your surroundings.
Passionate - Once of a special level of interest, an idea or thought or person receives unprecedented focus from him. The subject invokes immense concentration and emotions, and he is probably capable of discussing it for hours. If gardening caught his eye, for example, then he would spend countless hours learning from different gardeners, drawing sketches of plants, planning hybrid breeds, investing in his own small garden, and reading the latest horticultural findings. People will find themselves analyzed and doted on in his own particularly terrible brand, but the intentions are still there.
Flaws: Uncouth - Isaiah simultaneously loves culture and loves to wreck it. Isaiah consciously and intentionally speaks out of line, violates social guidelines, invites interpersonal disaster and at basest point, simply makes an a** of himself. While he does believe that people are genuinely fascinating, sometimes they just aren’t so until one pisses them off. This results in Isaiah lacking quite a few friends, alienating the people who might want to be his friends, and pissing off all the wrong people until it’s time to move to another new town. The worst of it is, he sees no reason to change this behavior because look at all the places he’s been and all the people he’s met because of it!
Unhinged - There have been considerations in the past that Isaiah is batshit. While there are no official diagnoses pointing to any mental upset, Isaiah does commit to a great many activities that call into question his interest in survival. He often makes transgressive moves that directly threaten his social standing, safety, or connections without any overt benefit in making that choice. Much of his actions seem absent reason to the typical onlooker, which discourages many in getting mixed up with him. What would happen if befriending him meant that he might gamble away their safety on a whim too?
Unstoppable - Once his mind is set on a particular course of action, he will not give it up. Once he has determined that someone is worth dragging into his life, he will embed his every hook under their skin and drag until they capitulate or he is trailed behind them on their journeys. Isaiah does not know the meaning of the word ‘relent’ and has no plans to learn it. Such heavy fixation has a tendency to drive people off. More personally, that obsessive quality can and has caused great injury for Isaiah.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Eyes: Tarnished gold, narrow.
Hair: Black, feathered, side parted on right and drawn over from right side to left side of the head. Bangs reach chest length on both sides. The rest of his hair remains shorter, at shoulder length.
Face: Pointed chin, angled jawline, slight gauntness to features. Cheekbones are recognized but not prominent. Caucasian complexion; he is working on his moontan too. Think heroin chic.
Clothes: Likes to dress industrial. Attempts to look classy sometimes for a greater sting when his garbage wit comes out to play. Has a
fancy lighter strung about his neck for breakfast, lunch, and dinner smokes.
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