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 Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 7:33 am
_______B a s i c s
Name: Isaiah Varney (birth), Isaiah Zähne (legal)
Nickame: Ice
Age: 27
Birthday: November 13th
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 140 lbs
Blood Type: O-
Fav. Food: The plastic fruits that sit in dishes and never spoil.
Hated Food: The edible kind.
_______H o b b i e s
Support Groups - Support groups seldom qualifiy as one-stop-shops for addiction treatment, therapeutic need, or disposable community. Relapse happens often and requires revisitation. In Isaiah's case, this manner of group therapy is both a necessity and a conscious choice, as he finds their openness quite valuable and their close-knit communities viable sounding boards for certain life events. But treatment and support aside, mostly he stops into weekly meetings to bring donuts and bad humor. He has since expanded his circle of influence to include support groups that don't apply to any of his own personal issues, such as Sisters for Ovarian Cancer Recovery (SOCR), Ball Buds: A Testicular Cancer Support Group, and Operation We Are Here: Support for Military Families.
Correspondence - Since slowly training his left hand to do what he wants, Isaiah developed a certain attraction to letter writing. In the past, he used it mostly for writing to other knights of important events, but now he finds it a useful means for staying in touch with other busy lives. Sure, text messaging and email both exist as viable communication conduits, but they lack the personal touch of handwritten correspondence. While his letters still look shakey compared to his formerly impeccable handwriting, Isaiah's letters more than reach the legible point and often offer valuable insights to receiving parties. He has since invested in more fancy balsawood pens and weighted, textured paper to add to the correspondence experience. These days he's even looking into blatantly sarcastic stamps and colored waxes for an individual note to his letters.
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.
_______V i r t u e s
Friendly - Isaiah finds no compunctions about interacting with others. He holds a natural inclination toward fostering positive relationships with others, and often attempts this through using politeness in new interactions or practicing compassion for others in older relationships. He finds relationships far more rewarding when parties stay on good terms with one another, and good terms requires active work in which he willingly partakes. He is the one that, at the end of an incredibly stressful day, still sets aside the energy to smile at someone walking through his door. Thus, Isaiah is relatively easy to approach by others, and he receives them warmly in kind. It's important to note that this is Isaiah's professional demeanor.
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.
Charismatic - Isaiah possesses a certain charm in his dry demeanor and laissez-faire attitude about social mores that frequently attracts others. For some, he's refreshingly different; for others, his charm lay in his subtly faked overconfidence. Some enjoy his dismissive approach toward rigid gender standards wherein he dresses himself with overtly feminine notes. Perhaps some of it comes from his spark of addictive personality, too. Regardless of its manifestation, those who surround Isaiah can collectively agree that the man has a lot of charisma.
_______F l a w s
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. Where his friendliness carries him well in situations where abiding by social constraints is preferred, he still tends to venture out of those bounds when he's not trying to put forth a positive face. This type of behavior still surfaces when Isaiah lets his hair down. Those who aren't close friends of Isaiah may find themselves put off by crass humor, bold body language and culturally unacceptable suggestions. Converse to friendly, this is Isaiah's casual demeanor.
World-weary - There's an old adage stating, "if one finds oneself in hell, keep going." Isaiah did just that, and found that he somehow looped around and went through Lucifer's Fabulous Fairground several times now. These experiences manifest in a marked weariness for the way in which the world likes to destroy itself. Similarly, this weariness provokes an ennui in Isaiah in which he finds that he just doesn't want to leave the bed some days. Sometimes he fails to find existential pointfulness and prefers instead to dive into harmful decadence. Other times, he finds that the universe failed to surprise him, and the result is exhausting. And while Isaiah tries to reign in the lot of this and confine his miserable fatigue to his internal thoughts, these reactions can leak into his behaviors and turn Isaiah into a very trying person.
Insouciant - Maybe he had a few too many near-death experiences, or maybe Isaiah just doesn't possess a lot of inseparable ties to life. Maybe it's all just one big convoluted coping mechanism, but he plays fast and loose with deadly situations quite often. Isaiah applies a lot of litotes language and dismissiveness to occurrences that may have ended in human tragedy, even when they're still occurring. To some, this looks like a gross underestimate of the damage potential in an event; to others, a staunch refusal to see the facts; and to others still, a ridiculous way in which he tries to disguise his own fear of the ultimate consequences. For Isaiah, the lattermost proves the truest instance. But while he finds this dismissiveness a viable coping mechanism, others consider it a callous disregard for his own life and the lives of others.
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 11:32 am
Hey, Strick! All of this looks good to me, but I have a question about how two of his traits manifest! His friendly virtue and his uncouth flaw are both great on their own but together I feel like I might be missing something! In his friendly trait it says that he fosters positive relationships through politeness and compassion, and that he warmly receives others; however his uncouth flaw seems to contradict this by saying that he intentionally pisses people off, alienates them and lacks friends. I’m wondering, at what point does Isaiah lose his friendly virtue and have it manifest into the ‘uncouth’ flaw? I’m not reading it in such a way that it seems like these traits can coexist, but I might be misunderstanding. Can you shed a little extra light on how these traits would affect one another and how they can be played without contradicting each other? Thanks so much!
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:23 am
Oops, that was me failing to proofread the retained traits. Should be fixed now!
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 12:25 pm
It looks awesome, thanks so much! Have fun! 
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