hair: Iza is best known for her
iconic long half shaved green hair. She was born with black hair, a trait she's inheritted from her father. Back when she was still in grade school, Iza kept her hair long; it was only after she started getting into fights, did she chop it all off and kept it as short as she could--it was only hindering her, there was no sense in keeping it. It was only after her brother Nico died did she start growing it long again. Since she's started keeping her hair short and up until now, Iza cuts her own hair. It used to end up messy but after years of practice, she's finally gotten the hang of it. She couldn't be bothered to go to a salon back then. Dyeing her hair was something she started to do way back when she first cut her hair short. Before, it was merely highlights and the tips of her hair--never her whole head. Back then, she used an array of colorus switching between them almost every month till she finally settled on red. However, after finding out that her brother dyed his own hair green, along with his humorous reason for doing so, Iza switched her highlights from shades of red to shades of green. After he died, Iza dyed her hair green in memory of him. Just as she cuts her own hair, Iza dyes them on her own as well.
eyes: She has a pair of big
blue eyes; just like her mother does. They have the tendency to appear more of a blue-green colour though thanks to her neon green hair.
height: 5 ft 8 in. Iza is a rather tall girl, in fact, she dwarfs a lot of her female peers even when she was still younger. Despite her height though, she's still short compared to her band mates--high heels help.
weight: 122 lbs; she's just a few numbers away from being underweight. She doesn't starve herself though, in fact, she's actually working on gaining more weight. Iza is simply cursed with fast metabolism--plus, drumming is also quite the exercise so there really isn't that much fat in her.
piercings: Iza has several piercings. She has three ear piercings on each ear: a standard lobe piercing, an upper lobe piercing and a auricle piercing. Iza doesn't fill them with earrings at all time though. She also has a nose piercing on her right nostril where she wears a silver nose ring at all times. Needles don't really scare her, but she's rather conscious on how a piercing would look and dwells on it a lot before getting one. Right now, Iza considering getting a tongue piercing.
tattoos: Unlike piercings, tattoos are something Iza is more hesitant about. Tattoos feel more permanent to her. She currently only has two, one across each of her inner wrists. On the left is a word which reads 'Dream' and on the right is another word which reads 'Believe.' [spoili]
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birthmarks: None.
scars: Her body has a few light scars from her delinquent days. Most of them have faded though. Iza hasn't gotten into a fight since she was in high school.
health: Iza is pretty healthy, the only problem she has to deal with is her being close to being underweight.
rebellious: Ever since she overheard the conversation her parents had that fateful evening, Iza's personality changed for the worse. She could not deny turning rebel after being hurt by what she heard. To Iza, it was a domino effect, one little pushed caused everything to collapse. What her parents wanted for her to do, she pretty much ignored. Rule breaking comes as naturally to her as breathing. Her parents thought that it was merely a phase, but apparently it wasn't. Iza enjoyed the rebellious lifestyle and continued to live a rebellious lifestyle to this day; rules were simply so fun to break.
fun loving: One thing that didn't change about her through all the years was her fun loving nature. Rebel or not, Iza always had a penchant for things she deemed to be fun. This was actually a trait that she picked up from hanging around with her fun loving older brother whenever permitted. To have fun, that was her main goal and reason for doing what she did--most of the time at least; other times it's cause of the rebel inside of her wishing to defy her parents.
loyal: Iza isn't all bad and no good, there's still some positive qualities about her. One would be her loyalty. Even after her personality seem to take a full 180 degree turn, she still remains fiercely loyal to those she deems worthy of her loyalty. If she believes in you, then you're guaranteed that she'll follow you till the ends of the earth.
brave: Another positive quality that she has is her bravery. This, on the other hand, was something she acquired when she became rebellious. In the past, she was someone easily scared, so much so that she'd cling onto Nico who would then comfort her. Now it was completely different. Iza learned to face her fears and problems on her own.
vulgar: Hanging around with the wrong bunch of people, Iza has picked up a bad habit or two. Being vulgar is one of them. Iza has no reservations when came to swearing and the likes. If she feels like saying 'fuck', she'll say 'fuck' and quite crisply as well. In the past, you wouldn't even hear her say the word 'damn' or call someone and 'idiot'. She thought it was too rude. But now, now she was practically a swearing machine gun when she was pissed.
cynical: In the past, despite being the unloved child, Iza had such a colourful view in life. The girl was a former optimist. Now? Ha. You'd be lucky to hear her say anything positive about things. Iza has grown to be cynical and such is reflected by her views in life.
tough: Iza is a tough girl. She's not one that was easy to break, both physically and emotionally. The pain she felt upon hearing that she was merely considered as a mistake by her parents--Iza believes that no pain could ever surpass that. All she had to do to get through an emotionally painful experience was to recall that evening, that conversation, that exact word.
Mistake.
HER STORY.
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the younger zielinski: Second child of Mina and Arthur Zielinski. Iza grew up rather unloved. They say that the youngest child was always the most spoiled, but Iza was living proof that this wasn't always true. Her older brother, Nico Zielinski, was born with a genetic defect. Nico was predicted to die at an early age. Their parents poured all their love and attention onto Nico; Iza felt abandoned. But she understood why they treated then unequally, and she didn't despise her parents nor Nico for it. In fact, Nico and her had were very close. The fact that they were only a year apart helped with them being able to relate to each other.
The relationship between Iza and her parents only took a turn for the worse when she overheard them talking about how she was a mistake. Iza was never planned, she wasn't even supposed to be conceived. A big accident. It was around this time that Nico began needing to visit the hospital on an almost daily basis only to have him permanently stay at the hospital for further close monitoring. Not having anyone to be there for her, Iza entered her rebellious phase. She started involving herself with the wrong type of people, getting into a gang, having street brawls. Iza claims that she does it on her own volition, but the truth was that she did it in hopes to catch her parents' attention. But she never did.
At some point, Nico needed medical help that they couldn't get in their country. Without any hesitation, Mina and Arthur took Nico away and left Iza with the first relative they could think of: her uncle Lyle Zielinski. Now, her uncle lived in the bad side of town, the side where robbery was not uncommon. The harsh environment did nothing to put Iza out of her rebellious phase, but instead it made it worse. Her uncle didn't help either. Uncle Lyle didn't care was Iza did, just as long as she got back home in one piece. Lyle was a firm believer that children had to learn from their own mistakes--perhaps that was why he didn't have a family of his own.
requested reunion: Years later her parents contacted her uncle Lyle. In all the years since they left, they never once called to check up on her. Iza could only scoff at the news and threw a fit at what came after. Her parents wanted her to hop on a plane and return back under their care. She was about to refuse, however, when she found out it was on Nico's request she found herself unable to refuse. And so she took the ticket provided by her parents, accompanied by Lyle, she flew to where they were. Once she got there, Lyle didn't bother to even greet his sibling and took the next plane back to Poland.
Nico was surprised to see how much she'd changed since the last time he saw her. Thankfully, he didn't judge nor prosecute her for it and Iza was grateful for that. Their parents on the other hand, was a completely different story. Even though Iza started being a rebel before they even left Poland, they were still very surprised to see what she had become. They were disgusted and at the same time ashamed, to say the least. Iza didn't care what they thought though, she stopped caring since the day they left her to fend for herself--though technically she had Lyle to depend on.
During her visits to Nico in the hospital, she learned how he had developed a penchant for drumming and wished he could become a drummer. "Someday, when you get out, " is what she constantly tells him. Nico merely smiles at her words. Each time, a sinking feeling settled on her stomach. That was when Iza decided to get into drums. One day, while she was at school, she heard a distinct sound. Iza followed the sound and found herself in the music room. Inside was someone in her year, playing on drum set. She recalled her brother and how he said he wanted to be a drummer. The boy playing saw that she was watching. His name was Gabriel. Long story short, Gabriel ultimately taught her how to play the drums.
the end is the beginning: Iza was in entering her last year of high school when they told Iza to come live with them. She already knew, from the moment when they told her that it was her brother's request that she come, that it was not a good sign. True enough, her brother died merely months after she came. She already knew it was coming, but knowing was vastly different from it actually happening.
With Nico passing away, her parents now focused on her. They wanted to 'reform' her, to change her, bring back what she was in the past--if they even paid enough attention to her to know what she was like. Needless to say, Iza was pissed. That was when she made the decision to move out as soon as she graduated from high school. She learned to endure her parents till then.
Enduring wasn't as difficult as she imagined it to be. Iza didn't have her own drum set to practice with, so she often went to Gabriel's place who was generous enough to let her practice on his set as he taught her. Every time she would pay a visit to Gabriel, she would claim to her that she was going to a friend's place to study or work on a project together. It was the best excuse she could think of, after all, she couldn't very well say that she was going to a guy's house to learn how to play the drums. Iza knew without a doubt that her parents would be against her taking up the drums.
Upon graduating high school, she told her parents that she wanted to move to Vancouver to study college. This wasn't exactly false, Iza did want to go to college. Drumming was merely a hobby to her. She knew that she wasn't that good of a drummer to make it big in a band of sorts. Her parents granted her request. Maybe they planned on sending her off all along? Whatever the case was, Iza was free.
break the silence: After moving to Vancouver, Iza entered college to work on a degree in philosophy. Honestly, she didn't know what she wanted to study, philosophy was the one that struck her as the most interesting among her options. She kept contact with Gabriel who had moved to back to England after graduating from high school. They talked about drums and music for the most part. Iza got herself a part time job and was saving up to buy her own drum set.
A few months after she managed to save up and buy her own drum set, Iza heard about a band called 'Break the Silence' and how they were looking for a drummer. Part of her wanted to join the band, just to find out how it feels to be part of one. She talked about it with Gabriel and he gave her the push she needed to try out. Then the rest was history.
family:
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Mina & Arthur Zielinski (parents) - Despite all the bullshit they put her to, despite negative thing she says about them, despite all of that; deep down Iza still really loves her parents.
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Nico Zielinski (older brother) - Closest friend she had and pretty much the only family member who liked her. Iza loved and cared for her brother deeply. He was one of the handful of people she actually trusted. Unfortunately, he died when Iza reached her third year due to his genetic disorder which he's been battling since he was born.
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Lyle Zielinski (uncle; father's side) - Even though his method of discipline was... lacking, Iza is quite grateful for him. If Lyle wasn't around, the current rebellious Iza wouldn't be around. She probably wouldn't have been left by her parents, would've realized sooner that being a rebel was not achieving what she wanted. Iza would've changed methods, perhaps tried becoming an overachiever to attain her parents' attention.
Oh wait, that's actually better.
friends:
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Gabriel Stark - A former classmate who essentially taught her how to play the drums. He is a fellow drummer, however, unlike Iza, he didn't pursue it as a career and drifted from it over the years. Gabriel is a close friend of hers back in high school, and continues to be so til present.
significant other: TBA
enemies: TBA
others: TBA
OTHERS.
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likes: chocolates, soda, the colour black, museums, philosophical books, autumn, partying, arm cuffs, twenty one pilots, Asian cuisine
dislikes: dirt, plane rides, spring season, opening up, religious figures, hospitals, instant food, narrow minded people, butterflies
hobbies + talents:
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Playing Drums - Playing drums started out to be a hobby to her, a hobby which she was quite good at--so good that it became her career.
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Origami - Not many are aware of this, but Iza is quite fond of origami. She claims that it helps her calm down. Iza usually folds origami when she's in deep thought about something.
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Reading - Iza may not look like it, but she's actually quite fond of reading books... well, comic books--it's still reading! She also likes to read books on philosophy.
strengths:
◝★ Can handle herself in a fist fight.
◝★ Upper body strength; playing drums can be quite the exercise.
◝★ Fast writer.
◝★ Fast reader.
◝★ Quick learner.
weaknesses:
◝★ Poor penmanship.
◝★ Isn't very good at memorization.
◝★ Bad sense of direction.
◝★ Doesn't open up very easily.
◝★ Can come off as rude and disrespectful at times
secrets:
◝★ She's
never been in a relationship.
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Smoking is actually something she hates; Iza only does it for photoshoots since it aligns with her 'tough rebel girl' image.
◝★ Iza
has a thing for one of her band mates but will probably never act on it.
◝★ She
dreams of one day settling down with someone and having her own family.
◝★ Iza
reads fanfiction about her band.
favourites:
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Male Celebrity - Joshua Dun; he is her idol and inspiration.
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Female Celebrity - Maisie Williams
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Food - Ramen; legit ramen, not the instant one--she hates those (along with every other instant food out there).
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Sport - Volleyball
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Movie - The Godfather (1972)
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Animal - Fennec Fox
origin: Iza and her family originally came from Poland before moving to Canada.
sexuality: Heterosexual. Though Iza has never been in a relationship before--which is something that isn't all too surprising--she's always found herself attracted to people of the opposite sex. Guys tended to avoid her like the plague; they were mostly scared she'd beat them to a pulp, or were too concerned with what people would think if it was found that Iza was 'more manly than them. However, for the very reason that guys avoided her, some girls found themselves attracted to her. Iza has had her fair share of ladies trying to ask her out in hopes that she rolled that way. Too bad for them, she didn't. She'd never found herself attracted to the same gender. Sure she would occasionally voice out her thoughts on a girl, like how she thinks that the girl is pretty and/or beautiful, but it didn't mean she wanted to be with them.
Admiration did not equal attraction.
general view on life: "You only live once, so make the most out of it; but don't be a fucking idiot who uses that as an excuse to do whatever they want. That's just stupid. The world has enough idiots as it is."
passwords: Keep your secrets hush hush.
