Post by trouble on May 24, 2010 17:12:44 GMT -5
Trouble
NAME: Isabella Mancini
NICKNAME: Trouble
AGE: 17
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Baranzate, Italy
HISTORY
Isabella was born the daughter of a vineyard owner and a seamstress. Her mother died in childbirth, leaving Isabella and her father behind.
They lived poor and they didn't have much, but they were happy. What they did have meant the world to them.
At the age of ten, Isabella was working odd jobs around their small town, and helping her father in the vineyard as much as she could. She took great pride in the long hours she put in tending the grapes that grew there.
When Isabella was 16 years old, the small, but healthy vineyard that her father put his blood, sweat and tears into shriveled up, due to a horrible draught that swept through Italy.
It devastated many vineyards, leaving many with no source of income with which to take care of their families.
With nothing else to do, and nothing else to lose, Vitale sold the vinyard that had been in his family for six generation at a great financial loss, packed up what little he and his daughter had and bought a steamboat ticket to America.
PERSONALITY
Isabella is a quiet person, but only because she does not know that much English. She learned quite a bit of it on the voyage over, but she still has a hard time grasping what others are saying.
That does not mean that she does not try, however.
She's always listening, and learning.
She loves to have fun, and she's fiercely protective of her papa. He's all she's got, after all.
She lives up to her nickname, though she's not too thrilled to have it.
Her papa used to say "Mal comune, mezzo gaudio." which meant 'a common trouble is a half joy.'
Vitale says that in the shared trouble of losing his wife and daughter's mother, he got so much more than a half joy that some days he felt as if his heart would burst.
Isabella does not go looking for trouble (most days, anyway), but it always seems to find her.
She'd find it amusing if it weren't so annoying.
Who are you?
Name: Carlie
Age: 20
Characters You Play: Trouble