Isabelle Lyons
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Backstory
The story of Isabelle Lyons and how she became embraced as a creature of the night.
Headcanons
Small details which play a part in Isabelle's overall development.
Backstory
Though the backstory is Vampire: the Masquerade based, she can be placed in any supernatural based verse, remaining fandomless.
Naked ambition as tempered by self-control, pride, and will. Those were the traits which Isabelle Lyons grew up valuing the most, and the ones which would prove to be her twisted hail mary, elevating her to heights that most can only dream about.
Being born to a lawyer father and a school teacher mother in 1898, Isabelle lived a better life that most at the time, her father's successful career allowing them to sit in the lap of luxury at the time, and having amassed wealth spread over generations, the Lyons family was well known in their home of New York and beyond, with clients and other lawyers alike coming from across the country to seek her father's aid in their court matters, while her mother found her own joy in being a guiding hand for the youth, particularly high school students, and her firm, but caring nature earned her the love of students and faculty alike, leading to her taking a seat on the school board, and by the time Isabelle was in high school, her mother had become the chairwoman of the board pulling the strings of everything that happened within the walls.
Growing up as an only child with influences like her parents around her, it was no surprise that Isabelle had developed those traits as well, always thriving to be the best at whatever she did, seeing herself as being a level or two above her peers, and carried herself as such throughout her adolescence and into adulthood. Isabelle chose to follow in her father's footsteps, going on to study law, and joining her father's practice after attaining her degree.
By that time, the Prohibition had began, and the ban on alcohol had rocked the nation, leading to the rise of bootleggers and speakeasies as a way to circumvent the law, and Isabelle made sure to captialise on that, making connections with those in the underworld business, and defending them in court if the law had caught up to them, one successful case after another leading to her becoming a force to be reckoned with in the legal field even outside of her father's influence and scope. Climbing the ranks quickly to be able to sit at the same table as those and who had been there for decades was a tremendous accolade, but with it came increased attention, and with that, the night that would change her life forever.
The man's name was Nikolai, and he posed as a client in need of her services, claiming that she was the only one who could help him out of his plight, and seeing how well put together he was, and how dignified he carried himself, Isabelle was intrigued, taking on the case after discussing the details with him, the results of which caused Nikolai's business rival to be forced to sell everything he owned, wife included, in order to repay decades to discovered tax evasion and illegal alcohol production. Once the case was closed and Isabelle had received her fees, Nikolai invited her on a night on the town to celebrate, which she accepted, noting that it was one of the more impactful cases she'sp had, though the wording he used gave her a brief pause . . . something about her passing his test, but she shook the thought aside. As the night went on, one thing lead to another, and she ended up in Nikolai's bed, a line she never made a habit of crossing with her clients, past and present, but there was just something about him that made her unable to resistβ and hours later, while her body was still wrapped up in bliss, he whispered something to her about joining him, wanting to show her what it meant to truly be at the top of the food chain. She said yes, naturally, and the last thing she remembered before waking up was the sharp pain of fangs sinking into her neck.
When she awoke, the moon was high in the sky and Nikolai was seated beside her, a grin on his face and a young woman beside him who looked dazed, and before she could voice the confusion in her eyes, Nikolai told her to drink from the girl if she truly wanted to become like him. Isabelle was hungrier than she had ever been, and thirsting as though there was not a drop of water in her body, meanwhile all she could focus on was the beating of the girl's heart and the sound of blood rushing through the veins. She heeded his words, and with what she could only describe as primal instinct, Isabelle bit into the girl's neck without a second thought, newly formed fangs sinking into the girl's flesh as she drank, stopping only when Nikolai cautioned her not to drink too much, lest the girl die.
Isabelle became a child of the night in that moment, embraced and having taken her first taste of human blood. Nikolai stayed for a dew months, teaching her what it meant to be kindred, and more importantly, Ventrue, before moving on. Isabelle stayed in New York until the end of the Prohibition Era, continuing to make a name for herself in the legal field, all the while keeping in contact with her sire and other members of their clan, grasping onto her new vampiric life with both hands and building connections, before moving to other states before it became too apparent that she never aged a day, eternally 26. She continues to practice law in the modern age, retaining her name while claiming to be a granddaughter of the 'first' Isabelle Lyons.
Headcanons
i. Frequent travel is a constant in her life, whether it's for galas or court, camarilla meetings, visiting different places of wealth and influence across the world. She does have an estate however, one her parents had left for her before they passed, and she renovated it to meet modern standards, staying there when she isn't traveling and converting one of the bigger guest rooms into a home office. Her law firm is located in the city.
ii. She is a polyglot, fluent in French, Spanish, Latin, Mandarin, and Japanese in addition to her native English.
iii. Isabelle is a member of the Ventrue clan, who have a reputation for honor, genteel behavior, and leadership, as well as a sense of noblesse oblige. As such, she possesses the disciplines of Dominate, Fortitude, and Presence.
iv. Her haven is her estate, and she established her domain in her law firm's building.
v. Isabelle is bisexual and a switch with no lean for both, preferring to adapt to her partner(s) and whatever roles need to be filled.