Basic info
FC: Ella Purnell
Also known as: Betua, Ys, Yssy
Age: 2782
DOB: June 15th (respectively), 763BCE
Place of birth: Hallstat area, modern day Austria
Height: 5'4"
Gender: Female (she/her)
Sexuality: Pansexual
Relationship status: Single
Current place of residence: Wherever the wind takes her.
Biography
Ysabel is an immortal human being with a healing factor. She can die, but will wake up again eventually. She's very cheerful, kind, social, caring and motherly, but also clever, strong both mentally and physically, highly skilled in many things, a good leader and very adventurous.
trivia
- Ysabel is proficient with many weapons, though she's exceptionally good at sword fighting. She's very upset it has gone out of style.
- She speaks a little bit of a lot of languages, though speaks English and French at a near-native level. She's also pretty decent at Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. No matter what language she speaks, her accent is always described as "foreign".
RP RULES
1. I work full-time, please be patient with me. Sometimes it can take me a week or longer to reply. If you truly think I have missed your reply, please DM me. Don't like my tweets in an attempt to get my attention.
2. I don't RP lewd, not even in the odd chance I tweet something suggestive. It doesn't matter if we're shipped either. Lewd is a no go for me.
3. DMs are strictly OOC. I don't RP in DMs unless I say otherwise.
4. I'm 21+. I will RP with minors but I will not ship with them or RP anything romantic with them.
5. I'm open to receiving DMs about plotting an SL. In fact, I appreciate that!
6. I'm multiship and my portrayal will always remain multiverse. I have a maximum of 3 ships.
Full biography
Ysabel's history is very long. That's why it's divided into 3 periods. Click the buttons below to learn more.
763BCE - 1BCE
tw for war, death, slavery, child loss and (sexual) abuse
763BCE - 662BCE:
Betua was born during a solar eclipse on the 15th of June (respectively), 763BCE. She grew up in a region that is now known as the Hallstat area in modern-day Austria. She lived a normal life with her parents and siblings as simple farmers. She was married to a man at the age of 18. Back then marriage was about connecting families and simply producing offspring. Despite that, her husband was good to her. They didn’t always see eye to eye, but he respected her enough to at least listen to her point of view and consider it. Betua got five kids in the next ten years, two of which died before they turned six. Betua’s husband died when she was 35, leaving her with three kids. She was supported by family and did her best to survive. It was around this time that people began to notice that she still looked like she was in her early 20s. Word went around that she might be blessed by the gods and goddesses and people began to come to her to be blessed as well. Because people also gave her and her kids gifts and valuable trinkets, Betua took her kids to see the Olympiads in 720BCE, in Olympia in Ancient Greece. It was a long travel, but very much worth it. As the years passed, Betua didn’t seem to age at all and soon enough her kids looked much older than her. Eventually, they died one by one, with the last child dying in 687BCE. Betua was overcome with grief, yet she was determined to find out why she outlived them. Because science was limited and doctors weren’t really equipped for this either, Betua eventually gave up on trying to find an answer. Betua stayed in the same area for a while for the sake of her grandkids, but when those all grew up and died as well, she decided to leave the area around 662BCE. She wanted to see more of the world, because she still believed that any day could be her last.661BCE - 500BCE:
Betua moved away from her home area to travel through the cities of Ancient Greece. Because Greek cities did not grant citizenship to women, she didn’t feel like staying anywhere for long periods of time. However, when she came to Messenia, she fell in love with a man and decided to stay. At the time in Messenia, the population consisted of so-called “Helots”, which were people who were enslaved by the Spartans. When the Second Messenian War happened (around 660BCE), Betua helped fight against the Spartans. Later during the war, around 658BCE, she was killed. She woke up again about half an hour later when the battle was still going on. A Spartan warrior noticed this and knocked her out, kidnapping her. Betua woke up again in Sparta, where she was held prisoner. Spartans abused her, mostly verbally and physically, but also sexually. Eventually, a Spartiate took pity on her and was interested in how she managed to rise from the dead. Considering that this was the first time Betua had died, she was just as puzzled as anyone else. The Spartiate allowed her to live freely in Sparta if she would become his wife. Betua agreed as that was the best possible outcome at that moment. The Spartiate thought that Betua could give him many strong children, considering that she defied death. However, of the seven children that Betua bore him, two were stillborn and three of them were girls. While women and girls certainly had more rights in Sparta than elsewhere in Ancient Greece, boys were still preferred. Because Betua’s children were considered “Mothakes”, they were granted similar rights, but not equal rights, to Spartiates. When Betua’s husband died and her children grew a little older, the Spartiates noticed that she didn’t seem to age. They began to worship her, as the Celts did before them. While Betua didn’t always like the special attention, she knew that it was her best chance of survival. Eventually, when her kids had also passed, she got married again to King Leon of Sparta. With him, she had one son named Anaxandridas II. After King Leon died, Betua dated a woman named Eirene. When her son and her lover both died, Betua decided to finally leave Sparta and headed West, to the Achaemenid Empire.500BCE-400BCE:
When arriving at the Achaemenid Empire, Betua tried her best to not draw any attention to herself. However, considering she didn’t speak the language, people immediately knew she was a foreigner. Despite that, she tried to keep her head down and started working on a farm, at first for housing and food, but after two years she was given money too. Because she was afraid that anyone might have heard about her, she lied about her name and her background. She also tried to avoid getting attached to anyone to prevent any complications. However, she failed at this when years down the line she grew close to one of her fellow workers, a man named Manuchehr. After a few months, they started dating, and not much later they planned on marrying. Betua felt like she had to come clean about who she was, and so she did, but she wasn’t met with the support she’d hoped for. In the Achaemenid Empire, lying was considered a sin and a crime, and so her lover broke up with her. Heartbroken, Betua left the farm and went to a bigger city in hopes of finding work there. Eventually, she started working for a woman named Amuhia who made pottery. She taught Betua the art and over the course of many years, the two became close as friends. Betua had told Amuhia about her condition and Amuhia didn’t judge her for it. She covered for her and lied for her, knowing that the punishment could be severe. Fortunately, the locals didn’t seem to care much when they noticed that Betua didn’t age. In this place, people worshipped natural elements rather than deities, and they felt like Betua’s condition was just excellent health.A few years passed and Betua was happy with her life and enjoyed her work. But her life changed when Xerxes I visited the city. He took an interest in Betua and had heard whispers about her never-ending youthfulness. She was invited to his palace and she reluctantly accepted. Once there, she had dinner with him and he asked her all about her long life. He asked her to stay with him for a while, and because Betua didn’t want to get in trouble, she agreed. In the weeks that followed, the two had sex regularly, though most times Betua wasn’t necessarily in the mood for it. She just didn’t want to say no to someone of such high status. Two months later, she found she was pregnant. Xerxes I’s wife wasn’t too happy with that and she devised a plan to make Xerxes I kick Betua out. The plan worked, and Betua was thrown out at five months pregnant. She returned to Amuhia completely distraught by the way she had been treated. Amuhia cared for her, helped her during the birth of her daughter Iotapa, and helped care for the child. When the child grew up and Amuhia grew old, Betua and Iotapa took over the pottery shop and cared for Amuhia until she eventually died. Iotapa eventually got married and had three kids. Betua stayed in the Achaemenid Empire until all of her grandkids had reached adulthood, before eventually moving to a different place in the Achaemenid Empire.Here she tried her best to build a new life for herself, but unfortunately, she found herself working for a man who didn’t respect her at all. During one heated argument, he ended up smashing her head in with a rock. She died as a cause of the violence and was left for dead. When she woke up not too long after, she fled and moved once again, in search of a better life.More coming soon
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1001CE - NOW
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