Isabella Morenos

* Current
* 1960's

> “Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken, and you can never take them back.”
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> ― Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen
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**Isabella Marguerite Morenos** is the oldest child and daughter of Babette Morenos and her husband James, and is the older sister to Thomasina and Jessica.

Isabella raised her grandnieces Artanis, Aelita and Althea but also co-parent her sisters child Felipe.

## Appearance

In Isabella's true form, she gains intense shiny blue skin, pitch black eyes without any white nor pupils, snow-white hair, pointed ears, and multiple rows of sharp teeth. Isabella like every Magi's she has a M underneath her tongue.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Witch Physiology** - Isabella is a halfblooded hereditary witch with mastery over spell casting, potion making and divination. Her own personal magic being (\*&\*).
	+ **Spell Casting** - Isabella is a gifted spellcaster with her personal favors being one's based in illusions. Isabella could bend reality to her will with a few words depending on her mood.
		- **Spell Reflection** - Isabella can reflect the spells of others, usually back at the source or aside to a safe distance.
		- **Spell Destabilization** - She can make a spell unstable in order to alter its properties. When used on her own spells, they can increase its destructiveness in exchange for accuracy, duration, or range to be reduced. When used on others' spells, Isabella can cause them to fail or backfire.
		- **Spell Creation** - She is capable of creating brand-new spells and using them, sometimes on the fly. Isabella can combine two or more spells together to create a new spell that is similar. Isabella taught this to Anni.
	+ **Potion Making** - She can create potions: substances with magical properties such as enhancing physical and mental abilities, healing, granting powers, changing shape, or bewitching someone depending on the kind of potion that is made.
	+ **Divination** - She is able to see the future, and this aspect of her powers is certainly the most prominent. To see someone's future, she must probe one's aura and peer into the layers of it.
	+ **Mediumship** - Isabella can see, communicate and interact with spirts and the unseen by non-magical individuals even if they have possessed inanimate objects or people. They are able to repel and run spirits away from an area, compel to employ an armada of ghosts, and may even view a visual conception of a spirit world in a trance if desired.
* **Familiar Contracts** - Isabella inherited her familiar from her aunt Suzette after she died, a basilisk that was hatched by one of her ancestors. The basilisk's name is Nagaina.
* **Wandcrafting** - Isabella was taught the Morenos family way of wand crafting by her aunt Suzette as she crafted her nieces' wands herself with the horn of Nagaina.

### Possessions

* **Godiva** - Isabella's wand is called Godiva acting as an extension and allowing her to not feel the full recoil. Her wand is made of acacia wood with the fang of the basilisk that is the wands core. Godiva is the twin of Aenor.

## Etymology

* Isabella is the Latinized form of Elizabeth which is from *Ἐλισάβετ (Elisabet)*, the Greek form of the Hebrew name *אֱלִישֶׁבַע ('Elisheva')* meaning "my God is an oath", derived from the roots *אֵל ('el)* referring to the Hebrew God and *שָׁבַע (shava')* meaning "oath". The Hebrew form appears in the Old Testament where Elisheba is the wife of Aaron, while the Greek form appears in the New Testament where Elizabeth is the mother of John the Baptist.
* Marguerite is the French form of Margaret which is derived from Latin *Margarita*, which was from Greek *μαργαρίτης (margarites)* meaning "pearl", a word that was probably ultimately a borrowing from an Indo-Iranian language. Saint Margaret, the patron of expectant mothers, was martyred at Antioch in the 4th century. Later legends told of her escape from a dragon, with which she was often depicted in medieval art. The saint was popular during the Middle Ages, and her name has been widely used in the Christian world.
	+ This is also the French word for the daisy flower (species Leucanthemum vulgare).
* Morenos is a variant of Moreno which is from a nickname meaning "dark" in Spanish and Portuguese.

## Trivia

* Isabella is associated with the Three of Diamonds, alongside her sister's Jessica and Thomasina.
* Isabella is of Spanish, Portuguese, Iberian Jewish and Romani descent.
* She is genderqueer.
* She has a notorious sweet tooth.
* Her favorite meal is a clambake.
	+ Her second favorite meal is chicken and waffles with seasonal fruit.
* Isabella's first love was Romaine Brooks.
* Her favorite book is The Secret Diaries of Anne Lister.
* Isabella smokes cigars.