Izzy Watson/Past

## Early Days

**Izzy Watson** had a troubled past prior to arriving at The Crossing. Izzy's mother was very abusive towards her, especially after her father's passing. Izzy's father passed after her mother poisoned him to collect on insurance money, something she'd later brag about to Izzy to inflict pain. Izzy has deep scarring down the center of her back from her mother and a hot fire poker, and some abuse was enough to cause Izzy to lose the ability to bear children. Shortly after her father died, her mother locked her in a small room and sold her body to the local men. A man named Toby asked to purchase Izzy for marriage, wanting to free her from the sexual slavery that her mother had kept her in. Toby was a good man, by all considerations, and treated Izzy well. Unfortunately, Toby wanted to start a family with Izzy and believed that he was the cause of their inability to procreate, so he suggested that Izzy be impregnated by his friend Damian. Izzy was unaware that she could not conceive, only finding out later, so she agreed to the plan and slept with Damian in the hopes of building a family.

## The Burning

Damian and Izzy carried on a brief affair, with the acceptance of Toby, but Damian eventually wanted more of Izzy to himself and asked her to run away with him. Izzy refused him, wanting to stay with Toby, but Damian grew angry. Izzy would soon learn of another side of Damian when he arrived at Toby and Izzy's home with friends and violent desires on his mind. He and his friends beat and fatally wounded Toby, then turned their attentions on Izzy and beat her for a while. They concluded their act of terror by tying Toby and Izzy together, ransacking the house and setting it on fire in an attempt to kill them both. With his last bit of strength, Toby was able to loosen the ropes tying Izzy to him, and he begged her to leave him and escape the blaze. Izzy, in shock and wounded from the attack, at first refused to leave, but eventually Toby's pleading broke through, and she stumbled her way outside and collapsed on the ground. She lay there, watching her home burn to ash and listening to Toby's screams of agony, screams that would continue to haunt her for a long, long time.

## Vengeance Rides

Izzy attempted to tell her mother what had happened, but her mother refused to believe her and spread rumors that Izzy had killed Toby after he discovered she had been having an illicit affair with Damian. Eventually, Izzy decided to stop trying to correct the story and just let people believe what they wanted to believe. With nowhere else to turn and with Toby's screams still in her ears, Izzy's mind turned to revenge. She started with her mother, strangling her to death. Then she went after Damian's friends, most of whom didn't even recognize her as the pain they caused her was routine for them; she murdered each of them, one by one.

## Damian Gets What's Coming

Finally, the time had come to go after Damian and make him pay for what he did to Toby. She learned that Damian had a wife and two children. Izzy spared the children, they would not be made to suffer for the sins of their father, but his wife had to know what kind of man he was. So she was stabbed first, then Izzy cut Damian's Achilles tendons and made him watch as she finished off his wife. In a fit of planned vengeance, Izzy tied Damian to his dead wife and set his house on fire. The only things she stole from the house were the name of Damian's wife, Isabelle Watson, and his two children, a boy and girl aged 1 and 2. Who she sat with and watched the house burn down and listened to Damian's screams. After she confirmed that he was dead, she brought the children to a local orphanage and visits them occasionally, posing as Aunt Izzy, and makes sure they're well taken care of. With her vengeance complete, but now hearing the voices of both Toby and Damian ringing in her ears, she headed for The Crossing.