Isobel Kady Zora

"Izzy" Isobel Mariah Kady Zora (born Isobel Mariah Kady) is a major character (officially) introduced in the eighth season of The Boy from the Bunker (*although her character originally first appears* (unnamed) *in Season 6, Episode Seven 'Remember That I Love You'*). She is one of the children from The City of Targo that was brought back to Basilisk along with Sol Riverly and Hannah Shayman at the end of Season 6, making her a part of Hannah's Clan although, she is originally from West of The City Exile Allegiance. She is one of the 13 people to take shelter in Wynn's Bunker at the end of Season 7 when the flood arrives, thus, also making her a part of the First Bunker Clan. She is the main character in the spin-off series to The Boy from the Bunker, entitled: 'Isobel Zora: The Chronicles of a Great Sovereign' (wiki).

Isobel Kady Zora is 8 years old when introduced at the beginning of Season 8 and the only child of Josiah Kady (member of Hannah's Clan, also from The City of Targo). Her biological father was killed at the end of Season 7, and her biological mother - Zola Kady - died from complicated due to Izzy's birth. Her biological aunt is Hannah Shayman (Quill's biological mother). She also has a biological aunt named Lara Kady who is mentioned. Quill Bell is both her biological-cousin *and* her adopted uncle. Inside the Bunker, she was adopted into the Bell family by Elara Bell Zora who took up a mother-role with her which included telling evening stories of the four Sovereigns, including Kodiak Zora who later became her adoptive father. She has three adoptive uncles: Wynnlow Bell, Quill Bell, and Ares Bell, and to adoptive aunts (through Kodiak): Sol Riverly and Dreea Taven. She also has three siblings (from her adoptive parents, Elara and Kodiak): a younger brother named Ares Zora, and two younger sisters named Story Zora and Hope Zora.

**Season 6**

Izzy is one of the unnamed children present with Hannah and her clan (in "Remember that I Love You") as a deal is made for Sovereign Sol Riverly (former Commander of The City of Targo) to allow them to join their people at Basilisk.

**Season 7**

Izzy is selected as the child whom Fenn Jakson and Liam Leighton decide to try and remove the implant from, however, they are unable to bring her into the medic tent and instead try the procedure on a boy named Isaiah (from Hannah's Clan) who subsequently dies due to an error in the removal. When Hannah secures Wynn's Bunker in her possession, Izzy is one of the few people who is inside along with Quill Bell and her father, Josiah Kady. When Elara manages to convince Quill to open up the Bunker to let her inside, a fight takes place for possession of the Bunker and also claims the life of her father. She ends up safe inside the Bunker by the time the flood comes.

**First Bunker Clan (Season 7 - Season 8)**

During their time in the Bunker, Izzy is quickly adopted into the Bell family by Elara who becomes her adoptive mother after Izzy was orphaned following Josiah's sudden death.

**Season 8**

\*Includes spoilers.\*

The beginning of Season 8 focuses on the relationship between Izzy and Elara and shows how their bond has helped each heal from the losses they both faced at the end of Season 7 (Josiah Kady (Izzy's father) and Kodiak Zora (Elara's boyfriend)). As they have spent 6 months sealed inside the Bunker, Elara tells Izzy stories every night about the adventures and heroic missions her friends got up to, including tales of Sovereign Sol Riverly, "Uncle Wynn", and Izzy's favourite, 'The Great Sovereign Kodi'. When their Bunker is invaded by an outside civilisation, Elara and Izzy are separated and must call upon their own, inner strengths to find their way back to one another and the family they have found in each other. Izzy spends the first few days on the ship away from Elara, but it soon reunited with her by a guard of Neptunum known as 'Ammon'. After speaking to Ammon alone who eased her fears about the ship, Izzy is taken back to the youth sector (the place she is being kept, along with Harlow and the other children from the Bunker) for the night when she hesitates and turns to face Ammon, asking him a question that has been lingering on her mind... 'Are you Kodiak? Elara's Kodiak?' Ammon confirms *that he is actually Kodiak Zora*, revealing his true identity for the first time in the Season. Despite Kodiak's confusion at how a young girl he has never met seems to have figured out who he is, he promises Izzy that they are going to get off of the ship soon and that he will make sure she and Elara are reunited again soon. When Elara is later shot and killed by the guards of Neptunum, Izzy is purposefully left unaware of her condition as Kodiak, Wynn and Quill race against time to bring Elara back. On their great escape from the ship, Quill manages to break into the youth sector and take Izzy and Harlow to safety (before the others) where they are promptly loaded onto vessel ships and carried to the nearby shore. With everyone managing to conceal the truth from her about what happened to Elara on Neptunum, Izzy is blissfully oblivious to everything and only knows that for the first time in a while, her and Elara are safe and that The Great Sovereign Kodi who she has idolised from all of her stories, is there with them.

> ***You never told me that bravery is just another word for being afraid. That it's really the hardest thing in the world to be. That you understand - when you're a little bit older - that it means saying goodbye to someone you love.***
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> - Izzy to Elara, in 'Eight' (S9x07x07)

**Season 9**

After arriving on the new island following their escape from Neptunum, Izzy is kept in the dark about the horrors that her family faced on the ship - no one more than Elara. The only thing she knows for sure is that Elara was hurt and everyone, especially Kodiak, is being extremely careful around her. Amid her confusion, Basilisk learn that there are two other clans occupying the island and are soon met with a new enemy - Terra Firma Tribe. When they arrive at the beach where the people of Basilisk have set up a temporary camp, Izzy happens to be hiding nearby, out of sight, after having snuck out of camp on a quest to find the answers about why everything around her feels so familiar. Knowing that Elara, Kodiak, and everyone else she loves is in danger, Izzy manages to set off a series of mines to distract Terra Firma Tribe (ones that she had discovered with Kodiak and Elara the day before) and manages to save her people from an unexpected attack. When Basilisk try to leverage information to form an alliance with opposing clan, West of The City Exile Allegiance, Kodiak discovers a collection of journals between Tobias and Ivy which reveal secret ties between their clan and Exile Allegiance. They end up learning the truth about Izzy's biological family and, most importantly, that as well as being the adopted niece of Quill, *she is also his biological cousin*. Whilst the news is heartwarming to everyone else, Izzy finds herself consumed in fear at the confirmation of her having been a part of Exile Allegiance and residing on the island before, and worries that forgotten members of her family will show up and be forced into separating her from Elara and Kodiak (like she knew happened with Quill and her aunt, Hannah Shayman). Determined to know for sure if there is anyone else from her biological family around, Izzy sneaks out of camp when everyone is distracted, relying on a map in a journal she stole from the Sovereigns, an her own memories of her time on the island. However, after getting lost and slightly injured after falling in the forest, she is soon found by Calvin Zain - leader of Terra Firma Tribe - who manipulates her and scares her into following him back to his clan. Believing that she belongs to long-standing enemy clan Exile Allegiance, Calvin is quick to lock Izzy up in the cells with plans to execute her or use her as leverage to start a war against Tobias. When Ivy - Calvin's abused partner - pays a visit to Tobias and Basilisk, she learns that Izzy is missing and immediately suspects Calvin's role in her disappearance. It isn't long before she returns back to camp - with Sovereign Dreea and Wynn in toll - and questions Calvin about Izzy, finding her alone and petrified in their cells. Wanting to spare her from further knowing the cruelty Calvin is capable of, Ivy returns Izzy to the Sovereigns with everyone expecting her to make a beeline towards her Uncle Wynn, *but she doesn't*. Instead, Izzy keeps her distance, choosing to latch onto the reserved and standoffish Sovereign Dreea instead. Confused, Wynn tries to beckon Izzy over but soon realises that for whatever unknown reason, *Izzy is afraid of him*. When Elara and Kodiak return to the beach to find Izzy returned, they both hurry over, but Kodiak is promptly stopped as both he and Elara learn of Izzy's newfound androphobia (fear of the men around her). Heartbroken, Elara tries to understand why Izzy left camp alone and what happened to her when she was at Terra Firma Tribe, but Izzy is too young to make sense of her fears or realise that she is safe with Kodiak and her uncles.

**Season 10**

> "Home is other people, silly."
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> "Did you dad teach you that?"
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> "No. *You.*"
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> - Izzy to Elara, in The Boy from the Bunker (S10x06)

**Significant kills:**

* Calvin Zain (killed to save Elara and Kodiak)

**Fun Trivia:**

She is the main character in the spin-off series entitled ' Isobel Zora: The Chronicles of a Great Sovereign'.

Throughout the series, Izzy is shown to refer to her (adoptive) parents by their first names - 'Kodiak' and 'Elara' or, more favourably, **Ell** and **Kodi**. However, in the epilogue, it shows that Izzy now refers to them as 'mum' and 'dad'. This change came about shortly after they returned to Basilisk when Izzy would reference them by those titles when talking to other people, although, she subconsciously committed full-time to those names shortly after her brother, Ares, was born when encouraging him to speak, starting to call Elara and Kodiak by 'mum' and 'dad'.

Izzy is *technically* introduced at the ending of Season 6 in 'Remember that I Love You' (S6x07), and officially *named* in Season 7 - 'Implant' (S7x06). However, the first episode of Season 8 entitled 'The Invaders' (S8x01) is where her character is properly introduced and interacts with the other characters, including having dialogue.

She is both the biological cousin *and* adopted niece of Quill Bell. Her biological father (Josiah Kady) is the sibling of Quill's *biological* mother, Hannah Shayman. Her adoptive mother, Elara Bell Zora, is the sister of Quill Bell.

She was supposed to be killed (accidentally) in Season 7 in Basilisk's attempts to remove the implants from the children in Hannah's Clan however, as she was preoccupied with Josiah, Liam Leighton couldn't bring her to the Sovereigns and had to chose a boy named Isaiah instead. The procedure ended up killing him which is a fate that would have initially been Izzy's.

Her first debt was for Elara. Her second was for Kodiak.

She is half Filipino.

She suffers from mild PTSD after being taken hostage by Calvin Zain in Season 9 and being separated from Elara and Kodiak. She also experiences extreme separation anxiety - particularly when it comes to Elara.

During her time in the Bunker, Izzy decided on a pain scale to rate her pain as a way to help Elara understand how she was feeling after coping with the loss of her father, Josiah, and other uncertainties. She used a scale of 8 (with 8 being the highest) and when asked why by Elara, stated that it was because she was 8 years old when she lost her father, and that was the worst pain she had ever felt (and didn't believe anything could ever hurt as much). She has only been known to score a pain as 8 twice: first - when her dad died, and secondly - when she was taken away from Elara and Kodiak.

She shared a room with the other children in First Bunker Clan when they were living in the Bunker, though, she often snuck out of the room in the night and cuddled up to Elara in her bed, ending up staying there until morning. The room used to belong to the Blackwoods (Holden, Emlyn, Bas, Lyra, Hayzel, and Harlow).

She was the first person to discover that Kodiak was alive in Season 8 and going under the identity of 'Ammon Zontanós', despite never having met him before then.

She is portrayed by Chloe De Los Santos/Lola Flannery in The Boy from the Bunker books. In the spin-off series (Isobel Zora: The Chronicles of a Great Sovereign) which features her several years in the future, she is portrayed by Olivia Rodrigo.

She has one, younger brother named Ares Zora, and two younger sisters named Story Zora and Hope Zora. She was the inspiration behind her sister's - Story Zora - name.

Isobel's birthday is January 15th.

In the spin-off series, Izzy is proud co-owner of a dog named 'Silke' (pronounced 'silk'). Her and Harlow found Silke whilst on a day trip in the red hills and when (he) followed them around on their walk, they led her to the Bunker so they could figure out how to take care of her, before eventually sneaking her into camp. However, Silke was discovered after two days when Bas and Kodiak decided to follow Harlow and Izzy down into the basement level of the Quarters to learn when they kept disappearing down there when they thought no one was looking. No one put up any objection to Izzy and Harlow being allowed to keep Silke, and he was soon welcomed as the first official dog in Basilisk.