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Izzie Mensforth | I Could Never Be Your Woman

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Player nickname: Iddy
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Are you at least 15?: Y!
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Character: Izzie Mensforth
Fandom: I Could Never Be Your Woman
Character Notes:
History:
[Note: Izzie hails from the land of cheesy romantic comedies, so the bulk of the film's story is focused more on her mother than on her-- meaning this history section isn't going to be that long. I'm going to opt out of just listing out the plot of the movie, simply because Izzie's part of the story is really only a sideplot involving her a) trying to figure out how to impress a boy in her class, and b) preparing for a school talent show, and a long-winded explanation of that probably isn't really character-driven enough for an app history. If you want me to, though, I can add that on.]

Izzie is a middle school-aged girl who lives in the Los Angeles area with her mom, who works as a writer on a teen sitcom. Based on what little we see of him, it appears that her father is irresponsible and somewhat absentee; upon returning from an outing with him and her half-siblings (both from different mothers), it's mentioned that they took so long to get home because he forgot which kid belonged to which ex-wife, and returned two of them to the wrong houses by accident. She gets along reasonably well with both of her parents, though as she goes through some growing-up changes, she has a few tough times with her mom, as is to be expected.

Overall, she has a pretty typical life for a kid living and growing up in Hollywood. She lives in a nice, big house, and her mom seems to be somewhat wealthy. Her hobbies include guitar-playing and singing, and she writes her own parodied versions of pop songs, changing the lyrics to be about things like the portrayal of women in media, global warming, and the Michael Jackson scandal. She goes to school with the children of celebrity lawyers and television producers. She likes "borrowing" her mom's Rolodex to get the numbers of celebrities for prank-calling purposes. And so on. As far as her life history goes, that's basically all that the movie gives us.

Personality:
Izzie is smack in the middle of early adolescence, which means that she's very childlike at some times, and still surprisingly wise at others. She's starting to lose interest in playing with Barbies and starting to gain interest in boys, but she's in that nebulous period where she still sees the appeal of both. She'll be surprisingly mature one moment, and the next say or do something that will remind everyone just how young she really is. "Precocious" is a good word for her.

Despite being quite socially aware for her age, she's not the type to completely avoid doing or saying things that could be considered offensive-- for example, when her mother points out that derogatorily using the word "ghetto" could be seen as making fun of people who live in "ghettos", Izzie just rolls her eyes and says, "Hey, I didn't make [the word] up", and she's been known to critically use words like "bitch" and "whore" insert Adachi joke here when referring to other girls/women. Basically, she's still a kid, she isn't perfect, and while she has an interest in social issues she isn't at all immune from saying things that others could find offensive or hurtful.

As time goes on, she starts having her moments of surliness and brattiness, and sometimes snaps at or is rude to people (her mother, people at school, etc.), to the point that during a parent-teacher conference, a teacher expresses concern over her attitude and "potty mouth". However, it's indicated that this is a somewhat recent development, so if I'm accepted, that kind of thing wouldn't show up in gameplay for a while.

For the most part, Izzie is a pretty self-confident kid. All of her insecurities are very typical for her age: body image, getting boys to like her, dealing with mean girls in school, and so on. She isn't shy about communicating with her mother or asking her questions, even when it has to do with loaded topics such as love and sex. She's at that time in her life when she's really starting to come into her own and figure out who she is-- and luckily, she's doing a pretty good job of it.

Other:
If accepted, I'll take her from a bit before the start of the movie, and probably start up canon sometime in September or October.

Additional Links:
Wikipedia's (very bare-bones) article on the film

First Person (entry type):

one

[routed from a guitar discussion board by the community]

Hi. I'm new to this forum, but the bloggers at musicpro.com said this was a good place to ask for recommendations for music books and stuff. I'm eleven and I've been playing for three years, but I just teach myself. Usually I make up my own songs or figure chords out on my own, but if anyone knows about any good songbooks that I could use for practice, that'd be cool.

Thanks.

-- guitargrrl95

two

[set mid-canon, when she's more prone to mood swings]

My school sucks. There are a lot of private schools these days that are really lax and don't give too much homework or tests, so why didn't my mom let me go to one of those? I don't want to switch schools now, but she could have sent me to one when I was in kindergarten, and she didn't. Even my gym class sucks, and I used to like gym, because Mrs. Carson didn't care if you were a little tardy and she didn't have to worry about stupid standardized test scores like all the other teachers did. But now she's on maternity leave and our new teacher is an asshole. Yesterday I took extra time in the locker room because I'd just started my monthly you-know-what, and he made me run three laps around the gym! Everyone agreed it was really unfair.

Sometimes, I miss elementary school a lot.

Third Person:

One big stereotype about California was that everybody was rich and famous and lived in Hollywood. Izzie lived in Hollywood, her mom was sort of famous, and she was pretty sure they were at least a little rich-- but from what she could tell, her life wasn't as impressive and exciting as TV told her it was supposed to be. She didn't have household names as next-door neighbors. She'd never been asked to babysit for the Jolie-Pitt kids (she was pretty sure she'd seen Angelina at Super King once, though). She'd briefly met celebrities at public events she'd been allowed to attend with her mom-- Drew Carey (even more doughy in real life), Johnny Depp (he'd shaken her hand-- swoon), and Kirstie Alley (she'd misheard Izzie's name as "Iggie") were some of the most notable ones-- but she didn't know any of them personally. She didn't go to school with the kids of anybody really famous-- just the kids of the people who worked for the really famous people. Basically, she was second-tier Hollywood-- which was cool, but not as cool as everybody thought, and definitely not as close to the first tier as they assumed it was.

Of course, she knew she was still pretty lucky. She'd have to be a total spoiled brat not to realize that she was better off than a lot of other kids out there. She had a fun dad and a cool mom, even if they were divorced (but it was the twenty-first century; whose parents weren't divorced these days?). Her best friend was pretty great. She was a latchkey kid sometimes, when her mom was busy at the office, but she didn't really mind it. Sure, things would have been more intense and exciting if she lived in TV-style Hollywood-- celebrities on every street, autograph opportunities in every coffee shop-- instead of real-life Hollywood, but when it came down to it? She didn't really feel like complaining.

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