hey,  hello, hi lovelies.  i’m essy, and this is my little terror gabriella!  for the basics, she’s twenty seven, and a hunter, and on a mission to hunt down the demon who killed her dad.  

gabriella was born the only child of valentina and diego cortez, a result of a drunken one night stand that pushes her parents together for the SAKE of the baby. this only creates an uncomfortably miserable atmosphere from the off. though none of this is evident to little gabby, who becomes the apple of her father’s eye. she’s very much a daddies girl, and spends her time following him around as a little girl. her mother and her had a tricky relationship, for her mother, growing up so quick and having a little girl hadn’t been in the cards ---- and she gave up her LIFE, which had her always looking for some way out. something more interesting than the cushy family life she had. valentina had a wandering eye and had a history of cheating on gabriella’s father.  (  it’s not that diego didn’t know, maybe he did.  )  but regardless of her mother’s infidelity, gabby’s childhood goes smoothly, things are brushed under the carpet and hidden, and she’s got a kind heart - a soft girl. 

it’s only on one of her mothers ventures out, seeking an ESCAPE that trouble really finds the cortez family. her mother’s selfish, and she hears of DEALS,  some idiot boasting at a bar, and ends up crazed and researches.  gabby is fourteen when her mother finally finds what she’s looking for.  she makes a deal  ----  gabby never finds out what for,  in fact, all the details were disgustingly vague. 

this information, and the horrific memories of what was waiting for her when she got home from her friends house,  that she finds her dad’s body  ----  it’s already too late.  she struggles with the images of that day are things that don’t leave her even to this day, or the cold helpless feeling that had held her hostage.   

AT FIRST she thought her mother had done it, that her mother had killed her dad and taken off. but it’s only when she had gathered her stuff that she finds the research.  (  at first she doesn’t believe it,  she doesn’t want to,  not that all the monsters she thought to be fiction could actually be real.  )  

she resents her mother,  and as her grandma is in a care home,  she ends up in the care system herself.  soft girl ends up with a hardened cold heart  ----  and loses herself in the process. they’re never able to place her with families, she’s too much trouble, ending up in fights, or getting cautioned by the police.  all for stupid things, petty crimes, acting out.  she just WANTED the pain to stop but it never did. 

she begins to research herself, when she’s able ---- once she’s out of the system, she starts to begin her hunt.  first for her mother,  then for the monster who killed her dad.  it’s only when she’s 20 does she come face to face with her mother again.  after the loss of her grandmother,  the woman decides to show up for the reading of the will.  they come to blows,   gabby finds out the truth,  and the demon who she’s looking for,  one with RED eyes.  she tries to kill her mother,  tries to bring herself to do it,  SHE ALMOST DOES,  knife at the throat of the one who betrayed her most  ----  and she lets her know that she’s living on BORROWED time anyway.  THE NEW LIFE she has comes with a hefty price of ten years, and she only has four left.  (  after  that  she’ll  be  dragged  to  hell.  )  and so gabby walks away,  with the hope that hell will hurt her so much more.  

she starts looking for the demon,  it’s on a hunt that she bumps into maggie fusilier,  and they don’t get on at first,  until it seems they’ve both seen their FAIR share of tragedies.  she helps gabby narrow her search down, gives her information about demons she didn’t know.  SHE WAS LOOKING FOR A CROSSROADS DEMON.  they both remained friends, in fact she’s perhaps the only person she has left. 

gabriella now mostly hunts -----  she enjoys the way that it allows her to take out all the bottled up anger she hasn’t dealt with,  it’s easier to be vicious with a blade than face a cold hard mirror held up against herself. AGAINST WHO SHE’D BECOME.  no,  she’s not sure she could ever do that.  in the mean time, she has taken up residency in bon temps,  finds it could be somewhere to settle.  not HOME,  but close enough.