#isabel lopez

The Dubious Charges Against Abrego Garcia

Stay noisy! Sometimes it works!

I want to thank all of you who have been protesting and who continue to protest. It’s important.

Here are some ways to help Immigrants and the anti-ICE Protesters:

Immigrant Defenders: https://give.immdef.org/give/545119/#!/donation/checkout

The Bail Project: https://bailproject.org/

National Bail Fund Network: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory

Amnesty International: protect asylum-seekers: https://donate.amnestyusa.org/page/113080/donate/1

The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights: https://www.theyoungcenter.org/

CHIRLA: https://www.chirla.org/

AL Otro Lado: https://alotrolado.networkforgood.com/projects/63833-al-otro-lado-fund

Mid-South Immigration Advocates: https://miamemphis.org/

Sure! Quick backstory: my hard drive crashed last April (wow, last April is weird to say cause I’m still not used to it being 2019 yet) so I lost everything. I only managed to salvage a few fics that were saved randomly on my Google drive and on USBs. One of the many things I couldn’t save was Isabel but I’ve been rethinking her lately. Anyway!

Originally, Isabel Lopez was an ER nurse from Texas. She’s bummed because an elderly farmer that’s technically her neighbor (with a few acres between their homes) died that morning so her best friend takes her to the drive-in to cheer her up. What her bestie doesn’t know is that Isabel inadvertently killed her. Her mutation is gravitikinesis – the power to manipulate and control gravity, which has a wide range of abilities except for the fact that Isabel doesn’t use it. She’s terrified of her abilities and has never tried to explore them, instead trying to pray them away and, when that didn’t work, she isolated herself out on an abandoned farm. Because of this, her powers would build up, like a backlog, and act of their own accord. She’d wake up floating over her bed in the middle of the night, a lamp or a chair would move itself across the room (and usually break) and, sometimes, she’d release a wave of energy that would stretch out for miles around her. Like to her elders neighbors farm while he’s trying to repair a tractor and it crushes him. 

He ends up at the ER and she has to work on him, while hearing his son try and explain the weird thing that happened, and watch him die while knowing she’s responsible. She feels immensely guilty so no amount of popcorn and Dean Martin on a big screen will cheer her up – she’s more of Sinatra girl anyway. But she pumps into a cute blue eyed Brit who looks beyond out of place and asking where the bathroom was so the night wasn’t a total loss. But then she gets home and hears a knock on the door. And then a voice in her head. And she panics, completely freaks and threatens to call the police which is when Erik breaks the lock on the door and busts in. It takes awhile to calm her down but, after explaining about severity of Shaw and promising to help her gain control (instead of letting her powers control her), Isabel is convinced to join Charles and Erik at the CIA. 

Things happen fairly normally from there; she and Charle get close and she agrees to move to New York to work as the nurse for Charles’ school once it opens. She loves the work and finds herself falling for Charles, despite his attempts to warn her away. Things are going great until the draft comes along and the school closes. Charles stops flirting then and starts drinking more, overdoing it on the serum Hank made for them. Feeling backed into a corner, she enlists in the Army Nurse Corps and leaves Charles, hoping that he’ll change but not expecting much. She writes him while she’s overseas but he never responds, and she helps Mystique get Alex and the other mutants out of Vietnam. Eventually, I planned to have her and Charles reunite and reconcile, but I never got around to it. And I never got around to seeing the third movie so I have zero plot for that. :/

Now I’m thinking of restarting the fic and keeping everything basically the same, but I’m changing her job from ER nurse to school nurse – that way her transition to being the Xavier School nurse isn’t so weird or a downgrade, idk how to phrase it – and her overall personality. Instead of being very meek and shy and afraid of herself, she’s outgoing and energetic. Not cocky or arrogant but she knows what she knows and isn’t afraid to show that off. Very independent and opinionated. She still has a her faith but she isn’t the god fearing girl I originally envisioned. There’s a quote from Sense8 that I love that kinda sums her up, in this regard: “My love for science doesn’t preclude my faith. For me, science is another language we use to talk about the same miracles faith talks about.”

Planetary Series: Pluto

ocmeme2017: oc is a day person → isabel lopez

Enigma’s Characters + name meanings (1/?) (PSD)

Enigma’s Plot Bunnies: Flares

Today an insurance company denied someone treatment and this will cause their death.