Wyldthorne

"I was never going to be good enough for them.

Instead, I'm trying to see myself as good enough.

...it's a work in progress."

Summary
Bella is a druid with a sword. Her most iconic powers are her Heart of the Wyld and her Wind Whistle, and her most iconic traits are her shyness and awkward adorableness.

An Empty Life
Lady Isabella Sofia de Curiel y Abravanel was the last scion of two old noble Jewish families, both with long and tumultuous histories in Spain. They grew up in privilege and wealth, with everything they could possibly want... except for the attention and admiration of their parents.

They grew up isolated, raised by governesses and tutors and never meeting people of their own age - or anyone at all, really, outside of formal banquets and the like. Their only hope of receiving real affection was to earn their parents' love and attention, and so they threw themselves into their studies and most especially into their swordplay, something they excelled at.

Olympian Ambitions
They excelled so much, in fact, that they nearly qualified for the 2016 Olympics in Women's Individual Sabre Fencing at the young age of 14, missing out by only a single point - and, throwing themselves even more into their practice, in 2020 they didn't just qualify but attended, and came in fourth in the world.

...but even being the fourth-best fencer in the world wasn't enough to earn their parents' love, and it was after returning home to an empty manor that they finally realized it - and more, that their parents wouldn't really have cared for them even if they had brought home the gold.

Escaping Home
They took the following year to make plans - brushing up on their English, saving up the stipend that was theirs to spend, and secretly applying to colleges in the United States. They wanted to get as far away from their family as they could.

It was only a few weeks before they were due to move to America to begin attending Vanderburg University that they found it - the Abravanel family's ancestral sword, Wyldthorne. Supposedly, it was magical.

Of course, they didn't believe that... but there was no harm in taking an old blade out to the grounds for some katas, was there? It was a sabre, after all, and that was their weapon - and besides, no one had touched it in decades if not centuries.

...they didn't expect to be struck by lightning while practicing, or for the blade to somehow fuse with them, or for that to grant them the ability to summon the blade and gain incredible electrokinetic abilities.

Of course, with everything else that was going on in their life, they had barely had time to explore those abilities... but now they were finally ready to become a hero!

Shifting Magics
However, when they were just starting to master their new powers, Wyldthorne was stolen from them by a thief of mystical artifacts called Cezar. After chasing him into the Wyld and recovering her stolen blade, Wyldthorne rebonded with Bella, and her powers rebalanced themselves - no longer was she attuned primarily to lightning, but now to all of nature.

Present
Bella is currently a biology/botany double major at Vanderburg University, with a minor in history.

In her civilian life, she has befriended - and begun dating - Luca Oldquid, Cecilia Giudace, and Chimera.

Thanks to the assistance of Nyx, she's learned that Wyldthorne didn't just give her electrical powers, it connected her soul to the Wyld, attuning her to the wilderness, plants, and animals. While she initially assumed she was simply discovering a previously-unknown appreciation for them, she's now aware that there's magic behind the way animals flock to her and plants respond so easily to her attentions.

Bella grew close enough to Emily Grant that she began to see her as a big sister - and then, after being introduced to Emily's father - she asked to be adopted into her family. She has taken on their last name, and asked Albert to help her pick out a new middle name - Maria.

Trivia
Bella is intersex, although she sees little reason to mention it - not because she has any reason to keep it private, but because she isn't quite aware that it's unusual.

Wyldthorne was meant to create a connection between its user and the Wyld and then be set aside, a spell disconnecting it from their soul and allowing it to be used by another. However, the way Isca has used it has caused it to merge entirely with her soul and continually strengthen her connection to the Wyld.

She's created a Herobook account for herself and gotten it verified, but isn't sure what she should use it for. So far, she's uses it to take pictures of the animals which occasionally find her, as well as particularly pretty views of nature she finds during her hikes - this has been attracting followers much more quickly than she realizes.

After her powers shifted, she changed her hero name from Destreza to Wyldthorne.

In Fiction: Night Sky Comics
In the context of Night Sky Comics, the character of Destreza was a very recent creation - one of a number of brand-new heroes created as part of the 2021 relaunch that replaced the Starlight Champions with the New Champions. As with many of these heroes, she was given a brief limited run - six issues, in her case - which flashed between present events and her origin.

The character's powers were considered uninteresting in comparison to her actual personality, which was much more popular - as such, she was involved in a brief event which served to reboot her as Wyldthorne.