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Character: Cassandra Artemisia (childofartemis)
Fandom: Original
Personality: Cass is an interesting breed. Due to the fact that her earliest memories are of a concentration camp and after that, death and war, she's come to cling to life and always look for the bright side of things. She jokes about anything and everything and loves to not only laugh, but to make others laugh and forget their worries. Behind blue eyes, there's a darkness, though. One can't go through the hell she did without becoming a little scarred-- both physically and mentally. She feels guilty for all the people close to her that have died, even if their deaths weren't her fault. She has her moments when all she wants to do is get totally wasted and brood the night away, wallowing in guilt an self-pity. For the most part, though, she's a cheery ray of sunshine, albeit sarcastic.
Cass is fiercely loyal to those she trusts fully. Complete trust from her is something that doesn't come easily, but once someone has it, she'll stick with that person through everything. But with everyone that she takes a liking to, even remotely, she's incredibly affectionate. Since she was deprived of much physical affection when she was young she'll more than likely hug someone out of the blue and kiss them on the cheek in thanks, even if they hardly know each other. She tosses around phrases like "I love you" like they're nothing. (The fact that her concept is personal space is a bit warped due to her being a telepath may contribute.) But when she means them, she means them, even though it may be hard to tell the difference.
When it comes down to it, Cassandra Artemisia is a woman who, despite the rough past strives forward and tries her damnedest to make the world, and her life, a better place.
History: Cass was born on 31st century Earth. The future hasn't progressed technologically like one would think, save for one small leap in the area of genetics. Around 500 years before Cass was born a woman named Artemis was experimented on by the corrupt rulers of Eurasia. The result was called the Hades Virus. It was a virus that attacked the DNA of a person, rewriting it to give them what could be considered superpowers. The virus was leaked through the water and many children and pregnant women were affected, gaining amazing abilities and giving birth to children like them.
Artemis only ever had one child of her own blood, Cass' great-great-great-etc. grandfather, but all those who were born with powers came to be known as the Children of Artemis. Things were tense between the Children and the "normal" people for years and about ten years before Cass' birth, the strain became even more apparent. Children were all but persecuted by many people, even if it was technically against Eurasian law. That was changed, though, when Cass was four.
Cass and her older brother Jason had been unexpected children and as such, their brother Troy was a good deal older than them. When Cass was four and Jas was six, Troy got married to his long time girlfriend, Sequoia. It was then that the government declared war on the Children. Troy took his two younger siblings to the edge of their small Grecian town and told them to run and not look back. And as he gave Cass one last hug... he was shot three times in the back, bleeding red all over Cass' white flower girl dress. She ran with her brother, but it was no use. The government captured her and threw her into a concentration camp.
She spent four years in the concentration camp where they branded her and tortured her, all in the name of trying to "cure" her. Or so they said. One of the doctors in the concentration camp took pity on her and turned a blind eye as she tried to escape for the fiftieth time on her eighth birthday. A few days later found her collapsed on the streets of Athens. A wealthy family took her in and cared for her. She thought she had finally found a family. Little did she know, but she would spend the next few years in something akin to slavery, being a maid and a whipping boy for the family's two sons. One thing they did do, though, was train her musically. They taught her to sing properly and she discovered an escape. Music became the way she expressed herself and let out the emotions that otherwise would have festered in her.
When she was eleven, she was with the family's sons in their backyard when one accidentally revealed that he had control over metals. Their elder sister covered and gave her brothers time to escape and the younger one, Keris, dragged Cass with him. They got separated from the older brother and wandered the streets for a few months before being found in what was once Serbia by a woman named Diana. Diana was the driving force behind a relief and resistance movement. For the next four years, she educated Cass and Keris, teaching them first aid and how to fight, mechanics, how to pilot airships, how to fire a gun... all the things they would need to survive.
During these years, the resistance ended up picking up Cass' older brother Jason and the two were reunited. A bond was formed between her and the team she trained with. On her sixteenth birthday, they were sent out into the field for the first time. They went in, loaded people onto ships and got out, fleeing to neutral territory. These missions continued and more and more often they started to go awry, with government officials waiting to ambush them. It was then that they discovered Cass had something like PTSD. She would freeze up when confronted with the uniforms that killed her brother, tortured her mercilessly and haunted her nightmares. All the survival training she had went down the drain.
For the next few years, she stayed behind the scenes, more as support than anything else as she worked on overcoming the mental block. People died, she was attacked once and lost her voice permanently, a friend was revealed as a traitor and held her hostage for a few months, she died and had her heart restarted... and time moved on. She moved up the ranks and developed her leadership and strategic planning skills. Diana was grooming her to take her place, as she was slowly dying.
After a good friend of Cass' died protecting her from a bullet when she was twenty, Cass found the will to fight back. She began leading the resistance movement against the traitor that had since taken over the Eurasian government. She messed up and made mistakes plenty of times, but two years later, they stormed the stronghold of her one time friend and she killed him. In the aftermath of the battle, she went to talk to her husband when a wounded soldier who had been one of the few actually loyal to the tyrant that had ruled Eurasia for so long shot her in the back three times. She died in her husband's arms.
And that's how she'll end up in World's End. She'll be hurt, confused and bleeding. Though her wounds won't be life threatening anymore, she'll be in need of medical treatment.
Appearance: Cass is small, around 5' even, but she's certainly not scrawny. She's got toned muscles from years of fighting and the scars to go along with it. The three scars that are the most apparent are one on her bottom lip, three jagged scars across her throat from when she lost her voice and a brand on the back of her neck that reads "92." Other than that, she's relatively pale with short, white blonde hair and blue-green eyes. Her icons are here. Her PB is Farah Summerford.
Sample log entry: A deep breath in. The air is almost tangy, acrid, and filled with smoke. Exhale. Cass' eyes slide open and she stares blankly at the wall. Her mind is a hundred miles away, branching out, reaching for thoughts that would be even vaguely familiar. The mental voices of the crowds of the world fill her mind and she returns to herself, scrunching her nose and closing her eyes. A headache thrums to life behind her temples and she grimaces. "I shouldn't have stretched that far." She 'whispers' to herself. There's a twist to her gut when the realization that no one familiar is around that causes her to bite her lip and pull at a thread on her ragged, cut-off shorts. She stands up abruptly and walks out of the rough-around-the-edges apartment she found herself in, ignoring the dark brown stain that is splattered against one wall. Her bare feet slap at hardwood and the sound is eerie. Her mind stretches out until the hums of minds, just at the edge of her consciousness. And she squeezes her eyes and runs towards it with everything she has.
Sample journal entry: Video;
[The feed clicks on as the communicator is dropped into the sand. A red stain spreads across the tan of the grains. Pale hands with dried blood slam onto the beach before hastily grabbing the communicator, fumbling with it for a moment before Cass' face comes into view. She mouths words at the screen and, becoming frustrated, drops the communicator again. There's a scratching sound for a few moments before the communicator is picked up again and the camera pointed at a few words scrawled in the sand.]
'Help me. Please.'
[More red drips to the sand.]
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There's also this post from a muse box I share with a couple net friends in which Cass was kinda sorta thrown into atbf!world so Tony could throw his Croc and Mid at her.
Fandom: Original
Personality: Cass is an interesting breed. Due to the fact that her earliest memories are of a concentration camp and after that, death and war, she's come to cling to life and always look for the bright side of things. She jokes about anything and everything and loves to not only laugh, but to make others laugh and forget their worries. Behind blue eyes, there's a darkness, though. One can't go through the hell she did without becoming a little scarred-- both physically and mentally. She feels guilty for all the people close to her that have died, even if their deaths weren't her fault. She has her moments when all she wants to do is get totally wasted and brood the night away, wallowing in guilt an self-pity. For the most part, though, she's a cheery ray of sunshine, albeit sarcastic.
Cass is fiercely loyal to those she trusts fully. Complete trust from her is something that doesn't come easily, but once someone has it, she'll stick with that person through everything. But with everyone that she takes a liking to, even remotely, she's incredibly affectionate. Since she was deprived of much physical affection when she was young she'll more than likely hug someone out of the blue and kiss them on the cheek in thanks, even if they hardly know each other. She tosses around phrases like "I love you" like they're nothing. (The fact that her concept is personal space is a bit warped due to her being a telepath may contribute.) But when she means them, she means them, even though it may be hard to tell the difference.
When it comes down to it, Cassandra Artemisia is a woman who, despite the rough past strives forward and tries her damnedest to make the world, and her life, a better place.
History: Cass was born on 31st century Earth. The future hasn't progressed technologically like one would think, save for one small leap in the area of genetics. Around 500 years before Cass was born a woman named Artemis was experimented on by the corrupt rulers of Eurasia. The result was called the Hades Virus. It was a virus that attacked the DNA of a person, rewriting it to give them what could be considered superpowers. The virus was leaked through the water and many children and pregnant women were affected, gaining amazing abilities and giving birth to children like them.
Artemis only ever had one child of her own blood, Cass' great-great-great-etc. grandfather, but all those who were born with powers came to be known as the Children of Artemis. Things were tense between the Children and the "normal" people for years and about ten years before Cass' birth, the strain became even more apparent. Children were all but persecuted by many people, even if it was technically against Eurasian law. That was changed, though, when Cass was four.
Cass and her older brother Jason had been unexpected children and as such, their brother Troy was a good deal older than them. When Cass was four and Jas was six, Troy got married to his long time girlfriend, Sequoia. It was then that the government declared war on the Children. Troy took his two younger siblings to the edge of their small Grecian town and told them to run and not look back. And as he gave Cass one last hug... he was shot three times in the back, bleeding red all over Cass' white flower girl dress. She ran with her brother, but it was no use. The government captured her and threw her into a concentration camp.
She spent four years in the concentration camp where they branded her and tortured her, all in the name of trying to "cure" her. Or so they said. One of the doctors in the concentration camp took pity on her and turned a blind eye as she tried to escape for the fiftieth time on her eighth birthday. A few days later found her collapsed on the streets of Athens. A wealthy family took her in and cared for her. She thought she had finally found a family. Little did she know, but she would spend the next few years in something akin to slavery, being a maid and a whipping boy for the family's two sons. One thing they did do, though, was train her musically. They taught her to sing properly and she discovered an escape. Music became the way she expressed herself and let out the emotions that otherwise would have festered in her.
When she was eleven, she was with the family's sons in their backyard when one accidentally revealed that he had control over metals. Their elder sister covered and gave her brothers time to escape and the younger one, Keris, dragged Cass with him. They got separated from the older brother and wandered the streets for a few months before being found in what was once Serbia by a woman named Diana. Diana was the driving force behind a relief and resistance movement. For the next four years, she educated Cass and Keris, teaching them first aid and how to fight, mechanics, how to pilot airships, how to fire a gun... all the things they would need to survive.
During these years, the resistance ended up picking up Cass' older brother Jason and the two were reunited. A bond was formed between her and the team she trained with. On her sixteenth birthday, they were sent out into the field for the first time. They went in, loaded people onto ships and got out, fleeing to neutral territory. These missions continued and more and more often they started to go awry, with government officials waiting to ambush them. It was then that they discovered Cass had something like PTSD. She would freeze up when confronted with the uniforms that killed her brother, tortured her mercilessly and haunted her nightmares. All the survival training she had went down the drain.
For the next few years, she stayed behind the scenes, more as support than anything else as she worked on overcoming the mental block. People died, she was attacked once and lost her voice permanently, a friend was revealed as a traitor and held her hostage for a few months, she died and had her heart restarted... and time moved on. She moved up the ranks and developed her leadership and strategic planning skills. Diana was grooming her to take her place, as she was slowly dying.
After a good friend of Cass' died protecting her from a bullet when she was twenty, Cass found the will to fight back. She began leading the resistance movement against the traitor that had since taken over the Eurasian government. She messed up and made mistakes plenty of times, but two years later, they stormed the stronghold of her one time friend and she killed him. In the aftermath of the battle, she went to talk to her husband when a wounded soldier who had been one of the few actually loyal to the tyrant that had ruled Eurasia for so long shot her in the back three times. She died in her husband's arms.
And that's how she'll end up in World's End. She'll be hurt, confused and bleeding. Though her wounds won't be life threatening anymore, she'll be in need of medical treatment.
Appearance: Cass is small, around 5' even, but she's certainly not scrawny. She's got toned muscles from years of fighting and the scars to go along with it. The three scars that are the most apparent are one on her bottom lip, three jagged scars across her throat from when she lost her voice and a brand on the back of her neck that reads "92." Other than that, she's relatively pale with short, white blonde hair and blue-green eyes. Her icons are here. Her PB is Farah Summerford.
Sample log entry: A deep breath in. The air is almost tangy, acrid, and filled with smoke. Exhale. Cass' eyes slide open and she stares blankly at the wall. Her mind is a hundred miles away, branching out, reaching for thoughts that would be even vaguely familiar. The mental voices of the crowds of the world fill her mind and she returns to herself, scrunching her nose and closing her eyes. A headache thrums to life behind her temples and she grimaces. "I shouldn't have stretched that far." She 'whispers' to herself. There's a twist to her gut when the realization that no one familiar is around that causes her to bite her lip and pull at a thread on her ragged, cut-off shorts. She stands up abruptly and walks out of the rough-around-the-edges apartment she found herself in, ignoring the dark brown stain that is splattered against one wall. Her bare feet slap at hardwood and the sound is eerie. Her mind stretches out until the hums of minds, just at the edge of her consciousness. And she squeezes her eyes and runs towards it with everything she has.
Sample journal entry: Video;
[The feed clicks on as the communicator is dropped into the sand. A red stain spreads across the tan of the grains. Pale hands with dried blood slam onto the beach before hastily grabbing the communicator, fumbling with it for a moment before Cass' face comes into view. She mouths words at the screen and, becoming frustrated, drops the communicator again. There's a scratching sound for a few moments before the communicator is picked up again and the camera pointed at a few words scrawled in the sand.]
'Help me. Please.'
[More red drips to the sand.]
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There's also this post from a muse box I share with a couple net friends in which Cass was kinda sorta thrown into atbf!world so Tony could throw his Croc and Mid at her.