Cassie App for babylonwood
The Player
User Name/Nick: Brandi
User LJ: muggles
AIM/IM: pandasaurs
E-mail: kupocakes@yahoo.com
Other Characters: Anna Milton, Jo Harvelle, Nill, Rapunzel, Vanille. Buuuuuuut I will be trading in Vanille for Cassie and making your lives a difficult place. :D BUT IT'S THE LAST TIME I SWEAR, PLEASE DON'T HATE ME.
The Character
Character Name: Cassie Holmes
Character Journal: farsees
Canon: Push
Age: 13
From When?: Right before Cassie goes to confront the girl with the lollipop (seriously, that's what the character is named in imdb.com) about her death. This is almost near the end of the film, right before Cassie realizes that she can change her future and that her visions aren't always set in stone.
Abilities/Powers: Visions. Cassie is a Watcher and can see the future, and sometimes what is going on in the present. The catch is with seeing the future, she sees people's intentions. If someone is thinking about one thing and changes their mind about it, then Cassie's visions will change and cause a great deal of confusion and disorientation for her. So while it could potentially be a useful power, she's often too confused and unsure of herself to actually put it to good use.
Power Limitations: Cassie's power limits itself on its own, really. She's still untrained and young, and doesn't understand her visions. A lot of the time she doesn't understand what she sees, so her visions are useless. And her ability to draw really sucks, which makes recalling her visions later on difficult. A lot of her more graphic visions leave her disoriented and afraid, so really, her power is more of a weakness at this point than an actual power that's useful.
Inventory
- Clothes on her back (miniskirt, navy blue screen tee, black jacket, doc marten boots)
- small purse with the following:
sketch book
four markers (white, red, yellow, blue)
two small bottles of vodka
string (to be used as a hair tie)
handgun
umbrella
Personality: Cassie's not exactly a nice kid. She skips over the sugar, and is made entirely of spice, and you can just forget about the everything nice. She's bitter, she's cynical, and she's highly sarcastic. She doesn't trust adults easily, and she isn't necessarily out to make friends. Her driving force is finding and saving her mother, and she will do anything in order to do so. She has no problem using others, and she definitely uses her cute and innocent looks to her advantage in order to get adults (mostly males- they tend to be stronger and more easy to manipulate than females) to help her. She is very intelligent and street smart for a thirteen year old girl, just because she's spent a while living on the streets and running from a government group known as Division. Her power (visions) manifested at a young age, and she's having to learn how to deal with it all on her own, so this also gives her a more realistic view of the world. She isn't an optimist, and she isn't going to be a cute and cuddly sidekick. She is highly manipulative and focused on what she wants, and she's going to find people who can help her get back her mother.
That being said, Cassie is still a thirteen year old girl, going through puberty all by her lonesome. She has hormones and that leads to emotional issues, such as crying (although she tries her best to never cry in front of anyone ever), and a lot of backsass. She's reckless, even though she does take the time to make plans, she just sees her way as always being right and doesn't listen to advice or input from others. She relies heavily upon her visions and thinks that what she sees is set in stone, and still doesn't see the big picture to realize that her visions are just a tiny part of what's going on in the world around her. Her problems should be everyone else's problems, in her opinion, and she doesn't like it when people try to take the focus off of her mother. She truly does think she's always right, and she doesn't listen to others unless she respects them. And given Cassie's generally caustic viewpoint of humanity, trust and respect doesn't come easily to her. She's willing to help others, but she generally only does it in order to receive some kind of assistance in order to locate her mother.
As rough and jaded as Cassie is, she's also very broken and fragile on the inside. She is young and has seen and experienced a lot of terrible things. She was present when her father died, and she saw her mother being taken away by Divison. She has visions of the condition her mother is being kept in, and she's seen her own death and the death of countless others more time than she cares to admit. She's honestly scared of what's going to end up happening to both herself and her mother, and is too proud to own up to her fear. She lost a lot of her childhood and the loss of her innocence has had some drastic effects on her personality. She drinks vodka (mostly to help with her ability), she swears, and she carries around a gun in order to protect herself. She knows the world is a scary place and she's experienced it at its worst, but there's still a small part of her that wants to believe it can be good and that there's hope out there. Because more than anything, Cassie's desperately clinging onto any little fragments of hope she can get her hands on.
And despite her negative qualities, she is a decent person at heart. She's fought to save others, and she wants to do what's right, she just knows that sometimes good people have to do bad things in order to save people. She's a darker kind of hero because of the fact she's rough around the edges, but she does what's right in the end because she knows that it needs to be done. And if the dumbass adults in the world aren't going to do it, she will, because she's more than capable of doing it herself. She's a good person, but has a lot of faults that she's not exactly ready to own up to, and through it all she's a determined and resilient heroine that doesn't get the credit she deserves.
History:Cassie was born into a normal family, and she grew up living a normal life. The only thing that was a little unusual was that her mother was a Watcher, and was able to see the future by having visions. This gift was passed down to Cassie, and it was because of their foresight that the Holmes family was torn apart. Cassie's mother was the most powerful Watcher the world had ever seen, and because of this, the government felt that she was a threat. So the government group known as Division came into Cassie's home in the middle of the night and tore her mother way, and without her father in the picture to help protect her, Cassie ran and hid so Divison wouldn't come after her next. Although no actual time estimate of when this happened was given in the film, I put this at happening around the time Cassie is eleven years old. She starts having visions of her own around this time, when she starts going through puberty. She's alone, and scared, and desperately confused. It's this time period in her life that changes who she is, and turns her into the bitter and cynical young woman she is seen as in the film.
For two years, she has to learn how to deal with her visions on her own, and she also has to travel across the world in order to stay hidden and find people who might possibly help her save her mother from the Division building she's being held in. It's when she's thirteen that she has a vision about a young man named Nick, and she travels to Hong Kong in order to locate him. She encounters him at his run down apartment, where she basically forces her life upon him and tells him that he's helping her. She tells him that they have to find a case containing $6 million, and it is while they are arguing over whether or not Nick will help her with this that they are attacked by a group that is out after Cassie, Nick, and the money as well - known simply as Triad.
It is after this that Nick agrees to help Cassie, and they are eventually drawn into a series of events that is much larger than either of them could have ever possibly predicted. It is after locating a girl named Kira that Cassie realizes her plan is more than just saving her mother, she knows that it's her job to bring down Division entirely. Despite her hatred of Kira and her lack of clarity in her visions, Cassie works her hardest to refine her abilities and do her part in helping.
First Person Sample:
I guess this means I'm going to have to stop drinking myself to sleep. Waking up like this isn't all that great when I'm trying to get something done.
... actually, waking up like this at all isn't all that great. I keep pinching myself to prove this is all a dream, but so far all I've managed to do is draw blood and bruise myself. If Nick's somewhere around here, laughing at my hallucination, I'm going to kick his ass.
Somehow, this is all his fault. I'm not sure how yet, but I know it is. Either his or Kira's. They're both entirely useless.
Prose Sample: Link!
Hopefully a link is okay. It's a longer sample.