Post by Cassidy Grant on Jul 11, 2008 19:32:33 GMT
Name:
Cassidy Elizabeth Grant, goes by Cass since she hates Cassidy and “Cassie” is what everyone called her when she was little
Codename:
Doesn’t have one, if at any point she needs one…oh we’ll go with the canon character I’m shamelessly ripping off and say “Trance” though, given the nature of her mutation’s manifestation, her brother has suggested “Ghost” as well
Age:
Fifteen (born July 9th so it’s a new fifteen)
Mutation:
The easy classification is astral projection—Cass has the ability to split her “consciousness” off into an incorporeal astral state, leaving her physical body behind. Right now this mostly manifests as a semi-transparent copy of her physical body that passes through anything solid in its path much like Kitty’s phasing without doing anything else too exciting except weirdly disrupting electrical stuff in the room with her when she first splits off. She can achieve this through concentration but she’ll also split off sometimes if she gets really scared or shocked, like her consciousness feels the spike of adrenaline, goes “Oh shit!” and abandons ship in…pretty much the least scientific terms ever. Right now she has no control over that aspect of it which is quite irritating, she doesn’t want to be the fainting girl not to mention the inevitable “made you jump right out of your skin!” puns. While she’s in her astral state she can talk and hear but her other senses (smell, touch, taste) are inactive.
At some point in the future she’ll discover that she’s not beaming out into an already existing astral form or anything and that when she projects it’s just her consciousness leaving her body in energy form, something along the lines of how Bob existed once his ice form was shattered except where his mutation enables him to manifest as ice hers enables her to appear as a projection of psychic energy. Once she grasps that one it’ll be possible for her to project herself as anything she wants or to just be invisible. She’ll also at some point probably learn to shoot “energy beams” by further harnessing the psychic energy that enables her astral projection. These were part of her comic powers and never fully explained but I’m going with them acting as an electrical attack.
Disadvantages to this mutation are pretty obvious- she leaves her physical body crumpled wherever she left it, completely defenseless and unconscious, basically in a coma. She can’t feel anything anyone does to it when she’s out of it though, so far unknown to her, if her body’s coming very close to death she’d snap back into it, unable to maintain an astral form. She has no idea what happens to her if she’s out of it and it dies, she doesn’t really want to find out. Also she can’t physically interact with anything in her astral state and will never be able to. This is mostly fine since she can just pass through doors etc. and doesn’t need to eat or sleep while in this form but it also means she can’t carry anything, work on computers, shove someone, all those nice physical things. Electrical equipment also tends to react badly to her projecting, if she’s not watching how much energy she’s outputting/ just splitting off lights will start to flicker etc. whenever she’s in the room.
Physical Description:
As far as the basics go she’s got light-ish brown hair worn long, layered, and purposefully messy with her bangs constantly in her eyes which means she’s always batting or blowing them away from her face. She refuses to get them cut both because that sort of thing is “cool” and because she’s found it drives her father and a few of her teachers insane. Otherwise she has brown eyes, delicate features, a sort of peaky chin, and that lovely pale Irish skin that looks gorgeous until you go out in anything other than a burka and fifty layers of sunblock and it turns into a lobster-red sunburned expanse.
Cass is tall for a fifteen-year-old at 5ft7 inches and, having endured much teasing as the shortest person in her family, quite pleased with being taller than most girls her age. When she’s standing she tends to show the height off to its full advantage and keep her posture in a state acceptable even to her grandmother, when sitting however she tends to sprawl every which way like a human octopus in a way that would give that same grandmother conniptions. The second state is really more fitting with her overall appearance—Cass tends to be something of a sloppy dresser, not really careless, she does have some idea of what looks good on her, but she doesn’t see an issue with keeping all her clothes on the floor in a heap and just digging out what she needs, giving it a discreet sniff test, then popping it on. Her clothing style is trendy in art-y sort of way, bordering on hipster, but she doesn’t take herself quite seriously enough to go all the way there. Her body frame is athletic- she’s been playing some sort of sport since she was little and she’s quite fit. She likes big sunglasses.
Personality:
As the baby of the family and the novel girl coming on the tail end of four older brothers Cass has always been the smallest, the tag-along, babied and protected but also having to fight tooth and nail for the last pop-tart. As a result she’s a curious mixture of immensely stubborn and naturally ingratiating—the type of person to drive you absolutely insane insisting on this or that until she suddenly cracks a grin or rolls her eyes at herself to show she isn’t that serious after all and you usually end up giving in anyway without being mad. Which could be a nice way to say she’s used to getting her own way and is a little manipulative but it’s mostly pretty harmless youngest-child tactics, she’s not headed for Primer territory or anything.
She has her squalls of teen angst but she’s a cheerful person overall, more likely to grin and bear it than burst into tears, and as a baseline pretty much a sarcastic-goofball, the one to make a horrible face over the teacher’s shoulder at you, then smile innocently when the teacher whips around to find out what’s so funny. She’s also pretty extroverted and, due to the whole large family thing, likes having people around. She doesn’t always have to be doing something, she’s just very relaxed around people and is perfectly happy to sit there in her pajamas and play guitar if everyone’s feeling lazy, but if she had her druthers there would be more of the doing things than the lazing around.
Her serious side mostly comes out when she’s practicing something- she’s a bit of a perfectionist about very particular things, her room is a mess and she’s a solid B student in most areas but she loves languages and her guitar and has to get anything to do with either of those things absolutely right- and if she’s scared of something. Cass deals with fear by barreling through it—when she was seven she broke her wrist throwing herself out of the top of a tree which she explained as her attempt to get herself over a minor fear of heights. Because she’s never encountered any real risks in her life this is mostly endearing but it could play out badly in some of the situations Institute kids tend to find themselves in.
Background:
Fairly normal so far—Cass is the youngest in a family of five. Her four older brothers are Adam (20), James (19), Christopher (17), and Colin (16). Her father, Brian, is an ex-marine and current gym owner/ boxing coach and her mother, Laura, runs camera for a local news station. They’re middle class and Cass has always gone to the local (Yarmouth, Massachusetts) public schools which are pretty good. She’s a solid B student, gets along with her crazy family, likes music, languages, and any independence she can get family-liking not withstanding. She’s been kissed a couple times and enjoys flirting as a sort of game but isn’t too serious about boyfriends, she’s a bit scatterbrained for focusing her attention on one particular guy, tends to be a friend rather than a girl to the boys in her class, and, well, let’s face it she has four older brothers and an ex-marine for a father. Not many guys want to get caught bringing her home after curfew.
All progressing pretty normally until, one morning in May, James swung the car into the driveway a little fast, didn’t see his sister walking across it until it was too late, and hit her. It looked worse than it was- she was just bruised- but the site of the oncoming car and the knowledge she had no time to get out of the way was pretty terrifying and her mutation, as they sometimes do, activated rather dramatically in self-defense. One minute she’s bracing to be hit by a car, the next she’s looking down at her own body and, having seen as many bad movies as the rest of us, starts screaming her fool head off. James, who was bent over her freaking out about killing his sister, looks up, apparently sees said sister’s ghost, and starts screaming himself. The whole thing is scary and she’s thinking about how much she wants to just be back in herself and sitting up and…then she is. James decided they were having some crazy stress hallucination and they both decided to just try to forget it. Except Cass was never too good at “just forgetting” anything and after some experimentation was able to reproduce the effect and come to the obvious mutated conclusion. Her reaction was mostly along the lines of “…cool!” and her family after some initial uncertainty was okay with it, especially when they found out that it netted their directionless youngest child a full scholarship to an elite prep school. So Cass has arrived for the summer all set to meet her strange new classmates and actually have some freedom for a change.
Current Affiliation
Xavier Institute Student
Sample:
See anything by Primer or Laurie unless I wrote it on prescription medication
Cassidy Elizabeth Grant, goes by Cass since she hates Cassidy and “Cassie” is what everyone called her when she was little
Codename:
Doesn’t have one, if at any point she needs one…oh we’ll go with the canon character I’m shamelessly ripping off and say “Trance” though, given the nature of her mutation’s manifestation, her brother has suggested “Ghost” as well
Age:
Fifteen (born July 9th so it’s a new fifteen)
Mutation:
The easy classification is astral projection—Cass has the ability to split her “consciousness” off into an incorporeal astral state, leaving her physical body behind. Right now this mostly manifests as a semi-transparent copy of her physical body that passes through anything solid in its path much like Kitty’s phasing without doing anything else too exciting except weirdly disrupting electrical stuff in the room with her when she first splits off. She can achieve this through concentration but she’ll also split off sometimes if she gets really scared or shocked, like her consciousness feels the spike of adrenaline, goes “Oh shit!” and abandons ship in…pretty much the least scientific terms ever. Right now she has no control over that aspect of it which is quite irritating, she doesn’t want to be the fainting girl not to mention the inevitable “made you jump right out of your skin!” puns. While she’s in her astral state she can talk and hear but her other senses (smell, touch, taste) are inactive.
At some point in the future she’ll discover that she’s not beaming out into an already existing astral form or anything and that when she projects it’s just her consciousness leaving her body in energy form, something along the lines of how Bob existed once his ice form was shattered except where his mutation enables him to manifest as ice hers enables her to appear as a projection of psychic energy. Once she grasps that one it’ll be possible for her to project herself as anything she wants or to just be invisible. She’ll also at some point probably learn to shoot “energy beams” by further harnessing the psychic energy that enables her astral projection. These were part of her comic powers and never fully explained but I’m going with them acting as an electrical attack.
Disadvantages to this mutation are pretty obvious- she leaves her physical body crumpled wherever she left it, completely defenseless and unconscious, basically in a coma. She can’t feel anything anyone does to it when she’s out of it though, so far unknown to her, if her body’s coming very close to death she’d snap back into it, unable to maintain an astral form. She has no idea what happens to her if she’s out of it and it dies, she doesn’t really want to find out. Also she can’t physically interact with anything in her astral state and will never be able to. This is mostly fine since she can just pass through doors etc. and doesn’t need to eat or sleep while in this form but it also means she can’t carry anything, work on computers, shove someone, all those nice physical things. Electrical equipment also tends to react badly to her projecting, if she’s not watching how much energy she’s outputting/ just splitting off lights will start to flicker etc. whenever she’s in the room.
Physical Description:
As far as the basics go she’s got light-ish brown hair worn long, layered, and purposefully messy with her bangs constantly in her eyes which means she’s always batting or blowing them away from her face. She refuses to get them cut both because that sort of thing is “cool” and because she’s found it drives her father and a few of her teachers insane. Otherwise she has brown eyes, delicate features, a sort of peaky chin, and that lovely pale Irish skin that looks gorgeous until you go out in anything other than a burka and fifty layers of sunblock and it turns into a lobster-red sunburned expanse.
Cass is tall for a fifteen-year-old at 5ft7 inches and, having endured much teasing as the shortest person in her family, quite pleased with being taller than most girls her age. When she’s standing she tends to show the height off to its full advantage and keep her posture in a state acceptable even to her grandmother, when sitting however she tends to sprawl every which way like a human octopus in a way that would give that same grandmother conniptions. The second state is really more fitting with her overall appearance—Cass tends to be something of a sloppy dresser, not really careless, she does have some idea of what looks good on her, but she doesn’t see an issue with keeping all her clothes on the floor in a heap and just digging out what she needs, giving it a discreet sniff test, then popping it on. Her clothing style is trendy in art-y sort of way, bordering on hipster, but she doesn’t take herself quite seriously enough to go all the way there. Her body frame is athletic- she’s been playing some sort of sport since she was little and she’s quite fit. She likes big sunglasses.
Personality:
As the baby of the family and the novel girl coming on the tail end of four older brothers Cass has always been the smallest, the tag-along, babied and protected but also having to fight tooth and nail for the last pop-tart. As a result she’s a curious mixture of immensely stubborn and naturally ingratiating—the type of person to drive you absolutely insane insisting on this or that until she suddenly cracks a grin or rolls her eyes at herself to show she isn’t that serious after all and you usually end up giving in anyway without being mad. Which could be a nice way to say she’s used to getting her own way and is a little manipulative but it’s mostly pretty harmless youngest-child tactics, she’s not headed for Primer territory or anything.
She has her squalls of teen angst but she’s a cheerful person overall, more likely to grin and bear it than burst into tears, and as a baseline pretty much a sarcastic-goofball, the one to make a horrible face over the teacher’s shoulder at you, then smile innocently when the teacher whips around to find out what’s so funny. She’s also pretty extroverted and, due to the whole large family thing, likes having people around. She doesn’t always have to be doing something, she’s just very relaxed around people and is perfectly happy to sit there in her pajamas and play guitar if everyone’s feeling lazy, but if she had her druthers there would be more of the doing things than the lazing around.
Her serious side mostly comes out when she’s practicing something- she’s a bit of a perfectionist about very particular things, her room is a mess and she’s a solid B student in most areas but she loves languages and her guitar and has to get anything to do with either of those things absolutely right- and if she’s scared of something. Cass deals with fear by barreling through it—when she was seven she broke her wrist throwing herself out of the top of a tree which she explained as her attempt to get herself over a minor fear of heights. Because she’s never encountered any real risks in her life this is mostly endearing but it could play out badly in some of the situations Institute kids tend to find themselves in.
Background:
Fairly normal so far—Cass is the youngest in a family of five. Her four older brothers are Adam (20), James (19), Christopher (17), and Colin (16). Her father, Brian, is an ex-marine and current gym owner/ boxing coach and her mother, Laura, runs camera for a local news station. They’re middle class and Cass has always gone to the local (Yarmouth, Massachusetts) public schools which are pretty good. She’s a solid B student, gets along with her crazy family, likes music, languages, and any independence she can get family-liking not withstanding. She’s been kissed a couple times and enjoys flirting as a sort of game but isn’t too serious about boyfriends, she’s a bit scatterbrained for focusing her attention on one particular guy, tends to be a friend rather than a girl to the boys in her class, and, well, let’s face it she has four older brothers and an ex-marine for a father. Not many guys want to get caught bringing her home after curfew.
All progressing pretty normally until, one morning in May, James swung the car into the driveway a little fast, didn’t see his sister walking across it until it was too late, and hit her. It looked worse than it was- she was just bruised- but the site of the oncoming car and the knowledge she had no time to get out of the way was pretty terrifying and her mutation, as they sometimes do, activated rather dramatically in self-defense. One minute she’s bracing to be hit by a car, the next she’s looking down at her own body and, having seen as many bad movies as the rest of us, starts screaming her fool head off. James, who was bent over her freaking out about killing his sister, looks up, apparently sees said sister’s ghost, and starts screaming himself. The whole thing is scary and she’s thinking about how much she wants to just be back in herself and sitting up and…then she is. James decided they were having some crazy stress hallucination and they both decided to just try to forget it. Except Cass was never too good at “just forgetting” anything and after some experimentation was able to reproduce the effect and come to the obvious mutated conclusion. Her reaction was mostly along the lines of “…cool!” and her family after some initial uncertainty was okay with it, especially when they found out that it netted their directionless youngest child a full scholarship to an elite prep school. So Cass has arrived for the summer all set to meet her strange new classmates and actually have some freedom for a change.
Current Affiliation
Xavier Institute Student
Sample:
See anything by Primer or Laurie unless I wrote it on prescription medication
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