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User Name/Nick: Brandi
User LJ: muggles
AIM/IM: pandasaurs
E-mail: kupocakes@yahoo
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Character Name: Cassie Holmes
Series: Push
Age: 13
From When?: Post-film
Inmate/Warden: Warden. She's going to strike a deal with the Admiral that if she helps people reach redemption on the barge, she'll be reunited with her mother. She'll make a good warden because she's blunt and to the point, and she's motivated to help others in order to get what she wants. She's not going to sugar coat things to help out her inmate, she's going to be truthful and downright untactful at times, and she sees this as being the only way to help someone change and grow.
Item: Spiral bound sketchbook
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.
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 recieve some kind of assistance in order to locate her mother. That's why she'll be a warden on the barge, she'll have been promised to see and help her mother in return for her service. So she'll be a dutiful little warden and work hard to help her inmate on the path to redemption, and do whatever is needed in order to get to see 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: Wiki Link.
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 containting $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. When things are all said and done, Cassie and Co. emerge victorious, and it's assumed that Cassie and Nick are going to help find Cassie's mother. Cassie will be coming in from shortly after the movie's end, and she will be coming on board the barge after recieving a promise that she will be reunited with her mother if she completes her service successfully. Because of this agreement, she's going to work very hard to actually do the warden job properly, because she views her mother's life as riding on her job performance.
Sample Journal Entry:
I guess this means I'm going to end up stuck with one of you. Try not to get excited, because I know I'm not going to be. It'd be a real shame for one of you to be the only one ethusiastic about something that's only going to end up driving us both crazy being a lot of work that could have been avoided if you had just decided to be a decent human being.
Oh, and just because I'm young doesn't mean you can take advantage of me, got it? If I'm put in charge of one of you, you better treat me with the same respect you would anyone else. I don't want someone going easy on me or trying to manipulate me because they think I'm a useless kid.
... I really hope you people weren't expecting an actual hello and a smile or anything, because the odds of that happening are slim to none.
Sample RP: Link!
Hopefully a link is okay. It's a longer sample.
Special Notes: I know that the mods would like characters to be 17+, and because of that, I can age Cassie up if it is needed. But a large and important part of her character is the fact she's essentially an adult in a kid's body. She's physically incredibly tiny and adorable, but mentally she's very mature, and a 40 year old bitter and cynical woman. She still has some issues, of course, because even adults aren't without them, but she's not your typical child character. She can take care of herself, the majority of the time, and she also is capable of taking charge of situations and becoming the leader.