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wrong_sometimes[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Cassie Holmes, no alias
FANDOM: Movie: Push
CHRONOLOGY: Post-movie
CLASS: Hero, but wanting no part of any organization, just trying to get by/get home.
SUPERHERO NAME: Watcher
ALTER EGO: None, she's 13.
BACKGROUND:
"My name is Cassie Holmes. Division took my mom from me. Right now, the future I see doesn't look so great. The good news is, the future is always changing, in the largest of ways, by the smallest of things. They've been winning a lot of battles. Now it's our turn to win the war."
During the second world war, the major powers started studying and working with psychics, creating Divisions to study, train and, in many cases, detain psychics. They work in secret, have enormous resources and aren't afraid to kill what they can't control. But there's an undercurrent of rebellion, there are psychics that run, get away and in some cases work from within to stop Division and its experiments.
There are two such families, the Gants and the Holmes'. Nick Gant and his father ran from division, but Nick's father died, leaving Nick with a strange final request. Someday, a girl would give Nick a flower and he was supposed to help her. No questions asked, just help her. The girl was Cassie, and the originator of the request was her mother, a powerful psychic, a Watcher, or someone who could see the future. She, too, wanted to run, but her visions showed her a different path and she spent who knows how many years setting in motion the plots and stratagems that would eventually bring Cassie and Nick together before she was captured by Division.
Her capture leaves Cassie alone in the world with only the visions of her own to guide her. Unfortunately they're not as accurate or as easy to understand as her mother's and she's stuck trying to make sense of a fractured future that changes with the tides. But she does what she can with what she has and she heads to to Hong Kong with a notepad full of drawings, a likely cover story and the name and location of Nick Gant.
To put it simply, she ambushes him. Crashes into his life and talks fast enough to get in the door, get his attention... and eventually give him a flower after he's injured protecting her. While it's uncertain how long she's been on her own, it's obvious that she wants and needs someone in her life and its quickly apparent that Nick is it. So under the guise of hunting down a very valuable suitcase that will bring down Division (after initially tempting Nick with the idea that it's worth a fortune), she acquires herself an older brother-type.
And her brother-type's ex-girlfriend, Kira, who has a vital role to play in the plan having stolen and hidden the suitcase to begin with. Cassie isn't thrilled. With the addition of Kira, Cassie's visions become darker, portents of disaster that end with Cassie, Nick and eventually even Cassie's own mother all dead. Cassie loses some of her hope and the confidence that she's wrapped herself in wavers until Nick takes control and and they make a new plan, a gutsy plan, and one aided by her mother's long-ago preparations and the Five Man Band Cassie and Nick have put together.
The plan works and Cassie and Nick get the suitcase and the power-boosting drug contained therein. With Division beaten and their enemies dead, Nick and Cassie finally have in their hands something that can set people like them free, and get Cassie her mother back.
PERSONALITY:
"I think I just saved your life. No need to thank me, you should just start listening to me."
Cassie appears to be tough. She's been on her own for an unspecified amount of time, and done okay for herself if the wad of cash she flashes at the beginning of the movie is any indication. There's a crust of confidence over her as she breezes in on Nick with her plans, laying it out for him like the future's a foregone conclusion and they're just along for the ride. There is an air of bravado and confidence in her gift that she's loath to admit isn't nearly as good as it should be. She's charming when she wants to be, sarcastic always, and can play the cute card when it can get her what she needs. She's a little psychic con-artist in the making.
And she has to be. Her mother's life, maybe the lives of everyone Division's hunting, depends on her and her visions and the pressure is huge. Huge and building every moment. And the closer Cassie comes to failure, the darker her visions get and the cracks in her carefully maintained facade start to show. Because underneath it all, she's still just a thirteen-year-old kid who's lost her mom, wandering in a city she's not necessarily familiar with filled with people trying to kill her. She's scared. Scared and alone and unprepared to take on Division alone, terrified that she'll fail and her mother will die. That she will die.
It actually drives her to drink in an attempt to strengthen her visions.
She gets attached to Nick very quickly after she meets him, partially because she knows she needs him and she has to stay close to him, and partially because he becomes the surrogate family that part of her is desperate for. He treats her like a little sister, teasing and looking over her shoulder and while she acts like it annoys her, she appreciates it, even relies on it in the absence of a parent. It's an easy relationship she's found, almost like someone had planned it that way (and let's face it, knowing her mother she probably did). It makes her protective of Nick and annoyed and jealous when he seems to dismiss her and her visions for Kira. She has little in her life and all she wants to do is hold on to what little she has; facing the loss of it can make her bratty, emotional and a pest.
POWER:
"...I see glimpses, and I draw about it in my book, but I'm not really good at it. I'm kind of a crappy artist, but I'm sure you already knew that."
Psychic - Cassie is a Watcher and can see the future, drawing the visions she has in a notebook kept close at hand. As events unfold, the future can and does change to adjust to the new ripples. Sometimes she can misinterpret things, but that's a human failing more than a function of her power.
For the purposes of this game, I will have a permissions/plots post for any future-seeing.
CHARACTER NAME: Cassie Holmes, no alias
FANDOM: Movie: Push
CHRONOLOGY: Post-movie
CLASS: Hero, but wanting no part of any organization, just trying to get by/get home.
SUPERHERO NAME: Watcher
ALTER EGO: None, she's 13.
BACKGROUND:
"My name is Cassie Holmes. Division took my mom from me. Right now, the future I see doesn't look so great. The good news is, the future is always changing, in the largest of ways, by the smallest of things. They've been winning a lot of battles. Now it's our turn to win the war."
During the second world war, the major powers started studying and working with psychics, creating Divisions to study, train and, in many cases, detain psychics. They work in secret, have enormous resources and aren't afraid to kill what they can't control. But there's an undercurrent of rebellion, there are psychics that run, get away and in some cases work from within to stop Division and its experiments.
There are two such families, the Gants and the Holmes'. Nick Gant and his father ran from division, but Nick's father died, leaving Nick with a strange final request. Someday, a girl would give Nick a flower and he was supposed to help her. No questions asked, just help her. The girl was Cassie, and the originator of the request was her mother, a powerful psychic, a Watcher, or someone who could see the future. She, too, wanted to run, but her visions showed her a different path and she spent who knows how many years setting in motion the plots and stratagems that would eventually bring Cassie and Nick together before she was captured by Division.
Her capture leaves Cassie alone in the world with only the visions of her own to guide her. Unfortunately they're not as accurate or as easy to understand as her mother's and she's stuck trying to make sense of a fractured future that changes with the tides. But she does what she can with what she has and she heads to to Hong Kong with a notepad full of drawings, a likely cover story and the name and location of Nick Gant.
To put it simply, she ambushes him. Crashes into his life and talks fast enough to get in the door, get his attention... and eventually give him a flower after he's injured protecting her. While it's uncertain how long she's been on her own, it's obvious that she wants and needs someone in her life and its quickly apparent that Nick is it. So under the guise of hunting down a very valuable suitcase that will bring down Division (after initially tempting Nick with the idea that it's worth a fortune), she acquires herself an older brother-type.
And her brother-type's ex-girlfriend, Kira, who has a vital role to play in the plan having stolen and hidden the suitcase to begin with. Cassie isn't thrilled. With the addition of Kira, Cassie's visions become darker, portents of disaster that end with Cassie, Nick and eventually even Cassie's own mother all dead. Cassie loses some of her hope and the confidence that she's wrapped herself in wavers until Nick takes control and and they make a new plan, a gutsy plan, and one aided by her mother's long-ago preparations and the Five Man Band Cassie and Nick have put together.
The plan works and Cassie and Nick get the suitcase and the power-boosting drug contained therein. With Division beaten and their enemies dead, Nick and Cassie finally have in their hands something that can set people like them free, and get Cassie her mother back.
PERSONALITY:
"I think I just saved your life. No need to thank me, you should just start listening to me."
Cassie appears to be tough. She's been on her own for an unspecified amount of time, and done okay for herself if the wad of cash she flashes at the beginning of the movie is any indication. There's a crust of confidence over her as she breezes in on Nick with her plans, laying it out for him like the future's a foregone conclusion and they're just along for the ride. There is an air of bravado and confidence in her gift that she's loath to admit isn't nearly as good as it should be. She's charming when she wants to be, sarcastic always, and can play the cute card when it can get her what she needs. She's a little psychic con-artist in the making.
And she has to be. Her mother's life, maybe the lives of everyone Division's hunting, depends on her and her visions and the pressure is huge. Huge and building every moment. And the closer Cassie comes to failure, the darker her visions get and the cracks in her carefully maintained facade start to show. Because underneath it all, she's still just a thirteen-year-old kid who's lost her mom, wandering in a city she's not necessarily familiar with filled with people trying to kill her. She's scared. Scared and alone and unprepared to take on Division alone, terrified that she'll fail and her mother will die. That she will die.
It actually drives her to drink in an attempt to strengthen her visions.
She gets attached to Nick very quickly after she meets him, partially because she knows she needs him and she has to stay close to him, and partially because he becomes the surrogate family that part of her is desperate for. He treats her like a little sister, teasing and looking over her shoulder and while she acts like it annoys her, she appreciates it, even relies on it in the absence of a parent. It's an easy relationship she's found, almost like someone had planned it that way (and let's face it, knowing her mother she probably did). It makes her protective of Nick and annoyed and jealous when he seems to dismiss her and her visions for Kira. She has little in her life and all she wants to do is hold on to what little she has; facing the loss of it can make her bratty, emotional and a pest.
POWER:
"...I see glimpses, and I draw about it in my book, but I'm not really good at it. I'm kind of a crappy artist, but I'm sure you already knew that."
Psychic - Cassie is a Watcher and can see the future, drawing the visions she has in a notebook kept close at hand. As events unfold, the future can and does change to adjust to the new ripples. Sometimes she can misinterpret things, but that's a human failing more than a function of her power.
For the purposes of this game, I will have a permissions/plots post for any future-seeing.
