Post by Cassandra Lewis on Mar 4, 2020 5:54:33 GMT
CASSANDRA LEWIS
FULL NAME: Cassandra Candace Lewis
CODENAME: Legacy
FACE CLAIM: Katheryn Winnick
AGE: 40
CATEGORY: Powered
TEAM: Aegis
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
CODENAME: Legacy
FACE CLAIM: Katheryn Winnick
AGE: 40
CATEGORY: Powered
TEAM: Aegis
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
Personal
SEXUALITY: Bisexual
GENDER: Cisgender woman
PRONOUNS: She/Her
ETHNICITY: European
GENDER: Cisgender woman
PRONOUNS: She/Her
ETHNICITY: European
Double Life
ABILITIES: Seer
Cassandra can see the spirits of those who have passed on and communicate with them. With some concentration she can make a spirit visible to someone touching her.
SKILLS:
Street Fighting
Gun Use Knowledge
Knows ASL and French as well as English. Picks up new languages fairly easily.
Very knowledgeable in espionage, as well as power control training.
WEAKNESSES:
Only Human - Cassandra's weak to anything a regular person is, and can be injured by regular means.
Off Switch - Cassandra's ability doesn't have one. Seriously. And it can be tricky to figure out who is dead and who isn't because in a lot of cases they just look the same as anyone else.
Touch - To see the spirit she's focusing on, the other living person has to be touching Cassandra.
Focus - It isn't something she can do by accident. She has to concentrate and that takes energy.
Cassandra can see the spirits of those who have passed on and communicate with them. With some concentration she can make a spirit visible to someone touching her.
SKILLS:
Street Fighting
Gun Use Knowledge
Knows ASL and French as well as English. Picks up new languages fairly easily.
Very knowledgeable in espionage, as well as power control training.
WEAKNESSES:
Only Human - Cassandra's weak to anything a regular person is, and can be injured by regular means.
Off Switch - Cassandra's ability doesn't have one. Seriously. And it can be tricky to figure out who is dead and who isn't because in a lot of cases they just look the same as anyone else.
Touch - To see the spirit she's focusing on, the other living person has to be touching Cassandra.
Focus - It isn't something she can do by accident. She has to concentrate and that takes energy.
Appearance
GENERAL: Cassandra is 5'8" and blonde. She's slim, but make no mistake she's athletic and has quite a lot of muscle threaded through her being. She walks with a confident easygoing stride, and when she fights she does so with a certain decisiveness. She likes wearing t-shirts and jeans, or slacks. Casual wear. Leather jackets. She can pretty much slay anything with her figure, so she does. if she really wants to impress, she'll put on a dress or something dressy. Thanks to her family background, she isn't just a hero. She's also a businesswoman at heart.
COSTUME: Cassandra's costume for crime fighting is a chainmail/leather combo kind of suit with grease paint around her eyes like war paint. If she's prepared as her alias, often her blonde hair will be braided too. She also packs a honest to goodness shield on her back. It's made to look like wood, but in reality it's a light alloy. The shield can be programmed with different patterns, including the Aegis logo and the logo of The Lewis Conglomerate. Also made from the alloy is the chainmail. However, an interesting fact is she started off wearing genuine chainmail so she's pretty strong. She still wears a weighted vest of sorts underneath a lot of the time so she doesn't lose her core strength.
COSTUME: Cassandra's costume for crime fighting is a chainmail/leather combo kind of suit with grease paint around her eyes like war paint. If she's prepared as her alias, often her blonde hair will be braided too. She also packs a honest to goodness shield on her back. It's made to look like wood, but in reality it's a light alloy. The shield can be programmed with different patterns, including the Aegis logo and the logo of The Lewis Conglomerate. Also made from the alloy is the chainmail. However, an interesting fact is she started off wearing genuine chainmail so she's pretty strong. She still wears a weighted vest of sorts underneath a lot of the time so she doesn't lose her core strength.
Personality
Cassandra dislikes unfairness, along with people underestimating her. It's a trait firmly planted by her family. She rose above it and now makes a point of showing people that underestimating her is a bad idea. However, if you don't get on her bad side you can see two sides of her. If you're younger, she might have a tendency to try to mother you. Like if you're in your early 20s kind of deal. That aside, Cassandra's also kind of a gigantic flirt when she wants to be. And by that I mean she can switch on a flirtatious personality to try to throw people off.
She likes dance music, and a lot of the time you'll see her jamming out to it, or some good EDM or Pop. Sometimes she even hums or sings during battle. Which sounds odd, but pretty much everything about Cassandra's fighting style is odd. Her singing and humming happens when she's focusing or when she's having fun. She has a decent singing voice honestly.
She likes dance music, and a lot of the time you'll see her jamming out to it, or some good EDM or Pop. Sometimes she even hums or sings during battle. Which sounds odd, but pretty much everything about Cassandra's fighting style is odd. Her singing and humming happens when she's focusing or when she's having fun. She has a decent singing voice honestly.
History
Cassandra was born January 1st, 1980 to a large family. It was expected from a young age that she would develop a sixth sense. Everyone else in the family had some kind of power, and a lot of them were tied to what was referred to as 'beyond the veil'. Seeing demons, angels, spirits. Auras. And more. Cassandra's ability to see spirits developed when she was five years old. Her parents encouraged her a lot, to train her powers specifically. They believed that training in them would make them stronger. That if she trained hard enough, her powers would expand and get more powerful.
They didn't. By the time she was thirteen and starting to go through puberty, they'd given up on her powers getting more powerful. As you can imagine, that was quite the blow to figure out. That your parents had given up on their high expectations of you completely. She threw herself into her studies, sports, and excelled at all of them. But the family business was seers and spirits and she was average in that, so nothing she did helped.
When she was seventeen, she fell in with a crowd that was...not great. Some of them were just barely avoiding going to juvie, or for some of the older ones jail. She never got addicted to drugs the same as some of them, but she did become a bit of an adrenaline junkie. She learned some things that...well she was basically part of a gang in a lot of ways. For example, she learned how to street fight. Operate guns. Things her family never intended to teach her. That was training for her brothers.
All of her 'learning' in the almost gang ended when she was twenty years old. She found out she was pregnant. The father was one of her friends, Troy. And he dipped out, left, as soon as she told him. They eventually found him to get him to pay child support payments, but by that time Cassandra had been taking care of her son for three years. She had decided to keep the child, partly because she didn't want to say goodbye to blood. She wanted to do better than her family. And if her son inherited the more powerful gifts of the family, she didn't want to leave him to figure it out by himself.
His gifts presented themselves when he was four years old. He could channel spirits in a powerful way. So powerful that Cassandra had to bring him back to the family she'd largely been ignoring for years. Or trying to anyways. It's hard to ignore a huge influential family like the Lewis Conglomerate. They trained him, and Cassandra supervised to make sure what they had tried with her wouldn't happen to her son.
Turns out though, he took the training well. He wanted to listen, and it worked for him. He grew more and more powerful in his powers. By the time he was fourteen, Geoffrey could channel spirits and learn skills they had had in their lives. Even remember their memories. Cassandra realized her son had the bright future she had had to give up on when she was a teenager. And she was happy for him, and wanted him to reach his full potential. Do what he wanted with it. Geoffrey and his mother got along really well.
It wasn't to last. When Geoffrey was fifteen, a malevolent spirit possessed him and he wasn't able to expel the spirit from his body. It took control. Wiped out part of the Lewis Conglomerate. Exorcism was tried, but it didn't work. He finally had to be put down for the sake of safety. Cassandra has never been the same. She's a warm person for sure, and mothers a lot of people she recognizes as needing her. But make no mistake, she's broken inside. But shortly after Geoffrey's death, she joined Aegis. Instead of working exclusively with The Lewis Conglomerate, she decided to help out Aegis. It was a decision they didn't particularly like. And that was part of the draw for Cassandra. It was a harmless way to tell them to fuck off since their training had excluded her and led to her son's death.
In Aegis, her identity is public. Sometimes the media will cover her exploits and call her Legacy Lewis.
They didn't. By the time she was thirteen and starting to go through puberty, they'd given up on her powers getting more powerful. As you can imagine, that was quite the blow to figure out. That your parents had given up on their high expectations of you completely. She threw herself into her studies, sports, and excelled at all of them. But the family business was seers and spirits and she was average in that, so nothing she did helped.
When she was seventeen, she fell in with a crowd that was...not great. Some of them were just barely avoiding going to juvie, or for some of the older ones jail. She never got addicted to drugs the same as some of them, but she did become a bit of an adrenaline junkie. She learned some things that...well she was basically part of a gang in a lot of ways. For example, she learned how to street fight. Operate guns. Things her family never intended to teach her. That was training for her brothers.
All of her 'learning' in the almost gang ended when she was twenty years old. She found out she was pregnant. The father was one of her friends, Troy. And he dipped out, left, as soon as she told him. They eventually found him to get him to pay child support payments, but by that time Cassandra had been taking care of her son for three years. She had decided to keep the child, partly because she didn't want to say goodbye to blood. She wanted to do better than her family. And if her son inherited the more powerful gifts of the family, she didn't want to leave him to figure it out by himself.
His gifts presented themselves when he was four years old. He could channel spirits in a powerful way. So powerful that Cassandra had to bring him back to the family she'd largely been ignoring for years. Or trying to anyways. It's hard to ignore a huge influential family like the Lewis Conglomerate. They trained him, and Cassandra supervised to make sure what they had tried with her wouldn't happen to her son.
Turns out though, he took the training well. He wanted to listen, and it worked for him. He grew more and more powerful in his powers. By the time he was fourteen, Geoffrey could channel spirits and learn skills they had had in their lives. Even remember their memories. Cassandra realized her son had the bright future she had had to give up on when she was a teenager. And she was happy for him, and wanted him to reach his full potential. Do what he wanted with it. Geoffrey and his mother got along really well.
It wasn't to last. When Geoffrey was fifteen, a malevolent spirit possessed him and he wasn't able to expel the spirit from his body. It took control. Wiped out part of the Lewis Conglomerate. Exorcism was tried, but it didn't work. He finally had to be put down for the sake of safety. Cassandra has never been the same. She's a warm person for sure, and mothers a lot of people she recognizes as needing her. But make no mistake, she's broken inside. But shortly after Geoffrey's death, she joined Aegis. Instead of working exclusively with The Lewis Conglomerate, she decided to help out Aegis. It was a decision they didn't particularly like. And that was part of the draw for Cassandra. It was a harmless way to tell them to fuck off since their training had excluded her and led to her son's death.
In Aegis, her identity is public. Sometimes the media will cover her exploits and call her Legacy Lewis.
Player
OOC NAME: Exxie the Overlord
PRONOUNS: They/Them
OTHER CHARACTERS: Too many. Leave me alone with my many babies okay?
SOURCE: Hey ma I made it.
PRONOUNS: They/Them
OTHER CHARACTERS: Too many. Leave me alone with my many babies okay?
SOURCE: Hey ma I made it.
credit to Laura of Adox
