<div class="floatleft">(https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/8681887/820full-doukissa-nomikou.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"> Cassandra</span><br/><br/><br/><strong>AGE:</strong>Three thousand years, plus or minus a few centuries. Looks mid 20's<br/><strong>GENDER:</strong>Female<br/><strong>SEXUALITY:</strong>Lesbian, polyamorous if needed but prefers monogamy.<br/><strong>BLESSED BY:</strong>Apollo<br/><strong>NICKNAMES:</strong><br/><br/><br/><strong>LIKES:</strong>Books, travel, beautiful women, books, dominant women, books, a quiet life.<br/><strong>DISLIKES:</strong>Her age, being immortal, pushy men, sometimes men in general, how fast mortals fade, being single.<br/><br/><br/><strong>SKILLS &amp; POWERS:</strong><br/>+ - Prophecy. Cassandra can see the future. It's sometimes murky and endlessly shifting around, and remarkably less useful than anyone ever thinks, but she can do it.<br/><br/>Few people tend to believe her, even if and when she sees something useful.<br/><br/><br/>+ - Immortal. Blessed (or more likely cursed) by the God of the Sun himself (Allegedly. It's all mistranslated myths anyway.), every time Cassandra dies, she is revived, healthy and whole, exactly as fresh as the day she received the barbed gift. This sounds good on the surface, but three thousand years is a long time to live. And she has absolutely no guarantee that death will ever find her.<br/><br/><br/>+ Sun's Wrath. Those who harm her tend to have violent, painful, and often humiliating deaths. Maybe not right away, and certainly not by Cassandra's hand, but it typically happens before too long.<br/><br/>And if she is killed, part of her rejuvenation process requires a being of immense power and legend recreating her life force. Since that involves the Sun himself manifesting on the planet, there is frequently a sudden rash of crispy flash fried corpses of her enemies in the area.<br/><br/>But death hurts, and it's just easier to avoid making enemies in general, if only to skip the awkwardness of waking up naked in a pile of ashes and unidentifiable charred things...<br/><br/>+ Cassandra's tears. Almost as many myths and rumors about her tears exist as about the woman herself. They are reputed to have all sorts of properties, ranging from the factual to the absolutely absurd.<br/><br/>They are claimed to be healing, (true, somewhat.) To give people who ingest them limited foresight or telepathy, (possibly, occasionally true, for all the good it gives people...) To cause flight or night vision (What? Not at all.) Or even to let vampires walk in the sun. (.....shrug?)<br/><br/>It has of course been a very very long time since she's shed a single tear.<br/><br/><br/>- Unbelievable. It's extremely rare that anyone takes her seriously. Whether it's just a subtle people hearing what they want to hear and nothing more, or people outright ignoring her warnings, Cassandra has long since become used to being an ignored voice in the wilderness<br/><br/><br/>- Only human. She has no special powers or abilities on her own. She's just as fragile as any other human, and in fact somewhat weaker and slower than the average modern human.<br/><br/>+Linguistics. She's fluent in a remarkable number of languages, mostly because she watched them evolve.<br/><br/><br/><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong>Blonde, short and slender, at only five feet tall and a few pounds over 100. No tattoos, and just the basic earlobe piercings. Heterochromia, blue and green. Looks roughly 25ish years old.<br/><br/><br/><strong>PERSONALITY:</strong>Personality: Weary. Cassandra has been all over the world, seen most of what humanity has to offer, and was impressed by very little of it. Not much has changed in her 3,000 years of life span. The world spins on, and she gets ever so slightly more cynical and dispirited every century.<br/><br/>She is reasonably intelligent and wise, and likes to give out good advice, despite the fact that it never ends well.<br/><br/>A dark joke is funnier than a socially acceptable one. After all, aren't we all dark jokes to the gods?<br/><br/><strong>CHARACTER BACKGROUND:</strong>Cassandra was born sometime around 1100 BC. There are various mythological accountings of her life in that era, but three facts are indisputable.<br/><br/>She was at the Trojan War, and none of her various deaths seem to last, somehow. She claims to be married to the actual, literal Apollo. She wandered the world for centuries, trying to find answers to her various conditions. She didn't find any.<br/><br/>Something called her to Blessed Falls, and she considers one place pretty much as good as another. At least in a village of God touched children, she wouldn't be the oddest thing around. And most places she tried to settle in tended to end up not going well... Maybe hanging out with the aspects of the Gods she had been avoiding for so long would have a better result.<br/><br/><br/><br/><strong>FACE CLAIM:</strong>Doukissa Nomikou<br/><strong>WRITER:</strong>Elizabeth Ecsed