Post by Cassie Vimes on Jan 30, 2009 8:52:36 GMT 1
Introducing...
Name:
Cassandra Agatha Vimes. Most people know her as Cas or Cassie as she hates going by her full name.
Age:
31st August, 20.
Gender:
Female.
Birthplace:
Adelaide, Australia.
Ethnicity:
Caucasian.
Nationality:
Australian.
Blood:
Half Blood.
Relatives:
Mother: Jean Vimes (nee Flack) (deceased)
Father: Greyson Vimes
Step-Mother: Barbara Vimes (nee Donovon)
Step-Siblings: Kate Vimes (8)
Holly Vimes (6)
Frank Vimes (5)
Pets:
N/A - It's too much trouble and too much expense to look after a pet while on the road.
Wand Type:
Blackthorn and Phoenix Feather, 9 inches. Sharp and strong. Cassie's wand can produce exceptional results in any branch of magic, but at a high personal cost. It cannot affect things in a direct way but has the ability to transform the very essence of an object, but the effort required to do so could easily cost Cassie her life. She often fears using her wand could effect the chances of survival of any child she may have if she were pregnant. (This is on top of the worry about the complications that came when her own mother was pregnant with her.) Blackthorn and Phoenix Feather wands are good at charms, transfiguration and illusion magic, but poor at defence, hexes and jinxes.
Appearance
Picture:
Hair Colour:
Blonde.
Eye Colour:
Grey
Build:
Slender.
Skin Tone:
Pale, but not so pale that she can‘t get a good tan if she’s out in the sun.
Height:
5’11”.
Dress Style:
Currently Cassie has a rather large collection of jumpers, woolly socks, hats, scarves, gloves, heavy coats, thermal vests and basically anything else designed for arctic weather. She has discovered that she doesn’t like winter in Scotland much (the summer was cold enough!) and she will often wear at least a scarf and gloves indoors in an attempt to keep warm. Apart from that she has a rather eclectic taste and will at least try something on before she decides she doesn’t like it, so her wardrobe is very varied.
Specifics:
Most people notice that Cassie is tall, a good couple of inches above the average height of a woman in Britain. She also has a nose piercing, usually a small gold stud, although she doesn’t always wear it. Apart from that she managed to escape childhood pretty much scar free, apart from a small one on her knee that is barely even visible any more, and she wouldn’t get a tattoo if you paid her.
In Front Of Friends
Sexual Orientation:
Heterosexual.
Self Image:
Cassie is pretty comfortable in her own skin. She’s fiercely independent and sees it as a personal failure if she ends up in anybody’s debt. When on the road personal grooming can become a bit of a slapdash affair and so she’s gotten used to just getting by. She wishes she was one of those people who could just roll out of bed and look glamorous, but it’s never going to happen so she tells herself to suck it up.
To the Outward Eye:
She gives off pretty friendly and approachable vibes. Cassie usually has a smile on her face, that or you can hear her laughing from across the room. It isn’t something you forget easily, mainly because of it’s sheer volume. That said she never quite looks settled and so any encounter with her will probably seem like a brief whirlwind of bubbly conversation before she’s moved on to the next person or place.
Social Status:
Cassie is a girl of many acquaintances and few close friends. She’s pretty sociable, the kind of person who will strike up a conversation with the worker at the checkout or whoever is next to her at the bus stop. However as she travels around a lot she never manages to get to the exchanging phone numbers and staying in touch part. Cassie likes it best this way, all the fun and none of the obligation.
Positive Traits:
Cassie can speak French fairly well and knows a couple set phrases in other languages such as ’Where’s the nearest bar?’. She can strum a few chords on the guitar, play a few tunes on the piano, knows enough about cars to fix any basic problems and can heal small injuries. Basically Cassie has picked up a few useful skills on her travels but has never taken the time to become an expert.
Likes:
A Robin. Friendly and sociable, but with a flighty nature, tending to hop from one place to another with seemingly little rhyme or reason. Robins are also fiercely territorial, attacking anything they see as a threat and defending their nests viciously.
Boggart:
Cassie‘s boggart is her dead mother, corpse riddled with decay, blaming Cassie for ruining her life and causing her death.
World Passing By
Occupation:
Unemployed/Job Hunting. Cassie only just arrived in Scotland and she‘s looking for work. She has plenty saved up from the job she had as a hotel receptionist when she was in Paris so she’s in no hurry.
Past Grades:
Cassie was a bit of a ‘Jack of all trades’ at school. She achieved average to good grades in all of her subjects but never really shone in any of them. She never really applied herself either, preferring to coast along on the minimum effort required so she had more time to goof off with her classmates.
History:
Jean was only fourteen when she got together with Greyson Vimes, who was older than her by two years. She was pregnant by the time she was sixteen and dropped out of school early to have the baby. Greyson did the honourable thing, on the insistence of his parents and promised to support his then girlfriend and their unborn child. Jean fell ill early into the pregnancy, leading to fears that she would not be able to carry the baby to full term. She made it though and Cassie was born, perfectly healthy if a little on the light side. It was the happiest day in Jean’s life.
The joy did not last, and Jean‘s health only continued to deteriorate, leaving the still young Greyson trying to work full time as well as care for a newborn baby. Two years to the day after Cassie was born Jean passed away. Greyson was back at work the next day, he had bills to pay and a child to care for, he couldn‘t afford the time off. Somehow father and child muddled through, Cassie being cared for by an odd mix of the neighbours, her grandparents and anybody else who was on hand at the time.
Because of this unusual childhood Cassie was very independent and self sufficient. By seven she could keep herself fed, watered and entertained in the house all by herself. She was also pretty good at socialising, used to being passed from one adult to another she would quite happily chat with the nearest person, play with the nearest child, get muddy in the nearest bit of dirt or, if all else failed, read the nearest book.
When she was twelve Greyson (she never quite got into the habit of calling him dad) met Barbara. History seemed to repeat itself, and within three months Barbara was pregnant, forcing Greyson to stick by her. They had a very quick wedding, with only their closest friends and family invited, and so Cassie had a new step-mum and a step-sibling was already on the way. She didn’t like this woman who had invaded her house, taking up the space that used to be Cassie’s domain when her father was at work. She especially didn’t like the way Barbara kept cooking her meals and trying to play with her, like Cassie couldn’t look after herself.
Fortunately it wasn’t long before she turned thirteen and got the letter to attend a local wizarding school. Jean had been a witch and while Greyson had known about this part of his girlfriend’s life he had never become involved in it and barely even mentioned it to Cassie, partly because the topic was a painful reminder of Jean’s death. She loved the school, or at least the fact that it got her away from Greyson and Barbara being all gooey-eyed over their new baby.
It was at the school that Cassie first met one Edward Johns and boy did she hate his guts. She couldn’t explain the instant dislike she took to him, but she made it her personal mission to annoy him as much as possible, often resorting to very unladylike behaviour by literally roughhousing with him. Somewhere along the way this intense hatred turned into a crush and they dated for a while until he dropped out of school in their final year and went off to travel the world.
She’d been utterly smitten with him. Had Ed asked her she probably would have followed him to the ends of the earth, but he didn’t and so Cassie went back to hating him for a long while. Unlike her ex she stuck out the education system until she graduated, coming away with a reasonable set of grades and no idea what she wanted to do with her life. Cassie lasted a whole six weeks at home before she got sick of feeling like an intruder in the family Greyson had built without her.
Don’t get her wrong, Cassie did love them, she was just too independent to stick around. She set out travelling, picking up odd jobs and skills along the way to fund the trip. She spent a long stint in Paris, working the night shift in a hotel as a receptionist. Never one to stay in one place for too long and with enough money to fund herself for a good while she moved on to Scotland. The first thing she did when she arrived was buy a ridiculous amount of winter clothing.
Roleplay Sample:
Out of Character
Name:
Ann.
Age:
Twenteen.
Name of Playby:
Rachael Taylor.
Other Characters:
August Jensen, Abraham Grey.
How you found Hex:
Hex is my baby.
Name:
Cassandra Agatha Vimes. Most people know her as Cas or Cassie as she hates going by her full name.
Age:
31st August, 20.
Gender:
Female.
Birthplace:
Adelaide, Australia.
Ethnicity:
Caucasian.
Nationality:
Australian.
Blood:
Half Blood.
Relatives:
Mother: Jean Vimes (nee Flack) (deceased)
Father: Greyson Vimes
Step-Mother: Barbara Vimes (nee Donovon)
Step-Siblings: Kate Vimes (8)
Holly Vimes (6)
Frank Vimes (5)
Pets:
N/A - It's too much trouble and too much expense to look after a pet while on the road.
Wand Type:
Blackthorn and Phoenix Feather, 9 inches. Sharp and strong. Cassie's wand can produce exceptional results in any branch of magic, but at a high personal cost. It cannot affect things in a direct way but has the ability to transform the very essence of an object, but the effort required to do so could easily cost Cassie her life. She often fears using her wand could effect the chances of survival of any child she may have if she were pregnant. (This is on top of the worry about the complications that came when her own mother was pregnant with her.) Blackthorn and Phoenix Feather wands are good at charms, transfiguration and illusion magic, but poor at defence, hexes and jinxes.
Appearance
Picture:
Hair Colour:
Blonde.
Eye Colour:
Grey
Build:
Slender.
Skin Tone:
Pale, but not so pale that she can‘t get a good tan if she’s out in the sun.
Height:
5’11”.
Dress Style:
Currently Cassie has a rather large collection of jumpers, woolly socks, hats, scarves, gloves, heavy coats, thermal vests and basically anything else designed for arctic weather. She has discovered that she doesn’t like winter in Scotland much (the summer was cold enough!) and she will often wear at least a scarf and gloves indoors in an attempt to keep warm. Apart from that she has a rather eclectic taste and will at least try something on before she decides she doesn’t like it, so her wardrobe is very varied.
Specifics:
Most people notice that Cassie is tall, a good couple of inches above the average height of a woman in Britain. She also has a nose piercing, usually a small gold stud, although she doesn’t always wear it. Apart from that she managed to escape childhood pretty much scar free, apart from a small one on her knee that is barely even visible any more, and she wouldn’t get a tattoo if you paid her.
In Front Of Friends
Sexual Orientation:
Heterosexual.
Self Image:
Cassie is pretty comfortable in her own skin. She’s fiercely independent and sees it as a personal failure if she ends up in anybody’s debt. When on the road personal grooming can become a bit of a slapdash affair and so she’s gotten used to just getting by. She wishes she was one of those people who could just roll out of bed and look glamorous, but it’s never going to happen so she tells herself to suck it up.
To the Outward Eye:
She gives off pretty friendly and approachable vibes. Cassie usually has a smile on her face, that or you can hear her laughing from across the room. It isn’t something you forget easily, mainly because of it’s sheer volume. That said she never quite looks settled and so any encounter with her will probably seem like a brief whirlwind of bubbly conversation before she’s moved on to the next person or place.
Social Status:
Cassie is a girl of many acquaintances and few close friends. She’s pretty sociable, the kind of person who will strike up a conversation with the worker at the checkout or whoever is next to her at the bus stop. However as she travels around a lot she never manages to get to the exchanging phone numbers and staying in touch part. Cassie likes it best this way, all the fun and none of the obligation.
Positive Traits:
- Independent - Cassie likes to do everything herself. This stems from her childhood where she was left to fend for herself quite a lot of time and so she just became accustomed to only being able to rely on herself. She hates owing people favours and will usually try to get it paid back as quickly as possible so that they aren’t hanging over her head.
- Resourceful - Need an egg timer? Only have a few pipe cleaners, a penknife and a broken beer bottle? Cassie is your girl. She’s an expert at making something useful from practically nothing. For this reason transfiguration is one of her stronger skills. Cassie developed this trait from having to make do while travelling.
- Sociable - Cassie makes the time to try and talk to everyone. The thing she likes most about travelling is the wide variety of people you meet along the way, what’s the point of going to new places if you’re not going to take the time to talk to the people there.
- Protective - She doesn’t have much that she considers her own and so what she does have she’s very protective over. This includes her worldly possessions (all of which fit in a magical rucksack), the few close friends she has, her family and her homeland of Australia.
- Flirtatious - Cassie likes to have a good time and one of the ways she can do this is with men. Hell she’d keep them around just because they’re pretty to look at. Just don’t try to buy her a drink, Cassie can buy her own drinks thank you very much.
- Flighty - She moves around a lot and just as it seems like she’s going to settle down she gets itchy feet and has to move on. Same goes for chatting, she can seem to be having a perfectly good conversation with someone, but the next minute she’ll lose interest and find somebody else to entertain her.
- Short-tempered - It doesn’t take much to annoy Cassie and she can fly off the handle at seemingly the smallest thing. She’ll voice her opinions, loudly, and her expression alone when she’s in a bad mood is usually enough to strike fear into the hearts of men.
- Forgetful - Cassie has left more toothbrushes in more apartments across the world than most people have owned in a lifetime. In the flurry of packing and the stress of travelling she often leaves the little things behind. But, hey, in this day and age its pretty easy to just buy a new one.
- Secretive - Cassie never really reveals anything about herself. With the strangers she meets along the way she can strike up a conversation with them and have them telling her everything about themselves and they families within about five minutes. Somehow, though, she never quite gets round to telling them about her life story.
- Unmotivated - She’s quite content to just coast through life. Cassie has no plans for the future and never gets involved in anything that requires too much effort on her part. Why tie yourself down in a career or a relationship when you can have so much more fun without these obligations.
Cassie can speak French fairly well and knows a couple set phrases in other languages such as ’Where’s the nearest bar?’. She can strum a few chords on the guitar, play a few tunes on the piano, knows enough about cars to fix any basic problems and can heal small injuries. Basically Cassie has picked up a few useful skills on her travels but has never taken the time to become an expert.
Likes:
- Australia - Her homeland will always hold a special place in her heart. She loves meeting other Australians and swapping memories about the great country. Besides, there’s just something comforting about the accent.
- Coffee - A warm drink that gives you energy. Perfect. Cassie practically worships this miracle liquid and she’s relied on it to get her through a fair few tough late night shifts when she was working in the hotel in Paris.
- Tequila - As far as Cassie is concerned a bottle of the stuff is what makes a party. She’ll drink margaritas but she prefers a straight up shot or, if she’s in a flirtatious mood, body shots work just as well.
- Thrift Stores - You can pick up some pretty interesting stuff in the stores and it’s cheap too. Before she moves on somewhere new she always drops into a second-hand shop and stocks up on cheap paperback novels to read while on the road.
- Sunshine - Cassie could quite happily lounge about in the sun all day like a lazy housecat. She’s always in a better mood if the sun is shining outside.
- Cricket - When she was a child she used to go and watch cricket matches with her father. She still has her father’s old, worn Adelaide Oval baseball cap that she took with her when she left home.
- Hotel Freebies - One of the few things Cassie doesn’t mind taking without giving anything in return (except for the fee for her hotel room of course). Her wash bag is practically overflowing with neatly packaged soaps and tiny bottles of shampoo.
- Tea - It’s so bland, you may as well drink a cup of hot water.
- Queue Jumpers - She doesn’t get what the hurry is all the time, and besides its incredibly rude. She’s met some of the most interesting people while chatting in queues. Cassie thinks everybody should just chill out a bit.
- Mobile Phones - One of the muggle devices that she hates the most. Cassie often hangs around in highly wizarding populated areas if only because she’s less likely to be irritated by some muggle shouting into their mobile.
- Sleeping Rough - She’s only had to do it once or twice and she didn’t like it at all. Cassie isn’t one to demand complete luxury, but a bed is hardly too much to ask is it?
- Debt - Cassie has never borrowed a cent from anybody, preferring to earn her own money. She doesn’t like it when people help her out of a scrape either because then she feels like she owes them.
- Snow - Seriously, what is the point of it. It’s really cold and it makes your clothes all soggy. Whoever invented snowball fights should be sectioned. Having ice thrown in your face doesn’t sound like her idea of a good time.
- Hangovers - There’s nothing worse than waking up the morning after the night before feeling like utter shit. Especially when you can’t remember what the hell happened or how you ended up next to that strange man who’s old enough to be your father.
A Robin. Friendly and sociable, but with a flighty nature, tending to hop from one place to another with seemingly little rhyme or reason. Robins are also fiercely territorial, attacking anything they see as a threat and defending their nests viciously.
Boggart:
Cassie‘s boggart is her dead mother, corpse riddled with decay, blaming Cassie for ruining her life and causing her death.
World Passing By
Occupation:
Unemployed/Job Hunting. Cassie only just arrived in Scotland and she‘s looking for work. She has plenty saved up from the job she had as a hotel receptionist when she was in Paris so she’s in no hurry.
Past Grades:
Cassie was a bit of a ‘Jack of all trades’ at school. She achieved average to good grades in all of her subjects but never really shone in any of them. She never really applied herself either, preferring to coast along on the minimum effort required so she had more time to goof off with her classmates.
History:
Jean was only fourteen when she got together with Greyson Vimes, who was older than her by two years. She was pregnant by the time she was sixteen and dropped out of school early to have the baby. Greyson did the honourable thing, on the insistence of his parents and promised to support his then girlfriend and their unborn child. Jean fell ill early into the pregnancy, leading to fears that she would not be able to carry the baby to full term. She made it though and Cassie was born, perfectly healthy if a little on the light side. It was the happiest day in Jean’s life.
The joy did not last, and Jean‘s health only continued to deteriorate, leaving the still young Greyson trying to work full time as well as care for a newborn baby. Two years to the day after Cassie was born Jean passed away. Greyson was back at work the next day, he had bills to pay and a child to care for, he couldn‘t afford the time off. Somehow father and child muddled through, Cassie being cared for by an odd mix of the neighbours, her grandparents and anybody else who was on hand at the time.
Because of this unusual childhood Cassie was very independent and self sufficient. By seven she could keep herself fed, watered and entertained in the house all by herself. She was also pretty good at socialising, used to being passed from one adult to another she would quite happily chat with the nearest person, play with the nearest child, get muddy in the nearest bit of dirt or, if all else failed, read the nearest book.
When she was twelve Greyson (she never quite got into the habit of calling him dad) met Barbara. History seemed to repeat itself, and within three months Barbara was pregnant, forcing Greyson to stick by her. They had a very quick wedding, with only their closest friends and family invited, and so Cassie had a new step-mum and a step-sibling was already on the way. She didn’t like this woman who had invaded her house, taking up the space that used to be Cassie’s domain when her father was at work. She especially didn’t like the way Barbara kept cooking her meals and trying to play with her, like Cassie couldn’t look after herself.
Fortunately it wasn’t long before she turned thirteen and got the letter to attend a local wizarding school. Jean had been a witch and while Greyson had known about this part of his girlfriend’s life he had never become involved in it and barely even mentioned it to Cassie, partly because the topic was a painful reminder of Jean’s death. She loved the school, or at least the fact that it got her away from Greyson and Barbara being all gooey-eyed over their new baby.
It was at the school that Cassie first met one Edward Johns and boy did she hate his guts. She couldn’t explain the instant dislike she took to him, but she made it her personal mission to annoy him as much as possible, often resorting to very unladylike behaviour by literally roughhousing with him. Somewhere along the way this intense hatred turned into a crush and they dated for a while until he dropped out of school in their final year and went off to travel the world.
She’d been utterly smitten with him. Had Ed asked her she probably would have followed him to the ends of the earth, but he didn’t and so Cassie went back to hating him for a long while. Unlike her ex she stuck out the education system until she graduated, coming away with a reasonable set of grades and no idea what she wanted to do with her life. Cassie lasted a whole six weeks at home before she got sick of feeling like an intruder in the family Greyson had built without her.
Don’t get her wrong, Cassie did love them, she was just too independent to stick around. She set out travelling, picking up odd jobs and skills along the way to fund the trip. She spent a long stint in Paris, working the night shift in a hotel as a receptionist. Never one to stay in one place for too long and with enough money to fund herself for a good while she moved on to Scotland. The first thing she did when she arrived was buy a ridiculous amount of winter clothing.
Roleplay Sample:
Cassie had never seen snow before. To be perfectly frank she wasn’t enjoying being so up close and personal with it at all. Frozen flakes fell steadily from the clouds above, coating Hogsmeade in a thick layer of white and making it difficult to see more than a few feet ahead. The temperature had long ago dropped below freezing, leaving the ground plenty cold enough for the snow to settle. The WWN had announced this morning that the cold spell was here to stay and, therefore, so was the snow.
A loud sigh pretty much summed up exactly how Cassie felt and she watched despondently as the puff of air that had just been pushed out from between her lips turned into a white cloud before her eyes. Her converse all-stars were already soaked through, freezing cold water seeping into the fabric of the shoe and making her toes numb. As soon as she got inside she’d take them off, dreading the way her toes would start to burn at the drastic change in temperature.
Cassie trudged onwards, the only thing keeping her going was the prospect of a good stiff drink. Preferably tequila. And hopefully so good (attractive, male) company to share it with. She stopped, putting one mitten-clad hand on the top of her head to hold on her fur-trimmed hood as she craned her neck to catch sight of the sign on the nearest building. ’The Hog’s Head’ That was the name of a pub if ever she’d seen one. A little shady perhaps, but that was the way she liked them.
A gush of hot air hit her in the face as she pushed open the door, making her grin contentedly. She slipped in, sitting at one of the empty tables and kicking off her damp shoes so that her feet could dry out. Cassie didn’t bother to remove any of her other many layers, leaving the hood up on her heavy winter coat and her scarf, hat and gloves firmly in place. In fact she was so well dressed you could barely see the girl under all the clothes. She’d get round to shedding layers eventually, but right now she was concentrating on rediscovering parts of her that she’d feared had frozen off the moment she stepped out into the cold.
Out of Character
Name:
Ann.
Age:
Twenteen.
Name of Playby:
Rachael Taylor.
Other Characters:
August Jensen, Abraham Grey.
How you found Hex:
Hex is my baby.
