The Discovery of Cassandra Laveau
''You know that I wouldn't leave you for anything in the world, right? You are, and will always be, one of the most important people in my life."
“I would go to hell to get you back... just remember that.”
Cassandra and Tidus
‘’When I met your brother I had no idea who and what he was. And it didn’t really matter, to be honest. I’ve never met someone like him, and I never will again - that I am sure of. It just happens to be this way. Nothing I’ve done has been because of my mark.’’
Cassandra and Elijah Oakley
Abilities
From my heart,
I pull the key to my own invisble kingdom
and ride on my bone-pale horse,
looking out, as if from some high tower,
at the hallucinated worlds of my own mind
Blood Sorcery
Cassandra is specialized in blood sorcery. Therefore, she uses blood in her magical practice. Her primary usage of blood magic lies in manipulating blood, using spells. She can use blood as a moldable substance, creating things of it. The item created will however fall apart when her concentration is broken. Furthermore, she uses voodoo to gain control over the physical aspect of her victims.
Using blood sorcery is very physically demanding and will drain her of energy quickly. As she is still learning how to control all of these new elements of her magical specialization, she has a tendency to having experiments going wrong. If she is pressured to use up her energy-reserves, she will collapse and be in a sleep-like state in the next 24 hours or so. Using blood sorcery to the extremes and outside her comfort zones can have negative effects on those surrounding her.
Shared Memories
Cassandra recently acquired the ability to submerge someone in one of her memories through physical skin-to-skin contact. The person affected will feel a falling sensation, before emerging in the memory together with Cassandra. Cassandra will be reliving the memory (including sensory impressions and emotions). The person affected will experience one or several of Cassandras sensory or emotional memories connected to the memory experienced.
Cassandra can not control when and what memory the person affected will experience, and she can’t stop the memory from being shared. She is working on mastering the ability.
After sharing a memory, Cassandra will be exhausted and affected by both the memory and the sensory overload followed by it. She is, on that accord, hesitant to touch others unless she has some clothing between them to avoid the skin-to-skin contact triggering the ability.
Those with mental shields of any form are not affected by this ability.
A Witch's Magic
Cassandra is born a witch. Therefore, she is born with the magic running through her veins, alongside her blood. This magical predisposition is what allows her to use Blood Sorcery. Besides that, she is spiritually connected to the nature, and is able to use other types of magic. She is able to preform spells, curses and other magical elements, to some extend. Related to her Blood Sorcery, she is very skilled, but she is also highly trained in healing and curses. She is no master in the magical arts, and therefore, she has her limitations.
Using magic will exhaust her in the same way her Blood Sorcery will, and therefore she will experience the same consequences of draining her magical energy in general, as if she had been draining her natural energy-reserves. She will collapse, and be in a sleep like state for approximately 24 hours.
Relations
You are never better than the people you surrounds yourself with
Lyle Avalon
Biological father
Tidus Borgia Laveau
Best friend - practically brother
Rhaegal
Biological uncle
Bienvido Toro aka Tivo
Flat mate - flirt
”I can tell you to do anything, anytime I want you cute little witch.”
”is that so? And how do you expect to make me do anything for you, when all you ever do is look at me like you’re Joey from FRIENDS, and I’m a sandwich?”
Tivo and Cassandra
About Cassandra
Behind the blood, sweat and tears
Full name: Cassandra Angela Avalynn Laveau
Age: 24 (both physically and mentally)
Species: Witch (technically hybrid between witch and draconian)
Gender: female
Relationship status: single
Personality: a combination between a stereotypical Disney Villain and Mama Bear
Appearance: dark and deep brown eyes, with tiny golden specs. Brown hair, and freckles. Fairly typical in build, with smooth skin and very feminine curves.
The small things: a long scar up the inside of her lower right arm (from a ritual), three (3) round-ish scars on her collar bone (from claws), a tattoo of a moon and a crow on her hip, her mate’s name on her collar bone located directly under the three (3) round-ish scars, scars from piercings all over her face, her eyes can change from their natural state to a mixture of blood and gold when she uses magic or is emotionally affected in a negative way.
Before Gaia
If the past was forgotten, we would be nothing but dust
Cassandra was born in April of 1995, right outside Edinburgh, Scotland. She was the daughter of a single mother and witch - Arumia Dumor. Since Cassandra’s mother, a witch, had lost her mate (Cassandra’s father), she was completely unfit to raise a child. The mother suffered abuse of multiple substances and had been diagnosed with several mental disorders. Still, Cassandra grew up with her, and countless fatherly figures.
Cassandra met her first stepfather when she was five years old. He was the first of many to abuse her in multiple ways. The first abuse was purely violence, but when she turned seven, more intimate abuse became prevalent. Cassandra dropped out of school and isolated herself. Her mother went even more crazy by the day. In 2005, when Cassandra was ten years old, she ran off; the first time of many. The police brought her back and left her with her mother and stepfather. This pattern repeated itself for years.
When Cassandra was thirteen years old, she received her mate-mark and her magic became her comfort. Her stepfather seemed to have lost interest in her for a while. The following year, when Cassandra had turned fourteen, her stepfather regained interest in her. She lost control of her new-found magic and ended up murdering the man. Her mother blamed Cassandra for everything and tried to kill her. Once again, Cassandra ran away, to be returned by the police.
In 2011, when she was sixteen, she met a vampire named Jonathan. She befriended him, and ran off with him and his sister, to Dublin, Ireland. There, she tried to finish school, which she had left when she was seven. She finishes school with high marks and scholarships offered to her in the US. From 2011 and until 2016, she lived a happy life with the vampire in the Irish capital, and in the winter of 2016, she became pregnant with their first child.
In the early summer of 2017, Cassandra miscarried the child, which they had named Calsifer. Jonathan was heartbroken, and Cassandra couldn’t figure out a way to handle the loss. She left Dublin, and Jonathan. She moved to Gaia, where she tried to get an education at the Athena Academy. Her mother, in the meantime, was admitted to a psychiatric hospital an hour’s drive from Gaia.
The Adventures
We a created through our hardships
A daughter? I don't think I have one... - Cassandra meets her father by coincident. She asks him to join her as she visits her mother at the psychiatric ward. Her mother says her goodbye’s and closes her eyes for the last time. Cassandra goes on a month-long drinking binge where she sleeps on different men’s couches and neglects school.
It doesn’t have to be like this, but I need it - Cassandra meets a hybrid named Leviticus. She befriends him, as he helps her out of her rut.
Is this seat taken? - Cassandra meets her assigned mate, Josiah Oakley. She goes on a date with him, and tells him about mates and magic, while she admits to being a witch.
I think it's better to do it in my own time - Cassandra and Josiah agrees to get married, so that they are more equal in the bonding-matters of having a mate.
Hi dad! - By the way, I'm getting married.... - Cassandra meets up with her father to inform him that she is getting married. She expresses her fears of being like her parents; either crazy as her mother, or dangerous as her father had been.
I didn´t start the fire... - Cassandra meets Tidus, son on a very prominent mafia boss. They figure out that they are actually somewhat related, as Tidus is dating Cassandra’s mate’s brother. They kill off some rival gang-members for sport.
It's been a while - Cassandra meets up with Leviticus after she dropped out of the Academy. They catch up on what has happened, and Cassandra get to meet Leviticus’ other personalities, and his father.
Easter Madness, as the Mad Hatter would say - Cassandra, her fiancé, her brother-in-law and his boyfriend Tidus, take a joined trip to the Oakley’s family home in Brighton. Something goes wrong, as Josiah and Cassandra have a fight, which continues as they return home.
Run, hide and pray that you won't become the prey tonight - Cassandra and her friend Tidus are having a night out in the town. On they way home, Tidus seems to be different, before something inside him breaks free, attacking Cassandra. Cassandra almost gets killed as she uses her last energy to protect some strangers. Tidus regain control, as Cassandra drops a large brick wall on him. He carries her back to his home, and as she wakes up in the morning, she had no memories of the incident. She is left with a dream about them being intimate, scared the shit out of her. They share a heartfelt moment before she has to leave for a meeting with a future employer; Jasper Technique - Tidus’ dad, and leader of the prevalent mafia.
Back to the future - Cassandra meets up with Tidus, per his father’s request. Cassandra is assigned to go with Tidus on a mission, retrieving some funds from someone. Tidus is angry at Cassandra for leaving, after she had killed her fiancé, and as she tries to explain, Tidus leaves her with no intention of returning.
Died to young - Cassandra decides to continue to work for the mafia boss, and travels to their estate. In the entrance, she finds a dying Tidus, stabbed. She rushes him to their shared friend Tivo’s apartment, where Cassandra has been living since she went underground for killing her fiancé by accident. She is not able to heal him, and he is rushed to the hospital. Cassandra is not leaving his side, and when she uses a blood ritual to gain access to the information of who stabbed him, she seeks out his father and threatens him. She curses him, before returning to the hospital. Tidus wakes up, with the help of others, leaving Cassandra feeling forced to leave him with them. She returns to the apartment with Tivo, and isolates herself.
We deserve some peace... and rum... lots of rum - Cassandra gets seeked out by Tidus. They reconcile, and Tidus gets a glimpse of her perspective, when her ‘shared memories’-ability activates. Tivo and Cassandra starts flirting, leading Tidus to think that they might be having feelings for each other. While planning for how to deal with Tidus’ killer, a member of the mafia demands access to the apartment. Since Tidus is wanted dead, and Cassandra cursed the leader of the mafia, they are forced to hide in a crawl space hidden in a closet, while Tivo handles the mafia member.