The Valkyries: Occult Warfare
Name: Kassandra "Kassie" Haywood
Gender: Female
Race: Human - Oracle
Age: 14, looks 18
Appearance:
Kassie is short, only about 5 feet tall, and has a slender petite form only weighing about 110 lbs. Though she is still young, she hasn't grown in a year or two so it's expected that she won't grow much taller. She has very bright green eyes that reflect back a wisdom too old for one so young, but such is the burden of an oracle. In contract to her bright green eyes, long, wavy, messy hair tumbles midway down her back. The Valkyrie, and Nathan in particular, are always telling her she should cut it shorter or at least put in up for practicalities sake, but childish frivolity and the innate need to be in control of something normal in her life, causes her to "disappear" whenever anyone tries to take a serious step at cutting it. Only to have her reappear, once the moment has past. While her eyes give her the look of being older, she still retains some of her "baby fat" making her face only slightly round. Her body, as mentioned before is really petite, but it shows the curves of a young woman.
Kassie is also more fashionably inclined than a majority of the Valkyrie and tends to dress with the current trends for her age, again one of the few normal things in her life that she clings too. So she tends to dress in leggings and longer tunic shirts, unless she's training with Nathan when she grudgingly wears something a little more sturdy in sweatpants and a t-shirt, or light leather armor when they are sparing.
Personality
Kassie, while being trained by and living with the Valkyrie all her life, is still the typical teenager. She can be moody and sullen and then happy, curious, and helpful all within a two minute span, which drives nearly everyone insane on a regular basis. She'd started having the World-Dreams at around the age of 6 and so with a combination of that responsibility at a young age and the constant influx of information from the dreams (which she had no idea how to deal with), she started minor rebellions against a fate that she felt was against her. That's not to say she didn't begin to understand the importance of her "gift" as it was referred to by the members of Valkyrie, more like a curse in her mind, she just felt that it was unfair that it had to be her to get this ability when she wanted nothing more than to just be normal.
Powers, Traits, Abilities
*World Dreams- the power of prophecy and knowledge given as a birth right to all oracles
*Tarot Reading - First it started as an obsession and interest she had as a young child, it quickly turned into her way of interpreting and sharing the knowledge imparted to her by the world dreams. It was only through trial and error that this was found to be her outlet for the dreams
*Anima Mind - Telekinesis - part of her training to control her anima and thus the dreams. Kassie can move small items quickly and with precision using her mind. She has begun moving about medium sized items, but the movement is slower and not nearly as clean
*Novice Martial Artist- Another skill that she is currently training in, under the teaching of Nathan. At first it had begun in order to get the Valkyrie of her back about learning self-defense in the case of an emergency, she has now begun to understand just how helpful learning to use hand-to-hand combat and a staff can be. She's now actually enjoys her lessons, minus Nathan throwing her to the ground so often
*Experimenter/Scientist - One of her real joys, Kassie enjoys working with the Valkyrie scientist and engineers who take mortal weapons and improve them to help against keeping the balance
Standard Loadout
*Tarot Deck - Her deck is a more modern interpretation of the traditional Rider-White deck
*Collapsible Runed Quarterstaff- Silver plated staff with runes carved to aid in additional speed and strength
*Foci – Silver Charm Braclet with runes focusing on “control”, “mind” and “air” to aid with her telekinesis, and a fourth charm that she doesn't know what it means
*Mother's ring - Miranda's ring, the only thing she has left of her mother's besides the stories told to her by Nathan
Background
Kassie was born on October 31st to Miranda Haywood, a member of the Valkyrie. It was only later that she heard of everything that happened on the night she was born. How her mother had been captured by a cult in an effort to gain the next Oracle and how her friends had managed to save her, only for her to die in childbirth.
Nathan was the one who took the most charge in raising Kassie as she grew older, but mostly she was raised under an “It takes a village” mentality, with everyone chipping in. She grew like a normal healthy child. It wasn’t until 6 when she began having the World Dreams that she truly started to become an oracle. At first she had no idea what was happening and was terrified to the point of that she refused to sleep until Nathan gave her a little stuffed bear to sleep with telling her that when she was awoken because of a dream, to whisper the dream to the bear and it would go away. It helped a little, but Kassie still didn’t ever want to sleep. The Valkyrie were all concerned and began to try and help her find ways of sharing the dreams, hoping that it would relive her stress. They tried painting, drawing, writing, singing, song writing, everything, until one day someone brought in a deck of tarot cards as an almost last resort, never thinking that they would help. Kassie took to the cards almost immediately fascinated by the pictures. For a six year old, she was focused on learning the meaning of the cards and how to read them and soon the dreams didn’t bother her anymore. It was like they had stopped.
With coming of age, in the oracle sense, the Valkyrie decided it was time for Kassie to start studying other things, including anima of the mind more specifically Telekinesis and at Nathan’s insistence hand-to-hand combat and staff use. She also had “normal” classes, math, science, English, and history, well a class on the true history, not the stuff that mortals taught in their schools. It was only at about the age of 12 or 13 that Kassie began to rebel a little, tired of all the restrictions that were imposed on her. She never got to leave the Valkyrie’s home base in Scotland, but she heard the stories about what was on the outside of the walls from the other children who also lived there. They were the children of the other Valkyrie members. They went to school down the road, instead of being forced to learn at the castle alone. They went out shopping for new clothes together or to get Ice cream from the Ice cream parlor in town. All things Kassie had never done. Hearing about it only made Kassie angrier at her situation. She tried several times to sneak out the gates, only to always be caught. One time Nathan had caught her trying and she’d never seen him so angry with her, but it didn’t deter her from continuing to try. She skipped her lessons on occasion. The only place she didn’t act out was in the laboratories and that was because one she was genuinely interested in what they created there and two she knew that if she were to make trouble the Valkyrie who ran the place would quite literally throw her out and never allow her back. So Kassie continued to make trouble elsewhere in the base, at first little things, but as she continued to feel resentment and anger at being stuck there it was bound to become worse.
RP Sample
Kassie snuck down the hallways of the castle. It was night and she was attempting to sneak out of the castle again. She’d heard from a group of the others her age that there was going to be a party down in town tonight and she was going to get out and attend this one if it was the last thing she did. She made it out of the main building fine and was sneaking along in the shadows at the bottom of the walls. She was heading for one of the side doors out of the walls as the main gate was always well lit at all times of the day.
Kassie pressed herself against the wall and holds her breath as she heard footsteps along the rampart above her. She’d have to be careful. She didn’t want to be caught again. It was humiliating to get caught every time, though if she’d stop to think about why she was always caught she’d probably come to the realization that all the guards were watching for her specifically. Not only Nathan mentioning it to them, but also because she’d tried several times at this point and it was becoming predictable. The closest she’d ever gotten was that first time she’d tried. Nevertheless, Kassie continued along the wall quietly, dressed in a cute, short dress. Something similar to what she’d seen the other girls wearing as they left the castle laughing. She gritted her teeth as her anger as she got nearer to the door that she was going to attempt to get out of.
Why can’t I be like the other kids? Why do I have to be this Oracle? I didn’t ask to be the Oracle! Kassie put her hand on the door, a smile on her face. There was no one around. She’d finally made it out. She was going to go have a good night at that party and be normal for once. Just a normal girl. The door made a quiet clicking noise as the handle turned and she pulled the door open. And then that little happiness she’d just felt fell into the bit of her stomach. Nathan was standing there in the doorway, his arms crossed, looking at her sternly.
“Shit.” She said quietly. Of all the people to catch her….Nathan was the last she wanted to see. She was in deep trouble.
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