![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
OOC INFORMATION
Player Name: Bri
Are you over 18?: Yes
Contact:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
ThriceWiddershins | ThriceWiddershins @ gmail dot com | DM character journal | Thrice Widdershins#5204
Other Characters in Game: N/A
IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Cassandra (Johanna von Musel Klossowski) de Rolo
Canon: The Legend of Vox Machina
Canon Point: The end of the first season.
Background: wiki link. There are a few slight changes between the stream and the animated series. Primarily that rather than freeing her brother and fleeing, the two of them were both captured and tortured and escaped together. And in the animated series they made it blatantly clear that Sylas had used vampiric mind control on her in order to get her to do things, rather than leaving it implied, but vague.
Suitability: Cassandra is incredibly intellectually curious; she’s an avid seeker of knowledge, has been since she was tiny. The library in Whitestone castle is one of her favourite places. She loves reading and learning and mapping places out. Researching. She was also the youngest daughter of the ruling family of Whitestone, so she knows politics and how to navigate it as well as history and languages. She will be… incredibly WARY when she arrives in-game, courtesy of what happened to her. She is freshly out of prolonged trauma, safe for the first time in 6 years. She will not be used again. So she will be wanting to learn about the world she’s found herself in as well as all the different factions. And she’s a rogue, so spy-y/information gathering nonsense is absolutely right up her alley.
As well as discovering ruins and mapping places out. That’s one of the first things she will be doing after arriving. Mapping everything out. If she can get parchment/paper and ink she will be making physical maps on top of just the mental map. (Keeping herself busy so she can’t THINK and to try and keep the memories and nightmares at bay.)
She very much wants to help people, too. So looking into cures and delving into natural healing, herbs and things (she's had a great deal of practice at tending injuriesmostly her own, or lending a hand is absolutely something she would do as well.
Powers: In Critical Role proper Cassandra has no magical or supernatural abilities that we see. The only thing we see is her fighting ability, so she’s had considerable training in using swords/daggers/etc. And wearing armour. (She’s a rogue, so she has all the skills that come with it; stealth, lock-picking, evasion, etc. Her mother made sure she was quite skilled in all of them). She grew up learning politics and history and languages and all the things needed to rule a city. And she’s immensely skilled in it all. She’s also noble-born, so she’s very well educated. It runs in her family. Only more so, because she is an avid seeker of knowledge.
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them. It’s a series of events, honestly, all interconnected. The murder of her family. Being captured and tortured alongside her only surviving brother, Percy. Escaping and fleeing the castle that had once been their home. Being shot in the back multiple times by arrows and nearly dying, while her brother fled and abandoned her. Being dragged back to the Briarwoods, where she was tortured, fed on (Sylas Briarwood was a vampire), mind controlled, and further traumatized for at least 6 years. Including seeing the bodies of her family hung from the Sun Tree.
She spent a large number of her formative years captive. Mind controlled, used, forced to do things she would never have chosen to do if she had fully had her own will. She doesn’t know who she is, not really. Not anymore. She had no chance to truly mourn the loss of her family, or heal from the torture she suffered alongside her brother, because she was thrust into a prolonged survival situation where she was tortured further, mind controlled and fed on by a vampire. None of which she’d had any time to deal with. Let alone the guilt of what she’d done while under the Briarwoods’ control.
Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by? Yes. It got lost for a little while, forced out of her by vampiric mind control, but she is very much the sort of young woman to protect and care for others. She does what she feels is the right thing, whether or not it’s the lawful thing. (Chaotic Good, as far as D&D/pathfinder alignments go.)
What quality or qualities do they admire most? Loyalty, caring, gentle hearts. Kindness. Goodness, the real kind. (Goes along with gentle hearts and kindness.) She’s seen the worst in people, gone through the worst. She very much appreciates genuinely good people. And people who are better than they think they are. Like her. Although she can see the goodness in others that she can’t see in herself.)
Do they have a part of themselves they dislike? oh god yes. Cassandra dislikes most of herself after what happened with the Briarwoods. What she was forced to do. It doesn’t matter that she was still a child who went through untold depths of trauma and never had a chance to truly heal from any of it, or that she was actually, literally mind controlled by a vampire. She doesn’t know if she can ever forgive herself. Passionate self-loathing. She wishes that she had been stronger. Better.
What is their sign, and why? I went with Strength for her. It was a tough choice, between The High Priestess and Strength, because both are so perfect for her. But I went with Strength in part because she is. She SURVIVED. She survived the slaughter of her family, survived torture, vampiric mind control, and she survived being the Briarwood’s captive for six years. All that they put her through. She’s stronger than she knows. (And she’s better than she thinks she is.) As her brother Percy said, “They will see you as a survivor. Everyone here suffered from the Briarwoods. But you endured it.”
SAMPLES & ARRIVAL
Samples: TDM threads
Arrival Scenario: Cadens Desert Outpost 003
Player Name: Bri
Are you over 18?: Yes
Contact:
Other Characters in Game: N/A
IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Cassandra (Johanna von Musel Klossowski) de Rolo
Canon: The Legend of Vox Machina
Canon Point: The end of the first season.
Background: wiki link. There are a few slight changes between the stream and the animated series. Primarily that rather than freeing her brother and fleeing, the two of them were both captured and tortured and escaped together. And in the animated series they made it blatantly clear that Sylas had used vampiric mind control on her in order to get her to do things, rather than leaving it implied, but vague.
Suitability: Cassandra is incredibly intellectually curious; she’s an avid seeker of knowledge, has been since she was tiny. The library in Whitestone castle is one of her favourite places. She loves reading and learning and mapping places out. Researching. She was also the youngest daughter of the ruling family of Whitestone, so she knows politics and how to navigate it as well as history and languages. She will be… incredibly WARY when she arrives in-game, courtesy of what happened to her. She is freshly out of prolonged trauma, safe for the first time in 6 years. She will not be used again. So she will be wanting to learn about the world she’s found herself in as well as all the different factions. And she’s a rogue, so spy-y/information gathering nonsense is absolutely right up her alley.
As well as discovering ruins and mapping places out. That’s one of the first things she will be doing after arriving. Mapping everything out. If she can get parchment/paper and ink she will be making physical maps on top of just the mental map. (Keeping herself busy so she can’t THINK and to try and keep the memories and nightmares at bay.)
She very much wants to help people, too. So looking into cures and delving into natural healing, herbs and things (she's had a great deal of practice at tending injuries
Powers: In Critical Role proper Cassandra has no magical or supernatural abilities that we see. The only thing we see is her fighting ability, so she’s had considerable training in using swords/daggers/etc. And wearing armour. (She’s a rogue, so she has all the skills that come with it; stealth, lock-picking, evasion, etc. Her mother made sure she was quite skilled in all of them). She grew up learning politics and history and languages and all the things needed to rule a city. And she’s immensely skilled in it all. She’s also noble-born, so she’s very well educated. It runs in her family. Only more so, because she is an avid seeker of knowledge.
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
Describe an important event in your character's life and how it impacted them. It’s a series of events, honestly, all interconnected. The murder of her family. Being captured and tortured alongside her only surviving brother, Percy. Escaping and fleeing the castle that had once been their home. Being shot in the back multiple times by arrows and nearly dying, while her brother fled and abandoned her. Being dragged back to the Briarwoods, where she was tortured, fed on (Sylas Briarwood was a vampire), mind controlled, and further traumatized for at least 6 years. Including seeing the bodies of her family hung from the Sun Tree.
She spent a large number of her formative years captive. Mind controlled, used, forced to do things she would never have chosen to do if she had fully had her own will. She doesn’t know who she is, not really. Not anymore. She had no chance to truly mourn the loss of her family, or heal from the torture she suffered alongside her brother, because she was thrust into a prolonged survival situation where she was tortured further, mind controlled and fed on by a vampire. None of which she’d had any time to deal with. Let alone the guilt of what she’d done while under the Briarwoods’ control.
Does your character have a moral code, or other set of standards they try to live by? Yes. It got lost for a little while, forced out of her by vampiric mind control, but she is very much the sort of young woman to protect and care for others. She does what she feels is the right thing, whether or not it’s the lawful thing. (Chaotic Good, as far as D&D/pathfinder alignments go.)
What quality or qualities do they admire most? Loyalty, caring, gentle hearts. Kindness. Goodness, the real kind. (Goes along with gentle hearts and kindness.) She’s seen the worst in people, gone through the worst. She very much appreciates genuinely good people. And people who are better than they think they are. Like her. Although she can see the goodness in others that she can’t see in herself.)
Do they have a part of themselves they dislike? oh god yes. Cassandra dislikes most of herself after what happened with the Briarwoods. What she was forced to do. It doesn’t matter that she was still a child who went through untold depths of trauma and never had a chance to truly heal from any of it, or that she was actually, literally mind controlled by a vampire. She doesn’t know if she can ever forgive herself. Passionate self-loathing. She wishes that she had been stronger. Better.
What is their sign, and why? I went with Strength for her. It was a tough choice, between The High Priestess and Strength, because both are so perfect for her. But I went with Strength in part because she is. She SURVIVED. She survived the slaughter of her family, survived torture, vampiric mind control, and she survived being the Briarwood’s captive for six years. All that they put her through. She’s stronger than she knows. (And she’s better than she thinks she is.) As her brother Percy said, “They will see you as a survivor. Everyone here suffered from the Briarwoods. But you endured it.”
SAMPLES & ARRIVAL
Samples: TDM threads
Arrival Scenario: Cadens Desert Outpost 003
Tags:
