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P L A Y E R;
NAME: Mags (previously Mat, same dyke different handle)
AGE: 32
PLAYER JOURNAL: n/a
TIMEZONE: CST
CONTACT: thatlovingrainbow@gmail.com, PM to journal, or ruffboi#9097 on Discord
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: n/a

C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Cassandra Cain
CANON: DC Comics
POINT IN CANON: Batgirl, after settling in at Bludhaven post-War Games.
AGE: just about exactly 20, probably.
APPEARANCE: precious biracial baby. It's worth noting that her hair is longer now, past her shoulders but generally pulled back.
CANON HISTORY: DC Wikia
CANON PERSONALITY:
Cass was raised completely without language, so that facial expressions, body language, and the combat her father taught her from the moment she could learn became her language. Violence is a part of who she is, however good a person she is, and when she comes up against a threat, she would rather take it down (non-lethally) than try to talk her way out or anything else. She is more than willing to take some damage to do so, if she has to - she's been trained to keep going through pain, and sees it as an acceptable risk if the situation calls for it.

Because of her upbringing, she didn't even begin to learn spoken or written language until she was about 17 and met Barbara Gordon. While she can effortlessly read someone's mood or intentions from their face and body, verbal communication is difficult for her. A psychic enabled her to actually comprehend spoken language, in a way that probably would've taken decades otherwise, but it's still difficult for her, especially speaking and putting her own thoughts into words. Written language still eludes her, though.

Cass was conceived and raised by her father to be the perfect assassin, to be the perfect bodyguard for Ra's Al Ghul, the leader of the league of assassins. The problem was that when she killed her first target, as a child, she still perceived what she was doing as a game, as pleasing her father. When the man died, she was able to see how terrified he was, what the effects on him were, and that terrified her. She had thought it was a game, and she watched this man terrified, in pain, and his realization that he was dying, and then saw the moment when his life left him. She doesn't want to be her father, or the person her father raised her to be.

She mostly just did her best to survive and stay out of trouble until she met Barbara Gordon and started working as a courier for Oracle. Through that, she had experiences with the rest of the Batfamily that were in Gotham while it was No Man's Land, and started doing good herself. When she was made Batgirl, it was a great chance for her - she wants to help people, to save lives, to stop bad people like her father from hurting others. And most of all she wants to never be the person her father wanted her to be. It's hard, sometimes - when she gets angry at a bad guy, she can get violent, but she doesn't want to be that person.

She can, however, be DEEPLY stubborn. If she's decided she's going to do something, she will do it, even if she's been shot and is barely on her feet. If she's made a promise, she will go to ridiculous lengths to KEEP it, even if it's impossible. It's very difficult to talk her down - you either need to have a damn good reason for her to stop, or be one of the few people who she feels have authority over her. And even then… depending on the situation, she'll do it anyway.

Despite all the difficulties and the lack of a proper childhood she had, she's not full of brooding and seriousness unlike some Bats… i mean, what?. She has a wicked - if offbeat - sense of humor, and even before she understood language would tease people she was fond of. She loves things that make her laugh, and she finds joy and laughter where she can get it - including from ridiculous daytime television and things like that. She is not always happy, and she's not always laughing, but her favorite people are the ones who make her smile, and her favorite times are the ones when she's having simple fun - even if it's also training a little bit, like playing rooftop tag with Spoiler.

Her family and friends are extremely important to her, partially because almost all of them have been so hugely influential in her life since she met them. While David Cain is her biological father, she didn't learn that until extremely recently, and it's been a difficult thing to process. Part of her still wants to make him proud - he's the man who raised her, who trained her, and when she was little, a pride and a smile from him meant everything. But, now that she's older, she knows that he's a horrible person, and mostly wants nothing to do with him. Still, he's her father, and she feels a connection to him.

Batman, on the other hand, is the person she most wants to make proud now. She takes what he tells her to heart, and will rarely go against a direct order from him. She respects him deeply, even though it took Bruce Wayne being framed for murder and the Bats getting involved trying to clear his name for her to connect him to Batman. The other person she most wants to make proud is Barbara. Cass lived with Barbara for a long time, Barbara was the one who found her, Barbara was the one who first tried to teach her to speak, the one who's tried to teach her to read. She's a maternal figure in Cass' life, often arguing with Bruce about how much he should push Cass, but she's more of an older sister than a mother.

While she hadn't spent too much time with Dick, she has worked with him, and considers him part of the family she's found for herself - largely because he's Batman's family. She doesn't afford him the same amount of authority-respect she gives Bruce and Babs, though - if they're the parents, Dick is the sibling. She cares about him, though, in her own way, and would have his back in a heartbeat if he needed her.

Stephanie Brown - known as Spoiler, then Robin, then Spoiler again - was the only one of Cass' close relationships that she didn't consider familial, at least before Syn. While she cares about all the Bats that she's aware of and had worked with (Batman, Oracle, Nightwing, and Tim's Robin), Stephanie was the first person who specifically sought her out to spend time together. A lot of it was Stephanie asked for Cass to train her, which Cass did to the best of her ability. But through those regular "training" sessions, they became friends, spending time together in costume doing things that were largely fun and bonding over their awful fathers and messed-up childhoods. Steph's death hit Cass hard, leaving her to handle losing the only person she was close to that she considered "friend" rather than "family".

Syn didn't change much about her, for all that she was there and away from Gotham (or Bludhaven) for nearly 2 years. She's still loyal and stubborn and occasionally silly. She had forged new friendships and fallen in love and gotten a little older, but the foundation of who Cass is didn't change. She's a bit more confident in her ability to communicate verbally, she still can't read, and she will desperately miss everyone she cared about who's no longer here.


ABILITIES:

• Peak Human Conditioning - she is as fit as it is possible to be, to the point where she sometimes seems superhuman. Add being at the absolute top of her game onto her ability to predict her opponent's movements, she can seem to react with inhuman speed.
  
• Body Language - Cass was raised completely without spoken or written language - her entire way of communicating for the majority of her life was through body language, both in combat and out. She can read intentions and emotions in body language well enough that, even when she didn't understand spoken language, she could still understand at least the basic jist of whatever someone was telling her. However, while she has had language connections established in her brain, she still is awkward with spoken language, and is illiterate.
  
• Martial Arts/Hand-to-Hand Combat - Cass has trained since birth to be able to fight, so much so that it's more-or-less a language to her. While she has mastered several different martial arts styles, she has also invented her own styles and moves, and is very skilled against nearly any kind of opponent.
  
• Weapons Training - while she prefers to fight hand-to-hand, she is also skilled in the use and care of many types of weapons, from guns to staves to throwing knives.
  
• Stealth - She is super freaking sneaky. Like, can sneak up on fellow Bats sneaky.
  
• Investigative Detecting - She's not super skilled, but she's had some basic training from Batman and Tim Drake, and she's a pretty quick study, as long as it doesn't involve reading.
  
• Already-gained Syn skills: Portal Creation (Stationary), Sensory Livestreaming, Archetypal Champion Magic (Champion of Secrets. Shadow teleport, glyph generation, magical glaive, etc), Dream Body (approximately 8-9 years old), Immortali Sorcery (breeze speech, barrier, unchosen 3rd spell), Instinctive Sabotage, Interface, Lightcycle, True Bond (Stephanie Brown, inactive), Judgement's Favor, Light of Honesty

INVENTORY: Batgirl uniform, basic bat-themed utility belt, lightcycle baton. Anything else she had collected throughout her time in Syn was in Steph's room.
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW? I REALLY MISSED THIS GAME AND I'M SUPER BUMMED I MISSED THE RETURN TO QUESTING COUNTRY.

M A R K S;
JUSTIFICATION: Cass is already marked by Judgement

S A M P L E S;
ACTIONSPAM SAMPLE: Test Drive Thread. I forgot to do actionspam buuuut she discusses things? So... it's there still? Lo siento, I can write a new thing if needed.

PROSE SAMPLE:
The room is a near-perfect recreation of Steph's room, right down to the purple door that opens into it, minus a few things that Cass just wasn't able to reproduce. There are books on a shelf, but the pages are blank or filled with gibberish. There are fewer bits and bobs scattered about, as Cass can't remember all the little things that the three of them had collected over their time there. The creative use of as much space as possible due to gravity manipulation was intact, the "ceiling" housing training and gymnastic equipment.

But most of all, Cass thought as she curled into her blanket, staring up at the training area above her, most of all she thought the bed was far too large, and far too empty.

"I miss you," she whispers nearly inaudibly to the achingly empty room. She misses what she had with them, the gentle touches and kisses and all that, but mostly she just misses her friends. It's a lingering pain, deep in her chest, every moment they're not here.

She should be glad they're not here. Here is not always a great place. She should be hoping Tim finally got to go home, and that Steph is happy and healthy, and not wish them back to this constant life of being dragged into other worlds and made to forget who they are, but...

But.

She misses them. And she is letting herself be selfish, just a little bit. If they come back she'll apologize, but for now all she can do is wait.

"Please bring... them back," she asks, aloud, hoping that maybe a Trump will hear her and do just that. "Please."

There's no answer.

The bed is still cold.