Cassie

Name : Cassandra Cross Code Name : Queen Coffin Code Names She Wants To Avoid : Rotgut, Zombocom Age : 15

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Fav Thing : social flexibility (aka being popular). Cass defines herself by her company she keeps, and her reputation is incredibly important to her. She’s okay being friends with oddballs, outcasts, and geeks… so long as the wrong people don’t find out! Especially her old cheer squad. And if it takes cutting a few metaphorical throats and stabbing metaphorical backs to maintain her lovable front, she’s fine with justifying it. Relatives : mom, grandparents she doesn’t visit much

Appearance : a lightly tanned girl, darkish blond hair and a skinny but healthy frame and figure (eats light, consistent exercise). Long hair, unkempt (combed but frequently played with) and generally doing her best to remain fashionable but not come off as preppy. Icy blue eyes. Not big on pants, more a skirt or dress gal. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">When being super, she tries to don a trench coat with a high collar and a broad hat around, since even if they see her face, nobody’ll think she’s unfashionable enough to wear that. It makes her look like a plague doctor, minus the mask.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Personality <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: in brief, Cassie tries to be as sociable as possible. She wants to be loved by everyone, at least a little, and so does her best to fit in with the more popular crowds while making quiet appeals to the lesser masses. She’s extremely conscious of what people think of her, upbeat and sociable in public when she wants to be, but she’s shallow and superficial in it, and it can often come off as backhanded. She’s single-minded and focused on what she does, and while not truly a bad person, she’d self-absorbed in terms of her motivations. That focus allows her to justify doing some pretty nasty things if she has to, especially if it’s to maintain her status and social front. She’s fine with fighting evil and all that, but she’s extremely concerned how whatever she is and does as an undead superhero will affect her real life. She’s dropped out of the cheer squad, which is a BIG change for her. She told them it was for medical reasons, but is really afraid they’ll figure out what’s wrong with her and call her weird and gross. The cheerleaders still talk to her and treat her like one of their own, but she watches her step. She’s basically a bitch who’s been taken down a peg, so she’s fragile and self-aware and very defensive.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Weirdness <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: Cass is (off the record) dead. She was working part-time in the library cleaning out the newly abandoned wing when she fell off a ladder getting an unmarked book. She has a misshapen bulge (under her long hair) between her shoulders, where the spine didn’t heal right when she broke her neck. It messed with her coordination a bit, as well as most of her vital signs. Close examination shows she doesn’t have to breathe, eat, have a heartbeat, or do other mortally things unless she actively chooses to. She isn’t a full zombie, and she’s not sure what’s going on exactly, but she remains passably human to all the senses until she does something freaky, like survive a bullet to the head or rip a door off its hinges. She also sort of smells of rot, but she can cover it with a daily overdose of body spray or strong perfume (sometimes dogs and such can tell). If she doesn’t eat anything, her belly starts to look like she’s anorexic, so she tries to leave at least some food in there when she remembers.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Feet: 3. PE (3) <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Guts: 3. Rot Guts (0)* <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Hands: 3. Shop (1), Deathly Strength (3)** <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Braaaaaains: 3. Notice (2), Outthink (1) <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Face: 4. Charm (3), Putdown (3), Connive (1), Know People (1), *Speak Deadish (0)

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Know People acts like Remember, but specifically for people she’s seen before and chatted up in school trying to be everyone’s friend. “Do I recognize that kid?” or “What do I know about him?” kind of rolls

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Relationships <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: Mortician mama (3) <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Weird Relationships: The Mangled Corpse of Her Former Life... (2), Deep Dead Silence (1)

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">*RotGuts <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Cass’ organs don’t work unless she wants them to. This makes her incredibly hard to kill or even hurt significantly, as a bullet to the belly doesn’t do what it used to. She can also mess with them with some concentration, such as causing her heart to beat to convince doctors, change her temperature to feel dead or feverish, or allow herself to maintain herself without oxygen or food if she so wishes. She can eat, sleep etc. if she wishes, but it is not required, and if she does eat, it has to come out somehow. Also non-mechanically can mend her body up quicker, but usually requires stitches, staples, tape or the like to do so. Also lets DMs and players get rougher with her in terms of describing how damage is dealt, since her body doesn’t hold together as well as it used to. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Defends (I can take it...), Awesome x2, Tough x2, Useful (independently control her organs)

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">**Deathly Might <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I have the combined strength of a zombie and a retard!!” <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Cass’ muscles don’t listen to the old limiters, and she can turn adrenaline on and off at will in terms of motor functions. She’s strong enough to lift a small car on a good day and with the right leverage, but that’s about her limit. More often used for bashin, such as breaking down doors or just smackin’ a bitch harder. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">3 dice, Attacks, Gnarly x1, Useful (slightly super strength)

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">***Speak Deadish <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Cass lives on a border between life and undeath, and so has a kinship with zombies, liches, ghosts, and such, recognized as one of theirs. She’s fluent with them, it’s just that appealing to them can have differing results. She may be able to redirect a horde of zombies with “There’s brains over there!!” or talk down a murderous shapeless specter over the fact that they mean no harm, or it may just ignore her completely if it’s single-minded enough. It comes out as sterotypical zombie groans and gurgles to everyone else.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Mortician Mama: Maggie Malone is Cassie’s chipper mom who works at the town morgue. This has proven invaluable, with Maggie helping Cassie manage her semi-dead form. She sews up her injuries, advises her on keeping out the smell of death, fixes her hair to cover out-of-place bones, helps keep bugs from trying to pick her apart, and supports the idea of her righting wrongs. Cass’ dad died a while back, a subject they’ve both largely coped with at this point. Their relationship’s gotten especially tight ever since the incident.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Deep Dead Silence: when Cassie’s alone, there’s no sound of heartbeat, breathing, or anything to disturb or distract. She’s done some deep thinking and reflection while focusing using this.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Mangled Corpse of Her Former Life...: Cassie’s life hasn’t changed that much. She can be a bit of a drama queen about it, though, despite the only major difference being that she feels she can’t be in the cheerleading squad anymore since it would likely blow her secret about being all corpsified and gross. This is mostly things she misses from that life, like being able to be a cheerleader, being more comfortable around people, or old memories sparking her dusty old brain.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Also: <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Arcane Texts: Cassie’s mind and eye are just unnaturally drawn to writings on the occult and bizarre. This has only happened since her transformation, unsure if it’s part of the cause or just instinct to learn more about her state.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">XP: <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Brains+1. She did a lot of homework, reading, and mystery busting this week.