Name: Cassandra "Cassie" Moreaux Michaels
Gender: Female
Hometown: Anistar City, Kalos
Age: 19-20
Height: 5'4 / 162 cm
Weight: 100 lbs / 45 kg
Appearance
Muscularity:
She is not the most powerfully built, she cannot throw the hardest punches, nor can she endure it back. But where she lacked in strength and power, she makes up for in agility and stealth. Cassandra has complete command of her perfectly proportioned and limber body. Her dainty limbs are tight with muscle and capable of performing complex acrobatic moves, providing her with the flexibility to move in fluid, sinuous motions, almost seamless in its succession, but also allow her to bend in half in a single snap. Just watching her walk is almost enough to give you a sense of satisfaction with the ease and near-surreal grace she holds herself to as she floats across the room – like a satin sash caught in the wind - catching one’s attention with ease despite her smaller stature.
Hair:
Long, black, wavy hair that falls to her waist and spills over her slender shoulders. They curve and curl in any direction they please, like black fire, framing her heart-shaped face and contrasting starkly against her catlike eyes, like two pools of shimmering mercury.
Eyes: Bright, luminous silver
Clothing: Stylish, chic, and functional are three words to describe Miss Moreaux's wardrobe. She's very fond of formfitting turtlenecks, pieces that modestly cover, yet cling to the skin with a tease, playfully leaving much to the imagination.
Identifying Marks: She has disfiguring burn scars on her hands from her Ninetales' Flame Burst when he was still a rambunctious Vulpix, but she keeps them hidden beneath her gloves. She also has a small, faded scar under her right eye where her Garchomp accidentally nicked her with Dragon Claw. As of
Grave of the Forgotten, Cassie now also sustains two prominent ballistic trauma scarring on her right thigh and left shin, two electrocution scars on each of her temples, three slash marks across her abdomen and sides, and a horizontal scar on the back of her neck, which was self-inflicted.
Personality
Introverted, quiet, and private, Cassie is severely emotionally dependent on her Pokemon, and the approval of her mother. Though prone to PTSD and panic attacks, its frequency has greatly declined in recent times. Cassie also struggles with insomnia and a lack of self-worth; resulting in her utter loss of pride and shame. She is individualistic but can adapt and interact well with diverse crowds if need be, though it is not something she personally enjoys. With her sharp mind, quick wit, resourcefulness, and exceptional diplomatic skills, she is a brilliant, calculative, and ruthless strategist in battle with a hot-blooded desire for victory. Being emotionally detached, she is unpredictable and dangerous, valuing efficiency and effectiveness over morals and goodwill. Her bluntness and snarky attitude however are well disguised by her eloquence and debonair attitude, though that does not stop her from enjoying irony and sarcasm.
Generally observant, collected, and cool under pressure, Cassie relies more on her brilliant mind rather than her shrivelled heart. Gymnastics has taught her to be defiant - even against the laws of gravity itself - but also to master her emotions, even in the face of death, and face it with grace and poise. Where she is paranoid, untrusting, and apathic she is also strange and quirky. However, she retains an easily amused, laid back attitude, she is emotionally detached and unable to truly commit to anyone, resulting in the string of broken hearts behind her. However, beneath her cool girl facade and all the walls she had built around her heart is a frail little girl who is lost without direction, seeking protection and guidance within the arms of someone who would love her the way she needs. Scared of heartbreak, she leaves before she is left, and hurts before she is hurt.
Manipulative, cunning, and often insincere. She hides behind an array of masks, white lies and sweet deceit, never letting anyone close. Never truly letting them in. Perhaps, simply not knowing how. She can mimic a wide variety of emotion – understanding, empathy, kindness, vulnerability – but never truly experience or understand them. The pressure she had been raised under, the hells she had been put through had forced her to shy away from it, detach from it, simply to protect herself and keep herself from falling apart. However, aided by her incredible perception, she always knows just what to say, how to behave and she uses that to her complete advantage without guilt. She holds everyone at a distance and trusts no one but herself. They are all disposable, replaceable, and therefore she has absolutely no reason to grow attached because that is all she knows. She is selfish, she thinks of only herself and acts only if it benefits her interests or furthers her cause. You can’t trust Cassandra. It’d be as foolish as believing a genie would grant you a wish without taking anything in return.
Her moral compass had broken long ago, and she walks a fine line between the acceptable and despicable. She gets things done, and she gets what she wants, no matter what it takes. However, a large obstacle that she has not been able to overcome is failure. There is a fine line that Cassandra operates in, between pleasing herself and pleasing her family, and in order to fulfil both, failure was simply not an option. And in a large part, this is what drives her down the less moral path of things. Her self-worth hangs on the approval of her family, and in a large part… That is all she really has. She was nothing without her family, and Cassandra is painfully aware of this. She had nothing she could call her own, not even herself. Who she was as a person. She didn’t know who she was, she’d never been given the opportunity to discover that. She was… Lost, unfamiliar with the world. And perhaps, afraid. Yes… She was always afraid.
Her true passion, however, is discovering uncharted territory and going where no one has gone before. Consciously or not, she is inexplicably drawn to danger, and seems to have a knack for finding it, or, the other way around (to the point her friends have called her a literal magnet for trouble). Driven by a thrill-seeking nature which fuels her love for adventure, she is compelled to actively, if not subconsciously, seek out dangerous situations so as to bask in the adrenaline rush that comes with it; as survival and high-speed problem solving, planning, and adaptation which pushes her to her limits, are the only things that allow her to feel emotion. Normally, however, she is observant, collected, and cool under pressure, flaunting an easily amused - mischievous, even - laid back attitude. Additionally, Cassie also possesses quite a reputation for being a heartbreaker and has had quite a few notches under her belt.
Other
Skills:
- Prowess in extreme activities such as Pokemon riding, rock climbing, and parkour.
- Vast experience in Pokemon battling, traveling, money management.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Bilingual, speaking both English and French fluently.
- Very perceptive and high attention to detail, able to read people (body language, slight facial expression changes) easily.
- Skilled on skates.
- Infamously gifted at attracting, and finding danger.
Family:
- Veteran Trainer Jeanne René Moreaux (Mother)
- Scientist Ben Michaels (Father)
- Lass Alicia "Alice" Moreaux Michaels (Sister)
Love Relationships:
Pokémon
League Team
Liepard (Lady)
Gender: Female
Ability: Unburden (Hidden: Prankster)
Essentially Cassie in Pokemon form.
Spiritomb (Puck)
Gender: Male
Ability: Pressure (Hidden: Infiltrator)
A mischievous sprite.
Malamar (Nostradamus)
Gender: Male
Ability: Contrary
A crafty schemer.
Houndoom (Jason)
Gender: Male
Ability: Flash Fire
her Beau's loyal and fearsome Houndoom whom he entrusted to her.
Drapion (Goliath)
Gender: Male
Ability: Battle Armor
A massive tank of a Drapion.
General Team
Lucario (Ryu)
Gender: Male
Ability: Inner Focus (Hidden: Justified)
Essentially Cassie's moral compass and overprotective brother.
Ninetales (Nine)
Gender: Male
Ability: Flash Fire
Cassie's advisor and co-tactician, but will join in on her bad habits
Swanna (Ace)
Gender: Male
Ability: Keen Eye (Hidden: Hydration)
Cassie's stylist and fashion advisor. He indulges in her obsession with self-care and grooming.
Roserade (Jade)
Gender: Female
Ability: Poison Point
The diva of the group. She likes all attention to be on her!
Froslass (Aurora)
Gender: Female
Ability: Cursed Body
Jade's number one fan.
Garchomp (Fang)
Gender: Male
Ability: Rough Skin
The toughest boi.
Gardevoir (Peridot)
Gender: Female
Ability: Telepathy
DETERMINATIOOOON
Past
Cassie is the eldest daughter of Veteran Jeanne and Scientist Ben, born in Kalos in the midst of battle. While battling the Kalos Elite Four, Jeanne had gone into labor and was forced to call off the fight she should have been able to win, and forced her into early, if not temporary, retirement. A month after her birth, Ben completed his research in Kalos, and was called for assistance in Sinnoh, forcing him and his wife to move. The two quickly decided that their careers would not make it possible for their daughter to go to a regular school, because they would always be moving around, and agreed that they would homeschool her.
A year into their stay in Sinnoh, half of Jeanne’s Pokemon team was stolen by Team Galactic, and she was forced to train replacements from scratch, extending their stay despite the completion of Ben's research. Cassie would alternate being watched by Ben and Jeanne, depending on what they needed to do that day and where they were going to go, but never really having a secure place to stay. Two years later, her little sister Alice was born, which resulted in Jeanne once again delaying her journey to raise her child.
By the time Alice turned three, Jeanne decided to retire from being a Pokemon trainer to properly raise her daughters but had a good run, obtaining all of the Sinnoh Badges and even making it past the Elite Four, and with Ben’s continued work, the Michaels moved yet again from Sinnoh to Unova, where they continued to live their nomadic life, moving from town to town.
Cassie lived a rather sheltered life because of this, the expectations of her parents forcing her to fill her childhood days with studies instead of play and fond memories. Due to Jeanne’s wishes, Cassie was involuntarily entered in numerous Battle Tournaments across Unova using her mother’s Pokemon. She gained experience, and after turning ten, her parents urged her to catch her first Pokemon. During their stay in Flocessy Town, Cassie managed to catch Ryu (Lucario), who was then still a Riolu, using her mother's Delcatty when she took to Flocessy Ranch. And during a farewell party - A grand picnic at the Abundant Shrine - she encounted Nine (Ninetales), as a Vulpix, and managed to catch him using Ryu, much to the delight of her "audience".
She gathered her team throughout her journey via trade and wild captures, however during one of her first training sessions with Nine after evolving him into a Ninetales, a Flame Burst gone wrong resulted in the disfiguring of her hands permanently. She was treated in intensive care in Nimbasa City for two weeks, and spent nearly three months after that undergoing physical therapy to regain fine motor control in her hands. She became extremely pyrophobic as a result. Despite this, she still pushed on, refusing to return home a failure.
She successfully gathered all eight gym badges at the age of twelve, and took down the Unova League after an additional six months of rigorous training. She held the title of Champion for a while - a full year, to be exact - but eventually grew bored of her routine of waking up, awaiting challengers, and defending the title. Mind you, it was quite exhilarating for the first few months, being able to battle powerful opponents, but... After nearly nine months of it, she began to feel trapped, and this in turn became the reason for her downfall. Though her mother and the tabloid had called it a failure, Cassie herself saw it as a liberation, though her mother demanded redemption.
It took another two years to successfully challenge all of Sinnoh’s gyms and gather their badges, and at age fourteen, Cassie managed to defeat the Elite Four and Champion, earning a spot in a hall of fame once more and temporarily satisfied her mother's wish for redemption. Despite the honor, however, she refused the title, and chose instead to move back to her hometown of Anistar City where she re-purchased her family's home with the finances she had gathered.
Or rather, her utter descent into hell when she was accused of gym badge fraud
Roleplay Timeline
At the age of 17, Cassie received a keystone as a prize from a Pokemon tournament, and has since set out to collect mega stones. A year later, during an exploration to find mega stones in Glittering Cave, Cassie became a victim of a cave collapse, and flooding, and was forced to work together with the other victims in order to escape. Among them were
Victor Rose,
Jacob, and Sai. Through the course of events, she was gifted a Garchompite by Sai, which, upon successfully escaping, she used to challenge Victor to a double battle in order to test the mega stone she'd received. (
Stalagmites & Stalactites)
Months later, she was invited to attend a ball organized by the powerful and influential Kyandi family to celebrate the start of their eldest son's, Marzipan Kyandi, Pokemon journey. During the high of the event, she slipped away from the ball to share a battle with him, and Cassie soon became infatuated with the young noble. Unbeknownst to them, Victor had worked in the event as a replacement waiter for the sole purpose of stealing a valuable family relic, which resulted in the disownment of Marz, and his parting ways with Cassie. Despite this, she remained close with Victor. (
Dollhouses & Battles)
Cassie remained hung up on the young man for the next two months, which sent her to the next year, when she accepted her mother's invitation for a battle in Kanto. However, while spending the night in a Pokemon Center in Cerulean City, Cassie became involved in Sai's intervention of Team Rocket's Pokemon heist. They discover that Jacob, who had become a Rocket Admin, was leading the operation, and captured him temporarily, until he was freed when Team Rocket burned the building down. Luckily, Sai managed to escape with Cassie in one piece. (
Rocket Assault)
Months later, Alice officially moves in to her house in Anistar in order to help Ben's research in Kalos, after graduating from a boarding school in Unova. During a weekly shopping run to Lumoise, she re-encounters Sai, who'd returned to Kalos after years of traveling abroad. They arrange a date, and Cassie finds comfort in Sai's company after he manages to break down her walls, both deciding to travel together. (
A Day Out)
The following day, their journey began. However, while passing through Route 15, they encounter Jacob and Victor. Conflict broke out between the duos, but was interrupted by an ambush by Team Rocket that led to Jacob's capture. However, after some convincing from Victor, the two agree to go back and save Jacob. Unfortunately, Cassie was captured in his place, leaving Nine (who had been released out of his pokeball) under the care of Victor. (
Le Saut Trompe)
Cassie turned 19 in the months spent under Team Rocket's custody, where she was physically abused in order to coax her into sharing information on Jacob, Sai, and Victor. However, after it became apparent that physical abuse was ineffective, they resorted to mental abuse; not allowing her any sleep, publishing headlines on tabloids and newspapers owned by the Rocket Company fabricating her involvement in gym badge fraud and trafficking, and claiming that her Pokemon were a result of trade and that she never even set foot in a gym.
The news was spread throughout the Kalos region, but was targeted specifically to her mother, whose approval is the only opinion that matters and the sole reason she became a trainer. This resulted in an instant decimation of her image and credibility, and also a trial for fraud. However, Cassie remained hopeful that her friends would come and save her. A hope that was quickly shattered when Team Rocket arranged for Jeanne to meet with Cassie a week before her trial, after the veteran contacted the newspaper editor about the headline.
Utterly crushed, and needing validation, Jeanne challenges Cassie to a long overdue battle, which had been postponed previously when her daughter was trapped in a burning Pokemon Center. Her greeting to her daughter had been a cold, unwelcoming one that left Cassie, who'd already been physically and mentally strained before, shaken, and ultimately caused her to lose the battle. Due to this, Jeanne disowned her from her family.
Mere hours after Jeanne's departure, Cassie is offered the choice of cooperation and be let off the hook, or be further tortured and then, arrested. Finally, Cassie chose to cooperate. Unfortunately, she knew nothing of the information Team Rocket needed, having not known Jacob, Victor, or Sai very well. This was taken as a form of trickery, leading to the ultimate mental torture; the destruction of her team's Pokeballs by her own hand. Under the control of a Hypno, Cassie had released her Pokemon and destroyed each of their pokeballs each time she is unable to answer a question. However, she was Nine's Pokeball, which had been empty in the first place.
With deep loyalty to their trainer, Cassie's team refused to leave. Unfortunately, with the threat of Team Rocket admins capturing them instead, Cassie ordered them all to go and never come back. After the traumatic experience, Cassie was taken to trial for her fraud charges, where she was sentenced to a fine of five million Pokemon dollars (two hundred fifty thousand dollars and an additional ten thousand dollars for every badge sold), leaving her completely bankrupt.
Upon a chance encounter on Kalos' Route 15, she is reunited with Nine, who had been under the care of Victor during her absence, as well as Jacob and Victor himself. There, she also meets
Gerald Aster, a stranger who happened to see her off on her own and followed her to see if she was alright, and a strange young man named
Que Allen. After a surprise ambush from Team Rocket, led by Admin Thomas Jayce, the trainers are forced into an undiscovered ruin beyond a pit dubbed by the local delinquents as Dead Man's Drop, where they encounter the ungodly horrors of Darkrai's wrath upon an ancient civilization of Darkrai worshippers and Cresselia hunters, forcing trainer and Rocket alike to work together in order to get out alive. (
Grave of the Forgotten)
The horrific experience revealed to be fruitful for Cassie, however, as within the ruins she managed to find copious amounts of treasure, but only managed to carry so much in her bag, and evolve Lady into a Liepard after she devoured a stash of rare candies in the treasure room where offerings for Darkrai were kept. Not wanting to lose out, Peridot in turn also pushed herself towards her own evolution as a Kirlia. With the treasure, Cassie was able to reclaim her house and make a better living for herself and her Pokemon, even being able to pay off some of her debts. Her current stable income comes from Thomas, who shortly after failing his mission on Route 15, was let go from Team Rocket and shamefully moves into Cassie's house, paying monthly rent with his new job as a grocery store clerk. Or so he claims.
Once the treasure runs out, Cassie accepts an invitation to Jinko Island where a Pokemon Tournament is being held. The prizes are spectacular, and would have been able to clear her debt completely and then some. However, as it turns out, the tournament was another Rocket scheme which trapped all the contestants in a twisted survival game against genetically modified, virus-infected, wild blood thirsty Pokemon. There, she re-encounters Gerald, her childhood friend, Salem, and some new faces including
Floyd Johnstone and
Dr. Aidinia Moon. During the course of the events, she rekindles old feelings for Salem, and during the time she spent with him, she flourishes in his protection and support. They barely manage to survive the ordeal. The three days of recovery after their escape she spent with Salem, whom prior to their escape managed to rescue one of the rare eggs meant as a tournament prize. Under their care, the egg hatched into a uniquely pigmented Dratini whom they name Aeryn. As they part ways, Salem inspires her to reclaim her life and clear her name from the false charges befallen on her. (
The Dark Tournament)
With the amount of credible witnesses and victims on Jinko Island, Cassie managed to form a counter-case to clear her charges and reclaim her name, reputation, and credibility as a trainer. The trial lasted eight long months, but in the end, she emerged victorious and received a generous amount of compensation money from the Kalos government. With her life back on track, Cassie accepts an invitation from Jacob to go with him and Victor to the freezing arctic region of Korska, where warm surprises await her. After narrowly escaping a car accident on their way to the Korska Research Facility during a freak storm, they were found and rescued by Salem - of whom she had a warm reunion with - and wind up at an abandoned hut after getting lost in the storm. The base turned out to be a Rocket Facility with an underground biosphere teeming with life, and was later revealed to be the facility Cassie and her Pokemon had been kept in during her kidnapping. It is here that she is finally reunited with her team. (
Frozen Over)
)
) has.
( P.S. Check PurpleKeckleon's one. I took the ide from her ^^
: Due to my time away from Pokecharms and Role-playing, I've decided to do a "Reboot" of sorts with my RP characters. Some things have changed, some have stayed the same, but I mostly did this to get a fresh start on RPing as well as revising the characters so that Role-Playing doesn't get stale so quickly.
errick
Usually gets agitated when asked this) Was playing in snowpoint city then a Hydreigon (Hope I spellt that right
) Attacked the City, Which is why he vows to never use one.
allet town
