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[cassiefuckingcage]

Player Information

Name: Maruhkati
Age: 32
Contact details: Discord (maruhkati#2159)
Other characters: None in this game

Character Information

Name: Cassandra Carlton "Cassie" Cage
Canon: Mortal Kombat
Canon Point: Between MKX and MK11
OU/AU/CRAU/OC: OU
Age: Mid-20s

World Information:

Mortal Kombat takes place in a world of fantasy violence, ninjas, fallen Elder Gods, centaurs, ninjas, four-armed superfreaks, soul-sucking sorcerers, ninjas who insist they are not ninjas, zombies, cyborgs, ninjas, and zombie cyborg ninjas. It is a universe consisting of multiple dimensions, or realms, often at war with each other. The three most important are Earthrealm, Outworld, and the Netherrealm.

Earthrealm, as its name implies, is a world whose geography and history resemble our own until the 1990s when the secret war between realms ceased to be a secret anymore. Outworld is a vast, harsh, and desolate dimension which for the last 10,000 years has been ruled by the tyrant Shao Kahn, who aims to merge Earthrealm with Outworld. The Elder Gods forbid this, however, unless Outworld can win ten consecutive victories in a tournament called Mortal Kombat. (Eventually he gets rather pissy when he can't manage it and decides to break the rules. Wouldn't you know it, he gets killed by the Elder Gods). Finally, the Netherrealm is essentially Hell, the realm of the wicked and forsaken dead, ruled by the fallen Elder God Shinnok. He seeks to destroy all the realms to avenge himself against the Elder Gods who cast him down.

Or at least he did, until Cassie beat his ass.

Personal History: Wiki link! (TLDR; grew up a rich movie star's daughter, joined the Army to try to please her absent mother, then saved the world and beat up a Hellgod)

Personality:

Outwardly, Cassie is brash, confident, and lighthearted. Much like her movie star father, she's quick with a joke, and always thinks she's up for a challenge. It doesn't matter who you are, she WILL try to take you in a fight.

Her confidence and jocularity aren't a false front - they were strong enough to remain intact even after the Reiko incident, when she was possessed by blood magik and forced to fight her parents to the death. However, they're a part of herself that she has cultivated and embraced as a bulwark against her insecurities. Unlike her father, her ego is not boundless, and she feels the pressure of being the daughter of two of Earthrealm's greatest heroes. In order to fit in, she seeks to be liked and admired. In order to avoid buckling under pressure, she cracks jokes to lighten the mood.

Though always much closer to her father than to her mother (who was all too often away on tours of duty and likely riddled with PTSD and survivor's guilt when she was home), she had always secretly longed for Sonya's approval. This is the chief reason she spurned a possible sporting or acting career in favor of joining the military. However, it was not until after she survived her imprisonment by Reiko on Shang Tsung's Island that she fully grasped the seriousness of her mother's duties and began to truly understand her.

When she was chosen to lead a new experimental mixed unit of Special Forces, Shirai Ryu, and Shaolin fighters, her confidence and devotion were severely tested. She faced many early setbacks as Shinnok escaped from his imprisonment, captured her father, and threatened to consume the life essence of Earthrealm. But after seizing victory from the jaws of defeat, she now knows she has the capability to lead the new generation of Earthrealm's defenders. It doesn't make being named "Cage" and having her mother for a commanding officer any easier, but at least now she knows she can do it.

Hopefully she won't have to face the sudden, traumatic death in battle of someone she cares deeply about to put that confidence to the test or something like that. Sure would suck if that happened.

Key themes: Proving oneself, coping with the burdens and joys of a family like hers, punching people in the junk

Main Motivation: She doesn't need special convincing in order to protect people (and/or punch them in the junk). But if doing her duty on this train gets her back home faster, she'll do them to the best of her ability. (There's another player who wants to bring in a Sonya in the cycle after this one - getting her home safe will be another motivation once this occurs).

Skills:

Like her father, Cassie is descended from an ancient Mediterranean war cult bred to defend the world from Elder Gods. As such, her full Inner Power is vast and cosmic. However, her full Inner Power can only be unleashed when protecting others from Elder Gods. This doesn't hold her back that much in most situations - she has more than enough strength to waste any baseline human. Characters who can sense energy may be able to detect a vast well of power held behind a powerful inner block. Or they might only sense that power which is available to her under normal circumstances. I leave this to the player's discretion.

»Energy/Qi/Glowy Green Shit Manipulation: Even when not fighting Elder Gods, Cassie can call upon the power her ancestors possessed, channeling her energy through herself to infuse her attacks with incredible power. The most fearsome of these attacks is the shadow kick, a sliding advancing superkick that can tear through people. She can also use this energy to shift her momentum in mid-air, sending her foot surging downward for a powerful divekick.

She does not have as much control of her shadow energy as her father does - she can't conjure green fireballs, among other things. She can, however, combine her innate power with her mastery of firearms by imbuing the bullets within her guns with considerable extra firepower. In her hands, even a 9 mm pistol is capable of making things explode that ought not to be exploding.

»Martial-Arts Training: Cassie was trained by her mother and father, two of the greatest martial artists in all the realms, and has become at least the equal of both of them. Raiden, the god of thunder, appears to have offered an assist as well. Nobody in Earthrealm who doesn't know Raiden on a first-name basis (well, as close to a first-name basis as he gets) has any hope of matching her in a fistfight.

»Low-End Superhuman Strength: Cassie is capable of ripping off limbs, kicking holes through people's chests, and punching dudes' heads off. Including through their balls, somehow.

»Speed/Quickness/Endurance: Using the unassailable logic of versus-battle message boards, she can keep up with and take hits from some really quick and strong fighters. Tough enough to fight and defeat people strong enough to rip a person apart. Tanked one of Sindel's screams in her non-godbuster form. Quick enough to defeat Kabal, who can deflect bullets with his hookswords.

»Marksmanship: Cassie is an expert markswoman, both with a rifle and with her pistols. Indeed, she is capable of doing the cool two-handed gun fu stuff that is totally impractical for any real person.

»Special Ordinance: Cassie can remotely pilot a BLB-118 drone to attack her enemies with physical, electrical, and explosive attacks. Also proficient in the use of explosives when necessary.

Item: BLB-118 drone. Best pet a girl could have.

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