Name: Cassandra Hayden
Race: Human
Class: Blind Enchantress
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Aura: Spring Green
Appearance: 5'2'', average build, wavy pale blonde hair reaches halfway down her back, dusty blue eyes and Caucasian. Her clothing is nothing special, usually jeans and a blouse. Except she always mismatches colors or wears odd outfits based on what's comfortable and not on what looks good. She wears sunglasses over her eyes when she goes out and carries a white cane.
Abilities:
Sight Theft - Wanting what she can't have, Cassie developed the ability to transfer her sight with someone else's. This is limited solely to body functions related to eyesight, and the victim is cut off from sight. While active, Cassie and the victim can hear each other's surface thoughts. This spell requires direct, skin-on-skin physical contact to activate, and ends when that contact is broken or Cassie consciously turns it off. Headaches are a common side effect of this spell. Cassie can't control her body well while using this technique. Moderate mental strain while it's active. Cassie's ability.
Love Magic - Cassie's not a proud person. She is perfectly aware of her disability, and is willing to ask others for help. Or she's willing to inspire their generosity (or just getting them to drop their guard so she can steal their eyes), if they're having trouble bringing themselves to help the poor blind girl. Without a spell, Cassie can still manipulate Love in many, though weak, ways - provided she's close to her target. Her most common trick is to make her voice more attractive for the Choir Club.
- Charm - A touch-based curse which charms the victim to make Cassie appear more attractive to them. Last for a reasonable length of time.
- Alluring Aroma - Cassie can conjure an invisible strawberry-scented mist of love magic, making anyone who smells it think she's cute. The effects wear off eventurally after some time away from the scent. Minor mental strain while active.
Cat's Ears - Being blind, Cassie relies heavily on her hearing to get her bearings and, consequently, has a more acute sense of hearing than most - even without magic. With a simple spell though, Cassie can improve her hearing to decidedly supernatural levels, allowing her to locate objects easily and hear sounds from further away, though it does make her extremely sensitive to loud noises. Moderate mental strain.
Blind Fencing - As a former fencing champion, Cassie's father saw fit to train his daughter to fence with a saber, so she could be safe in the perfectly normal halls of Amaranth, using her modeshift to actually enable her to fight. Furthermore, he taught her an improvised style using her cane, in case a saber wasn't always handy.
- True Strike - Magic gently guides Cassie's attacks, making sure she's not swinging at thin air. This is not enough to assure a hit if the target moves, but it ensures her attacks are actually heading the target's way. Mild mental strain.
- Expected Pain - It is said to be written in the ancient law of the world that great power only comes at a great price. Equally ancient is the belief that, those who lose their sight gain the ability to see in a different way - into the future. For Cassie, this power is manifest only in battle. Whenever Cassie herself is directly imperiled by an attack, this spell activates immediately before it is launched and grants her instinctive knowledge of where it comes from and - roughly - what it is. Rather unfortunately, there's never enough time for her to do more than react. Minor mental strain - though in prolonged battles, that can be quite a problem.
Bio: Cassie was born premature, and suffers from Retinopathy of Prematurity, a severe case which resulted in her being completely blind. Cassie's parents, both members of the Witch's Guild, were somewhat overprotective of their daughter because of this. Her mother, a school teacher, got jobs at Cassie's schools so she could keep an eye on her daughter. Though Cassie understood their concern, she harbored some resentment and wished she could see. Still, her parents didn't keep her sheltered, and Cassie led as full a life as she could.
Her parents awakened her at thirteen, hoping it would make her life a little better. They trained her for years, partly out of overprotectiveness, so she could go to Amaranth. Though Cassie's parents didn't stop her from going to public school and having a social life, her parents still worried about her magic and how she handled her blindness. Though Cassie loves them, she rebelled by against both her parents and her condition by fully embracing her social life.
Unbeknownst to her parents, Cassie became more and more obsessed with sight as she grew up, and developed a fairly active sex life with ulterior motives, telling her parents she was sleeping over with friends. After her partners fell asleep, she would borrow their sight and just stare through their eyes all night. Most of them wouldn't hook up with her again, due to weird dreams that creeped them out. Cassie finally enrolled in Amaranth when she turned eighteen.
Clubs: Choir, Fencing, Meditation, Veterinary
Relationships:
Timothy Hayden - Cassie's father, a member of the Witch's Guild, who works as a real estate agent, and was a fencing champion in his youth. He still sees his daughter as a helpless little girl, much to her chagrin, though he tries to avoid that sort of thinking and let her take care of herself. Specializes in physical reinforcement - he taught Cassie to fence.
Jennie Hayden - Cassie's mother, also a member of the Witch's Guild. She's a school teacher, and would take jobs at Cassie's schools, teaching Cassie's classes if she could, to keep an eye on her daughter. She shares her husband's views about Cassie. Surprisingly progressive in her magic practices - she uses contemporary Witchcraft, which is nearly identical to Wizardry.
Evelyn Hayden - Cassie's Awakened grandmother, appears to be a kindly old woman, but is rather creepy and eccentric.
Nate Adams - one of Cassie's friends, who attends his first year at Amaranth. A younger boy who has a hopeless crush on her. Cassie's aware, but doesn't return his affections and simply considers him a friend. He's a Black, and is in Fencing Club with her. He's something of a child prodigy, being younger than the usual admittance age in Amaranth and having good marks in all his classes.
Penelope Lega - Sean's girlfriend and Cassie's roommate. Penny is quite pretty, with rather thick blonde hair and wide blue eyes, but is also rather absentminded. Despite her somewhat ditzy nature, she is a very talented musician and singer, playing the harp in the school band. Unbeknownst to Sean, Cassie or herself, she is a siren and a rare example of an unawakened demon.
Matthew Sawyer - Another first-year student, one of the best students in Fencing Club, and kind of a jerk. He has no problem teasing blind girls, but Cassie doesn't really care about him.
"Bob" - Issued by the school to help Cassie with her school activities, to help her keep up with the other students. Cassie doesn't know his real name, so she calls him Bob. Bob might be a different person every day, but each one sounds exactly the same.