Cassandra Evendale

My Name is Cassandra Helen Evendale, and I am 17 years old.

Within the town of Sunnydale, I am seen as a Senior at Sunnydale High School, member of the Mystery Club, Volleyball, Latchkey helper as well as secretly a member of the Order, which is an important role within this story.

My heart leads me along the lines of life towards, any gender, which may come into play as things unfold.

Hidden magic lies beneath the surface of this life, taking the form of the Seen

There is something else you should know about me, I naturally have hazel eyes and near-ebony colored hair. I love doing hair and nails, pretty much anything cosmetology related. I love practicing on anyone that will let me!

Personality:

Cassandra, or Cassie, is both very similar and different from her sister. Unlike her sister's studious appearance, it's clear that Cassie doesn't care quite so much about her grades. She's more the social butterfly as she loves to hang around people and distract herself from school work. If it weren't for her sister, she would definitely have a fair share of tardies and absences.

Being the more devious of the two, Cassie has no issue with pranking or messing with people. All in good fun though; no matter how reckless she may seem, she doesn't want to actually hurt anyone.

Like her sister, she's very kind hearted and willing to do just about anything for those she cares about. She just tries to appear more approachable as she knows some people may avoid her sister at first because they don't wish to distract her.

She has the personality of a fire cracker; can either be used for good of evil. She will help people, but also stir up trouble in the same breath. She especially loves to pick on Persephone because she thinks her sister is too serious too much of the time.

Out of all people, she's most protective of her sister as well. Typically only allowing others to tease her if she approves of it or finds it tasteful and not harmful to her.

Cassie isn't all fun and games though, she does have focus times! Like, when Persephone makes her study or when she's playing sports. She's a big team player and refuses to let her team down. She's competitive, but it seems her twin has her beat on that too because Cassie isn't the type to get so competitive and so serious that it just makes things "a drag". She wants to have fun, win, but still have fun.

Magic Abilities:

With Yin comes Yang and as Persephone has powers over what people 'don't see', Cassandra has powers of what people 'see'. Being of Psionic or psychic in nature, her abilities lie within the mind and tricking the mind to see things or sometimes temporarily creating something that wasn't there before.

For abilities that Cassandra is able to bring the real world, she has holographic projection. Though, unlike it's namesake, it's not really a holograph that is being produced by light or anything like that. Rather, she is able to create, shape and manipulate things she brings to the physical world. These images, no matter how real they look or act are indeed only images as they are not tangible or effect another other sense other than sight and sometimes sound. This ability also branches into being able to create duplicates of people and things.

Whereas Persephone's powers rely fully on tricking the mind or making the mind think something is missing, Cassandra's powers are both able to appear in the physical world but may also trick the mind into seeing that which isn't really there. Her most commonly used ability is to change her appearance; she is able to appear as another person as long as she has seen them at some point. She most commonly uses it to create the image of Persphone's "cousin", whom she is posing as when outside of the house, for the most part.

In some rare cases, Cassandra is able to use her magical energy to create psychic constructs which gives the images she creates a physical form. Giving something that doesn't exist physical properties such as touch is insanely drawing and demanding so she usually tries to keep her creations small. Like with her other abilities, she has to have personally seen the item that she is trying to create.

As far as her abilities of tricking the mind go, in a sense her holographic projection could fall to that category for it only continues to work as long as the target's mind(s) allow it to. Illusions work on unknown and doubt so if someone is 100% certain that something isn't really there, it will vanish. To be that certain, one must have no emotional connection tied to the illusion; for example, if she makes a spider appear and the target knows it's not there, but they still fear it, it will not vanish as deep within the mind, it thinks the spider is real.

Whereas Persephone is able to create barriers of psychic energy to protect from physical attacks, Cassandra is able to pull that energy to protect from mental attacks. This ability helps to protect against similar classed powers from working against whomever is being protected. If Cassandra is attacked before she is able to protect herself or another, it becomes much more difficult for her to gather the energies as her own psychic powers are in a sense, being attacked.

Cassandra's abilities come with drawbacks that are both similar to and different from her sister's. If Cassandra's Illusions are being projected to the mind of a person, that person must be within a line of sight of that person(s). For her to cast real-world illusions, she must know the area in which she is casting it, similar to how some people in comics that can teleport need to have been to the place in which they are trying to teleport to.

Her physical abilities, such as the constructs or barriers require her to pull from psychic energies which means pulling from those that she is close enough to (currently, only her sister). Pulling energies from anyone is not only draining for herself, but the person she's getting additional energy from.

As much of her powers are powers of the mind, Cassandra has trained relentlessly to keep her magical aura and trail low. At a young age, she learned that not having control over the magic she gives off would affect not only the strength of her powers but how long she was able to use each individual power. Keeping her aura in line and mostly contained, it allowed her greater control over her abilities.  Her powers, being rooted with tricking the mind is also what lead to the woman's more trickster personality as it is the root of her strength.

Biography:

Cassandra is a twin, her sister being Persephone, though people do not know about it. The two were born in the early summer, falling them into the astrological sign of Gemini, fitting for twins. Persephone was the stronger of the two at birth, being able to go home with her father much sooner than her sister. Their parents were both Senior Chapter Members of the Order so appearance was everything and due to her initial weakness, Cassandra's birth was kept secret. They would make frequent trips to the hospital, claiming they wanted to make sure that everything was aboslutely fine with their "only daughter"; which made sense as they were first time parents.

Eventually, she was old enough to be brought home and for their early years, the sisters grew up normally though their powers developed at an early age. For as identical as the two were, their powers were completely different. Persephone's were a bit harder to distinguish as you couldn't phsycially see them whereas Cassandra was much more visible as she seemed to appear as different children they had seen at the hospital during check ups. It was then that the parents had an idea to keep the girls around during visits; Cassandra would appear as another child and claim to be Persephone's cousin whom was staying with them from then on.

The twins never minded, taking the whole thing as a game. As they grew, so did their powers and they learned they could use them on each other so they would often hide or change places with one another. They still continue the game even now as Persephone will pretend to be the cousin and Cassie will act as Persephone.

Once they were old enough, their parents began getting them more involved with the Order and their work. Soon they were indoctrinated into the Order and like the others they wear their necklaces, the charms being hidden beneath their shirts. They also started to help them more in their daily work as their parents work both at the library and with the historical society for the Town's local museum.

When a new boy moved in, the girls were excited since it wasn't often that someone new moved in. However, the boy seemed interested in mystery, legend and lore and while the girls thought that was fun, their parents and the rest of the Order saw him as a threat. The girls were given an order to get close to the boy, see what he was after and to eliminate him. Even the other students of the Order were unaware of this; it was secret to them, at least as far as they knew.