Xander's Cross, Oregon: a small town ringed with forbidding mountains and misty forest. The sky may be gray, but the townspeople are welcoming to people of all kinds...and things that are not quite human as well. Here the native shifters, aliens, werewolves, and witches live in peace. They have yet to find out the new business owners encroaching on the land are also vampires.
The peace has been broken by murder, however, and things in Xander's Cross are about to become quite a bit darker.
Welcome to your new home.
is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
August 20, 2020
The mayor, Rowan Starkwood, was found dead less than a mile from his home. Rumors say his body was mutilated, but the state of the body has not yet been released to the public.
Post by Sid Rivers on Aug 25, 2020 14:21:02 GMT -5
-BASICS-
Face Claim \\ Keira Knightley
Name \\ Cassidy Rivers
Age \\ 25
Gender \\ Female
Species \\ Human
Height \\ 5'7"
Fashion \\ Punk rock. Over-sized, worn leather jacket (stolen from someone larger). On a hunt, wears paramilitary tactical gear pieced together from military surplus stores and her own thieving efforts.
Physical Description \\ V. slender/slim. Skinny. Sharp angles. Hard jaw, bitter expression. Dark, mahogany eyes. Many tattoos. Short, bleached-blonde cropped hair. Punk-rock clothes, a very 'fuck off' attitude. Seems to wear this style like a mask.
-PERSONALITY-
Description \\ Hard. Bitter. Tough. A 'jagged little pill for you to choke on'. Cares very little for what anyone thinks about her. Will do anything for those she cares about, even at the risk of her own life and safety. Reckless. Nothing to lose. Keeps a lot of secrets, secrets about those she cares about but also about herself to prevent anyone from getting too close to her ever again.*
Habits/Hobbies \\ Longtime smoker. Drinks too much. Terrible eating habits. Plays guitar and writes songs.*
History \\ Cassie, as she was once called, was born into a hunter family in Surry, England. The second child of Charles and Rebecca Rivers, younger sister to Camille Rivers, from an early age, Cassie got used to a life lived on the road and knowing about all the things that went bump in the night. Her sister was the promising one, the 'natural' at hunting, at studying the lore. Cassie wanted to be just like her. One day, while their parents were out hunting, a young Cassie found a strange box with peculiar markings. It was a demon box, a reliquary that kept an ancient thing prisoner. It whispered to her, asking to be let out. Sid had only just lifted the lid when Camille came in and yanked her sister away, shoving her out the warded door of the basement so that it couldn't follow. Cassie beat on the door at hearing her sister's screams. Then, when it all went quiet, she opened the door in terror to find an empty room, a charred circle in the center of the floor. Not knowing what she was doing, Cassie attempted a hasty summoning to get her sister back, using her parents books and tools. By the time their parents arrived, Cassie was near death, the effort of even attempting the spell nearly killing her. Cassie remember very little of what happened next. All she knows is that her parents somehow got Camille back. But she was never right after that.
The next several years were hard on the Rivers family. Camille was unstable at first. Cassie had to grow up fast after that in order to look after her older sister while their parents were away or busy. As time passed, Camille's strangeness increased until she began showing strange abilities. In an effort to understand what was happening, Charles and Rebecca semi abandoned their hunting in favor of information. The search took them all over Europe. They discovered that Camille, having been taken into another dimension, was now tainted by it. They call those like her a 'Greywalker'. After being taken into the Grey - a complex jumble of ghosts, chunks of time, forgotten places and magic that is interwoven with reality and is connected to the energy grid that powers the Grey - it now clings to her, always wishing to draw her back. Camille can walk between these two worlds now as easily as walking from one room in the house to another, taking her body with her and not simply dream walking there. These beings are dangerous because they can be used by either side as a portal to the other.
One day, when Cassie was 17, they disappeared altogether along with Camille. Cassie, having been left with family friends in the United States under an assumed name, ran away to look for them. For a long time, nearly 2 years, there was nothing. So she passed the time doing the only thing she knew: hunting. This is how she met Dean Winchester and his father, John. Crossing paths on the same hunt, Cassie proved herself skilled and capable and so she traveled with them for a while, teaming up and learning. Inevitably, an intense relationship blossomed between the two young hunters. After months of partnership, Cassie was confronted by John and coerced into leaving, using the location of her parents as leverage in a promise to leave and never see his son again.
She found her parents in Romania, in a cabin in the mountains. It had been burned to the ground. There were two bodies inside. There was no sign of Camille. For the next several weeks, she hunted for information on the thing that had killed her parents, knowing that it had taken her sister too. But when she finally found out what had happened, she realized that it hadn't taken Camille because it hadn't been able to find her. Using this as a clue, she was able to find where her sister was and found Camille, hidden away, marked with strange tattoos that protected her from her new abilities, protected her from possession, from corruption, even locking her onto their plane because travelling between the worlds, she often came back injured or hurt by the things there. In a desire to find more ways to protect Camille, Sid (as she now called herself) took up the search where her parents had left off, following a clue back to London, to rumors of the ghost of an old witch who had lived for over a millennia. Hoping she could help, Sid tracked down her lair and summoned her, forcing the onryo to tell her what she wanted to know: the location and translation of the spell. Once Sid had these things, she went to a tattooist who specialized in magical tattooes whom she had met doing research on her sister's tattoos (she had even been the one to do a few of them). What Sid didn't know, was that the onryo had followed her. The onryo turned on Sid and the town they were in. Gravely wounded with the woman and the people in danger, Sid begged Dahlia to help her so that she might save them all. The woman complied but at a great cost to both of them.
In the years that followed, Sid kept in touch with Dahlia, hearing of a town where strange, supernatural people could live in peace. So, after having been gone for 5 years, Sid returned to US, bringing Camille with her. After settling Camille in a home in Xander's Cross, Sid returned to the road, to the hunt.
Neighborhood \\ n/a (Lives in her black 1979 Ford Bronco most of the time)
Secret(s) \\
The truth of what her sister really is is Sid's most closely guarded secret.
The blood-magic tattoo that Dahlia gave her as well as some of the others is her second most closely guarded secret as well as her greatest shame.
The hard, cold facade she wears is just that; a facade. It is a put-on, a mask she has forced herself to wear for so long that it has become habit, real. It was done for the sake of survival and for her own sanity.
Plays guitar and writes songs as a hobby, sometimes playing in small, local bars.
last edited Sept 15, 2020 19:27:19 GMT -5 by Sid Rivers