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|FullName=Cassandra Cain
|FullName=Cassandra Cain
|Gender=Female
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|Chartype=FC
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|Active=Approved
|Active=Dropped
|Occupation=Vigilante
|Occupation=Vigilante
|Citizenship=United States
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|Education=No Formal Education
|Education=No Formal Education
|Groups=[[Batman Family]], [[Birds of Prey]], [[Gotham-OOC]], [[Martial Arts-OOC]], [[Street Level-OOC]]
|Groups=[[Batman Family]], [[Birds of Prey]], [[Gotham-OOC]], [[Martial Arts-OOC]], [[Street Level-OOC]]
|Quote=*** HAPPY MEMORIES WITH DADDY ***
|Quote="We made you a warrior, you made -yourself- a hero." - Bronze Tiger
|PAge=24
[A room full of thugs hired to spar a 7 year old Cassandra]
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THUG: "Hey man, why you need the camera? That's a pro camera."
DAVID CAIN: [grinning] "High-speed film."
 
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|DOB=10 October 2006
|DOB=10 October 2006
|Height=165 cm (5'5")
|Height=165 cm (5'5")
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|Hair=Black
|Hair=Black
|Eyes=Brown
|Eyes=Brown
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|Actor=Jeeja Yanin
|Song=AGM - *your face in the nightlight*
|Song="The Sound of Silence" by Disturbed
|Profile=As the daughter of David Cain and Lady Shiva, Cassandra Cain stood to inherit an unsurpassed mastery of the martial and assassination arts. Raised in absolute silence and constant, brutal combat training, Cassie's brain has been optimized to read bodies in lieu of understanding spoken or written language.<br><br>Intended to be the perfect killer, Cassandra's first experience in taking life left her mortified and determined to prevent killing however she may. She has since joined the Bat-Family as a caped vigilante, first as Batgirl and now as the faceless Orphan.
|Profile=As the daughter of David Cain and Lady Shiva, Cassandra Cain stood to inherit an unsurpassed mastery of the martial and assassination arts. Raised in absolute silence and constant, brutal combat training, Cassandra's brain has been optimized to read bodies in lieu of spoken or written language. At the age of nine, Cassandra's first experience in taking life left her mortified and determined to prevent killing however she may. She has since joined the Bat-Family as a caped vigilante, the newest Batgirl. She has managed to break free of some, but not all, of her chains. Her past haunts her. And this broken girl with a broken mind seeks redemption. And to prove she is better than her breeding.
===Current Player Approved: December 14, 2019===
===Current Player Approved: Available for Application===
|Description=
|Description=
<span style="color:#4040bf">'''Description:'''</span>
<span style="color:#4040bf">'''Description:'''</span>
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Cassandra Cain is a slim, highly athletic young woman of indeterminate Asian descent, 5'5 and either in her late teens or early twenties. Her body is covered in a variety of long-faded scars from myriad insults, though luck has conspired to leave her face intact. So quiet so as to be considered mute, Cassandra's hardly reticent - while it's hard to put one's finger on it, this silent youth has a particular emotive magnetism to her poise and posture. Those with highly analytical minds might capture the truth behind the mysterious intrigue; Cassie speaks with her body, every movement equally as purpose-driven as it is communicative in nature. Her posture is a statement of mindset, her every twitch and shift an utterance or interruption, and she lacks the traditional 'tells' in reacting to spoken word. Either that, or she simply doesn't understand.<br><br>Beyond this important distinction, Cassie would otherwise be considered fetching for her shoulder-length inky black hair and almond-tilted brown eyes. She doesn't quite dress to demonstrate figure or finesse, but rather wears functional clothing. Today's outfit is a trim black undershirt, along with a pair of black sweatpants bound up above a pair of training sneakers.
If there were a way for the menace and danger of shadows and darkness to come alive in a single non-metahuman, Batgirl could easily be described as being one step away from that.<br><br>At five feet and five inches tall, Batgirl's height does not make her impressive. In fact, her height might be the least frightening thing about this young woman. On the other hand, her outfit demands respect. It is black from the tip of its bat ears all the way to her toes, except for the yellow outline of a bat on her chest and a yellow utility belt. Said outfit fits snugly against her body, and doesn't leave much to the imagination, yet allows her complete and total freedom of movement. The head of the costume not only has pointed bat ears, but it also has an area around the mouth that looks to be be sewn in, which not only makes sure the mask leaves no skin exposed, but also adds a bit of a creepy aspect to this silent warrior. Then, as if to complete the ensemble, and possibly to help blend in with the darkness, there is a long, billowing black cape that goes over her shoulders, and ends just barely above the ground.<br><br>The outfit isn't what makes Batgirl imposing. When she moves, or even if she's standing still, there's a certain aspect to her body language that's hard to place. Something that lends her an air of danger. Something that makes her look and stand like she knows she can kill those who look at her with ease. Of course, she wouldn't do that. ...Would she?
|History=
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<span style="color:#009999">'''History:'''</span>
<span style="color:#009999">'''History:'''</span>
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One of the world's greatest assassins, David Cain was intrigued when he encountered a developmental neurologist claiming that the body spoke a type of language. A mind raised without conventional language would adapt to speak through physicality, the two theorized. The neurologist assumed it was scholarly banter. Cain went on to experiment in raising the world's greatest killer. Children died in soundless torture, driven mad by isolation in the name of 'science'. The children clearly weren't strong enough.<br><br>David Cain found hope in famed martial artist Sandra Wu-San, internationally revered for her almost prescient martial arts abilities. Despite this, Cain killed Wu-San's sister in an ambush and spared Sandra from the same fate - in exchange, Sandra would supply David a child. Cassandra Cain came into David's care the day Sandra delivered. Sandra would walk out of Cassandra's life never knowing her daughter, and go on to become Lady Shiva.<br><br>Cassandra was David's perfect child, predisposed to the kind of mental development his experiment demanded. Cain raised Cassandra in absolute silence, in a facility without words written or spoken. Every interaction was purely physical, every encounter meant to engage her perception and awareness. David Cain showed his daughter no love, and trained her from birth in what fighting styles and assassination methods he knew. Childhood 'games' taught her to kill, and Cain taught her never to trust. Cain beat, stabbed, shot, and otherwise maimed Cassandra to teach her to control her body and to live in constant vigilance.<br><br>Cass' torturous 'training' made her into an incredible little soldier. At seven, she was able to dismantle handfuls of men at a time. Elite martial artists would fight her and find their styles stolen from them in minutes, find their movements read as easily as one reads a book. His daughter turned out to be a human lie detector, a preternaturally gifted martial artist, fluent in the language of bodies and intentions.<br><br>The result was a child with no concept of language and no ability to express herself conventionally. Her brain's critical period for language development had passed, and the additional grey matter co-opted into David's experiment. She had never laughed and likely never would. She'd never be able to tell stories or understand others. In a very real, very crippling way, Cassandra was broken.<br><br>
Cassandra Cain was the brainchild (literally and figuretively) of David Cain. He made a pact with Lady Shiva to give him a child that he could train for the League of Assassins, and Cassandra was the result of that union. Once born, Shiva would not see her daughter anymore, and Cain brought her to a secluded place to begin her training.<br><br>Cain's plan was to restrict Cassandra's upbringing to nothing more than martial arts. Killing. And, by refusing to teach her how to communicate with words, letters, she would learn in other ways. And, Cassandra did. She learned how to interpret people's body language, beyond micro emotions to the point of near pre-cognition. Cain would bring in such prominent mentors as Merlyn, Bronze Tiger, Alpha, and others to train Cassandra in the deadly arts of martial skills. She learned, under a rigorous regime of training how to strike at a person's nerve endings to shut down their body at various key points, how to use weapons. And, most importantly to Cain, how to kill.<br><br>When Cassandra was 9 years old, Cain made the decision that she was ready to start the next level of her training and begin to assassinate people. Cassandra, thinking her father was playing a game with her, killed the man he'd set in front of her without even thinking. A simple strike to the throat.<br><br>That was where her father erred. She read the man's emotions in that single moment. As she would later tell Batman: 'Terror. Then ... nothing.'<br><br>Horrified at what she saw, confused, angry, Cassandra attacked her father, uppercutting him and she ran away. For whatever reason, Cain did not persue her or attempt to stop her.<br><br>Cassandra would spend the next years living on the streets of Gotham. Living off refuse, handouts, and in the slums, confused, and afraid of herself. It would only be when, by pure accident, she ended up saving Commissioner Gordon's life that she earned the attention of Oracle through one of her agents.<br><br>And, now, the most recent Batgirl to hold the title after Batman and Oracle both agreed to bring her into the Batfamily, Cassandra Cain has found a true home. And maybe. Just maybe, she can start healing. And find some form of redemption from the mental anguish she's been through - both by product of her father, and what she herself has driven herself to.
<span style="color:#009999">'''History2:'''</span>
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One thing she *could* do was read the absolute fear in the face of the first man she'd killed for David Cain. A 'game', as they'd come to play it - open the throat as quick as you can. A rake of the fingers across the neck. An 8-year old Cassandra had never done it in real life, and watching the life leave a man's eyes subverted the amusement of the game. It was traumatizing, and the reality of her actions set in on Cassandra faster than most - reading his body lent her awareness of his pain and panic in his final moments. Disgusted with herself, Cassandra ran away that day.<br><br>She spent several years on the lam, and with David's exhaustive drills in stealth and hiding Cassandra was skilled enough that even he couldn't find her. It was only in Gotham that coincidence transpired and she was recruited by Oracle after saving Commissioner Gordon's life. Since then, Cassandra has become an acquaintance of the Bat Family, and her tremendous physical potentials further honed through training in the non-lethal attack styles of Bruce Wayne. She would eventually become Batgirl and a part of Wayne's crime-fighting Bat-Family. They would teach her the rudiments of sign language and become a home she'd never had.<br><br>Still, Cassandra had never quite forgiven herself for murdering a man in her childhood, and has since vowed to stop death wherever she may - and die trying. As Batgirl, her constant patrolling and endless drive to work caused some level of concern in Wayne and his clan - it was obvious she was running from something. Her emotions ran high enough to be a liability, and her patrolling so reckless that Wayne asked her to take a backseat to the Batgirl mantle.<br><br>Since, Cassandra has been encouraged to find herself before returning to the Bat, her story untold but her death-wish apparent. As the masked vigilante Orphan, she left Gotham for a time to pursue her redemption on her own terms.
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<span style="color:#1f75FE">'''Personality:'''</span>
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Cassandra has been raised on an island in every sense but literally. Central to her character is an understanding of how pervasive her lack of linguistic development is - she does not have an internal monologue, she does not get to narrate her meditation or apply abstract logic to a particular problem. This doesn't mean she's a feral creature, but it does lend a certain sense of primalism to her manner and style.<br><br>She speaks physically. Through movement and dance, through combat and pain. It is for this reason that she abhors killing and can never forgive herself for what she's done - the sight of the life leaving a man's face haunts her in her quiet hours and drives her in all others. Unable to communicate or understand the sympathy of a peer, Cassandra has no outlet for her guilt and is consumed with a drive to repent - to stop others from killing with her every waking breath, and to eventually die in the trying. Her life for the one she stole.<br><br>While Cassandra was raised in isolation and really only understands violence, she has come to enjoy her time with the Bat-Family. While she still prefers a healthy amount of distance from others, Cassandra is keenly aware of the power of touch in conveying an attitude and doesn't have the same reservations as others about casual, socially physical contact. She is in the process of learning sign-language, though this progress is enormously limited by her basic failures to process the notion of abstract communication.<br><br>She wants to be understood, but nobody listens when she speaks, and they keep getting broken when she shouts.
Cassandra is a mixed up jumble of emotions. At times, she can be exceptionally sweet. At other times, she can be severe, blunt, and cold. Her upbringing is at complete odds with the person she wants to be.<br><br>She knows, mostly, how to deal with these emotions. She finds comfort in a measure of distance, and is unused to people caring about her well being, but she certainly likes that feeling. She's just scared to get used to it and have it lost. She's used to being alone, independent, and scared. And having a measure of security, having a chance is new and foreign to her.<br><br>Because of her language barrier, to those that don't know her she can come across as blunt, bitchy, or cold. Sometimes this is the case. Sometimes it is not.<br><br>Cassandra has sworn to herself she will never kill. However, to teach someone a lesson she might stop, then restart their heart. She has little patience for violators, and is as brutal as The Batman himself in dealing with crime. Broken bones, torn ligaments are not an issue for her and don't earn a second thought.<br><br>More than anything, Cassandra wants to be understood. To be loved. To belong to a family who is on the right side. To redeem herself. To make a difference.
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<span style="color:#8a14ff">'''Lie Detector:'''</span>
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<span style="color:#00CED1">'''Asl:'''</span>
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With her considerable dependence upon physical actions for communication, American Sign Language struck the Bat-Family as Cassandra's shortest bridge to communication. She has had tremendous trouble grasping the concepts of abstract communication, but has over the years come to 'speak' in basic gestures and concepts. In her time away from Gotham, Cassandra's skills in ASL have dwindled, but she maintains the very basics.<br><br>
Due to the fact she can read body language at a level that only a few in the world can, it made sense that a form of language for her would require movement. She learned American Sign Language at an astonishing rate. She is able to communicate effectively with someone who knows how to sign. She tends to still be terse when using ASL or speaking, since both are strange to the way her brain works.<br><br>
<span style="color:#00CED1">'''Assassination Arts:'''</span>
<span style="color:#00CED1">'''Assassination Arts:'''</span>
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Cassandra has been trained by her father David Cain in just about every known killing art there is. Bare-handed, equipped, or improvising, the language of death is Cassie's mother tongue and her natural instinct in practically every combat encounter she experiences.<br><br>
Cassandra has been trained by her father David Cain in just about every known killing art there is. Bare-handed, equipped, or improvising, the language of death is Cassie's mother tongue and her natural instinct in practically every combat encounter she experiences.<br><br>
<span style="color:#00CED1">'''Body Language:'''</span>
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Her upbringing was purposefully abusive, and designed to forego teaching her any measure of linguistical skills to essentially 'shut down' that portion of her brain and allow it to foster faster response time, and understanding of intent by the human body. As a result, Cassandra is able to read body language, from anything from social interactions to intensive combat. Thus, she can read essentially what an opponent is doing before they do it, and this allows her to perform such feats as dodging bullets or countering a low end speed-enhanced meta's attack because she knows what is going on essentially just before it happens. It is, in some ways, a form of very basic pre-cognition and battle instinct.<br><br>However, it has been shown that in severe cases, like that of the Joker, whose insanity is so deep, their body movements do not make any sense at all to her. In these extremely rare cases, Cassandra is essentially blind, and unable to react. She relies heavily on her ability to read movements and having it removed or nullified puts her at a severe disadvantage.<br><br>
<span style="color:#00CED1">'''Martial Arts:'''</span>
<span style="color:#00CED1">'''Martial Arts:'''</span>
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Trained in the myriad combat arts that comprise Batman's highly-effective non-lethal style, Cassandra has exquisite knowledge on ways to bruise, break, disarm, and dismantle just about every combatant she encounters. Cassie's deep understanding of body mechanics in combination with her training at Bruce Wayne's hands has made her one of the world's truly peerless martial artists.<br><br>
Cassandra is among the best trained martial arts fighters in the world. Among those who trained her were her father, David Cain, Bronze Tiger, Merlyn the Archer, and Alpha, along with others her father hired and she has the potential to grow yet even further. She is also getting further training from Batman now that she is in his 'Family'. At present, her training is sufficient that should could go toe-to-toe with the likes of Lady Shiva, or even Batman in a pure martial arts fight.<br><br>
<span style="color:#00CED1">'''Nerve Strikes:'''</span>
<span style="color:#00CED1">'''Nerve Strikes:'''</span>
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Her knowledge of a body's language and manner mean that Cassandra has an excellent working knowledge of where to touch to shut a person down. With focus and precise aim, Cassie has knocked out friend and foe with the touch to a shoulder or the base of the neck. She is able to deaden limbs with varying degrees of effect, as well. The effects from a nerve strike are temporary - in the case of being knocked out, victims typically recover after ten minutes.<br><br>
In addition to her training with martial arts, Cassandra was trained on how to fight using 'nerve strikes', jabbing her hand/fingers into specific pressure points on the body to 'shut down' a system. An arm. A leg. Lungs. Even a heart. And, how to re-engage it as well.<br><br>Of course, these nerve strikes require accessible flesh to be effective, so they are utterly ineffective if someone is wearing any type of body armor in those areas.<br><br>
<span style="color:#00CED1">'''Parkour:'''</span>
<span style="color:#00CED1">'''Parkour:'''</span>
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Cassandra is quite proficient at 'Rooftop Running', getting around the enviornment, climbing, and manuevering and, as a highly trained martial artist, she has exceptional balance. There are certainly people in the world more skilled than her at it, but she's good enough at it that it doesn't slow her down in chasing someone over rooftops, or getting to where she needs to go.<br><br>She is especially adept at utilizing her grappling hook to make the most of her speed and transition from one area to another if it may seem inaccessible or take longer to reach through jumping/climbing and keeping a steady pace throughout her movements.<br><br>
Batgirl is quite proficient at 'Rooftop Running', getting around the enviornment, climbing, and manuevering and, as a highly trained martial artist, she has exceptional balance. There are certainly people in the world more skilled than her at it, but she's good enough at it that it doesn't slow her down in chasing someone over rooftops, or getting to where she needs to go.<br><br>She is especially adept at utilizing her grappling hook to make the most of her speed and transition from one area to another if it may seem inaccessible or take longer to reach through jumping/climbing and keeping a steady pace throughout her movements.<br><br>
<span style="color:#00CED1">'''Pickpocket:'''</span>
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<span style="color:#00CED1">'''Stealth:'''</span>
<span style="color:#00CED1">'''Stealth:'''</span>
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David Cain's torturous lessons included primers on the art of not being seen. While Cassandra owes plenty of her success to her preternatural awareness, the notion of hiding is well-practiced in its own regard. Cassandra knows how to make the shadows a second skin, and what the whites of a man's eyes mean.
David Cain's torturous lessons included primers on the art of not being seen. While Cassandra owes plenty of her success to her preternatural awareness, the notion of hiding is well-practiced in its own regard. Cassandra knows how to make the shadows a second skin, and what the whites of a man's eyes mean.<br><br>
<span style="color:#00CED1">'''Weapons:'''</span>
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Cassandra's abusive training included all martial arts weapons. Cassandra is an expert in swords, throwing weapons, and blunt weapons and can fight on par with masters in these areas despite her youth due to the ceaseless and hard training she endured as a child.
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<span style="color:#228B22">'''Bat Family:'''</span>
<span style="color:#228B22">'''Bat Family:'''</span>
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Cassandra is a member of the Bat-Family, as important to them as they are to her. While the legendary Batman serves as her idol, mentor, and strongest ally, any member of the Bat's adopted family is an incredible and more than willing teammate in whatever conflict Cassandra faces. As with everything in Cassandra's life, the trick is in explaining what she needs in the first place... or in getting her to understand that she's needed somewhere.<br><br>
Cassandra is a member of the 'Bat Family'. Essentially this means that she can call any of them for help anytime she needs it, as well as have access to their knowledge, information, and experience for solving problems, innumerable resources, or even just a combat buddy. It means that help, in most cases, can always be right around the corner. It also means she can be called in to assist, at any given time to Robin, Batman, or any others in the 'Bat Family' also. They protect each other.<br><br>The 'Bat Family' is also mildly dysfunctional, as a true 'family', however. So, in most cases, getting everyone together for Christmas Dinner probably isn't going to happen. But that's okay with Cassandra. She doesn't even know what Christmas is, really.<br><br>
<span style="color:#228B22">'''Bat-Gear:'''</span>
<span style="color:#228B22">'''Bat-Gear:'''</span>
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Cassandra's utility belt carries the full assortment of standard Bat-gear. The iconic batarangs are there in bladed and blunt variety, along with a variety of smoke pellets, explosive gels, interfacers, and that ubiquitous Grapnel Gun. The problem is that Cassandra doesn't really use anything the way she's supposed to, and hasn't read the instruction manuals for obvious reasons.<br><br>
Cassandra's utility belt carries the full assortment of standard Bat-gear. The iconic batarangs are there in bladed and blunt variety, along with a variety of smoke pellets, explosive gels, interfacers, and that ubiquitous Grapnel Gun.<br><br>
<span style="color:#228B22">'''Batcave:'''</span>
<span style="color:#228B22">'''Batcave:'''</span>
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Cassandra has access to the Batcave, one of the most advanced crime-fighting hideaways in the world. With the powerful Batcomputer at her fingertips, Cassandra can accomplish virtually nothing because she can't read. Seriously though, the arsenal and training facilities there are hers to use as she sees fit.<br><br>
Cassandra has access to one of the most powerful computers and areas in the world. The Batcave, and all of it's resources. While she probably can't take the Batmobile out for a joyride (without getting in serious trouble), or use the Batcomputer (since she is still learning and must be supervised), she has full access to most of the equipment, rooms, and functions the Batcave has to offer as a member of the Bat Family.<br><br>
<span style="color:#228B22">'''Batcycle:'''</span>
<span style="color:#228B22">'''Batcycle:'''</span>
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In her time as Batgirl, Cassandra heavily utilized the Batcycle. The bike is capable of astounding speeds when boosted, is armored, and has reinforced tires that can withstand some substantial damage including self-repair from a bullet or two. Designed to capitalize on Cassandra's response time, the bike's maneuverability is emphasized above all else. While this belongs to Batman and Batgirl, Orphan can probably still ask to borrow it if she needs it.<br><br>
As Batgirl, Cassandra has a Batcycle which she rides. The Batcycle is capable of astounding speeds when boosted, and has reinforced tires that can withstand some substantial damage, including self-repair from a bullet or two, as well as being armored. The motorcycle has maximum manuverability, and response time. Harley Dadvison is jealous.<br><br>
<span style="color:#228B22">'''Costume:'''</span>
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As Orphan, Cassandra is provided with a light armor costume that allows for absolute mobility along with maxium protection. Her suit can repel bullets, and give some protection against fire, severe cold, and physical damage (including piercing damage). The cowl provides a communications system.  
As Batgirl, Cassandra is provided with a light armor costume that allows for absolute mobility along with maxium protection. Her suit can repel bullets, and give some protection against fire, severe cold, and physical damage (including piercing damage). The cowl provides a communications system.
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<span style="color:#EE204D">'''Alingual:'''</span>
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Failure to develop language is far more pervasive than merely being mute or deaf. The notion of written word and its abstract interpretation is utterly lost on Cassandra. While symbolism is critical to her, and the notion of concept and higher thinking are very much key to her movement and personal narrative, there is *nothing* framing her logic beyond symbolism and movement. Cassandra does not talk to herself. For this reason attempts at educating her in communication are all doomed to fail - she may get the simplest of terms and ideas, and may even come to express them herself, but her brain is fundamentally unable to process language.<br><br>Essentially, Cassandra listening to a person talk is very similar to how we might feel l istening to a pair of dogs barking at each other. Or reading signs written in bark. Or reading books written in bark. Or watching dogs bark at a dog soapopera, and maybe get teary eyes because of some of the barking.<br><br>This is a *crippling* weakness. Cassandra will never be able to take on The Riddler, as she'd fail the very first question-on-a-card he offers.<br><br>Were this weakness to be corrected, Cassandra would lose all of her abilities related to body-perception, as a condition of this strength is that her brain reorient its language-processing centers to that ability.<br><br>
<span style="color:#EE204D">'''Death Wish:'''</span>
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Having killed a man, Cassandra experienced a sympathetic pain so complete that she cannot reconcile it with who she is or what she does. Unable to speak to others, unable to express her extraordinary sorrow and self-loathing, Cassandra never got the message about forgiveness or redemption -- she is very much forced to contend with her negativity on her own, unable to read a manual or self-help book.<br><br>Her answer is to spend her life preventing death where she may. Her manner is driven to the point of recklessness, her zeal for crimefighting on a level that would bewilder and concern her friends. It is for this predisposition that Batman asked Cassandra to step down as Batgirl and to 'find herself', as he put it. Currently, Cassandra has no answers to this self-inflicted geas. She will fight against senseless killing until she herself dies in the effort.<br><br>
<span style="color:#EE204D">'''Family:'''</span>
<span style="color:#EE204D">'''Family:'''</span>
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Cassie's father is David Cain, one of the most lethal assassins in the world. Her mother is Lady Shiva, the world's pre-eminent martial arts assassin. Her inheritance is blood, her predisposition is murder, and it is only through her own morality that she battles this natural incliniation. She has thus far managed to remain hidden from her parents' eyes, but should they find her they will stop at nothing to continue developing her as the perfect killing machine.<br><br>
Cassandra's parents are David Cain, and Lady Shiva. They are not exactly mother/father of the year. And while neither David or Shiva have shown interest in Cassandra to date since she ran off, that doesn't mean they might not in the future. Shiva also probably wouldn't balk at killing Cassandra, if she felt matters should come down to it.<br><br>
<span style="color:#EE204D">'''Just Human:'''</span>
<span style="color:#EE204D">'''Just Human:'''</span>
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Cassandra, like the rest of the Bat Family, is merely mortal. This means, ultimately, knives cut, bullets either severely wound or kill. Bones break. And, in any injury, there will need to be a healing regiment, and physical training to get back to her prior condition - and some injuries might ultimately incapacitate her from ever being Orphan again.<br><br>
Cassandra, like the rest of the Bat Family, is merely mortal. This means, ultimately, knives cut, bullets either severely wound or kill. Bones break. And, in any injury, there will need to be a healing regiment, and physical training to get back to her prior condition - and some injuries might ultimately incapacitate her from ever being Batgirl again.<br><br>
<span style="color:#EE204D">'''Language:'''</span>
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Because of the abusive way in which Cassandra was trained, her mind is unable to form spoken languages at any real level. She can state simple one to three-word sentences, at most, with pauses in between. She is unable to express herself in expansive words, her vocabulary is instead quite limited to more basic words that consist mostly of 1-2 syllables. While she has learned to use American Sign Language, she still finds it foreign.<br><br>This does not limit her understanding of what people are saying around her, she can understand them perfectly. It's merely the fact that her mind is locked in how she can form words, and it would literally take a telepath to rewire her brain to fix her. If that were the case, it's very probable that she would also lose her ability to read body language also. The two are tied together, like yin and yang.<br><br>
<span style="color:#EE204D">'''Murderphobia:'''</span>
<span style="color:#EE204D">'''Murderphobia:'''</span>
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'Terror. Then... nothing.'<br><br>Cassandra has never spoken to another human being in her life and instead communicates through sight and touch, through interpretation and observation. In a way no other human has before, Cassandra listened to a man die as his body told the story. 'Terror. Then... nothing.' The sheer oblivion of this act and the guilt associated with being the one to execute it means that Cassandra has spent her life fighting death wherever she finds it. She abhors the notion of inflicting that on another human, and is borderline suicidal in her self-loathing as a murderess.<br><br>She is constantly struggling with her instincts to kill her opponents, and goes to painstaking extremes to make a given fight as non-lethal as possible. Disarmament is a priority, the possibility of lethal force is a distraction.<br><br>If Cassandra believes she has killed again, even accidentally, there's no telling what she may do.<br><br>
Cassandra is terrified she will kill again. Her father's plans to teach her body language backfired, when she killed the man he'd presented to her. She saw it, then. 'Terror. Then ... Nothing.' And, she'd clocked her father a good one, and ran away.<br><br>She has promised herself that she will never kill again. But, it's how she was programmed. And if she is not focused every single moment in a fight and restraining herself to some degree, she knows she could accidentally kill someone. And that would not only set her on the outs with the one man who is taking care of her, and trying to help her redeem herself (Batman), but also most likely break the poor girl's mind as she is now.<br><br>
<span style="color:#EE204D">'''Naive:'''</span>
<span style="color:#EE204D">'''Redemption:'''</span>
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While Cassandra is 'perfect' in fights, virtually peerless in an even match, she's never been able to benefit from a traditional teacher. Her knowledge of her opponents is limited to what she sees in their movements and facial expressions - she doesn't get to read up on their styles beforehand, doesn't get to talk to Batman about Two-Face's obsession with duality. The truly abstract techniques and knowledges Cassandra acquires are limited wholly to those she learns through her own physical education.<br><br>This is a nuanced, subtle weakness, but it is also the primary reason that Cassie occasionally runs into difficulty outside of a one-on-one sparring match. While the majority of tricks will have subtle, bodily tells - a hidden gun tends to affect a man's gait, for example - some of the oldest tricks in the book might just take her completely by surprise.<br><br>The Joker's lapel flower shoots acid?? Who could possibly have told her about that? (Answer: Literally everybody. She just doesn't have the ability to understand the briefing.)
Cassandra is on a quest for redemption from the murder she committed. That is a large part of wy she is Batgirl. She feels that she has a lifetime to live up to, in order to make amends for the life she took. This is a debt that weighs on her, constantly, and makes her think she continues to need to improve herself. It borderlines on obsessive thinking.
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Latest revision as of 12:53, 30 June 2024

Cassandra Cain (Scenesys ID: 1129)
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"We made you a warrior, you made -yourself- a hero." - Bronze Tiger
Profile
Full Name: Cassandra Cain
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Theme: DC (FC)
Occupation: Vigilante
Citizenship: United States
Residence: Gotham / Mobile
Education: No Formal Education
Status: Dropped
Groups: Batman Family, Birds of Prey, Gotham-OOC, Martial Arts-OOC, Street Level-OOC
Other Information
Apparent Age: 24 Actual Age: 24
Date of Birth 10 October 2006 Actor: Jeeja Yanin
Height: 165 cm (5'5") Weight: 50 kg (110 lb)
Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown
Theme Song: "The Sound of Silence" by Disturbed

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As the daughter of David Cain and Lady Shiva, Cassandra Cain stood to inherit an unsurpassed mastery of the martial and assassination arts. Raised in absolute silence and constant, brutal combat training, Cassandra's brain has been optimized to read bodies in lieu of spoken or written language. At the age of nine, Cassandra's first experience in taking life left her mortified and determined to prevent killing however she may. She has since joined the Bat-Family as a caped vigilante, the newest Batgirl. She has managed to break free of some, but not all, of her chains. Her past haunts her. And this broken girl with a broken mind seeks redemption. And to prove she is better than her breeding.

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