Cassandra Conrad
Feb 10, 2019 22:44:37 GMT -8
Post by windgrace on Feb 10, 2019 22:44:37 GMT -8
Trainer Profile
Character Name: Cassandra Conrad
Nickname: Cassie or Cass
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Trainer Class: Cowgirl
Height: 6’1” (185 cm)
Weight: 170lbs (77 kg)
Hair Color & Style: Cassandra has light brown hair that can go down to the middle of her back (though rarely longer than that), usually worn in a 3 or 4 strand braid over her left shoulder. She has bangs which cover some of her forehead but she usually cuts them before they reach into her eyes. She has never felt the need to change her hair color and while she does change her hairstyle occasionally, it usually comes in the form of various braids. She rarely, if ever, wears her hair loose as she thinks that it just gets everywhere and gets in the way when she’s trying to do something.
Eyes: Cassandra’s eye color is a light brown, almost auburn color which is, according to her father, a memento from her late mother.
Clothing/Accessories: Cassandra typically wears clothes she considers comfortable, functional, and familiar. While on her family’s ranch, she usually wears her work clothes: leather “cowboy” boots in various shades of brown and a simple felt or wool top (depending on the weather) tucked into a pair of broken-in blue jeans. If she were to go to town or hang out with friends, she would be a bit more conscious about her clothing choice, though it would still be fairly similar in style to her work clothes with subtle variations like a less worn pair of jeans, cleaner or more casual shoes/sneakers, and a nicer or slightly fancier top (in her eyes at least). As for accessories, she enjoys sporting one of her felt “cowboy” hats wherever she goes as well as one of her signature belt buckles, usually choosing to wear either her mareep or tauros belt buckle.
General Appearance: Cassandra is a tall and relatively slim girl with a more or less “rectangular” figure—she does not have very pronounced hips or upper torso. Due to all the work she does around the ranch, she is pretty fit, has excellent stamina, and rarely has to watch her weight (unless she gets careless around the holiday season) but also tends to sport various calluses, scratches, and bruises from it as well, especially on her arms, legs, hands, and feet. She has one scar, a Lichtenberg figure (lightning scar) from an unfortunate event during a stormy night due to an electrical discharge from a herd of Mareep (later discussed in the History section). It is large enough to cover about a quarter of her back and is located from her right shoulder down to her lower back but, it has since faded to a now barely-noticeable white from a previously bright red. Nowadays, you probably wouldn’t know the scar even existed unless you looked very closely and knew what you were looking for. Lastly, people often say she has a particularly radiant smile so she tries her best to take very good care of her dental health.
Hometown: Vlostik Town, West Godai (lived on the Merry Mareep Ranch)
Personality: Cassandra tends to have a laid-back outlook on life for the most part but, she isn’t afraid of getting her hands dirty and doing a hard day’s work—she’s lived on a ranch her entire life after all. When there’s something that needs to be done or someone that needs a little help, she is always willing to lend a hand, even though it can sometimes lead to her getting utterly distracted from her original task. She usually has a friendly, welcoming, and cheerful demeanor, further emphasized by her radiant smile and typical Western Godai drawl, but she isn’t afraid to step up and speak her mind when something bothers her or her friends. For the most part, just speaking up about something tends to get the job done because she can be quite loud and, being just over 6 feet (180cm) tall, her mere presence can be fairly intimidating for most. This feature of hers might be for the best because she does not particularly like violence and would rather things be resolved peacefully.
Being someone who is relatively young and someone who has lived most of her life in a rural area, she is somewhat gullible and naïve, especially if it seems like someone has good intentions. She tends to have a more-or-less simplistic, black-or-white view on morality influenced by Arceism and her own personal experiences. She tries to live as close to that sense of morality as possible but believes that there are times when it’s necessary to break away from them. She absolutely adores soft and fluffy things and pastel colors. Though this isn’t necessarily an aspect of herself which she shows outwardly, her room is completely filled with such things. Lastly, due to an incident in her past, she really, really does not like storms. While she is no longer simply paralyzed by fear whenever one is overhead, she will often have mild to severe anxiety if one is around and especially if she’s outside during one.
History: Caleb Conrad, anxiously paced up and down the hall outside the already packed bathroom. The massive man, standing over 6’6” (198cm), had already exhausted every possible thing to keep himself busy. The pokemon were all in their respective pens, all the housework was done, the baby’s room was as clean as a fiddle, his wife’s dinner was sitting warm in the oven, and he had prayed to the Almighty Arceus over a dozen times. Even though he had been through this twice before, it was always nerve-wracking and he swore it always resulted in more gray hairs every time. After several more infinities, his name was finally called and, resisting the urge to throw open the door, he gently turned the handle…
Due to a combination of being much too far from a properly equipped hospital and an unexpected start of some particularly intense of contractions, Cassandra was delivered at home in a bathtub via water birth aided by her family and a local doctor and nurse at the Merry Mareep Ranch in Vlostik Town, West Godai. Most births are long and arduous and this one was no exception. Cassandra’s mother, Sophia Conrad, had unfortunately gotten ill in the weeks prior to the birth and it was only through some miracle by Arceus himself and a very exhausted nurse and chansey that she was able to survive. Despite all this, Sophia did not come out from her latest birth for the better. Due to her reduced immune system after birth, she had contracted a virus which would eventually take her life.
Cassandra never really knew her mother, as she had passed away when she was only three, but growing up she was always told that she very much resembled her in both the way she acted and in how she looked. The only way she was able to get to know her mother was through the second-hand stories, pictures, and videos from people who knew her. According to everyone else, her mother—despite being a woman of relatively short stature—was a woman with a particularly fiery personality with passion to match. For a long while she was a pokemon trainer who traveled the world and like many other experienced trainers, she found herself at the Safari Zone. Her goal: a pokemon exclusive to the Safari Fields, a jolteon. After hours of searching, she finally found one but so did one other. The story goes, she and her future husband got into an argument so heated, it ended up scaring away the jolteon which, in turn, just caused even more arguing. Both equally frustrated, Caleb Conrad picked up his future wife (then Sophia Russell) and put her on his shoulders and told her to look for a trail. A few curses and several seconds of futile flailing of embarrassment later, she realized that their combined height allowed them to peer over the 7-foot tall maze of tall grass. Several hours of searching later, they returned to the Safari Zone entrance in utter defeat with not a jolteon between them, though this encounter was the spark which led to their eventual marriage.
Growing up with two older brothers, Cassandra was no stranger to roughhousing and essentially became what most would consider a tomboy at an early age. It wasn’t until when she was about 10 when she began to actually like things that would be considered “girly” and this was due to her father remarrying. After her mother had passed away, her father, only really understandable in retrospect for Cassandra, went into a fairly clear state of depression and while he still got all the work on the ranch done the same as always, he would often stay up late drinking and smoking out on the porch. It took an intervention from friends and family to initiate some kind of reform which led him to start taking the family to church every Sunday. Later that year at the church they frequented, he met his second wife, Rachel, then Rachel Douglas.
Cassandra’s step-mother was what most people would describe as outwardly the complete opposite of her real mother, she was a naturally placid and quiet woman but like her real mother, she was also incredibly kind at her core. At first, Cassandra absolutely despised her; to her young mind, a person wanted to come into her life and disrupt her family and, not only that, take her father away from her. This, thankfully, was never the truth. Rachel was very understanding and gradually and calmly earned the trust of the entire family. It was Cassandra’s step-mother who sparked her love for soft and fluffy things as well as her love for pastel colors, and it started with a pastel yellow mareep doll, which coincidentally was the thing that gained her trust towards her, at the time, soon-to-be step-mother. This would eventually result in them becoming best friends or at least the closest equivalent possible between a step-mother and step-daughter.
About a year and a half into the new marriage, Cassandra became an older sister. No longer the picked-upon youngest sibling, she proudly adopted her very own “older sister mode” and strove to be a more responsible person. She wanted to be the most helpful she could be for her new baby brother so she pestered Rachel into letting her help with more-or-less menial tasks, which turned out to be quite a relief for the first-time mother. Taking all that experience gained from the previous baby endeavor, she was much more prepared for what would occur when her second younger brother was born a year later.
After that, things seemed to be pretty uneventful and relatively normal for a girl’s life on a ranch. As Cassandra grew up, she received more responsibilities and began taking care of some of the pokemon on the ranch as well as doing a fair amount of household chores. During these years, she learned about all different kinds of cooking from her step-mother rather than just the fairly simplistic cowboy cooking of her father and also learned to sew from her step-mother since her favorite dolls and clothes always seemed to get torn, ripped, or damaged in some way or another.
Cassandra was about 15 when the most traumatic moment of her life occurred. It happened on a stormy summer evening. Around that time, there was a string of dangerous lightning strikes being reported and the high winds of the storm had also caused problems by blowing away unsecured property and knocking over some power lines. Her father had gone to pick up her step-mother from her job in Vlostik Town and so the duty of wrangling the pokemon into their pens and barns were up to Cassandra and her two older brothers. Cassandra rode out on her rapidash, looking for where the mareep had huddled up in the storm. Thanks to how incredibly quick rapidash are naturally, she found her mareep herd in a matter of minutes despite not daring to go more than a quarter of its max speed in this weather. They were huddled together near a small copse and as she moved to herd the mareep towards the pen, lightning struck one of the nearby trees in the copse setting it alight and a large chunk of it crashed to the ground with a loud and quick series of pops, cracks, and creaks. Her rapidash, unfortunately one of timid nature, panicked and managed to buck Cassandra off before she could calm it down. Cassandra landed hard on her side and watched as her rapidash ran away at full speed as she struggled to catch the breath that had just been knocked out of her from the fall.
Her rapidash’s flames a candle in the distance, she flicked the excess mud off her and tried to herd the mareep back by herself. It was at least a mile away and the sideways rain and muddy ground didn’t make it an easy trek back. About half the way back, lightning struck the clumped-together herd of mareep. Being electric-type pokemon, they didn’t seem particularly phased but their naturally electrically-charged coats caused the lightning to arc amongst them and, unfortunately for the nearby Cassandra, through her as one of the mareep nudged against her.
The next thing she remembered was waking up alone in a hospital bed in Sangproctor City. The doctors and nurses later informed her of what had happened. Her brothers immediately knew something was wrong when her rapidash returned alone and so rode out at full speed on their own rapidash in search of her. They found her on the ground covered in mud surrounded by the herd of mareep. The doctor said it was a series of miracles thanks to Arceus himself that she came out as well as she did. Due to the lightning arcing through the herd first before coursing through her, she was only knocked temporarily comatose from what could have potentially killed her outright.
Though she was certainly grateful to Arceus that she didn’t straight-up die, the following year of medication, physical therapy, pain, and random muscle spasms wasn’t exactly pleasant. It took another year after that for her random muscle spasms to disappear and her bright-red lightning scar to begin to fade. It was another year on top of that for her to be able to be anywhere near mareep without getting sudden and intense anxiety, an important feat for one living on a mareep ranch.
By now, at the age of 19, and four years after the incident, she is thankfully almost as normal as she was before the incident. Her lightning scar located on the right side of her back near her shoulder had faded to near non-existence and she is no longer scared to be near mareep, mostly thanks to her very own mareep, Mary, showing her a tremendous amount of love and affection. However, she does still get anxiety during storms but thankfully Mary is usually by her side to provide comfort when needed.
Birthday: April 2nd, 182
Astrological Signs: Western: Faridder the Ampharos; Eastern: Year of the Zebstrika
(author’s note: The relationship between my character’s first Pokemon being a Mareep and my character’s Western sign being that of an Ampharos is 100% coincidence, I used a random date generator to create Cassandra’s birthday and chose the second option which so happened to be April 2nd whereas my choice to have Mareep as her pokemon was decided almost a month ago.)
Alignment: Neutral Good
Religion: Cassandra follows and respects Arceism but is not very keen on some of the more traditional teachings, especially involving the position of women in society.
Ethnicity: Cassandra sees herself as just Scairoan, though if she were to trace her various lineages she would probably find a mix of Lunctanguis, Shtear, and Beliae blood in her veins among others.
Inventory
Dians:
1,000Items:
5x PokéballKey Items:
PokéDex
Journal
HolocasterTrainer Advancement
Advancement Points: 0
Tier 0:
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Pokemon
Total EXP Gained: 0
| Pokemon | |
|---|---|
 (Mareep) Caught at Level 5 Nickname: Mary Gender: Female Type: Electric Ability: Static Height: 2’0” Weight: 17.2lbs Health: Low EXP Rate: Medium Slow EXP Gauge: (6/8) EXP Gained: 0 Level: 5 Division: D9 Total Stats: 50
Vitamins Used: None | Moveset: 1. Tackle 1. Growl 4. Thunder Wave |
