Cassie Ferguson
"Don't bring your bullshit to me, I have my own problems to deal with!"
Character Summary
Name: Cassandra Marie Antoinette Ferguson (nee Dubois)
Age: 26
Birthday: 14 November
Ethnicity: Caucasian (mixed)
Birth Place: born in Cergy-Pontoise, France; raised in Edinburgh, Scotland
Gender: Female
Languages: English, French
Appearance
Height: 5'2" (158cm)
Weight: 136lbs (62kg)
Body Type: Athletic
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Strawberry blonde
Skin Tone: Rosy
Tattoos/Scars/Piercings: "Carpe diem, oc est ultimum" <Seize the day, it is your last> tattooed around left wrist, normally hidden under a watch wristband. Tattoo showing a pair of entwined dolphins on her lower back, just above right hip. Discolouration around the ring finger of her left hand, caused by the prolonged presence of a wedding band. Similar but faded discolouration on her right hand. Both ears and nipples pierced.
Personal Style: Cassie usually prefers a rather strict, precise style, with well cut clothes which disguise her body shape and her hair normally pinned back in a single ponytail. She is meticulous about her diet and exercises regularly, to the point where she finds it difficult to sleep properly if she doesn't run through her workout routine before bed.
Psychology
Precise * Demanding * Dedicated * Judgmental * Reserved * Paranoid
Self Assessment: She is well schooled and trained to pick up on small details, especially in written documents and reports, but has no understanding of science or technology beyond that of the average member of modern society. (Lawyer? Accountant?)
She has some level of mental disorder requiring things to be very ordered and neat around her, but not to such a degree that it's a serious problem in her everyday life. At some point in the past she was probably bullied, likely about her physical appearance due to her need to keep herself in good shape, and has an unhealthy distrust of strangers.
Cassie is married, and has been for several years.She is also exclusively attracted to other women, and harbours no romantic feelings for any men she meets. (Married lesbian? Loveless marriage?)
A close family member, likely her mother, was French and she was raised in a bilingual English-French household, although her knowledge of the language now seems rusty, pointing to some sort of breakdown in that relationship (Mother's death? Some sort of serious disagreement?)
Sexuality: Homosexual
Relationship Status: Married
Personality: Cassandra is intelligent and evasive. Many of the things she says are carefully calculated to disguise her true feelings, and she often will toe the line with group decisions rather than cause conflict. One-on-one she is far more assertive, and can be highly aggressive to those she sees as threats. However, this rarely escalates as she seems psychologically vulnerable and easily spooked by any reciprocity from those she confronts, backing down from any direct confrontations. Seems to be missing an important anchoring presence in her life, possibly her wife or other relationship which would normally help her keep stable in stressful situations. Will likely form a bond with a caring individual early on, and any such relationship should be encouraged until her previous arrangement can be re-established.
Habits: Binge eater, tends to bite her nails or nibble on food when worried, and worried often. Often rubs her left hand ring finger when in thought, as if playing with a ring which would be there. Compulsively tidies the space she's in when inactive, organising and categorising items she finds there.
Hobbies: Physical exercise, specifically jogging and basic calisthenics. Has been observed to drop into yoga-like stances when relaxing, may have had regular experience with this and instinctively falls into these poses as a coping mechanism.
Fears:
- Strangers
- Large social groups
- Deep rooted body image issues
- Physical exercise
- Raspberries, Beef steak (cooked rare)
- The colour blue
- Female acapella music
- Solitude
- Bondage
- Loud music, especially metal
- Seafood
- Alcohol
- Large groups
- Overly enthusiastic people
- Forced intimacy
Skills
General Skills:
- Data parsing - the ability to extract important information from large quantities of raw data
- Athletics - prime physical condition for a woman of her age and ethnicity, living in a pampered environment
- Civil Rights Law - the rights, procedures and bureaucracy of the British and EU legal systems
- Dietician - knowledge of the nutritional values for most commonly available foods
- Information Technology - the skillful and efficient use of high-level user facing computer systems
- Psychoanalysis - the ability to gain insight into a person's repressed emotions and behaviours, allowing you to better understand their motivations and priorities
Combat Skills:
- Defensive martial arts
- Endurance running
Possessions In-Room:
A plain, unadorned leather collar, given to her by her wife.
History
Biography Born in northern France to a French computer engineer father and a Danish model mother, Cassie's early life was comfortable and pampered. However when her father's company was hit by recession the family was forced to move to Scotland, one of the few places her father was able to find work. The strain of the change in their financial fortunes was rough both on Cassie and her mother, and soon she found herself relying on food for comfort.
By the time she reached high school Cassie was a plump young girl, much to both her mother's distress and her classmate's delight. The constant abuse from her peers caused the young woman to develop an eating disorder, but luckily her mother's experience in the modelling industry allowed her to identify the symptoms of the disorder early enough for her to find therapeutic help for her daughter before any great harm came to her.
As part of her recovery, Cassie's therapist introduced her to athletics and the young girl soon developed a taste for jogging and martial arts. Signing up for a local Ju Jitsu course, which helped her develop a strict sense of self discipline, Cassie found her body transformed from the rounded plumpness she'd come to accept in herself into a lithe, athletic shape maintained by a strict dietary regime and exercise schedule.
It was soon after this that Cassie met Siofra for the first time. The two girls' first encounter was a pure accident as they crashed into each other while jogging one misty night. Expecting the stranger to start teasing her, Cassie immediately went on the offensive, accusing Siofra of attacking her deliberately before storming off in an angry rage. It wasn't until much later that Cassie realised her mistake, but believed she'd never see the beautiful stranger ever again.
Several weeks later, while on another night run, Cassie ran into the red-haired beauty again. This time however the 'run in' wasn't as literal as their first encounter, and after a few nervous minutes Cassie finally plucked up the courage to apologise for her previous behaviour, and luckily Siofra accepted the apology with good humour.
Over the next few months the two budding athletes gradually took to spending more time together, sharing their achievements and failures as they both grew as people. Siofra's calming presence helped Cassie control her hair-trigger anger issues, and by the time they moved away to college the couple decided to move in together. With her new girlfriend's help Cassie managed to complete her law degree and started practicing in her new career.
It was clear to Cassie that she'd found her true soulmate in Siofra, and once she was securely employed Cassie took the plunge and proposed to Siofra. However, since lesbian marriages weren't legal at the time the women declared their love by wearing wedding rings on their right hands, while Siofra did everything she could to help the movement to legalise lesbian marriages in Scotland. Eventually her hard work paid off, and early in 2015 the couple were amongst the first lesbians to be officially married.
Since then Cassie has done everything she can to fight for LGBT rights through the EU, including providing pro bono counsel for those facing unfair conditions and fighting discrimination. With Siofra at her side, tempering Cassie's more volatile impulses, the future looks bright for the French immigrant.
A memory: Cassie has the persistent memory of a red haired woman, and often dreams of very intimate times she shared with the unknown woman.
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