W O N D E R W O M A N
W O N D E R W O M A N
W O N D E R W O M A N
"τῆς μάλιστα θῶμα ποιεῦμαι ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα στρατευσαμένης γυναικός" ~Herodotos, Histories 7.99.1
C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T _________________________________________________________C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T  _________________________________________________________ C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y _________________________________________________________C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y Cassandra "Cassie" Sandsmark _________________________________________________________ 24 | Single _________________________________________________________ Amazons of Themyskira | American (demigoddess) N O T A B L E A B I L I T I E S & T O O L S N O T A B L E A B I L I T I E S & T O O L S - A B I L I T I E S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Demigoddess Physiology Due to her Olympian parentage, Cassie developed peak-human athletic abilities after the meta-bomb detonated. Once she becomes Wonder Woman, Cassie's abilities will match those of her Amazonian adopted-sisters. Furthermore, she will gain superhuman strength and wingless flight once she takes up the mantle. ◼ Channel Electricity As Zeus' daughter, Cassie can channel electricity, but she can only do so through inanimate objects, such as her lasso. This ability is inspired by mainstream Wonder Girl's Lasso of Lightning. - T O O L (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Lasso of Truth (not acquired) This magical lasso has the ability to compel anyone wrapped by its coils to tell nothing but the truth. ◼ Bracelets of Submission (not acquired) The bracelets allows Cassie to deflect projectiles and parry melee attacks due to the indestructible metal that was used to fashion them. ◼ Amazonian Xiphos (not acquired) A Greek-style sword forged by Hephaistos himself. - N O T A B L E S K I L L S & T A L E N T S N O T A B L E S K I L L S & T A L E N T S - S K I L L (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Classical Studies Cassie earned a BA and MA in Classical Studies. She has reading proficiency in Greek and Latin, along with extensive knowledge of the Classical Word. She can also rely upon her mother's archaeological expertise to fill in any gaps in Cassie's knowledge. ◼ Amazonian Training (not acquired) Once Cassie earned the mantle of Wonder Woman, the Amazons of Themyskira will provide her with basic combat training so she won't return to the world of man as an untrained warrior. - T A L E N T (S) ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Athletic Ability Even before the meta-bomb, Cassie possessed natural athletic skills due to her demigoddess status. - | T H E S T O R Y S O F A R... T H E S T O R Y S O F A R... Centuries ago, the Themyskyrian Amazons originally inhabited the city of Themyskira, which was located on the southern coast of the Black Sea in modern-day Turkey. After Herakles and Theseus invaded the homeland of the Amazons to acquire Hippolyta's girdle and subsequently kidnapped some of their sisters, including the queen's sister, Antiope, the Themyskrians relocated to Paradise Island, where they could escape the cruelty of man's world. They then swore to never again interfere with man's affairs after Achilles slew Penthesilea during the final year of the Trojan War. Until the present day, Paradise Island remained in isolation, but when the Reach arrived and turned hostile, the Amazons faced their first external threat since the Age of Homeric Epic. The Themyskyrian Amazons successfully drove out the Reach from their paradise, but not without much cost, including the death of their queen, Hippolyte. Since that day, Diana of Themyskyra sat upon the throne. Helena Sandsmark achieved her world-renown reputation as an archaeologist from an important discovery at a dig in Athens that provided evidence for the historicity of the Amazonian invasion of Athens during the Bronze Age. From this archaeological and historical breakthrough, Helena secured a position at the Gateway City Museum of Antiquities. A few years later, Helena had a daughter, Cassandra with a mysterious man who left their lives just as suddenly he had appeared. Unbeknown to mother or daughter, the true identity of Cassandra's father was Zeus, the King of the Olympian Gods. Because Zeus has always been an absent father to all his mortal children, Cassie was raised solely by her mother. Due to her mother's busy career, which included international travel for archaeological digs, Cassie often acted out for attention. The lack of answers from her mother about her dad frustrated Cassie. Once Cassie started attending college, people thought she had outgrown her trouble child phase, as she was pursuing a degree in Classical Studies, almost as if she were following in her mother's footsteps. But what actually happened was that, after the meta-bomb went off, strange phenomena started to pop up around Cassie, things she couldn't rationally explain. Oak trees would spontaneously sprout up where no trees had been standing the day before. Eagles would randomly perch on trees and roofs in Cassie's vicinity. Even the outbreak of thunderstorms would sometimes weirdly coincide when Cassie felt stressed or angry. After Cassie earned her Master's degree in Classical Studies, she decided that academia was not the career for her and therefore did not pursue a PhD in the same field. Instead, she returned home and worked at Gateway City Museum of Antiquities with her mother while she tried to figure out what path she would take next in her life. On one fateful night, while Cassie was alone at the museum, she experienced something fantastical that would launch Cassie on her journey to become Wonder Woman. P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ) P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ) I've been told in the past that I should try my hand at Wonder Woman in one of these games due to my enthusiasm for and knowledge of Greco-Roman Mythology. After watching this video essay about the inconsistent characterization of Wonder Woman's villains and giving the idea some thought, I feel I have a concept I would enjoy writing. I have decided to go with Cassie instead of Diana so that I can do a twist on the Wonder Woman origin story (as this game is a "superheroes are a recent thing" setting). Instead of Diana leaving Paradise Island and being a fish out of water in the modern world, Cassie will be undergoing an inverse adventure, where she needs to leave the "World of Man" and find Paradise Island. The premise of this interpretation centers on the idea of a world without an active Wonder Woman at the start of the story. Outside of this premise, I tried to keep Cassie's backstory relatively vanilla and then applied the implications of a lack of Wonder Woman from there. Furthermore, there is some precedence for an adult Cassie as Wonder Woman, including her Earth-55 counterpart, a hypothetical Teen Titans future, and a 2000's Young Justice story line. I envision Hera being Cassie's primary antagonist for this concept, as this goes naturally with her being a daughter of Zeus. I see Hera more as a scheming/mastermind villain who sends other baddies against Cassie instead of confronting herself (possibly because Hera sees it as beneath herself to do her own dirty work). This would allow Cassie to encounter both Wonder Woman's rogues gallery and foe & monsters plucked from Greco-Roman mythology. For example, I can imagine an implication of Diana never leaving Paradise Island could be Barbara Minerva taking Diana's position at the Museum of Antiquities, which could give Cassie personal stakes when Hera pits Cheetah against her. |
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