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Academy 218: Why

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@Mr Allen J

Academy 218: Why

Casey Calahan

Basic Information

Name:

Casey “Honeybadger” Calahan

Age:

19

Gender:

Female

Appearance & Attire:

Casey is a tough-looking girl. A former lacrosse MVP, she has an athletic body and well-developed musculature. She has pale skin, something which she somewhat resents, and freckles which dot her body and are heavier on her cheeks. She has a powerful-looking body, tall (5’10”-ish), with a thick, strong core, strong legs, and medium-sized breasts for her build. She weighs something like 145 lbs. She carries herself with her head high, her chest puffed out, and her legs shoulder-width apart, like she’s always playing a sport. She speaks with hubris and a bit of aggressiveness, like she’s always in a game. She has a small scar on her stomach and another on her right knee. Both are small, one from a car crash and one from a childhood hockey accident.

Casey has a somewhat heart-shaped face, long and narrowing down to her chin. Her eyes are vaguely almond-shaped and are a light blue. Her cheeks are dotted with freckles and her eyebrows are a little thicker than average. She has a wide mouth and somewhat thin pink lips. Her teeth are straight and white, but all of the teeth on the bottom left side of her jaw are artificial. Her hair, as well as her eyebrows, is a dark brown, bordering on black, and is quite long, coming down to the middle of her back when let down. She generally keeps her hair in a single braid going down her back.

As far as attire goes, Casey isn’t winning any fashion contests anytime soon. Her closet primarily comprises of yoga pants, leggings, sports bras, and tank tops, mostly made of athletic material like Under Armor or Nike. She tends not to wear a jacket most of the time, claims she moves so much that she doesn’t need something to keep her warm, but when it gets very cold she dons a North Face jacket. She always wears Nike running shoes, and has several pairs of them. Most of her clothes are whites, pinks, blacks, and bright oranges. She doesn’t wear any jewelry (unless a Fitbit counts). She wears a pair of pink and black fingerless weight lifting gloves when she goes to the gym.

Skills/Talents:

SPORTBALL. Casey is a gifted athlete, strong, fast, and agile. She was on a national all-star team for lacrosse and in the fall was a very good soccer player. She had several offers from D1 lacrosse schools (UMD, Duke, Syracuse), but once it was known that she was a metahuman, she lost all of them. When she was little, she did gymnastics, and though she hasn’t done it in a while, she still possesses a degree of acrobatic prowess (her power helps). Despite Casey’s strength and agility, she has never taken any classes in fighting, so she lacks the training to keep up with better-trained opponents. Despite that, she knows how to throw a punch and doesn’t mind getting her hands dirty. Because of her sports, Casey doesn’t have many other talents that don’t involve throwing or kicking balls. She doesn’t really have much academic talent (a B and C kind of student, average, but not overly impressive. An A is an accomplishment for her). She’s done a little bit of outdoors work, but not enough to be a scout.

Brief Backstory:

Casey was born in a suburb sound of Richmond, Virginia to a wealthy family. Her father was a lawyer and her mother was a university professor. She grew up a natural athlete, the kind of girl who instead of jumping rope or drawing with chalk goes shoot hoops just to stick it to the boys. She was an aggressive child, and got into a few fights with boys in her neighborhood. She acted like a bodyguard for her scrawnier brother most of the time, and the two became close. She went to a stuffy all-girls middle school and an all-girls high school as well. It was here that her powers manifested.

So Casey was a big-time athlete at her high school. Her school had one of the best lacrosse teams in the country, and she was their best player. She was a midi who was famous for scoring long-distance goals and throwing checks that sent her opponents into tears. In addition to playing lacrosse, Casey’s lacrosse team was also famous for partying. She was at a particularly large party one day and through the course of the night got quite drunk. She was with her boyfriend, doing coupley stuff, when he ran out of the room and started talking to another girl on the phone rather loudly. Not drunk enough to find his words unintelligible, Casey beat the shit out of him. As he tried to drive away, though, he ended up running the drunk casey over with his car. He was going low speed, but even then, when a human gets hit by a car they tend to, you know, be injured. Casey got up and walked away with nothing but a forearm bruise.

Word spread and soon she was getting hate messages stuffed into her locker. She was kicked off of the lacrosse team (having a metahuman on the team made them look bad), lost her boyfriend (not that she wanted anything to do with him anymore), and in one case was almost stabbed on her way home from school. So, her family moved to Black Fall, where she completed high school. Then, though, there was the event at which Victor’s powers manifested, and after seeing his destructive potential, NEST advised the Calahan family to send their children to Academy 218 to learn how to use their powers to benefit society. Now Casey is here, ready to find something that she can do with her life now that she’s lost her beloved sports.

Power Information

Power Class:

Super System (Biological)

Power:

Advanced Collagen Casey’s powers stem from a change in the protein structure of her collagen. Collagen, for those who do not know, is the biological “glue” which holds tendons, ligaments, muscles, and skin together. It is the most common protein in the body. Casey’s collagen is about ten times stronger than average human collagen, and it is much more flexible than the collagen of an average human. This gives Casey a variety of superhuman abilities. Firstly, Casey is supernaturally flexible. Because her collagen is so strong-yet-stretchy, Casey can very easily attain extreme levels of flexibility, such as being able to effortlessly bend backwards and grab her ankles. All of her limbs are double-jointed as well, so she can bend in ways that humans don’t look like they should be able to bend.

Casey’s enhanced collagen also makes her skin super durable. While most skin is easily cut by sharp objects and is easily torn by bullets, Casey’s skin is much harder to damage. Her skin resists knives and deflects both arrows and low-caliber bullets (small stuff, like a .22 or a .9mm. The bullets will still hurt, but they won’t break her skin. Anything higher than that would still turn her into swiss cheese). This, combined with her more durable muscles, bones, tendons, and ligaments, makes Casey much more difficult to damage than your average human. To put this into perspective, Casey survived a deadly car crash with nothing but a cut on her abdomen and some bruises. Also, her hair is nigh-unbreakable, for what it’s worth.

Finally, Casey’s enhanced collagen gives her a strength and agility increase. Because her muscles contain her super-powered collagen, they are difficult to tear and can fire at speeds faster than that of an average human. This gives Casey incredible acrobatic skill. She is capable of jumping an entire body length into the air from a standing position and can run at speeds of about 40 mph. Her strength is quite impressive, with her capable of lifting four times her body weight.

Limits:

Owing to the nature of this power, there’s nothing to really put here.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks:

A few things here. Firstly, Casey still feels pain when she gets hit. If you shoot her, though it may or may not break her skin, she will still feel like she got shot and will likely be in a tremendous amount of pain. Also, while an impact on Casey’s skin may not break her skin and cause external bleeding, nothing is causing her to not bleed internally. Casey still bruises when she gets hit hard enough, and if she’s hit in the right spot (like, shot in the kidney), the internal bleeding could kill her in the same way that shooting through her skin would. Things with very low surface area, such as darts, can also penetrate Casey’s skin. Serrated blades, because they grip and tear skin as opposed to just cutting it, work better on her than non-serrated blades.

As far as Casey’s flexibility goes, while she uses her flexibility powers she becomes more prone to being damaged. This is because feats of incredibly flexibility stretch her empowered collagen to their absolute max, so hitting areas of high stress can break much more easily than areas of low stress. While in most places it’s near impossible to break one of Casey’s tendons while she’s resting, when she’s stretched to her max, she can be hurt about as easily as a normal human could.

Relationships

Family:

Dynamics:

Basically your character's relationship with other characters.
{Character Name} | {Impression (Good/Bad/Neutral} | {Relationship (Friend, Rival, Crush, etc)} | {Character Thoughts via in-character quote} |

Victor Calahan | Good | Sibling | “Victor is cool. We’ve always been close and stuff, but sometimes I find him to be too introverted for my taste. Like for God’s sake, stop playing League of Legends and go kick a soccer ball or something! Someone should really get him a girlfriend. Hope she likes it hot...” |

Other

• Anything else? You can put personality tidbits here.

Academy 218: Why

@Mr Allen J , Casey and Arianna. You forgot Casey and Arianna when you calculated the teams, I think.

Academy 218: Why

@Mr Allen J What is the starting date of 218?

Academy 218: Why

I find the gender ratio in this rp amusing. We have fifteen girls and six boys. Generally in these rps, that ratio is the other way around.

Academy 218: Why

@FernStone Oh, okay. Sorry about that. I was confused.

EDIT: Fixed the post. I'll look out for that in the future.

Academy 218: Why

I think this RP is getting off to a pretty good start, so far. I have high hopes for it in the near future. I *might* consider making a third character, but for right now I'll stick with what I've got. I don't want to overwork myself, and I have a habit of losing interest in an rp when I have too many characters.

Academy 218: Why

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Victor Calahan

@He Who Walks Behind @SirBeowulf @FernStone

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The kiddie pool remark actually made Victor laugh a little. He smiled and let go of the rail with his left arm. He touched his left forearm with his right hand, feeling the heat that it emanated. It was hotter than most humans could withstand without burning, but his powers allowed him a certain immunity to its heat. He looked down into its reddish glow and shrugged.

"You make a good point there," he said. "I doubt it's going to get much warmer this time of year. If I need to go near water, I can take the arm off, but if this spreads I'll be out of luck." A wind whipped off of the sea and brushed the right side of his face. If he focused quite hard, he could still feel the cold burn against his skin. He missed that sensation.

Then the strange metal cat walked up to Victor and began cuddling itself up to his leg. Rather taken aback by this, he looked down at the cat with confusion. Its owner walked up, another girl, though he wasn't quite as taken aback by her as he was Arianna. He bent down and petted the cat. It curled up against him and purred mechanically. He smiled at it. He always liked cats. A conversation ensued, and Victor realized that he had never introduced himself to Arianna.

"Oh, um, sorry about that," Victor said. "My name's Victor. It's nice to meet you, Arianna, Annie." He shook hands with Arianna. Then another person came over. He was becoming quite the popular person. Victor looked back down towards the metal cat. He wasn't very good with people, and he hated large crowds, especially when there were girls involved. With bouncing back and forth between conversations, worrying about drowning, and trying to keep eye contact with Arianna, he was beginning to get quite stressed out. He looked back towards the waves and his fear of water returned. Oh god... where is Casey?

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Casey Calahan

@Mr Allen J

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Casey was on the second of the ship's three decks, sitting in a comfy armchair and drinking a fruit smoothie with a little umbrella in it. She leaned her head back, staring at the ceiling of the lounge and trying to block out the roar of the teenaged crowd around her. She sighed, Casey liked being around people, especially with all the cute boys she'd seen around, but the noise in he lounge was absolutely unbearable. She felt it begin to get cold. A layer of frost began to spread across the rug towards her. She knew Alaska was cold, but not this cold. She looked up and saw that the frost was coming not from Alaska, but from a girl sitting in an armchair covered in ice. She was fast asleep, despite the noise, and as she snored the frost spread farther across the cabin. People began to look over at her with hostility, and one boy, a real piece of work, walked over to her and began to curse at her. Before the girl could react, another, a redhead, stepped between her and the boy and defended the ice girl. The boy walked away, fuming. Casey followed him with her eyes as he walked. Fuckin testosterone.

She finished her drink and then, placing it on a side table for someone else to deal with, got up to walk over to the redhead and the ice girl. A boy began to move towards her chair. She stared him right in the eyes with a look that said 'If you take my chair, I'll break your neck.' He stepped away and occupied himself with looking down at the drying rug. Smiling, Casey walked over to the two girls.

"Hey, that was pretty ballsy of you back there," she said to the redhead. "Sure you would've taken that little pussy out with one hit, though. The guys who act tough are always the weakest."

Academy 218: Why

<Snipped quote by Maxx>

As I said my description was pretty bad, suggesting I'd plan to make it better in the future haha.

Sometimes people have off days and make mistakes, but still want to get out a post. Didn't mean to cause confusion apologies again.

@FernStone

It's alright. Sorry for being so brash with you. I'm kinda frazzled as of present with some IRL stuff.

I'm posting now. This will be my last for today.

Academy 218: Why

In terms of my characters Rori has gone to talk to Victor, Annie and Arianna. Syn is talking to no one. My description was pretty bad, sorry xD

@FernStone

I had absolutely no idea. Please in the future make this clearer.