Cassandra

Cassandra
Clan: Malkavian
Age: Ancilla
Sire: Scott Levin
Childer: None
Status: Acknowledged

Cassandra swings between being some of the most well-respected and pleasant company any Elysium gathering has to offer, and being a doleful, wild-eyed malcontent spewing mad prophecies of disaster at anyone who comes to close, not to mention a few other even more disturbing stages in between. Trim and pretty, a 1920s beauty whose aging stopped just before she could go over the hill, she is a delight and a thoughtful, well-spoken companion during her "good" nights, although when those occur is anyone's guess. Several of the other Kindred guess that her mood shifts stem from a dissociative identity disorder and that she may have more than one discrete personality, although of course no one is rude enough to actually ask her.

Mortal Life

Cassandra was always a seer, or so she firmly believed, and during the height of her popularity in the 1920 was a highly sought-after dinner companion, half because of her charming smile and feisty dance steps and half because of the half-joking fascination with which the upper crust viewed her proclamations of things to come. Surprisingly, her predictions in regards to the financial world came true with the crash of the stock market, and those few who had listened to her were more than convinced when they suddenly found themselves the only members of their social circles not to have been suddenly ruined.

Embrace

Discussion of Cassandra's apparent powers of foresight eventually filtered its way through the upper crust until one of Scott Levin's relatives happened to hear it and mention it to him at an infrequent visit to his sanatorium. Intrigued, he investigated her through various contacts and former friends that he arranged to stalk her, and eventually decided that her gifts must indeed be real (or if not, that she believed in them strongly enough for it to count).

Scott took a small vacation to New York in order to meet Cassandra, whom he charmed and filled with sympathy for his state before abruptly Embracing her as soon as everyone else was out of the room. Cassandra, terrified and beset by more visions than ever before, fled the scene, but soon after returned to find her new sire and make a new life with him in Washington, DC.

Visions of the Future

Around the time of unrest that eventually led to Prince Marissa's downfall and Marcus Vitel's subsequent rise to power, Cassandra began to suffer from terrible nightmares and visions, much stronger than ever before, about horrible monsters arriving to swallow Washington whole. She was unable to convince either Prince to listen to her warnings, and began to appear in public around other Kindred, shouting her fears more and more often regardless of other events unfolding around her.

Cassandra's visions appear to be completely random - sometimes she's right and sometimes she's wrong, although anyone who has ever asked her about her "failures" has been treated to a lofty, disdainful speech about the importance of appropriate interpretation. Most Kindred consider her predictions to be the ravings of a lunatic, although she has amassed a small following of younger neonates who believe in her pronouncements and attempt to act accordingly.

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