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Description
Name: Cassidy Shwartz. Sometimes Boy.
Age: 27 (Boy is 16, and also 3 months)
Gender: Female. Sometimes mentally male.
Species: Human
Languages: C, C++, Java, Python, HTML5... Oh. English and a little German from highschool.

APPEARANCE

Height: 5’4”
Weight: 165 (overweight)
Build: Cassidy has the shape of a German farmwife. Short, thick, and solid, but carries her weight in lush curves. Wide hipped and busty, but too fat to be a classic hourglass.

Skin: Pale caucasian. She is just now starting to get tanned, after living a life where she practically never saw the sun. The tops of her shoulders and breasts are getting freckles as a result of sun burning.

Hair: Cassidy has dark brown hair that, unbound, falls below her hips. She is wearing it in a single braid, wrapped around her head and secured with numerous bobby pins.

Eyes: Slightly overlarge dark brown eyes, rimmed in thick dark lashes.

Other traits: The most prominent feature of Cassidy’s face is her large Roman nose. She feels it is the main feature that will always keep her from ever being pretty. She puts little effort into the rest of her appearance as a result, never wearing makeup or plucking her thick dark brows.

Clothes: Cassidy is wearing a pair of plain black cotton panties, and thigh high black renaissance boots buckled above and below the knee. They are modern boots, though, with a thick rubber sole and a zipper inside the ankle. She is not wearing a bra, but her chest is bound immobile with strips of pale green fabric torn from her original nightgown.

PHYSICALITY

Demeanor: As Cassidy, she carries herself hesitantly, with rounded shoulders and habitual body consciousness, like she is trying to appear smaller and go unnoticed. She tends to look down at the floor unless she is talking directly to someone, and is more at home around computers than other people. She walks with her hips. As Boy, he carries himself with swaggering self-confidence, and no-nonsense practicality. He looks everyone directly in the eye, as though daring them to challenge the fact that he is in a woman’s body. He walks with his shoulders.

Speech patterns: Cassidy is relatively soft spoken, and very apologetic, unless she is in a field of her personal expertise. Then she will speak with confidence and assurance, and occasionally steamroll people with technical jargon. Boy prefers not to speak, but he will issue orders, and battle cries, and can occasionally be convinced to simply converse, though he usually leaves such inconsequentialities to Cassidy. His voice is still her voice, but he makes it lower, and speaks with a heavy German accent.

PERSONALITY

Overview: Cassidy has always been the ‘ugly, chubby girl,’ so she focuses on being smart and nice. While she herself chose to try to be a hero when life went south, the reality of what she has to do is such a strain on her psyche, that she would rather pretend that it is a game, a fantasy, and hide behind the “character” of Boy, a teenage Barbarian who fears nothing.

Passions: Cassidy truly loves computer programming, and the puzzle of of taking an objective and figuring out how to make it happen most efficiently. She also loves playing games. Table top RPGs, board games, video games, computer games. She has a habit of breaking console games by testing the limits of their design, and has hacked several of her computer games for the fun of it. About a year ago, one of her D&D partners got her into Live Action Role Playing, and while it was hard at first to run around like that required, she has a lot of fun with it.

Fears: Her biggest fears, at the moment, are not her old fears of never getting a boyfriend, or failing her code review. She fears falling prey to the zombies that roam her home city now, and becoming one of them, driven to harm the very people she cares for and would protect. She is Terrified of the prospect of having to watch another friend die because she is not strong enough to save both of them. And she is also afraid of losing herself completely to the personality she created for Boy, and of becoming so accustomed to killing Zombies that she loses her compassion for the people they once were.

Strengths: Due to several months of being on the run and fighting for her life, Cassidy has developed a bit of a muscular physique under the remaining layers of fat left from her days as a sedentary computer programer and general couch potato. She can run across uneven terrain, kick hard enough to break bones, and behead a person or zombie in a single swing. But more of her strength is in her lower body. These traits are the same for Cassidy and Boy, as it is the same body. Mentally, Cassidy is more understanding and sympathetic, able to understand and empathize with the troubles of others. Given a puzzle or a computer based problem, and enough time, she will solve it come hell or high water. Failure is not an option. Boy, on the other hand, is very pragmatic and realistic, and will do what is necessary to survive no matter what it takes. Or who stands in his way. He will stop at nothing to become physically stronger. As far as motivation, Cassidy wants to save everyone, while boy just wants to kill all the zombies.

Weaknesses: Cassidy is still overweight, and her stamina is not as good as it could be. After a certain amount of physical exertion, or whenever she stops, she will be short of breath for up to several minutes. Her arms are also not nearly as strong as her legs, and she still cannot even complete one pull-up, much to Boy’s frustration. Cassidy also hates hurting people or seeing them hurt. This is why even killing Zombies puts a great weight on her conscience, and she made up Boy as a ‘role playing character’ to hide behind, to make the situation less immediate and real. But the longer she spends hiding behind Boy, the more she loses sense of herself. In her own head, Boy has assumed the role of her inner critic, pointing out all of her hesitations and weaknesses with a brutality that will leave her crying, and when she has to fight him over the importance, of say, getting a group of children to safety over simply killing all of the many zombies of their parents in front of them, she will find herself dangerously immobilized while he fights to assert his will over hers. Part of her hates and fears Boy, because it is clear that he considers _her_ to be his greatest weakness and limitation.

Quirks: 1) Cassidy and Boy will talk to each other, verbally, sometimes. Same mouth, same face and body, different bearing, expression, words and accent. Usually when she does this, they are arguing, and they think they are alone. 2) Boy is very self-conscious of the fact that he is in a woman’s body. He is very (violently) opposed to being touched, especially by other men, and even more especially in a sexual sense. 3) Cassidy is easily distracted by lit screens of any kind, and can become almost hypnotized watching television, or reading code. To a lesser extent, she loves all shiny things, and is quite the magpie.

HISTORY

Dream: Picture a cross between Oblivion and Resident Evil. Cassidy’s dreams tend to be very lucidly objective, a mix of high fantasy, forests and castles, and modern day buildings and computers. No matter what the dream, there is always a computer there somewhere. There is also pretty much always zombies. There is a pretty good chance of people’s names showing up over their heads, or at their feet, and of numbers appearing in the air to indicate changes of state. Never trust the water, there are monsters. Always check the barrels, there is treasure. Stay away from windows in case zombies break through. If you look close enough, you might even see the pixels.

Homeworld: Cassidy lives in a large city in the American Midwest, in the 21st century. Pretty much, now. All earth languages are spoken across earth, and the state of politics and science are pretty much the same, with one major exception. A pharmaceuticals company in her town was working on bioengineering what they marketed as “an Immortality plague.” Basically a symbiotic suite of bacterium that is designed to work within the systems of the human body to repair cellular damage and prevent molecular degradation. In a live body, it works pretty well. The problem comes about when someone infected with the plague dies.

Family/Friends: Cassidy’s parents, Hans and Emily, and younger brother and sister, Hans and Feleisha, fortunately live on the East Coast, and hopefully far enough away from the outbreak that they are safe. Aside from that, she has several local gaming friends (Erik, Devin, Karl, Mark, Nick, and Susan) and a collection of Coworkers, the nicest of which has always been Elenore. She does not know who among them has survived yet, but she knows for a fact that Nick is dead, because he died to secure an escape for her. She has also met a young transvestite man named Sara who she likes and respects, though they have parted ways.

History: Cassidy is a computer programmer, geek, gamer, and LARPer. She uses games to escape into worlds where she can be pretty, or strong, or heroic, since she did not consider herself any of those things in real life, which was pretty routine. That was until three months ago, when she woke to find her roommate being eaten by said roommate’s dead boyfriend. Given the choice of hiding and hoping not to be likewise eaten, or trying to defend herself and hopefully stop the zombie (for what else could it be?) from killing anyone else, Cassidy pulled on her LARP boots, put up her hair, and grabbed her Claymore. In retrospect, she wishes she had thought to get more dressed than that. Her bathrobe is long missing, and her nightgown turned into binding strips to keep her bosom out of the way while running and fighting. She created Boy shortly afterward as a mental shield.

In her quest to find out what the hell happened to fill her town with Zombies, and if they are everywhere or not, she has teamed up with two policemen (dec.), a banker, a mother with two small children, and a ten year old boy. About a month ago, she ran into her roleplay friend, Nick, who, after a night of frantic life affirming sex, got himself killed to secure her escape from a particularly large zombie hord. Boy tells her it is her fault for letting herself get close to anyone when she should be focusing on fighting, and insists that if she was not so weak, she could have stayed to help him fight.

Most recently was her encounter with Sara, who has been observing the Zombies from a distance and never engaged them in combat. He had several theories about the nature of and behavior of the zombies from his observations, and Cassidy was able to share her own. The two then agreed to do more research in trying to find the source of the outbreak.

After an intense and adrenaline filled run for their lives, Cassidy did give Sara a kiss, but they did not do anything more, and he was gone in the morning, which Boy insists is for the best. She has been alone since then, gathering witness reports, and attempting to stay Cassidy as much as possible.

Sleeping: Cassidy fell asleep in the bathroom of a ground floor hotel room, after bolting the doors, shoving the bed on end up against the one large window to block it, and using the desk chair to wedge the bathroom door closed from the inside. She did scavenge at least the comforts of a pillow and blanket this time.

SKILLS

Primary Skills: Cassidy is a highly talented computer programer, skilled in both legacy code and cutting edge markup language. Boy is very good at surviving in less than modern conditions, getting into fights, and killing people.

Combat: Cassidy can fight regardless of the frame of mind, but would really rather avoid it unless the situation appears to be life or death. If she can talk her way out of a conflict, she will unless her opponent seems less than inclined toward logical thought. Boy, on the other hand, is a bully and a warmonger, and will choose fighting as the first and only means of conflict resolution, whether it is throwing a punch or verbally cutting someone down.

Weapons/Gear: Aside from her boots and panties, the only thing she (Boy) refuses to let go of, even in sleep, is the Claymore that has saved her life more times than can be counted at this point. It is pretty much as tall as she is, and is a rather sharp security blanket. It is also one of the focal points of Boy’s persona.

Unusual Abilities: While Cassidy is still a normal human, in spite of being somewhat crazy with a touch of multiple personality disorder, she is also infected with the Immortality Plague. This means that her body will recover from injury more quickly than a normal human's, and she will no longer age at a normal rate, or die of said old age. However, if she is violently killed, she will reanimate as a zombie, and seek after the person who was her last conscious thought before death.

The Immortality Plague is likely a moot point in Insomnium or the Dreams, but should she end up in anyone else's Real, or they in hers, there is a chance of zombie-ism being spread to that Real. The Immortality Plague is long past it's airborne stage, and can now only be spread via the body fluids of the infected. If an action might have a chance of giving you AIDs, it could also make you a zombie.

Description
Name: Cassidy Shwartz. Sometimes Boy.
Age: 27 (Boy is 16, and also 3 months)
Gender: Female. Sometimes mentally male.
Species: Human
Languages: C, C++, Java, Python, HTML5... Oh. English and a little German from highschool.

APPEARANCE

Height: 5’4”
Weight: 165 (overweight)
Build: Cassidy has the shape of a German farmwife. Short, thick, and solid, but carries her weight in lush curves. Wide hipped and busty, but too fat to be a classic hourglass.

Skin: Pale caucasian. She is just now starting to get tanned, after living a life where she practically never saw the sun. The tops of her shoulders and breasts are getting freckles as a result of sun burning.

Hair: Cassidy has dark brown hair that, unbound, falls below her hips. She is wearing it in a single braid, wrapped around her head and secured with numerous bobby pins.

Eyes: Slightly overlarge dark brown eyes, rimmed in thick dark lashes.

Other traits: The most prominent feature of Cassidy’s face is her large Roman nose. She feels it is the main feature that will always keep her from ever being pretty. She puts little effort into the rest of her appearance as a result, never wearing makeup or plucking her thick dark brows.

Clothes: Cassidy is wearing a pair of plain black cotton panties, and thigh high black renaissance boots buckled above and below the knee. They are modern boots, though, with a thick rubber sole and a zipper inside the ankle. She is not wearing a bra, but her chest is bound immobile with strips of pale green fabric torn from her original nightgown.

PHYSICALITY

Demeanor: As Cassidy, she carries herself hesitantly, with rounded shoulders and habitual body consciousness, like she is trying to appear smaller and go unnoticed. She tends to look down at the floor unless she is talking directly to someone, and is more at home around computers than other people. She walks with her hips. As Boy, he carries himself with swaggering self-confidence, and no-nonsense practicality. He looks everyone directly in the eye, as though daring them to challenge the fact that he is in a woman’s body. He walks with his shoulders.

Speech patterns: Cassidy is relatively soft spoken, and very apologetic, unless she is in a field of her personal expertise. Then she will speak with confidence and assurance, and occasionally steamroll people with technical jargon. Boy prefers not to speak, but he will issue orders, and battle cries, and can occasionally be convinced to simply converse, though he usually leaves such inconsequentialities to Cassidy. His voice is still her voice, but he makes it lower, and speaks with a heavy German accent.

PERSONALITY

Overview: Cassidy has always been the ‘ugly, chubby girl,’ so she focuses on being smart and nice. While she herself chose to try to be a hero when life went south, the reality of what she has to do is such a strain on her psyche, that she would rather pretend that it is a game, a fantasy, and hide behind the “character” of Boy, a teenage Barbarian who fears nothing.

Passions: Cassidy truly loves computer programming, and the puzzle of of taking an objective and figuring out how to make it happen most efficiently. She also loves playing games. Table top RPGs, board games, video games, computer games. She has a habit of breaking console games by testing the limits of their design, and has hacked several of her computer games for the fun of it. About a year ago, one of her D&D partners got her into Live Action Role Playing, and while it was hard at first to run around like that required, she has a lot of fun with it.

Fears: Her biggest fears, at the moment, are not her old fears of never getting a boyfriend, or failing her code review. She fears falling prey to the zombies that roam her home city now, and becoming one of them, driven to harm the very people she cares for and would protect. She is Terrified of the prospect of having to watch another friend die because she is not strong enough to save both of them. And she is also afraid of losing herself completely to the personality she created for Boy, and of becoming so accustomed to killing Zombies that she loses her compassion for the people they once were.

Strengths: Due to several months of being on the run and fighting for her life, Cassidy has developed a bit of a muscular physique under the remaining layers of fat left from her days as a sedentary computer programer and general couch potato. She can run across uneven terrain, kick hard enough to break bones, and behead a person or zombie in a single swing. But more of her strength is in her lower body. These traits are the same for Cassidy and Boy, as it is the same body. Mentally, Cassidy is more understanding and sympathetic, able to understand and empathize with the troubles of others. Given a puzzle or a computer based problem, and enough time, she will solve it come hell or high water. Failure is not an option. Boy, on the other hand, is very pragmatic and realistic, and will do what is necessary to survive no matter what it takes. Or who stands in his way. He will stop at nothing to become physically stronger. As far as motivation, Cassidy wants to save everyone, while boy just wants to kill all the zombies.

Weaknesses: Cassidy is still overweight, and her stamina is not as good as it could be. After a certain amount of physical exertion, or whenever she stops, she will be short of breath for up to several minutes. Her arms are also not nearly as strong as her legs, and she still cannot even complete one pull-up, much to Boy’s frustration. Cassidy also hates hurting people or seeing them hurt. This is why even killing Zombies puts a great weight on her conscience, and she made up Boy as a ‘role playing character’ to hide behind, to make the situation less immediate and real. But the longer she spends hiding behind Boy, the more she loses sense of herself. In her own head, Boy has assumed the role of her inner critic, pointing out all of her hesitations and weaknesses with a brutality that will leave her crying, and when she has to fight him over the importance, of say, getting a group of children to safety over simply killing all of the many zombies of their parents in front of them, she will find herself dangerously immobilized while he fights to assert his will over hers. Part of her hates and fears Boy, because it is clear that he considers _her_ to be his greatest weakness and limitation.

Quirks: 1) Cassidy and Boy will talk to each other, verbally, sometimes. Same mouth, same face and body, different bearing, expression, words and accent. Usually when she does this, they are arguing, and they think they are alone. 2) Boy is very self-conscious of the fact that he is in a woman’s body. He is very (violently) opposed to being touched, especially by other men, and even more especially in a sexual sense. 3) Cassidy is easily distracted by lit screens of any kind, and can become almost hypnotized watching television, or reading code. To a lesser extent, she loves all shiny things, and is quite the magpie.

HISTORY

Dream: Picture a cross between Oblivion and Resident Evil. Cassidy’s dreams tend to be very lucidly objective, a mix of high fantasy, forests and castles, and modern day buildings and computers. No matter what the dream, there is always a computer there somewhere. There is also pretty much always zombies. There is a pretty good chance of people’s names showing up over their heads, or at their feet, and of numbers appearing in the air to indicate changes of state. Never trust the water, there are monsters. Always check the barrels, there is treasure. Stay away from windows in case zombies break through. If you look close enough, you might even see the pixels.

Homeworld: Cassidy lives in a large city in the American Midwest, in the 21st century. Pretty much, now. All earth languages are spoken across earth, and the state of politics and science are pretty much the same, with one major exception. A pharmaceuticals company in her town was working on bioengineering what they marketed as “an Immortality plague.” Basically a symbiotic suite of bacterium that is designed to work within the systems of the human body to repair cellular damage and prevent molecular degradation. In a live body, it works pretty well. The problem comes about when someone infected with the plague dies.

Family/Friends: Cassidy’s parents, Hans and Emily, and younger brother and sister, Hans and Feleisha, fortunately live on the East Coast, and hopefully far enough away from the outbreak that they are safe. Aside from that, she has several local gaming friends (Erik, Devin, Karl, Mark, Nick, and Susan) and a collection of Coworkers, the nicest of which has always been Elenore. She does not know who among them has survived yet, but she knows for a fact that Nick is dead, because he died to secure an escape for her. She has also met a young transvestite man named Sara who she likes and respects, though they have parted ways.

History: Cassidy is a computer programmer, geek, gamer, and LARPer. She uses games to escape into worlds where she can be pretty, or strong, or heroic, since she did not consider herself any of those things in real life, which was pretty routine. That was until three months ago, when she woke to find her roommate being eaten by said roommate’s dead boyfriend. Given the choice of hiding and hoping not to be likewise eaten, or trying to defend herself and hopefully stop the zombie (for what else could it be?) from killing anyone else, Cassidy pulled on her LARP boots, put up her hair, and grabbed her Claymore. In retrospect, she wishes she had thought to get more dressed than that. Her bathrobe is long missing, and her nightgown turned into binding strips to keep her bosom out of the way while running and fighting. She created Boy shortly afterward as a mental shield.

In her quest to find out what the hell happened to fill her town with Zombies, and if they are everywhere or not, she has teamed up with two policemen (dec.), a banker, a mother with two small children, and a ten year old boy. About a month ago, she ran into her roleplay friend, Nick, who, after a night of frantic life affirming sex, got himself killed to secure her escape from a particularly large zombie hord. Boy tells her it is her fault for letting herself get close to anyone when she should be focusing on fighting, and insists that if she was not so weak, she could have stayed to help him fight.

Most recently was her encounter with Sara, who has been observing the Zombies from a distance and never engaged them in combat. He had several theories about the nature of and behavior of the zombies from his observations, and Cassidy was able to share her own. The two then agreed to do more research in trying to find the source of the outbreak.

After an intense and adrenaline filled run for their lives, Cassidy did give Sara a kiss, but they did not do anything more, and he was gone in the morning, which Boy insists is for the best. She has been alone since then, gathering witness reports, and attempting to stay Cassidy as much as possible.

Sleeping: Cassidy fell asleep in the bathroom of a ground floor hotel room, after bolting the doors, shoving the bed on end up against the one large window to block it, and using the desk chair to wedge the bathroom door closed from the inside. She did scavenge at least the comforts of a pillow and blanket this time.

SKILLS

Primary Skills: Cassidy is a highly talented computer programer, skilled in both legacy code and cutting edge markup language. Boy is very good at surviving in less than modern conditions, getting into fights, and killing people.

Combat: Cassidy can fight regardless of the frame of mind, but would really rather avoid it unless the situation appears to be life or death. If she can talk her way out of a conflict, she will unless her opponent seems less than inclined toward logical thought. Boy, on the other hand, is a bully and a warmonger, and will choose fighting as the first and only means of conflict resolution, whether it is throwing a punch or verbally cutting someone down.

Weapons/Gear: Aside from her boots and panties, the only thing she (Boy) refuses to let go of, even in sleep, is the Claymore that has saved her life more times than can be counted at this point. It is pretty much as tall as she is, and is a rather sharp security blanket. It is also one of the focal points of Boy’s persona.

Unusual Abilities: While Cassidy is still a normal human, in spite of being somewhat crazy with a touch of multiple personality disorder, she is also infected with the Immortality Plague. This means that her body will recover from injury more quickly than a normal human's, and she will no longer age at a normal rate, or die of said old age. However, if she is violently killed, she will reanimate as a zombie, and seek after the person who was her last conscious thought before death.

The Immortality Plague is likely a moot point in Insomnium or the Dreams, but should she end up in anyone else's Real, or they in hers, there is a chance of zombie-ism being spread to that Real. The Immortality Plague is long past it's airborne stage, and can now only be spread via the body fluids of the infected. If an action might have a chance of giving you AIDs, it could also make you a zombie.