cursed_vision — Sun, 08 May 2011 21:29:10 GMT

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I miss our mother.

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It's creeping up out of the shadows.

cursed_vision — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:28:02 GMT

~~This has been going on for too long.~~

~~I'm worried~~ What if this is a permanent change?

cursed_vision — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:09:18 GMT

Greeks have always had such appeal for our generation. Mother must be displeased.

[Private]

Again, my siblings fight. I want at least one of us to be happy.

I will not side against Helenus. He should not need to know the pain of a twin leaving or betraying.

~~I couldn't take it again.~~

cursed_vision — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:45:06 GMT

Shattering and falling apart.

It's melting and I can't place things in time, only in space.

[Filter: Telemachus]

What happened?

cursed_vision — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:50:37 GMT

Someone comes. Not the evil of before but a new danger. Protects us from some, brings us others.

The old can rise again, need to destroy the possibility.

cursed_vision — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:48:16 GMT

[Filter: Telemachus]

Paris wants you and I to have lunch with him and my siblings. Are you ok with that? Do you know where we could go?

[Filter: siblings]

Paris would like us to have lunch together. With Telemachus.

[Text to Helenus]

cursed_vision — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:11:14 GMT

Pervert.

[Filter: Telemachus]

cursed_vision — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:15:40 GMT

~~Are..~~

~~I'm worried~~

Tele, are you alright?

I worry about you~~r happiness~~

[Filter: Apollo]

cursed_vision — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:17:04 GMT

I ~~Sorry~~

Apollo, forgive me, please for being rude to you when you were trying to help with Ajax,

I..he terrifies me.

The things in the shadows. They're back. Flitting and flowing, rarely coming to a halt.

cursed_vision — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:30:42 GMT

Forgiveness is hard, that is obvious. It took me years to be able to do that and still I find it hard to do in some cases.

Or maybe it's like Mother said. I'm pathetically clinging to the few family ties I have here in the hopes that I won't ever be alone.

Either way, I'm happy having forgiven others.

~~Speaking of happiness~~

Telemachus, can you come over later? I want you to try something.

cursed_vision — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 14:32:05 GMT

I just pulled one of the levers to see what would happen and I won.

A lot.

cursed_vision — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:41:37 GMT

Thank you for the trip to the Met, Telemachus. It was as fun as our last one, even if we did avoid the Greek wing.

Maybe we can educate them as to their errors next time~

[Filter: Hyacinthus]

cursed_vision — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:44:34 GMT

I don't know if you're going to be here all that much, but Medusa is temporarily staying with us.

cursed_vision — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:10:31 GMT

.the mundane;
» Name: Ellie
» Journal: lovetoujours
» Contact: aim: eternalgreyblood

.the myth;
» God(dess): Cassandra
» Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra ; http://www.pantheon.org/articles/c/cassandra.html
» Family: {mother & father} Priam and Hecuba; ~~{spouse}~~ Concubine of Agamemnon
» Played By: Amy Lee
» Human Alias: Cassie Troas
» Human Age: 30
» God of...: nothin’
» Flair: When she was younger, along with her twin brother, she was given the gift of prophecy. It is not something she is able to control, visions usually come to her when something of significance is about to happen or if something significant has happened in the past that is prevalent to an up coming event. When the vision does occur, she usually goes into a trance where she is completely oblivious to everything and everyone around her. Some times the visions are fleeting and they only last a few seconds with vague details, other times they can take up to several minutes and they are very in depth. The longer and more detailed visions tend to be very mentally taxing on her. The only difference between her flair and her brother’s is that mortals don’t believe her when she prophesizes.
» Flair Type: Continuous
» Fitting in: unemploy~~able~~ed due to her weaknesses
» Weakness: Cassandra is, above all else, crazy. The combined influences of her visions on her psyche and her constant fight to try to prove the truth have taken their toll on her. Her grip on reality became more and more strained as time passed and her visions grew increasingly violent. These visions caused her to fall into a trance which made her lose track of what was happening around her, and increased her confusion as to what was real and what was not. When in the grips of one of her visions, she babbles about seemingly unconnected things and this can carry over into her normal conversation. Cassandra’s ability to keep control of her sanity and focused on what is truly happening around her is failing slowly but surely, causing her moods to suddenly swing on occasion or for her to not say an entire thought-saying either the end or beginning of it with the rest of it only being thought.

Her fight to maintain her sanity and her failure to do so have made her bitter and frustrated. Cassandra can’t stand people not listening to her, which causes her to just close in on herself. It never occurred to her to fight her own fate, but there is always a part of her that feels the need to protect mortals from what could happen to them. That being said, the more that people don’t believe her prophesies, the more she just wants to keep them to herself and damn the people to their fates. Her trust in other people evaporates every time she is ignored and it’s reached the point where she only really cares about a select few. If others choose to ignore her warnings, they deserve what they get. After all, she did try and it’s not worth saving them if they chose not to listen.

» History: Cassandra was born along with her twin brother Helenus to Hecuba and Priam of Troy. The princess ended up becoming a priestess of Apollo and soon the god fell for her, giving her the gift of prophecy in order to win her over. She said yes to him but soon realized that she would be thrown away once Apollo got bored with her. Cassandra ended up going back on her word and turned him down, only to be cursed by Apollo into never being believed when she foretold the future. One of the many prophecies she did foretell concerned the fall of Troy if her youngest brother Paris was not killed at birth. During the Trojan War, two kings joined the battle out of love for Cassandra (Coroebus and Othronus), because she was considered to be one of the most beautiful women in the world at the time. She did not marry either of them, however.

When the Greeks were attacking the people within the city, she ran to the Temple of Athena, where she was raped by Ajax the Lesser. Shortly after her rape, she was taken by Agamemnon to return to his home with him as his concubine, something which left her greatly conflicted. Cassandra knew that she should hate the general, but could not bring herself to because of how he treated her and 'rescued' her from Ajax. At the end of the war, she had foretold the dangers of the Trojan Horse, along with the death of Agamemnon, which would quickly proceed her own death. None of these prophecies were believed, even after everything else she foretold coming true. Shortly before they landed in Mycenae, Cronus sent Cassandra to New York City.

» Personality: Cassandra is an incredibly strong woman. She has faced many challenges in her life, the biggest of which was attempting to keep her sanity after she was cursed by Apollo. The fact that she failed does not lesson the strength required to attempt such a feat. She can stand up to people no matter if they are gods, mortal kings, or peasants; they don’t faze her and she will stand up to them when she has to. Her strength isn’t brash and in your face, it’s quiet and sneaks up on the person trying to beat her down. Cassandra knows how to bend and accept what needs to be accepted in order to survive whatever she faces without breaking under the pressure. Just when people think they have her under their thumb, she will stand up to them and get herself out of the situation that a weaker person would be trapped in.

Her stubborn nature goes hand in hand with her strength. Cassandra is too stubborn to be weak and will not allow people to walk all over her when they do something she seriously objects to. She wants her freedom and won’t give it up for a simple dalliance where she will be thrown to the side after it is over. Case in point: when Apollo asked her to be his concubine, she refused due to her wish to remain free and not have to bow to someone who will just throw her away when he gets bored with her. The same goes for her prophesies-Cassandra will stubbornly continue telling them, even when no one believes her and despite her bitterness at not being believed. As an oracle, it is her job to tell mortals their fates, so she will continue to do it even when the world is against her.

Cassandra accepts the hand that fate deals her, while fighting what it does to others; if it’s in a vision of hers, then she has to let it happen to herself. When it is her fate to be hurt, killed, or otherwise harmed, she won’t fight it, though when mortals or gods try to force her into something she hasn’t seen, she rebel. Cassandra saw that going along with Agamemnon would lead to both of their deaths, but she went anyway, since she had nowhere else to go. The only thing Cassandra did to counteract it was to warn the king of his impending doom-her death amounted to being the ultimate end to her visions and so it didn’t matter that she would die. That isn’t to say Cassandra is suicidal or depressed; she didn’t want to die, she just knew it would happen and didn’t bother fighting her fate. The fates decreed it and thus, it had to be done. Her loyalty to her fate is unquestioning; it’s just the fate of others she fights. Cassandra views her prophesies about others as warnings-events that can be prevented as long as the right actions are taken. However, when she sees something about herself, she won’t fight it due to one simple reason. She is aware of her insanity and she absolutely hates it. If she is punished enough, if she dies, she can finally be free of the curse induced insanity.

Et vous, que feriez-vous si vous pouviez le futur

[Text to Helenus]

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