Cassiopeia is my first Touchstarved oc. She is the cursed main character, with the Alchemist background. She hasn’t been fully developed yet, as I’m waiting on the release of the full game to learn more about the world and backgrounds.
Despite her life thus far, Cassiopeia has never fully lost her tendency to look on the positive side of things. It’s all she has, and she stubbornly clings to the belief that hope can be found in the bleakest of circumstances, if only to prevent herself from giving up entirely. This hope is what leads her to Eridia, seeking a solution to her curse, because she longs more than anything for a normal life.
Living as the mage’s apprentice has been a rather lonely existence for her, as she was kept away from most people. It was a precaution, really, to avoid any incidents with her curse. She can be a little shy and awkward around new people, mostly because she doesn’t have the best social skills, and she tends to instinctively keep quiet around crowds.
Due in part to her upbringing, she has two obsessions - the stars, and books. From the time she was little, stars were her one true love, and she’s spent more nights than she can count lying on her back and staring up at the sky. The stars have always brought her a special kind of comfort - they’re always there, even when she cannot see them, always in the same familiar patterns. Over the years, she learned their names, their constellations, their stories, every bit of knowledge she could find about the world above. When she feels particularly lost and alone, she can often be found looking up, seeking the comfort of the celestial bodies she has grown so fond of. They are her closest friends, and though they’ve never spoken a word to her, she has often poured out her heart to them when alone on a starry night.
She adores reading, and will devour any book you give her access to. Reading allows her to temporarily escape to another world, one where she isn’t cursed, one where she can touch and be touched without people descending into madness. If you asked her favorite genre, she would tell you it was fantasy, or perhaps historical fiction, from a time before Fogfall. In reality, however, her true favorite is romance. She longs for a connection with other people, to be loved despite her curse, despite being a freak of nature. She knows it is not possible in reality, not for her, but she cannot resist the allure of reading about people luckier than she is finding their true love and getting the happily ever after that she is forbidden.
She truly believed that the mage, her ‘mother,’ would help her find a cure to her curse, would find a way to help her, but alas… it was not to be. Once she discovered that the person who had been raising her, teaching her everything she knows, the one person she trusted above all others - had been using her as a test subject… Well, she was heartbroken, to put it simply. She quietly packed everything she possessed and struck out on her own, seeking help in the one place left that she could think to go - the Senobium.
Her love interest is Mhin. She was instantly drawn to them, and while her head doesn’t fully trust them yet, her heart would trust them with her life. She doesn’t quite understand her feelings, her desire to get closer to them, but she wants to help them both find a cure for their curses. Their loneliness strikes a chord within her heart, and she becomes determined to earn their trust, to show them that the world isn’t all as bad as they think. They’re very similar in some ways, yet opposites in others, so they complement one another quite well. She is the stubborn optimist where they are the equally stubborn pessimist, her aesthetic is dark where theirs is light. She sees the best in people when they only see the worst, yet both are equally terrified of getting too close to someone and getting hurt.
Cassiopeia - also known as Cass or Cassie by those close to her, a list which has recently become empty - is tall and thin when she arrives in Eridia, her pale skin rarely exposed to the sun and long black hair kept in a messy braid. Once she settles in properly, though, she begins to look much better, and less like the fleeing refugee she was - she becomes a much healthier weight once she can stop rationing her food, and wears clothes nicer than the rags she wore when she first showed up. Her wardrobe consists of a lot of dark blue, complementing her blue eyes, and she enjoys wearing anything with a starry aesthetic. She wears black gloves instead of bandages to cover up her hands, and wears a dark blue cloak, both for comfort and for ease of hiding when necessary.
She’s also grown much stronger during her time in Eridia, mostly because she begins to train for it. She never really had to worry about the Soulless before, living in her secluded tower like a princess from her fairy tales, but now she does, and she hates the helpless feeling they give her. She gets advice from Leander on how to strengthen her muscles, and begs Mhin to teach her to fight. She finally convinces them, both because they didn’t want to have to keep saving her, and because she said if they didn’t, she’d go and ask Ais instead. I could see her preferring a bow and arrow, taking Soulless down from afar with carefully aimed shots, though I’m not sure how practical that would be - chances are, she ends up with a dagger similar to Mhin’s, and keeps it carefully sheathed on her hip at all times.
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