Thread: Onyx Landing Character Thread

Character Name Cassandra Elinor Turner Young Aliases Cassie, Cassie Turner, Kuruk. Gender Female. An adopted male among the Apache. Profession Bounty hunter, prospector, gunslinger, thief, prostitute when desperate Apparent age Mid-twenties Appearance Cassie is tall, standing 5 11 in her stocking feet, and well-built from a lifetime of hard work living on the frontier. She wears her blonde hair long, sometimes braided to keep it out of her way, and has striking green eyes. Generally she wears masculine clothing, funding them better United to her rough and tumble lifestyle. Personality Cassies father called her a spitfire and a firecracker, and her husband called her a bitch and Satans whore. Shes got a playful sense of humor, and a stubborn streak a mile wide and a quick temper to back it up. Recent history Cassie is, technically, the first wife of the Mormon Apostle John Willard Young a son of the Mormon Prophet Brigham Young, although she almost never talks about it. She was married to him when she was 16 and he was 19, quite against her will, and when she refused to consummate the marriage her husband raped her. The first three times she took refuge in her faith, believing it was the Lords will that she fulfill her marital duties. The fourth time, she cracked Johns skull with a cast iron skillet after he was done. While he lay concussed and bleeding she took a set of his clothes, a pistol and a shotgun and all the cash she could find, and rode out of Orem on his best horse. Since then shes roamed the Arizona Territories, Texas, and Mexico while making a living as best she can. Shes recently arrived in Onyx Landing after a run-in with a couple of Danites, sent to Abilene by Brigham Young to drag his recalcitrant daughter-in-law back. After killing them both, she needs an out of the way place to lay low. Notable relationships John Willard Young, her extremely estranged husband. Shes made enemies of a few bandit gangs in the area, based on her habit of robbing them, and shes got some good friends among the Apache and Jumano. Strengths, talents, and points of pride Tough, string-willed, a crack shot with a pistol and rifle, has a mean right hook, and extremely proud of her hair. Weaknesses, detriments, and points of improvement Quick temper, rash, stubborn, a bit of a mean drunk, occasional nightmares. Cassie was born in northern Omaha in December of 1847, the third child of Mormon refugees from Nauvoo, and she and her family were part of the second company to enter the Great Basin in April 1847. She grew up believing that Brigham Young was s holy prophet of God and in the truth of the Bible and the Book of Mormon, despite her attraction to the fairer sex as well as the masculine sex, and looked forward to being sealed to a husband in an eternal family. She just didnt like John Young - she had her heart set on Elias Pratt and on Kettie Smith, the other girl hed been courting both of them had decided hed make a fine husband, and that there would be distinct benefits to being sister-wives. John was a twerp, but the marriage was arranged by her parents and by the prophet. It... didnt work out. She fled the Utah Territories with her faith in tatters, unable to accept that a loving God would call a damned rapist to be one of His Apostles. Or that His Prophet couldnt see the things his son had done, or that he wasnt inspired to stop it. Shes abandoned her childhood faith, slowly fining it replaced by a Universalist creed flavored by some Apache practices. The Apache might be savages, but they treated her with more respect than her damned husband ever did. Well, they treated her with respect after she beat three braves bloody with her bare hands, after they tried to abduct what they took for a helpless white woman out on her own. Amused by her feat and intrigued by her masculine dress, she was adopted by a mother whose son had recently been killed by whites and given his name - Kuruk Bear. Last edited Oct 28, 2018