Cade Asherah

Delilah Mackridge (older stepsister)

Ansel Asherah (older brother)

Unnamed older twin brother (deceased)

Aurora Asherah (younger paternal half-sister; deceased)

Maggie Medina (best friend)

Dallas Tiersen

Killian Azrail (childhood best friend)

**Cadence "Cade" Asherah** is a 15-year-old mutated human who acts as the superhero/vigilante Discord, only to the knowledge of her best friends Aiden Burch and Maggie Medina, as well as her lifelong werewolf friend, Caleb Lycan. She is the protagonist of the Discord's series.

## Background

At her 14th birthday party on Saturday, November 25, 2034, Cadence was forced onstage by her stepsister, Lilah, in a surprise attempt to rid her of her stage fright while simultaneously showcasing her singing prowess. However, already feeling overwhelmed at the amount of people at the party, Cade froze, unable to move or speak. Thankfully, the attention was taken off of her when the radiated meteor shower began raining down of Fournecaster and neighboring towns.

Right when a radiated meteor crashed into the makeshift stage, there was microphone feedback. Cade went flying, microphone still in hand, as a screwed-together stack of amps with a chunk of the meteor landed on top of her, breaking 13 ribs, her sternum, two bones in her left arm, and six bones in her left hand. The amps, still emitting the sound of microphone feedback, electrocuted Cade. After it stopped, Cade cried out for someone to help, but nearly everyone was knocked unconscious.

Aiden, however, was still conscious and, for the most part, unharmed. He ran over to Cade and tried to lift the stack of amps off of her, but they were too heavy. Cade, who's very claustrophobic, started freaking out because she felt trapped. Aiden tried to calm her down to no avail, but Cade found her own way out. She screamed in terror, mistakenly using her newfound sonic manipulation for the first time, destroying the amps.

## Abilities

### Overall

**Preternatural Perception:** ?

**Enhanced Strength:** ?

**Enhanced Speed, Reflexes, and Agility:** ?

**Enhanced Stamina:** ?

**Enhanced Durability:** ?

**Supernatural Hearing:** ?

* **Lie Detection:** Since Cade's hearing is astoundingly superior to any other being, including other mutated humans, she's able to determine if someone's lying by listening to the sound of their heartbeat.

**Strategist:** ?

### Powers

**Sonic Manipulation:** After being hit with the sound amp and the radiated meteor, Cade developed sonic manipulation, which allows her to create, shape, and manipulate sound. At low frequencies, sound has the potential to be harmful or even fatal to living organisms by causing internal damage. She can also use the vibrations that sound creates to manipulate matter to a certain extent. It's extremely hard to counter sound-based powers, since sound can travel through several mediums.

* **Sonic Attacks:** The most basic ability of sonic manipulation is actually the ability to weaponize it. By altering the state of the sound waves she either creates or hears, Cade can make them damaging to external matter, even going so far as destroying a building with a simple scream.
* **Counter Vibrations:** Cade can create a vibrational frequency that perfectly counters another, therefore cancelling it out. However, she has to use her supernatural hearing for a significant amount of time in order to release the perfect counter vibration.
* **Sonic Healing:** By manipulating molecules and nerves via vibration, Cade can essentially give them a jump start, revitalizing them to the max and speeding up the healing process.
* **Echolocation:** By emitting sound waves and using her supernatural healing to listen carefully to the echoes, Cade can locate and identify the shape of objects in the room. And since the ability isn't sight-based, invisibility, camouflage, and other abilities that take advantage of sight aren't an effective block against it.

## Weaknesses

**Panic Disorder:** A short time after the death of her little sister, Cade developed a panic disorder. This causes her to have sudden bursts of intense terror when no plausible danger is present and feel as though she's losing control.

**Agoraphobia:** For as long as she can remember, Cade has been overwhelmingly terrified of social situations that could possibly cause embarrassment. She says that, around people she's known for a while or trusts, she doesn't feel like she's being suffocated. This causes her to stay mostly lowkey in her everyday life and hide her superhero identity very well, to the point where the existence of Discord is nothing more than a rumor traveling around Fournecaster.

**Claustrophobia:** Hand in hand with her agoraphobia, Cade has an unnatural phobia of enclosed spaces. She feels terror at the simple thought of being trapped. She begins to act irrationally when she feels trapped, as demonstrated when she was immobilized underneath the stack of amps that crushed her on her 14th birthday.

**Loud Noises:** When she hears sudden loud noises, Cade's supernatural hearing amplifies it to a harmful degree. To prevent this, she tries to be aware of whenever a loud noise might occur so that she can expect it.

## Etymology

**Cadence** is of English origin, meaning rhythm or flow.

**Asherah**, in ancient Semitic religion, is the mother goddess and queen consort of the Sumerian god Anu.

## Trivia

* Her favorite color is burgundy.
* She was friends with Killian Azrail before he and his twin sister moved to a new town after Killian had a breakdown in the middle of school.