O'NEILL, Cassia Jade

[Cassia Jade O'Neill]

CASSIA JADE O'NEILL

FULL NAME: Cassia Jade O'Neill.
NICKNAMES: CJ, Cass
AGE: Twenty Four
GENDER: female
SEXUALITY: Straight
STATUS: Single
GROUP: Student.
GRADE: Sophomore
MAJOR: History
JOB OCCUPATION: Three Kings Receptionist!

HAIR: Cass was born with a mop of blonde hair atop her head. But these days it’s anybody’s guess what colour she’ll have walking out her door. She likes to experiment with colour and styles.
EYES: Blue.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: Tons. From what, she doesn’t have a clue. Though there are a few she remembers well and thinks of them as battle scars and fond memories from her trails.
TATTOOS: The girl is covered. She has sugar skulls from Mexico, an Aztec design for Peru, specifically Machu Picchu. And quite a few more. She picked up a new tattoo in every country she visited as a reminder of the places she’s been and the things she’s seen. And she’ll keep adding to them until she’s gotten her fill of traveling.
PIERCINGS: There isn't a spot free on either of her ears, her naval and a small stud in her nose.
PLAY-BY: Maddie Hasson! <3

LIKES: sunflowers, strong coffee, a juicy steak, sculpting, knitted socks, kiwi fruit, dogs, homemade blankets, coca-cola, history, travelling, sunglasses, snow, sitting in front of a fire, hot chocolate, reading, cotton candy, smelly candles, fixing her own car, getting her hands dirty.
DISLIKES: unscented candles, too much perfume, being told she’s wrong when she’s right, tea, gardening, shopping, licorice, tons of makeup, spending hours in front of a mirror, board games, ignorance, 7Up, cats, bees, egomaniacs.
FEARS: Bees, being unable to travel, getting mugged
SECRETS: Cassia is quite scared she’d left her heart back in London but she’s too scared to make that call and she’s even more scared of getting that call because that meant he felt the same way and she doesn’t know what she’d do then.
PERSONALITY: Born and raised a free spirit, Cassia O'Neill didn't stray as far away from that as her hippie parents thought. She kept to an alternative lifestyle, even if she did love a good steak and moved to New York. Though those things hadn't turned her into the rebel child of her family. She had been colouring her hair since she was old enough to buy the hair colouring herself, and started collecting piercings when she was sixteen like most people collected art. She's a loyal person, standing up for anyone she considers a friend. Cass isn't all that fond of getting into fights but she's sarcastic and mouthy and learned how to throw a punch, just in case. She is quite the stubborn girl but not so difficult she won't ask for help when she needs it. She's not an idiot. When she was eighteen, Cassia packed her bags, tossed them into the back of her beat up little yellow beetle and basically ran away from home to see the world. That alone would have turned her into the rebel child of the family if she didn't already hold the title. And while everyone else collected little trinkets of their journeys, Cass collected tattoos. A daddy's girl, Cassia kept in touch with her dad while she was roaming the world, collecting experiences, photographs and friends. She didn't get her fill of travel but she did think it was time to do something else for a little bit and settled in New York to attend school to study History. She hadn't decided until she'd travelled through South America what she had wanted to study exactly. She's a fesity girl, obviously, jumping into the fray to help her friends out!

MOTHER: Eve O’Neill & 58.
FATHER: Jericho O’Neill & 59.
SIBLINGS: Ginger Ruby Yates & 39
Hawk Opal O’Neill & 36
Sparrow Jasper O’Neill & 33
Coriander Amethyst O’Neill-Murphy & 30.
OTHERS: Jeremy Dylan Yates, 39 & Ginger’s Husband
Madison, May-Belle and Findlay & Ginger’s kids
Destiny O’Neill, 35 & Hawk’s Wife
Caleigh and Wyatt & Hawk’s kids
Erika O’Neill, 33 & Sparrow’s wife
Mason, Sage, Thomas and Tessa, Sparrow’s kids
Paige Fiona O’Neill-Murphy, 31 & Cori’s wife.
Melody & Cori’s little girl
PETS: Howard & Pigmy Owl!
Dustin & Irish Wolfhound
HOMETOWN: Petersham, Massachusetts.
HISTORY:
Eve and Jericho started young, just nineteen and twenty when they were married. They had their first child a mere ten months and three days after they said "I do". It was a rush and very overwhelming but the high school sweethearts welcomed their daughter, Ginger into the world happily. Three years later, they welcomed a son, another three after that another son and yet another three after that, they welcomed their second daughter. They had always wanted a big family but thought at the time that four would be their version of big. Fast forward six years and the happy couple find themselves with quite the surprise, Eve was pregnant again. Naturally, they were elated with the news and quickly set about announcing the imminent arrival of their final child. After that, they thought five was a good, rounded number and didn't want to upset the balance any more than it was. The family had a good routine, well-spaced out births and their eldest was already fifteen. It was a task but they would make it work.

Cass O'Neill isn't anything like what her parents had hoped when she'd been born. She was a fighter, she questioned everything, even from a young age she had loved the hustle and bustle of city life over their quiet farm and worst of all, Cass loved herself a nice, juicy steak. Her parents loved her but she was definitely the black sheep of the family. And considering her sister was a lawyer that said something! Hers was a difficult birth after four rather easy ones and they thought Cass wouldn't make it. The umbilical cord had managed to wrap itself around her neck, causing serious problems. Until then, Eve and Jericho O'Neill had stayed in their home on the farm with a midwife taking care of the births but with Cass, born Cassia Jade O'Neill, something was wrong and the midwife called for an ambulance to take mother and child. This midwife, thankfully, didn't have any of the usual prejudices between doctors and midwives and went with the paramedics to explain what she knew. The doctors and nurses of the hospital took good care of Eve and made sure Cass was brought into the world. She was but she wasn't healthy or happy, in fact, the doctors weren't even sure if she'd make it a month. Eve had her due date right but with the umbilical cord around Cassia's neck, other issues arose and they needed to keep her in hospital to watch for any changes. Slowly Cass got better though and six weeks after her birth, her family was allowed to finally bring her home. They should have known from that bit of trouble at birth that she would be a Hell raiser. 

Like most children, Cassia loved being outside. But she hated the work. She didn't want to be out in the gardens or tending to the animals. She wanted to be running through the fields without a care in the world. But they made their own way with the farm but they allowed strangers into their home to share a hot meal and gave them a bed to sleep in and a roof to sleep under in exchange for some manual labour. For as long as Cass could remember that's how they'd lived. Cassia and Coriander would tend the garden while their brothers, Hawk and Sparrow did a lot of the heavy lifting when they didn't have a boarder in and their eldest sister Ginger would help their mother in the kitchen and with making the candles they sold in their stand at the end of their drive. That part Cass loved. She enjoyed interacting with the people who stopped by. They lived just on the limits of a small little dot on a local map, nothing fancy but out was home and Cass enjoyed it while she was there but the small town was also something she wanted to see in the rear-view mirror of the beat up little yellow bug her brothers and father had restored for her sixteenth birthday. When she was old enough, she took a job in a small shop in their little town to earn a bit of spending cash and to get away from her house a little more than just with school. She was the baby, but by the time she was fifteen, most of her siblings were back in their small town once again; aside from Cori who’d become a lawyer and lived in Boston to practice law. Oddly enough, Cassia was still considered the black sheep. She loved her red meat, meat of any kind really, she wanted out of their small town and she wasn’t a lesbian like her sister. Her parents gave high praise for having an “alternative” lifestyle; in any sense of the word. So they overlooked her profession because she had a girlfriend, worked for an entirely LGBTQ law firm, which their parents respected and supported and she was still a vegetarian.

Cassia on the other hand, had spent more time in town at friend’s houses when she’d been younger that the only time she was a vegetarian was when she was at her own home because she didn’t have a choice. She was a smart kid, knew what she was talking about with her homework and especially took a liking to her history class that first year in high school, so she signed up for every one that she could, wanting to learn more. Her parents wished she would follow something in the arts or something in nature. But she chose a different path and though her parents said they loved her, she wasn’t anything like the rest of her family. Her teenage years were much like anyone else’s in a small town; nothing happened and life moved on. She had a couple boyfriends but they didn’t last long at all and before she knew it, she was eighteen and ready to head out for school. She’d been the only one to head out of state to attend school. She was packed and set for her biggest adventure yet when her mother fell ill. The entire family rallied together and Cass took some time away from school to stay home and continue to help out. They had caught the breast cancer early enough however and after what felt like the longest battle but was in fact only a little over fourteen months, Eve won her fight against her deadly opponent.

A then nineteen year old Cass had seen for herself that it wasn’t smart to take things for granted. It made her feel like she needed to do all that she could while she was well enough to do it. So she packed her bags again and headed out onto the road, unsure of where she would find herself but knowing she needed to have this adventure. She took her little beaten up yellow Volkswagen beetle and hit the streets with nothing more than the clothes she’d packed and the camera in her purse. Whenever she needed money, she sold sculptures she’d carve from pieces of wood she’d found, the only thing about art and what her parents taught her that she did actually enjoy. Cassia went all over North and South America, wherever she could take her car, she went and took thousands of pictures, but it only took her a couple years. It wasn’t enough so she made her way back home, only spending enough money for petrol and food. She left her car with her family and hopped on the first plane out of the country with a free seat and didn’t look back. She spent the next couple of year, travelling the world, never staying in one spot for more than a week or two, even if she loved it. But she did make a list of all the places she adored so much she didn’t want to leave so she could return.

At twenty three, Cassia felt the need to get back on track and once again returned to Petersham, Massachusetts and her family. But she wouldn’t stay long. As much as her playing gypsy had made her parents proud, she wanted to explore another kind of world and set off once again for New York and school. She still had money saved so she got a hotel room on the cheap, since school had yet to start and took the time to look for an apartment, or someone willing to rent her a room. Eventually her searching paid off and Cassia found a student apartment building that had a small one bedroom available. She signed the lease that day and moved her meager belongings in shortly afterwards. She hadn’t told anyone but her sculptures had netted her a small fortune so the young historian went off and picked up all that she would need for her time in New York. She would be there four years but after that it was a mystery. Now at twenty four, Cass is soaring through her sophomore year and loving all the trouble she’s getting into in the Big Apple.

YOUR ALIAS: Cali!
RULE WORDS: I’ve decided to keep them as my pets.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: In a bottle on the beach.
SAMPLE:

How dare you ask a sample of me! No. I refuse.

[Cali]