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''This page is about the [[:Category: Phase 1|Phase 1]] incarnation of the character. For other uses, see [[Theresa Cassidy (disambiguation)]].''
  
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| codename = Siryn
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| teams  = [[X-Men - Phase 1|X-Men]], [[Red X]]
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| birthdate = August 8, 1988
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[[Image:Terry.jpg |right|180px]]
 
 
Terry is a recent graduate of [[Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters]] and is an [[X-Men]].  She is married to [[Bobby Drake]].  Terry is currently enrolled at Pace University for a degree in Criminal Justice and plans to some day work for Interpol.
 
  
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Terry is a graduate of [[Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters - Phase 1|Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters]] and an [[X-Men - Phase 1|X-Men]] who until recently has been on extended leave from both the team and the country.  After graduating from [http://www.pace.edu/ Pace University] with a degree in Criminal Justice, she returned to County Mayo to care for [[Cassidy Keep]] with her husband, [[Bobby Drake - Phase 1 | Bobby Drake]] and to pursue a career with Interpol. Bobby's return to the X-Men and the distance it entailed has put a strain on their relationship, and she took an assignment seconding her to the FBI to bring her back to New York to see where things stood. Shortly after she returned, she and Bobby decided to separate while he moved to the West Coast Annex.
  
 
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==Details==
 
==Details==
  
'''Character Journal''': [http://x-siryn.livejournal.com/profile x_siryn]
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'''Aliases''': Siryn (X-Men codename)
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'''First Appearance''': [https://x-magik.dreamwidth.org/13025.html?thread=5857#cmt5857 May 12, 2003]
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'''Place of Birth''': Cassidy Keep, County Mayo, Ireland
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'''Citizenship''': Republic of Ireland
  
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'''Relatives''': [[Sean Cassidy - Phase 1|Sean Cassidy]] (father); [[Tom Cassidy - Phase 1| "Black" Tom Cassidy - Phase 1|Tom Cassidy]] (uncle); Maeve Cassidy neé Rourke (mother, deceased); [[Bobby Drake - Phase 1 | Bobby Drake]] (husband, separated)
  
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'''Education''': 2006 - Graduated Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters; 2009 – Graduated Pace University with a degree in Criminal Justice
  
'''Real Name''': Theresa Rourke Cassidy
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'''Relationship Status''': Married, but currently separated - [[Bobby Drake - Phase 1 | Bobby Drake]]
  
'''Codename''': Siryn
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'''Occupation''': INTERPOL Dublin, International Liaison Section (ILE)
  
'''Aliases''': Soundwave (X-Men Trainee name)
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'''Team Affiliation''': X-Men - on leave of absence
  
'''First Appearance''': [[http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/1512.html May 14, 2003]]
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==Biography==
  
'''Date of Birth''': August 6, 1988
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===Childhood===
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An INTERPOL consultant, [[Sean Cassidy - Phase 1|Sean Cassidy]] was out of the country on assignment at the time that an explosion (attributed to the Troubles) at an area pub killed his wife and their child. Or so he was told by investigators who assumed the child to be amid the wreckage. In truth, Terry had been rescued and secreted away by her uncle, [[Tom Cassidy - Phase 1|Tom Cassidy]], who had loved Maeve and was jealous she had chosen Sean over him. 
  
'''Place of Birth''': Cassidy Keep, County Mayo, Ireland
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"Black" Tom Cassidy was a professional criminal, given to con jobs and robbery. Tom raised Terry like his own daughter, poisoning her against her father with tales of abandonment and neglect while she grew up in a life spent on the move from job to job across Ireland. He taught her skills like picking locks and pockets, cracking safes, and how to manipulate and read people. From a young age, he found Terry a very good accessory, then accomplice in his schemes and cons, mostly on unsuspecting tourists. In all things, Terry was an apt pupil and asset. Tom’s reputation grew and attracted the attention of Ireland’s organized crime, in who's employee he masterminded more elaborate cons against larger targets and got involved in money laundering schemes.
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When Terry was 10, she manifested while being used as a lookout for trouble while Tom met with one of his “associates.” It was not a good meeting. One of Tom’s schemes had recently backfired, attracting attention from the police, and he and Terry had spent a couple weeks hiding at various safehouses. During this meeting, things started to get rough. When a gun was pulled on Tom, Terry shouted, and the back wall caved in while everyone in the path of her scream hit the floor in stunned pain. A frightened Terry managed to gather Tom up and get them both out of the area just ahead of the police responding to the disturbance.
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Tom and Terry went into deeper hiding, but Terry’s awakening powers made things even more difficult. Though he could see the advantages of her skills as a weapon, Tom was hard-pressed to teach her how to control it, and she spent several months all but mute. Four months after her manifestation, Tom was picked up trying to pull off a job when desperation made him sloppy. When it was evident he could not beat the rap and that Terry would disappear into the fosterage system, Tom made Interpol contact Sean.
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A very (VERY) stunned Sean returned to Ireland immediately. Over her protests, he took custody of his very (VERY) unhappy and rebellious daughter, returning with her to County Mayo and trying to settle in [[Cassidy Keep]]. Terry stole, lied, and ran away weekly, always to be drug back to the Keep and placed under even more stringent restrictions than before. The girl who had been used to living life outside the strictures of the law found the new constraints stifling, and made even more odious by the man placing them. Sean was at a loss as to how to deal with her, and did not help matters by constantly bad-mouthing Tom in an attempt to reason with her. He wanted to love this new found daughter, in whom he saw so much of his wife, but she was having none of it.
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Angry, hurt, confused, and feeling abandoned not just by Sean who should have known about her somehow, but also by Tom, Terry lashed out however she could. Her still precarious control made life doubly uncomfortable when every screaming match meant replacing windows at the least and walls at the worst. After about five months of this hell hole and nearing the end of his leave from Interpol, Sean, frustrated and unable to cope with his unruly daughter, contacted Charles Xavier and made arrangements for Terry to attend the school there. She was 11.
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===Life at Xavier's===
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[[Image: Xm siryn.jpeg|right]]
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Rebellious and undisciplined when she arrived, as well as deeply mistrustful of adults, Terry established herself as quite the hellion before the relentless acceptance and routine of the school began to crack her shell. She established close bonds with her peers, particularly her roommates, [[Kitty Pryde - Phase 1 | Kitty Pryde]] and [[Jubilation Lee]]. [[Bobby Drake - Phase 1 | Bobby Drake]] served as an older brother figure to the whole group. She struggled with filling in the gaps in her education and to living in a house full of people -- noisy people who grated on her sensitive hearing. She more or less let her vocal training fall by the wayside after learning how not to blow people away every time she spoke.
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By May of 2003, Terry was well established at the mansion. When [[X2|Stryker attacked]], Terry screamed at the soldier who broke into her room but lacked the training to do anything effective. She was shot with a tranquilizer dart but rescued by [[Piotr Rasputin - Phase 1|Piotr's]] timely appearance. She and other rescued students were taken to a local hotel, and Terry ended up with [[Sam Guthrie - Phase 1|Sam's]] green John Deere shirt.
  
'''Citizenship''': Republic of Ireland
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The incident made Terry very paranoid about her voice control and she began lessons with [[Alison Blaire - Phase 1 | Alison Blaire]] in order to gain better vocal control. She also started seeing Bobby Drake in her senior year.
  
'''Relatives''': [[Sean Cassidy]] (father), [[Tom Cassidy| "Black" Tom Cassidy]] (uncle), Maeve Cassidy neé Rourke (mother--deceased)
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Though she was technically made a trainee after defeating [[X-Men Mission: The Perfect Nanny| Nanny and Orphan Maker]], Terry officially joined the X-Men team post-graduation in 2006. The summer turned out to be a tumultuous one. Terry assisted in both the [[The Rictor Effect|clean up following the tsunami in San Diego]] and the [[Search and Rescue|search for Scott]] shortly after. She also began working for tips as a singer at a jazz club in the City.
  
'''Education''': Graduate of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in 2006, currently in her first year at Pace University for a degree in Criminal Justice
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===Marriage and University ===
  
'''Relationship Status''': Married - Robert Drake
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The relationship between Bobby and Terry was almost as tumultous as her temper, very nearly ending after a pregnancy scare and awkward proposal and then after Bobby’s seduction by [[Jean Grey - Phase 1 | Jean Grey-Summer’s]] alter ego, [[Not So Plain Jane|Jane]] came to light. In the aftermath of that revelation, Terry went home. Her uncle had recently been released, and she felt obligated to see him, to come to terms with her previous life. Bobby followed her there, and upon their return, many were shocked to find that the pair had reconciled, but the surprises were just beginning.
  
'''Occupation''': College Student
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In August 2007, Terry and Bobby went to Las Vegas for their one year anniversary. While there, they dared each other into a 'fake' wedding ceremony which somehow ended up with them actually married. Rather than annulling it though, they decided to make it real, if secret. They told only a few people, but did move into a suite together. Eventually, of course, the secret came out. Strangely, it was Sean’s amusement at the stunt that led to tentative overtures at reconciliation between them.
  
'''Team Affiliation''': X-Men--Active Member
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Shortly thereafter, the effects of the  [[Voices Carry | Infectia virus]] temporarily stole Terry's voice and hearing, ending her brief stint as a jazz singer and reaffirming her commitment to the team. She began flight lessons and more intensive strategy and leadership training with Scott.
  
==Biography==
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The Drake-Cassidys spent Christmas at Cassidy Keep, where Sean gifted Terry with the bulk of her inheritance--including the Keep itself--and asked a favor of his daughter and her husband. Because Sean had a job offer from his former employer, he wanted Terry and Bobby to take over the day to day running of the estate. The two deciding that Bobby would quit his jobs with [[Elpis]] and the school, leave the [[X-Men - Phase 1|X-Men]], and take over administration at the Keep. Terry, who was enrolled at Pace University, would split her time between the two countries.
  
===Childhood===
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Their timeline was a bit derailed by the events involving the terrorist group [[Kaiten | The Preservers]], but in April 2008, Bobby officially moved to Ireland with Terry to follow in May when school let out for the summer. On their second anniversary, Terry and Bobby got (re-)married in a Catholic ceremony at Cassidy Keep. As per usual standards, the lead up to the wedding was anything but smoothly done, but it was done nonetheless. Terry returned to the US and the mansion in [[September 2008]] to continue school, maintaining her relationship through phonecalls and brief visits. Theresa still wears the ring Bobby bought her for the joke in Las Vegas as her wedding ring, along with a claddagh ring from the second ceremony.
  
When Terry's mother was killed in an explosion, investigators of the explosion presumed her to have died as well and informed Terry's father, Sean Cassidy.  Because of his work for Interpol, Sean was out of the country at the time of his wife's death. In truth, Terry was adopted by her uncle (actually second cousin) who was jealous that Maeve had chosen Sean over him.  "Black" Tom Cassidy was a professional criminal, given to con jobs and robbery and was a fierce supporter of the IRA.  Tom raised Terry like his own daughter, poisoning her against her father.  He spoiled her as he could, sending her to excellent schools, giving her harp lessons and teaching her to pick locks and pockets, crack safes, win in a bar brawl and run short-cons on unsuspecting tourists. In all things, Terry was an apt pupil.
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In [[May 2009]], Terry completed her degree and took a leave of absence from the X-Men to move back to Cassidy Keep in order to pursue her desired career in INTERPOL with her father's help, and to give married life in the same country a try. It did not last long, as in late 2009, Bobby returned to the X-Men.
  
When Terry was 10, Tom was picked up trying to pull off a job.  When it was evident he could not beat the rap, Tom made Interpol contact Sean who was stunned to learn that he had a daughter.  Sean returned to Ireland immediately and settled with Terry in [[Cassidy Keep]].  Unfortunately, Terry was extremely unhappy with the whole situation.  Having always been told only negative things about Sean, Terry refused to even consider the idea that she belonged with her real father.  Terry's early manifestation (during a bar brawl a few months prior to Tom's arrest) made life doubly uncomfortable when every screaming match meant replacing windows at the least and walls at the worst.  Frustrated and unable to cope with his unruly daughter, Sean contacted Charles Xavier and made arrangements for Terry to attend the school there.  She was 11.
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Things have been understandably rocky between the pair, with confessions of near-infidelity on Bobby’s side (and consideration of the same on Terry’s) with the latest leaving Terry angry and uncommunicative with her husband for almost a year.
  
===Life at Xavier's===
 
  
===Post High School===
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===INTERPOL===
  
Though she was technically made a trainee after defeating [[X-Men Mission: The Perfect Nanny| Nanny and Orphan Maker]], Terry officially joined the team post-graduation.  Jamie suggested the codename Soundwave. The summer turned out to be a tumultuous one.  Terry assisted in both the clean up following the tsunami in San Diego and the search for Scott shortly after.
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Terry’s work with Interpol has been almost as rocky as her marriage. Rather than the investigative work and adrenaline-soaked interaction that she was used to with the X-Men, her father’s nepotism only gained her an administrative position. Her work consisted of liaising between police agencies and providing communications and database assistance, requiring her to travel across Europe and to America on occasion. The big picture work of Interpol was good for helping Terry develop tactical and strategic thinking, but rarely let her get hands on so she could feel as if she were making a concrete difference.
  
In August, Terry and Bobby went to Las Vegas for their one year anniversary.  While there, they decided on the spur of the moment to have a 'fake' wedding ceremony which on even more impulse they chose to make a real wedding. Upon returning to the mansion, they told Clarice--who was stunned but accepting, Angelo--who was merely stunned, Scott--who was stunned and disapproving and Sean--who was...amused.  Ororo found out from Scott (she disapproved) and Terry later told Marie (who vehemently disapproved).  Following all this disapproval (and Sean), they made the decision to keep the marriage a secret from then on though they did move into a suite together.  This lasted a couple of months before Marius--remembering a chance overhead remark from the [[Vitiation | last time]] he had Terry's powers--called them on the wedding whereupon they admitted to the elopement.
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And then there were her co-workers. Terry’s quick tongue and personality ruffled feathers here and there, especially among those who thought she had used her father’s influence to get her position (which she had, to be fair). And while her mutant status was not generally known, it was known enough to block her advancement. Recently, a trusted co-worker and almost mentor has let it be known to Terry her prospects of ever advancing from inside the organization look bleak.
  
Shortly thereafter, the effects of the [[Voices Carry | Infectia virus]] stole Terry's voice and hearing, ending her brief stint as a jazz singer and reaffirming her commitment to the team.  She began flight lessons and more intensive strategy and leadership training with Scott.  She and Clarice officially got their blacks, and full team status, in February 007 without any fanfare--though their first mission was conducted still in their greys.
 
  
The Drake-Cassidys spent Christmas at Cassidy Keep, where Sean gifted Terry with the bulk of her inheritance--including the Keep itself--and asked a favor of his daughter and her husband.  Because Sean had a job offer from his former employer, he wanted Terry and Bobby to take over the day to day running of the estate. The two discussed it for a couple months, deciding that Bobby would quit his jobs with Elpis and the school, leave the X-Men and take over administration at the KeepTerry, who still had school to consider, would split her time between the two countries.
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===Return to New York===
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Disillusioned with her job and lonely, Terry requested reassignment, jumping on the chance to work a case that brought her back to New York and seconded her to the FBI. The reunion with her husband was difficult and awkward for both, and they both agreed to a separation when Bobby was reassigned to the West Coast AnnexAnd while greeing to it and wanting it are two different things, they subsequently formalised their divorce.
  
Their timeline was a bit derailed by the events involving the terrorist group [[Kaiten | The Preservers]], but in April 2007, Bobby officially moved to Ireland with Terry to follow in May when school let out for the summer.
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Following the events of [[Genosha Arc|Genosha]], Terry was uncharacteristically quiet. Then in [[November 2012]], she announced that Interpol had decided to take her back and she returned to Europe.
  
 
==Physical Characteristics==
 
==Physical Characteristics==
  
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'''Height''': 5'5"
  
'''Height''': 5'4"
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'''Weight''': 120 lbs
  
'''Weight''': 120 lbs (appears to weigh about 95 lbs)
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'''Eyes''': Green
  
'''Eyes''': Blue.
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'''Hair''': Red, wavey, long.
  
'''Hair''': Red, curly, long.
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'''Other Features''': Terry speaks with a faint Irish accent that gets stronger when she's emotional or has spent a good deal of time in Ireland. Or around her father.
  
'''Other Features''': Terry speaks with a very faint Irish accent that gets stronger when she's emotional.
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==Powers==
  
==Powers==
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Siryn can manipulate her vocal chords beyond human limits, effectively mastering sound vibrations that allow her to shatter solid objects (reliable, high frequency) or cause resonate damage to large structures (unreliable, low frequency). In between these two extremes are less powerful sound wave frequencies that can cause humans to experience nausea or vertigo and stun them into unconsciousness.
  
Terry can cause her vocal cords to vibrate over a wide range of sonic frequencies and produce a volume of sound ranging up to at least 140 decibels. Terry has thus the ability to shatter solid objects with a sonic scream. By focusing her sonic vibrations while screaming into an intense beam, Terry creates what she calls her “sonic lance”. This is a force blast which can shatter any known solid substance except Adamantium and Vibranium. Terry can use her “sonic lance” at a lower intensity to stun people into unconsciousness without doing them injury. She also has demonstrated ability to change someone’s balance, by affecting their equilibrium using her sonic scream.
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Terry can cause her vocal cords to vibrate over a wide range of sonic frequencies and produce a volume of sound ranging up to at least 140 decibels. By focusing her sonic vibrations while screaming into an intense beam, Terry creates what she calls her “sonic lance”. This is a force which can shatter any known solid substance except [[adamantium]] and [[vibranium]].
  
Her vocal cords are tremendously strong, so that she can produce sonic effects through screaming constantly for hours at a time without noticeably tiring or injuring her vocal apparatus. Terry’s vocal cords and the interiors of her throat and mouth are also superhumanly tough, so that the intense pressures and constrictions that she produces do not cause her any injury. Additionally, her bones are extremely dense to handle the vibrations of her screams.
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Terry’s bones are extremely dense to handle the vibrations of her screams. Her vocal cords and the interiors of her throat and mouth are tremendously strong, so that she can produce sonic effects through screaming constantly (with breaks for, you know, breathing!) for up to an hour without damaging her vocal apparatus, depending on how much force she pushes through her voice. She has the breathing control of a professional opera singer.
  
Terry's hearing is enhanced far beyond any other person in the mansion. Her range of hearing as well as sensitivity were measured by Forge and Alison off all charting mechanisms.  Extremely loud noises do not damage her ears.
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Terry's hearing is extremely sensitive. While she has learned how to “muffle” it for day to day living, and while extremely loud noises do not damage her hearing, loud noises are painful, and she can be overwhelmed by too much eternal (to herself) audio stimulus. She is immune to her father's powers and he to hers.
  
Unlike her father, Terry is capable of splitting her voice, singing in harmony to herself and even speaking at the same time as she sings. She is immune to her father's powers and he to hers.
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She can use her voice as a sonar device to map out her surroundings. As a side affect of her vocal control, she can also use her voice to create a hypnotic-like state in others (effect variable) wherein they are susceptible to suggestions, like mythical Sirens. Terry's experimentation with her powers as her control progresses had led her to develop a sort of flight capability. Well, it’s really more like bouncing with soundwaves. Not very dignified.
  
 
==Equipment==
 
==Equipment==
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==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
  
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* Crushes on and flirts with everyone.  Previous crushes include but are not limited to: Alison, Sam, Jean, Bobby (that one turned out well) and most of her roommates.
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* Has never met a music style she doesn't like.
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* Speaks fluent Irish. Also speaks tourist-level romance languages such as French, Spanish, and Italian.
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* (Vegas) Wedding ring is actually the promise ring given to her by Bobby the morning after graduation. She wears a "proper" (Claddagh) wedding ring as well on her right index finger, even after they separated.
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* Despite occasionally referring to herself as Terry Drake-Cassidy or even Terry Drake, she has not legally changed her last name.
  
* Has never met a music style she doesn't like.
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==External Links==
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===Phase 1 Comms===
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[https://xp-communication.dreamwidth.org/tag/z+p1:+c:+.retired:+terry+cassidy xp_communications posts]
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[https://xp-journal.dreamwidth.org/tag/z+p1:+c:+.retired:+terry+cassidy xp_journal posts]
  
* Speaks fluent Irish.
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[https://xp-logs.dreamwidth.org/tag/z+p1:+c:+.retired:+terry+cassidy xp_logs posts]
  
* Wedding ring is actually the promise ring given to her by Bobby the morning after graduation.
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[https://x-students.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+terry+cassidy x_students posts]
  
* Snoops. Over and above just eavesdropping, Terry is an inveterate sneak and stalker who makes it her business to know everything that's going on in the mansion.  She rarely shares this information though she has been known to pass along the whereabouts of various persons to Haller.
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[https://x-kids.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+terry+cassidy x_kids posts]
  
* Despite occasionally referring to herself as Terry Drake-Cassidy or even Terry Drake, she has not legally changed her last name.
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[https://x-team.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+siryn x_team posts]
  
 
==Plots==
 
==Plots==
 
===2004===
 
===2004===
[[Red X Mission: Hurricane Charley]]
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*[[Red X Mission: Hurricane Charley]]
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*[[Repodemon]]
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*[[Remy's Eleven]]
  
[[Repodemon]]
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===2005===
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*[[Traitor]]
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*[[In Giving Of Ourselves]]
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*[[Mutants and Molotovs]]
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*[[Emerald Isle]]
  
[[Remy's Eleven]]
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===2006===
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*[[Not So Plain Jane]]
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*[[X-Men Mission: The Perfect Nanny]]
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*[[Broken Stone]]
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*[[The Rictor Effect]] (as part of [[Red X]])
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*[[Search and Rescue]]
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*[[Vitiation]]
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*[[Voices Carry]]
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*[[Living Pele]] (as part of [[Red X]])
  
===2005===
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===2007===
[[Traitor]]
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*[[X-Men Mission: Leverage]]
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*[[Red X Mission: Whiteout]]
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*[[Size Does Matter]]
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*[[Kaiten]]
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*[[This Savage Land]]
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*[[Remix]]
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*[[Ahab (plot)]]
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*[[Thirteen Days]]
  
[[In Giving Of Ourselves]]
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===2008===
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*[[The Shadow King (plot)]]
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*[[Cornered]]
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*[[Red X Mission: Reconstruction]]
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*[[Shakespeare Syndrome]]
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*[[X-Men Mission: Nicobar Reef]]
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*[[X-Men Mission: Keep The Faith]]
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*[[Red X Mission: Rising Waters]]
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*[[Xbalanque]]
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*[[First Do No Harm]]
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*[[Day Zero]]
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*[[New York Minute]]
  
[[Mutants and Molotovs]]
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===2009===
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*[[Bio-Hazard Girl]]
  
[[Emerald Isle]]
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===2011===
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*[[X-Men Mission: X-Mas in Milwaukee]]
  
===2006===
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===2012===
[[Not So Plain Jane]]
 
  
[[X-Men Mission: The Perfect Nanny]]
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*[[I Do...NOT!]]
  
[[The Rictor Effect]] (as part of [[Red X]])
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*[[London to Ladysmith via Pretoria]]
  
[[Search and Rescue]]
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*[[Times They Are A-Changin']]
  
[[Vitiation]]
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*[[Operation: A Roving Commission]]
  
[[Voices Carry]]  
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*[[X-Men Mission: Amid These Storms]]
  
[[Living Pele]] (as part of [[Red X]])
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*[[The End of the Beginning]]
  
===2007===
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*[[In The Balance]]
[[X-Men Mission: Leverage]]
 
  
[[Red X Mission: Whiteout]]
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*[[Onwards to Victory]]
  
[[Kaiten]]
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*[[The Dawn of Liberation]]
  
[[This Savage Land]]
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*[[X-Men Mission: Joyful Noixe]]
  
 
== Meta ==
 
== Meta ==
  
'''Player''': Sil
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'''Player''':  
 
 
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'''Player Icon Base''': [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0690125/ Scarlett Pomers]
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'''Player Icon Base''': [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0279545/ Isla Fisher]
  
 
'''Meta Trivia'''
 
'''Meta Trivia'''
  
* Terry was originally played by another player and was adopted in June, 2004
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* Terry was originally played by another player and was adopted and played from June 2004 - 2009. She was picked up again in [[October 2011]] by [[Stephanie]], who left in [[November 2012]] due to an attack of Life. In [[September 2018]] a Phase 2 version was applied for by [[Cai]].
  
 
* The song Terry recorded for her father for Christmas is Isle of Inisfree and was based on the version by [http://www.amazon.com/Celtic-Woman/dp/B0007GAEGC/ref=pd_bbs_3/104-2882222-7637515?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1175616740&sr=8-3 Orla Fallon]
 
* The song Terry recorded for her father for Christmas is Isle of Inisfree and was based on the version by [http://www.amazon.com/Celtic-Woman/dp/B0007GAEGC/ref=pd_bbs_3/104-2882222-7637515?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1175616740&sr=8-3 Orla Fallon]
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Latest revision as of 20:44, 28 June 2023

This page is about the Phase 1 incarnation of the character. For other uses, see Theresa Cassidy (disambiguation).

PHASE 1
Terry Cassidy
Siryn Ad.jpg
Portrayed by Isla Fisher
Codename: Siryn
Affiliations: X-Men, Red X
Birthdate: August 8, 1988
Journal: Makes You Want To
Player:


Terry is a graduate of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and an X-Men who until recently has been on extended leave from both the team and the country. After graduating from Pace University with a degree in Criminal Justice, she returned to County Mayo to care for Cassidy Keep with her husband, Bobby Drake and to pursue a career with Interpol. Bobby's return to the X-Men and the distance it entailed has put a strain on their relationship, and she took an assignment seconding her to the FBI to bring her back to New York to see where things stood. Shortly after she returned, she and Bobby decided to separate while he moved to the West Coast Annex.


Details

Aliases: Siryn (X-Men codename)

First Appearance: May 12, 2003

Place of Birth: Cassidy Keep, County Mayo, Ireland

Citizenship: Republic of Ireland

Relatives: Sean Cassidy (father); "Black" Tom Cassidy - Phase 1|Tom Cassidy (uncle); Maeve Cassidy neé Rourke (mother, deceased); Bobby Drake (husband, separated)

Education: 2006 - Graduated Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters; 2009 – Graduated Pace University with a degree in Criminal Justice

Relationship Status: Married, but currently separated - Bobby Drake

Occupation: INTERPOL Dublin, International Liaison Section (ILE)

Team Affiliation: X-Men - on leave of absence

Biography

Childhood

An INTERPOL consultant, Sean Cassidy was out of the country on assignment at the time that an explosion (attributed to the Troubles) at an area pub killed his wife and their child. Or so he was told by investigators who assumed the child to be amid the wreckage. In truth, Terry had been rescued and secreted away by her uncle, Tom Cassidy, who had loved Maeve and was jealous she had chosen Sean over him.

"Black" Tom Cassidy was a professional criminal, given to con jobs and robbery. Tom raised Terry like his own daughter, poisoning her against her father with tales of abandonment and neglect while she grew up in a life spent on the move from job to job across Ireland. He taught her skills like picking locks and pockets, cracking safes, and how to manipulate and read people. From a young age, he found Terry a very good accessory, then accomplice in his schemes and cons, mostly on unsuspecting tourists. In all things, Terry was an apt pupil and asset. Tom’s reputation grew and attracted the attention of Ireland’s organized crime, in who's employee he masterminded more elaborate cons against larger targets and got involved in money laundering schemes.

When Terry was 10, she manifested while being used as a lookout for trouble while Tom met with one of his “associates.” It was not a good meeting. One of Tom’s schemes had recently backfired, attracting attention from the police, and he and Terry had spent a couple weeks hiding at various safehouses. During this meeting, things started to get rough. When a gun was pulled on Tom, Terry shouted, and the back wall caved in while everyone in the path of her scream hit the floor in stunned pain. A frightened Terry managed to gather Tom up and get them both out of the area just ahead of the police responding to the disturbance.

Tom and Terry went into deeper hiding, but Terry’s awakening powers made things even more difficult. Though he could see the advantages of her skills as a weapon, Tom was hard-pressed to teach her how to control it, and she spent several months all but mute. Four months after her manifestation, Tom was picked up trying to pull off a job when desperation made him sloppy. When it was evident he could not beat the rap and that Terry would disappear into the fosterage system, Tom made Interpol contact Sean.

A very (VERY) stunned Sean returned to Ireland immediately. Over her protests, he took custody of his very (VERY) unhappy and rebellious daughter, returning with her to County Mayo and trying to settle in Cassidy Keep. Terry stole, lied, and ran away weekly, always to be drug back to the Keep and placed under even more stringent restrictions than before. The girl who had been used to living life outside the strictures of the law found the new constraints stifling, and made even more odious by the man placing them. Sean was at a loss as to how to deal with her, and did not help matters by constantly bad-mouthing Tom in an attempt to reason with her. He wanted to love this new found daughter, in whom he saw so much of his wife, but she was having none of it.

Angry, hurt, confused, and feeling abandoned not just by Sean who should have known about her somehow, but also by Tom, Terry lashed out however she could. Her still precarious control made life doubly uncomfortable when every screaming match meant replacing windows at the least and walls at the worst. After about five months of this hell hole and nearing the end of his leave from Interpol, Sean, frustrated and unable to cope with his unruly daughter, contacted Charles Xavier and made arrangements for Terry to attend the school there. She was 11.


Life at Xavier's

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Rebellious and undisciplined when she arrived, as well as deeply mistrustful of adults, Terry established herself as quite the hellion before the relentless acceptance and routine of the school began to crack her shell. She established close bonds with her peers, particularly her roommates, Kitty Pryde and Jubilation Lee. Bobby Drake served as an older brother figure to the whole group. She struggled with filling in the gaps in her education and to living in a house full of people -- noisy people who grated on her sensitive hearing. She more or less let her vocal training fall by the wayside after learning how not to blow people away every time she spoke.

By May of 2003, Terry was well established at the mansion. When Stryker attacked, Terry screamed at the soldier who broke into her room but lacked the training to do anything effective. She was shot with a tranquilizer dart but rescued by Piotr's timely appearance. She and other rescued students were taken to a local hotel, and Terry ended up with Sam's green John Deere shirt.

The incident made Terry very paranoid about her voice control and she began lessons with Alison Blaire in order to gain better vocal control. She also started seeing Bobby Drake in her senior year.

Though she was technically made a trainee after defeating Nanny and Orphan Maker, Terry officially joined the X-Men team post-graduation in 2006. The summer turned out to be a tumultuous one. Terry assisted in both the clean up following the tsunami in San Diego and the search for Scott shortly after. She also began working for tips as a singer at a jazz club in the City.

Marriage and University

The relationship between Bobby and Terry was almost as tumultous as her temper, very nearly ending after a pregnancy scare and awkward proposal and then after Bobby’s seduction by Jean Grey-Summer’s alter ego, Jane came to light. In the aftermath of that revelation, Terry went home. Her uncle had recently been released, and she felt obligated to see him, to come to terms with her previous life. Bobby followed her there, and upon their return, many were shocked to find that the pair had reconciled, but the surprises were just beginning.

In August 2007, Terry and Bobby went to Las Vegas for their one year anniversary. While there, they dared each other into a 'fake' wedding ceremony which somehow ended up with them actually married. Rather than annulling it though, they decided to make it real, if secret. They told only a few people, but did move into a suite together. Eventually, of course, the secret came out. Strangely, it was Sean’s amusement at the stunt that led to tentative overtures at reconciliation between them.

Shortly thereafter, the effects of the Infectia virus temporarily stole Terry's voice and hearing, ending her brief stint as a jazz singer and reaffirming her commitment to the team. She began flight lessons and more intensive strategy and leadership training with Scott.

The Drake-Cassidys spent Christmas at Cassidy Keep, where Sean gifted Terry with the bulk of her inheritance--including the Keep itself--and asked a favor of his daughter and her husband. Because Sean had a job offer from his former employer, he wanted Terry and Bobby to take over the day to day running of the estate. The two deciding that Bobby would quit his jobs with Elpis and the school, leave the X-Men, and take over administration at the Keep. Terry, who was enrolled at Pace University, would split her time between the two countries.

Their timeline was a bit derailed by the events involving the terrorist group The Preservers, but in April 2008, Bobby officially moved to Ireland with Terry to follow in May when school let out for the summer. On their second anniversary, Terry and Bobby got (re-)married in a Catholic ceremony at Cassidy Keep. As per usual standards, the lead up to the wedding was anything but smoothly done, but it was done nonetheless. Terry returned to the US and the mansion in September 2008 to continue school, maintaining her relationship through phonecalls and brief visits. Theresa still wears the ring Bobby bought her for the joke in Las Vegas as her wedding ring, along with a claddagh ring from the second ceremony.

In May 2009, Terry completed her degree and took a leave of absence from the X-Men to move back to Cassidy Keep in order to pursue her desired career in INTERPOL with her father's help, and to give married life in the same country a try. It did not last long, as in late 2009, Bobby returned to the X-Men.

Things have been understandably rocky between the pair, with confessions of near-infidelity on Bobby’s side (and consideration of the same on Terry’s) with the latest leaving Terry angry and uncommunicative with her husband for almost a year.


INTERPOL

Terry’s work with Interpol has been almost as rocky as her marriage. Rather than the investigative work and adrenaline-soaked interaction that she was used to with the X-Men, her father’s nepotism only gained her an administrative position. Her work consisted of liaising between police agencies and providing communications and database assistance, requiring her to travel across Europe and to America on occasion. The big picture work of Interpol was good for helping Terry develop tactical and strategic thinking, but rarely let her get hands on so she could feel as if she were making a concrete difference.

And then there were her co-workers. Terry’s quick tongue and personality ruffled feathers here and there, especially among those who thought she had used her father’s influence to get her position (which she had, to be fair). And while her mutant status was not generally known, it was known enough to block her advancement. Recently, a trusted co-worker and almost mentor has let it be known to Terry her prospects of ever advancing from inside the organization look bleak.


Return to New York

Disillusioned with her job and lonely, Terry requested reassignment, jumping on the chance to work a case that brought her back to New York and seconded her to the FBI. The reunion with her husband was difficult and awkward for both, and they both agreed to a separation when Bobby was reassigned to the West Coast Annex. And while greeing to it and wanting it are two different things, they subsequently formalised their divorce.

Following the events of Genosha, Terry was uncharacteristically quiet. Then in November 2012, she announced that Interpol had decided to take her back and she returned to Europe.

Physical Characteristics

Height: 5'5"

Weight: 120 lbs

Eyes: Green

Hair: Red, wavey, long.

Other Features: Terry speaks with a faint Irish accent that gets stronger when she's emotional or has spent a good deal of time in Ireland. Or around her father.

Powers

Siryn can manipulate her vocal chords beyond human limits, effectively mastering sound vibrations that allow her to shatter solid objects (reliable, high frequency) or cause resonate damage to large structures (unreliable, low frequency). In between these two extremes are less powerful sound wave frequencies that can cause humans to experience nausea or vertigo and stun them into unconsciousness.

Terry can cause her vocal cords to vibrate over a wide range of sonic frequencies and produce a volume of sound ranging up to at least 140 decibels. By focusing her sonic vibrations while screaming into an intense beam, Terry creates what she calls her “sonic lance”. This is a force which can shatter any known solid substance except adamantium and vibranium.

Terry’s bones are extremely dense to handle the vibrations of her screams. Her vocal cords and the interiors of her throat and mouth are tremendously strong, so that she can produce sonic effects through screaming constantly (with breaks for, you know, breathing!) for up to an hour without damaging her vocal apparatus, depending on how much force she pushes through her voice. She has the breathing control of a professional opera singer.

Terry's hearing is extremely sensitive. While she has learned how to “muffle” it for day to day living, and while extremely loud noises do not damage her hearing, loud noises are painful, and she can be overwhelmed by too much eternal (to herself) audio stimulus. She is immune to her father's powers and he to hers.

She can use her voice as a sonar device to map out her surroundings. As a side affect of her vocal control, she can also use her voice to create a hypnotic-like state in others (effect variable) wherein they are susceptible to suggestions, like mythical Sirens. Terry's experimentation with her powers as her control progresses had led her to develop a sort of flight capability. Well, it’s really more like bouncing with soundwaves. Not very dignified.

Equipment

Terry has no equipment as such but does own a full size harp and an acoustic guitar named Patience. For Christmas 06 and as an "I'm Sorry I Gave You a Communicable and Possibly Deadly Disease" gift, Marius gave Terry an electric guitar that she named Charity.

Trivia

  • Crushes on and flirts with everyone. Previous crushes include but are not limited to: Alison, Sam, Jean, Bobby (that one turned out well) and most of her roommates.
  • Has never met a music style she doesn't like.
  • Speaks fluent Irish. Also speaks tourist-level romance languages such as French, Spanish, and Italian.
  • (Vegas) Wedding ring is actually the promise ring given to her by Bobby the morning after graduation. She wears a "proper" (Claddagh) wedding ring as well on her right index finger, even after they separated.
  • Despite occasionally referring to herself as Terry Drake-Cassidy or even Terry Drake, she has not legally changed her last name.

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Meta Trivia

  • Terry was originally played by another player and was adopted and played from June 2004 - 2009. She was picked up again in October 2011 by Stephanie, who left in November 2012 due to an attack of Life. In September 2018 a Phase 2 version was applied for by Cai.
  • The song Terry recorded for her father for Christmas is Isle of Inisfree and was based on the version by Orla Fallon