Jeremiah Cassidy

From Seven Percent

Contents 1 Basics 2 Biography 2.1 History 3 Evolved Human Abilities 4 Relationships 4.1 Family 4.2 Friends 4.3 Enemies 5 Trivia 6 In-Game Events

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this heartbreak's never ending. it's like it never happened.
a fall from grace is close, why not speed it up?

Basics

• Name: Jeremiah Cassidy
• Nickname(s): Jer, Jerry, Butch, Mama Cass (very, very few get away with it)
• Alias(es): N/A
• Hometown: Thunderbolt, Georgia
• Current Residence: Washington D.C. / Abroad
• Occupation: former FBI special agent (initially BAU before being reassigned to CIRG), currently a member of an elite team assembled by Nathan Petrelli to handle evolved humans
• Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
• Height: 6'2"
• Weight: 195lbs
• Hair Color: dark blond
• Eye Color: green

Biography

History

Born just outside of Savannah in Thunderbolt, Georgia to a pair of high school sweethearts, Jeremiah Cassidy didn't exactly come into the world with a silver spoon wedged into his mouth. His father, Michael, preached at the Baptist Church in town and his mother, Katherine, worked at the elementary school and taught art. The pair married right out of high school, with Jeremiah and his identical twin brother joining the family just over a year after they left their alma mater.

Jeremiah and his brother were the oldest, but they weren't the last. It seemed almost immediately after they were brought home from the hospital, Katherine was pregnant again. A girl this time. And three more after that. It hadn't take too long for the small family to morph into one of eight, and it definitely put a dent in finances. You didn't make much as a school teacher, and you didn't make much more as a Baptist preacher, so making ends meet required help from both sets of grandparents for awhile, until Katherine and Michael could settle into life with six children. Even once the finances were settled, Jeremiah and his family weren't exactly well-off. They just weren't ever left needing anything. Wanting, however, was an entirely different matter. Jeremiah spent the vast majority of his childhood wanting what he didn't have. A pool, a go kart, a horse, a new bike. When he did get something new, it had to be shared by the rest of his siblings and, therefore, only lasted a month or so before it was either broken or the novelty was gone.

It was growing up just not-poor enough to not be poor, but still poor enough to never get what he wanted, that put Jeremiah into the mindset he carries today. The mindset isn't a complicated one; it's simply: Be Better. One of six and, as the oldest, Jeremiah didn't get much attention. He and his twin were, at best, not much more than glorified watch dogs for their collection of sisters. Having twins required double the effort and, naturally, one was going to be favored over the other out of sheer inability to have attention two places at once. And with their sister joining the family so soon afterward, Jeremiah was sort of shrugged off and the trend just continued with each new sibling. Jeremiah was required to help take care of his other siblings and, while they were coddled, he was expected to "be a big boy" and help out. His attention-seeking personality is almost a direct result of that part of his raising.

Jeremiah, for the marginalized part he played in his family, loved his father dearly. His dad, for good or bad, was much more emotionally distant than his mother, and he had never been one to wear his emotions on his sleeve. For Jeremiah, that general apathy was something he actually enjoyed, as his father extended the same level of apathy to all of his children, whereas Jeremiah's mother was prone to coddling her other children excessively and she made no effort to hide the fact that she favored her youngest daughter the most while largely ignoring her only two sons. Jeremiah's father, while he wasn't cold, was aloof and he handed out affection sparsely and he did it, more or less, equally; which left Jeremiah to favor his father out of the pair of his parents, because at least his father treated him like he did the rest of the children. With the favoritism, came the misled, childhood idolatry and Jeremiah practically worshiped his father when he was younger; that idolatry only fading as he got older. He always harbored a misappropriated affection for his father, and still does even after his death, despite knowing better.

Throughout junior high and high school, Jeremiah was popular with his peers (he was a daredevil and had an attitude with authority; with his pretty-boy looks, it was hard not to love him) and he was a nuisance to his teachers. While he and his twin had been inseparable growing up, once they began to hit junior high and high school, their contrasting personalities and approaches to things began to separate them, even if Jeremiah still tried his very hardest to include his brother as much as possible in anything he managed to do. He played baseball, starting with little league when he was old enough and throughout his entire school career. He was a pitcher and was actually a pretty decent one at that. He could have graduated early, being surprisingly smart for how little he truly cared, and he could have even managed to be in the top ten of his class had Jeremiah actually saw fit to apply himself to that sort of thing. However, he had a girlfriend, a good position on the baseball team, and popularity. While Jeremiah wasn't fond of Thunderbolt, he was content with his current set up and wasn't really itching to leave that easy road behind.

But despite the fact that Jeremiah had plans to move out and far, far away, he didn't get very far from Thunderbolt after graduation. He was offered a baseball scholarship to the University of Georgia, among other universities, and because his girlfriend happened to also end up accepted to UGA, that was where Jeremiah chose to attend. He hadn't ever put any thought into what he wanted to do outside of high school so, after getting accepted into UGA, Jeremiah decided to declare his major undecided and just take the easy classes until he could figure out what he liked best. Despite the fact he and his girlfriend both technically lived separately (as not only was his father the preacher, but her father was the head of the choir and living in sin would have just been a devastating scandal), she practically shared Jeremiah's place with him, leaving her own largely abandoned unless her relatives were visiting. Having dated from their sophomore year of high school, Jeremiah and his girlfriend were going on their fifth year of dating when they both started their sophomore year of college and it was then that their interests finally split paths. She wanted to get married, while the thought of marriage actually made Jeremiah kind of sick to his stomach. By the time their second year of college was ending, Jeremiah and his girlfriend had gone through a nasty, lengthy break up that left Jeremiah more than ready to leave Georgia behind for good. Dating a girl from the same town and the same church, while it had its benefits in the beginning, clearly was a bad idea when the whole church took her side (because there must have been something wrong with Jeremiah when he didn't want to marry the wonderful girl he'd been with for the past five years).

So he transferred from UGA to CUNY, in New York. While he applied to a handful of universities in NYC, Jeremiah decided he would attend CUNY and get a degree in criminal justice. He really liked the X-Files, so he figured being an FBI agent could actually be really fun. While the real thing clearly wasn't going to be anything like what he saw on television, it was a direction, at least, which was more than he'd had before. Jeremiah got his own place and he graduated from John Jay college at CUNY a year early (he took classes during the summer and maxed out his hours to complete the program as quickly as possible). Immediately after graduating, Jeremiah transfered to Quantico in Virginia to attend the FBI training academy. He completed the program early and even went into their Behavioral Science Unit, where he met and was paired up with his first partner. Jeremiah's stellar track record was enough to help him easily get both his partner and himself transferred to NYC so that he could be back with his friends. But after only two years of working with his first partner, things didn't seem to work out and Jeremiah headed back to Quantico for a brief period of time for some additional training. When he returned back to NYC, he returned with a new partner.

While Jeremiah and his siblings and childhood friends had spent their fair share of time playing "X-Men" in secret (despite their father's insistence that sort of thing was of the Devil), he had always been smart enough to realize that it wasn't real. At least, he had thought they weren't real. And even if he had known, Jeremiah never would have actually considered that he could have been a "mutant". But that all changed quickly and violently. During a raid that both he and his partner were assigned to, Jeremiah had gone around back to cover the exit with a couple of SWAT members. When gunfire erupted inside, Jeremiah immediately moved in (worrying about his partner, he didn't bother waiting for confirmation from the front before moving his team in). He was met with a small handful of armed men who had been attempting to make their escape out the back. Faced with the threat of receiving a bullet between the eyes at near point-blank range, Jeremiah was standing five feet from the man one second and, the next, he was 10 feet away, flat on his back, and the back of the building was falling apart. The burns sustained from the explosion healed themselves immediately, and Jeremiah was without a scratch, despite the fact the energy burst took out the man who had before him (and caused a power outage on the entire block). While Jeremiah's team, the suspects, and even some of his partner's team had sustained minor (and some major) injuries, Jeremiah had come out unscathed. While everyone else easily pinned it on the suspects; a bomb had been planted in an attempt to escape and take out some cops at the same time, Jeremiah knew better. While he wasn't sure how, he knew that he was the one who did it.

After that, Jeremiah wildly fluctuated between being extremely cautious and extremely reckless. Knowing he had an ability and working on slowly being able to harness it and use it at will gave him the ability to take more risks when he knew his ability could help him out. On the other hand, he worried if he was discovering as some kind of "freak", he could lose his job and a lot of bad things could happen (he read enough comics and watched enough movies, thank you very much). He confided first in his twin; the only person Jeremiah could ever really trust beyond a shadow of a doubt. Part of him still worried his brother would side with what their father had always believed about the characters in the comics: that he was an abomination. That hadn't been the case though, and slowly Jeremiah began extending the circle. He told his sisters and he told his partner. The circle never exceeded past that small collection though, as he still couldn't shake the worry. He never told his parents.

Jeremiah had only been aware of his ability for a short handful of years before one of the things he'd always worried about finally happened. It was all thanks to a stupid mistake on his part, too, one that he was constantly kicking himself over. He made the mistake of giving up the information to someone outside of the small familial circle. He told a girl he'd been seeing what he could do. It had been a slip up, an accident on his behalf because he had always tried to be so careful. It turned out, the "girlfriend" wasn't much more than a mole for The Company - something Jeremiah had never heard of. He came home from work one day to find his girlfriend with a tall, bald Haitian and then everything just went black. The next time he woke up, he was strapped to a table, and everything became a blur for the next... he wasn't even sure how long it had been.

He spent the next five years locked away in some holding facility. The Company helped him master his abilities fully with their experiments. They did blood work, they mapped out brain waves, and when they decided he was getting to be too powerful, they locked him in a room and pumped him full of sedatives. It wasn't until 2007 that he finally managed an escape. A stroke of chance and a mistake on the behalf of a man named Sylar. Jeremiah had never been more grateful that Elle Bishop in all her deranged, whiny glory existed. Thanks to her, power to Level 5 shut down and Jeremiah was able to escape with the rest of the prisoners. Fortunately for him, he managed to lay low. His training with the FBI, coupled with his ability, made it easy for him to disappear from radar and it was hard to track someone who knew how to track and avoid being tracked.

Jeremiah avoided capture for a long time. Long enough that he even heard word Primatech had been destroyed, but just when he thought he life could get back to normal, it got so much more complicated. He was rounded up and approached face-to-face by Senator Nathan Petrelli. Just like that, everything was radically different and Jeremiah would've almost been glad to return to Level 5. At least locked up in there, his family was safe. He made an agreement, however. His old life back. With bonuses. The FBI would welcome him back with open arms, no need to explain his five year absence. All he had to do was follow orders. Do what he was told. Help round up and collect people like him. Terrorists, some were calling them. Dangerous people. If he didn't want to cooperate, they'd lock him up again. Him and every surviving member of his family. And if they resisted? Senator Petrelli made it clear that the head of his team was very trigger happy. Regrettably, Jeremiah agreed and for months, he helped Homeland Security track and collect evolved humans.

Until one ended up being his sister. They took her out and Jeremiah didn't find out about it until later. Enraged, Jeremiah threw a fit and unwittingly killed a member of his team. Retaliation came in the form of another sister; murdered. After that, Jeremiah quieted down and he fell back into line. But lately... he's just been biding his time and looking for a way out.

Evolved Human Abilities

Molecular Manipulation. The ability to mentally manipulate molecules and objects on a molecular level. Jeremiah possesses the capability to exert complete control over molecular structures; including his own body. The ability is psionic in nature, meaning Jeremiah uses his mind to control, manipulate, and reconfigure matter and energy at a molecular level.

With this capability comes a great number of things that Jeremiah can do. What he's best at, however, is simply exciting molecules into reactions. He can excite and speed up energy molecules to create various forms of energy; electric, nuclear, heat, etc. Jeremiah can create fire by exciting molecules up until the point which they combust, though the fire is only as long-lasting as whatever substance he causes to combust is physically capable of burning. Jeremiah cannot control how long something is going to burn and he cannot expand a substance's natural melting point or smoke point. Along the same lines of being able to create fire, Jeremiah can also create explosions. His explosions, however, are severely limited in range and are only made of pure energy. Jeremiah can create an explosion out of seemingly "thin air" anywhere within a 25-foot radius of himself; he cannot detonate himself (unless he wants to kill himself, as Jeremiah is currently incapable of managing to combust and then reconfigure his own molecular structure). Along with the capability of speeding up molecules, Jeremiah can slow them down as well. He can bring objects down to their freezing point by manipulating the molecules into the proper state; though he cannot keep an object at that level infinitely. Along with being able to control energy molecules comes the capability of projecting energy force fields to protect himself and others. Jeremiah can only create and maintain one force field at a time. The farther away the force field needs to be, the smaller it becomes. At a range of 50 yards, Jeremiah can maintain a force field large enough to maintain one average-sized man, any distance beyond that, he cannot maintain a stable field for any length of time. If the force field is created close by (within five feet), Jeremiah can extend the field to contain other people if they happen to be standing very close to together. The field can only absorb one hit before failing and Jeremiah can only maintain the field for so long before it fails.

While Jeremiah can control energy molecules, he can also control organic molecules as well. Jeremiah has the largest amount of control over his own molecular structure and his body can reconfigure subconsciously. He can manipulate organic molecules so that, if he sustains an injury, he can speed up the body's healing capabilities and repair and reconstruct tissue if necessary. Jeremiah can only heal what the body is capable of healing naturally, which means if he is dealt a fatal wound that would kill instantaneously or quicker than his body is capable of reconfiguring (his brain is destroyed or severed from the spinal cord, his heart is destroyed, etc.), Jeremiah will be unable to heal himself. He also has the capability of healing others as well; though the same limits apply. In fact, the limitations are even higher when it comes to being able to manipulate others' molecular structure, as Jeremiah has to do it consciously instead of subconsciously, and he has to have the knowledge to know what needs to be repaired in order to heal whatever wound has been dealt. He cannot repair fatal wounds and he cannot bring anyone back from the dead. Along with healing and repairing, Jeremiah can also scramble organic molecules to create an intense feeling of pain in others and, sometimes, if he can manage to successfully maintain scrambling for upwards of five minutes, he can lethally scramble molecules. Lastly, Jeremiah can alter the density of objects, meaning he can make himself (and others) lighter or heavier. He can also phase his molecules through objects, giving him the capability of becoming intangible.

While Jeremiah's ability presents a variety of facets, he has a variety of setbacks as well. Jeremiah cannot use his abilities for more than an hour before he becomes mentally exhausted. The larger the scope of however he is manifesting his abilities, the larger the risk that Jeremiah will be unable to control them and unable to maintain consciousness after overexerting himself. Any work done with organic molecules is more strenuous than work done with pure energy and Jeremiah is prone to nose bleeds, migraines, and if he exerts too much effort, black outs that can last hours at a time. While Jeremiah can create nuclear reactions, fire, heat, and electricity, he is not immune to any of those things which means that he often has to heal himself after using any of those things; which further exhausts him and leaves him open for attack.

Relationships

Family

• Michael Cassidy (father, deceased)
• Katherine Cassidy (mother, deceased)
• (32, younger twin brother)
• (younger sister)
• Abigail Cassidy (26, younger sister, deceased)
• Hannah Cassidy (23, younger sister, deceased)
• (younger sister)

Friends

• N/A

Enemies

• N/A

Trivia

• Jeremiah bears the Mark on his right shoulder as a result of his time spent with The Company.
• It is remarkable because, due to the nature of his ability, Jeremiah has no other scars, markings, or blemishes.

In-Game Events

• N/A