BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
Player Name: James Sheridan
Player Email: jsheridan@ncf.edu, pairodox6@gmail.com
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Much thanks to wikipedia and uncannyxmen.net. Additional recognition to Jason, for playing the character before, and giving me a starting point.

Codename: Banshee
Real Name: Sean Cassidy
Place of Birth: Cassidy Keep, Ireland
Birthday/Year of Birth: March 15th, 1963
Age: 45
Known Relatives: Black Tom (Cousin), Siryn (Daughter), Maeve Rourke (Dead Wife)
Former Group Affiliation(s): X-Men, Muir Islanders, Interpol, NYPD

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Height: 6'
Weight: 210 lbs
Hair: Faintest hints of red and blond.
Eyes: Crisp blue green.
Distinguishing Features & General Appearance:
Sean has a jagged silvery scar in the middle of his throat, the result of being attacked by enemies that know his powers are tied to his throat. Sean likes wearing turtle necks, because it saves him having to recount how he got it, which he saves for times when he is thoroughly intoxicated.

Sean is an attractive man in his mid-forties. Most people assume him to be younger than his actual age due to his sparkling clear eyes and infectious smile. His skin is very Irish and freckled. His reddish blond hair is normally kept shoulder length these days, to give him a more youthful appearance. It's coloration changes from red to blond depending on how much running around outside he has done. He is wearing his beard short and to the point.

Daily exercise and superior breeding have given him a body worthy of note. He does not look in his mid forties, though he has lost the boyishness of his youth. He is wiry and well muscled for his frame. Though he has put on some weight from increased drinking, and more time to rest, he is still in excellent shape.
Sean occasionally limps slightly when the weather is wrong. All those years of being bad to his knees have caught up to him. Hopefully he will never have to worry much, since he flies.

He likes to dress comfortably when not "on-duty." Blue jeans and comfortable turtle necks are very normal, though him having time he considers not "on-duty" isn't, as he likes to set a good example for the new students. He has a beat up pair of cross-trainers that he loves to wear when he is heading out.

When working at the mansion, but not in uniform, he tends to wear slacks, with well polished leather dress shoes. He wears better looking turtle necks, and a tweed smoking jacket.

Uniform/Costume:
Actually, he is wearing his X-Corps uniform, though not from the X-Corp, obviously. It is the costume he had made when he began teaching. He sees his job as being a blending of college professor and drill sergeant, though much more on the professor end.

He also wear a gorget to protect his throat from any further attacks.

Skills:

Veteran undercover detective, handy with both bare handed attacks as well as small firearms. Well versed in combat, tactics, investigation, and other handy skills for Interpol cops. He is also an amateur piano player, and lover of classic American country music, and has now found some joy in alternative country music. He is also a gifted teacher.

Powers:
Reflexive psionic powers that allow him to protect himself from sonic forms of attack, control his hearing, and better direct his keening ability. His powerful lungs, throat, and vocal cords allow him to generate incredibly forceful sound, while his psionics better help him to shape it from the subsonic to up through and past the range of human hearing. His control of things sonic is extremely well developed, allowing him to use sonar. He can also hypnotize, stun, nauseate, disorient, deafen, knock unconscious, and at higher level blast or disintegrate targets. He can use sonic control to confuse electronic surveillance, as well as rapidly vibrate any mass.

He can also fly while carrying another person.

Special Limitations: Not just powers, personality flaws and phobias, too

Vocal cords can be overused and damaged (and have been).

Throat can be cut, damaging powers (and has).

Black Tom is immune to his powers, for better or worse.

He loves drinking and smoking, and even though he wants to set a good example for the young, a life of vice is hard to shake. Neither of them are so severe, as to particularly interfere with life, but he squeezes a little of each in every day.

He approaches life with an Irish Catholic lens, so while he is tolerant of other religions and beliefs, he doesn't understand them. Also, his religious beliefs make guilt a common part of his day, and as his faith grows the burden of his past indiscretions does as well. He knows God forgives him, but there is still guilt. Also, grey areas of morality don't sit comfortably, and a heroes life is full of moral ambiguity.

BACKGROUND:
Personality:
Sean is a very reasonable fellow, but is an even more emotional fellow, which often clouds his judgement in personal matters. "Do as I say, and not as I do," is often something Sean finds himself saying, though he wish he were the good example he tries to be.

His strong emotions though, make him very personable, and people know that they can freely share in emotions with Sean, because of his understanding of the human heart.

Throughout his career he has been a dedicated man, but always in non-leadership roles. The last decade of becoming more involved in leadership positions, and finally assuming a role as an educator have been weird for Sean, but he has enjoyed it, and finds his new position very rewarding, even if he does have to make sure he doesn't let it get to his head.

Sean is a stubborn optimist. He always hopes for the best, even though he is far too aware of how rarely it happens. He has spent his life fighting to make the world a better place, and to put an end to strife. But he has also seen that while he has fought well, the end is not in sight. Respect for his optimism keeps killing as a last resort for Sean..

Sean has always been older than most of the X-men, and closer to Xavier's age. It was awkward in the beginning, and is still a bit odd as his peer group is generally a decade younger than him, but with his new role as instructor, he feels very comfortable with things.

Sean's relationship with his daughter is terribly complicated. On the one hand he wants to be there to be the father he wanted to be, and feels he would have been. On the other hand, he feels very guilty for all the years he was absent. Not to mention his angst over Maeve, that lingers still.

Likes and Dislikes:

Likes: Maeve and Moira.

The rest of the world's women.

Fine Irish Whiskey.

Good pipe tobacco.

Good live music.

A job well done, and a saved day.

Dislikes: lies, treachery, deception.

Intolerance, racism, hatred.

Being emo.

History:

Sean Cassidy was raised in Cassidy keep with his older cousin Tom Cassidy. Cassidy Keep is the ancestral castle of Sean Cassidy in County Mayo, Republic of Ireland. It also happens to be an enchanted place where Leprechauns live, protected by the Cassidy family. Early manifestations of Sean's powers were mistaken by the neighbors to be the cries of the infamous Irish Banshee.

Sean joined Interpol as an undercover agent early on in his life. One night he was in Northern Ireland, where he was threatened by a corrupt officer on suspicion of being an IRA scouter. He was saved by Maeve Rourke, who took him away on her scooter. The chase led to the distruction of the scooter, but Sean whisked her back to his castle, where she quickly met Tom. The two men were hopelessly smitten, and competed for Maeve's affections. In the end Sean's charm won out over Tom's, but there was no bad blood between them. Tom was Sean's best man, and Maeve was placed into Tom's care when Sean was sent out on assignment again, shortly after the honeymoon. Not knowing that Maeve was with child Sean stayed on the assignment for months with no contact with home. While he was gone, Maeve gave birth to Theresa Rourke Cassidy (later to be known as Siryn).

One day, Maeve was caught in an IRA bomb blast, and died. Sean returned home to find her dead, and when Tom went to talk to him about it, he lashed out at Tom for not keeping her safe. Fortunately Tom was immune to his powers, so he did not die. But the ground did open up beneath Tom, and he fell, and his leg was crippled. Tom did not get to tell Sean of his daughter, so Tom raised her as his own, never intending to tell Sean.

After Maeve's death he immersed himself in Interpol work, hiding from himself in the identities he assumed. Eventually, he began stalking a murderer named Arkady. The mission was scrapped, but Sean wanted to bring down Arkady, orders or not. He eventually found Arkady at his ancestral castle, where Arkady asked Sean to kill him. Sean refused to kill him. This decision lead to the death of his partner, and ultimately the creation of Omega Red.

Sean returned to Cassidy Keep later to put his cousin Black Tom in prison for his crimes, while still working for Interpol. Theresa was in Boarding School, so Sean remained ignorant of his daughter.

Eventually, Sean takes the blame for failing a mission for Interpol. He falls in with the NYPD as an anti-terrorism consultant. And once while
when Sean working for the NYPD as an undercover agent, he defied order to help a young girl from an unknown threat. The girl was Emma Frost, and she wasn't in much danger, but she erased the memory of it from his mind.

Professor Xavier finds Sean, in order to rescue the X-Men who disappeared due to the Cult of Krakoa. He helped rescue the X-Men with the aid of some others. Sean was a little unsure about staying on permanently, though because Professor X named him Banshee. He immediately took a liking to the Professor, and had profound respect for him, but was a bit unsure about being named after a female faery, even if it fit the mythology. He also worried that he might be a little old to be hanging out with the X-men. In the end though, he settled on staying for a bit.

He became a well liked member of the group, and naturally tended towards hanging out with Charles, because they were closer in age. Eventually Charles introduced Moira MacTaggert the new housekeeper. Having expected an 80-year old harridan with 40 years service in the Scottish guard, Sean was at an utter loss when he met the lovely Moira and fell madly in love with her. She too found herself attracted to the silly Irishman. Their love brought them together, but their need to save the world in their different ways would pull them apart, repeatedly.

Sean was called back to Cassidy Keep once more, when he was contacted by his lawyer that he had inherited it. The X-men and Sean went to Cassidy Keep for a brief vacation, but unfortunately found a trap waiting for them, set by Black Tom, who had taken the Leprechauns hostage. Eventually Black Tom was overcome, and in combat with Sean, fell from the battlements of a storm ridden Cassidy Keep.

He left the X-men to stay on Muir Island for a while, and be with Moira. He occasionally helped the X-men out, and was overjoyed when he received word that the X-men had once more battled Black Tom. And not only was Tom alive, but his ward, Theresa was discovered. Tom included a letter, explaining who she was, and she joined him and Moira on Muir.

He rejoined the X-men for a time.

After getting his throat slit on a mission, Banshee took another sabbatical to spend more time with Moira and to recover under her care. Moira took care of him reluctantly.

After the Battle of Muir Island, Banshee returned to the mansion and found his stride as a mentor and teacher to Generation X. He served as a worldly, caring, protective father figure, in contrast to Emma. After the destruction he returned again to Muir Island, but has since returned, as Moira continues her research.

Sample RP:
The alarm clock rang throughout the austere room, as the early part of the morning was getting under way. Sean slapped the alarm as he rolled out of bed. As he walked to the shower, he stretched some of the nighttime kinks out of his body. Once there, he turned the water on so that it would be lobster hot when he got in. A couple of good long stretches later, the water was ready.

As soon as the water hit his skin, the song came from the depths of his mind, and rolled on out through his mouth with a smooth twang.

"There's a tear in my Beer...
Cause I'm crying for you."

It is going to be one of those days, eh?

"Dear, you are on my lonely mind."

On again, off again, like a solar eclipse.

"Into these last nine beers, I have shed a thousand tears.
You are on my lonely mind, I am going to keep sitting here.
Until I am petrified."

Why didn't I ever propose? That is a stupid question. We both know we are married to our work first. And besides . . . I am married. Am I supposed to move on? How?

"and then maybe these tears will leave my eyes."

Oh God, I need a different song to start my day. Maybe I'll just skip the singing. That would be heresy. No this would be heresy:

"God was drunk when he made me," Sean sang with the eerie dissonance of Jim White, an alternative country star. But before he got far in the song he was done showering.

After drying off his body, he spent fifteen minutes stretching, to keep his flexibility, and ten minutes doing light calisthenics to warm up his muscles. He put on a pay of gray slacks and a cable-knit green turtle neck.

His computer started up promptly and fed him the local news, before he turned to the global scene. He looked at some pictures of Ireland to sooth the ache that had already started, and went out to meet the kids for breakfast and make the world a better place.

RP/Fic references If you have them: I have been roleplaying in general for 14 years through a wide variety of mediums and systems. Some of that was done with Jessikanesis (Hank and Pixie), who has brought me here. The only fiction I have on the internet is a live journal community where we wrote pulp fiction based on us being "superheroes". I posted with the name Pairodox. It can be found at:

http://community.livejournal.com/novcollinvis/