Schadey business is afoot (Cressida post time skip revamp)

Well, time doesn't stop for humans. Cressida is now older, but is she the wiser? Help me find out. This is the app work, I'l get to my stats/skills on my app itself.


Schade, Cressida,
Rank/Title
Personnel File
Age / Apparent Age: 23 post timeskip
Gender: Female
Height & Weight:5'7, 155 pounds
Hair & Eye Color: Green hair, blue eyes.
Positive Traits:
Negative Traits:

Loyalties: Quincy kind, Schade family.
Snapshots:



Physical Specifications
Physical Description: Cressida looks like a particularly lean woman. Her figure is well toned and well endowed yet maintains a curvy outlook with her wide hips and narrow shoulders giving her a balance between femininity and athleticism. On the wrist of her right arm lies three small yet deep scars in the right (outermost) and the bottom sides, (two on the bottom, one on the side). Typically she has the overlying scent of vanilla lavender from her perfume but her hair care products provide an underlying coconut-vanilla scent. She tends to move carrying a relaxed and lazy posture, and generally speaks in a generally sweet and soft tone of voice. In a dangerous or potentially threatening situation she tends to move carrying a strict and militaristic posture, not flinching for an instant, while her voice tends to be dull and emotionless and strict.

Current attire: Cressida's normal attire nowadays consists of a loose white sweater with a sky blue trim over a black sports top. What remains of her grandmother's cross is still worn underneath, which is more sentimental to keep close. Usually she wears a pair of grey track pants or beige cargo pants mixed with black combat boots that have been modified to be able to hold a hidden Seele Schneider in the side. Outside of home she wears a black long coat over top her sweater. Outside of hunting a target, she wears her glasses instead of her contact lenses, simple black frame that rests near the bottom of her nose. For the most part she lets a few bangs hang loose, but she ties long hair back, which flows down to her mid back.



Pre-Timeskip attire

Cressida's quincy uniform consists of white dress pants and a dress shirt underneath a white cloak with a light blue button. Her dress shirt has a Quincy Zeichen embedded on the pocket, as well as a cross on the back. She wears a pair of simple white gloves that extend to underneath the cuffs of the wrist. On belt of her dress pants is a storage container along the back that has outside slots that can hold several seele schneider. Meanwhile the capsule itself can hold several ginto capsules while there is a button and hatch on the left side that can dispense the capsules with ease. Her footwear consists of white combat boots. In this attire she ties her hair back like she does her regular attire.

Spiritual Description: Cressida's reaitsu now takes on a grey appeal, it can be sensed in a very cloudy nature. Her reiatsu has an odd mixed sensation as if trying to roar but is quiet well content when Cressida is not trying to exude her energy.

Psychological Profile
Personality: Cressida for the most part is an free spirit. She is generally very open minded and social, she loves to learn about a wide variety of culture and philosophy. She tends to approach life with a 'go with the flow' attitude towards most subjects and doesn't seem to be able to be let down easily. She supports equality and fair treatment of others capable of intelligent thought. She sees little difference between flesh and soul, she will welcome a Shinigami as an ally. Hollow-breeds are a different story as she will slay any hollow on sight, but is not afraid to at least try and negotiate with an Arrancar. However if she believes someone is in genuine danger, she is willing to forsake her creed so no one would be hurt on her account. Age has not affected Cressida's knightly code severely, as she will still live and die by her sword and still seeks the thrill of a duel. However with Celeste in the picture, her maternal instincts to protect her daughter or any young would surely overcome her borderline sadistic/masochistic desire for swordplay.

Goals & Achievements:

Achievement:
Patricide

Goals:
Title of 'Divine swordswoman'

To build a safe haven for Quincy who don't want to fight.

Become a prestige Quincy

Quincy File
Power: Cressida's power is to affect the gravity of whatever she cuts or shot. She can cut an opponent and either reduce their gravitational pull to the earth or increases it, making it seem either light enough to jump higher distances or slowed down by gravity. After honing her skills with her power, Cressida could potentially isolate her focus to a particular part instead of a whole, such as only increasing the gravitational pull on a wrist and decreasing the pull on a knee, or a decreasing a section of earth to raise it to float in the way as a distraction.  Drawbacks from this can make the target easy to knock back or move far quickly, but the damage would be reduced. Increasing the gravity would have a similar affect but it would make it harder for the target to move. 

However there is a technique called Messe Duell that Cressida can use to form an invisible field around her in a field equating to her reiatsu in diameter  up to 100 feet to suppress projectiles and presses gravity of all parties to limit movements such as jumping, even though she is a quincy and uses ranged tactics on the side, this allows to create a fair play sword on sword setting in a setting that she favors. 

Cressida's spirit weapon is Heilige Klinge,  a blade roughly a meter in length,  just long enough to be a long sword that Cressida can wield with one hand with ease. As an unrefined spirit weapon it looks like a mass of blue light in the form of a sword with a sharp cross-guard and a tint around the edges giving it a sharpened appearance. In it's refined form it looks like a  double-edge sword with a blue tint on the blade. On the guard of the blade are shuriken-like spikes. The bottom of the handle has a crystal-like protrusion with a pale blue color that matches the blade. 


Quincy Cross:
Cressida's cross is that of a dark silver Celtic design on a black chain resting on her right wrist. The cross itself has a twisted and overlapping metal thread pattern pointing to the center in which is an overlapping loops into a rounded square. The ring running around the cross is pure black.

Schrift: C: Control Cressida's Schrift represents her desire and struggle of her life as she spent her entire life. Her father had dominated every aspect of her life, and excessively punished her for failing to meet his expectations, she struggled to live for herself. However her father was not the only one as Cressida lived for the thrill of swordplay and always hated how ranged abilities often got in the way of what she thought could've been a perfect duel. Her abilities of this Schrift serve to help her adjust her situation.

Documented History
Origin: Cressida, was born on Friday the 13th, July 1998 and by all accounts she was a healthy baby, but the unusual date of birth was unnerving to some, but no one dared to speak ill of it due to fear of her father's fury. At this point in her life her father had little to no interaction with Cressida, busy maintaining his second life. Cressida was primarily raised by her mother and grandmother. She grew up humbly albeit the wealth the Schades have. Her first encounter with a Hollow was at the age of three, attending a picnic with her mother, sister, and grandparents. As she was playing with her toys on the side, an eagle like hollow sprung out of the woods and tried to strike Cressida. At this point she was struck with fear, teaching her what she believes to be her first lesson, the world is not clear and forgiving all the time. Although the encounter was less than five seconds due to the quick response of her grandfather, the hollow got away but Cressida was scarred by that for the next few years.

As Cressida got older, she began to note the odd behaviour that goes around the family, how her mother pays constant attention the one day, but than avoids her the next, how her father took a sudden interest in how she was raised, but what she paid most attention to was her grandfather. Every day she could, after lunch she'd walk to the garden and think she'd remain hidden as she'd watch her grandfather practice with a sword. She was fascinated by blades, believing them to be an excellent and fair method of combat. While in truth Terrence knew she was watching every time, but didn't want to let her close yet, as she was far too young in his eyes to start.

Cressida, was always a good child, doing what she was told, for her education she went to a private school up until high school level where a private tutor was brought at that point. Until she was ten, Cressida striven to get her fathers attention only to fail, the closest the two got was when he asked about the hollow she saw when she was three, at the age of seven. For her ninth birthday, her father shown up and presented her with a gift, a Bangle. At this point Cressida soon found herself regretting ever wanting her fathers affection. Her father trained her intensely from the beginning in questionable means, starting with before a single formal lesson, placing her in a sealed room with a hollow. Albeit narrowly by the skin of her teeth, she won. After leaving the room she heard yelling, particularly that of her father and grandmother.


Rise to Power: As the years went by, Cressida was put under constant pressure by her father's training, he beat her down the second she slipped up, her father was quick to punish with either intense exercise or harsh lectures that broke her confidence. As she tried to question her father, he convinced her to go on by using Celeste as an example and that Cressida would need to work hard to catch up. Whenever Cressida had second thoughts of wanting to be the best, her mother gets nervous and discourages second thoughts, her grandfather however, told her to follow the path she chooses. When she was ten, her grandfather finally trained her in the art of swordplay, that became her only joy for years, that every night after she was finished education and holy training she could meet her grandfather and experience the thrill of blades clashing.

After being put down by her father for years, at the age of eleven her odd behavioral patterns, such as how she acts during training, strict, and to the point but during social activities she is fun loving, essentially seemingly going back and forth between two different personalities her father, brought in a psychiatrist and got her diagnosed, at this point her father took that is a sign, disregarding what the psychiatrist said about a "latent unknown factor". He saw the business mindset as the payoff for the hard work, and potential to push forward harder. Eventually Derrek thought it was time for her to stop using the bangle and form her own spirit weapon, for two days straight she tried with no success. Her father, aggressive due to the issue of not forming a weapon, took a whip and for every failed attempt, used it on her wrist, on the sixth whip, an hielig pfeil dug into his hand dropping the whip, and soon was approached by Cressida's grandmother who, after sending Cressida away to treat the wounds from the whip that scarred her wrist. Cressida heard the usual yelling, but this time every member of the house except her was involved. For the next few days Cressida spent on training her spirit weapon, meanwhile she was told her grandmother went on a vacation, but died in an accident due to faulty structuring and electrical wiring.

Devastated, Cressida tried to prove herself to make her grandmother proud, but after five days of nothing but attempting to make a spirit weapon, she hit a wall. Annoyed that she lost time for her studies and swordplay practice. Eventually she slipped out of her business mindset filled with annoyance, still determined to follow through but with a clouded mind distracted by the art of swordplay itching at the back of her mind, finally formed Hielig Klinge for the first time. Out of sheer fear she practiced hours on end shooting a Hielig Pfeil, after succesfully learning she prayed her father would see the practicalities of her spirit weapon, only to be punished.

While the rest of her family had no qualms with her unique deviance from a Hielig Bogun, her father had intense objections, calling Cressida a disgrace to the quincy race. By pounding thoughts of worthless shame, it began to sunk into Cressida, she was for once, fueled with rage. The first time the enraged mindset came out was at this point, where she formed her spirit weapon and shot in front of her fathers feet and began to charge only to be stopped by her grandfather. After being subdued, she found herself awakening in the woods with nothing but the clothes she had and a Seele Schneider and a ginto tube. She found a note on her person that her transgression was intolerable and for her punishment, she had to spent a week in the woods. Confused, as she had not recalled her attempted assault on her father, remained in her business mindset for the remainder of her time in the woods, slaying hollows while trying to adapt to the environment. While she began to note how useful her training was in a hostile enviorment, she had time to reflect on how harsh the punishment was.


Call to Action: After surviving the woods, she found her way to a nearby city and called home, where her father made arrangements for an old acquaintance to escort her back to the house. Arriving to the house, Cressida heard yet another argument by her father and grandfather, which soon ceased after they were made aware of Cressida's presence. After it was made bluntly obvious that Cressida has no recollection of her transgression, her father left her to her own devices from that point onward in regards to holy training and education. About a week and a half later, her grandfather left the house, but no one told Cressida the truth, everyone had a different tale.

After seeing her sister's harsh treatment and comparing it to herself, Celeste made a vow to her sister to take Cressida away from this, and cooked up an elaborate plan. Celeste made a challenge to their father, instead of the traditional one year, she opted for a four year challenge to prove she was able to succeed him. The plan was that when time came for Cressida, the two would escape from the household. However, it went smoothly until two years into the trial, Celeste allegedly died in an electrical accident, leaving Cressida in despair.

Cressida tried to distract herself day and night, trying to shake off the feeling of being weighed down, bothered by how everything else seemed to stand tall as if there was nothing to pull them down. After passing out from overworking, her grandfather returned for a talk with her, about Celeste and the world. He inspired her to create a better path if she doesn't like the one currently set. Cressida knew that she needed time away, so the week before her sixteenth birthday, she asked her father about extending the one year challenge to three years, in which she received no reply. However, on the day of her sixteenth birthday, her father gave her two things, the first was a fine leather shoulder bag, and the other was a key to a small estate outside of Karakura town, to which he simply told her to go on if she wishes, but he won't tolerate a failure.

Time skip: What happened during the timeskip? A lot of things. Prior to the time skip Cressida went missing as she had to come to terms with herself and her drug problem. During the five years, Cressida returned to Karakura for a few months where she encountered the brother of her sister's ex. Cressida learned a couple hard truths that never reached her, such as she was almost an aunt. Delving deeper into her sister's past, she discovered that there were suspicious circumstances around her death. Cressida was about to write it off as a hollow attack, until she did some odd research. Her father came in and did not permit an autopsy the same day. Going to America, she looked into her grandmother's demise and it was the same story. Coming to terms with what was going on, she returned home to confront her parents. Her father was on the verge of disowning his daughter, but the encounter ended with a one sided fight where Cressida was about to die, but intervention from her mother gave her the opening she needed to slay her father. Albeit being a family member, Cressida refused him a proper burial as she burned his body in the furnace, without a tombstone. She took the role as head of the family from her mother who did not raise an objection. As her first decree, she let her grandfather return home.

Later on in her life, Cressida met and fell in love with a young man who later turned out to be a quincy. He was a free spirit who traveled around trying to help people anyway he could. The two fell in love quickly, Cressida let him park his van on her property at times, and he would help her with all her repressed issues. Cressida thought that the two were gonna be inseparable, and almost considering marrying the nomad. However Cressida had some, unexpected news as she discovered one day she was pregnant. The nomad was nervous and said he would support her, but two weeks in after their daughter Celeste was born, he straight up abandoned them, claiming it was against his very way and being to be chained. For the next two hard years, Cressida had to struggle with being a quincy and a mother, but started to focus more towards the latter as life went on.



Family:

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Here's the original from pre-timeskip.



On The Surface___
Name: Cressida Therese Schade-
Age: 18
Gender: female
Quincy race: Echt
Height & Weight: 5'6, 140 pounds
Hair & Eyes: Waist length dark green hair, and blue eyes.
Sexuality: Pansexual
Dominant hand: right
IQ: 220
birth date: July 13th 1998
Languages: English, German, Japanese, French, Greek, and Spanish.


Physical Description:  Cressida looks like a typical athletic girl in her late teens. Her figure is well toned and well endowed yet maintains a curvy outlook with her wide hips and narrow shoulders giving her a balance between femininity and athleticism.  On the wrist of her right arm lies three small yet deep scars in the right (outermost) and the bottom sides, (two on the bottom, one on the side).  Typically she has the overlying scent of vanilla lavender from her perfume but her hair care products provide an underlying coconut-vanilla scent. She tends to move carrying a relaxed and lazy posture when she ist in her relaxed mindset, and generally speaks in a  generally sweet and soft tone of voice. In her business mindset she tends to move carrying a strict and militaristic posture, not flinching for an instant, while her voice tends to be dull and emotionless and strict. 

Cressida's normal attire consists of a white loose fitting button up tee shirt, that she typically keeps the top few buttons undone exposing a light blue sports top worn underneath. She also wears black cargo shorts that extend halfway to her knees. Her footwear consists of black running shoes with a silver trim and white socks.  She carries a brown leather bag over her right shoulder resting on her left side usually for quincy holy artifacts, a cell phone, and a tablet with a keyboard.  Around her neck is the cross used by her late grandmother, only serving a sentimental purpose. In her normal attire she wears her hair down with two small bangs on either side of her face extending to ear length.
(as seen in profile picture)

Cressida's quincy uniform consists of white dress pants and a dress shirt underneath a white cloak with a light blue button.  Her dress shirt has a Quincy Zeichen embedded on the pocket, as well as a cross on the back. She wears a pair of simple white gloves that extend to underneath the cuffs of the wrist. On belt of her dress pants is a storage container along the back that has outside slots that can hold several seele schneider. Meanwhile the capsule itself can hold several ginto capsules while there is a button and hatch on the left side that can dispense the capsules with ease. Her footwear consists of white combat boots. In this attire she ties her hair back in a ponytail. 

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Spiritual Description: Cressida's Reiatsu is black and white energy spiraling around her, symbolic to the nature of her borderline personality disorder and her will to both follow the Quincy path established for hundreds of years and her will to change society for the better. The dominant color depends on her active mind-set, if she is in her relaxed mindset the black seems to be more noticeable but if she is in her business mindset the white becomes dominant. From sensing her Reiatsu, it can give off a sense of chaos and disorder, generally giving a 'inbalanced' feel to others. Her reiatsu has a scent that smells like smoke or something burned.


Demeanor: Generally,  regardless of the mindset Cressida is in she always remains polite and assertive with a positive or neutral outward nature towards the world. However underneath that general goodness lies a hidden deceitful intent that can be viciously used to exploit any weakness or opportunity if left unchecked.  Her  relaxed mindset generally  gives off an enthusiastic yet laid back vibe as she becomes very friendly during the time this mindset remains. Her business mindset generally gives off a stern and serious vibe as she essentially wipes off any trace of emotion and essentially becomes more pragmatic towards a situation. 

Behind The Eyes___

Mental disorder [Borderline personality disorder]: To explain Cressida's personality, one major point should be explained, being her mental disorder. Due to the nature of Cressida's upbringing, in an attempt to cope, Cressida's personality split into different sides. The trigger is situational based as opposed to a specific event, such as leaving a room after a business transaction shifting from business to relaxed as soon as she leaves the room. Or in the case of BG going from business to relaxed as soon as she finished a fight.

Personality: Cressida can be described as a confusing individual on first glance. Generally she always remains calm, organized and polite. She is usually a fair person outwardly giving people what she thinks is fair while silently pursuing her own interests. A lot of her quirks and moods depend on which mindset she currently has active. She values getting tasks done efficiently as opposed to quickly, she understands 

Relaxed mindset, is the default state for Cressida, which is what she reverts to.  In her relaxed mindset she is easy going and fun loving. This mindset exploits the more empathetic and kind aspects of  her personality. She is generally very open minded and social, she loves to learn about a wide variety of culture and philosophy. She tends to approach life with a 'go with the flow' attitude and doesn't seem to be able to be let down easily. She supports equality and fair treatment of others, expressing the more creative aspects of her mind. This mindset allows for the more emotional and personal aspects of Cressida's personality to come into view. She tends to reflect her relaxed nature in how she fights should she not feel the need to fully concentrate. 

Business mindset, is the commonly used secondary mindset that Cressida commonly turns to.  It is triggered by situations like combat, formal interactions (meeting nobles such as the king, talking to a lawyer, or being in court), or entering an environment of professionalism. When the situation is resolved (e.g leaving a meeting or a fight) she quickly returns to her relaxed mindset.  In this mindset any trace of emotion seems to be lost to her, as she acts on pure logic alone. She  usually looks at things analytically and uses logic and knowledge to solve a situation or figure out an opponent. This mindset allows for Cressida to be able to think quicker than she normally would as well as recall memories with ease.

Lastly, there is a third, latent mindset that Cressida is not consciously aware of, the enraged mindset. This mindset has a trigger that can only be brought by hitting an all time low of sadness, despair, or anger. The reversion trigger is not very clear with this mindset as any number of reasons can be it, and also after reversion she loses all memories of the time she spent in this mindset.  In this mindset any of her usual habits are far gone, as she is no longer calm and collected, as she acts brutal and rage fueled. Cressida acts very aggressive and thinks very little to the situation, acting on pure emotion. This mindset translates to her movements and fighting style, she tends to move rather quickly and shakily, and instead of fighting with a patient and closed style, she fights aggressively, and impatiently causing a lot of openings.

Problems can possibly stir up an internal conflict, if it majorly impacts something that affects her emotions, even in her business mindset it can potentially cause a mixed hybrid state to be brought about that is very unstable (is only removed by allowing for one state to be present by rectifying reason of trigger [e.g a family member is revealed held hostage during a fight, Cressida is unable to maintain composure and starts to get recklessly aggressive. Ends up killing opponent and free's hostage and reverts to relaxed mindset]). 

Positive Qualities: 
Patient: Cressida understands that things can't be rushed.
Open minded: Growing up studying a variety of culture through literature she understands the world is diverse. 
Easy going: Cressida doesn't judge people harshly after having to put up with her father.
Protective: Cressida has learned that some things are fragile and need to be protected.
Empathetic: Cressida cares about others and tries to understand others.
Courageous: Cressida is not afraid to send herself into a fray without hesitation. 

Negative Qualities: 
Reckless: With Cressida's courage, she is equally reckless at times.
Brutal: This quality appears in her enraged mindset, Cressida can act very merciless. 
Unstable: BPD has rendered Cressida emotionally unstable and can be set off easier.
Inconsistent: Cressida can seem inconsistent if she has been triggered from several mindsets in the presence of the same person.
Machiavellian: Although being the black sheep, Cressida is still a Schade and has learned on one of their bad habits.
flirtatious: Cressida, spending most of her life studying and training had no time to properly socialize with any peers, that lack of socialization often shows through her flirting habit as she flirts far too much.

Views/Prejudice: 
Shinigami: Cressida, views the Shinigami as an important role for balance, but believes them to be incompetent in regards to governmental and militaristic organization, she believes that if their way of dealing with hollows is better than they should be more involved with the world of the living than 1 shinigami on shift. 

Hollows: Cressida views hollows as a dangerous threat but at the back of her mind has sympathy for them as they are victims with no say in becoming what they are. 

Arrancars: Cressida views Arrancars as a threat but despises them as they are basically hollows who regained intelligence and are fully aware of their actions knowing very well what they are doing. 

Quincy: Cressida views Quincy as her peers but she knows that she has to be careful as she was taught to be suspicious of Quincies that know very well of the Schades history.

Likes:
Cooking: Growing up she always loved cooking with her grandmother, sister, and mother.
Smoking: Since getting into the world on her own she got into the bad habit of smoking.
Swordplay: Since learning from her grandfather of several forms (fencing, kendo, etc.), Cressida has a fond love for blades and the thrill of fighting blade on blade.
Creative writing: As a kid, she used creative writing as a stress outlet.

Dislikes:
Limitless concepts: Cressida hates the idea of nothing standing in her way, thinking that there needs to be a limiting factor to overcome first.
Arrogance: She hates those who are only about themselves, especially those who want power for personal gain.
Almost any Male Schade: the most common issue among the Schades is that the men are the ones making the mistakes.
Quincy racism: She see's no difference between Echt and Gemischt, and anyone who tries to make it a case is just trying to seek attention.

Ultimate goals in life:

• Obtain sternritter level and Vollständig.


• Increase and fix the level of interaction Shinigami have with Quincy


• Learn the reason the Schades defected to England.


• Achieve title as the "Divine swordswoman"

Strength Of The World___
Quincy Power: Cressida's power is to affect the gravity of whatever she cuts or shot. She can cut an opponent and either reduce their gravitational pull to the earth or increases it, making it seem either light enough to jump higher distances or slowed down by gravity.  After honing her skills with her power, Cressida could potentially isolate her focus to a particular part instead of a whole, such as only increasing the gravitational pull on a wrist and decreasing the pull on a knee, or a  decreasing a section of earth to raise it to float in the way as a distraction.  

However there is a technique called
Messe Duell that Cressida can use to form an invisible field around her to suppress projectiles and presses gravity of all parties to limit movements such as jumping, even though she is a quincy and uses ranged tactics on the side, this allows to create a fair play sword on sword setting in a setting that she favors. 

Spirit Weapon and Cross: Cressida's cross is that of a dark silver Celtic design on a black chain resting on her right wrist. The cross itself has a twisted and overlapping metal thread pattern pointing to the center in which is an overlapping loops into a rounded square. The ring running around the cross is pure black.
 
Cressida's spirit weapon is Heilige Klinge,  a blade roughly a meter in length,  just long enough to be a long sword that Cressida can wield with one hand with ease. As an unrefined spirit weapon it looks like a mass of blue light in the form of a sword with a sharp cross-guard and a tint around the edges giving it a sharpened appearance. In it's refined form it looks like a  double-edge sword with a blue tint on the blade. On the guard of the blade are shuriken-like spikes. The bottom of the handle has a crystal-like protrusion with a pale blue color that matches the blade. 

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By thrusting or slashing motion Cressida can shoot a Heilig Pfeil by gathering reishi and channeling it to either a side or the tip.  The difference being that by thrusting it allows for greater aim but is difficult at close range while slashing is less accurate but effective in closer range where there is little time to aim.  Cressida can encoperate a seele schnieder by placing it on the hilt, forming a string of reishi from each side of the cross-guard allowing it to be shot. 

Legacy Created___
Current Allegiance: Allegedly to the king.
Snapshots:

• 1998- Born
• 2001- First encounter with Hollow
• 2007- Given bangle, started Holy training
• 2007- Started swordplay
• 2009- Started to train spirit weapon manifestation. scarred wrist
• 2009- Death of grandmother
• 2009- Enraged mindset revealed for first time, punished by woods.
• 2010- plot to escape Schades formed,
• 2012 Aforementioned plot failed due to death of sister.
• 2014 Trial of Schades started.

History:

Birth to adolescence: 
Cressida, was born on Friday the 13th, July 1998 and by all accounts she was a healthy baby, but the unusual date of birth was unnerving to some, but no one dared to speak ill of it due to fear of her father's fury. At this point in her life her father had little to no interaction with Cressida, busy maintaining his second life. Cressida was primarily raised by her mother and grandmother.  She grew up humbly albeit the wealth the Schades have. Her first encounter with a Hollow was at the age of three, attending a picnic with her mother, sister, and grandparents. As she was playing with her toys on the side, an eagle like hollow sprung out of the woods and tried to strike Cressida. At this point she was struck with fear, teaching her what she believes to be her first lesson, the world is not clear and forgiving all the time. Although the encounter was less than five seconds due to the quick response of her grandfather, the hollow got away but Cressida was scarred by that for the next few years.

As Cressida got older, she began to note the odd behaviour that goes around the family, how her mother pays constant attention the one day, but than avoids her the next, how her father took a sudden interest in how she was raised, but what she paid most attention to was her grandfather. Every day she could, after lunch she'd walk to the garden and think she'd remain hidden as she'd watch her grandfather practice with a sword. She was fascinated by blades, believing them to be an excellent and fair method of combat. While in truth Terrence knew she was watching every time, but didn't want to let her close yet, as she was far too young in his eyes to start.

Cressida, was always a good child, doing what she was told, for her education she went to a private school up until high school level where a private tutor was brought at that point. Until she was ten, Cressida striven to get her fathers attention only to fail, the closest the two got was when he asked about the hollow she saw when she was three, at the age of seven. For her ninth birthday, her father shown up and presented her with a gift, a Bangle.  At this point Cressida soon found herself regretting ever wanting her fathers affection. Her father trained her intensely from the beginning in questionable means, starting with before a single formal lesson, placing her in a sealed room with a hollow. Albeit narrowly by the skin of her teeth, she won. After leaving the room she heard yelling, particularly that of her father and grandmother.

As the years went by, Cressida was put under constant pressure by her father's training, he beat her down the second she slipped up, her father was quick to punish with either intense exercise or harsh lectures that broke her confidence. As she tried to question her father, he convinced her to go on by using Celeste as an example and that Cressida would need to work hard to catch up. Whenever Cressida had second thoughts of wanting to be the best, her mother gets nervous and discourages second thoughts, her grandfather however, told her to follow the path she chooses. When she was ten, her grandfather finally trained her in the art of swordplay, that became her only joy for years, that every night after she was finished education and holy training she could meet her grandfather and experience the thrill of blades clashing.

After being put down by her father for years, at the age of eleven her odd behavioral patterns, such as how she acts during training, strict, and to the point but during social activities she is fun loving, essentially seemingly going back and forth between two different personalities her father, brought in a psychiatrist and got her diagnosed, at this point her father took that is a sign, disregarding what the psychiatrist said about a "latent unknown factor". He saw the business mindset as the payoff for the hard work, and potential to push forward harder. Eventually Derrek thought it was time for her to stop using the bangle and form her own spirit weapon, for two days straight she tried with no success. Her father, aggressive due to the issue of not forming a weapon, took a whip and for every failed attempt, used it on her wrist, on the sixth whip, an hielig pfeil dug into his hand dropping the whip, and soon was approached by Cressida's grandmother who, after sending Cressida away to treat the wounds from the whip that scarred her wrist. Cressida heard the usual yelling, but this time every member of the house except her was involved. For the next few days Cressida spent on training her spirit weapon, meanwhile she was told her grandmother went on a vacation, but died in an accident due to faulty structuring and electrical wiring. 

Devastated, Cressida tried to prove herself to make her grandmother proud, but after five days of nothing but attempting to make a spirit weapon, she hit a wall. Annoyed that she lost time for her studies and swordplay practice. Eventually she slipped out  of her business mindset filled with annoyance, still determined to follow through but with a clouded mind distracted by the art of swordplay itching at the back of her mind, finally formed Hielig Klinge for the first time. Out of sheer fear she practiced hours on end shooting a Hielig Pfeil, after succesfully learning she prayed her father would see the practicalities of her spirit weapon, only to be punished. 

While the rest of her family had no qualms with her unique deviance from a Hielig Bogun, her father had intense objections, calling Cressida a disgrace to the quincy race. By pounding thoughts of worthless shame, it began to sunk into Cressida, she was for once, fueled with rage. The first time the enraged mindset came out was at this point, where she formed her spirit weapon and shot in front of her fathers feet and began to charge only to be stopped by her grandfather. After being subdued, she found herself awakening in the woods with nothing but the clothes she had and a Seele Schneider and a ginto tube. She found a note on her person that her transgression was intolerable and for her punishment, she had to spent a week in the woods. Confused, as she had not recalled her attempted assault on her father, remained in her business mindset for the remainder of her time in the woods, slaying hollows while trying to adapt to the environment. While she began to note how useful her training was in a hostile enviorment, she had time to reflect on how harsh the punishment was.

After surviving the woods, she found her way to a nearby city and called home, where her father made arrangements for an old acquaintance to escort her back to the house. Arriving to the house, Cressida heard yet another argument by her father and grandfather, which soon ceased after they were made aware of Cressida's presence. After it was made bluntly obvious that Cressida has no recollection of her transgression, her father left her to her own devices from that point onward in regards to holy training and education. About a week and a half later, her grandfather left the house, but no one told Cressida the truth, everyone had a different tale.   

After seeing her sister's harsh treatment and comparing it to herself, Celeste made a vow to her sister to take Cressida away from this, and cooked up an elaborate plan. Celeste made a challenge to their father, instead of the traditional one year, she opted for a four year challenge to prove she was able to succeed him. The plan was that when time came for Cressida, the two would escape from the household. However, it went smoothly until two years into the trial, Celeste allegedly died in an electrical accident, leaving Cressida in despair. 

Cressida tried to distract herself day and night, trying to shake off the feeling of being weighed down, bothered by how everything else seemed to stand tall as if there was nothing to pull them down. After passing out from overworking, her grandfather returned for a talk with her,  about Celeste and the world. He inspired her to create a better path if she doesn't like the one currently set. Cressida knew that she needed time away, so the week before her sixteenth birthday, she asked her father about extending the one year challenge to three years, in which she received no reply. However, on the day of her sixteenth birthday, her father gave her two things, the first was a fine leather shoulder bag, and the other was a key to a small estate outside of Karakura town, to which he simply told her to go on if she wishes, but he won't tolerate a failure.

From that point on Cressida has lived low profile in Karakura.

Family:

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Derrek Schade: Cressida's father, typically known as a stern, strict figure who values work and progress over all things, when conflict of his personal life arises he is not above doing anything he believes to be the most efficient way.  The nature of his relationship with Cressida is strained at best, he often condescends Cressida for the majority of his interactions were either teaching, or meeting for meals once in a while. It was noted that the business mindset was potentially based on him, and her desire to be accepted by but not entirely proved nor disproved. 

Evelyn Schade: Cressida's mother, japanese born but married into the Schade family as a strategic move to allow ties into Japan for the Schades. Evelyn is typically known as a calm and positive figure. She could easily be described as the motivation speaker type who tries to make someone feel better about any situation. Cressida inherited most of her looks from Evelyn, such as natural green hair and soft blue eyes. The nature of her relationship with Cressida was very strong was Evelyn was one of the few who took care of Cressida, but was anxious about over involvement for a reason she was afraid to divulge.

Terrance Schade: Cressida's grandfather as well as the father of Derreck Schade. Terrance, known as the grey sheep of the Schades by his family members and those who know well about the Schades, as his ideals were far too nomadic for the Schades. He bears a kindhearted laid back and relaxed outlook towards life and almost any subject. Although his spirit weapons is a bow, he has a fondness for sword. The nature of his relationship with Cressida is strong, as he acted as a mentor figure for Cressida as well as introduce her to the art of swordplay.  

Ilean Schade: Cressida's late grandmother as well as the wife of Terrance Schade. Ilean on first glance,  appears to play the role of wise old granny; sweet, kind, witty, but carries an underlying will to deal with any trouble makers. She is proud and has no qualms with directly approaching anyone about misbehavior or issues, nor being blunt should the situation demand it. The nature of her relationship with Cressida was very strong, as whenever Evelyn seemed to distance herself from Cressida, Ilean stepped in and was not afraid to go any length to make sure Cressida was well taken care of.


Celeste Schade: (1996-2014) Cressida's late sister. On first glance she can be described as an energetic, happy figure. She hardly ever lets anyone see her so much as depressed and tries to keep up an atmosphere of kindness in any environment. She enjoys challenges and can withstand a lot of pressure, she shown great promise as a quincy and was known to have high expectations from Terrance in her. She was believed by Terrence to potentially be the embodiment of the ideals set out by Verrick Schade. The nature of her relationship with Cressida was very strong, growing up together they shared a strong bond until her unfortunate end.