Cass' Current State

Cass' State in Chapter 2

Cass' Original State

CASHMERE CALLOWAY
Alias: CASS
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Height: 5' 8"
Genetic Balance: 65% Goat, 35% Human

Cass, as she likes to be called, is a talented geneticist. She is in her senior year at the Unassuming-Yet-Ridiculously-Well-Funded Private School for Burgeoning Scientific Minds, and has already been accepted to Betterthin University, a leading scientific university halfway across the country.

Because of her fiercely independent nature, her parents were sure she was ready to handle the responsibility of watching after the house and her younger brother, Flint, when they took a week-long vacation. Cass took the job of babysitting her brother unwillingly and would rather she had been left totally alone to work on her project.

The night following her parents' departure, she awoke to find that she had somehow transformed into a goat. Quickly realizing that it was Morty's doing, she confronted him to change her back. The attempt to reverse her changes inadvertently caused her to change even more. She has learned there is no immediate cure for her condition.

Frustrated, Cass has decided to turn the tables on Morty. The two have a meeting with the Principal Monday morning, Cass' first day at school in her new form. Cass is going to make sure Morty pays for everything he's done.

Personal: Sister of Flint Calloway.
Genetics Competition Project: She is perfecting a localized gene therapy that can permanently change the pigmentation of skin and hair cells. She is concentrating on selling the cosmetic uses, such as adjustable tattoos and permanent hair "dyes."
First Appearance: Strip I: 08-06-2007

Flint's Current State

Flint's Original State

FLINT CALLOWAY
Gender: Male
Age: 13
Height: 4' 8"
Genetic Balance: 60% Human, 40% Flying Squirrel

Flint is a middle-schooler with an inverse relationship of low grades and high cheer. He’s sometimes a non-stop chatterbox, sometimes a snarky brat, and sometimes a bitingly truthful observant. He spends his time at home pestering his older sister and watching television.

The night following his parents' departure, he awoke to find that she had somehow transformed into a flying squirrel. Unlike his sister, Flint is taking the change with enthusiasm...perhaps even too much.

Personal: Brother of Cashmere Calloway.
First Appearance: Strip I: 08-06-2007

MORTIMER MONTOVARIUS
Alias: MORTY
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Height: 5' 2"
Genetic Balance: 100% Human

Morty is the diminutive son of one of the world’s leading geneticists, Narcissus Montovarius. He was home-tutored until he was 14, at which point his father enrolled him in the Unassuming-Yet-Ridiculously-Well-Funded Private School for Burgeoning Scientific Minds. His current ambition is to win first place in the Senior Genetics Competition, and then gloat about it.

Morty anticipated a visit from his newly-transformed nemesis, Cass. He used his father's nanobot technology to change her into a goat in part to distract her from working on her genetics project, and in part because he views her as one of his chief rivals and must do anything he can to demoralize her. What he didn't expect, however, was for Cass to forfeit the competition without a fight.

Now being forced to reevaluate his own methods and ideologies, Morty is now attempting to restore Cass' and Flint's human forms.

Personal: Creator of Genetic Experiment Thirteen.
Genetics Competition Project: Morty's project for the competition is still unknown. The ray gun he used at the fundraiser has been disqualified, as it was based on a design by fellow competing student Noah Sonar.
First Appearance: Strip IX: 08-24-2007

NOAH SONAR
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Height: 6' 0"
Genetic Balance: 99% Human, 1% Salamander

A student at the Unassuming-Yet-Ridiculously-Well-Funded Private School for Burgeoning Scientific Minds, and a good friend of Cass.

The night of the fundraiser incident, Noah risked his own life to save a mutated Keris Attic from the building she was tearing apart. Because the machine that altered her was based on his own designs, he has been rebuilding it in the hopes that it will completely restore her original form.

Genetics Competition Project: Noah is developing serums that, when injected, grant the user specific animal traits.
First Appearance: Strip XX: 10-01-2007

DEMETRIUS VERTTRONI
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Height: 6' 2"
Genetic Balance: 100% Human

Demetrius is a friend of Cass' and a fellow senior at Unassuming-Yet-Ridiculously-Well-Funded Private School for Burgeoning Scientific Minds. He doesn’t talk much, because he is literally incapable of forming proper sentences. He is a savant in his field of biological studies, however his intellect came with a steep price. He is afflicted with a type of aphasia. While capable of understanding the English language, his mind somehow can’t work the other way and form sentences of its own.

Genetics Competition Project: His project involves using bio-engineered creatures as ballistic weapons.
First Appearance: Strip XI: 08-31-2007

GENETIC EXPERIMENT THIRTEEN
Gender: Female
Age: 6 months
Height: 5' 7"
Genetic Balance: 60% Human, 40% Feline

Thirteen was designed by Morty Montovarius as one of his many forays into the world of genetics. She is his first successful, fully-grown sentient creature, and as such he treats her like a companion rather than an experiment. Thirteen is eager to help her creator, and her admiration for his intelligence and passion for his work has lead her to idolize him. She insists on calling him "Master."

Despite her short time in the world, she has learned a great deal of scientific knowledge from Morty's research and is eager to help him in any way she can.

Personal: Created by Mortimer Montovarius.
First Appearance: Strip IX: 08-24-2007

ASHTON AUGUST ACKERMAN
Aliases: ASH, TRIPLE-A
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Height: 5' 7"
Genetic Balance: 115% Human
Body Modifications: Extra pair of arms

Ash is another student at the Jennifer Attic Unassuming-Yet-Ridiculously-Well-Funded Private School for Burgeoning Scientific Minds. He is often high-spirited and in a joking mood.

Genetics Competition Project: He is recklessly attaching extra body parts onto himself in order to test out a special gene therapy that will grant transplanted organs a 100%-acceptance rate. He has already attached another person's arms onto his torso. Unfortunately, though his body isn’t rejecting the new arms, the new arms are rejecting him.
First Appearance: Strip VI: 08-17-2007

DR. JENNIFER ATTIC
Alias: JEN
Gender: Female
Age: 47
Height: 5' 7"
Genetic Balance: 100% Human

Founder and President of Unassuming-Yet-Ridiculously-Well-Funded Private School for Burgeoning Scientific Minds. She holds a PhD in genetics and is well-known for her work mapping several forms of plant and animal DNA, including consultant work for the Human Genome Project.

Following the incident at the fundraiser, Jen became infuriated at both Morty and Cass, as the two had both been present when her daughter Keris was transformed. She demanded they appear in her office on Monday morning following an investigation she is conducting, at which time she will presumably label the culprit and give appropriate disciplinary action.

Personal: Married to Sinbad Attic. Mother of three children, including Keris Attic.
First Appearance: Strip V: 08-15-2007

SINBAD MAXIMILIAN ATTIC
Alias: SIN
Gender: Male
Age: 42
Height: 5' 5"
Genetic Balance: 100% Human

A former used-car salesman who—somehow—met and won the heart of scientific legend Jennifer Attic. His mid-life crisis has driven him to become an aspiring “filmmaker” who leeches off Jen’s vast fortune in order to pursue reckless and fruitless video endeavors. He is currently working on a documentary of his wife’s school.

Personal: Married to Dr. Jennifer Attic. Father of three children, including Keris Attic.
First Appearance: Strip V: 08-15-2007

Keris' Current State

Keris' Original State

KERIS M. ATTIC
Gender: Female
Age: 17 (84 in dog years)
Height: 5' 2"
Genetic Balance: 65% Human, 35% Canine (Poodle, specifically)

Keris is a senior at her mother’s private school. She is an untalented brat who thinks she’s much more deserving than she really is. Although she’s a knockout physically speaking, she still thinks she could appear prettier.

At a fundraiser for the Senior Genetics Competition, Morty tried to test his latest invention on Keris. Instead of only enhancing her female figure, however, a malfunction caused her Poodle's DNA to merge with her, creating a giant half-human, half-dog creation that then terrorized the event. Noah was able to reverse some of the changes, relieving the strain on her body and restoring her mental faculties.

Personal: Daugher of Sinbad Attic and Jennifer Attic
Genetics Competition Project: Her project is a haphazard combination of all sorts of beauty products designed to augment the body of its user. There is nothing specifically genetic about it, however, as Keris’ knowledge of how to manipulate genes is almost nonexistent.
First Appearance: Strip XV: 09-14-2007