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<td valign="top">[[Image:Sean.jpg|left|100px]]'''[[Banshee]]:''' Former police officer and Interpol agent, Sean Cassidy retired to become a teacher at [[Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters| Xavier's]] in order to heal the rift between himself and his estranged daughter, [[Theresa Cassidy]].
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<td valign="top">[[Image:Banshee Card.png|left|100px]]'''[[Sean Cassidy - Phase 1|Banshee]]:''' Sean Cassidy was an Interpol agent for many years, who believed his wife and infant daughter had been killed in an IRA bombing in 1988. Ten years later, he was stunned to find [[Theresa Cassidy - Phase 1| Theresa]] had survived, raised by his cousin, rival and unashamed criminal, "Black" [[Tom Cassidy - Phase 1|Tom Cassidy]]. Unable to cope with a daughter raised to hate him, their mutual sonic powers threatening to destroy the ancient family home of [[Cassidy Keep]] when they fought, Sean sent her to Xavier's. Five years later he took early retirement from Interpol and took a teaching position at the school, determined to try and reconcile with his daughter. Some inroads were made, but Sean was frequently called back to Ireland by the demands of former cases and his position of Lord of the Keep. When Interpol came calling again, offering Sean a consultant position, he took it - his parting gift to his daughter and her new husband, [[Bobby Drake - Phase 1 | Bobby Drake]], was the custodianship of Cassidy Keep, and a promise to return whenever she needed him.
  
Sean was raised as a Catholic in Northern Ireland in the 50s and 60s, when the discrimination of the Stormont Parliament was at it's height. The only child of a single mother, he found a father figure in his uncle Thomas, and a surrogate brother in his cousin Tom, spending a great deal of time at his uncle's keep in Country Mayo, across the border in the Irish Republic, especially after he hit puberty and his mutation manifested, making use of the empty countryside surrounding the Keep to learn to control his sonic powers without risk to others.
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Sean's powers, like Terry's, are sonic based - he can project sounds of various frequencies, which he can focus to the extent that they only affect one person, or allow to be heard over a wide area. The sounds can be of such volume and frequency that they can also have a concussive effect. Futher users: can use the sound he generates to fly, and has also learned over the years to inculde frequencies outside the range of normal human hearing in his normal speaking voice such that it can have a mild hypnotic effect. Sean cannot speak while flying, or indulging in the more agressive uses of his power.  
  
Raised to believe the violence solved nothing, and that the best way to effect change is from wihin the system, after completing a history degree at Trinity College (where he first met a young [[Charles Xavier]], himself in Dublin doing postgrad work), he joined the police, and subsequently Interpol.
 
  
Meanwhile, Tom and his father were growing increasingly estranged, as Tom began to become involved with paramilitary organizations (generally in small time crime and a supply role, rather than actual paramilitary action).  When Thomas died, he left the Keep, and his sizeable fortune to Sean. Despite this, Sean remained on good terms with Tom, who continued to use the Keep as his home whenever he was in the area - Sean turned a blind eye to most of Tom's illegal activity, provided that he kept it away from the Keep.  Even when the pair met Maeve, and were briefly rivals for her affections before she chose Sean, they remained on good terms - Tom seemed to accept Sean and Maeve's happiness with good grace.
 
 
Sean began to be promoted within Interpol, and was away from home more and more.  When Maeve fell pregnant, however, he made arrangement to be transfered to a division that would allow him to spend more time at home, after he closed of a last few cases. It was unfortunate, then, that Sean was away doing undercover work, and Tom was about the house to look after the heavily pregnant Maeve when Theresa was born almost a month early.  Shortly after being released from hospital, Maeve took Theresa to visit relatives in Antrim, and was killed in a bomb blast, an IRA attack on the town.  Tom took the opportunity to spirit Theresa away, telling Sean's friends and relatives that the child had been killed as well.
 
 
It was ten years later, when Tom was arrested for theft, that Sean discovered the truth, and was reunited with Theresa. Sadly, it turned out that the workaholic Sean simply wasn't equipped to balance his demanding job and a teenage daughter who bitterly resented him, and when he proved unable to teach to control her emerging powers, he sadly sent to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.
 
 
A few years later, as soon as the opportuity presented itself, Sean took early retirement to join his daughter at Xavier's as a teacher, determined to make an attempt to patch things up with her.  After several false starts, the pair were starting to make slow progress, when Sean found that he needed to return to Ireland to deal with new government regulations regarding the upkeep of their historical family home. Before he left, Terry told him of her accidental marriage to [[Bobby Drake]]; to her surprise, he didn't go after Bobby with a shotgun, although he was amused at the circumstances of their nuptials.
 
 
Sean returned to Cassidy Keep in [[October 2006]]. In [[February 2007]], Sean was offered and accepted an offer to return to Interpol, and made his daughter and her husband trustees of the Keep in his absence.
 
 
Sean's powers, like Terry's, are sonic based - he can project sounds of various frequencies, which he can focus to the extent that they only affect one person, or allow to be heard over a wide area. The sounds can be of such volume and frequency that they can also have a concussive effect. Futher users: can use the sound he generates to fly, and has also learned over the years to inculde frequencies outside thwe range of normal human hearing in his normal speaking voice such that it can have a mild hypnotic effect. Sean cannot speak while flying, or indulging in the more agressive uses of his power.
 
 
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Banshee: Sean Cassidy was an Interpol agent for many years, who believed his wife and infant daughter had been killed in an IRA bombing in 1988. Ten years later, he was stunned to find Theresa had survived, raised by his cousin, rival and unashamed criminal, "Black" Tom Cassidy. Unable to cope with a daughter raised to hate him, their mutual sonic powers threatening to destroy the ancient family home of Cassidy Keep when they fought, Sean sent her to Xavier's. Five years later he took early retirement from Interpol and took a teaching position at the school, determined to try and reconcile with his daughter. Some inroads were made, but Sean was frequently called back to Ireland by the demands of former cases and his position of Lord of the Keep. When Interpol came calling again, offering Sean a consultant position, he took it - his parting gift to his daughter and her new husband, Bobby Drake, was the custodianship of Cassidy Keep, and a promise to return whenever she needed him.

Sean's powers, like Terry's, are sonic based - he can project sounds of various frequencies, which he can focus to the extent that they only affect one person, or allow to be heard over a wide area. The sounds can be of such volume and frequency that they can also have a concussive effect. Futher users: can use the sound he generates to fly, and has also learned over the years to inculde frequencies outside the range of normal human hearing in his normal speaking voice such that it can have a mild hypnotic effect. Sean cannot speak while flying, or indulging in the more agressive uses of his power.