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Who is...Theresa Cassidy | Siryn? - A Reading Guide
Theresa "Terry" Cassidy is an X-Men affiliated mutant from Marvel Comics first introduced in 1980. Terry is the daughter of Sean Cassidy (Banshee) and was raised by Tom Cassidy (Black Tom Cassidy) and Cain Marko (Juggernaut). She possesses her father's super-sonic scream and a hypnotic voice. Terry is most known for her affiliation with teams like X-Force and X-Factor, and having taken on the mantle of the ancient goddess, the Morrigan, in the 2010s.
Terry's central story deals with topics that may be triggering such as alcoholism, infant death (X-Factor 2005), and suicide (X-Factor 2020). These are all central themes to her story across the years, if you struggle with triggers related to these topics please proceed with caution and make sure to take care of yourself.
Reading list under the cut!
Crime and Muir Island
Terry's appearances open with her as a criminal alongside Black Tom Cassidy and the Juggernaut. Her heart, however, was not in it, and Tom helped her to reunite with her father, Sean, and Terry then split her time between her father's home and the Muir Island Mutant Research Facility.
Terry initially joined X-Force to stop her former father-figures, Tom and Cain, from bombing the World Trade Center but stayed with the team for its entire duration. While on the team Terry would become deputy leader, and with the help of Warpath would recover from alcoholism. Towards the end of the team's tenure Terry lost her voice and subsequently her powers- and would regain her voice/powers (bad), lose them again, and then regain her voice/powers again (good) with the help of her recurring romantic mistake, Deadpool.
Despite what the name might suggest, these are in fact different things. Terry's father, Sean, formed the paramilitary X-Corps, which was frankly a disaster that had to be reigned in by the X-Men, leaving Sean wounded. Terry joined X-Corporation, a secret branch of the X-Men who operated internationally.
New X-Men (2001) #128, 130
Domino (2003) #3 (just at the beginning)
Cable and Deadpool (2004) #15-18
X-Men: Deadly Genesis (2006) #6 (Sean is buried in this issue and Terry is present for the funeral in one panel at the end, important for her character)
X-Factor Investigations
Following the events of M-Day, Terry would join X-Factor Investigations and restart her relationship with Jamie Madrox that had first started back on Muir Island. During this period of time, Terry and Jamie lose their baby, and Terry will come to take on the mantle of the Morrigan.
After disappearing from comics for around 6-7 years following becoming an ancient Irish sovereignty, war, and death deity- Terry, like many mutants, came back on the mutant island nation of Krakoa. Things were not quite paradise here for her courtesy of some things with her dad (not his fault this time)- and also Leah Williams' complete bastardization of the Morrigan arc (in X-Factor 2020) which was literally Terry's last appearances, how fucking hard is it to read like 5 issues of comics Leah? How fucking hard could it possibly be? Terry has less than 300 appearances, get it together.
House of X (2019) #6
Hellions (2020) #1
X of Swords: Creation (2020) #1
X-Factor (2020) #4-10 (THIS IS LEAH WILLIAMS' AWFUL MORRIGAN ARC, BUT IT HAS TERRYLORNA CRUMBS AND REMEMBERS THAT SHATTERSTAR AND TERRY ARE CLOSE WHICH IS THE ONLY REASON IT'S EVEN READABLE)
X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic (2021) #26
X-Men: Hellfire Gala Confessionals Infinity Comic (2022) #1
X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic (2021) #50-55
After the Fall
Krakoa fell apart (as all things run by Charles Xavier do), and things are ROUGH for mutants now. We find Terry now imprisoned by the anti-mutant terrorist organization, Orchis, in the Greymalkin Prison.
Free Comic Book Day 2024 Blood Hunt/X-Men
EXTRA:
Wolverine: First Class (2008) #6, 16 (there's no clear place for these in continuity OR in Terry's established backstory, but it's cute and supposedly 616 so it's here)
Magik has learned to speak English since she last hung out with the Wolverine: First Class girlies and now she's making that everybody else's problem (featuring Jubilee)
Unlike last year's effort, Fear of Music is not presented chronologically. Unlike many other lists of 50, this one is not ordered from great to even better.
However. It makes sense to start in the year 2000, and it makes sense to start with one of the songs just scraping into the top 50. Two of the Uncool50 have been replaced, this is the only one where I had serious doubts about whether it still merited a place. (Does this suggest I skimped on research last year? Probably.)
"Reach" - written by Cathy Dennis and Ronnie Hazelhurst, performed by S Club 7 - a European hit single in summer 2000. It's the era of manufactured pop, bursting through like sunshine through the clouds. Those harmonies! The uplifting melody line!
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The whole century's going to be as fun and positive as this, right?
S Club 7 split less than two years later. Cathy Dennis wrote other big hits - I considered "Toxic" and "Can't get you out of my head", but neither survived into the top 100.
Eva Cassidy died in 1996. She was a natural musician - came up with three-part harmonies from nowhere, improvised with skill and precision - but never hit the record company leagues.
Indie label Blix Street had rights to Eva's live performances and studio records, and hawked them to tastemakers. One was Paul Walters, the producer of Terry Wogan's breakfast show on Radio 2.
From nowhere, Eva Cassiday was everywhere. Blix Street have eked out Eva's tiny back catalogue to a remarkable degree; I just hope they'll never try to use an autocomplete bot to "re-create" her.
"Over the rainbow" was written in the 1930s by Harold Arlen and Yip Harberg in 1938; I'd name Eva's as the definitive recording.
Warlord No. 318, dated 25 October 1980. Cassidy cover by Terry Patrick. I think the plane shown is a Fairey Firefly although it could be a Fairey Fulmar. DC Thomson.
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men (Comicverse)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sean Cassidy & Black Tom Cassidy, Black Tom Cassidy/Cain Marko, Sean Cassidy & Kevin MacTaggert, Black Tom Cassidy & Kevin MacTaggert, Theresa Cassidy & Kevin MacTaggert, Cain Marko & Kevin MacTaggert
Characters: Sean Cassidy, Black Tom Cassidy, Cain Marko, Theresa Cassidy, Kevin MacTaggert
Additional Tags: Found Family, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Abuse, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Child Neglect, this is set somewhere between Way of X of Legion of X
Summary:
It says something that the MacTaggerts and the Cassidys seem to keep finding each other. Kevin's just glad none of them are trying to fuck him, even if he isn't too sure about this whole family thing.
oh "X2 scene where scott is attacking jean and then snaps out if it and she's still trying to fight him off and he's like it's okay it's me it's me" we're really in it now
The concept here is to send in a question or a letter request, and you’ll get a response from your fictional character of choice, from the list below. Please stick to the list I’ve made, but of course, you can ask if there’s some other characters I write for, I don’t always remember all the shows, movies or books I’ve consumed over the years and I’m sure I’m missing a lot 😅
Status: New Characters added - Thursday March 21st, 2024