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Cassie | Animorphs | Reserved
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Canon: Animorphs
Canon Point: After the rest of the Animorphs leave Earth to save Ax (book #54, "The Beginning").
Background/History: Animorphs. (And Cassie's wikia).
Personality: Cassie is, in a word, compassionate. Her caring, empathetic personality makes it easy for others to come to her for advice and comfort. She is quite perceptive and sensitive to the way that others feel, and her warmth tends to encourage others to open up about their problems to her. With the Animorphs, she sometimes acted as the ‘team therapist’ when it got rough, and she was usually the ‘mediator’ and peace-maker when problems arose.
In addition, animals have always been a huge part of Cassie’s life. Back before the war went public, her father ran a Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic for injured wildlife out of the family’s barn, and her mother worked as the head vet for a zoo within an amusement park called ‘The Gardens.’ This family legacy, no doubt, helped Cassie develop a deep love for nature and animals, and also led to her desire to become a vet when she was older. She was considered the tree-hugger and nature-lover of the group, and Marco sometimes jokingly referred to her as "Earth Mother" because of it. But, her love of animals also meant that there was a constant struggle in her about the morality of using morphs, and of killing other sentient creatures.
At her core, Cassie is a good-hearted and peaceful person. But her ability to sense and anticipate the way that others feel and think has allowed her to sometimes manipulate -- or, at least, help others to manipulate -- someone when it’s needed. This was especially seen in the case of David, as she was the mastermind behind the plan to trap him as a rat. She not only guessed his emotions correctly, but predicted his reactions ahead of time and, based on that, came up with the plan to have him trapped. And it worked perfectly. David, as Cassie knew he would, fell for the various tricks that the Animorphs employed on him, particularly since a lot of it fed his growing ego.
There are also some times where Cassie can be seen as hypocritical -- she always tried to hold strong to her morals, but yet still participated in the killing. One example in particular was when Jake flushed nearly seventeen thousand helpless Yeerks into space to die. While it clearly caused her some internal conflict and discomfort (seen later on, when Marco tries to explain to Jake that it was necessary, and Cassie shies away from agreeing with him or offering her own opinion, and even appears to be a bit uncertain about it), Cassie initially tries to justify it to Erek -- and almost says that they’d massacred so many helpless Yeerks merely as a diversion.
The Drode, the Crayak’s lackey, once described her as a ‘killer with a conscience’. Cassie is a strongly moral person, and always questioned whether war and violence was the best choice to make to counter the Yeerks’ invasion. While, as an Animorph, she naturally needed to be violent and kill others, there were times where Cassie would seek out an alternative way to deal with an issue. She was sometimes even sympathetic towards her enemies to the point that it was detrimental to herself and others. At one point, after she’d quit the Animorphs, Cassie agreed to become a nothlit caterpillar (AKA become stuck as one the rest of her life) if a Yeerk, named Aftran, would free the little girl that she controlled. By doing this, she had to trust that her worst enemy -- an alien that had participated in the last few years of enslaving the human race -- would not only keep her word and release the girl, but also not merely squish Cassie as a caterpillar. Cassie also handed the Escafil device (the cube that gave morphing powers) to their enemy and Jake’s brother Tom, solely that so Jake wouldn’t have to kill his own brother. Both of these choices didn’t go over very well with the rest of the Animorphs, but they were things Cassie felt she needed to do.
However, even as dangerous as her actions have sometimes been, there has always tended to be a positive gain in the long run. The Yeerk Aftran eventually formed the Yeerk Peace Movement, a group of Yeerks that only took voluntary controllers and searched for a way to coexist with their hosts peacefully, even if it meant the Yeerk would have no host. And letting Tom’s Yeerk have the morphing cube showed the Yeerks another way, besides controlling others, to gain all the senses that they lacked in their natural form. So while her actions can sometimes be seen as reckless, there always seems to be a certain foresight to what she does. Cassie even argues to Ax, while trying to justify her actions in letting the Yeerks have the morphing cube, that she hoped it would show the Yeerks another way to live without controlling hosts. And, as some of the other characters have pointed out throughout the series, Cassie is able to pick out the subtle connections and possibilities that most other people don’t (or refuse to) see.
After the war ended, Cassie settled into the role one would expect her to. She became an activist and spokesperson for the now free Hork-Bajir population, and became an adviser on the President’s sub-cabinet on matters that concerned the aliens that lived on Earth now. She also spent some of her time traveling around as an animal conservationist (still trying to save the world, even after the world had been saved), and took night classes with the intent to become a vet. Out of all the Animorphs, Cassie, as well as Marco, were perhaps the only ones to move on from the war. Cassie even mentions that the two of them have ‘prospered’ while the others had a much rougher time handling life after the war.
So while Cassie may look young, she is very far from naive or inexperienced. The few years that she spent as an Animorph packed an entire lifetime of experiences in war, gore, death, slavery, and violence into her. Cassie had to grow up fast, and she -- along with the other Animorphs -- have been through a lot.
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There are drawbacks to this power, however. The first is that an animal's instincts come included with each morph. This means that it's sometimes a gamble to see if the Animorph will be able to control/ignore the animal's innate (sometimes incredible strong) instincts. But even more notably, anyone that stays past the two hour limit will stay trapped as that particular morph forever (this is what's known as a 'nothlit').
Items/Weapons:
+ Morphing suit
+ McCurnin's Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians
Sample Entry: [ Even three years past the end of the war, even after she and the rest of the Animorphs had been out about their identities, Cassie couldn't shake that basic instinct to be overly cautious. She had no idea if the Yeerks were present in this place, in this new dimension. If they had control over the population or not.
If they were hostile or not.
So instead of video, Cassie switches on the voice function. Her tone is friendly, if not a bit confused and cautious: ] Well, this is definitely weird [ yet she should almost be used to it, right? The Ellimist had whisked the Animorphs away to different planets and dimensions on more than one occasion -- a notion that made her confident about her attempt at discretion. ]
So yeah, um. [ Wooo, yeah. Fumble fumble fumble. That's the famous "Earth Mother" Cassie for you. Talking to a group of people had never been her biggest strength, even if it was just her voice. Marco may've enjoyed the limelight and his new-found celebrity status, but it'd never meshed well with her. ] Hi everyone! I'm one of the newbies, if that wasn't obvious enough.
[ But judging by the confused looks on the people that had woken up with her, she wasn't the only one that felt this way. ]
So anyways. Can anyone out there fill me in a little bit more?
Sample Entry Two: It was early, at a time where the city was still sleepy and quiet and the sun had just barely peeked above the horizon. Cassie had taken a bus as close to the outskirts of the city as she could manage, then rode her bike the rest of the way to the forest. Once there, she dismounted and leaned the bike against one of the trees.
She took a deep breath and inhaled the familiar smells of the forest, the earthy scent of leaves and dirt and bark. It caused a dull pang of nostalgia in her, made her miss home a little bit and all the memories that came with it. Cassie had moved out from her parents' house not too soon after the war had ended, and she'd been too busy with her work to come visit all that often. It was a little hard to, when one day she'd find herself in Yellowstone working with Toby and the rest of the Hork-Bajir population, then the next day she'd be whisked off via a private government jet to some rain forest somewhere.
Not that she hadn't completely loved her job. She'd had the opportunities to make a difference once again, to help animals and people and aliens all over the world. But somehow, in the back of her mind, she always wondered if that was terrible of her. If the fact that she enjoyed her life, now, after the war, somehow made her a bad person. The only other person to make it out of the war without some sort of mental breakdown was Marco -- but you could expect that from Marco. He rolled with the punches, he was resilient, adaptive. He looked for the humor in everything.
And Cassie, herself, had done her best to look on the bright side of it all and make peace with what had happened. To recognize that yes, terrible things had happened in the war. They'd lost loved ones. They'd seen horrible things. God, they'd done horrible things. But sometimes you had to acknowledge that, and you had to mourn, but then you had to move forward and lift up your head and take care of what you had now.
And now, Cassie wanted to let herself relax.
So she closed her eyes and concentrated.
Coarse gray fur flowed down her body in waves until it covered her entire body, while her bones cracked, shifted, twisted. Her face pushed forward into the muzzle of a canid, and her nose turned a dark, wet black. Suddenly her senses became sharper -- the air was filled with a thousand different, subtle scents that she could pick out. Her ears could distinguish fainter sounds: the rustle of leaves, the happy slosh of water in a nearby river, the flutter of a bird in a tree far above.
And after a few more seconds, Cassie stood on all fours as a wolf.
It was her original battle morph, the same morph that she'd used so many times to rip out the throats of countless Controllers -- Taxxons, Hork-Bajirs, sometimes even humans. It had always had the potential to be destructive. Less so than everyone else's morphs had been, but that'd been a decision she'd made herself. She hadn't ever wanted to severely injure the Controllers, because she'd known that buried deep down inside those often hate-filled eyes, there was an innocent host. Thus, the wolf morph had been perfect for that.
But even moreso, the wolf was totally at ease in the forest. It may not be her pack's territory here, but it was her native environment, it was home base. And Cassie let herself sink into that ease, that predatory calm, and started out into the forest at a quick trot.
-> ACCEPTED