Character Discussion: Cassie

[buffyangellvr23]

Here goes...the character who often seems to get the most negativity, and sometimes it's for good reason. I know my LJ folder is gonna be swamped this week, but I'll turn you loose anyway LOL

I do like the animal loving part myself...but there are things that some of you say about her that I can see as well...both positive and negative.

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I adore the phrase "Karma Houdini" :)

[natural_blue_26]

-David. Her belief that killing him would be immoral ends up sentencing him to a fate worse than death. We even see in #48 that this was a really bad move on her part.

YES. I would have liked to see this actually DEALT with within the group so MUCH. I get the suspenseful fade to black and all that, but, come one, Cassie had to have SOMETHING to say about it afterwards when she's not in giant doom!box. D:

-#28. Marco's curse-out to her in the middle of the book is so epic.

You? Marco? Noooooooooo ;) ;)

-The beginning of #19. Marco and Rachel just RIP INTO HER in the beginning. And you know, they're right. They're in too deep to quit. And she does decide to come back. And she loses her friendship with Rachel anyway. God, I love #19.

Really? This is why I dislike 19. ;) But I honestly don't think she said it meaning to hurt Rachel *on purpose*. (They were never going to last through the war intact anyways, but 19/54+ is not that far.) It's just... Think about it, and THEN insert your foot in your mouth if you're really sure you still need to.

Where is the line and why is it so easy to say that none exists? The fact that Cassie brings up these questions in a kids' series is just one of the many things that makes Animorphs a cut above most grade 3-5 books.

I give you that- I actually liked Cassie un-ghostwritten at the start of series for this. (->Also, my brother makes dumn Holocaust side arguements too.)

Re: I adore the phrase "Karma Houdini" :)

[lisacharly]

Yeah, David kind of...only gets mentioned what, three times after the fact? #48 and #45 and...somewhere else? I don't know. For such a gamechanging trilogy it really should have been mentioned more.

Marco gives the best curse-outs. Fact. Except for Rachel's "you just said the whole world can go to hell so long as you, Cassie, don't end up turning into me" line, which just wins the championships of curse-outs.

No, Cassie certainly didn't mean to hurt Rachel most. She was being self-absorbed and desperate and didn't realize the effect her words would have on any of the other members (Jake for losing her as his gf, Marco for trying to quit when she was such an advocate of HIM staying on the team, Tobias because he can't quit even if he wants to, Rachel for implying that the worst thing that can happen to her is to be numb to the violence - I don't think Ax cared all that much).

Re: I adore the phrase "Karma Houdini" :)

[natural_blue_26]

All very good points.

Except for Rachel's "you just said the whole world can go to hell so long as you, Cassie, don't end up turning into me" line, which just wins the championships of curse-outs.

TANGENT RACHEL LOVE FOR BEING A DO NOT MESS WITH ME BITCH BADASS :DDD

Re: I adore the phrase "Karma Houdini" :)

[lisacharly]

BTW, Karma Houdini is from TVTropes. I wish I could say I copywrote it.

Re: I adore the phrase "Karma Houdini" :)

[natural_blue_26]

Shhhhhhhhhh- I won't tell if you don't ;) ;)