Cassidy Casablancas

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Cassidy Casablancas

Kyle Gallner as Cassidy Casablancas.
First appearance M.A.D.
Last appearance Not Pictured
Cause/Reason Suicide
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Gender Male
Family Richard Casablancas, Sr. (father)
Betina Casablancas (mother)
Kendall Casablancas (step-mother, deceased)
Dick Casablancas (brother)
Relationships Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie (girlfriend)
Portrayed by Kyle Gallner
Created by Rob Thomas

Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas is a fictional character on The CW television series Veronica Mars, portrayed by actor Kyle Gallner. He was a series regular during the second season.

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[edit] Background

Cassidy, known to many as "Beaver" (a nickname he despises), is the son of one of Neptune, California's richest men, Richard Casablancas, and younger brother of town bully Dick Casablancas. Cassidy hangs around with his older brother Dick a lot, even though they don't always get along. Despite his unspoken reservations, Cassidy participates in the questionable activities carried out by Dick and his friend Logan Echolls.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Dick and Cassidy provided an alibi for Logan even though he had returned to Neptune the day of Lilly Kane's murder. Eventually, Cassidy told Veronica Mars that they had lied to the police.

During Veronica's investigation of her rape at Shelley Pomroy's party, she discovered Dick had encouraged Cassidy to rape her while she was unconscious to lose his virginity. Cassidy, however, denied it. He told Veronica that he ran out of the room and threw up, after realizing that he could not go through with it.

Cassidy is extremely needy as a result of the emotional neglect he suffers at the hands of his father, who openly favors Dick and Logan over him. When his father remarried a younger woman, Kendall Casablancas, Cassidy told Veronica that he suspected she was having an affair and hired Veronica to find proof. In the process, Veronica exposed Cassidy's father's real estate scam. Cassidy's father quickly abandoned his family and fled the country.

After a failed request to move back in with his birth mother, Cassidy and Kendall started a new real estate business to make money. With help from Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie as his tech girl, he created a company named Phoenix Land Trust, using Kendall as the on-paper "owner" of the company, as Cassidy was underage. The Trust bought up cheap properties outside the proposed borders for the City of Neptune, a risky move that bet heavily against passage of incorporation.

Cassidy and Mac soon began dating but their relationship fell apart when he refused to become sexually intimate with her. When she mentioned to Cassidy that she had gone to Veronica for advice, Cassidy abruptly dumped her for bringing Veronica into his personal life.

In the second season finale, "Not Pictured", it is revealed that he was among the boys molested by Woody Goodman. Veronica discovers that not only did Cassidy set up the bus crash to kill Woody's other victims, who intended to come forward, but he was also responsible for many of the events of the first two seasons such as orchestrating the exposure of Richard Casablancas' real estate fraud, and Woody Goodman's fall from public favor. It is also discovered that what Cassidy had told Veronica in Season 1 was a lie; he had raped Veronica after all, giving her chlamydia in the process, which he had, in turn, contracted after being molested by Woody. After Cassidy blows up the plane bringing Goodman back to Neptune following his arrest, he tries to kill Veronica. Logan stops him, however, and Cassidy commits suicide by jumping off the roof.

Some fans have interpreted Cassidy's characterization to mean he was also in fact gay. [1] Evidence that this was the writers' intention, are in his snide references to his brother and father's views of masculinity, his reluctance in being physically affectionate with Mac and his rape of Veronica which some have taken to be his desperate attempt to prove his heterosexuality. Other evidence of this occurs in "Welcome Wagon" when Dick tells Mac that she was just Cassidy's beard. Two of the students on the bus, who Cassidy had intended to kill were Marcos Oliveres and Peter Ferrer, both also molested by Woody Goodman, both of whom were gay. The latter had also planned to "out" every gay student in Neptune High. However, Cassidy's behavior could also be a result of the sexual abuse - countering that, though, Veronica suggested that to rape her while she was unconscious meant he could imagine "whatever it is [he] needed to imagine", implying that being abused did not render Cassidy asexual, further implying that he is gay.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Appearances

[edit] Season 1

[edit] Season 2

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.afterelton.com/TV/2006/5/veronicamars.html The Good, the Bad, and the Gay on the Season Finale of Veronica Mars


Veronica Mars
Episode List | Cast | Official Website
Current Main Characters Veronica Mars | Logan Echolls | Wallace Fennel | Dick Casablancas
Parker Lee | Stosh "Piz" Piznarski | Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie
Eli “Weevil” Navarro | Keith Mars
Former Main Characters Mallory Dent | Duncan Kane | Cassidy Casablancas | Jackie Cook | Don Lamb
Family Kendall Casablancas | Terrence Cook | Aaron Echolls | Lynn Echolls | Trina Echolls
Alicia Fennel | Celeste Kane | Jake Kane | Lilly Kane | Lianne Mars | Charlie Stone
Neptune High Van Clemmons | Vincent Clemmons | Corny | Gia Goodman | Hannah Griffith
Rebecca James | Meg Manning | Madison Sinclair | Felix Toombs | Troy Vandegraff
Hearst College Tim Foyle | Mercer Hayes | Hank Landry | Cyrus O'Dell | Moe Slater
Residents of Neptune Leo D'Amato | Liam Fitzpatrick | Woody Goodman | Abel Koontz
Cliff McCormack | Mindy O'Dell | Vinnie Van Lowe | Clarence Wiedman
Places Neptune, California | Neptune Grand | Camelot Motel
Neptune High | Hearst College
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