Cassie (Animorphs)

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Cassie is a fictional character from the sci-fi book series Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate. Her last name is never mentioned.

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[edit] Biography

Cassie is an African American teenager, and lives on her farm with her mother and father. Before the Human-Yeerk war, Cassie hoped to become a veterinarian. Her barnhouse is the Animorphs' primary meeting place, due to its relative seclusion and the availability of various animals for possible morphs, due to it being the home of Cassie's father's Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic.

She is perceptive, clever, and often is aware of others' motives and feelings, sometimes even before they are. This develops into an ability to manipulate her enemies and allies as well as anticipate their actions, most notably with the Animorphs' traitor, David. Many of the other Animorphs also come to Cassie for comfort or advice, thanks to her empathetic nature. However, she often gives them her advice whether they ask for it or not. She is also the most knowledgeable about animals, which supplies the group with important knowledge; she seems to have many qualities of an environmentalist and may be a vegetarian. She is best friends with Rachel, even though they are completely opposite, with Rachel being far more fashion and socially oriented than her; despite their differences, they are self-professed 'BFFs'. Cassie maintains a casual romantic relationship with Jake throughout the series, but they end up parting ways.

Cassie is an estreen, a natural morpher, meaning that she is able to control the morphing process better than the other Animorphs, and even Ax, all of whom agree about her unique morphing talent. In The Andalite Chronicles, Elfangor mentions that on the Andalite homeworld there are professional estreens who make morphing into an art form.

In Back to Before, the Drode (representing Crayak) and the Ellimist make a deal, which allows the Drode to change the past, on Jake's request, so that the Animorphs never met Elfangor. However, throughout the alternate timeline, Cassie senses something is wrong, and indeed soon the reality begins to fall apart. When the thing completely disintergrates, the Drode and Ellimist show up, and reveal that Cassie is a space-time "anomaly," and that as a result her very existence broke down the false timeline, as well as allowed her to see beyond it. It is revealed in this book that the Animorphs were unknowingly brought together by the Ellimist, as part of the intergalactic game. The Drode accuses that the Ellimist "stacked the deck." The supposedly random group of humans contains "the freak of nature (Cassie, an anomaly), Visser One's host's son (Marco), Elfangor's brother (Ax), and Elfangor's time-lost son (Tobias)." From there the Ellimist added two other humans with strong traits of leadership, confidence, and fierce bravery to lead the pack; cousins Jake and Rachel. After the alternate reality collapses, Cassie is the only one to remember the incident, albeit dimly.

Cassie is the moralist of the group and often worries, much more than some of the others, about the costs of the war. This had led her to many dangerous and sometimes hypocritical actions -- she convinced a Yeerk named Aftran, to join the Yeerk Peace Movement (composed of Yeerks who have a peaceful alliance with their human hosts). But this attitude also leads her to make, quite possibly, the most dangerous choice in the war -- she lets Tom take the Escafil device in order to stop Jake from having to kill his own brother, even though it meant their enemies would gain the ability to morph in the process (This decision is one of the factors that ended the war with the Yeerks).

After the war, Cassie becomes something of an activist working for the free Hork-Bajir, along with her friend and love interest Ronnie Chambers; she is, at the age of nineteen, admitted to the president's sub-cabinet as advisor on the Hork-Bajir and resident aliens. She describes herself and Marco as the only two to really thrive when the war was done (and she is arguably even more successful than he, as he admits to being bored out of his mind). She is the only Animorph who does not go to save Ax -- but only on Jake's insistence that she not do so, as he knew that she could do more good, and be happier, doing what she did on Earth. At the end of the series Cassie is the only Animorph remaining on Earth, and, as the others' fate is not revealed, she may be the only Animorph to survive.

[edit] Family

  • Michelle is Cassie's mother, and the head veterinarian at The Gardens' zoo. Cassie uses this connection to allow the other Animorphs to enter the facility in order to acquire their first battle morphs in The Invasion.
  • Walter is Cassie's father who stays at home and runs the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic in their barn. In The Alien he makes his signature chili, which Ax wolfs down while in Jake morph. Walter owns an old, beat-up truck to pick up injured animals and run errands; this truck is later destroyed in The Andalite's Gift as the Animorphs use it in an attempt to outrun the Veleek dust-monster. The only thing he likes about the replacement truck is its CD player; Cassie once mentioned that he "still cries" over its destruction.
  • Cassie mentions in book #37, The Weakness (chapter 8, page 47), that she has a niece. This indicates that she might have an older sibling, whose existence is never otherwise implied in the series. The "niece" could be the daughter of an older cousin.

[edit] Cassie's morphs

[edit] Cassie Toys

In 1999 three different Animorphs toys of Cassie were made. The larger one sold in stores turned into a wolf, and the smaller one part of a Taco Bell children's meal promotion, and turned into an anteater. She was also a part of the set of combiner animorphs which turned into a dinosaur.

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