#about cassius

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Yall know that one "Sleeping Next To Amicus ASMR" vid on youtube?

Consider: Cassius Edition.

Featuring!

More snoring! But its that high pitched super nassaly snore!

The sound of silky sheets being moved every 7 minutes!

Lovely exhales right next to your face!

Occassional sleepy mumbles of "goddamn modern... bullshit..."

Whimpers of a man who hasnt had a peaceful rest in 13 years!

And more!

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Hey there! I hope you're doing well 😊

Just wondering, what is caretaker Cass like? Not sure we've ever seen that side of him!

Depends what kinda Cass and what kinda care-taking we’re talking about. But, broad strokes, Cass as a caretaker is the epitome of Worried™.

If Cass can find an alternate caretaker while he hovers on the sidelines, he will. Not because he’s lazy or doesn’t care but because he has absolutely no faith i his ability to not make things worse. If he can’t find someone else to caretake, he will become very bossy in the “the doctor told you to keep it elevated” kind of way. He will also go out of his way to make sure the person has as much as he can provide for them.

Like “okay so I got you a glass of water and some Panadol and some throat lozanges and also another glass of water in case you finish the first one and two blankets because the first one is warm but a bit scratchy and the second one is soft but a bit thin so I figured they’d cancel each out and I got you some snacks so you don’t have to go to the kitchen and I can turn the heater on if you want but the doctor told me to make sure you weren’t too hot and oh that reminds me I need to take your temperature again...” etc.

Once he knows what he’s doing and gets over his initial gonna-make-it-worse anxiety, he’s actually a pretty good caretaker. He’ll pretend like this is all in a day and remain generally calm and nonchalant externally, even if internally freaking out a little. He’s systematic so he doesn’t fuck anything up and patient and gets a lot of satisfaction out of helping other people.

If he’s caretaking in the emotional sense, he will be very still and quiet, responding directly and emphatically to the needs of the person in distress. Whatever they’re going through, feeling, wanting, Cass would lay bets he’s been there too. As long as he’s not also having an episode himself and he knows its not directed at him, he’s not afraid of strong emotions. He’s more than happy to cop a couple of hits, or have someone cry on his shoulder, or sit in silence beside. Whatever.

After, though, he’ll be drained and withdrawn and have to take time to recouperate. He’s still not very good at giving without carving parts of himself out to do so.

Probably the closest we’ve seen to a caretaker Cass so far is in Dark Timeline, when @evermetnotforgotten’s Lev gets shot. Cass pulls out all the stops to make sure he’s okay. He stays at the hospital right through his surgery and then sleeps by his bed until he wakes. He makes sure Lev has the things that are important to him close and tries to make him feel as safe as possible, including bringing him home to the Estate. Cassius Bergen has a notably more resources than Cass Drake ever would and uses all of them to make sure his dumbass drove-to-die-in-your-arms-not-to-a-hospital boyfriend recovers.

[cassiusmulcibermock-blog]

                                           CASSIUS MULCIBER

he wore his hatred like a cruel second skin;

                                                        look how his hands drip with innocent blood.

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While walking down the street, a black kitten scurried across the path. Upon further inspection, it had small black horns coming out of the sides of its head, shaped similarly to ram’s horns. The kitten dropped a note at your feet, mewled, then promptly caught on fire and ran away, vanishing. The note read, in a strange script:

“What is your character’s most controversial opinion? Is it related to food? Politics? The logistics of human nature?”

At the bottom, it was signed “Azrael, @oc-ask-demon”

Strong warnings for victim blaming and rape culture ethos

It would not be an opinion he readily voices but Cass holds tight to the belief “if you liked it/enjoyed it, it probably wasn’t rape” until he’s a good few years into therapy. It’s definitely one of the Trauma Opinions he holds onto the longest and definitely one he lies about believing because he knows it’s not something he should say or think

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CASS VIBES u say of the muse blinding himself to the hands greedily consuming him, arching into them like if he presses close enough of his own accord they'll take him gentler

FUCK YOU NELL I DIDN'T NEED MY HEART ANYWAY JUST TAKE IT

Cass Vibes I Say.

u get it, vic, you get it perfectly 🥰

(this stunning image, for the curious)

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Wait have we found out how old Cass was when he went to Bergen? Is it a secret?

It’s not a secret so much as a detail I could never really settle on for a long while! But he was quite freshly eighteen.

Cassius was scooped up by Christopher’s program because he was in youth detention and about to be transferred to an adult prison. A billionaires mansion sounded like a pretty attractive alternative.

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What does Cass usually dress like?

Cass will dress more or less in whatever clothes he’s provided with. He’s not particularly fussy or connected to what he wears. (Cassius Bergen is another kettle of fish entirely though and probably deserves his own wardrobe post tbh)

At Bergen Estate, he wears the same clothes as the rest of Christopher’s charges unless Christopher has decided to dress him in something specific.

At The Facility he generally wears the company provided clothes, though he does make a semi-conciliatory habit of nabbing different layers from people when he’s out and about. Again, if Tucker needs him to do something specific, a suit or collared shirt will be provided.

A Cass left to his own devices will gravitate to something grungey, comfy, and layered. Jeans and a t-shirt, some sort of flannel, a jacket that definitely isn’t his, or at least wasnt when he started wearing it. Clothes you can nap in.

Pictures under the cut in case anyone is curious!

Bergen Estate looks:

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“Company issue” Facility Clothing. Probably not always in beige:

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A Cass left to his own devices:

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But you’re gonna make him though, aren’t you? Let him go to uni?

Cass you mean? Honestly, he probably won’t, unless it was much further along in the future. He wants to, but he technically never finished high school so he’ll need to do that first which he may do or he may not.

Studying is something he wants more in terms of yearning for a life he coulda woulda shoulda had rather than something he wants deep down. There are a lot of “normal” things that Cass wishes he could have had or done that he feels like were taken from him by either Christopher or the Facility. Study is one, even though he technically dropped out of school long before either were a part of his life.

Tertiary study really wouldn’t suit him and if he tried it, even after getting a high school certificate, he’d likely drop out or fail. His brain isn’t quite wired for it and he’d struggle asking for the accomodations he’d need. It just wouldn’t really be for him, and that’s okay! Cass doesn’t end up needing a uni degree, anyway. He ends up with a job he really likes and a full life without one.