#cassii

[chocxchurro]

Meet cassii hehe.

their character hub profile will mention a cousin but yube doesnt have an official design yet woops </3

[sunnymimis]

More merchandise mimics! This time, Cassie's a part of the Kutsurogi Collection of stickers. Cassie loves going to the library on her days off! 📚

[garland-on-thy-brow]

(points at Gaius Cassius) Gay brother. (at Lucius Cassius) Emo brother. (at Quintus Cassius) Family failure.

Where the emo part is assigned arbitrary, only because the other two are obvious.

[chocxchurro]

@lucasterthewizard grahh got me thinkin bout them

funny thing is despite her trying to be cutsey and happy towards her fans tophi would absolutely DESPISE pinkie pie. even moreso being compared to her in appearance (she’s evil lolol evil kitties wont like childlike wonder/ laughter brah she’d want that gay ass deaddddddd sorry not sorry)

also. funny comparison of trixie with cassi. they’re not really similar personality wise but i’d think cassii can somewhat relate with trixie’s backstory (being misunderstood for doing a bit -> trixie being a magician and not a spellcasting wizard like twilight and being driven to madness with trying to be better. for cassi’s case it would be familial with twilight being her siblings)

yeyeaggg

[garland-on-thy-brow]

A few notes about Cassius, Faustus Sulla and Pompey.

1) Episode with the fight at school (Plut. Brut. 9) takes place in 77 bce (maybe late 78 is also possible): on the one hand, Sulla is already dead, on the other - Pompey is still in Rome. This means that either Pompey hasn't left to Mutina against Brutus Sr. yet, or it's the interval between his return from Mutina and leaving to Spain against Sertorius.

[I want a film about a bunch of Sullans raising Sulla’s kids. Pompey: "Why can’t I be their parent too!” Lucullus: “Because! Not in the will? I don’t know you.”]

2) Both Faustus Sulla and Cassius were with Pompey during the Eastern campaigns. It is textually confirmed for Faustus; for Cassius it is safe to assume, because he would not be given a responsible office in Crassus's army without significant military experience, preferably in the East, which points to Pompey's campaigns (it should be mentioned that C. Cassius Longinus (cos. 73), who is thought to be the father of our Cassius, supported Lex Manilia, that gave Pompey the command [Cic. Man. 68]). Looks like later, in 55 bce, Cassius was Pompey's recommendation to Crassus.

3) So there are details that allow to suggest more or less Pompeian alignment of Cassius’s family. Besides the already mentioned, ~53-52 bce Pompey chose Q. Cassius, brother of our Cassius, as his quaestor in Spain without the lot (the same way Caesar chose Antony). Among other things, this means that Cassius would be left out of Vettius's conspiracy even if he was in Rome at that time (which I doubt).

[garland-on-thy-brow]

Brutus of Cassius.

(Marcus Terentius Varro, On the Latin Language 6.7, the same line quoted in 7.72.)

(Patrick Kragelund, Roman Historical Drama: The Octavia in Antiquity and Beyond)

[garland-on-thy-brow]

I can imagine that while 1) Servilia and Cato yell at each other, 2) Quintus Cassius and Gaius Cassius yell at each other, Brutus and Lucius Cassius sit somewhere together and talk about their families being a mess. They both seem to me an ‘unlucky peacemaker’ type, even though their choices are different.

[garland-on-thy-brow]

“Lucius Cassius, of a family renowned for its severity in all things, and especially as judges”

- Cicero, Against Verres, first session

Temple of Vesta, because Cassius Ravilla.

(Also, Lucius Cassius mentioned by Cicero is probably the same who later participated in Catilinarian conspiracy. Sometimes I get an impression that Cicero is magic, and every person he talks about is then bound to act in a way, which dramatically negates everything he has said.)