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"In my world, making hard choices is part of the deal. Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong. Sometimes I just can't tell, even when the mission is over and we've all come out alive, at least."
―Cassie[src]

Cassie is a founding member of the Animorphs, an author and a state diplomat and official. She was instrumental in helping the Animorphs acquire their various animal morphs and played a key role in the Andalite-Yeerk War, being responsible for handing the morphing cube over to the Yeerks. Following the war, she became an author and by the age of nineteen, worked alongside the President of the United States.

Biography

Early Life

Cassie was born in 1984[1] to Michelle and Walter.[3] Cassie lived on her family's farm land[4] in Southern California.[5] with the land bordering a national forest. The farm was owned by her family since the American Civil War.[4] Cassie was raised around animals and taking care of them, helping her father Walter as he ran the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic out of their farm's barn to provide care for injured or sick non-pet type animals. Her mother Michelle worked as the head veterinarian at the local zoo-amusement park called The Gardens, which granted Cassie free access to the park.[6]

Pre-Animorph Life

"You're wearing Wal-Mart overalls with bird poop on the cuffs. You have no makeup on and there's dirt under your fingernails... that is just dirt, isn't it?"
"Probably dirt. Possibly manure."
"Yeah, well, you compensate for your Old MacDonald clothing sense by being pretty, very smart, very cool, and the most completely real person I've ever met."
Rachel and Cassie[src]

Cassie was known to attend school with no make up with dirt and manure underneath her fingernails,[7] along with mismatched clothing with poop stains on it, resulting in the boys at school not paying her mind.[8] Cassie was also best friends with Rachel, a girl her age who had a reputation of being beautiful and fashionably dressed. Cassie developed a crush on Rachel's cousin Jake, whom she found to be cute, smart, funny and modest, while also remarking that he had a big physicality that made him look older than he was. They often sat next to each other on the bus as well during classes or assemblies, although they didn't talk much.[7] In 1996, when she was twelve,[9] Cassie's friendship with Jake was strong enough for her to invite him to her family's Thanksgiving.[4]

Becoming an Animorph

Night at the Mall

"You guys going home? You shouldn't go through the construction site by yourselves. I mean, being girls and all."
"Are you going to come and protect us, you big, strong m-a-a-a-n? You think we're helpless just because—"
"I'd appreciate it if they did walk with us. I know you're not afraid of anything, Rachel, but I guess I am."
Jake, Rachel and Cassie[src]

One Friday in 1997,[10] when she was thirteen,[11] Cassie was invited to the mall after school with Rachel as she went shopping. Cassie was confused when Rachel compared the sale prices and pairing of sweaters and jeans from different stores. Cassie then noticed Jake at the mall and asked Rachel not to look. Rachel joked if Cassie was worried that her looking would convey to Jake that Cassie wanted his big, strong arms wrapping around her while they pressed their lips together. Cassie noted that Jake was standing next to his best friend Marco, whom Cassie had never really spoken to before or know very well, along with Tobias, a kid whom Cassie knew had latched onto Jake after he had saved him from bullies.[7]

Cassie 1 GN

As they reached the exit, Cassie noticed that Tobias was a little uncomfortable hanging out with Jake and Marco. Greeting them, Jake then asked the girls if they were intending to use the abandoned construction site across the mall as a shortcut home, warning them that it was dangerous for them since they were girls. Offended, Rachel mocked Jake and asked if he was a "big, strong man" who would protect them. As she began berating him for thinking girls were helpless, Cassie interrupted her, stating that she was afraid and would appreciate the boys walking home with them. The five thirteen year olds then left the mall and headed towards the construction site.[6] However, unbeknownst to Cassie, a cosmic figure known as the Ellimist had arranged for her, along with Tobias and Marco, to be walking home through the construction site that night.[7]

Gaining Morphing Powers

Animorphs 1999 Calendar Crop

Cassie meeting Elfangor

Walking silently through the abandoned construction site, Cassie noticed as Tobias stopped walking and told them to look up. Following his indication, Cassie looked up and noticed a spaceship, exclaiming out loud that it was a flying saucer. As the ship landed in front of them, Rachel recommended that they should try and communicate with whomever was on board; when Jake wondered whether they would know English, Cassie joked that the aliens on Star Trek spoke English. Cassie witnessed as a blue alien exited from the spaceship and greeted them before collapsing onto the ground. Cassie exclaimed as she witnessed a massive burn on the right side of the alien's body and told Jake to take off his shirt so they could use to bandage the wound. However, the alien refused, citing that the wound was fatal and that he was dying. The alien then informed the five teenagers that there were other aliens on Earth who had come to destroy humans.

The alien explained that the other aliens were known as Yeerks and transmitted an image of a green-gray slug into their minds. He explained that the Yeerks were a parasitic species that take over bodies to use as hosts, after which they become known as Controllers. The alien, revealing himself to be a member of a species called an Andalite, added that it would take a year if not more for the Andalite forces to come to Earth, and urged the teenagers to warn humanity of the Yeerk threat. When Marco remakred that no one would believe them, the Andalite suddenly exclaimed that they should go into his ship and retrieve a blue box. Looking around at each other, the kids decided that Jake should be the one to do it. Noting that Jake was afraid, Cassie smiled at him as she stated him that he should go and that he wasn't scared, knowing that this remark would prompt Jake to put on a brave face and go.

As Jake returned with the blue box, the Andalite informed them that he could use the box to grant them the ability to morph — by touching an animal and concentrating, they could acquire that creature's DNA and transform their bodies into that of the animal's. As the Andalite asked if they wished to accept this power, Cassie immediately responded that she would. Rachel then noticed something in the sky and wondered what it was, and the Andalite notified them that those were the Yeerks. The Andalite urged them to decide quickly, and Cassie asked Jake what he thought. Jake agreed, citing they had no choice. All five of them then pressed their hands against the box, and Cassie felt a tingle run through her as she received the morphing ability.

The Andalite warned them that they should not stay in morph for more than two hours or else they would be trapped before yelling at them to run since Visser Three was coming. Hiding behind a low wall, Cassie witnessed as the Blade ship and Bug fighters landed. She screamed upong seeing tall, bladed creatures emerging from the Blade ship, although Jake quickly covered her mouth with his hand. The dying Andalite used his thought-speak to mentally communicate with them, informing them that these were Hork-Bajir-Controllers and that the giant centipede-like creatures that were also emerging were known as Taxxons. The five kids then tried to remain silent as one of the Hork-Bajir-Controllers positioned himself near their hiding spot. They then noticed an Andalite emerging from the Blade ship, which the dying Andalite explained was Visser Three — the only Andalite-Controller to exist.

Cassie and Jake GN1

Cassie watched as Visser Three greeted the Andalite as Prince Elfangor before morphing into a monstrous creature with multiple ringed teeth. Cassie whispered in horror as she realized what was about to happen, prompting Rachel to tell her not to look as she put an arm around her shoulder for comfort. As the Visser lifted Elfangor, Jake picked up a pipe to rush into action, and Cassie quickly silenced Jake by telling him that Elfangor wouldn't want Jake to die for him. Cassie then watched as Visser Three dropped Elfangor in his mouth and was forced to hear Elfangor's mental screams as he was being ripped apart. She then watched with tears streaming down her face as the Visser ate Elfangor and heard Elfangor's mental screams as he was being ripped apart before he died. Marco then threw up, prompting the nearby Hork-Bajir-Controller to look in their direction. The five teenagers then bolted and ran their separate ways as the Yeerks began pursuing them. Cassie successfully managed to escape from the construction site and ran back home.[6]

Testing Morphing Powers

"How did you manage to morph with clothing? When Tobias and I did it... well, let's just say it's a good thing neither of you girls was around."
"It took some practice. And it can only be tight clothing."
Jake and Cassie[src]

The next morning, a Saturday, Cassie decided to test out the morphing ability by acquiring one of the horses on her farm. Due to the nudity issue, Cassie tried incorporating clothing into the process by wearing a coat, although it got shredded. She eventually managed to incorporate a skintight outfit into the morphing, allowing her to demorph with clothes. She was soon contacted by Jake, who informed her that he and Tobias had morphed and wished to have a meeting with the others at her farm. As Rachel arrived, Cassie continued to practice her morphing and found herself able to control specific aspects of the morphing process.

Cassie galloped across the farm as a house as Tobias, Marco and eventually Jake arrived. As she began demorphing, she controlled it to make herself equally half-human and half-horse, similar to a centaur. However, before she could finish demorphing, a police cruiser suddenly pulled into the farm. Cassie's horse instincts caused to her panic, and she demanded to know if she should morph back into horse or to finish demorphing. Jake ordered her to demorph as the others shielded her from view, allowing her to become human again without being caught. The police officer then approached them and stared at Cassie for a while before asking them if they knew anything about kids being at the construction site. When they claimed they did not know anything, the man told Jake to join The Sharing before driving off.

Cassie then relished how amazing it was to run as a horse and explained that tight clothing could be morphed with practice. Rachel then advised them that they should be careful when morphing, prompting Marco to state that it wouldn't be a problem since they were not to morph anymore. However, Cassie stated that she did not wish to stop morphing and she believed she could use the power to communicate with animals and save endangered species, as Tobias added that humanity may now be endangered. As the group argued on what their next decisions were, Cassie suggested that they should take some to think before finalizing their decision, thus bringing an end to the immediate argument. The teenagers then went their separate ways.[6]

Investigating the Yeerks

"You know, back in the old days — I mean, the real, real old days — the Africans, the early Europeans, the Native Americans... they all believed animals had spirits. And they would call on those spirits to protect them from evil. They would ask the spirit of the fox for his cunning. They'd ask the spirit of the eagle for his sight. They would ask the lion for his strength. I guess what we're doing is sort of basic. Even though it was Andalite technology that made it possible. We're still just scared little humans, trying to borrow the mind-of the fox, and the eyes of the eagle... or the hawk. And the strength of the lion. Just like thousands of years ago, we're calling on the animals to help protect us from evil."
―Cassie[src]

Later that day, Cassie was invited by Jake to join him and the others as they attended a bonfire that The Sharing was holding at the beach. After an hour, they regrouped, with Cassie remarking that the full members' behavior was abnormal and that they were observing the others like a dog watching a bone. In order to spy on the full members meeting, Cassie watched as Jake morphed into Homer, his golden retriever, and scratched his head before he set off. However, Cassie soon began to worry about Jake and decided to sneak into the meeting herself, although she was caught by a Controller, who happened to be the same policeman who had come to her farm earlier. Cassie informed him that she was just looking for the shells, and though the man scrutinized her for a while, he allowed her to leave.

Jake then caught up with her and the pair returned to the others, where Jake demorphed and informed them that his brother Tom and their assistant principal Chapman were being controlled by the Yeerks. After Jake reiterated that the Yeerks were hunting for the kids who fled from the abandoned construction site, Marco's insisted that they forgot what they learned and resume their normal lives; however, Jake refused and declared that he would fight the Yeerks in order to free his brother, with Cassie, Rachel and Tobias agreeing to join him. As the group split up to return home, Jake asked Cassie if she had any useful animals at the clinic that he could use to spy on Chapman. After pondering through the list of patients, Cassie notified him that there was a green anole lizard at the barn who was not a patient who might be suitable. The duo then returned to her barn where Cassie managed to trap the lizard, allowing Jake to acquire it.

On Monday, Cassie met up with the others after school at the mall food court, where she learned that the Yeerks needed to feed every three days by absorbing Kandrona rays at a Yeerk Pool. Jake then informed them that he had discovered an entrance to the Yeerk pool in the janitor's closet at their school, and that he would be heading to the pool later that night in order to rescue Tom. With the others deciding to accompany him on his mission, Cassie remarked how humans in the olden days would look upon the spirits and powers of the animals to help them, and how they were doing a similar thing by using animals to save Earth. Adding that Mother Earth had tricks up her sleeves when it came to animals, the newly-formed team decided to go to The Gardens, to acquire more dangerous morphs. Cassie informed them that while she could get in for free, she could give the others her mother's employee discount. As they prepared to leave, Marco dubbed the five of them as the Animorphs,[6] a portmanteau for "animal morphers."[12]

Upon arriving at The Gardens, Cassie led the other four into the employees' hallway, which contained the doors leading to all of the other enclosures. She guided them to the enclosure belonging to Big Jim, a Silverback gorilla, and assisted Marco in acquiring it. An employee who recognized Cassie then saw them, prompting them to return back to the hallway. At a crossroads, Rachel decided to head towards the dolphin tank, although Cassie remarked that they would have no need for dolphin morphs. Marco, however, began walking down the path leading to the more dangerous animals, citing their need for firepower. As a security guard spotted them, Cassie ran down the pathway with Rachel and Tobias while Jake followed Marco; since the security guard chose to pursue the two boys instead, they were able to escape without worry. Returning back to the public space, the three stuck together and headed towards the African elephants, with Rachel deciding to acquire one of them. Both Cassie and Tobias elected not to acquire any additional morphs and thus the three returned to the main entrance, where Jake and Marco soon met up with them. The five of them then left The Gardens and took the bus back to their respective homes, planning to meet up at the school in a few hours.[6]

Kidnapped by Police

"It had been the suspicious Controller policeman who had grabbed her. He was the only Controller to know her name, where she lived, and that she had been spying on The Sharing. Cassie said we didn't have to worry about him anymore. She didn't want to talk about what had happened to him."
Jake[src]

Cassie left her house to tend to the animals outside when she was abducted by the policeman-Controller who had visited hee farm on Saturday and had also caught her sneaking into the private Sharing meeting. She was then taken to her school, where the cop dragged her forcibly into the janitor's closet and through the secret passageway leading to the Yeerk Pool, a gigantic subterranean cavern underneath half their city with multiple entry and exit points. The Yeerks had a pier for infestation and another for reinfestation, along with cages where they kept involuntary host bodies. Cassie was then brought onto the infestation pier and transferred over to the custody of two Hork-Bajir-Controllers, who held her hands as they brought her to the pier's edge.

Screaming as she was unable to free herself, Tobias, who had been flying above in his red-tailed hawk morph, dive-bombed into one of the Hork-Bajir-Controllers and removed both of his eyes, causing him to let go of Cassie. Cassie managed to extricate herself from the grip of the second Hork-Bajir and ran as Jake, in his Siberian tiger morph, took out the second Hork-Bajir. Cassie then yelled at the others on the infestation pier to start running, causing a crowd to form near the exits. Having been ordered by Jake to morph, Cassie ran into the crowd and used it as cover to turn into a horse. She then led the hosts, including some freed from their cages by the other Animorphs, towards the stairs, where she used her horsepower to sail above the gathering Taxxons. Heading for the stairs, she indicated for two women to ride on her back.

Their escape efforts were impeded when Visser Three arrived and morphed into a giant fire-breathing monster with eight heads. As Cassie tried to escape, the Visser spat a fireball at the second woman riding Cassie, causing her to fall off and scream as she tried to extinguish the flame. Cassie witnessed as Visser Three spread fire in multiple directions, causing many of the freed hosts to be burned or recaptured, although she was able to run up the stairs with the one remaining woman on her back. Successfully escaping with this one woman, along with Jake, Rachel and Marco, they returned to their school's hallway. With the freed woman departing their company, Cassie informed them of her abduction and added that they did not need to worry about the policeman Controller anymore, refusing to elaborate on how the cop had died. Cassie then returned home[6] and was later informed that Tobias, who had managed to escape, had eclipsed the two-hour time limit and was now trapped as a red-tailed hawk.[13]

Early Missions

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Rescuing Ax

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Further Missions

13 year old Cassie

Cassie in 1997 (aged 13)

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Zone 91 Mission

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Troubled Morality

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Battle for Leera

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In the Time of Dinosaurs

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Meeting Aftran 942

Quitting the Animorphs

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Infested by a Yeerk

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Trapped in Morph

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Pacifist in a War

Over the course of the series, Cassie struggled with retaining her pacifist nature and violating other creatures' personal rights. Acting as the moral compass of the group, Cassie was the one who argued against acquiring other humans’ DNA without their permission. On one occasion, she was considering whether or not a buffalo who acquired the morphing technology was sentient or not.

Endgame

Realizing they are outnumbered, the Animorphs decided to use the Escafil Device to create new Animorphs, with Cassie offering to recruit handicapped children since there would not be a risk of the recruits being Controllers, due to the Yeerks deeming them as defective.

After the Yeerks find out the Animorphs’ intention, a fight ensues and Jake chases Tom’s Yeerk into the forest. As Tom flees with the morphing cube, Jake stalks him in tiger morph, preparing to kill him and retrieve the cube. Cassie, believing that Tom should escape with the cube for reasons she is unsure of, coupled with a desire to save Jake from crossing a personal line by killing his brother, attacked Jake, allowing Tom to flee with the cube.

Having romantic feelings throughout the series, Jake proposed to Cassie before the final battle against the Yeerks, although she suggests that he ask her again a year after the war ends, unsure of whether Jake can live a normal life post-war, should they survive.

Post-War

2000

"We Animorphs and the newly minted Prince Aximili, with our prisoner, landed Ax's official liaison ship, a sleek Fast-Courier, right in the middle of the Mall in Washington. Not a mall, the Mall, a sort of open green space with the Capitol Building at one end, the Smithsonian Institution and various government buildings on both sides, and the obelisk of the Washington Monument at the far end. We called ahead, not wanting to terrify anyone. There were roughly a thousand cops and twice that many newspeople waiting for us. It was, as Marco said, a "shiver-my-spine moment." A sea of microphones and video cameras and flashbulbs. Ax and Jake, and to a lesser extent Marco and I, gave a sort of brief explanation of what had been happening, and where things stood now. Needless to say, it was kind of a big news day."
―Cassie[src]

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2001

"Cassie was Undersecretary of the Interior for Resident Aliens. It paid less than I spend on corn chips, but hey, Cassie was seventeen, like me, and she was meeting with the President and spending most of her time with the free Hork-Bajir. [...] Anyway, Cassie was a government poo-bah, always racing around here and there in government jets and helicopters, making sure Toby and her people were good and just generally saving the world. Also taking college courses at night because she still wants to be a veterinarian like her mom and dad. That's Cassie for you: Save the rain forest, save some cow with a hernia — the girl just does not get the whole celebrity thing. I mean Wal-Mart practically begged her on hands and knees to take a million dollars to do ads for their jeans, and she said she didn't have time because there was some controversy over an access road into some forest somewhere."
Marco[src]

Like the other Animorphs, Cassie became instantly rich and famous from winning the Yeerk War.

At only seventeen years old, Cassie became an important activist, dealing with environmental issues and taking care of the free Hork-Bajir. She was saving the world by day and taking veterinary courses by night so that she would become a veterinarian like her parents.

2003

"I wasn't just Cassie the Animorph anymore. I had been moved out of the Interior Department when the new President was elected. She had appointed me instead to the new position of Special Assistant to the President for Resident Aliens. I was nineteen and I was in the President's sub-cabinet. [...] I was Cassie the Animorph, always would be. I was in history books, after all. But I had a different life to lead now. I was going forward."
―Cassie[src]

After the new President of the United States was elected, Cassie was given a spot in the President’s sub-cabinet and appointed to the new position of Special Assistant to the President for Resident Aliens. With her new boyfriend, Ronnie Chambers, she was scouting new areas for the Hork-Bajir to inhabit when Jake arrived to tell her about Ax being captured. Cassie offers to come but Jake declines, saying that her role is over, and that she is doing what she wanted to do the most.

Personality

"An entire human race of Rachels — angry, merciless, aggressive, and equipped with Yeerk and Andalite technology. It was a terrifying specter. But perhaps... perhaps I had been wrong. Perhaps the real menace lay at the other end of the continuum — represented by Cassie. Humans who were softer. Kinder. Well-meaning. And, ironically, infinitely more dangerous."
Ax[src]

Cassie is the most compassionate member of the Animorphs, Rachel's best friend, and was Jake's girlfriend. She is very kind and empathetic, often acting as the mediator of the group. Her perceptive and caring nature allows her to sense people's inner feelings and insecurities, leading her to act as team therapist at times. Though she is openly against most violence, Cassie's empathetic ability to read people means that she can be ruthless when she has to be. For instance, she came up with the plan to trap David in morph by playing to his ego.[14] Cassie has the reputation of being a "tree-hugger," due to her love for animals and lack of style. Her nature-loving personality isn't at all shallow though; Cassie has numerous moral struggles and questions about evolution, sentience in animals, the so-called "circle of life," and the morality of the Animorphs' fighting in the war at all. Though Cassie is willing fight when necessary, she desperately seeks a better way to win the war. True to her dream to find another way to win the war than outright destruction of the other side, it was Cassie who allowed the Yeerks to get the Andalite morphing cube, showing the Yeerks that there was another way to see, hear, eat, and experience the other senses they were denied in their natural Yeerk forms than through infestation.[15]

Relationships with the other Animorphs

Jake

"Jake and I are closer than just friends. We care a lot about each other. Or at least we used to. Now everything was changing. Everybody was changing. I didn't know who was who anymore. Sometimes, I didn't even know what I felt."
―Cassie[src]
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Jake and Cassie have crushes on each other right from the beginning of the series, and a romance slowly develops between them.  They share their first kiss in The Attack, and in later books they both acknowledge the love they have for each other in their narratives, though they have not stated in outright. Towards the end of the war, their relationship deteriorates and Jake loses trust in Cassie after she allows the Yeerks to gain the power to morph.

Rachel

"She'd been my best friend forever. Teased me about my clothes as I teased her about her obsessive shopping. How long ago had that been? [...] But the war had touched her. She'd changed, and she'd known she was changing. The war had revealed a hidden part of her soul. She alone, of all of us, she alone liked it. Loved it, even. She had enjoyed the fight. Sometimes I imagined her as a Viking. Or as a knight on a quest. That's what she was: a joyful warrior."
―Cassie[src]
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Cassie and Rachel are best friends, despite being complete opposites. Their friendship becomes strained in later books, as Rachel becomes increasingly drawn to her warrior side and becomes impatient with Cassie's strong ethical convictions.

Tobias

"Tobias is a nothlit. Someone who stayed in morph beyond the two-hour time limit and got trapped in that morph. None of us are one hundred percent sure it was an accident. Sometimes we think Tobias is happier as a hawk. That he let himself be trapped, on purpose. But none of us has come right out and asked him. At least, I haven't. And none of us has asked if given the same situation he'd do it again. Assuming Tobias chose his fate and wasn't just a victim of a really bad circumstance."
―Cassie[src]
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While they don't interact as often, they are still good friends. He is the closest in attitude to her, and they generally side together on group votes. Cassie's house is physically close to Tobias' territory. In The Beginning it's mentioned that while Tobias has stopped talking to Jake and Marco (after Rachel's death), he still does keep in touch with Cassie.

Marco

"I felt a wave of affection for Marco. We had never been the closest of the Animorphs — our connection went through Jake, it wasn't direct. But here we were, in some way the only two real survivors. We had even prospered. Each of us was far better off by most measures than we'd have been without the war."
―Cassie[src]
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Although they are generally on good terms, Cassie and Marco are not close and don't spend much time together. There is some personality conflict between them, as Cassie's morality is diametrically opposed to Marco's ruthlessness. However, at the end Cassie notes that she and Marco are really the only "true survivors" of the war and together they agree to try and break Jake of his depression.

Ax

"I didn't want to say the words. I didn't want to. But Ax was more than a friend. How many times had he risked his life to save mine? I couldn't count the number of times I'd been down and only his flashing tail had brought me out alive."
―Cassie[src]

Cassie and Ax don't interact often, although she does comfort Ax after Estrid leaves him. When Ax becomes sick with yamphut, Cassie shows concern for him before she performs life-saving surgery on him.[16] Ax feels hatred for her after she allows Tom to take the Escafil Device and thus granting the Yeerks the power to morph, citing that Cassie is the most dangerous Animorph since she is most like Seerow. However, they end up back on terms later on.

Morphs

Book Morphs

Morph Book Acquired
Horse The Invasion
Osprey The Visitor
Wolf The Encounter
Trout
Squirrel (Magilla) The Message
Bottlenose Dolphin (Monica)
Seagull
Black Garden Ant The Predator
Cockroach The Capture
Housefly
Great Horned Owl
Flea
Humpback Whale The Andalite's Gift
White Rat (Courtney) The Secret
Termite
Skunk
Wolf Spider The Android
Brown Bat
Spider Monkey (unusable; acquired by alternate self) The Forgotten
Jaguar (unusable; acquired by alternate self)
Human (Rachel) The Reaction
Racehorse (Minneapolis Max) The Unknown
Parrot (crimson) The Escape
Hammerhead Shark
Mole The Underground
Mosquito The Decision
Leeran
Tyrannosaurus Rex (unusable; Sario Rip morph) In the Time of Dinosaurs
Caterpillar (unusable) The Departure
Butterfly (presumed unusable)
African Elephant The Solution
Giant Anteater The Suspicion
Baby Ringed Seal The Extreme
Polar Bear (Nanook)
Giant Squid The Exposed
Chimpanzee The Experiment
Eel The Sickness
Yeerk (Illim)
Hork-Bajir (Jara Hamee) The Prophecy
Cockatiel The Proposal
Orca (Swoosh) The Mutation
Cheetah The Weakness
Pit Viper The Arrival
African Cape Buffalo (Buffa-Human) The Hidden
Honeybee The Other
Hork-Bajir-Controller The Unexpected
Kangaroo
North American Beaver The Resistance
Dragonfly The Answer


Television Show Morphs

Morph Episode Acquired
Horse My Name is Jake, Part 2
Rabbit The Message
Skunk
Butterfly
Cockroach The Escape
Ferret
Crocodile The Reaction
Mouse (off-screen) The Leader, Part 2
White-headed Capuchin Changes, Part 1

Books Narrated By Cassie

Trivia

  • She is more talented at morphing than the others. Ax notes that Cassie could easily become a professional estreen, one who morphs as a form of art, due to her inherent skills.
  • She has the unconscious ability to unravel any alternate/parallel universe/timeline.[17]
  • All of the models for the Animorphs featured on the front and inside cover had been changed since the series began, mostly because the original kids had grown up and moved away to college (since book 41). Only Cassie's model (Biko) remained close enough to still model for Animorphs. And of course Ax, who is actually just a cardboard cutout.
  • In keeping with her non-violent nature, Cassie is the only Animorph who lacks a unique battle morph; she typically assumes a wolf form when required to fight, which most of the team acquired while investigating Yeerk activity in the mountains.
  • In 1999 three different Animorphs toys of Cassie were made.
    • Her Transformers toy turned into a wolf.
    • Taco Bell released a Cassie transforming toy that became an anteater.
    • She was one of three Animorphs who combined all together in the Tri-Rex transformer toy to become a comparatively large Tyrannosaurus Rex.
  • Cassie is the only original Animorph not to accompany the group on the mission to rescue Ax at the end of the series, and possibly the sole surviving original Animorph after the series' end.
  • In the TV series, it's Cassie who's allergic to crocodile DNA, not Rachel. Also, unlike Rachel whom would transform into random animal several times when the allergic symptoms shows up, Cassie only suffer partial transformation on random parts of her body instead.

Gallery

Elfangor eye closeup andalite chron "Someone took a picture of me? Not cool. Do you see what I'm wearing? I'm Spandex-boy. Totally not cool."

The image gallery for Cassie may be viewed here

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 The Andalite Chronicles is said to take place in 1976 and states it is 21 years before Elfangor met the Animorphs, meaning the Animorphs met Elfangor in 1997. In #53, Jake states they were 13 when they met Elfangor, placing their year of birth c.1984
  2. In The Conspiracy, Cassie explicitly states that she is an only child. However, she mentions having a niece in The Weakness. An in-universe explanation may be that she is referring to a cousin's daughter as a niece.
  3. The Diversion
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 The Message
  5. The Beginning
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 The Invasion
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Back to Before
  8. The Unknown
  9. In #4, Jake refers to having attended Cassie's Thanksgiving "last year." They became Animorphs at the age of 13 in 1997, placing the Thanksgiving dinner in 1996 when she was 12.
  10. The Andalite Chronicles is said to take place 10 years after the 1966 Yeerk exodus of The Hork-Bajir Chronicles and 21 years before Elfangor met the Animorphs. This places it in 1976, meaning the Animorphs met Elfangor in 1997.
  11. The Answer
  12. The Stranger
  13. 13.0 13.1 The Visitor
  14. The Solution
  15. The Sacrifice
  16. The Sickness
  17. Back to Before
Animorphs
Animorphs Jake | Rachel | Tobias | Cassie | Marco | Ax | David
Auxiliary Animorphs James | Collette | Timmy | Kelly | Craig | Erica | Julio | Liam | Tricia | Jessie | Judy | Ray
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