Editing List of BHI Students (section)

==Kassidy Knox ==
14., trinket-specialized [[Collector]]<ref name=":10" /> from a minor family of Collectors.<ref name=":22">The girls sitting behind them were a white girl with chopsticks in her straight blonde hair, a girl with an expensive looking sleeveless top with a high neck, and a brunette with an unironic bowler hat, dense freckles, and wild eye makeup that included sky blue eyeshadow and heavy eyeliner. A ''bit'' Clockwork Orange. They looked just a bit older.<br><br>[...]<br><br>“We know. And Verona and Avery,” Chopsticks said. “I’m Yadira Kennedy, that’s Kassidy but we call her Kass, and that’s Raquel Musser.”<br><br>Kass was the bowler hat girl. Raquel had the nice top. “I notice you left my last name out of the introductions. Classist,” Kass said.<br><br>“Is it classist if I’m being practical? Your family doesn’t matter.”<br><br>“Be nice in front of the new practitioners,” Raquel said, closing her eyes for a moment.<br><br>“So Yadira Kennedy… the Kennedys are a big family?” Avery asked.<br><br>“A good size,” Yadira said, smiling. “We’re not ''the'' Kennedys, but we have a presence. After the Oni Wars, my family was the apparent first to successfully re-establish a working relationship with the new Others out East.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/27 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.1]]</ref><ref name=":23">“You’re a collector? Two of you are collectors?” Verona asked.<br><br>“You studied us, did you?”<br><br>“Isn’t that normal?” Verona asked.<br><br>“Kass picked up a family practice,” Yadira said, since Kass and Raquel weren’t volunteering anything. “Collectors pick up magic items and arrange them in tableaus and diagrams, transfer power between them. But it’s very cutthroat. A lot of the time, if you need something to complete a set, you have to take it from someone else. Without getting into details-”<br><br>“Oh, why not get into details?” Raquel asked. “Sparing her feelings?”<br><br>“-these two became unlikely friends.”<br><br>Kass retorted, “Raquel’s family and their friends made like they wanted a marriage to unite collections, then reneged, took my family’s shit and killed my grandfather when he tried to stop them.”<br><br>“He was an abusive scumbag, Kass. You shouldn’t expect the marriage to go through when <em>that</em> comes to light.”<br><br>[...]<br><br>“Are they like this all the time?” Lucy asked.<br><br>“No,” Yadira said. “No, this is a new-ish thing. At least at this intensity.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/27 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.1]]</ref>

Dark-haired, wears a bowler hat and exaggerated makeup.<ref name=":22" /> Round-faced.<ref>“Ow. Okay, first picture. Round face, except maybe that’s how Alpeana draws faces.”<br><br>
“Na, tis round. Black locks, wore a bunnet.”<br><br>
“Bunnet? Bonnet? Hat?” Avery asked. “Kass? Part of Yadira’s crew.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/gone-ahead-7-3/ excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.3]]</ref>

[[Bristow]] tutored her in Collecting.<ref name=":24">“What’s up?” Raquel asked. “You guys smell like blood, you know.”<br><br>“Maybe eat, nap ''and shower'',” Lucy murmured to Verona.<br><br>Avery talked while walking backward, “I wanted to ask, you’re a magic item collector, right?”<br><br>“I got some training.”<br><br>“Was that training with Bristow? Or was Kass’s?”<br><br>“Uhh… yeah? I awoke at ten, spent a year with family, got training with him for a year after. Families as big as mine find it useful to have at least one person with the know-how for magic item handling in-house. Why?”<br><br>“Trying to figure out how things connect here,” Avery said. “How was it?”<br><br>“He rambles, but he’s a good guy. Knows his stuff. If you end up studying with him, either as an apprentice or as a student in classes here, be prepared for him to get distracted for chunks of time. When I was apprenticing, it was new tech, errands, passion projects. Try to keep asking what you should be working on next, so you’re ready if he forgets about you for a bit.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/27 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.1]]</ref>

Friends with Yadira and Raquel. The Musser family once stole a bunch of magic items from the Knox family after a deal went sour, which remains a sore spot for them both.<ref name=":23" /> Had a nightmare about Kennedy taking everything in her life, even her belongings and family, leaving her with [[Durocher]].<ref>For Kass, it was set at the end of term. Kennedy got everything Kassidy tried to strive for, including letters of recommendation from teachers, from Bristow, boys, and even things from their room that Kass had brought, including a stuffed animal and some magic items. When she complained, teachers and the family that came to pick them up told her to quiet down and be civilized.<br><br>
Culminating in Kennedy getting into her family’s car and everyone driving her off, leaving her on campus alone with Durocher. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/08 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.3]]</ref>