Cassia Hyacinth Carter

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Cassia Hyacinth Carter is an Aware that was created by a demiurgic Practitioner.

Personality[edit]

Cassia helped manage the schools sports team finding people to play against as well as getting books for the school and art contests for people to enter.<ref name=":2">>“You were with your sports teams?”

“I was manager. No talent, but I enjoy the games. We were never very good, when we had matchups with schools from your world.”

“Man, I have a friend I feel like you’d vibe with. Avery. Let’s see about you meeting her later.” - Excerpt from Hard Pass 22.1</ref><ref name=":1">I used to come out, to find people for our sports teams to play against. Contests for our artists. Books to bring back. I know my way around, a little. But I tried going to one of your schools for shelter and they sent men after me.”

“Child welfare or something, maybe.”“I’m not a child.”

“Or something, yeah. I’m sorry,” - Excerpt from Hard Pass 22.1</ref>

Given her creator's definition of "Pure" she is likely gay.<ref name=":0"/><ref name=":3"/>

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Headmaster[edit]

Saw him as an authority figure.<ref name=":0">Lesser practices, similarly, may be evocative of a major approach, though not always the practitioner’s own. If a practitioner creates a pocket world with a sapphic girl’s school as the centerpiece where he can be the wise old mentor and teach ‘pure’ students without the interference of the outside world, he may have new students manifest in inclement weather or deeper in the gardens, wandering to be found and brought in to be cleaned up and started at the school. That same process of creating something out of sight or in the midst of nature could be the foundation for something in the Conjuration practices. If he puts it into texts and sells the texts, then there may be tropes or phrasings reminiscent of that practitioner’s pocket world in the practice picked up by others. The Creation practices are thus riddled with these and because the tools or components of the practice become tied into the pattern of using those practices, they often become requirements. - PACT DICE: Creation</ref>>

Appearance[edit]

She still wears her school uniform though with an oversized nonmatching jacket for the winter weather.<ref>She looked to be about eighteen, and wore a rough-looking jacket three sizes too big for her, over what looked like a school uniform. - Excerpt from Hard Pass 22.1</ref>

Abilities[edit]

A trained sports team manager,<ref name=":2"/> as an aware she still has some Innocence that protects her. She may have the potential and interest to be an Aurum though it is unknown if she could have unseated the Aurum Coil.<ref>“What took your home away, or what’s the deal?” Verona asked. “I think you got pulled here because you’re a free-floating particle, you’re unattached, and the universe likes to find ways to tidy those up. I don’t think this contest is for you, exactly. But I need more information to know. Or to help you.”
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“And you took something with you? Intentionally or not?” Verona asked.

Cassia tensed visibly on hearing that question.

“None of my business, I guess. I just figured if you’re here for the Aurum contest, maybe you have the ability to change things, or develop and invent things. It’s one of the things under the umbrella of the Aurum. If you did this contest, you’d be taking the seat for life, you’d have control over a lot of that. Invention, Fortune, change, exchanges.”

“Taking the seat for life? I couldn’t go back?”

“No. Probably not, I figure.”

“Then I don’t think I should.”

“You would have the power to potentially sway things against the usurpers or whatever,” Verona said.

“Oh.”

“If there was no incentive to you being here, I don’t think you would’ve felt the call.”

“I could fix things but I couldn’t go back?” - Excerpt from Hard Pass 22.1</ref>

Tools[edit]

She has some demiurge tools in her possession.<ref>

Verona:

Cassia Hyacinth Carter: Aware, demiurge-created human

I think she has some stolen divine tools used by the demiurge to create or alter his realm.

Not competing after our discussion. After this text I’ll call Clem to ask about short-term accommodations, and connect CHC to Avery later.

Thats 3/4 - Excerpt from Hard Pass 22.1</ref>

Chronology[edit]

She lived in a school surrounded by woods inside a pocket realm.<ref>“A school. We knew of the outside world, but we didn’t venture into it often. I did, sometimes, for supplies, information, things.”

“A pocket world?” Verona asked.

“I suppose. A school surrounded by woodland. With spooky things inside.” - Excerpt from Hard Pass 22.1</ref> It was originally created by a Practitioner as a place without "bad influences" such as drugs, males or technology,<ref>“A person, okay. The one in charge?”

“Yes. He said he used to live in this world. But it frustrated him. So he made a world himself. One free of the bad influences. One without the noise or drugs or screens or boys.” - Excerpt from Hard Pass 22.1</ref> the man created most of the inhabitants though allowed a few girls from the outside world to filter in if they fit.<ref name=":3">“Made there. Almost all of us. One to four girls every school year would filter in. Ones who didn’t belong in your world. Runaways. Girls who were mistreated. The lost.”

“Necessary,” Verona said. “Yep. Feels more Alabaster than Aurum, so far. Sanctuary for… you’re all gay, I take it? The girls you take in are?”

“We’re pure. All of us free of concerns about boys and men.”

“I feel like that could get so toxic, so fast, with an old conservative dude setting up that dynamic. Making you, shaping you? Running things?”

“I think you’re going out of your way to demonize something good.”

“Ah,” Verona made herself stop. “Sorry.” - Excerpt from Hard Pass 22.1</ref> As he grew older and less able other students took over and drove her out.<ref>“It was fine. But he got old, and some of the others started taking control of the- every part of it. Who was made, how it was run.”

Verona looked down at the seal on the floor, nodding.

“They drove me out when I questioned them.” - Excerpt from Hard Pass 22.1</ref>

Attempting to return to a familiar environment at a Innocent school but stopped after Child services were sent after her.<ref name=":1"/>

Cassia was drawn to Verona Hayward's call for people to replace the Aurum Coil but after learning all the role entailed she decided not to try for the position.<ref>“Like there’s less gaps. He’s got hopes, dreams, a conscience. I could see him holding out, not falling into the role like Bloody Money might, not letting his old self corrupt the role like Tenmercy might. Really wish I was more of an asshole, so we could’ve chosen the Turtle Queen or that girl, Cassia.” - Excerpt from Hard Pass 22.2</ref> She went to observe the Sword moot.<ref>Cassia, on the shore, was asking about the boats. Verona only caught the final word with the quizzical tone. The boats the practitioners of the moot had ridden in on. - Excerpt from Hard Pass 22.1</ref>

Trivia[edit]

Her name has multiple meanings possibly pointing to the intent of her creator.
- Cassia, while possibly meant to be a variant of Cassandra, means cinnamon; the greek version of the spice.
- If it's meant the be a feminine form of "Cassius" then it means "hollow"
- Hyacinth is a type of flower with multiple mythological associations including love.
- Carter is a relatively common occupational surname for those that work with carts.

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