Cassandra
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Cassandra had a really bum deal. Sure, she was a princess of Troy, and yeah, she was really pretty—some say she was the second most beautiful woman in the world next to Helen. But despite all these good things, poor Cassandra was horribly cursed. See, she was able to see the future, but no one would ever believe any of her predictions. Why? Well, Apollo gave her the gift of prophecy because he was sweet on her. But then, when she wouldn't go all the way with him, he cursed her to never be believed. This curse was total torture for Cassandra during the Trojan War. She tried and tried to steer her city from the catastrophe she saw coming, but everybody just thought she was completely insane.
Basic Information
Name Cassandra
Nickname That crazy lady
Sex Female
Current city Elysium
Work & Education
Occupation Seeress
Priestess of Apollo
Princess of TroyEducation Apollo's School of Prophecy
Beliefs
Political views Down with Greece!
Family & Friends (& Enemies)
Parents Priam (Dad)
Hecuba (Mom)Siblings Paris
Hector
Deiphobus
Helenus
Polydorus
Troilus
Polites
Antiphus
Pammon
Laodice
Polyxena
(This is an abbreviated list. My father, King Priam, had 50 sons and 50 daughters with my mother and his concubines.)Children Some say I had sons by Agamemnon named Teledamus and Pelops, who Clytemnestra killed along with the two of us. Great, like my life needed to get any more depressing.
Friends Everybody thought I was bonkers
Enemies Ajax the Lesser (who forced himself on me)
Agamemnon (who kidnapped me and forced himself on me)
Clytemnestra (who murdered me for no good reason)Relationships
Relationship status Flirtation with Apollo (which left me horribly cursed)
Forced to be Agamemnon's love slaveInterested in Everybody, please just stay away from me.
Favorites
TV Shows True Blood
Medium
Carnivale (So canceled before its time. You failed me, HBO.)Quotations "Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins."
– Carlos Santana
"That's when the pain comes in
Like a second skeleton,
Trying to fit beneath the skin.
I can't fit the feelings in."
– from "Every Single Night" by Fiona Apple
"The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom."
– Clarence Darrow
"I wish I had a river so long.
I'd teach my feet how to fly.
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on."
– from "River" by Joni Mitchell
"Comedy is tragedy plus time."
– Carol BurnettBooks Agamemnon by Aeschylus (I like the part where Agamemnon dies, but the part where I die is depressing.)
"Alone" by Maya Angelou
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
"Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti (Most of the men in my life were like the goblins in this poem.)
"The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (Yeah Blanche, I know what it's like to be crushed by the cruel world.)
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
"Howl" by Allen Ginsberg (I predicted the future would be like this, but nobody believed me.)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonMusic Agamemnon by Rathergood.com (Yes, Agamemnon was just as stupid as this video makes him seem.)
Every Single Night by Fiona Apple
Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men
Skinny Love by Birdy
Gun Has No Trigger by the Dirty Projectors
Lights by Ellie Goulding
Five Seconds by Twin Shadow
River by Joni Mitchell
No Light, No Light by Florence and the MachineMovies Carrie (I totally get where she's coming from.)
The Gift (This should probably be called The Curse.)
Minority Report
The Sixth Sense
Ghost
Troy (It's hilarious when Agamemnon dies in this movie.)
Black Swan
The Girl with the Dragon TattooActivities & Interests
Likes Lisbeth Salander (She knows how to make men pay.)
Mace
Tarot cards
Kick boxing (Life taught me that a girl needs to know how to protect herself.)Interests Prophecy
Groups Seers and Seeresses
Troy will rise again
Fiona Apple Fan Club
Bird watchersSpotter's Guide
You might have a hard time getting Cassandra to talk to you. See, she's cursed to know the future, but for no one to ever believe a word she says. Back when she was alive, everybody thought she was crazy, so now she's pretty antisocial. If you want to give it a shot, though, she's got a studio apartment down in Elysium, the city of the blessed dead. Just knock on the door, and when a gorgeous woman answers the door, do your best to believe.
Sex: Female
Age: Early twenties
Build: Thin
Complexion: Pale
Hair Color: Red
Facial Hair: None
Scars/marks/tattoos: None
Jewelry and accessories: None
Clothing: Pretty robes
Armor: None
Type of Weapon: Could see the future, but it didn't do her much goodTypical Companions:
She's kind of a loner
Known Hangouts:
Troy
ElysiumSightings
Dec 20, 2019 - Dec 20, 2019
The Iliad by Homer
Beautiful Cassandra mourns the loss of her brother Hector in this definitive poem about the Trojan War. (Yeah, it's as sad as it sounds.)
Dec 20, 2019
Agamemnon by Aeschylus
In this tragedy, Agamemnon kidnaps Cassandra and takes her back to Greece, where she is murdered by his psycho wife, Clytemnestra.
Dec 20, 2019
The Metamorphoses by Ovid
In this epic series of mythological poems, Agamemnon is all set to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, when Diana (Artemis) swoops in at the last minute and replaces the girl with a deer. Wow, a happy ending for once.
Dec 20, 2019
Agamemnon by Seneca
This tragedy is a Roman spin on the death of Cassandra and Agamemnon. And it's about as gruesome as a Saw movie.
Dec 20, 0299 - Dec 20, 0399
The Fall of Troy by Quintus Smyrnaeus
Agamemnon takes Cassandra as his prize in this epic poem, which picks up where the Iliad left off.
Dec 20, 1987
Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Top notch fantasy author Marion Zimmer Bradley retells the story of the Trojan War through the eyes of Cassandra.