Cassie (Animorphs)

Cassie is the heart of the Animorphs.
==Biography==
Cassie is the most compassionate member of the Animorphs, Rachel's best friend, and Jake's unofficial 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. Cassie is often a source of the animals morphed by the group.
Cassie's family owns a farm that has been in the family since the Civil War, and has been remodeled into the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic; a sort of animal hospital for livestock and wild animals. The Animorphs generally use the clinic as their team "base" and form most of their plans there. Cassie's mother also works at The Gardens, a combination of a zoo and an amusement park. Most of the groups' morphs are acquired from The Gardens or the clinic.
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 to help fight the war when necessary, she desperately seeks a better way to win the war. At one point, Cassie decided to quit the team, as far as physical violence and using her morphing ability. She meets Karen, a Yeerk in the body of a five-year-old girl, and makes a deal to become a nothlit in a caterpillar's body when Aftran 942 agreed to leave the girl's body and never infest anyone again. Cassie escaped the morph when the caterpillar transformed into a butterfly (resetting the morphing clock, or natural morphing), but Aftran kept her promise. Later, Cassie saves Aftran from Visser Three, who joined the Yeerk Peace Movement.
Though she is openly against most violence, Cassie was responsible for forming the plan to trap David and other victories on the Animorphs' side. True to her dream to find another way to win the war, 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 true forms than through infestation.
The mention of "Father Banion" at the end of The Unknown (as part of Cassie's parents embarassing her about Jake) implies that the family is Catholic.
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