Cassidy and Mark

Cassidy and Mark is the frenemy relationship between Cassidy Sparke and Mark Leviels that is seen Gabriel Simons, Ryan Carter, Matt Ortega and Daryl Ortega's story routes.

## Overview

Mark has always been involved with Cassidy, not only in terms of a professional relationship but has been a subject of rumors regarding affairs that was first mentioned in season 1 of Ryan's story route but was later brought publicly in the season 2, chapter 9 that involved him and Gabriel sleeping with Cassidy. Mark was quite annoyed by the rumors and displayed his sadness when the player called it out in the first chapter of final season, defending the fact that it was not true.

Usually Mark displays the same behavior to Cassidy that he does to his employees and he is not romantically attracted to her. Mark is quite dense when it comes to liking girls as he never exhibited this feeling and if he did so then it was to the player from Ryan's route which was a short lived crush, which irritates Cassidy as she would like to be involved with Mark but Mark doesn't seem to keen on being with women from his work as he likes to keep his professional and personal lives separate, and just doesn't seem to have the time for a romantic relationship.

On many occasions, he always favored the players over Cassidy whenever Cassidy made accusations regarding about them being bad workers or employees in hopes to get them fired. And in one case on an extreme level, he got quite angry to the point of slamming his desk from anger and annoyance from Cassidy and lectured her on her own flaws. This was later seen in Gabriel's season 2, chapter 10, he realizes that Cassidy tries her hardest to get the player fired due to personal reasons of just not liking her which he seems to be disgusted by, but easily hides it. He also defended the player in Daryl's route when Cassidy made a meeting to get her fired and was also shown to be quite annoyed with Cassidy much to her shock. Mark is one of the few people that Cassidy answers to and when Mark puts her in her place, she often gets embarrassed and loses confidence.

Cassidy on the other hand always hid her awful attitude by being friendly and kind towards the players whenever Mark was around. Despite Cassidy always making moves on Mark (I.E. asking him out at lunch and etc.), her offers were rejected due to Mark's busy schedule and professionalism. Cassidy also loathes on seeing any women being praised by Mark (and Gabriel) which is mostly seen in Gabriel's route, this could be due to jealousy or just being insecure.

He later did fire Cassidy in Gabriel's route, showing no special favors towards her on her misconduct behavior, and had always scolded her whenever she tried to look out for men in daycare. This fact was also pointed out by the player in the final season of Ryan's first chapter. Sometimes it is seen that Cassidy tries to climb on top, always trying to use Mark as compared to Gabriel where she was obsessed with him. In short, both of them have had no affair and if so then they were all rumors. Mark and Cassidy are seen to be friendly most times, and Cassidy tries her hardest to flirt with him and potentially sleep with him to further her career, but Mark often doesn't actually seem to like Cassidy or her presence due to how she is and is only polite to her out of obligation of being her boss.

In season 3 of Ryan's route, it was implied by player that Mark caught Cassidy from time to time who was always hitting on men in the daycare and reminded her to be professional. Even a hint is pointed that Mark dislikes being in rumors with Cassidy, especially him sleeping with her. Later in the story, Mark was seen entering Cassidy's office without glasses the player thought why would he discard his glasses to meet Cassidy, meaning the player still had a feeling that there might be something else happening besides the rumors of them sleeping together, hence, this relationship is a frenemy one.

Cassidy hitting on Mark actually resembles the angle in Disney's French musical teen series 'Violetta' where Violetta's widower dad was pursued by his close associate. This mirrors Mark being a single dad and having a kid. Given maybe that Cassidy doesn't about Nathan and since he's a boy, this is a minor difference between the reference.

## Trivia

* They are 2 of the 8 original characters.
* They are both parents (but only in Ryan's route).
* They are both divorced.
* Neither of them are from New York, but moved there as adults.
* They both have artwork featured in the Is it Love? Art Book.