Cassandra

Yilin Kong as Cassandra

## Appearence

### Clothing

Black and green/blue sparkly long-sleeved, knee-length dressLater: crystal-encrusted skull mask

### Seen In

Hesperides' Florist, The Tenement Area, The Square, The Nightclub Office, The Crossed Girders, Troy, Mycenae

### Seen With

Polydorus, Apollo, Polyxena, Hecuba, Agamemnon, Neoptolemus, Patroclus, The Watchman, The Oracle, Clytemnestra

## Relationship Information

### Family

Daughter to Hecuba, Sister to Polyxena & Polydorus, Sister-in-Law to Polymestor, Lover to Agamemnon

## Cast

### Played By

Brenda Lee Grech, Ingrid Kapteyn, Jahmarley Bachelor, Pin Chieh Chen, Sharol Mackenzie, WenHsin Lee, Yilin Kong

Cassandra is one of the Princesses of Troy, and eldest daughter to Queen Hecuba.

Cassandra desperately prays to the god Apollo for the gift of prophecy. Apollo is entranced by Cassandra’s beauty and impressed by her dedication to him and blesses her with prophetic vision. He then attempts to seduce her, but she vehemently rejects his advances. Outraged by her rejection, Apollo then curses Cassandra ensuring that her prophesies will never be believed. Her story arc revolves around her distress and hopelessness following a confrontation with Apollo.

She witnesses the many mounting tragedies of those around her, as she desperately tries to warn them of her of her prophecies, but is continually dismissed. Cassandra foresees the Fall of Troy and her sister Polyxena’s death, but nobody listens to her pleas. After Troy has fallen, Cassandra uses her powers to lure Agamemnon back to Mycenae where he meets his death at the hands of Clytemnestra.

## Loop

*Based on Loop 2*

She receives a flower from Polydorus which she places in the shrine.

She meets with Apollo who gives her the gift of future sight.

She dances with Apollo in The Nightclub, where she rebuffs his advances.

Apollo curses her so that while she can see the future, nobody will believe her.

She foresees the death of Polyxena, when the Potter arrives and hangs upside down.

She foresees the arrival of Agamemnon to The Square and tries to warn Hecuba, who is dismissive at first.

During the death of Polyxena in The Square, she walks around the outside of the circle carrying the crystal-encrusted mask. She pauses during the death of Polyxena, obviously distressed.

After the death of Polyxena, Cassandra and King Agamemnon move to The Nightclub Office. She performs a dance for him wearing the crystal-encrusted mask. At the end of the dance she foresees Agamemnon's death when the Potter smears blood on the two-way mirror behind Agamemnon.

While Agamemnon is killed in the shower scene in Mycenae, Cassandra watches from a distance, near Iphigenia's Bedroom. She is obviously distressed.

She performs in the finale in Mycenae.

[unspecified time] She briefly taunts The Watchman, luring them away from The Site Office to shove and intimidate them.

## 1:1s

Not including a walk-out, Cassandra has no true '1:1' scenes.

At the beginning of her loop, Cassandra wakes up in Troy’s corridor and lead a WM dance through the corridor. (May depends on actress)

Upon the conclusion of the Mycenae Finale, Cassandra will arise from the floor and reach out a hand to a WM, walking them through to Troy, remove their mask, thank them for coming, and redirect them towards PEEP.

## Quotes

* "Can you see? Can you see?" - to WMs, when Apollo appears upon the throne in The Square, before the invasion

## Trivia

A list of little known trivia such as changes to the loop or character since previews began.

## Mythology

Cassandra appears in various texts written by Homer, Virgil, Aeschylus, and Euripides. She was the daughter of Queen Hecuba and King Priam of Troy, and the sister of Polydorus and Polyxena. Cassandra was also the twin sister of Helenus and had other siblings including Paris.

Cassandra was known for her extraordinary beauty, which caught the attention of the god Apollo. In order to win her over, Apollo granted her the gift of seeing the future. However, when Cassandra angered Apollo, he added a curse to the gift: although she would see the future, no one would believe her prophecies. The reason for Apollo's anger varies depending on the source; some say that Cassandra refused his advances, while others claim that she broke her promise to marry him.

After the fall of Troy, Cassandra was taken as a concubine by King Agamemnon of Mycenae. In some versions of the myth, she warned Agamemnon of the danger he faced upon his return home, but he did not believe her and was subsequently murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. Cassandra was also killed along with Agamemnon.

The final resting place of Cassandra is uncertain. In Amyclae, there is a statue of her, while German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann believed he had discovered the graves of Cassandra and Agamemnon in Mycenae. However, it was later discovered that the graves predated the Trojan War by at least 300 years.