Cassette (MV Season 2)

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* Post-Helmet
* Pre-Helmet

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Cassette is a masked individual that uses pre-recorded messages to communicate, and is a former member of the Knox County Minutemen (Formerly: The Liberation Front).

## Backstory

Before the outbreak, Cassette was part of a robbing group, consisting of 4 people: Cassette, Eight-Ball, Two-Bit, and Orion. Cassette was the safe-cracker of the group, with Eight-Ball being the crowd control, Two-Bit the driver, and Orion the Technician. Cassette's robbing group was extremely prolific, and stole a total of over $15 million from various banks.

On the 19th of January, 1976, the group would celebrate 5 years working together, and during this celebration, Cassette and Eight-Ball would share an intimate moment after Two-Bit and Orion passed out from drinking. Eight-Ball is the only person to have seen Cassette without the helmet and survive.

In March of 1976, Cassette and Eight-Ball would begin dating, with their first date happening in a small café in West Virginia, where they shared a pleasant evening. Cassette and Eight-Ball would marry on the 19th of April, 1979, and would spend their honeymoon in France. Two-Bit and Orion would also begin dating sometime in 1978.

Cassette's prosperous life would not last forever however, on the 15th of December, 1982, Cassette was captured, along with all their associates, and was sentenced to a life-time jail sentence.

In prison, Cassette and their robbing mates would form a gang, and amass a small amount of followers, after many years, they would overtake the prison and become the largest gang presence in the Kentucky State Prison. During their time in prison, Cassette's gang would cause many problems for the staff of the prison, and many attempts were made to destroy the group, including but not limited to, solitary confinement for Cassette, re-assigning cells, placing gang members in shared cells with rival gang members, and even transferring inmates to different prisons.

Shortly before the outbreak, Cassette's gang would use their sheer numbers to form an escape group and force their way out of prison, most involved would die, though Cassette managed to escape unharmed.

## Story

### Beginning

After escaping from prison, Cassette travelled eastward, visiting Rosewood, March Ridge, Muldraugh, before arriving at a rest stop on the way to West Point, where they met with a small group of people and joined up with them on their way to Louisville to attempt to enter.

After reaching the Louisville checkpoint, Cassette and the group of people, conversed with the military guarding the checkpoint, but were ultimately denied entrance, and had to retreat back south, on Cassette's way into West Point, they would meet Eric, who they would have a short conversation with, and Eric would promise to give Cassette a motorcycle helmet if he found any.

After a short while of travelling around again, Cassette would end up at the base of the soon to be founded faction, "Knox County Minutemen", where after a short while of deliberation on what the name of the group should be, they would join their ranks and start working on the first iteration of their speech device.

Cassette would hear about a settlement located in the Louisville baseball stadium, and would travel there to find a group of people having argument about Chris killing a woman, Cassette would meet Buck here, and Buck would recognize Cassette as being an infamous criminal. After a short conversation, Buck would provide Cassette with a black motorcycle helmet, to Cassette's extreme excitement. Buck was the first name Cassette recorded and spoke.

After some time, a man named Akimoto Akira, who had earlier crashed into Cassette, would visit the Knox County Minutemen's base, where Cassette would excitedly show off their room to Akira, and show him the next iteration of their speaking device they had just started working on. After a short while of giving Akira a tour, they would have a moment of silence for Casey Knox, before Akira left.

### The Prison

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On the 13th of August, 1993, Cassette would journey back to the prison to search for the remnants of their gang, and hopefully get some revenge kills on the now infected guards. Unfortunately, what Cassette discovered was the body of their wife, Eight-Ball, riddled with bullets, from when they tried to escape before the outbreak. Cassette became filled with a combination of rage and sadness, and proceeded to execute every infected guard they saw, after putting Eight-Ball's body into their car.

On Cassette's way back to the Knox County Minutemen's base, they bumped into Jack, who had a short interaction with Cassette, and discovered that Eight-Ball was dead, as well as that she was Cassette's wife.

When Cassette returned to the Knox County Minutemen's base, they would bury Eight-Ball, and place their wedding photo on the grave, and would spend hours sitting by their grave until they found the courage to leave.

Following the discovery of Eight-Ball's death, Cassette fell into a spiral of a short-lived depression, followed by a newfound anger for any and all governmental officials, as Cassette views them as responsible for Eight-Ball's death. Cassette has now decided from now on, that they will murder any and all law-enforcement, no matter what, they will eventually kill them.

### Mallory's Death

On one fateful day, Cassette would wake up to Mallory being buried, and shortly after, discover that Chris had died as well, Cassette would then fall even deeper into their depressive spiral, and would end up leaving the Knox County Minutemen, and leave for Fallas Lake, where they would meet up with the Cirque de Lune for shelter, stay for a while, and eventually head for The Stadium, where they now reside.

Cassette does not know the circumstances surrounding Mallory and Chris' deaths, as such, they still hold both with high regard, and want to honour both their deaths.

Following the death of Mallory and Chris, Cassette no longer calls themself "Legendary Cassette", instead keeping it to just "Cassette"

Cassette now wears Mallory's dog tags, and keeps Chris' gas mask in their Cossette's glovebox.

## Relationships

**Backstory only**

* Eight-Ball (Deceased) - Wife
* Two-Bit - Associates
* Orion - Associates

**In-Game**

* Chris (Deceased) - Friend
* Mallory (Deceased) - Friend
* Jack - Friend
* Akimoto Akira - Friend

## Quotes

> "<Kzt>The strong-Survive.<Kzt>The weak-Don't."
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## Trivia

* Cassette is inspired by Jacket, specifically his appearance in Payday 2.
* Cassette plays the drums, and keytar.