Cassidy Amber

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**Cassidy Amber** is one of the 16 students of Eden's Garden Academy and a participant of the Killing Game featured in Project: Eden's Garden. She is the Ultimate Pro Gamer, and her motif is the **spider**.

## Biography

**"Whether it's a First-Person shooter, or a 2D Fighter game, Cassidy makes her true power shine with her controller in hand. Her devoted fanbase, known online as "Cassidy's Comrades", cheer on this Ultimate Pro Gamer at every tournament she attends. Her very presence can energize the venues, and she keeps her raw attitude front and center, letting you know she refuses to let anyone be pushed around, herself included."**

## Appearance

 Cassidy is a young woman of average height and slightly heavier build. Cassidy has slightly reddish white skin with green eyes. She has bright red hair medium in length with a bowl cut on the front. In the front there's two unstyled side bangs, the right one being short and thin and the other long and thick that reaches and slightly rests on her shoulder. She also wears a green ushanka-hat with black fur and on it there is a golden emblem of a sickle and a game console controller, possibly her community's, "Cassidy's Comrades", symbol.

Cassidy wears a light black unbuttoned jersey jacket with a white Supreme-style shirt underneath with "1v1?" written instead of the brand's name. The upper half of her jacket is light black while the lower half is significantly darker with a few faint stripes above, it also has some unreadable small white text just above the chest level on the right.

Cassidy wears dark emerald shorts and black leggings with a spiderweb-themed hole pattern. She wears black under-the-knee combat boots with red laces.

## Personality

Cassidy is the energetic and outgoing leader of Cassidy’s Comrades, the biggest fan community on the internet. These traits are what makes her content appealing to her audience, alongside her talent as Ultimate Pro Gamer. When Damon first encounters her, Cassidy immediately introduces herself, unlike the other Ultimates who only give their name and Ultimate talent after some talk or being asked to, showing herself to not only be proud of herself, but very extroverted. Like many other Ultimates, Cassidy has a strong attachement to her talent and loves talking about gaming in general. She tends to make various gaming references. For example, when Damon encounters a "ladder" during Cara's investigation in the Janitor's Closet, Cassidy insists its a "stepladder", clearly referencing the popular running joke in Ace Attorney where the main character and their sidekick argue whether a ladder is a regular ladder or stepladder, or some variation of it. Through her friendly nature and love for gaming, Cassidy is shown to be the Ultimate Pro Gamer for a reason, and is highly endearing to her audience.

She is also a very generous individual, as she redistributes most of her earnings “to the masses”, by either giving away money to her fans, or charities, with the rest of the money going to living expenses. One notable example is when Cassidy bought and donated an entire spaghetti factory to a school, which could also demonstrate her habit of taking things too far. Because of her charitable nature, Cassidy holds a deep hatred of billionaires and other individuals who take advantage of the less fortunate. When she mentions that she “can even detect the rancid stench of a morally bankrupt billionaire in this very academy”, her sprite turns from her bubbly self to a twisted, evil looking version, with her eyes dead as stone.

During the investigation, Cassidy seems to retain her lightheartedness and energetic side, in spite of it being supposedly based on a real murder. On top of making gaming references like her fixation on the stepladder, Cassidy also pays very little attention to important details, like not reading the Tablet listing the details of Cara's death. This results in her not knowing Cassidy's cause of death, so she incorrectly assumes the gun was the murder weapon instead of the smaller, bloody knife next to it. On top of that, Cassidy makes a laughably incorrect assumption in that the killer poured bleach in the victim's eyes using a water gun, although she might have been joking. However, in spite of her not taking the investigation and trial very seriously, Cassidy is still an active participant and tries to help out in her own way. During the Closing Argument, she even insists that everyone tell the entire truth of the case together, including her. While Cassidy may seem clueless, she's still willing to help out when needed, and becomes much more distressed once the Killing Game is revealed.

## Quotes

### Chapter 0:

* "Yo! I'm Cassidy Amber, the Ultimate Pro Gamer! Don't forget it, k!?"
* "Making a good first impression is key to grabbing the attention of your viewers. Especially if you have over twenty million of them. Gotta earn that watchtime!"
* "'Cassidy's Comrades'! They're the biggest fan community on the Internet!"
* "Typical bourgeoisie scum!"
* "I stream for the betterment of the human race! As the leader of Cassidy's Comrades, it's my duty to redistribute most of my earnings to the massses!"
* "Of course, I gotta reserve some money for basic necessities. A truckload of chocolate soda being one... But it's not a problem for a person like me to have money, since I earn it through my own hard work. The real problem are the swin who make billions every year......even though all they do is sit around, drink cocktails, and stare at their stock profile. In fact, I can detect the rancid stench of a morally bankrupt billionare in this very academy... I bet they're planning to profit off our suffering as we speak...
* "G-G-Gaming references? From someone else? The universe has fallen out of balance!"
* "You call that thing a 'ladder'? It's so obviously a step ladder!"
* "A big tree? Eden's Garden Academy? Overused religious symbolism is tight!"
* "Bluh... Why's Occam's Razor gotta ruin everything?"
* "I bet the killer had a secret water gun... So when the victim came in... boom! He squirted her in the eyes!"

## Name Etymology

Her first name "Cassidy" derives from a Goidelic given name Caiside, meaning "clever" or "curly-haired", and is also of Irish origin. Cassidy's last name, Amber, is of French and Latin origin, and means "fierce", or just refers to the jewel of the same name.

## Trivia

* Cassidy's Eden's Island outfit is based on the *Nintendo* franchise, *Splatoon*.
* Due to her extroverted personality and charity stunts, Cassidy Amber might be based on MrBeast.