I would love to share some of Cass's life with people she's becoming close to, but also with relative strangers and (perhaps ideally) with people who've had some conflict with her. While I don't want to get too specific before I know who wants what, these are the general types of memories I'm looking at:
1) Cassandra's childhood. This may not be exclusively pleasant memories, but nothing in it is going to be massively traumatic. Girl growing up in a castle, youngest of seven children, a fundamental baseline of stable and loving family. (Bonus: anyone who's back from a previous voyage, you might see someone you recognize.)
2) The Whitestone Massacre. The murder of most of Cassandra's family, and a good chunk of the rest of their household, by the 'visiting' Lord and Lady Briarwood and their followers, who subsequently take over the castle and the city. Includes Cassandra's rescue of her brother Percy and the two of them attempting escape, with mixed results.
3) The Briarwood Interregnum. Includes about two years in which Cassandra is being kept hidden by (and working with) the underground resistance in Whitestone, and about three years in which she is being held prisoner/guest/adopted-daughter by the Briarwoods and acting as a double agent. The latter part has the potential for some extremely dark and fucked-up content, both things Cassandra experiences directly and things she witnesses; if you're interested, let's discuss how dark you want it.
4) The Restoration. The defeat of the Briarwoods by Vox Machina (the adventuring party of which Cassandra's brother Percy is a member), and the ensuing period of about a year and a half in which Cassandra is ruling Whitestone with the aid of a council and beginning to gather her own household -- a head steward, personal guards, and so forth. This period culminates with another traumatic attack, which happens a matter of days or weeks before Cassandra is first brought to the Serena Eterna.
PLEASE NOTE: by far most of what happens in these memories is going to be headcanon. I'm probably going to be drawing extensively from twofics I've already written; please feel free to take a look at them and let me know if anything in there interests you.
Cassandra de Rolo
1) Cassandra's childhood. This may not be exclusively pleasant memories, but nothing in it is going to be massively traumatic. Girl growing up in a castle, youngest of seven children, a fundamental baseline of stable and loving family. (Bonus: anyone who's back from a previous voyage, you might see someone you recognize.)
2) The Whitestone Massacre. The murder of most of Cassandra's family, and a good chunk of the rest of their household, by the 'visiting' Lord and Lady Briarwood and their followers, who subsequently take over the castle and the city. Includes Cassandra's rescue of her brother Percy and the two of them attempting escape, with mixed results.
3) The Briarwood Interregnum. Includes about two years in which Cassandra is being kept hidden by (and working with) the underground resistance in Whitestone, and about three years in which she is being held prisoner/guest/adopted-daughter by the Briarwoods and acting as a double agent. The latter part has the potential for some extremely dark and fucked-up content, both things Cassandra experiences directly and things she witnesses; if you're interested, let's discuss how dark you want it.
4) The Restoration. The defeat of the Briarwoods by Vox Machina (the adventuring party of which Cassandra's brother Percy is a member), and the ensuing period of about a year and a half in which Cassandra is ruling Whitestone with the aid of a council and beginning to gather her own household -- a head steward, personal guards, and so forth. This period culminates with another traumatic attack, which happens a matter of days or weeks before Cassandra is first brought to the Serena Eterna.
PLEASE NOTE: by far most of what happens in these memories is going to be headcanon. I'm probably going to be drawing extensively from two fics I've already written; please feel free to take a look at them and let me know if anything in there interests you.