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HELLOO this is CAMERON i also have a character to intro bc yall dont see enough of me around here i guess lmfao sorry

this is cassius holcomb, coppertale sophomore. also known as cash, because cassius is a silly name. his concept is "overcompensating suburban kid shoots for the moon, lands amongst the dumpsters" and, well, that's it in a nutshell. he's here to join the OVERACHIEVERS CLUB, although, amusingly enough, not the goody-two-shoes club. cash won't push you under a bus, but he won't stop you from making a bad choice, either. he's perfectly willing to watch you eat shit so long as his face stays clean, especially if it helps him to get ahead. he's not a bad kid, though! he wants to be a nice boy, he's just acutely aware that it's a dog-eat-dog world.

cash comes from an almost parodically-suburban* nuclear family that was obsessed with keeping up with the joneses. cash inherited those sensibilities, but ruined it for his family when he came out as transgender at 13. his folks passive-aggressively ignore him entirely, and he's been essentially on his own ever since then. as a result, he's very into the concept of self-sufficiency; he never wants to have to scramble to figure things out again and he knows he can't rely on anyone else to do things for him.

he's always trying to make the grade, win the award, be the best... but sometimes his tendency to trip and fall into hijinx gets the way of his dreams. he might be trying to peddle you a pyramid scheme. c'mon, how can you say no to this face?

eta: ok, i mentioned that he was transgender but then i forgot to elaborate on how that might impact your characters. in summary.... they probably don't know, unless they guessed when he first came to school as a freshman (which is when he started taking testosterone. before that, well. 14 y/os are runty anyway.) or b/c cash resolutely will not go swimming.

he uses his Hard Earned Gainz to buy testosterone from unscrupulous dudes who sell to teenagers in gyms, which is not something anyone should do. to date, he has neither been caught buying nor taking his T (he stashes the used needles in a tin under his bed). theoretically, this could cause trouble down the line, since ... that looks sketchy af, lol. no, he won't ask for help from the school and also authority figures can suck his dick.

*sorry in advance if anyone is from hendrickson, nv, because i shit on it all the time in his app. i'm sure it's lovely! i hear it's very safe.

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Heeey Cameron, can you remove the reference to Todd for now? Just because he's not accepted yet and we're rather that characters who aren't accepted yet don't get discussed in intros and stuff. :o WHICH WILL BE CHALLENGING I KNOW

mods, why u do this 2 me (no just kidding its fine lol but also maybe this should have waited BUT ALSO ITS FINE)

I love him

Rafael thinks Cash is the best. Look at that kid, he's tough and knows what's up and is Going Places. They have... a lot of similar values, except Rafael's more on the lawful side of the scale. Being cutthroat is an admirable trait to him. Go get 'em, little buddy. Do no harm but take no shit.

Reid is a year above him in Coppertale and hopelessly awkward, but sometimes passes it off as just being a cool ice prince. He'll know who Cash is, and appreciates directness. They're in Archery together! Reid likes to climb things!

Calvin is a fellow Sophomore! He was a shit last year, but this year he's settled down to just... abrasive. Cash is a certified Cute Boy who's also very smart, so Calvin probably feels very threatened by him. But he's defrosting slowly so might be less irrationally defensive than he used to be.

Kenzie might not know him very well, unless his schemes ~~with Todd~~ (Marin's gonna shame me too) come up and those are just peachy. She encourages the ripping off of classmates because it's funny and no hard feelings if they get one over on her. ♥

Diego will interact with Cash the least... but he'll be an easy mark.

WE LOVE YOU WE JUST WANTED YOU TO HAVE A SECOND CHARACTER :(

that said linking JJ's totally empty app is a pretty effective way to shame her, so i was torn about saying anything

HE LOVES RAFAEL and more importantly, admires him... although cash runs cool where rafael runs hot. he probably raises an eyebrow when raf Goes Off at all the troublemakers. like buddy, dude, whatever man. just write them up. they'll learn their lesson when they go to KID JAIL or whatever it is that happens when you get too many detentions. that said... i can totally see him being raf's little lackey at times, lol. when it suits him, anyway.

he probably also really likes reid, lmfao. bet he buys the ice prince shit and sees it as something to emulate. he's also... not big on feelings, so he's like "look at this guy. this guy's got his shit on LOCK."

calvin, lmao, i love him. cash is also a slytherin at heart, so we'll see how they play against each other. no need to be defensive, buddy!! ok, maybe some need to be defensive.

honestly and this is terrible but... i bet cash finds the mean girls antics pretty amusing. which is BAD because, like, he considers himself to be aligned with the underdog and that is not how one goes about doing that. still, he probably thinks people wouldn't get teased if they didn't kind bring it on themselves. whether or not he's bold enough to try and pull one over on kenzie is tbd, lol.

diego....... will be such an easy mark. look at him, with his big heart and obvious problems. look at how kind is is to all the sophomores! HEY BUDDY, want to buy some lemonade for a good cause?

I LOVE YOUSE BACK THANKS FOR THINKING OF ME

we're not nice people

UGH WHAT A PRECIOUS BABY BUTT. maggie and levi are both gonna call him ca$h (short for ca$h mon‎€¥) sorry not sorry in advance :^( they'll both probably also try to parent him in their own ways (i feel like they're like that toward most sophomores though??? maggie moms everyone but levi sees a sophomore and goes, "my son")

UMMM maggie is in archery with him and ennis is in gaming and ohh my god i'm trash at offering things. IT'S 3:30AM, I'LL COME BACK TO THIS??

smh smh smh also lmao why are the sophomores so parentable? they're just like. very smol. little children in need of guidance. CA$H ALREADY HAD PARENTS AND THEY LET HIM DOWN, #trustnobitch. but also, if someone could teach him to tie a tie? that would be great. JUST SO HE KNOWS HOW GOING FORWARD.

also oh... my god, go to bed, friendo. sleep. plotting tbc at a reasonable hour.

hiiiiiii

SO.

~Isabelle and him are same grade, they share some classes. She's an awful perfectionist and overachiever but she's horribly not self-confident and over-obsessed with it. They could be super fun to put in a room together xD. She also loves things that are organized well.

~Avery is in Hockey? so they can know each other from that? She's a JR & in Ribbonfin, not much reason to cross paths - BUT, she is also Trans. She is not overly out about it. However, they can totally talk to each other about it because Avery is no longer going to deny if anyone asked and if Cash is out about it or whatever, they can be a good support system for each other :)

~Penelope is in his house but a senior and in gaming club and honestly with her idek anymore we'll just have to see.

I don't think you realize how long it took me to figure out why your pb looks so damn familiar. i had to imdb him. and then it took me even longer to realize that he was the cyclops kid from percy jackson. but he also kinda looks like elmasry's secret love child?

anyway

Solomon is in his year, and classes. Solomon doesn't really incorporate any of the things Cassius hates, but he also kiiiiinda doesn't incorporate any of the things he likes either? Like solomon's a fucking marshmellow who treats Cassius like a friend and has been nothing but kind to him, he also seems capable of quietly surviving on his own and likely has never uttered a self pitied word in his life but??? idk how cassius feels about him, it likely won't change how solomon treats him lol

I think chris respects the kid? Chris I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S COME UP IN GAME SINCE YOU JOINED is a quiet overachiever, but doesn't seem like one. If Cassius goes to like any study groups, especially the one Saira started (Saira started a study group btw), chris will be there. But also, hockey. If this kid attended any of the hockey bootcamps before the season started (we had hockey boot camps before the season started), chris was in charge of those.

Olivia is in the same house, plus a prefect, plus a good student, plus kinda a badass but also nice, so idk how cassius feels about her. She isn't as cool about prefecting as Cassius would be (she leans toward heart to hearts and awarding good behavior) but she doesn't usually get bent out of shape over rule breaking. I mean, she doesn't condone it either, but shit happens.

And Teo is just ...

holy shit i need to come up with a better way of introducing Teo, but he's literally just fucking there idk.

Solomon could teach him how to tie a tie, he read a very well written how to guide once when he was eleven. He knows things.

NO. HE WAS IN THE BYE BYE MAN

i went to imdb with THAT specific movie in mind and scanned it and didn't see it until I saw percy jackson and I was like ah sounds legit

BUT NO. IT WAS THE BYE BYE MAN ALL ALONG.

heyyyyyy

— i cannot decide how cash will react to issy, lmao. on the one hand: i think he'd empathise with her issues with her body as well as her perfectionism/neuroticism. on the other, i think it might hit too close to home for him. he probably wants to see her succeed, but gets frustrated with her easily. just DO BETTER. be MORE CONFIDENT. gahhh! i'd love to bounce them off each other.

— yeah! hockey's just about over, but i think cash would have been into it, so if it's ok with everyone, i might retroactively write him in. he's not out about being trans (oops that reminds me, i've comment with the story there), but avery is after the anon post stuff, right? i was back-reading the other day, lol. anyway, it's Very Problematic of him, but he's probably a little scared to spend time with avery lest people guess he's trans by association. that could come off as sort of transphobic, honestly (and it is, lmao, although it's internalised transphobia.) so! that might be off-putting for avery, but also she may be able to see through him, idk...

honestly every time i see him i think he looks like kristen stewart is that awful of me

WOW I CAN SEE THE ELMASRY RESEMBLANCE IN THAT ICON THO

EXACTLY

I snooped on your journal like two seconds before you intro'd bc you commented on the wes post and i was like who the fuck is this. and all i could think was 'when the fuck did elmasry have a kid tho'

It's the resting apathy face tho. That makes him look like both elmasry and kristen stewart. And despite that I was like POSITIVE I've seen this specific face before.

And I was correct. It's okay, guys, I was right, you can all go home now.

new school rumour: the reason why cash's parents hate him is because he was elmasry's love child. it's also how he got into the school.

WELL SPOTTED TBH.

solo, the love of my life. the nice boy. cash probably has no idea what to do with him. he probably thinks there's some kind of ulterior motive behind his kindness, but if he can be convinced that solo is genuine, his heart will probably grow three sizes.

I KNOW HOCKEY IS ALMOST OVER but i think he'd be into hockey, so if it's ok, i'd love to retroactively write him in, lmao. he went to boot camp! he tried his level best! also, he would join saira's study group, so they can see each other there. i think he respects the way chris takes no shit, esp. because of their mutual eternal babyface. that said, he probably side-eyes a little any time chris is at the centre of some kind of disaster yelling match, lmao.

olivia and teo i have some thoughts on but i have to ruminate. brb with them.

maybe he could forward that to me b/c i just slide my head out of the loop and leave them tied in between uses lmao

(i put food on the ground for my dog to eat, but i noticed her eating it with her leg cocked up so i shouted HEY at her bc i thought she was taking a piss right in front of me, but she wasn't apparently. she was just eating like a weirdo, so now she's side eyeing her food bc she thinks that's why i snapped at her. It's four in the morning and I felt like sharing this story with someone)

ANYWAY

it's totally possible solomon has not yet convinced Cash that he's totally genuine, they're only sophomores, but don't worry, he can keep this up for hte next two years. Mostly because this is literally his personality.

okay good, then if he was in boot camp and study group then at least he's aware that chris is somewhat capable of taking shit seriously. because he takes nothing more seriously than he takes teaching wizards the rules of hockey.

cash is also probably the only kid at this school that chris hasn't personally attempted to threaten into being his freshman owl. THAT'S how far his respect gets you, bud.

Are you willing to make that rumor official tho

Welcome to the overachiever's club, here is one of your presidents. Leo will also like Cash!! He tends to find cutthroat sensibilities very admirable and would do nothing to discourage this. He 100% is also about self sufficiency though he's never had to practice it in the way Cash has. They may not have tons of reasons to know each other but if he lackeys for Rafael they might!

(My shitchild sophomore may have more to do with him because these ppl now are all too old.)

But Addy will be nice, and constantly amused when he pulls schemes. She does not easily fall for things because she's in no way as dumb as she usually acts. She'll maybe pretend to fall for them anyway, it's funny. And she will also inevitably be kind at him whether he likes it or not at some juncture.

Ferdie is in gaming club with him but otherwise wouldn't bother him much, but is a prefect so any actual rule breaking will be met with wry instructions to make his millions later, please. He's probably jealous of the way he's willing to be so independent already. Ferdie wants to make this leap and can't because his mother continues to be a smothering monster.

(hdu????? shame such a beautiful creature???? LET HER PEE-EAT)

— cash's just skeptical because he's really not a warm-and-fuzzy person, but he pretended to be for ages to make his parents happy. so now he sees solo and he's like ... 3/4ths "whats your motive here" and 1/4th "what cult is making you do this." he'll come around, though. eventually.

— WOWZA, chris. now that's love, alright. anyway, i'm glad that cash would have that Inside Scoop into chris actually being serious about some things. i actually think he looks up to most of the coppertale upperclassmen. if chris isn't careful, he might end up with a sophomore following him around, quietly nagging him about rising to his potential. think of the CHILDREN, chris.

This character was 100% born of my desire to hang in the overachievers club. Overachievers Jr. Super Weenie Hut Jr. Y'all can mentor him in the ways of the world.

SHITCHILDREN SOPHOMORES. \o/

cash may be mildly distrustful of addy's [ squints ] kindness, but i'm always down for people who find him amusing. and lmao, aw ferdie, cash can give you some tips for cutting the cord, if you want (have you ever tried bringing shame unto the fam? works great!). in general, cash tries to stay on ~the right side of the law~. the rule breaking is the result of unfortunately-frequent lapses in his otherwise better judgement. see, this is why you weren't made prefect, bud...

i.................. sure lmao

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