May 23 2007
Character Biography #2
Cassandra (Cassy) MacLeod:
With an intense energy that’s coupled with a razor-sharp wit, this firebrand makes herself known wherever she might be. With a blazing temper that’s matched only by the color of her hair, this 16-year-old loudmouth has spent her entire life telling people just what she thought about them. Born to workaholic yuppies who, after divorcing when she was barely 2 years old, gave her anything and everything except themselves, Cassy was truly raised by afternoon and primetime television programs. She is truly a textbook, latchkey kid – every child psychologist’s dream client. Thank God she had her Granny and Pop – her Dad’s parents.
Cassy’s father (Donald) is a MBA-holding, Senior Vice-President for an auto parts company who had recently relocated to Northern California to be closer to his company’s home offices. His ex-wife, Cassy’s mother (Rachael), is an orthopedic surgeon who’s just moved back to her hometown of Boston, MA after 15 years of living in Greenville, NC. Donald and Rachael met while attending Duke University together back in the early-‘80s: he was Greenville born-and-bred who set off to college to study general business while working nights at the same auto parts store he worked at in High School and she came from Old Boston Money down to the South so she could study Biology and rebel against her parents’ dreams, plans, and wishes. He was her proletarian grease monkey; she was his gorgeous ticket out of the trailer park. Continue reading “Character Biography #2″
