1. Cassie never had any contact with her mother from the time she was 3 until the time she turned 13. Her mother showed up out of nowhere to contest custody with her father and won, despite having abandoned her daughter.
2. Cassie's father's first act as a super hero was to save her life. He rescued the only doctor who could perform a surgery on Cassie's heart. After months spent in the hospital dying, Cassie went through the surgery and returned to being a happy, healthy child.
3. Cassie found out about her father's super hero identity shortly after he became a hero. At almost the same time she started stealing some of his pym particles and using them on herself. The repeated self exposures are the reason she can now change size.
4. Contrary to all the OOC joking, Cassie doesn't have a thing for metal. In fact, Cassie didn't like the fact that Kristoff (her first almost boyfriend) worse a metal suit and was scared of it. She does, however, have a thing for science and guys in Marvel who like science usually either wear suits or are androids.
5. Her mother and step-father are physically abusive. She's never had any broken bones or serious injuries but in the interactions we see in canon, her mother slaps her and her step-father grabs her by the arm but she escapes from his grasp before he does anything more. Cassie doesn't realize that this isn't normal. She thinks this is how it is in most families. She thinks it was her close bond with her father that's abnormal instead of the abusive relationship with her mother and step-father.
6. She has serious parent issues. She lost her father, who meant everything to her, twice. First when her mother won custody, then when her father died. Iron Man, who she used to call "Uncle Tony" forgot about her along with the rest of the Avengers but she desperately wanted to feel accepted by someone. This lead to her switching sides during the Civil War, because she'd always felt closer to Stark. She thought he cared about her. Instead she ended up being kidnapped and no one went looking for her. When someone finally did rescue her it was Ms. Marvel, who had come there not because of Cassie but because of her sidekick Anya. So basically, Cassie can't help but feel like no one cares about her. But this feeling is too painful to admit and she suppresses it so she uses lots of denial and cognitive dissonance as coping methods.
7. Her cooking is atrocious and it was a running joke in the comics, with her cooking stuff like asparagus pudding. The thing is? She actually likes it.
8. Cassie's never realized that it's more than a little silly that she "fell in love" with Nathaniel Richards in the course of a few hours. It's such an intense feeling that she's never bothered to ask if there were any other reasons she might have felt that way like, say, a combination of huge adrenaline surge and hormones.
9. She is really good with computers. She's had no actual training but she's shut down a machine that absorbed her body using just her mind and knowing nothing about how it operated. She also managed to pull up the schematics of some secret location just by "playing around" on one of the computers of Oracle Inc. That's talent.
10. Cassie's a geek. She plays a lot of games, and is very good at the shooting ones. Her favorite games are Science Fiction but she does play some fantasy games.
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2. Cassie's father's first act as a super hero was to save her life. He rescued the only doctor who could perform a surgery on Cassie's heart. After months spent in the hospital dying, Cassie went through the surgery and returned to being a happy, healthy child.
3. Cassie found out about her father's super hero identity shortly after he became a hero. At almost the same time she started stealing some of his pym particles and using them on herself. The repeated self exposures are the reason she can now change size.
4. Contrary to all the OOC joking, Cassie doesn't have a thing for metal. In fact, Cassie didn't like the fact that Kristoff (her first almost boyfriend) worse a metal suit and was scared of it. She does, however, have a thing for science and guys in Marvel who like science usually either wear suits or are androids.
5. Her mother and step-father are physically abusive. She's never had any broken bones or serious injuries but in the interactions we see in canon, her mother slaps her and her step-father grabs her by the arm but she escapes from his grasp before he does anything more. Cassie doesn't realize that this isn't normal. She thinks this is how it is in most families. She thinks it was her close bond with her father that's abnormal instead of the abusive relationship with her mother and step-father.
6. She has serious parent issues. She lost her father, who meant everything to her, twice. First when her mother won custody, then when her father died. Iron Man, who she used to call "Uncle Tony" forgot about her along with the rest of the Avengers but she desperately wanted to feel accepted by someone. This lead to her switching sides during the Civil War, because she'd always felt closer to Stark. She thought he cared about her. Instead she ended up being kidnapped and no one went looking for her. When someone finally did rescue her it was Ms. Marvel, who had come there not because of Cassie but because of her sidekick Anya. So basically, Cassie can't help but feel like no one cares about her. But this feeling is too painful to admit and she suppresses it so she uses lots of denial and cognitive dissonance as coping methods.
7. Her cooking is atrocious and it was a running joke in the comics, with her cooking stuff like asparagus pudding. The thing is? She actually likes it.
8. Cassie's never realized that it's more than a little silly that she "fell in love" with Nathaniel Richards in the course of a few hours. It's such an intense feeling that she's never bothered to ask if there were any other reasons she might have felt that way like, say, a combination of huge adrenaline surge and hormones.
9. She is really good with computers. She's had no actual training but she's shut down a machine that absorbed her body using just her mind and knowing nothing about how it operated. She also managed to pull up the schematics of some secret location just by "playing around" on one of the computers of Oracle Inc. That's talent.
10. Cassie's a geek. She plays a lot of games, and is very good at the shooting ones. Her favorite games are Science Fiction but she does play some fantasy games.