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life

Casey's life before her death was similar to Seth's: uneventful and inconsequential. She had a degree in hospitality and worked as a travel coordinator for FuelForward. She was well respected and had an amiable relationship with her coworkers, but no real friends to speak of. She died on a street corner when Emily Richardson severed a live powerline in an attempt to kill Seth and hit Casey with it instead. When Seth reset the timeline, it seemed as though she had died in her sleep from a heart attack. Casey remembers how she really died, however.

life after death

Casey's death is fresh on her mind. She holds a grudge against both Seth and Emily. With Emily gone, Seth is the only one Casey can take her wrath out upon. She doggedly pursues rain all thorughout the story, but it is only with Eden's help that she gets rains attention and becomes a major threat. She's tethered to the street corner she died on, making destroying her tether impossible. The only way to get rid of her is to get her to go willingly with a psychopomp to her next path.

personality

Though Casey is freshly dead and thus has more presence of mind than most poltergeists, her entire personality has been subsumed by righteous wrath. While alive she was polite but straightforward, and a little of this remains in the way she speaks with people other than Seth and how she prefers to attack directly rather than using environmental hazards. Her tunnel-vision on revenge makes her easy to manipulate, a fact that Eden takes advantage of.

relationships

seth rioux♡♡♡♡♡

Casey blames Seth for her death, which isn't completely unwarranted.

the guide♡♡♡♡♡

Casey believes that if the Guide hadn't gone against the natural flow of death to resurrect Seth then she would never have died. As such, she is unwilling to go to her next path with the Guide specifically.

emily richardson♡♡♡♡♡

Since Emily killed her, Casey is understandably not fond of her. Emily doesn't even know she exists, however.

lord byagoona❤❤❤♡♡

Even though Lord Byagoona is Seth's friend, Casey treats Byagoona with respect because it wasn't responsible for her death. She deliberately avoids hurting it.

eden reyes❤❤❤❤♡

Eden uses Casey as a tool, but Casey is unaware of this. She sees Eden as an essential ally on her quest for vengeance.

relevant world lore

ghosts

Souls that live in the realm of the dead can interact with the realm of the living in limited capacities. Their interactions can include lifting objects, breaking objects, and even powering electrical appliances via touch. Ghosts that died particularly traumatically are influenced by their deaths, such as Casey's electrical aura. This can provide additional interactions with the realm of the living, but it's usually just for flavor. Though humans cannot directly see them, some ghosts have very detectible presences. Casey in particular can be felt via an increase in static electricity. While poltergeists exist, most ghosts are simply peaceful spectators to life that haven't moved on to their next path yet.

poltergeists

Ghosts that extensively mess around with objects in the realm of the living are considered poltergeists. These ghosts have a lot of physical strength and are capable of breaking durable materials through sheer force of will. Poltergeists tend to be spiteful spirits that are unhappy with some aspect of their death and are characterized by their refusal to go peacefully into their next life until either their previous life's wrongs are righted or they are forced to depart via destroying an object that they are 'tethered' to. Though they are more physically present than other ghosts, they tend to be less mentally present and may even think they're still alive or mistake living people for people they knew in their own life. They are not be visible to living humans aside from the objects they move around, but sometimes they can be heard unlike non-poltergeist type ghosts. Sounds the ghost makes like slamming its body into a surface or even laughing may be audible to the living, but their words are not clear unless the human in question is extremely perceptive. Audio recordings don't typically pick up ghostly voices either, but humans like to pretend they do.

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trivia

• Casey as a name has many meanings with the most common relating to vigilance, but at least one version of the name meant lightning.
• I knew a Casey in highschool.
• Casey's current design is actually a placeholder. The shirt is based on an old Barbie outfit, but I lost the reference image.

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