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❖ N A M E 
Cassiopeia Rosalind Carrington
❖ A G E 
63
❖ G E N D E R 
Female
❖ O C C U P A T I O N 
Co-owner and executive assistant to the CEO of Trium-Veritas
❖ S E X U A L I T Y 
Heterosexual
❖ R E L A T I O N S H I P S T A T U S 
Married to Lee Carrington
❖ A P P E A R A N C E 
There's something about Cassiopeia that makes people straighten their posture when she's nearby. When people hear the signature clacking of her heels approaching, they immediately rush to at least look like they were hard at work if they weren't before. Her strict temperament is visible in how she moves; her posture is immaculate, every gesture and action is swift and decisive, and there’s absolutely no unnecessary movements made.
Years of taking care of her skin seems to have paid off for the most part, but even the famous Cassiopeia Carrington isn’t immune to the effects of old age. Her clear skin is relatively devoid of beauty marks and other such spots, but the wrinkles that weigh lightly upon her face were unavoidable—but the common laugh lines etched upon faces seem to be missing; she seldom smiles, after all. Her mouth seems to be permanently twisted downwards in disapproval.
She’s usually seen dressed in muted colors; Cassiopeia is often associated with black, white, gray and blue in terms of her wardrobe. It’s quite difficult to imagine her relaxing on a day off in a pair of comfortable sweats and slippers, even her children have likely never seen her wear any attire besides a pristine, sharp outfit. Does she even own a pair of shoes that doesn’t have heels? Having an interest in fashion and fashion design (and having a bit of a vain streak), Cassiopeia’s clothing though simple, is actually quite intricate in design and obviously extremely expensive.
  
❖ P E R S O N A L I T Y 
To be a woman that stands at the apex of an empire dominated by men is no easy feat. Cassiopeia Carrington has developed a thick skin in order to survive in such a place, and that unfortunately seems to have leaked into her personal life as well. Imposing, intimidating and stoic, Cassiopeia has refused to show weakness in front of her male colleagues and it appears that she has buried emotions and vulnerability so far into the ground that sometimes she doesn’t seem to be human. She’s a perfectionist is a core, and apparently nothing is good enough for Cassiopeia; she can always find a scathing comment to make about how something doesn’t live up to her standards. Despite her deadpan expressions, Cassiopeia is quick to expression emotions; specifically negative ones. Due to the fact that she has little to no patience for incompetence, it’s common to see her snapping her fingers and getting worked up about mistakes, or supplementing sarcastic comments with a dramatic roll of her eyes. Should she be several years younger and a lot more personable, people might even call her sassy.
It’s easy to think that Cassiopeia doesn’t quite care for anything, but in fact the opposite is true. Cassiopeia cares too much instead of too little, and this has been a constant through her entire life. Why else would she be a perfectionist? Maybe she truly does care about the best for not just the company but for her family as well? Such thoughts may cross through her children’s minds once in a blue moon, when Cassiopeia is surprisingly not critical of something for once, but those questions remain unanswered. It’s quite difficult seeing how your own mother may care about you when she’s berating your slouched posture for the eleventh time in a row. Tough love is the only thing that Cassiopeia knows about parenting—it’s how she was raised, after all—and obviously there’s something wrong with her methods. Cassiopeia has gotten less and less involved with each child, and how much she fussed over them; something she was doing is wrong, and so the next best option is to not try at all.
As a mother, Cassiopeia often comes off as cold, uncaring and disappointed in her children. She had never been the type to clap her hands and exclaim about how proud she is of her children, nor is she the type to go around bragging about how brilliant they are to anyone who will listen. Moments of approval were far in between, but that also meant that a rare approving nod could mean the entire world; Cassiopeia Carrington isn’t easily impressed after all. Regardless of how uncaring she seems about her children, she has always made sure that they had everything they wanted—within reason. She likes to think that having them rebelling against her and her husband prepared them for the harsh, real world somewhat and that was somehow good parenting, but perhaps that’s just wishful thinking.
Lately she’s been gazing at the family album before slipping under the bedsheets. She’s getting sentimental, perhaps.
She must be getting old.

❖ L I K E S 
Steaming hot tea with a slice of lemon
Organization of any kind
Monochromatic color schemes
A plush surface that she can run her hands along
❖ D I S L I K E S 
Incompetence and easily preventable mistakes
Not recognizing the backs of her own hands due to her age
Her own parents
Losing her temper

❖ H I S T O R Y 
Perhaps it would surprise most people if they heard that Cassiopeia Carrington was a vibrant, bright lady with a zeal for life in her youth. Contrary to her demeanor today, she used to be carefree and wild, living life on a whim rather than reason. She had such a bounding enthusiasm in everything, and it was easy to see that her future was filled with infinite possibilities; all she had to do was choose a passion. Life isn’t that kind, however, is it? Her parents, George and Athena Solomon were social ladder climbers, intent on living a lavish life with no more struggles to be had. They were struggling though, their business didn’t take off like they hoped it would. It was successful, but not successful enough; it wasn’t bringing in enough money to suit their needs and wants. What was an easy way to rake in cash without turning to crime and deceit?
A business marriage, obviously.
The majority of Cassiopeia’s teenage years were her parents micromanaging everything about her, from how she talked, how she held herself, how to eat, what she wore… All for the sole purpose of pretty much selling off their daughter to a rich man so they could take advantage of Cassiopeia’s new wealth. College provided more freedom (her parents graciously paid for an ivy league school, in hopes of finding a wealthy person there), but her schedule on the weekends were monopolized by parties to attend, courtesy of her greedy parents. It wasn’t all completely bad though, she had met ‘the one’ at one of those boring parties after all. Lee Carrington was everything her parents dreamed of, and immediately they began pushing and nudging her towards him. She was grateful that Lee didn’t make a move for a long time; and if he did she likely would’ve rejected him out of guilt. Being friends was just fine, there wasn’t an ulterior motive to just being friends, right? She couldn’t take advantage of him when they were just friends.
Inevitably, they entered a relationship. Cassiopeia started to purposefully distance herself from her parents then. The last time she saw her parents was at her wedding, and she deliberately goes out of her way to avoid them afterwards.
Cassiopeia considers the first few major milestones of her life to come much later in life than most, and there was little time in between them. The first major event was getting married, and finally becoming independent. The second and third—Lee taking over the company completely and becoming a mother, respectively—happened in a whirlwind.
And the rest of course, is history.
❖ M I S C E L L A N E O U S I N F O 
Any other information that we should know?

After looking at the sheets, we've found a few common misconceptions about Cassiopeia and Lee that we feel is important that we address publically.
The first thing we want to stress is that while Cass and Lee are both terrible parents, they're not evil.
There’s been a few applications that have the parents forcing their kids to do lessons or a hobby that the kids don't want to do. Neither parent would ever force their kids to do something they don't want.
The parents will require their kids to take lessons in at least some things so they aren't always idle. They will always ask what the child would like to do, and as long as it's reasonable, they will make it happen. If the child doesn't have anything they want to do, they will offer some options for them to choose the one they want to do most.
If the child ends up not wanting to continue the chosen lesson, Cass and Lee won't force them to continue. However, they will be given a little bit of a hard time.
Cass and Lee's criticism is problematic but not abusive.
They never criticize just to be mean, they do so to better their children. Perhaps this method is deeply flawed and not received well, but it's not done just because they want to hurt someone.
They don't criticize in public; therefore public humiliation just does not happen.
They don't criticize perfection, this is met with rare praise.
 Their criticism is smaller scale and more disheartening; a performance or essay can be almost perfect, and they can spot a tiny flaw and be like "oh, you tried very hard but see this tiny unnoticable flaw? we noticed it. we don't think anyone else did but you should fix that" (Cass' criticism may seem harsher however, just becase of her blunt delivery.)
The older children will have been pushed the hardest. The younger children will also be pushed very hard, but the parents won't be as involved in their lives as their older siblings have experienced.
Finally, Cass and Lee do love and care deeply for all of their children. It's up to you whether your character realizes this or not, but their mistakes in how they raised their children are just that: mistakes. They're not done out of malicious intent. They are parents who realized that they've been doing something wrong, and are trying to prevent those mistakes from happening again; it's just not working as well as they hoped.
Sorry for the long post, but before people get too deep in the process of writing their character, we wanted to address this publically so you don't have to rewrite your entire sheet based on a misinterpretation of the parents. Cass and Lee are not like the evil stepmother, or any cartoon villains. They're just parents that have made horrible mistakes, and obviously the consequences of their actions have affected everyone deeply.