"Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
"I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself!"
-Cassius, Shakespeare's Caesar
Welcome to my home away from Rome online. I'm a writer and role-player. Currently I'm playing Caius Cassius Longinus on Pax Inter Pares, an absolutely fabulous role-play group on Ancient Worlds that you should join. My Cassius is as calculating and venemous as the Cassius of history, and much queenier. I've inflicted him with a secret gay crush on Marcus Brutus, and with a passionately unstable personality that swings from suicidal to homocidal.
"Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous...
He reads much.
He is a great observer, and he looks
Quite through the deeds of men...
Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit
That could be moved to smile at anything.
Such men as he be never at heart's ease
While they behold a greater than themselves,
And therefore are they very dangerous."
-Caesar, Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'
I think of Cassius as the Roman Machiavelli. But when he's not plotting the downfall of those he despises, he's being a literary snob, dallying with gladiators, and listening to all the troubles of his friends. He may not be exactly likable, but he's a very human character.
