Cassie Newton
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Cassie Newton is a fictional character from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She was played by Azura Skye.
Cassie Newton, who first appears in the seventh season episode "Help", is a young girl who comes to Buffy and tells her that she (Cassie) will die on the next Friday. Buffy, along with Xander, Dawn and Willow, manages to save her from a group of boys who try to kill her in order to raise a demon. However, immediately after, Cassie dies of a heart attack caused by a family condition, fulfilling her own prophecy (this is a near perfect match to the story of Cassandra in Greek mythology.) She does, however, leave several prophecies relating to the Buffy final episode -- including telling Spike "She'll tell you" and implying to Buffy who would win the final battle with the First.
Cassie then appears to Willow in "Conversations with Dead People" and tells her that she had a message from Tara—that if she uses magic, she will kill all her friends. Willow believes her until Cassie tells her that she should kill herself to save everyone and be with Tara again. Willow then realizes that this girl is not Cassie. After being found out, "Cassie" (who is really The First Evil) becomes cocky and tells Willow that "she" is going for a big finish, and disappears.
[edit] Website and trivia
In "Help", to emphasise the dramatics of teenagehood, Cassie maintains an online diary (which is discovered by Willow following a Google search). Following a suggestion from Joss Whedon, the production team decided to create this website for real, complete with poetry (described by Xander as "Always a sign of pretentious inner turmoil", leading the Scooby Gang to wrongly believe that Cassie had death on her mind and was potentially suicidal) and art from Cassie. It was actually composed and created by Rebecca Rand Kirshner, the episode's writer. The site was created and hosted at Geocities, and the writers even registered a domain name for it in the name of Cassie Newton.
The whois entry for the domain name was:
Creation Date........ 2002-09-14 Registration Date.... 2002-09-14 Expiry Date.......... 2003-09-14 Organisation Name.... Cassie Newton Organisation Address. 13 Shadow Lane Organisation Address. Organisation Address. Sunnydale Organisation Address. 94086 Organisation Address. CA Organisation Address. UNITED STATES
Admin Name........... Cassie Newton Admin Address........ 13 Shadow Lane Admin Address........ Admin Address........ Sunnydale Admin Address........ 94086 Admin Address........ CA Admin Address........ UNITED STATES Admin Email.......... newcassie@yahoo.com Admin Phone.......... 666-442-8363
Thus Cassie lived at 13 Shadow Lane, Sunnydale. 94086 is actually the ZIP Code for Sunnyvale, CA. Sunnyvale is much further north than Sunnydale, but the similar names make it a logical joke.
The site became extremely popular, exceeded its download limits, and the site guestbook filled up some thirty times over.
When the domain name registry lapsed, the Geocities site was deleted; the Internet Archive has a cached copy. [1] The domain name is now registered to a company in Hong Kong.
