just finished rewatching the briarwood arc and it really sticks out to me that matt Never said cassandra had been charmed by sylas and delilah. he never mentioned in meta any kind of magic effect, never described her “shrugging off” anything. she did say that her actions were made ‘not in her right mind’ but that doesn’t necessarily mean a charm effect, and matt also referenced stockholm syndrome.
so all evidence on the table, there’s a very high chance that cassandra was never charmed by the briarwoods in a magical effect sort of way, but instead in a mundane sort of “your brother left you for dead, but we saved you, because you’re worthy, not like the rest of your family, they hardly cared for you anyways, lonely youngest daughter, always forgotten, always left behind, but no more, we will love you, we will cherish you, you’ll be the sole object of our desire, and you’ll see that all cruelty is just means to an end, you’ll come to understand why we had to do this in time, no one purely evil would have saved a dying girl in the snow, but we did, because you’re so important to us” sort of way.
and i’m thinking especially about her white-knuckle gripping percy’s hands and choking on her words as she asks him “can i be trusted?” and archibald refusing to look her in the eye for days after finding out she was double crossing the rebellion attempts she feigned leading with him, and the fact that she kept a picture of her with some of her brothers, but her parents had been burnt away, and delilah’s final words to her being “YOU COULD HAVE BEEN MY DAUGHTER” and like .... cassandra ......................... what did you Go through
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