Characters / Casson Family Series

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Casson Family

Caddy

Cadmium Gold Casson

• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Of all the children, she is the most Eve's daughter.
• Cool Big Sis: Caddy is a good sister, especially to the younger too, Indigo and Rose, and even Saffron too occasionally.
• Guy of the Week: Caddy's dating method in books two and three, though she never forgets Darling Michael.
• Love at First Sight: Caddy with both Michael and Alex, though that second one didn't work out so well.
• Meaningful Name: The four Casson children all have Colourful Theme Naming. Cadmium Gold (yellow) has long blond hair and a sunny, whimsical personality.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Caddy and Saffy look very alike.

Saffy

Saffron Casson

• Cool Big Sis: As the second-eldest sister, she takes a secondary role in this regard, but she still is one.
• Meaningful Name: The four Casson children all have Colourful Theme Naming. Saffron (red) is a fierce, snappy and independent girl.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Caddy and Saffy look very alike.

Indigo

Indigo Charles Casson

• Meaningful Name: The four Casson children all have Colourful Theme Naming. Indigo (dark blue) is a calm, sensitive boy with indigo-blue eyes and dark hair.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Unlike Caddy and Saffy, Indigo has dark hair.

Rose

Permanent Rose Casson

• Full-Name Basis: Tom Levin is the only one allowed to get away with calling Rose her full name, Permanent Rose.
• Meaningful Name: Rose was born preemie. People sent Eve flowers, implicating that Rose wouldn't be around long enough for real gifts. Eve named her Permanent Rose not only after the gorgeous color, but as a sort of promise in the defiant belief that her little daughter would permanently stay with them.
• Precocious Crush: The implication in Permanent Rose is that Rose (who is only 8/9 at the time) has a crush on Tom Levin, who is at least 12/13 at the time, but she isn't aware of it herself that she has a crush on him.
• Verbal Tic: Rose has a habit of using the word "So." as one word at the end of a sentence after making an essential point about something.

Eve

Eve Casson

• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Eve ever so much, to the extent that it annoys Rose as her mother doesn't function well in real life.
• Dumb Blonde/The Ditz: She has her moments of Genius Ditz, though, notably in naming her children, which even Bill commends her for in the first book.

Bill

Bill Casson

• Married to the Job: Bill at least claims to be this. How true that really is is more debatable.
• Handsome Lech: Bill had his second daughter is by his wife's twin sister. No one knows of his infidelity until Permanent Rose, where Saffron's search for the truth reveals this. In the present day, he also has a relationship with his mistress Samantha. She even calls him out on it when Rose discovers that he and Linda had Saffron together years ago.

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Darling Michael

Michael Cadogen

• First-Name Basis: Darling Michael is only known by his first name until Forever Rose reveals that his last name is Cadogen.
• Insistent Terminology: Michael in the first book. It's also a Catchphrase.
  Michael: Don't call me darling, I'm a driving instructor!

David

David

• First-Name Basis: David's last name is unknown, as he only goes by "David" as far as we know.
• Gentle Giant: He formerly had bullied Tom and Indigo with the rest of the rabble.
• Just Friends: David and any female he comes in contact with, ie Saffron, Sarah, and Rose.
• Single-Target Sexuality: David hasn't swerved in his affection for Saffron throughout all the books, and later moved with her to Siena, where the blog implies that they had a Relationship Upgrade.