#chook is one of those characters for whom I have SO much lore and no ability to actually. fuckin. write the thing

[whumpiary]

Can we find out who chook is now? 💙

You sure can! I’ve nodded at it a few times in various pieces but never said outright I don’t think. Also want to apologise, lol. This was never meant to be as drawn out a mystery as it became. I have drafts of several pieces explaining things that started like… two years ago that I could never quite wrangle into line. (Edit: I checked and been it’s three years?! time is fake and made of jelly)

Chook is what Cass calls his brother, Henri. He also lives at Bergen Estate. He also has powers, although different from Cassius’, a portion of which (a form of memory reading) is activated through touch. When Cass and Henri were young they made a deal – ‘no names, no touching’ – which was more or less a deal of mutually assured destruction. Henri wouldn’t invade Cass’ privacy (or hurt him), and Cass wouldn’t make Henri do things.

When Christopher threatens Cass with seeing Chook he’s threatening either: doing whatever he’s about to do to Cass to Chook instead, or doing what he’s about to do in front of Chook. Occasionally, the threat is that he’ll take Cass down to where Chook is and leaving him there.