Cassandra is a survivor of the initial zombie apocalypse, and a main character in Z Nation. She is a former member of the Philadelphia cannibal survivor group. She was, a lure used to attract male survivors with the promise of sexual trade. This in order to trap them and feed off of them. After joining the Westward-bound survivor group she became vegitarian, she helps the group with the mission to bring Murphy to California. After cutting her leg on wire she incurs an infection and in a world without anibiotics she falls ill quick. When she is near death she is bit by Murphy, perhaps to spare her from becoming a zombie. She instead becomes a zybrid that Murphy can control.