Cassius: Manager of the Kalos Pokémon Storage System

Until the player has talked to him, his name is replaced by the word "Someone". Cassius runs the sixth generation's Pokémon storage network, the one where every Pokémon you catch in your playthrough ends up. He's a service character, met once and never seen again, yet his name shows up every time you open the PC.

Contents

• The Name Missing from the Kalos PC
• Boxes, Battle Box and Trays: His User Guide
• The Manga's Traveling Repairman
• A Punk Guy Look, and a Card from the Very First Expansion
• Cassius at a Glance
• Frequently Asked Questions

The Name Missing from the Kalos PC

Cassius debuts in the sixth generation, in X and Y. His job fits in one line: he runs the network where Pokémon caught throughout the region are stored. You'll find him in Camphrier Town, in a house next to the Pokémon Center, on its north side.

The game turns this encounter into a small interface mechanic. When you start the game, the service is labeled "Someone's PC": its operator is anonymous because the player hasn't met him yet. Once you've had the conversation, "Someone" gives way to his name, and the storage screen carries that signature until the end of the adventure.

Yet he doesn't claim to have created the system. He explains that he was given the job by Bill, the man from Kanto behind computerized storage — which makes the Kalos PC one of the regional branches of an older invention, and Cassius one of its local operators rather than one of its inventors.

Boxes, Battle Box and Trays: His User Guide

Talking to him opens a menu of questions, and that's where his real usefulness shows: he serves as living documentation for the storage system. Each Box holds up to thirty Pokémon; the player has eight at the start, and the count grows as you catch more. The Boxes themselves can be moved around as a whole.

He then goes over the Battle Box, a reserved compartment with six slots. Pokémon stored there remain available for infrared, local wireless, Internet and Battle Spot battles, so you don't have to rebuild your team before every match. It's a direct answer to the constant back-and-forth that previous generations forced on players.

Then there are Trays, the tool that lets you move several Pokémon from one Box to another at once. Cassius presents them as the go-to solution for players whose Boxes are overflowing, in other words those who catch a lot — exactly the audience his network is meant to serve.

🗃️ Storing things is his whole job: take a look at our card storage.

The Manga's Traveling Repairman

The comic adaptation keeps his job but takes away his office. There, he travels across Kalos with a team of assistants to fix storage network problems on site, which turns him into a mobile character, available wherever the plot needs a capable adult.

The company he keeps matches his look: he oversees several Punk Guys who act as his assistants, and looks after Emma, the Lumiose City street kid he took in. In this medium, the PC manager is also a guardian figure for kids no one else takes care of.

His first appearance puts him on the heroes' side against four Espurr controlled by a Team Flare Grunt. It's his Gourgeist that takes out all four of them single-handedly, in a scuffle his group stumbles upon by chance — the only species the sources explicitly tie to him.

The rest of his role is a matter of logistics. He flies the Vaniville Town kids, who have set out to help Y find her mother, over Connecting Cave by helicopter, before the group leaves him to rescue Y, who has fallen from the cliffs of Route 9. He reappears later after finding a hospital for the Vaniville Town residents who had been held captive and manipulated, then stays by their side to keep Team Flare at bay.

A Punk Guy Look, and a Card from the Very First Expansion

The character plays on a deliberate contrast. The man who runs the game's most-used infrastructure looks like a Punk Guy, the Trainer class you usually run into in back alleys, and he talks in the same casual slang as the rest of that crew.

The setting drives the joke home: the house where he lives is also where a Punk Girl gives the player TM46, Thief, an item-stealing move. The place that centralizes all stored Pokémon also hands out the least respectable technique in the catalog.

He also has his own card in the Trading Card Game. His first illustration came out with the XY expansion, released in France on February 22, 2014. Localizations don't agree on his name, though: he becomes Cassius in English and Oliviero in Italian, while German and Spanish keep the French form, Olivier.

Cassius at a Glance

Frequently Asked Questions

• Who is Cassius in Pokémon X and Y?
  He's the character in charge of the Kalos region's Pokémon Storage System. He runs the network where the player's catches are stored, a job entrusted to him by Bill, the man from Kanto behind computerized storage.
• Where can you find Cassius?
  In Camphrier Town, in the house next to the Pokémon Center, on its north side. It's also where a Punk Girl gives the player TM46, Thief.
• Why is the PC called "Someone's PC" at the start of the game?
  Because the player hasn't met its manager yet. Until that conversation has taken place, the label stays anonymous; after that, "Someone" is replaced by Cassius's name.
• How many Pokémon can a Box hold?
  Thirty. The player starts with eight Boxes, and more are added as you catch more Pokémon. A separate Battle Box keeps six Pokémon ready for battle without any shuffling beforehand.
• Does Cassius appear outside the games?
  Yes, in the manga adaptation, where he travels across Kalos with his assistants to maintain the storage network, helps the heroes against Team Flare and takes in Emma. He has also had a card in the Trading Card Game since the XY expansion.

In short

Cassius belongs to that category of characters you meet once and then read every day: his name is written into the game's most-used interface. The games make him a one-stop help desk, tasked with explaining Boxes, the Battle Box and Trays; the manga gives him a helicopter, a gang of assistants and an orphan to protect. The same job, played as a homebody on one side and a traveling repairman on the other.