Casca Highbottom is the headmaster of the Academy, the most prestigious high school in Panem, and publicly credited as the creator of the Hunger Games. While attending University, Crassus Snow got him drunk during an assignment to get him to give him all his ideas, this assignment later morphed into the Hunger Games. Traumatized by this, he became a morphling addict, leading to a young Coriolanus Snow to mockingly call him "High-as-a-kiteBottom" behind his back. He never forgave Crassus for what he did so he made his son, Coriolanus, the mentor for Lucy Gray Baird out of revenge. Eventually he proves Snow cheated in the Games and forces him to join the Peacekeepers as punishment. When Snow becomes a student at the University, he becomes Snow's first victim to die from his signature weapon of poison.
