GOD I've played this bitch for so long and rewrote her story so many times I'm sorry about the BS I am about to spill here.
OKAY so I came up with the idea sometime between classes while on my year abroad and ignored most of a grammar class to write two pages of mindmapping for the whole thing, which shares very little in common with the version of the story I play with here in Avalon but left me with six idiots in my head that eventually morphed into... whatever this now is. AND this particular idea wasn't meant to be for Kate's group but I got half a page into brainstorming the idea and wrote, and I quote;
... Dammit this would crossover really nicely with COF tbh. Maybe one of the side effects of waste means that monsters begin to come into existence? Now I’m just imagining Kate joining the military and admitting she took a fake when she was 14 and got stuck with a power she hates. ... This is a Concept. Fuck.
My brainstorming documents are always like this, it's a problem.
The funny thing is, Kate didn't start out as a main character. She was always intended to be a side character who helped the main characters out at the last minute (because they realised she was right and it's all BS) but her dynamics with the protagonist ended up too interesting because sunshine/grumpy one is always chef's kiss, and so my main contingent of characters ended up larger than I intended FML. But she eventually gets a cute sunshine girlfriend so it's all good.
I wanted to give her a spin in this hobby because her arc has always been about learning who you are after your trauma and grief, how you can find a new dream even if your old one is closed off to you, and basically coming out of the darkness into the light. And needing to undergo that journey means she's at a nice knife edge where she can go the way her story intends or just completely crumble and go to terrible places instead. Also I'm just always soft for her opening up to people and making friends so... no brainer. I just find all those things really fun to play with, especially the gap between her skillset (which ends up largely combat oriented) and her actual dislike of the things she does with them. She very much feels like she has to just grit her teeth and get through the shitty things because she can't do anything else and giving her the space to realise that maybe that isn't true is nice.
Despite how long I've had her around (since 2010-ish...), I have to admit, her taciturn nature remains one of the harder parts to play out because I feel bad replying to something a character says with little more than "K.", as well as balancing the moments where she's an asshole with "does she really have a reason to be an asshole here?" and I often worry if I'm making her softer than she should be.
kate~
OKAY so I came up with the idea sometime between classes while on my year abroad and ignored most of a grammar class to write two pages of mindmapping for the whole thing, which shares very little in common with the version of the story I play with here in Avalon but left me with six idiots in my head that eventually morphed into... whatever this now is. AND this particular idea wasn't meant to be for Kate's group but I got half a page into brainstorming the idea and wrote, and I quote;My brainstorming documents are always like this, it's a problem.
The funny thing is, Kate didn't start out as a main character. She was always intended to be a side character who helped the main characters out at the last minute (because they realised she was right and it's all BS) but her dynamics with the protagonist ended up too interesting because sunshine/grumpy one is always chef's kiss, and so my main contingent of characters ended up larger than I intended FML.
But she eventually gets a cute sunshine girlfriend so it's all good.I wanted to give her a spin in this hobby because her arc has always been about learning who you are after your trauma and grief, how you can find a new dream even if your old one is closed off to you, and basically coming out of the darkness into the light. And needing to undergo that journey means she's at a nice knife edge where she can go the way her story intends or just completely crumble and go to terrible places instead. Also I'm just always soft for her opening up to people and making friends so... no brainer. I just find all those things really fun to play with, especially the gap between her skillset (which ends up largely combat oriented) and her actual dislike of the things she does with them. She very much feels like she has to just grit her teeth and get through the shitty things because she can't do anything else and giving her the space to realise that maybe that isn't true is nice.
Despite how long I've had her around (since 2010-ish...), I have to admit, her taciturn nature remains one of the harder parts to play out because I feel bad replying to something a character says with little more than "K.", as well as balancing the moments where she's an asshole with "does she really have a reason to be an asshole here?" and I often worry if I'm making her softer than she should be.