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Katherine Brandt; BSftG Devastation
Topic Started: Aug 2 2011, 08:47 PM (213 Views)
Winter is Coming
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Name:

Katherine Brandt

Age:

19

Power:

Control over chemical kinetics. Reaction acceleration and deceleration.

Background:

Katherine's life was fairly typical for a young girl in war-time Berlin. She was too young to fully understand the implications of the war with Vinci and the brutality of the ensuing occupation. Her innocence did not last. One dark April night, a young man arrived on the Brandts' doorstep, bleeding and frantic. He was a member of the Berlin Resistance, and the Brants gave him food and shelter for the night. The man slipped out of the house with the first light and disappeared into the city. The next day, Vinci soldiers kicked down the Brandts' door and hauled them out into the street for harboring an enemy of the state.

Katherine was force to watch as her father and brothers were executed by firing squad. Several Vinci officers oversaw the execution, among them Allisandri Ratchet, the infamous Prodigy of Vinci. Following this scarring event, Katherine and her mother were sent to two separate prison camps for political dissenters. Katherine would spend five years in the camp, subsisting on starvation rations and enduring the brutality of the guards. There, amongst terror and pain, she discovered her mutation when she immolated a guard who was about to beat her. Once her power was unleashed it didn't stop. She burned everything, leaving the prison camp a smoking ruin in her wake.

Katherine spent a few years as a fugitive in Vinci occupied New Prussia, trying to find her mother and connect with the Prussian resistance. By that time the Vinci had established a stranglehold on its occupied territory, and the resistance had been all but stamped out. That didn't stop Katherine from sabotaging the Vinci herself, incinerating hundreds of Vinci assets over a short and violent career. Eventually Katherine discovered that her mother had died in captivity, and she was driven out of the country by a dedicated Vinci manhunt. By this time the Islands of Novus Orsus had fallen, and Ken's rebellion was just beginning to form. An outcast in her homeland for her exploits and and outcast in the rest of the world for her mutation, Katherine found her way into Ken's organization to continue fighting.

Personality

Katherine's brutal upbringing has left her ill inclined to afford her enemies much in the way of mercy. She harbors an intense loathing for Vinci and carries a particular grudge against Allisandri Ratchet, who she sees as responsible for Vinci conquests in Europe and personally complicit in her family's murder. To Katherine the UN and the Vinci are one and the same, and believes that both deserve to be annihilated. Ken's more forgiving and peaceful approach often frustrates her.

That said, Katherine is fiercely loyal to her companions and would defend them to the death without a second thought. Her trust is very difficult to win, but once established is unshakable. Toward those Katherine considers friends, she can be warm, even affectionate. Most of the time, however, she often comes off as stern, austere, and on bad days mildly psychopathic.

Appearance

Katherine, just over five feet tall, has a small frame that masks her vicious nature. She has the fitness of an athlete, but her genes dictate for her a measure of femininity that her harsh life has yet to completely eradicate. Her face has features that would best be described as delicate, were they not constantly marred by her perpetual scowl. With blonde hair that falls just short of shoulder length in a bob cut and stern blue eyes, she looks every bit the Prussian national she prides herself to be. She has a number of scars on her body from her time in the Vinci prison camp, but doesn't like other people to see them.

Katherine is seldom seen without her combat gear, including the lighter she lifted off the first Vinci guard she killed. It is a habit that has saved her life on more than one occasion.
Edited by Winter is Coming, Dec 27 2012, 04:49 AM.
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