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History and Background
Catherine Kathleen Crawfield, going by the name of Cat, is born five months after her mother was raped by a very young vampire. Growing up in a small village, her mother is seen as a slut because she's given birth to a child out of wedlock and Catherine grows up not having any friends. During puberty, she notices a change in herself and for her sixteens birthday, her mother sits her down and gives her a talk starting with the words "You've always had a monster in you."
Cat learns that she is a half-breed, a vampire-human hybrid. Her mother hates all vampires and from that day on, Cat grows up to a constant litany of how every single vampire is evil and a demon and how she can't let her vampire side take over.
With sixteen, she got together with a man named Danny Milton who swore he loved her and dumped her immediately after having sex with her. The night he dumped her, she killed her first vampire.
Through trial and error, she figures out what can hurt a vampire and over the years, kills fifteen more of them, until shortly after her twenty-second birthday, she meets Bones.
Naturally, she tries to kill Bones as well, but he proves to be too strong for her. When Bones realises what she is, he decides to allow her to live and to train her. The two of them make a deal; he'll let her live and help her kill vampires, in turn, she'll only kill the vampire he says she should.
He trains her physically (long runs through the dark forest with him chasing her, sparring sessions, etc.), extends her knowledge of vampires considerably, and pushes her through what she sees as "slut training", meant to make her a more compelling bait. This includes new clothes, make-up and a lesson in not blushing when someone talks dirty to her.
Bones turns out to be a bounty hunter and a good guy and in the time of training and working with him, Cat comes to realise (through a lot of pushing and prodding from his side) that it's not what you are that makes you a bad person, it's what you do. Cat and Bones fall in love.
Together, Bones and Cat hunt a vampire named Hennessey who runs a modern day slave ring / food service for vampires, i.e. he kidnaps girls and boys and home-delivers them to his clients. His men vampires kill Cat's grandparents and kidnap Cat's mother. Bones and Cat rescue her, taking out all the baddies in the process. The governor of Ohio works with Hennessey to "clear the streets of scum" and Cat kills him as well before surrendering to the police that has been on their heels for quite some time.
Donald Williams, head of a unit in the FBI called Paranormal Behaviour Division (in truth a combination of FBI, CIA and the armed forces), offers her a job in his unit.
Since Cat fears that if she refuses, vampires will kill her mother as well, she takes him up on that offer, under the conditions that she'll command any team that hunts vampires, that she'll pick and train the members of said team, that their contract is limited to ten years, her mother gets protection and she doesn't have to kill vampires who aren't killing people.
She leaves Bones, pretending to Don that she killed him so that he won't be in any danger from her new unit.
Cat gets a brand new identity and becomes Special Agent Catrina Arthur.
There's a gap of five years between the events of the first book and that of the second. In those five years, she works for that particular unit, gaining the trust of her men and the grudging respect of her boss, Don.
In that period of time, she makes a name for herself in the supernatural world. It's The Red Reaper, since she's got red hair and kills vampires.
Abilities
As a half-vampire, Cat's got a pulse and a beating heart, which is both her greatest weakness and her greatest strength against vampires. As long as they don't see her eyes, which (like any vampires) turn from their natural colour to an emerald green when she's agitated, they don't suspect her of being more than just a human. She can tell a vampire from a human and, to a point, she can "feel" their strength/power - especially when she's touching them.
Cat is stronger and faster than your average human and, after the training Bones put her through, stronger than the weak to average vampire as well.
She's smart and trained in hand-to-hand combat. She can throw knifes with deadly accuracy. Her vampire blood makes her immune to the vampire mind thrall, so those tricks don't work on her. She heals faster than a human, but not as fast as a vampire.
Due to the vampire blood running through her veins, she doesn't age normally (i.e. with twenty seven, her biological clock is still stuck at nineteen/twenty). Alcohol doesn't affect her the way it does to humans, only having a midly calming effect on her (her favourite drink is Gin & Tonic) and it takes about thrice the amount of any drug to affect her the way it does to a normal human.
Her most impressive skill (in my opinion) is that she can fight in high heels. And run in them.
Other than her strength, speed, resistance to drugs or mind tricks and her training, her vampire heritage has no effect on her.
Personality
"I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline-homicidal bitch and I want you to promise me you're okay with that, because it's who I am"
That's what Cat says about herself and to a point, that is absolutely true. She's very insecure about herself, since her mother always told her that she had half a demon inside of her. Most of her life before meeting Bones, she spent atoning for this. She's insecure about men, since the first one she ever had sex with only used (and abused) her and dropped her like a hot coal afterwards.
She's narrow-minded, in so far that for the longest time, she thinks all vampires are bad, a prejudice she heard over and over again from her mother.
However, these traits aren't integrated into her character, but rather forced upon her by her environment and in her time with Bones, she learns to stand up to herself against her mother (and men) and she loses her narrow-minded perspective, coming to see that just as there are morally bad humans, there's also good vampires and it's the actions of a person that determine which they are, good or bad.
She's very possessive of what she considers hers, something that is most likely due to her vampiric nature, seeing how it's a character trait she shares with all vampires in her world. They get jealous easily.
Cat does what she thinks is right, no matter what the price. She'll try to protect the lives of anyone who hasn't done something morally bad. On the other hand, she has no qualms whatsoever killing vampires who have killed and has killed a few morally corrupt humans as well. Thus, we've also covered the borderline-homicidal part.
Trust is a big problem for Cat, especially blind trust. If she doesn't know everything that is going on, it scares her (and a scared Cat is most likely a violent one. Or at least very pissed off). Her whole life, she could only rely on herself (Bones and later on her team excluded) and trust is definitely a fickle thing. Even if a person tells her everything, Cat is still going to have some kind of back-up plan, in case someone betrays her.
Cat is hard-headed and incredibly stubborn. Things are either going to go her way or no way at all. Backing down is hard to the point of being almost impossible for her. Some might see it as bravery, others think it's stupidity. So far, she always got away with it - even though she has a few scars to show for it.
She doesn't mind pretending to be stupid or shallow when posing as bait and she's learnt that surprise is one of her biggest advantages against those stronger and faster than her.
All in all, Cat's her own person. She's very independent.
If you have any comments or questions about Cat or the way I play her, if you want to plot or just say hi, leave me a comment here or hit me up on AIM (sn: chatonai). Anonymous posting is enabled, comments are screened for your convenience.
Catherine Kathleen Crawfield, going by the name of Cat, is born five months after her mother was raped by a very young vampire. Growing up in a small village, her mother is seen as a slut because she's given birth to a child out of wedlock and Catherine grows up not having any friends. During puberty, she notices a change in herself and for her sixteens birthday, her mother sits her down and gives her a talk starting with the words "You've always had a monster in you."
Cat learns that she is a half-breed, a vampire-human hybrid. Her mother hates all vampires and from that day on, Cat grows up to a constant litany of how every single vampire is evil and a demon and how she can't let her vampire side take over.
With sixteen, she got together with a man named Danny Milton who swore he loved her and dumped her immediately after having sex with her. The night he dumped her, she killed her first vampire.
Through trial and error, she figures out what can hurt a vampire and over the years, kills fifteen more of them, until shortly after her twenty-second birthday, she meets Bones.
Naturally, she tries to kill Bones as well, but he proves to be too strong for her. When Bones realises what she is, he decides to allow her to live and to train her. The two of them make a deal; he'll let her live and help her kill vampires, in turn, she'll only kill the vampire he says she should.
He trains her physically (long runs through the dark forest with him chasing her, sparring sessions, etc.), extends her knowledge of vampires considerably, and pushes her through what she sees as "slut training", meant to make her a more compelling bait. This includes new clothes, make-up and a lesson in not blushing when someone talks dirty to her.
Bones turns out to be a bounty hunter and a good guy and in the time of training and working with him, Cat comes to realise (through a lot of pushing and prodding from his side) that it's not what you are that makes you a bad person, it's what you do. Cat and Bones fall in love.
Together, Bones and Cat hunt a vampire named Hennessey who runs a modern day slave ring / food service for vampires, i.e. he kidnaps girls and boys and home-delivers them to his clients. His men vampires kill Cat's grandparents and kidnap Cat's mother. Bones and Cat rescue her, taking out all the baddies in the process. The governor of Ohio works with Hennessey to "clear the streets of scum" and Cat kills him as well before surrendering to the police that has been on their heels for quite some time.
Donald Williams, head of a unit in the FBI called Paranormal Behaviour Division (in truth a combination of FBI, CIA and the armed forces), offers her a job in his unit.
Since Cat fears that if she refuses, vampires will kill her mother as well, she takes him up on that offer, under the conditions that she'll command any team that hunts vampires, that she'll pick and train the members of said team, that their contract is limited to ten years, her mother gets protection and she doesn't have to kill vampires who aren't killing people.
She leaves Bones, pretending to Don that she killed him so that he won't be in any danger from her new unit.
Cat gets a brand new identity and becomes Special Agent Catrina Arthur.
There's a gap of five years between the events of the first book and that of the second. In those five years, she works for that particular unit, gaining the trust of her men and the grudging respect of her boss, Don.
In that period of time, she makes a name for herself in the supernatural world. It's The Red Reaper, since she's got red hair and kills vampires.
Abilities
As a half-vampire, Cat's got a pulse and a beating heart, which is both her greatest weakness and her greatest strength against vampires. As long as they don't see her eyes, which (like any vampires) turn from their natural colour to an emerald green when she's agitated, they don't suspect her of being more than just a human. She can tell a vampire from a human and, to a point, she can "feel" their strength/power - especially when she's touching them.
Cat is stronger and faster than your average human and, after the training Bones put her through, stronger than the weak to average vampire as well.
She's smart and trained in hand-to-hand combat. She can throw knifes with deadly accuracy. Her vampire blood makes her immune to the vampire mind thrall, so those tricks don't work on her. She heals faster than a human, but not as fast as a vampire.
Due to the vampire blood running through her veins, she doesn't age normally (i.e. with twenty seven, her biological clock is still stuck at nineteen/twenty). Alcohol doesn't affect her the way it does to humans, only having a midly calming effect on her (her favourite drink is Gin & Tonic) and it takes about thrice the amount of any drug to affect her the way it does to a normal human.
Her most impressive skill (in my opinion) is that she can fight in high heels. And run in them.
Other than her strength, speed, resistance to drugs or mind tricks and her training, her vampire heritage has no effect on her.
Personality
"I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline-homicidal bitch and I want you to promise me you're okay with that, because it's who I am"
That's what Cat says about herself and to a point, that is absolutely true. She's very insecure about herself, since her mother always told her that she had half a demon inside of her. Most of her life before meeting Bones, she spent atoning for this. She's insecure about men, since the first one she ever had sex with only used (and abused) her and dropped her like a hot coal afterwards.
She's narrow-minded, in so far that for the longest time, she thinks all vampires are bad, a prejudice she heard over and over again from her mother.
However, these traits aren't integrated into her character, but rather forced upon her by her environment and in her time with Bones, she learns to stand up to herself against her mother (and men) and she loses her narrow-minded perspective, coming to see that just as there are morally bad humans, there's also good vampires and it's the actions of a person that determine which they are, good or bad.
She's very possessive of what she considers hers, something that is most likely due to her vampiric nature, seeing how it's a character trait she shares with all vampires in her world. They get jealous easily.
Cat does what she thinks is right, no matter what the price. She'll try to protect the lives of anyone who hasn't done something morally bad. On the other hand, she has no qualms whatsoever killing vampires who have killed and has killed a few morally corrupt humans as well. Thus, we've also covered the borderline-homicidal part.
Trust is a big problem for Cat, especially blind trust. If she doesn't know everything that is going on, it scares her (and a scared Cat is most likely a violent one. Or at least very pissed off). Her whole life, she could only rely on herself (Bones and later on her team excluded) and trust is definitely a fickle thing. Even if a person tells her everything, Cat is still going to have some kind of back-up plan, in case someone betrays her.
Cat is hard-headed and incredibly stubborn. Things are either going to go her way or no way at all. Backing down is hard to the point of being almost impossible for her. Some might see it as bravery, others think it's stupidity. So far, she always got away with it - even though she has a few scars to show for it.
She doesn't mind pretending to be stupid or shallow when posing as bait and she's learnt that surprise is one of her biggest advantages against those stronger and faster than her.
All in all, Cat's her own person. She's very independent.
If you have any comments or questions about Cat or the way I play her, if you want to plot or just say hi, leave me a comment here or hit me up on AIM (sn: chatonai). Anonymous posting is enabled, comments are screened for your convenience.