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It’s her bond with the Green Lion, or better yet, Kitty Rose, that has inspired this urge to not just fly through the stars, but pilot herself, specifically, through them. Ever since she could look to the skies, Katie has had this dream.
It didn’t necessarily make sense. Her family were people of science, but piloting wasn’t in their blood. They were either engineers or people of medicine, as the generational lines told. Still, she took all the fighter pilot issues she could from her dad’s work to read until she was passed out and drooling on the pages. There was no one from her home-life that inspired the compulsion, or anyone outside it, either, really―the drive was just there, an installation of unknown, mythical forces. Both her parents and brother probably would’ve loved the idea of Caption Katie Holt (On her fifth birthday, Katie actually got the green-dyed jet toy she had gotten so antsy for one fateful shopping trip), but atop this far-flung dream, they inspired a deep appreciation and love for technology. So she was sated, for the most part, anyways, with talking codes and gears and just re-reading the fighter pilot manuals. It’s not like the aspiration was a closely-guarded secret, she’d talk if prodded, but it was easier to shrug it off and focus on just talking projects with her brother.
Then Matt and her Dad were gone, and the Garrison was a scam.
Those dreams were practically shoved to the side by this time, the ache of forlorn used to power herself through her schemes of infiltration and treason. Fulfillment, at least a veneer of it, was only a familiar feeling again once she found the Green Lion through these travels. Despite everything that has been torn from her, Kitty Rose radiates a sort of familiarity.
She’s a calming whisper that remind her she’s not alone, something someone* that needs answers just as much as her, a being who she misses just as much as her mom’s kisses to the forehead when they’re not connected. Kitty Rose is a fellow technician, a brother in arms―a might that soothes her deterioration because if there’s on thing that they both understand, it’s that adaption is key.
Now that they’ve bonded even more, these sentiments are all but amplified, and she feels herself wanting to connect more. The Green Lion carries the Olkari spirit, and Pidge feels it in her heart, now, too, by Ryner’s blessing.
Like she said, everything and everyone is made up of the same cosmic star duct. Just configured in different ways by the laws and properties of mathematics, and it takes curious and daring to figure out the many equations of the universe together.