⌞ʾ⁎ ⊰ logan browning, cis female, she/her ⊱ i think i just saw KATHARINA ARAGON walk across trafalgar square, singing to SO WHAT ( PINK ). you know, the THIRTY-ONE year old HEIRESS/BUSINESS OWNER? people claim that they are just like CATHERINE OF ARAGON from SIX THE MUSICAL. it must be because they are INTELLIGENT and STUBBORN as well… though i could be wrong. all i know for sure is that they live at BALTIMORE apartment. { appleberry, 27, EST, she/her}⌝
Hello this is appleberry! While I love all the the queens, Catherine A. just managed to particularly worm her way into my heart <3 Unlike the real Catherine, Katharina got out of her divorce a bit better off, including getting to keep her daughter! Her backstory and character are a mixture of real history, and the musical of course.
After three sisters and one brother, Katharina is the youngest of the Aragon children. She grew up wealthy but a strained household. Her parents were ladder climbers, never content with their accomplishments, and never fully proud of anything their children did either. Loud arguments were a daily occurance behind closed doors. Bruises hidden under long sleeved shirts and jeans. One by one, as soon as they could, the Aragon children left the nest. For Katherine, her way out came to her in collage, while she was studying business, she met a handsome young man named Arthur at a party hosted by her parents. Though their parents had brought them together in hopes of combining wealth, Katharina and Arthur managaed to fall in geniuine love on their own.
Between her own parents and Arthur's parents, everyone wanted Katharina to produce a grandchild as quickly as possible. Young, in love, and not in any rush, the couple decided to wait on children, figuring they'd try for one in three or four years. Unfortunately, they would never get that chance to make a family. A mere two years into their marriage, the two went on a vacation overseas, where Arthur contracted a virus nasty virus that had him bedridden for weeks before it finally killed him. Despite being told to keep her distance, Katharina had stayed stubbornly by his side to nurse him, keeping a brave face on for him until he drew his last breath. She broke down, moving robotically during the process of setting up the funeral. She didn't expect to be comforted by Arthur's family, afterall, if she'd gotten pregnant when they'd started asking her to she would still have any right to call herself one of them. To her surprise, Henry, Arthur's older brother was there to comfort her.
Katharina and Henry bonded over their grief, with Kath feeling that she owed a good chunk of her recovery to their friendship. As time passed, friendship grew into something else, eventually blossoming into love. There was disapproval and encouragement in equal parts on both sides of the family. In a show of defiance, Henry proposed to Katharina during a big family reunion, making a spectacle of it. Touched, Katharina said 'yes'. This time, when the pressure for grandchildren started up again, Henry was quick to remind Katharina that her hesitance last time had cost her a child with Arthur. Feeling guilty, she agreed to try, the result of which was a beautiful baby girl that they named 'Maryanne'.
As time went on, Katharina proved to be more than just a beautiful wife. She was talented in multiple fields; she knew four languages, she had a master's degree in business, with a minor in social media marketing. For a CEO, Henry was lucky to have someone like her by his side. Together, they built their business up and up and up, until they were so high Henry thought he was the king of the world. With money came power, and Henry realised there were a lot of beautiful women that were attracted to his good looks, money, and power. Once the affairs started, there was no end to them. When Katharina confronted him with evidence, he made weak excuses, leaving his wife to make up reasons to stay together. Her parents didn't take her side, suggesting that she spend more time on her appearance, or that cheating was a natural part of any marriage (for the man of course). Despite her anger, Katharina still loved Henry, and let herself be 'convinced' by his lies and the toxic advice.
When Maryanne was about five or so, Katharina's carefully built wall of lies began to crumble hard and fast. Henry was an adulterer, yes, but he was also a giant asshole beyond that. He spent their money almost as fast as they made it, he liked to get into fights and yell at his employees over minor transgressions. The beginning of the end was when he'd, in the middle of an argument with Katharina, slapped her hard on the face. Deciding she needed space from him RIGHT THEN, she made to grab Mary and walk out. Grabbing her roughly by the arm, he slapped her again. That was the last time he was going to hit her, she decided, and kneed him in the balls.
For the next several months, Katharina worked on setting up a life for herself away from Henry. He seemed determined to make sure she left their marriage with nothing. The kind man that had comforted her in her grief was gone. To really sink the knife in, Henry even tried to convince the courts that Katharina wouldn't be able to care for Maryanne alone. With Maryanne crying that she wanted to be with her mother, and a few testamonies in Katharina's favor, she was given a chance to secure employment and housing for herself suitable for a child, which she did. Honestly? Henry could keep everything else, if it meant keeping Mary far away from him.
Unfortunately for Henry, Katharina took with her her half of their collaborative partnership in the business. She managed to keep some of her old contacts too, those that preffered working with her over Henry. The passing of her grandfather came with a bittersweet surprise in the form of a nice chunk of money. Without hesitation, Katharina moved herself and Mary out of their home city and into the Baltimore Apartments.
sexuality :: Definately thought she was straight for most of her life, is comfortable identifying as bi-sexual now~
likes :: playing the piano, dressing up, being with like-minded individuals, spending time with her daughter
dislikes :: not huge on men right now, she avoids news channels usually and gets information from her friends to then do research on, is actively allergic to green peppers
