I'm sorry but Kath is my new child (and Nate's new sister ofc) so... some facts about her? 👀
yes yes baby baby Nate please come adopt her she needs it
Little Miss Runaway, truly her solution to every problem is to run away. Usually she runs away to a cheer friend's house for a few days, once she ran away and lived with Sue for a longer while (post baby-gate). In s2 during/after Rumours she runs away to California which... some traumatizing shit happened along the way but she got there, found Jesse, Jesse took her to Roman/Cooper/Ash and they took care of her and then Jesse flew back to Lima with her (which is why he's around in Prom Queen). After that, she moves in with Josh and there's a long, drawn out custody battle, Jesse takes the job at Carmel in s3 so he can stick around and be closer to her through all of it
Her very best friend is Oz Berry, Rachel's younger brother. They met in dance classes when they were three and have been inseparable ever since. They join every club/team/activity together, have been doing voice & dance classes and community theatre together their entire lives, it's very weird for anyone to see Oz alone when Kath runs away (she never runs to his house because she doesn't like Rachel)
Kath is lactose intolerant but never lets that stop her from having dairy, she just lives on lactaid pills, upset stomachs, and regrets
Terri decorated Kath's bedroom when Kath was five, Kath isn’t allowed to redecorate it but has hated it since day one (it's very very pink, Kath does actually like pink but not the way Terri did it)
Kath is allergic to strawberries! She’s also allergic to peanuts (like Terri) which she hates because she loves peanut butter, she can’t have onions in large quantities, and she’s allergic to mustard
(fun fact, the strawberries thing came from Jeremy St James being allergic to strawberries and it turned into a whole thing with @the-witching-ash that all of our Will-kids in various verses, except for Jesse and maybe Joy, are allergic to strawberries)
She is definitely a bit of a fashion girly, but also loves wearing leggings & uggs on her lazy days or bad mental health days
She's named after Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds in Singing in the Rain) and Gene Kelly
She loves musicals and while she doesn’t actually like having her dad as a teacher, she’s excited to join the glee club
She starts going by Katherine Kelly in s1 after babygate, legally changes her name when Josh wins the custody battle when she's 16
Broadway dream roles include Katherine Plumber (Newsies), Christine Daae (Phantom), Belle (Beauty and the Beast), and Glinda (Wicked)
Terri kept trying to mold her into her dream child and in many ways it actually worked, but Kath built up a lot of resentment towards her because of it
