Thoughts on KATEGUAR or any variations of 'kate is a jaguar now for some reason' at all?
first things first, though: HI NAT YOU ARE IN AMERICA, WHY AREN'T YOU IN MY PART OF AMERICA, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU
ummmm I don't have any thoughts about KATEGUAR, really, but that's because I no longer have thoughts about canon? Like, whatever they do with her will be dumb if we're lucky, and offensive if we're not, so whatever. But if someone paid me $$$$$$$ and was like WRITE A FIC ABOUT KATEGUAR it would probably be about how Derek was not the first Hale Kate was assigned to seduce. She was eighteen when Peter was in his early twenties, maybe, lalalala canon doesn't care about ages and neither do I, and she fucked up: she fell for him, even knowing he was an animal, even knowing that he was cunning and dangerous. She got pregnant, too, and told Gerard, said fuck you, fuck this family, I'm done, I'm going to have it and keep it and raise it, even if it is a wolf. It's half mine, half me, half ours.
Except that when she tells Peter he's not interested. "Go take some of that hunter money and abort the little monster," he says. "I'm not fucking raising it."
Kate does. (Malia is someone else's baby. Peter's a dick about condoms, IDK.) She leaves Beacon Hills and defers college and travels, learns about other shifters, other kinds of magic. Peter used to talk to her, sometimes, about his plans, the onionskin layers of them, endless: for survival, for resurrection, for taking the alpha power with his teeth. When she comes back from South America (you know, just, that whole part of the world) she's got a jaguar fang braided into a bracelet she wears around her wrist. She's ready now, too.
Gerard gives her Derek and she's ruthless, relentless. She knows just how to make a shy teenager fall in love. She feels nothing. It's Peter who sets the fire, intending to walk away unquestioned alpha, to rebuild his pack with desperate omegas; it's Kate who traps him inside. It's Kate who gives in, eventually, worn down by the screaming, and goes a rescues Cora, and takes her to South America, where she'll learn some secrets, where she might, even briefly, be safe.
Anyway, what happens after Kate has been resurrected? Man, I don't know. Somehow this gets explained to Derek &co., and she helps supermurder Peter (she knows his tricks and backup plans!) and then she takes off and starts a home for wayward hunter runaways, taking them in and teaching them that werewolves are people too. It's not enough to atone. It's not even close. It's all she can do. Sometimes she goes to visit Cora, in South America, (you know, just, like, somewhere down there), and they slip into their sleeker skins together, and run all night long.
