Name: Katrina
Age: 27
Occupation: Private Bodyguard
Favorite Color: Blue
Song: Health & Window Weather - Major Crimes | Cyberpunk 2077 OST
Growing up nomadic sounds like a dream to some people. Out on the road, a family built on more than just blood, where everyone is level with everyone else. You do what you're best at, and you do whatever helps the clan. There's always a place for you among your family.
In this family, Kat had always felt like the odd one out from the beginning. She was born in the clan but never liked that she was treated just like everyone else, a point of contention between her and her bio family. Because wanting to be loved differently by your mother is unfair to the other kids. "She's everyone's mom, not just yours. Don't be selfish Kat."
Her mom treated every kid the same way she treated Kat, even when Kat told her she wanted to feel special to her. "We are all a family, not just you and me," she'd say. So Kat tried, over and over again, she tried to be like everyone else, to not want that connection so badly, to blend that burning urge of familial want into everyone else in her life. It never worked.
The final straw for Kat was on the day after her 10th birthday, when she'd gotten into a fight with another kid, a girl with wispy blonde clumps of hair on either side of her head, well, one clump now. Kat had been shoved to the ground by clump hair, scraping her hands, and ended up bruising her knee so badly she was limping. Kat went to her mother in tears, clutching her pant leg while babbling incoherently about what happened.
She remembers how it felt to be held, her mother's hands running gently through her hair while she soothed her. She let Kat cry until she was calm and spoke to her as if she was hurt for her as well, telling her that it wasn't her fault and that the little girl was in the wrong. She cleaned Kats' scrapes gently and wrapped them up, kissing the spots that still hurt all better again before sending her off.
Kat didn't know how long she'd been wandering around for after that. Maybe it was the events that followed which made her kid brain only remember heading back towards her mother's tent and stopping outside when she heard their voices. The little blonde girl was sitting at the edge of her mom's cot while her mother knelt in front of her and bandaged her scrapes too. Her mom repeated the same words she'd told Kat, in the same tone, with the same amount of love in her face, telling her it wasn't her fault. She watched her mom reach over and tickle the pouting child and kiss her bandages, telling her that Mom made it all better now.
As an adult Kat knows it seems painfully childish to let something like that change your entire perspective on the life you want to live. As a child all she saw was the final nail in the coffin of her never being special to her family. She could never bring herself to love her mother the way she had before that day. She stopped seeking her mother out, started becoming more closed off about her real feelings but stayed blunt when she needed to speak to others. She started to form her own views and opinions, found what comforts her, what makes her angry, what she craves from life entirely.
This random day as a child was the beginning of Kat realizing where she wanted to take her life. Away from the clan, away from both forms of her “real” family. Looking forward to a family that she wanted and built herself, a life that could fulfill her, and finding the kind of love she has always craved.
Katrinas intro is here! This is one of my favorite shots I took of my OCs for their intros, and she is the closest visually to her drawn design (even though this is a shot from behind). Also, I realized I've never talked about the story/comics title, which is Life Blur! I will make sure to make a cover and add the tags Life Blur and Life Blur: Comic to each character post from now on
Trying to get everyone posted before Edgerunner 2 stuff drops, excited to see more from the universe that might give us insights into the next game's story bits?
