Name: Catherine Poe
Age: 21
Birthday: April 30
Gender: Female
Category: Student, possible Villain
Class: College
Grade: 3rd
College Major: Dual Major – Literary Criticism and Magic Theory
Appearance Description:
- 5’9”ft and very willowy
- Pretty in a harsh way, like a bolt of lightning or a forest fire. You get the impression that this pretty thing can destroy you.
- Very fashionable, but in her own terms: could range from an aesthetically pleasing shirt/pants combo to a showy dress with showy jewelry. Depends on her mood.
- Medium length hair usually down, sometimes styled
- Heavy makeup, not to look pretty, but to emphasize power
- Mostly dresses in feminine styles. Dark colors. Violet is almost a staple.
- Eyes sharp and dark like poison. You can tell she studies everything going on around her.
Personality Description:
Catherine loves to introduce herself as a monster, both to warn the sensitive and to give the open-minded a nice surprise. It’s easy to mistake Cathy as such too because she exudes a naturally intimidating aura with her posture and resting bitch face, and her blunt words often scare off the weak-hearted. Cathy knows who she is. She doesn’t give a fuck of what society thinks. And that terrifies people.
If there’s one word to describe Cathy as a whole, it’s selfish. My room, my stuff, my magic. Cathy hoards everything she considers hers and hisses at everyone that dares to touch them with their filthy fingers. Cathy’s selfishness extends beyond material objects, too: My friends, my family, my dreams. When these people and these ideas somehow worm themselves into her heart, Cathy goes overdrive trying to take care of them. Their joy is her joy; their pain is her pain; their dreams are her dreams. She holds them so close that Cathy – indestructible, unflinching Cathy – would crumble at their insults and disapproval.
Cathy holds most things at arm’s length because of this. When they get close, she’s giving them the power to destroy her, and she has to make sure this doesn’t happen, that the people that get into her inner circle are people that she could trust. She’s not afraid to prod and shove to make sure she could trust them. Unfortunately, this has the effect of pushing people away. Cathy is often considered a loner, but she’s not, really. It’s just that she would rather be alone than let the wrong people in. Those that try to act close to her before she could trust them get nothing but thorns.
She values authenticity above all else. Catherine has no patience for people that hide what they’re feeling to appease some sort of arbitrary social hierarchy. She’s not really picky about these sort of people. These authentic people could be absolute shitlords and she’d know it, but she would still hang out with them for entertainment’s sake. Innocent people, animals, children and genuinely well-meaning people also get a pass from her.
Ironically, authenticity from Catherine is hard to come by, not because Cathy doesn’t want to be genuine, but because she’s too afraid of showing weakness. If there was something her mother taught her, it was that other humans would eat her alive if she gives them even the slightest reason to. She associates sadness and pain with weakness. She would rather show anger and displeasure or nothing at all. Not to say she could ever look sad to other people. She crumbles from the inside so magnificently that when it finally surfaces, it’s violent, gross and really, really messy.
Catherine’s raw personality is powerful. When she sets her mind to something, she knows how to play the game and will destroy everything in her path to achieve it. This makes her a powerful ally and a dangerous enemy. Too bad it’s difficult to impress her.
Powers:
Witchcraft – Catherine is a powerful witch, but a witch’s powers are often harnessed through study and careful concentration. She is capable of learning more spells as long as she studies.
Protective Wards – Cathy can set protective wards on people and objects. Her wards would protect the object from harm and put up minor illusions that would remove them from the sight of dangerous people and animals. Unfortunately, Cathy’s not powerful enough to put her powerful ward to more than one object. Cathy’s ward is currently placed in her bedroom. If she wants to switch it to something else, she would have to conduct a small ritual to redirect her power.
Hexes – Her favorite spells. Cathy can cast minor curses. Her current curses include: blinding people, bad luck, turning them into a frog and taking their voice. All of these curses require continual depletion of Cathy’s magical reserves so she only makes them last for a day or else she’d start getting weak. She can't cast more than two curses a day.
Shapeshifting: Cat – Cathy can shapeshift into a fully grown black cat. She has all the species traits cats have, like being able to see in the dark, moving quietly and scaling high objects. There’s no limit to this ability.
Divination – To a certain point. Cathy has no interest in foretelling the future, but she often gets symbolic dreams at night foretelling her of possible events, but those dreams are moot anyway because Cathy doesn’t know how to interpret them at all. She can also give accurate tarot card readings.
Powerful Aura – Not so much as a spell but an effect of her force of personality and magical potential. Cathy naturally exudes an aura of power and danger. When she enters a room, you’d know immediately this woman is not someone you should mess with.
Friend of the Forest – Cathy grew up in a forest. She has a few skills that lets her navigate them.
Animal and Plant Pacifism – Cathy’s unable to strike up a conversation with them as much as she loved to pretend to as a child, but Cathy can convey to the forest and its denizens that she is not a threat.
Survival – Cathy is good at losing pursuers in the forest, memorizing its terrain and living off what they have to offer. It’s pretty easy for her to stalk prey in the forest undetected. It’s impossible for Cathy to get lost in a forest. Funnily enough, the city baffles the hell out of her. Fucking streets, how do they work.
Herbalism – Cathy has a wide knowledge of plants and their properties. She doesn’t trust modern medicine preferring, instead, the knowledge her mother taught her.
Biography:
Catherine grew up at the deepest part of a thick forest in the Philippines. Her mother was a centuries old witch that always seemed like she was teetering between death and incredible power, and since it was the only two of them there, she would vent out all of her angers at the young Cathy. Her mother was neither kind nor nurturing, and looking back on it, Cathy wanted nothing but to be rid of her influence.
The silver lining about all this – at least, from Cathy’s perspective – was that her poor, brilliant, bitter old mother taught her all the skills to survive. If it weren’t for her knowledge of the arcane, she would never have been introduced to magic, something she loves and holds dear. If it weren’t for her sheltering, she would never be the brilliant writer she was. If it weren’t for her emotional abuse, she wouldn’t have an iron heart.
Cathy spent most of her childhood studying her mother’s tricks. When she was feeling playful, she would run with the predators, and when she was lonely, she would talk to the trees. Cathy loved acting like a mischievous forest spirit, playing games with the poor people that made the mistake of wandering in too deep.
One day, when little Cathy was twelve years old, she found a small group of people wandering deeper and deeper into the forest. She made them walk in circles for weeks on end. One of them eventually found her out, and she feared what they would do to her.
Surprisingly, they gave her a letter to Starlight Academy.
Catherine leapt at the idea of finally leaving her mother. She went with the recruiters to her new home, making them promise never to tell her mother.
Catherine has been living at SA ever since. Here, she honed the powers her mother taught her and learned how to live in polite society. It took a lot of work, but Cathy saw human society like a game, and the people that get crushed by it as fools. Cathy learned how to play the game too, but just barely, enough that people won’t get near enough to notice. There are still a few basic things that Cathy doesn’t really understand like table manners and trends, but there’s always a bit of an explorer and an intellectual in her, so she takes these things as fascinating research subjects.
Right now, Cathy is in the third year of College and she’s only seeking to expand her power.
Additional Information:
“Catherine Poe” is a name she gave herself, from Emily Bronte’s Catherine Earnshaw and Edgar Allan Poe. Her birth name is Angela Ocampo.
Age: 21
Birthday: April 30
Gender: Female
Category: Student, possible Villain
Class: College
Grade: 3rd
College Major: Dual Major – Literary Criticism and Magic Theory
Appearance Description:
- 5’9”ft and very willowy
- Pretty in a harsh way, like a bolt of lightning or a forest fire. You get the impression that this pretty thing can destroy you.
- Very fashionable, but in her own terms: could range from an aesthetically pleasing shirt/pants combo to a showy dress with showy jewelry. Depends on her mood.
- Medium length hair usually down, sometimes styled
- Heavy makeup, not to look pretty, but to emphasize power
- Mostly dresses in feminine styles. Dark colors. Violet is almost a staple.
- Eyes sharp and dark like poison. You can tell she studies everything going on around her.
Personality Description:
Catherine loves to introduce herself as a monster, both to warn the sensitive and to give the open-minded a nice surprise. It’s easy to mistake Cathy as such too because she exudes a naturally intimidating aura with her posture and resting bitch face, and her blunt words often scare off the weak-hearted. Cathy knows who she is. She doesn’t give a fuck of what society thinks. And that terrifies people.
If there’s one word to describe Cathy as a whole, it’s selfish. My room, my stuff, my magic. Cathy hoards everything she considers hers and hisses at everyone that dares to touch them with their filthy fingers. Cathy’s selfishness extends beyond material objects, too: My friends, my family, my dreams. When these people and these ideas somehow worm themselves into her heart, Cathy goes overdrive trying to take care of them. Their joy is her joy; their pain is her pain; their dreams are her dreams. She holds them so close that Cathy – indestructible, unflinching Cathy – would crumble at their insults and disapproval.
Cathy holds most things at arm’s length because of this. When they get close, she’s giving them the power to destroy her, and she has to make sure this doesn’t happen, that the people that get into her inner circle are people that she could trust. She’s not afraid to prod and shove to make sure she could trust them. Unfortunately, this has the effect of pushing people away. Cathy is often considered a loner, but she’s not, really. It’s just that she would rather be alone than let the wrong people in. Those that try to act close to her before she could trust them get nothing but thorns.
She values authenticity above all else. Catherine has no patience for people that hide what they’re feeling to appease some sort of arbitrary social hierarchy. She’s not really picky about these sort of people. These authentic people could be absolute shitlords and she’d know it, but she would still hang out with them for entertainment’s sake. Innocent people, animals, children and genuinely well-meaning people also get a pass from her.
Ironically, authenticity from Catherine is hard to come by, not because Cathy doesn’t want to be genuine, but because she’s too afraid of showing weakness. If there was something her mother taught her, it was that other humans would eat her alive if she gives them even the slightest reason to. She associates sadness and pain with weakness. She would rather show anger and displeasure or nothing at all. Not to say she could ever look sad to other people. She crumbles from the inside so magnificently that when it finally surfaces, it’s violent, gross and really, really messy.
Catherine’s raw personality is powerful. When she sets her mind to something, she knows how to play the game and will destroy everything in her path to achieve it. This makes her a powerful ally and a dangerous enemy. Too bad it’s difficult to impress her.
Powers:
Witchcraft – Catherine is a powerful witch, but a witch’s powers are often harnessed through study and careful concentration. She is capable of learning more spells as long as she studies.
Protective Wards – Cathy can set protective wards on people and objects. Her wards would protect the object from harm and put up minor illusions that would remove them from the sight of dangerous people and animals. Unfortunately, Cathy’s not powerful enough to put her powerful ward to more than one object. Cathy’s ward is currently placed in her bedroom. If she wants to switch it to something else, she would have to conduct a small ritual to redirect her power.
Hexes – Her favorite spells. Cathy can cast minor curses. Her current curses include: blinding people, bad luck, turning them into a frog and taking their voice. All of these curses require continual depletion of Cathy’s magical reserves so she only makes them last for a day or else she’d start getting weak. She can't cast more than two curses a day.
Shapeshifting: Cat – Cathy can shapeshift into a fully grown black cat. She has all the species traits cats have, like being able to see in the dark, moving quietly and scaling high objects. There’s no limit to this ability.
Divination – To a certain point. Cathy has no interest in foretelling the future, but she often gets symbolic dreams at night foretelling her of possible events, but those dreams are moot anyway because Cathy doesn’t know how to interpret them at all. She can also give accurate tarot card readings.
Powerful Aura – Not so much as a spell but an effect of her force of personality and magical potential. Cathy naturally exudes an aura of power and danger. When she enters a room, you’d know immediately this woman is not someone you should mess with.
Friend of the Forest – Cathy grew up in a forest. She has a few skills that lets her navigate them.
Animal and Plant Pacifism – Cathy’s unable to strike up a conversation with them as much as she loved to pretend to as a child, but Cathy can convey to the forest and its denizens that she is not a threat.
Survival – Cathy is good at losing pursuers in the forest, memorizing its terrain and living off what they have to offer. It’s pretty easy for her to stalk prey in the forest undetected. It’s impossible for Cathy to get lost in a forest. Funnily enough, the city baffles the hell out of her. Fucking streets, how do they work.
Herbalism – Cathy has a wide knowledge of plants and their properties. She doesn’t trust modern medicine preferring, instead, the knowledge her mother taught her.
Biography:
Catherine grew up at the deepest part of a thick forest in the Philippines. Her mother was a centuries old witch that always seemed like she was teetering between death and incredible power, and since it was the only two of them there, she would vent out all of her angers at the young Cathy. Her mother was neither kind nor nurturing, and looking back on it, Cathy wanted nothing but to be rid of her influence.
The silver lining about all this – at least, from Cathy’s perspective – was that her poor, brilliant, bitter old mother taught her all the skills to survive. If it weren’t for her knowledge of the arcane, she would never have been introduced to magic, something she loves and holds dear. If it weren’t for her sheltering, she would never be the brilliant writer she was. If it weren’t for her emotional abuse, she wouldn’t have an iron heart.
Cathy spent most of her childhood studying her mother’s tricks. When she was feeling playful, she would run with the predators, and when she was lonely, she would talk to the trees. Cathy loved acting like a mischievous forest spirit, playing games with the poor people that made the mistake of wandering in too deep.
One day, when little Cathy was twelve years old, she found a small group of people wandering deeper and deeper into the forest. She made them walk in circles for weeks on end. One of them eventually found her out, and she feared what they would do to her.
Surprisingly, they gave her a letter to Starlight Academy.
Catherine leapt at the idea of finally leaving her mother. She went with the recruiters to her new home, making them promise never to tell her mother.
Catherine has been living at SA ever since. Here, she honed the powers her mother taught her and learned how to live in polite society. It took a lot of work, but Cathy saw human society like a game, and the people that get crushed by it as fools. Cathy learned how to play the game too, but just barely, enough that people won’t get near enough to notice. There are still a few basic things that Cathy doesn’t really understand like table manners and trends, but there’s always a bit of an explorer and an intellectual in her, so she takes these things as fascinating research subjects.
Right now, Cathy is in the third year of College and she’s only seeking to expand her power.
Additional Information:
“Catherine Poe” is a name she gave herself, from Emily Bronte’s Catherine Earnshaw and Edgar Allan Poe. Her birth name is Angela Ocampo.
