Lady Katerine Greycen

Emily Vancamp as Katerine Greycen

CHARACTER BRIEF

Full Name:	Katerine Greycen
Byname:	The Wildcat
Age:	22
Date of Birth:	Aug 12
Kingdom:	Rivana
House:	Greycen
Title/Profession:	Lady
Position:	Lady
Place of Birth:	Stoneshield

FAMILY

Father:	Rodrigo Greycen (nee Tracano)
Mother:	Eleanor Greycen
Siblings:	Thaddeus, Stephen, John, and Johanna (half-sister)
Spouse:	Betrothed to Duke (Sir) Darren Haldis
Children:	None

Background

The only trueborn daughter (and youngest child) of Archduchess Eleanor Greycen. Lady Katerine Greycen is known for being the most headstrong and rebellious of her siblings. While not a knight, she is known to be a ferocious fighter with a rapier (or her fists), and her fiery temperament and penchant for getting into brawls has left her known to Rivana as “the Wildcat.”

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Quirks:
Personality Quirks

Hot-Tempered - When Katerine was a little girl, people were charitable and called her "feisty." When she got a little older, it was that she was a "handful." Now that she's all grown up, well, suffice to say the terms are often far less polite, and she doesn't particularly care to fight against that perception. She's known to fly off the handle fairly easily, though to her credit she's usually not irrational about the things that make her angry…just that she tends to have an outsized reaction when they do.

Scathing - Katerine has a great deal of trouble keeping her (often negative) opinions to herself. Suffice to say her "fresh mouth" has gotten her in trouble with…well, just about everybody at one point or another. She's filled with barbs and cutting remarks. Wonder where she gets that from?

Strong-Willed - For all her faults, no one can say Katerine isn't a woman of strong convictions and plenty of courage. Of course, this also can (and does) manifest as outright stubbornness at times. It's not that she won't necessarily bend before she breaks…it just takes a lot of pressure to get her to bend first.

Skill Quirks
Talented: Finesse Blades - Katerine is deadly with knives and daggers, and is poetry in motion with a rapier in her hand, and she's had more practical experience using them than people might expect.

High Alcohol Tolerance - Katerine has been known to drink men two or three times her size under the table. Something she's more than happy to prove whenever opportunity arises.

Earthy - Katerine's spent a good deal of time "slumming it" and gets on quite well with common folk, or even passing as one when necessary (Remember to get the dirt under your fingernails!).

Social Quirks
Black Sheep - Katerine doesn't like the water, could care less about balancing ledgers, and doesn't give a whit for architecture and engineering. She's never had any interest in becoming a Knight or a Sailor or a Warden and generally speaking sticks out like an often-sore thumb in her family. That said, for all her faults and foibles, it hasn't gone so far as to give her a truly tarnished reputation (nor for all her misadventures has her family seen fit to disown her, though it's been threatened a few times). She's known to be willful but also to be a fierce fighter, and a good bit less stuffy than her parents and most of her siblings when you catch her in a good mood.

Rough Around the Edges - Katerine can (and fairly often does) drink like a fish, curse like a sailor, and knows just about every bawdy song and short poem there is to be heard in the Edge. While she IS capable of playing the proper lady…she only rarely bothers…and even then only for truly important occasions. This isn't to say she's completely without niceties and decorum (especially with people she likes and/or respects), just that she often chooses not to deploy them, and often gets away with it due to her "willful" reputation and the weight of her family's influence.

Survivor - Katerine is known to have survived an assassination attempt during the Succession War that left her fending for herself for several weeks on the streets of Pacitta, while in her late teens. It wasn't easy (indeed, several times it was downright harrowing) but she managed to emerge mostly unscathed, which has given her a reputation for toughness and ferocity that caused her family's nickname for her to spread across Rivana. Many refer to her as "The Wildcat" (a name that has only cemented given her antics in the years since).

Personality:
Katerine has been called “Wild Kat” by her brothers for most of her life, having been the only girl in the household when she was growing up allowed her a lot of latitude. Kat has a stubborn streak rivaling that of her mother, though being more fiery in her responses than her mother’s coldness. She is also a bit spoiled, and it sometimes shows in her attitude. That said, she has an earthy sense of humor and can be quite brazen in just about everything she does, whether flinging insults or flirting (or both at the same time). Suffice to say, her mouth has gotten her in trouble more than once.

She also has a competitive streak to rival her brother Thad, not taking kindly to losing and being willing to compete in almost anything: especially races on land, be it on foot or horseback, or, much to the chagrin of her family, brawls. Or drinking. Or duels. It would appear that the "cat" portion of the byname she's earned includes as much a sense of feline mischief as one might expect.