Big Eyes, Small Mouth (BESM): Monster Academy - [Profile] Katrina DeWitt

[Katrina DeWitt]

Katrina DeWitt - Young Nekojin

Background and History

They never said life for a Nekojin was easy. Doubly so for Katrina.

Katrina was born to David and Dana DeWitt. Two people as different as night and day.

David is a well known gunsmith, shrimper, former Navy SEAL, and sometimes humanitarian around the streets of New Orleans. On the other hand, Dana lived a life of intrigue as a intelligence expert in the NSA. She traveled the world. Things for her at least were more interesting after 9/11, and for a cat who is naturally curious she fit the part. Dana is the cheetah of the family. In her mid-form she looks most like what Katrina looks like. Cheetah markings on fine fur. Her father though is a Leonid Nekojin. Sporting a proud red mane, muscular frame, and a beard that would rival a viking.

Thing is... this never was truely a happy family.

David rarely saw his wife, and with a child in Katrina in tow, things were complicated. Particularly with a precocious little girl running about in fits and blurs. But it was Dana who sealed the fate of the marriage, having an affair with a Russian diplomat over the course of a few years. It wasn't above Dana to get in bed with someone to extract vital data for national security, and once David found out this wasn't the only one, the marriage was over.

Since Dana traveled too much to take care of little Katrina, sole custody was granted to DAvid. This enraged Dana and she swore to catch Katrina being neglected or put in danger. In 2005 Dana almost got her way when Katrina's father decided to stick it out with New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. David was a bit superstitious, and believed little Katrina was a sign he'd be needed. In the resulting floods, Katrina herself ended up lost in the flooded wards near where the shrimping boat was usually docked her father owned. He desperately searched for her in a small boat he kept with a friend downtown and scoured the outer wards. When Dana arrived on a blackhawk with a wet Katrina in tow, David knew he was in for it. But with the legal system in disarray in New Orleans and no other parish was currently able to handle a custody case, things took a back burner. The last words Dana told David in leaving were... "I no longer want the runt. Either she ends up a ward of the state through your negligence... or six feet under. What happens to her is none of my concern anymore."

Now at 15, David decides on doing something for his girl she may or may not be ready for... he's sending her to the Academy.

David taught Katrina only really how to live among humanity. But to truely know what she is capable of, she must find the Nekojin within, and only the Academy can do that.

In regards to Katrina herself

Katrina is a somewhat hyperactive, prone to anxiety 15 year old girl who seems to have a love of high places. In fact she has learned Parkour just to get it out of her system. Another time while on top of a tower in New Orleans, she wanted to learn how to skydive. One month later she was in Juvie for BASE jumping illegally. As a result over the summer David grounded her to the summer family business of shrimping. That too was a learning experience as she learned navigation, piloting a boat, and learning just a taste of how to survive in the ocean on the side from her dad.

After her brush with death, Katrina decided on her own that she, when she got out of High School would enlist with the Coast Guard, and right away learned how to rescue distressed swimmers as a lifeguard, and learned all the first aid a civilian could know. As a teenager though she distracts herself with hobbies now, playing strategic tabletop games or working with her computer talking with friends.

How much of this could be useful on the academy grounds? Will her obsessive Mother be watching?