FourEyesIsAFish

Katherine is 6’ 1” tall and has blonde hair. Her arm lights, battery shoulder pad, and duel disk can be placed with any outfit she chooses, but she typically wears a sweatshirt and sweatpants.

Katherine is a friendly, albeit shy person. She normally comes across as very withdrawn and polite, but as people get to know her, she gradually opens up to them. While presenting a calm facade to most of those around her, Katherine is actually a very emotional person, bottling her emotions inside until she either experiences an emotional outburst or fainting event. She only feels comfortable expressing her true feelings with close friends or family. Katherine is risk-adverse due to both a natural disposition towards it and her condition. Despite this, Katherine would do anything for her close friends, even if it means risking her life. Due to the death of her middle school friends, Katherine suffers from survivor's guilt and self-doubt. Katherine’s trauma makes her somewhat withdrawn, making her more likely to want to stay at home and read, browse the internet, watch anime/tv, or play video games instead of actively trying to make new friends. However, Katherine heavily values friendships and goes out of her way to hang out with her friends instead of isolating herself.

Katherine’s nervousness to express her emotions with words has led to her color-coding her emotions using her arm lights. Yellow lights are her default state and happiness, red lights represent anger, blue lights represent sadness, purple lights represent panic, pink lights represent afraid, orange lights represent surprise, and green lights represent embarrassment. She only tells what her arm lights actually represent to those close to her.

Katherine was born near Sydney, Australia. She has an unusual disability which has defied medical explanation: she faints when she gets excessively stressed, scared, or upset. Katherine's disorder is compounded by her emotional nature, making her especially at risk of fainting from tense situations. Katherine’s disorder caused her parents to enroll her into her school’s special needs program despite her relative lack of problems with academics. Katherine was frequently bullied for her presence in the special needs program, which led her to faint, which led to more bullying, and so on and so forth. This led Katherine to be a loner and ultimately led her to try and remain as calm as possible, leading her to hide her emotions from everyone except her own parents.

Katherine’s life began to turn around when she first discovered Duel Monsters when she was 8. The game provided an escape from the stressful environment of school and provided a way to make friends through dueling. Katherine started with a basic Cyber Dragon deck and gradually got more and more cards and became a fairly skilled duelist. She ended up making a small group of close friends during middle school. Life was looking up for Katherine, and she was feeling more confident than ever before. Then came the outbreak.

Katherine and her friend group caught a particularly dangerous disease, which lead to Katherine falling into a coma for a few days. By the time she woke, Katherine was the last survivor. Katherine had to remain in the hospital for 2 more days from shock. This massive amount of trauma led Katherine to close herself off even more than before, masking her mourning and guilt beneath a mask of calm. Throughout high school, Katherine kept her calm facade despite dealing with significant mental health issues. It was during her freshman year that she got back into Duel Monsters and received her first Crane Curtain cards from a new expansion, making some new friends despite her past experiences. At the end of her senior year, Katherine was at her most mentally “healthy” point post-trauma, starting to find new coping mechanisms and managing to win a local Duel Monsters tournament.

Despite her parent’s concerns, Katherine has chosen to go to college in the United States, specifically Seattle, to study game design. Feeling very alone in the US, Katherine is searching for people she can believe in and be friends with, despite her worries about doing so.

Katherine is running a Crane Curtain token/ritual deck supported by some Impcantation cards to search out her Ritual Monsters and Ritual Spells. Her ace card, Craned Curtain - Infested Curtarica, especially fits the amount of tokens the deck produces.

Custom Cards:

Crane Curtain - Flaminglo

LIGHT ***

Machine/Effect

When this card is summoned, summon 1 "Crane Curtain Actling" token (*/LIGHT/Machine/ATK:100/DEF:100). When this token is tributed, draw a card. Machine-type monsters you control cannot be affected by the effects of DARK attribute monsters.

400/1000

 

Craned Curtain - Incandescent Flaminglo

LIGHT ***

Machine/Ritual/Effect

(This card also acts as a Zombie type Monster)

You can ritual summon this card with any “Crane Curtain” ritual spell. All Crane Curtain cards and machine-type monsters you control cannot be affected by the effects of DARK attribute. You may tribute one token to draw one card. 

1100/800

 

Crane Curtain - Blockdor

WIND ****

Machine/Effect

When this card is summoned, search your deck for one “Crane Curtain” monster and add it to your hand. Once per turn, you may discard a card to summon a "Crane Curtain Actling" token (*/WIND/Machine/ATK:100/DEF:100). When this token is tributed, shuffle one “Crane Curtain” card or Machine-type monster from your graveyard back into your deck.

1200/900

 

Craned Curtain - Lead Blockdor

WIND ****

Machine/Ritual/Effect

(This card also acts as a Zombie type Monster)

You can ritual summon this card with any “Crane Curtain” ritual spell. You may tribute a token to shuffle any number of “Crane Curtain” cards or Machine-type monsters in your graveyard into your deck. Machine-type monsters you control gain 100 ATK whenever a card is destroyed or sent into any player’s graveyard.

1000/1400

 

Crane Curtain - Curtarica

DARK *******

Machine/Effect

When this monster is summoned, you may special summon another “Crane Curtain” monster from your hand. Once per turn you may declare one card type and tribute one token; Machine-type monsters you control cannot be targeted by the effects of your opponent’s cards of that type for the rest of the turn. This is a quick effect.

2000/2900

 

Craned Curtain - Infested Curtarica

DARK *******

Machine/Ritual/Effect

(This card also acts as a Zombie type Monster)

You can ritual summon this card with any “Crane Curtain” ritual spell. Every time a “Crane Curtain Actling” token is summoned, you may summon another, identical token with the same name, and this card gains 100 ATK. This card cannot be targeted by your opponent’s card effects. Once per turn you may declare one card type and tribute a token; Machine-type monsters and “Crane Curtain” cards you control cannot be targeted by the effects of your opponent’s cards of that type for the rest of the turn. This is a quick effect.

3000/2100

 

Crane Curtain - Cookatrice

FIRE ****

Machine/Effect

When this card is summoned, summon 2 "Crane Curtain Actling" tokens (*/FIRE/Machine/ATK:100/DEF:100). When one of these tokens are destroyed, your opponent is inflicted with 200 damage. Machine-type monsters you control gain piercing battle damage.

1800/200

 

Craned Curtain - Sooty Cookatrice

FIRE ****

Machine/Ritual/Effect

(This card also acts as a Zombie type Monster)

You can ritual summon this card with any “Crane Curtain” ritual spell. You may tribute a token to change the battle position of one of your opponent’s monsters. All Machine-type monsters you control gain piercing battle damage.

2200/400

 

Crane Curtain Recycling

Normal Spell 

Shuffle 2 “Crane Curtain” cards from your GV into your deck.

 

Crane Curtain Trap Hole

Normal Trap 

When your opponent summons exactly 1 monster with 1000 or more attack: Target that monster; destroy the target and summon one “Crane Curtain Actling” token (*/EARTH/Machine/Effect/ATK:100/DEF:100).

 

Crane Curtain Scene Change

Normal Spell 

Reveal any number of “Crane Curtain” cards in your hand and shuffle them into the deck, then draw cards equal to the number of cards you shuffled into the deck + 1. You may only use one “Crane Curtain Scene Change” per turn.

 

Crane Curtain Delivery

Quick Spell

Special Summon one “Crane Curtain” monster from your hand. This card can only be used once per turn.

 

Crane Curtain Run-Down Theater

Field Spell

Once per turn, you may discard a card to search for one “Crane Curtain” card and add it to your hand. Your ritual summons cannot be negated. When you ritual summon a monster, you may shuffle 3 cards from your GV into your deck.

 

Craned Curtain Awakening

Ritual Spell

This card can ritual summon any “Craned Curtain” ritual monster. You must either tribute or shuffle into the deck from the GV into the deck one “Crane Curtain” monster with a matching level and attribute, along with needing to tribute one token.

 

Craned Curtain Rush

Ritual Spell

This card can ritual summon one or more “Craned Curtain” ritual monsters. You must tribute one monster whose level is greater than or equal to the combined levels of the monsters you wish to summon, along with one token.

 

Craned Curtain Multiplication

Normal Spell

Choose an attribute. Summon 2 “Crane Curtain Actling” tokens (*/???/Machine/Effect/ATK:100/DEF:100) whose attribute is the attribute you chose.

 

Crane Curtain Meat Puppet

Continuous Spell

Zombie monsters on the field and in the graveyard count as Machine-Type for the purposes of your card effects.

 

• Katherine carries around a card explaining how her condition works in case she faints in front of strangers
• Katherine hasn’t explained her disability to her dueling group yet and hasn’t needed to, as she hasn’t fainted yet.
• Katherine occasionally names her monster cards and ascribes them personalities as a sort of coping mechanism. Her ace is named Antigone and is, according to Katherine, “a bloody feisty bird”

Daichu: "Daichu? Mate's really nice and upbeat, and is always trying to cheer me up. His ability to be perennially optimistic continues to pleasantly surprise me, as does his magic. Speaking of, his ability to make a show during Action Duels far exceeds mine, and all of them are a treat to watch. Also, we've found a surprising common interest in talking about stagework, given my archetype and all that."

Rosalia: "Rosalia and I are... surprisingly similar. We're both quiet, try to be polite, respect pretty much everyone on the team... where we differ is where I'm only an alright duelist, 'the Sniper' as we call her is an absolute legend. Her raw confidence and ability to predict her opponents every move makes her an extremely difficult opponent... which I learned the hard way. Crickey, that match was bad."

Kendra: "How do I put this... Kendra has me worried for her safety. While I admire her work ethic, at the same time I worry for her health. Sleeping for like... two hours a day and relying on energy drinks is probably not the best for your continued wellbeing. I wish I could confront her about it, but I don't want to come off as rude..."