reticulata | ( m i s c ) character survey: cat

100 Q U E S T I O N S.

Part 1: The Basics
1. What is your full name?

Catherine Teresa Morrison, but you call me anything other than cat and I'll make sure your nose'll never be straight again.

2. Where and when were you born?

Haworth, near Leeds, on April 22nd in 1987.

3. Who are/were your parents? (Know their names, occupations, personalities, etc.)

A pair of crazy arseholes with their heads up in some fucked up kind of clouds. Walter and Vivian Morrison, accountant and housewife respectively. I'm not joking when I say they were mad, though, I spent my whole fucking life with them like some unwanted and inconvenient house guest. Anything I did that I wanted was some great bloody imposition on their lives. Father barely ever spoke to me, and mother didn't listen to me, she just talked at me. They didn't have any friends, and by that reasoning they thought I didn't need any either. Both of 'em were religious as hell, church every Sunday and all. Our tv showed only channels one to five, and even then I was never allowed to watch anything after eight o'clock, 'cause my parents said that there was never anything acceptable on after that, not even when I was a teenager.

4. Do you have any siblings? What are/were they like?

Only child, thank god. I wouldn't want some poor second kid ever having to put up with their bullshit.

5. Where do you live now, and with whom? Describe the place and the person/people.

In London, in my kingdom. Tower Hamlets. I live with too many people to count, and the place is a rotting, crumbling mess, but I'll tell you what, I've never been happier.

6. What is your occupation?

Fuck that.

7. Write a full physical description of yourself. You might want to consider factors such as: height, weight, race, hair and eye color, style of dress, and any tattoos, scars, or distinguishing marks.

Oh, jesus christ. I'm about a head shorter than the tallest guy I know, I don't have the slightest fucking clue how much I weigh, and I'm so ginger that carrots get jealous of me, alright? I'm probably also the whitest fucking person you'll ever meet, and I don't ever tan no matter how much sun I get, I just turn bright bloody red. I wear whatever I can get my hands on, whatever's comfortable, whatever I can move around in and whatever's loose enough that I can kick someone's face in if necessary. I have a scar along my collar bone and a couple of light stab marks across my ribs and lower back.

8. To which social class do you belong?

To whatever scummy bottom rung they've left for us Londoners.

9. Do you have any allergies, diseases, or other physical weaknesses?

Hayfever. Say anything and I swear to god I will harm you something fucking fierce, remember?

10. Are you right- or left-handed?

Right.

11. What does your voice sound like?

Like a northerner who's spent too many years down south.

12. What words and/or phrases do you use very frequently?

I don't bloody know. I swear a lot, does that count?

13. What do you have in your pockets?

Nothing. Pockets can't hold the shit that I have to carry around.

14. Do you have any quirks, strange mannerisms, annoying habits, or other defining characteristics?

For crying out fucking loud, what the hell are these questions? I treat one of my best friends like my personal punching bag and he tends to return the favour, how about that?

Part 2: Growing Up
15. How would you describe your childhood in general?

Pretty shit, to be honest. My parents only cared about making me their weird, perfect child, whereas I only really managed the weird part. I spent most of my time at school being bullied or getting into fights, until I just got into fights for the hell of it when people realised I wasn't a complete freak, just a partial one.

16. What is your earliest memory?

Watching other kids getting picked up from school and running around all screaming and happy and whatever, and wondering if my parents were aliens 'cause they never smiled or talked to anyone, they just picked me up from school and brought me home.

17. How much schooling have you had?

I was at school until I was expelled when I was seventeen. I got some average GCSEs and probably would've gotten some average A levels too and gone to an average university and had a really fucking average life, funnily enough.

18. Did you enjoy school?

Only the part where I'd beat up boys from sixth form and make them cry in front of their friends. [ ahem. ] And when Hugh Tippings would kiss me behind the sports sheds.

19. Where did you learn most of your skills and other abilities?

In the school playground, in the woods around school, wherever I got called out for a fight. In London, though, I learned how to survive. If you can fight but you don't know how to keep yourself kicking and breathing, you're no use to anyone. You can be the best fighter in the whole damned universe for all I care and still not know how to stay alive.

20. While growing up, did you have any role models? If so, describe them.

Are you joking? Definitely not. No one in Haworth was worth looking up to.

21. While growing up, how did you get along with the other members of your family?

Really bloody badly, if you haven't already figured that much out. My mother spent all her time trying to make me wear dresses and make perfect cups of tea and I just didn't give a shit. My father would stare at me disapprovingly over the dinner table while I pushed my broccolli around and shout at me when I answered back or acted up, which I did all the time. They tried sending me to boarding school to teach me a lesson and I ended up with a ridiculous haircut and on a train bound for the south because of it. If I ever see 'em again it'll be too fucking soon.

22. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Really? I didn't want to be anything. I never thought about it, and no one ever asked. If they had, I probably would've something stupid like a cage fighter just to make 'em piss off. I never wanted to be a princess, I wanted to be the damn knight slaying the dragons.

23. As a child, what were your favorite activities?

Beating the crap out of other kids, sitting around and smoking joints in the forest after school only to run through the fields to try and air out the smell. Never worked, of course, and I got into shitloads of trouble for it all the time. Not to mention my hayfever would go fucking insane in the summer no matter how fast I got through the field.

24. As a child, what kinds of personality traits did you display?

When I wasn't being creepy and quiet, I was being rowdy as fuck.

25. As a child, were you popular? Who were your friends, and what were they like?

Until I was eleven or something all the other kids thought I was weird as fuck because my parents were weird as fuck. I never talked to anyone, not even when they bullied and teased me. When I was eleven though, I broke a boy's nose and somehow that made me pretty fucking cool. After that I started talking to people, and I made friends. They were all the loud, disruptive ones that fucked around in class and did things just to see if they could get away with them. More boys that girls were my friends though, 'cause I wasn't girly at all.

26. When and with whom was your first kiss?

With some little prick called Johnny. He cornered me in the cloakroom when I was thirteen and shoved his tongue down my throat, and I gave him a black eye for his troubles. Thought it was the worst fucking thing in the world to be kissed until I was fifteen and that Hugh Tippings kid I mentioned came to my school. I liked it a lot more after him.

27. Are you a virgin? If not, when and with whom did you lose your virginity?

I'm not and it isn't any of your fucking business.

28. If you are a supernatural being (i.e. mage, werewolf, vampire), tell the story of how you became what you are or first learned of your own abilities. If you are just a normal human, describe any influences in your past that led you to do the things you do today.

Oh grow the fuck up and pay attention. I've already answered this shit.

Part 3: Past Influences
29. What do you consider the most important event of your life so far?

Going to London, finding my kingdom - or it finding me, whatever. Nothing better than that.

30. Who has had the most influence on you?

Fox and Bass. They found me in London, they're the ones who stepped me up a level from being able to fight to keeping myself in more or less one piece. And Fox is my king. I shouldn't have to explain why that influences me.

31. What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Proving myself worthy enough for Tower Hamlets, and worthy enough to be one of my king's knights.

32. What is your greatest regret?

Not leaving fucking Haworth earlier.

33. What is the most evil thing you have ever done?

I don't operate in terms of "good" and "evil". I don't know the last time a week went by without someone dying at my hands. I'm not going to tip-toe around this shit, everybody dies in the end. It just happens that in London it's likely to happen much sooner and it'll probably be someone shoving you off the side of a building, shanking you or smashing your head in with a metal pipe. Nothing we do here is good, but we're not evil. We don't give a shit about the rest of the country. Our chaos is contained in our borders, and we choose to be here, for the most part. If you're not here by your own choice then tough luck I suppose. Not my problem.

34. Do you have a criminal record of any kind?

Bit of an obsolete concept in London.

35. When was the time you were the most frightened?

Fuck off, I don't do frightened.

36. What is the most embarrassing thing ever to happen to you?

Don't do that either.

37. If you could change one thing from your past, what would it be, and why?

Like I said, I wish I'd left that little Yorkshire hole sooner and gone straight to London, but back then I had no idea that's where I was meant to be. Things've turned out the way they have, and I'm not about to argue with 'em.

38. What is your best memory?

BLUH BLUH

39. What is your worst memory?

MRROW