User:JKatkina/KTFE
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Description
KTFE is a short woman, about 5'2", and by virtue of sparse life in Malton, sickly skinny as well. She's all skin, bone and muscle, now, wiry and toned from many months of survival-of-the-fittest lifestyle. Wary, pale brown eyes are set in a roundish, ruddy-skinned face, and framed by shoulder-length auburn hair that is, more often than not, downright ratty. At this point, she's visibly pregnant and not too worried about hiding it.
Kay's entire wardrobe has been riddled with telltale stains and tears and bullet-holes, despite efforts to patch it up. Though everything is slightly too large for her petite body, her partner Agate has hemmed her pants so they don't drag on the ground or catch on things. She wears a sturdy pair of jeans, though by now they are so crusted with filth and patched and re-patched that it's hard to tell, topped by a grey long-sleeved shirt of nondescript fabric, and a heavy-duty black hoodie with red stitching that looks as if it should be worn by someone half her age and covered in black makeup. For outside adventures, Kay has a filthy, used-to-be-tan coat with a fur-lined hood and extra-insulated cuffs and zipper -- warm, more comfortable than a lot of things, and falls all the way to her shins. She's covered in weapons under that coat; pistols, shotguns, blades.
Personality
Though she's managed to eke out a life in this hellhole, Kay is not precisely a happy woman. Tense most days, she finds it hard to relax, and worries rather more than she might admit. She's canny, sneaky, resourceful and determined. She tends to be suspicious of any newcomers, but mostly that amounts to lurking around her room, and the floor of the hotel its on, avoiding conversation and confrontation. She'd rather take out bad feelings on zombies than on people, which she does with gusto when she gets the chance.
That said, Kay has the ability and often, the inclination to be appallingly violent, though she limits this to zombies, who she fiercely refuses to see as 'just dead people'. She also refuses to cross the line of killing other living humans, though has no problem with turning a blind eye to the murder of murderers. When she fights, she fights against with whatever she's got and is not below pulling dirty tricks. Her frenetic energy also tends to manifest as rampant sexuality, when she's in her better moods. She's also quickly developing enthusiastically polyamorous tendencies.
Of late, she's been shockingly stable, barring certain forays into the above-mentioned polyamorous habits. Having been kept pretty well strictly in the Cosway for the last four months or so and kept very well fed by Fa and Agate (and of late, many of the other Cosway folk have been lending a hand), she's quite healthy physically, and her worst problem at this point is boredom. She is managing to function so well under the unwavering assumption that this baby will survive to term, be born, and flourish afterwards... which is a dangerous assumption at best, but she is refusing to make contingency plans should something go seriously wrong. This is not a healthy thing to do and some small part of her knows this, and should something actually go wrong it's very likely that she would very rapidly get mentally much worse than she was even at the beginning of the outbreak. The depths of her emotional instability, and just how much she has hanging on this pregnancy, is something she skillfully and consciously keeps hidden.
Background
Pre-breakout, Kay was a firefighter, and a good one, but otherwise was doing very little with her life. Anything beyond that, she figures is a moot point. Post-breakout, she spent months holed up in a little house hidden in the southern corner of Malton, safe and sound with a great deal of canned and dry food, secure from zombies and trying to wait this whole thing out. That didn't work, and a zed or five ended up breaking in and chasing her off.
She wandered around Malton for a while in what little she could grab on her way out the door, until she most unexpectedly found Agate -- a friend, and a good one, from before. She essentially attached herself him, staying by his side. Fa, her lover from before the outbreak, showed up as well and eventually stayed, completing their current triad. Others came and went, some stayed; at one point she traveled with the group she and Agate seemed to have attracted, but in the end she always ends up back 'home', at the Cosway, and is zealous about the continued defense of this one safe place.
And then in late fall of 2006, Kay got pregnant. Oops.
