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| Katy Warren | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 25 2013, 11:51 PM (267 Views) | |
| Outfoxd | Feb 25 2013, 11:51 PM Post #1 |
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Name: Katherine "Katy" Warren Gender: Female Age: 19 (held back one year) Grade: 12 School: Aurora High School Hobbies and Interests: Judo, Japanese Culture, Anime, Softball Appearance: A career Judo player, Katherine has the build of an athlete. When not in hard training for a competition, she's built strongly at 125 and 5'5". Her body has defined muscle, particularly in her forearms and upper arms from the constant work at gripping gi jacket sleeves and lapels. She has a severe, angular face and a small, somewhat pointed nose. As per her Caucasian heritage, she has lighter skin that rarely gets any darker. A splash of freckles dots her face and her body. Katy has hair cut to about the middle of her neck that she keeps dyed black, although when the roots are growing in one can see her natural hair is closer to brown. She has bangs in the front that stop just above her eyebrows. Her eyes are a light shade of blue. Katy tends toward simpler clothing, favoring button down shirts, spaghetti strap shirts, and jeans, clothing easier to move in with an attention toward comfort over style. She has been known to wear the odd piece of Japanese paraphenalia from her various trips to the country; in particular she has a collection of cute animal keychains and a brightly colored purse covered in kanji got on a trip to Tokyo's shopping district. On the day of abduction, Katy was wearing a light blue short-sleeved blouse with kanji written on it, a pair of denim capri pants, and white flats. Biography: Katherine is a daddy's girl; this was almost dictated by her interest in the same things as her father Matthew and his constant exposure of her to his favored hobby and career. Matthew Warren, a Seattle Native, was raised in a family of Judo practitioners dating back to the 40s. As such, he took to the martial art with gusto. At one point his skill level was such that he was aspiring to join the American Olympic Judo team. Unfortunately, during training the year he was to try out, he tore his ACL, putting him out of action until he recovered. The time off from training the injury reduced the level of his game, even with continued hard training afterward. Matthew put his aspirations on the shelf, and instead inherited his father's dojo after he passed. It was shortly after Matthew married his high school sweetheart Jessica that another opportunity for him arose. Their daughter Katy was born, and Matthew saw a chance to get a Warren into the Olympics, even if it wasn't him. It was fortunate for him that Katy loved Judo as much as he did. It was less so that he planned to live vicariously through his daughter. He was much harder on her than the rest of his Judo players, ostensibly to show that she wouldn't be treated differently as family, but to make sure she would have the level of skill necessary to his means. As Katy grew, she became a skilled Judoka, but also jaded, and somewhat mean. She looked upon the hobbyists that came for the workout or for fun with disdain. Later on, Matthew, by the suggestion of a family friend and professional fighter, converted the Judo dojo into an MMA gym to take advantage of the memberships people seeking to practice Mixed Martial Arts would provide. Katy soon became disdainful of the fighters came in as well, seeing their grappling skill as subpar because they were (in her opinion) learning a watered down version for the sport. This elitism grew stronger as Matthew started making occasional training trips to Japan with his daughter in tow, getting her to learn Judo from the source. Katy fell in love with Japanese culture as she went. Some of the Japanese Judoka that the Warrens trained with held most American Judo in low regard, and so Katy became even more disdainful of the people she trained with back home. Because of all these factors, Katy can often seen as a girl that's trying very hard to assimilate herself into a culture she has only had passing encounters with. She watches almost exclusively Japanese programming and anime, she seems averse to anything that seems American, and some people suspect she dyed her hair black to appear more Asian. It's difficult to call her out on this because of the fact that she is, in fact, a skilled grappler. And she's willing to use her skill. While she's managed to show restraint in physically dealing with other students, she's not above outright insulting or bullying students on looks or other superficial things. The one time she did do something she was expelled for the rest of her freshman year. A girl had told her she was a "stupid, self-hating white bitch". Katy had taken her down and applied a textbook perfect hadaka-jime (naked strangle). She had been pulled off before the girl went unconscious, but was held back nonetheless. Her father disciplined her, but, still struck with the idea of getting her Olympic ready, kept her in training. After that, it was suggested Katy do something at school to keep her energy in check. Softball was suggested, and since she was already in shape, Katy proved to be decent at the sport. She sees it as mostly something to please the administrators, although she secretly enjoys it more than she lets on. She does fairly well at school, though she seems to have some knack for art especially. She has some issues with English, as she struggles with passing and sees studying writing as something meant to keep people occupied that don't have anything else better do do. While she has some desire to pursue a degree, she's not sure of a field. Her father seems to think she'll just inherit the dojo and that'll be the end of it. Advantages: Katy is a brown belt in Judo who will soon be testing for her 1st Dan black belt; as such she is a highly competent grappler. From softball and Judo she is in great physical condition, especially in terms of grip strength and cardio. Disadvantages: Katy is a bit of a hothead, and has no doubt burned a lot of bridges with students because of the open vocalization of her disdain for them. This will make it hard for her to form meaningful alliances. She may also be overconfident in her skills against armed students because of her training, and this could get her into trouble. |
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| Namira | Mar 5 2013, 06:59 AM Post #2 |
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Null sheen.
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Hey John, Katy's good so far I just have a ... well, it's a slight thorny issue with the profile in general. First, a couple typos. 'she has lighter skin that rarely gets any darker.' - would be better phrased as 'she has light skin that rarely tans', or something along those lines. 'of the fighters came in as well,' - of the fighters that came in as well 'a watered down version for the sport.' - of the sport * I'm not quite sure why Katy is so insulting to others or bullies them. There seems to be a disconnect between liking Japanese culture and that suddenly being rationale to bully. The big one is... well, it's tough to say this because I know it is Katy's big thing. But right now, if you take out the judo you pretty much have just about the bones of a character. There is nothing wrong with a hobby being a character's central focus, but right now the profile is pretty much 90% judo and 10% Katy. Basically, I need some more details. What was Katy's childhood like? Other than her father introducing her to judo young, there's very little of substance there. We have no indication of what Katy's relationship with her mother is like, how she reacted to the expulsion - why didn't Michael or Jessica attempt to temper Katy's obvious attitude problem? Does her mother not have an opinion about future schooling, or going for a degree? Has Katy been involved in the running of the dojo at all to be getting set up to run it for the future? Does Katy work well in a team game like softball considering she doesn't play nice with others? Is Katy ostracised for being so full of vitriol so much of the time? Basically... there are a ton of unanswered questions, and I just feel Katy could use some fleshing out. She does stand up as a three dimensional character, but you shouldn't be able to pretty much gut the entire concept by removing a single hobby, you know? Let me know when you've made edits. |
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| Namira | Mar 20 2013, 10:15 AM Post #3 |
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