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Character Name: Kate Marsh
Series: Life Is Strange
Timeline: Post-Episode 2.
Canon Resource Link: http://life-is-strange.wikia.com/wiki/Kate_Marsh
Character History: (Life Is Strange, being a choice-based game, has many outcomes for the characters and their actions. I write this using the storyline I chose with my playthrough to account for what my version of Kate has experienced.)
Content warning for non-consensual actions, depression, and suicide.
Max Caulfield, the protagonist of the series, introduces Kate Marsh as a girl who's been acting a little different lately. She looks like your typical quiet, peaceful, reserved girl... though a paper ball to the face in the middle of class suggests something more. With a brief look, the game discover implications of a porn video. What?
Looking into Max's initial journal entry of Kate (as well as the depressing, morose drawings she's found to be doodling), we know right away that there is something off. After talking to her and hearing just how soft-spoken and gentle she is, we get a feel that she's not the type of person to even think about indulging in the pornographic. After all, as we progress the story, we do see her abstinence campaign posters scattered throughout the campus, urging people to wait.
So how could such rumors arise?
After comforting Kate, intercepting taggers on her dorm's doorway, and choosing to intervene on a security guard that's been hyper-vigilant to the point of harassing her, Max visits to return a book to her, only to get further details about the video that went viral. It shows her all over people, making out with them and getting a little too close for comfort, passing along like nothing and no one mattered.
Max presses as to what happened, concerned about the party run by the cult-like and popular kid-fronted Vortex Club she was persuaded to attend. After a drink that made her feel a little... different, Kate recalls being comforted by Nathan Prescott (a student at Blackwell Academy we discover to be very unhinged and very dangerous at the start of the game), and then taken somewhere after a long drive.
All she remembers is white light, a soft voice, and a needle to her neck. After waking up in her dorm room again, and feeling very "gross", Kate began to feel different. Isolated. Alone. Afraid. She also feels such a shaking of her very core, and even her strong Christian ideals, especially after the staggering concern of her conservative family members, save her father who gives her an encouraging word about being his light in the dark. She also recalls that Nathan Prescott had drugged her.
She asks Max for advice about whether or not she should go forward with what happened to her during and after the party. After all, she was the one who stopped someone from bullying her before, she even showed how much she cared for her by just seeing her, so why not? Maybe it could clear her name, and expose Nathan for the bad person he is. Max asks her to be cautious, and they part ways for the time being, Kate still looking just as sad as ever.
A few texts pass between Max and Kate, as well as a phone call in desperation. It's clear that Kate has become desperate to find a way to correct the situation, and while Max is strolling through the school, she catches sight of Kate being upset over their prized teacher, Mr. Jefferson, dismissing her concerns over what happened to her. She's upset, angry, sobbing, and completely at a loss, leaving class in its entirety.
Within minutes after class starts and Kate's designated absent, there is an incident that drives everyone away from their classes-- it seems as though Kate Marsh is about to jump from the roof of the dormitories.
Max's empathetic choices to listen to Kate and show that she actually cares about her friend are what save her life. Ultimately, Kate had felt so alone and isolated from everyone in the midst of a video being spread along with rumors, shaming her. It was the feeling of having someone supporting her in a time where she felt violated and antagonized, that made her feel like she could believe that her family could work past their shock of her actions and her friends would support her just like she did.
Kate allows Max to talk her down, and she is taken to a hospital where she gets to heal throughout the course of the series, all while Max takes it upon herself to unravel the mystery of what happened to her that night, as well as many other mysteries within Arcadia Bay...
Abilities/Special Powers: Alas, Kate is just a normal human. She can play the violin and draw really well though!
Third-Person Sample: A mansion seemed like the perfect place to indulge in her art. It was as if she was an aristocrat, sitting in the gardens to draw inspiration for her sketches, or practice her violin by the flickering sparks of a fireplace. Despite the circumstances of being thrown into another realm, it was much better than the alternative.
She could have still been in her hospital bed back in Arcadia Bay, on watch. She could have been back on that roof-- honestly, how could she forget the scent of rain at this point? It was the lowest point in her life, and she was brought out of it.
And then she was brought here.
A bow falls to the freshly tuned strings of a violin, fingers in place as she inhales slowly, telling herself she can be happy again. With an exhale, the strings sing with a rich tone, echoing through the room. It was delightful to be able to play again, to be in a place that didn't know what you had been through.
Another note plays, Kate smiling to herself as she allows herself to relax for the first time in a very long while.
First-Person Sample: [She inhales slowly, trying to find the words to write.]
This all... sounds like the plot of a science fiction novel. Or a movie that ends with a message of hope after saving the universe.
It goes beyond a familiar story, but I suppose that's because I'm living through it.
[Living...]
At least I am living. I know I've been brought here for a reason, and I know I can make some difference here, even if it is a small one.
I can't believe magic like this exists...
DW username: N/A.
E-Mail: neverdieftw@gmail.com (please do not display)
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Plurk: N/A.
Other Characters: N/A.
Character Name: Kate Marsh
Series: Life Is Strange
Timeline: Post-Episode 2.
Canon Resource Link: http://life-is-strange.wikia.com/wiki/Kate_Marsh
Character History: (Life Is Strange, being a choice-based game, has many outcomes for the characters and their actions. I write this using the storyline I chose with my playthrough to account for what my version of Kate has experienced.)
Content warning for non-consensual actions, depression, and suicide.
I've forgotten if I've ever seen Kate Marsh smile or laugh in the past month. She's really sweet and nice, even though the other students make fun of her abstinence campaign. Even if they act immature, everybody at Blackwell are seniors, not high school freshmen... She gets a lot of shit in fact. I know she's involved in a lot of religious groups, but she doesn't preach to me so I don't care.
But she's been extra quiet and introverted the past couple weeks. She looks like she's in zombie mode. I wish I could help her, but I can barely help myself. I wonder if all that bullying has worn her down... I can see how it would. I have to make an effort to talk to her more often, maybe invite her to tea or a movie.
Max Caulfield, the protagonist of the series, introduces Kate Marsh as a girl who's been acting a little different lately. She looks like your typical quiet, peaceful, reserved girl... though a paper ball to the face in the middle of class suggests something more. With a brief look, the game discover implications of a porn video. What?
Looking into Max's initial journal entry of Kate (as well as the depressing, morose drawings she's found to be doodling), we know right away that there is something off. After talking to her and hearing just how soft-spoken and gentle she is, we get a feel that she's not the type of person to even think about indulging in the pornographic. After all, as we progress the story, we do see her abstinence campaign posters scattered throughout the campus, urging people to wait.
So how could such rumors arise?
After comforting Kate, intercepting taggers on her dorm's doorway, and choosing to intervene on a security guard that's been hyper-vigilant to the point of harassing her, Max visits to return a book to her, only to get further details about the video that went viral. It shows her all over people, making out with them and getting a little too close for comfort, passing along like nothing and no one mattered.
Max presses as to what happened, concerned about the party run by the cult-like and popular kid-fronted Vortex Club she was persuaded to attend. After a drink that made her feel a little... different, Kate recalls being comforted by Nathan Prescott (a student at Blackwell Academy we discover to be very unhinged and very dangerous at the start of the game), and then taken somewhere after a long drive.
All she remembers is white light, a soft voice, and a needle to her neck. After waking up in her dorm room again, and feeling very "gross", Kate began to feel different. Isolated. Alone. Afraid. She also feels such a shaking of her very core, and even her strong Christian ideals, especially after the staggering concern of her conservative family members, save her father who gives her an encouraging word about being his light in the dark. She also recalls that Nathan Prescott had drugged her.
She asks Max for advice about whether or not she should go forward with what happened to her during and after the party. After all, she was the one who stopped someone from bullying her before, she even showed how much she cared for her by just seeing her, so why not? Maybe it could clear her name, and expose Nathan for the bad person he is. Max asks her to be cautious, and they part ways for the time being, Kate still looking just as sad as ever.
A few texts pass between Max and Kate, as well as a phone call in desperation. It's clear that Kate has become desperate to find a way to correct the situation, and while Max is strolling through the school, she catches sight of Kate being upset over their prized teacher, Mr. Jefferson, dismissing her concerns over what happened to her. She's upset, angry, sobbing, and completely at a loss, leaving class in its entirety.
Within minutes after class starts and Kate's designated absent, there is an incident that drives everyone away from their classes-- it seems as though Kate Marsh is about to jump from the roof of the dormitories.
She was already in so much pain over the video and all the bullying, so she wasn't going to buy everything I tried to tell her. You see movies with people trying to talk somebody out of suicide, but it's very different when I'm the one doing the talking. I covered everything I could and Kate almost jumped anyway. Cliché or not, I told her how much her friends and family love her, even if they don't show all show it now.
Lo and behold, Kate stepped back from the ledge. Alive. I almost cried in her arms.
Max's empathetic choices to listen to Kate and show that she actually cares about her friend are what save her life. Ultimately, Kate had felt so alone and isolated from everyone in the midst of a video being spread along with rumors, shaming her. It was the feeling of having someone supporting her in a time where she felt violated and antagonized, that made her feel like she could believe that her family could work past their shock of her actions and her friends would support her just like she did.
Kate allows Max to talk her down, and she is taken to a hospital where she gets to heal throughout the course of the series, all while Max takes it upon herself to unravel the mystery of what happened to her that night, as well as many other mysteries within Arcadia Bay...
Abilities/Special Powers: Alas, Kate is just a normal human. She can play the violin and draw really well though!
Third-Person Sample: A mansion seemed like the perfect place to indulge in her art. It was as if she was an aristocrat, sitting in the gardens to draw inspiration for her sketches, or practice her violin by the flickering sparks of a fireplace. Despite the circumstances of being thrown into another realm, it was much better than the alternative.
She could have still been in her hospital bed back in Arcadia Bay, on watch. She could have been back on that roof-- honestly, how could she forget the scent of rain at this point? It was the lowest point in her life, and she was brought out of it.
And then she was brought here.
A bow falls to the freshly tuned strings of a violin, fingers in place as she inhales slowly, telling herself she can be happy again. With an exhale, the strings sing with a rich tone, echoing through the room. It was delightful to be able to play again, to be in a place that didn't know what you had been through.
Another note plays, Kate smiling to herself as she allows herself to relax for the first time in a very long while.
First-Person Sample: [She inhales slowly, trying to find the words to write.]
This all... sounds like the plot of a science fiction novel. Or a movie that ends with a message of hope after saving the universe.
It goes beyond a familiar story, but I suppose that's because I'm living through it.
[Living...]
At least I am living. I know I've been brought here for a reason, and I know I can make some difference here, even if it is a small one.
I can't believe magic like this exists...