..."Hé, ça va?"...
Chat
C'est... La galerie, n'est-ce pas?
Que s'est-il passé? Cat avait étudié les peintures, bien sûr, et puis... les lumières s'éteignirent... n'est-ce pas? Et puis... Rien. Elle dessinait un grand blanc. Évidemment, si c'était sous son propre pouvoir, elle n'aurait jamais choisi de dormir par terre. Heureusement, c'était juste de la poussière qui s'est facilement essuyée, mais elle a toujours eu les frissons à y penser. Qui l'avait mise ici? L'évident coupable était l'une des autres personnes se couchant autour d'elle, juste une poignée par rapport à ceux qui avaient été dans la galerie avant. La plupart des gens autour d'elle étaient plus jeunes que ses enfants, vraiment. À une exception notable, elle ne pensait pas qu'il y avait quelqu'un qui pouvait l'armer, sans parler de tout le monde ici aussi. Et ça ne tenait même pas compte des gens absents du musée. Bien sûr, Cat était venu ici seul, donc ce n'était pas hors de question qu'elle soit laissée derrière, mais ces jeunes enfants ont probablement eu de la famille avec eux, ou au moins une forme de tuteur. Ils ne seraient pas laissés aussi facilement.
Trop de choses à penser en ce moment. Elle devait faire quelque chose.
Il y avait un jeune garçon et une jeune fille qui étaient déjà réveillés, mais il semblait qu'elle avait été la troisième dans la file pour reprendre conscience. Le jeune garçon... l'avait peut-être réveillée?
"... ouais. Je vais bien." Cat avait ses repères. Il n'y avait aucune raison d'avoir peur ici. Et aucun de ces deux enfants n'aurait pu l'exterminer, donc il n'y avait aucune raison de se méfier d'eux.
"Je suppose que vous ne savez pas ce qui se passe plus que moi, hein." Elle a roulé dans ses options dans sa tête. Elle aimerait que tout le monde... presque tout le monde... debout et debout au cas où quelqu'un savait ce qui se passait, mais quelqu'un devait faire le bilan de la pièce, chercher des indices, etc. Quelle était la bonne ligne de conduite? Ça a pris un moment, mais elle en arrive à une sorte de conclusion.
"Écoutez, vous deux, voulez-vous voir le fait de réveiller les autres? Je ne suis... pas le meilleur avec les gens, je ne veux faire peur à personne. J'aimerais jeter un coup d'oeil et voir si je peux comprendre ce qui se passe." Elle ne savait pas si la prise en charge de la situation était la meilleure façon d'agir pour elle; ces enfants n'avaient aucune idée de qui elle était, probablement, et n'avaient aucune raison de l'écouter Mais si quelqu'un partait seul à la recherche d'indices, Cat préférerait que ce soit elle et non pas eux, pour des raisons de sécurité. Elle resterait près si quelque chose arrivait. Juste au cas où...
~Appearance~
A pure-white girl who gives off an aura of stern detachment, as though she is looking directly through you with her bright red eyes. Cat stands quite tall for her age at just under 6 feet, but is quite skinny for her height, like a tall, slender blade of grass or a sunflower. Still, because she's so tall (and combined with her stern, vacant stare) she can come off as fairly intimidating to young children or even nervous adults. Somehow, people always get the impression that she doesn't care about a thing in the world, even though the opposite is actually closer to the truth. She dresses in a fairly lax manner, and her signature clothing item is a cat-eared hoodie, the hood of which she almost never lets down. If she has taken her hood off, it can only mean she's ready to play hard ball.
~Name~
Catherine "Cat" LeBlanc
~Age~
16
~Gender~
Female
~Rose Color~
White
~Why are you in the Art Gallery?~
Cat is an art lover, and even an artist herself. However, she has recently begun to lose her passion for painting. She has come to the gallery in hopes that she can find inspiration again.
~What is the one item that was brought with you?~
Cat always carries a small white handkerchief with her to spot-clean any possible stains. She hates getting dirty.
~Likes~
--Art (painting, mostly)--
--Being in the dark--
--People who don't judge her for her appearance (though she reluctantly likes being called cute, and likes cute things.)--
~Dislikes~
--Getting dirty--
--Being in a large group or crowd--
--Strong-looking guys (young boys and guys smaller than her are okay.)--
~Hobbies~
--Painting--
--Singing--
--Night walks--
--Spending tons of time inside her own mind. (She does this even while doing other things anyway.)--
~Fears~
--Overly dirty, rusty, or old-looking rooms--
--Men and boys (unless they don't look strong or threatening)--
--People thinking she doesn't care about them--
~Personality~
Cat is a strange individual with a lot of inconsistencies (as befits an artist.) She is always seen with her pure white hoodie, but can't stand getting dirty. If even a bit of dirt gets on her outfit and she thinks it won't come off, she gets angry, and even deranged. She is always acting passive, but is immensely protective of her friends, and will be the first one to step in front of somebody who is being threatened, even though she's scared of tough-looking guys. She is always thinking about lots of things internally, even when talking to others, which is what causes her distant stare. This leads people to believe that she doesn't care about anything. In actuality, she is incredibly loyal and will help her friends in any way she can. She doesn't talk much, or emote much, but it's usually quite scary when she does show emotion, because it means she has either been sent into a blind fury by some dirt, or else she is sternly protecting her friends. Though she doesn't really say anything about it, she's usually pretty good at seeing when other people have problems, and like a dog or a cat, she will try to stay close to comfort them. However, because she doesn't talk about this habit, it can just end up being confusing to the person involved. She loves being alone and in darkness where nobody can see her, but conversely hates having the spotlight on her or being in the middle of a crowd because it feels like everyone is judging her, or is scared of her. She has a secret love of cute things like miniature animals and objects, or stuffed dolls, and secretly longs to be cute herself, even though she knows she is more 'cool' than 'cute' considering her height, age, and lack of emotions.
~Biography~
Even a perfectly normal family with perfectly normal lives and a perfectly normal daughter isn't without its own problems. Such a family is surely hiding secrets. In the case of the LeBlancs, their only daughter was supposed to have a twin brother, but he was lost in infancy. Because of this staggering loss, the entire family dedicated themselves to preserving their perfect nuclear family (or at least the outward image) so that they wouldn't run into any more problems. Catherine was supportive of this goal as well. She wanted her family's image to stay perfect and clean, even as a child. So when she started having problems like bullying, anxiety, and depression, she kept it entirely to herself. For a lot of years, she channeled her problems into painting and singing, and when she couldn't sleep, she would go for walks alone to clear her head. But as she got older, her bottled emotions started creating more problems. In one major incident, she once got so mad at a boy for spilling paint on her in art class that she sent him to the hospital with a broken arm. Her teachers were stunned, in disbelief that this was the same girl who always kept to herself and never spoke a word. Later that week, all of the boy's friends ganged up on her and beat her up behind the school. She didn't say a word about this to the teachers or her parents, merely taking a bath to clean herself up when she got home and acting like nothing at all had happened.
Now, at age 16, she has lost her passion for most things she used to be passionate about, primarily her art, which has been stuck in a rut for ages. In going to see Guertena's supposedly transcendant art, Cat hopes that she can reignite the spark of painting within herself, and once again find a way to channel all of her negative emotions that she otherwise doesn't know how to deal with. She couldn't possibly miss this exhibit for all the world.