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 Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:53 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:57 pm
 Name: Catharsis. Nickname(s): Cat, if you’re feeling ironic. Age (Appearance Wise): Early 20s. Age (Actual): 42. Personality: + RespectfulCatharsis does her best to be polite and respectful while she’s directly interacting with others. She takes great pains to make sure that Book Children and other City People alike feel welcome and comfortable in her workshop, and she speaks very carefully and politely; her carefully-chosen words contrast rather sharply with her jagged font. Unfortunately, she has this tendency to wander off in thought mid-sentence, or to become so focused on her work that she forgets the usual pleasantries and niceties. It's not that she means to be rude when she stops talking and reaches for some paper to sketch on -- she just doesn't want to lose that spark of inspiration. + CreativeThe driving force of her work. Catharsis is not gifted with words; her careful, polite speech comes from a lot of thought and effort. However, she is especially clever mechanically, with quick, precise hands and an active imagination. She reads voraciously, and takes ideas from everything she reads, mixing them together and putting her own twist on them in order to create something new. +/- FocusedThis is both a blessing and a curse. When inspiration strikes (in bursts, as it tends to do), she will drop everything and begin work immediately, or as soon as she possibly can. While this drive is what got her so far in the first place, it is also a problem, because she forgets to eat, rest, or take breaks while she works. - Absent-MindedIf any City Person could be said to have the memory of a goldfish, it would be Catharsis. She remembers ideas and facts perfectly well -- it’s people she has trouble with. For the first few meetings, she’s likely to ask after someone’s name repeatedly, and take a few moments to remember who they are; with time and repetition, she’ll remember more readily. Her ideas tend to strike her at random moments, and she’ll drift off while she’s thinking about that, even if she’s in the midst of a conversation -- her absent-mindedness will always overwhelm her natural politeness. It’s not that she means to do it -- though she doesn’t actually seem to care much about fixing it. This causes her a lot of problems when it comes to making friends, as her absent-mindedness is easily mistaken for lack of interest or caring. - MorbidCatharsis is both afraid of and fascinated by death. She reads murder and horror stories with especial interest, and is drawn to scenes of death and injury. Of course, she can’t exactly do anything to help, but she’s riveted by such scenes, and will stand by and watch in fascination. She’s often uneasy, and unsettled by her own fascination with death.
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:57 pm
Thoughts on the Forest: Dark, cold, frightening, and bare -- a place of death, and birth.
Thoughts of Book Children: Fascinating, new, and full of unusual details. She’s endlessly curious about the Book Children, and will often ask them to tell her their stories, and if she can use their stories as inspiration for new clockwork creations.
Thoughts on City People: She treats other City People with the same careful respect as she treats anyone else, though she has no strong feelings about them and much less curiosity than she shows towards Book Children.
History: When she was newly-formed, Catharsis met one of the many clockwork pets in the city -- a four-legged messenger, carrying bundles of scrolls. She followed it out of curiosity, and found herself in Eyncastor, on the doorstep of an eccentric inventor. When he emerged from his workshop to find a young City Person playing with his clockwork pet and examining its workings, he let her stay. She became an errand girl, and eventually his apprentice. Clockwork mechanics became her main focus, and long after he had retired to rest, she was up tinkering and improving.
He was an eccentric man, prone to shouting when particularly frustrated, or when he'd made a discovery, and he kept all his things in a state of organized chaos. Only he knew the capricious rules that governed where spare parts were located, and even after several years, Catharsis had difficulty finding things she needed. He was also prone to fits of rudeness or unprovoked nastiness, even towards her, and lost more than one customer to the storms of his moods. She grew to dislike mess and disorder, the boldness and spikiness of the shouted word, and the cost of indulgence in temper, and strove to make sure that she would be the exact opposite. Still, for all his quirks and faults, he was her mentor, and she cared for him in quiet ways.
But like all City People, he grew old, and one day, she followed him down and watched him enter the Forest. After his death, Catharsis took over his work, and began establishing her name as an inventor in her own right. She loves both purely functional clockwork pets -- after all, efficiency is in itself beautiful -- and aesthetic clockwork pets, though as a new inventor (albeit one whose mentor had a good reputation) she doesn’t make many of the latter just yet.
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:04 pm
Hobbies: Long walks -- when she’s having a dry spell, she often leaves her workshop and goes for a long, rambling walk through the city, clearing her head and waiting for inspiration to strike. Reading stories -- she will often seek out Book Children and ask if she can listen to their stories, and she also goes to libraries to read books quite often. Organizing -- her mentor kept everything in a state of organized disarray, and now that she’s inherited the shop, it’s been obsessively neatened and organized, with parts neatly tucked into labeled bins.
Birthday: November 24th.
Favorite Things: Automatons, steampunk stories, timepieces (she collects them), concept sketches, organization.
Hated Things: Inefficiency, messes, losing things, loudness.
Favorite Story: The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb.
Font: Creator Campotype SMCP.
Job: Inventor.
Class: Middle-class.
Fears: Injury and death -- her own, not others’. The Forest Guards. Fading.
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:11 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:21 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:25 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:53 pm
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