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Cataline Gale

"Perfection? Of course it's necessary. What are you saying? But while you're here, you may as well give me more data on emotions, right? Help me out a bit?"

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a character in “Perfection”, as played by Nivosity

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Full Name:
Cataline Gale

Nickname:
She, being quite informal much of the time, prefers either Cat or Caty. She dislikes it when people call her from her proper name as it makes her feel old - especially when the fact that she decided to quit the completely fun life early to become a scientist.

Age:
24. Ah, the wonders of being Perfected make it difficult to determine age.

Gender:
Female.

Role:
Scientist, which means that she works on collecting data on the Complications, especially to deal with their emotions, in order to develop a new version of the virus which will work on everyone. She can also do a little bit of interrogating, mostly because her ease with the Complications allows her to get more information than others. Or so she’d like to think.

Appearance:
Cataline used to possess boring brown hair, and equally boring eyes. It makes sense that when given choices for her Perfection, she decided to take the chance and become someone with a striking appearance. Yes, she possesses flawless skin, large eyes, and height, but she’s attempted to allow her playful personality to shine through all of her choices. This look, however, is slightly new. She’s always liked pink hair, but has experimented with various shades and styles. Her green eyes are also quite a new change. The appearance that she wore before this one was that of long, flowing pink hair, and blue eyes, with an air of teasing nonchalance.

But it’s now that’s important. Her messy locks fall right before her shoulder, and her eyes are the particular shade of green that reminds her of spring. Cat has an air of playful enjoyment of life, and can be seen with a large smile on her face much of the time. Her hands are small and dainty, as the only labor she’s ever done in her life is writing. She likes casual clothing, but due to her job, is most commonly seen in the white lab coat that forms her normal working wear. However, when possible, she would much more likely prefer to be in her casual wear - which is most likely a dress and a pair of flats. She likes wearing darker colors like brown for the sole purpose making her hair and eyes take prominence. Cat shows her emotions on her face most of the time, with her thinner eyebrows, mouth, and eyes moving almost constantly.


Personality:
Cataline, to the surface, is almost the same as she was before she had received the antidote for the virus. She appears to remain mostly happy with her life, and on her off-days, she enjoys going back to her party life in the past. Cat also likes teasing other people, mostly because she finds it funny. She isn’t afraid of getting into someone’s face to take them out of their comfort zone - especially when it’s for the sake of having fun. She seems to not understand the idea of authority, and will treat almost everyone like her equal, and ignores their irritation when it occurs.

Cat has almost an obsession with the idea of emotions, the stronger, the better. In that way, she enjoys provoking people to see the whole range of their emotions, positive or negative. Because they are irregularities in that they are able to feel even negative feelings, she finds them the perfect test subjects without the blandness that comes with the virus. She would prefer not to think back to those days - as now she finds that the mild, but happy emotions are disgusting her.

But in a way, she knows that it’s important that people stay happy for the good of her world, and therefore, doesn’t see her test subjects at anything other than that. While she may retain her usual nature in their direction, she simply wants to have the chance to see their emotions - all of them, even the positive ones. Since the majority of them wear petulant frowns and other negative emotions, she revels in making them glad - someone who’s perpetually upset seems to be just as boring. Cat would rather not be alone, and prefers to be in the action almost all of the time. There’s a certain boredom that comes with being alone - as there’s no way that she can observe her own emotions. She likes to talk with people, and is usually the one that initiates the conversations, especially when she’s bored. She has a certain love for nicknames, and usually doesn’t call people by her real name.

She seems to be quite open with her history and beliefs, and will speak out for what she believes in. However, there is a side of her that doesn’t quite care what others think or feel. She’s selfish in that she believes that she’s the only one that really matters in the world. After all, if they don’t amuse her, she can’t see them as equals. Cataline possesses very little empathy, and looks at emotions through a more objective way - she can’t relate to the Complications’ pain at all.

Cat likes to play with words, and enjoys describing things. When writing notes to herself about the data that she collects, she commonly uses figurative language. She has a love for using her gift with words to make fun of other people - especially if they have some sort of reaction to it. On that note, she usually has a teasing tone in her voice, and her eyes seem to be permanently amused. She has a certain pride that comes with being a scientist. While she won’t admit it, she has always wanted to be the scientist in order to maintain the order that their society needs to survive. In that way, she’ll have the most grudging respect for her co-workers, but none of that shows by her actions. Cat would do anything to be sure that she could keep this job - plus, she doesn’t want to have the virus again and go back to her bland state, as she was in the past.


Power:
She wanted to be able to mess around with the emotions of people close to her - but it was decided that such a skill was a danger to her society. Taking this in stride, she chose her second-most wanted power. The power to change her voice at will - hey, it was funny listening to her talk in a high voice. However, later deciding that it wasn’t exactly what she wanted, she took the chance to change it when entering Complications.

Within reason, she can monitor conversations that are taking place at a further distance. To do so, she must first be within touching distance of a pipe, hopefully full of water. Then, she can make her mind travel for a few meters through the pipe to eavesdrop on other conversations - after all, people are more likely to show their emotions when they’re not aware that they’re being monitored. It, however, has quite a few drawbacks. While listening, she loses track of what she’s really doing, and will, most of the time, be seen frozen next to her source. Cat cannot move while doing so, and it’s always a pain to stretch out sore muscles afterwards. Water pipes are also difficult to access, and everything that she hears contains the whispering sound of the water itself, making some words difficult to hear. Also - should the person in question move out of her range, she can do little but return to her body. If she tries to stay listening for more than 10 or so minutes for each foray out of her body, she can only remember what goes on during the last 10 minutes.


Likes:
Teasing People
Watching their reactions
Cats
Candy
Having fun
Being a scientist
Nicknames
Talking


Dislikes:
Being alone
Dull, apathetic people - and people with the virus
Boredom
Silence
Her past self


Fears:
Her greatest fear is returning to her life before she received the antidote. The idea that she, too, will be stuffed back into the box when she has just been able to enjoy life without it. She’s also afraid of fire and heights, but as it rarely comes up, it doesn’t quite show most of the time. It’s not the heights that terrify her though - it’s the idea of falling from them. Cat also dislikes forgetting details, as she could never remember what she had done the past week when she hadn’t yet received the antidote for the virus.

History:
Cat highly dislikes talking about it, but she was a normal citizen in their world. With both parents alive, a glassworker father and a reporter for a mother, she was Perfected at the age of 16, and moved into the party life of the average person. There, however, she had a certain boredom that came with the happy partying life. She enjoyed it, yes, but she felt as though there was something empty about her life. Even then, she took a certain amount of enjoyment in teasing people and making them laugh - and for her stint with the virus, she was happy. However, to the surprise of everyone that knew her, she decided that she wanted to be a scientist early and was accepted into Complications. There, she realized the emotions of people, and became almost obsessed with observing the entire range, from fear, anger to complete elation. Cat’s happy to be where she is right now, despite her dodging around the reason why she decided to join - she always replies with a joke.

So begins...

Cataline Gale's Story

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Cataline was busy writing in her research report - about the emotions of the Complications. While she was alone in her room, much of her attention was focused on the work that she was doing. She loved the Complications - they were such an amusing subject of study. But then, her beloved, and blank room decided to interrupt. “Message from Ms.Bodair.” intoned the room in a deadly boring monotone. “Cataline, you have no direct orders for right now, you may do as you wish, but make yourself useful.” The message ended, and Cataline looked up at her room’s white-washed walls with a mocking smile.

“Hanging up already, Jessie?” she stated, then, with amusement in her voice. “I didn’t even have the chance to reply.” She sighed. Her director was always so serious - Cat wondered what it would take for the woman to loosen up and go have some fun. But the news was pretty good - it meant that she could probably duck out of Complications for a few hours, terrorize Vivi for quite some time, and maybe even go to a party. Or... it was the perfect time to do something about her room. Maybe some pink paint, and if she got bored, she might as well scrawl her name too over at Vivi’s office. She chuckled to herself when thinking about what the horror she could do to make her beloved, when making fun of him at the very least, Vivi miserable. “Oi, room!” she suddenly ordered.

“is there anything that you need, Miss Gale?”

Such a boring voice. She wished that somehow it would show emotion, but everyday, despite her best efforts at irritating the thing, it would only reply in the same way. Always that one sentence. ’is there anything that you need, Miss Gale’ It wouldn’t even listen to her when she asked it to call her Cat. She frowned before making her order. “Paint. Pink paint, and lots of it.” While her test subjects had quite a strict restriction on exactly what the hole in the wall would create, hers had no such limitation. “Brushes too.” If the room had any reaction to this request, it didn’t show as three cans of bright pink paint and a large brush appeared. She looked around at her room - there wasn’t much of anything really. There was a white bed to one side, and a desk on the other. Smiling at herself, she opened the can, and dunked the brush in. It had taken her far too much time to get to doing this.

But there was something that was missing. Digging around on the messy pile of paper on her desk, she picked up a half-melted piece of candy. Cat dropped the brush on the ground without a thought, and ate the candy. Mmmm. Cherry flavored. She looked down at the pink splotch on the previously spotless ground with a frown. But who cares, she’d just paint everything pink then!

Actually, she ought to go and fix Vivi’s room for him first - who knows what kind of expression he’d wear when he saw her new addition. Armed with the paint and brush, she was just about to make her way to his room, before


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He had done it. After all this time, it had finally happened – Vincent Verone had done what he had initially thought to be impossible. Sometimes he even amazed himself
 He had finally gotten tired of all the toys Complications had to offer. “Room, next,” he called, not looking up from the papers in front of him. Immediately the hard beat resounding from the walls was replaced with a slower electronic melody. Taking up a fountain pen and scribbling something across the bottom of the document, he droned once again, “Next.” A remix of an older song blared from the walls, irritating Vincent before it even reached the first chorus. “Next,” he tried one last time
 and was pleased to hear a tune well-suited to his mood. Acoustic in nature, it was something that was aesthetically soothing but not distracting. Perfect. Humming along to the notes of the guitar, Vincent grasped his pen once and perused the document once more.

Just then, the new song was abruptly interrupted by the room – a voice he had come to disdain. “Message from Ms. Bodair,” it announced.

Setting aside his work, he instinctively looked up. “Message accepted,” he called back, even though it wasn’t possible to reject calls from the boss – the system didn’t let him. Even if it wasn’t so, he couldn’t do that anyway
 not unless he wanted that virus replanted into his brain. Immediately, the familiar voice of Jessica Bodair, the one with all the authority in Complications, rang out to make a single statement:

“Vincent, you have no direct orders for right now. You may do as you wish, but make yourself useful.”

After her last word, the room let his selected music fade into the background once again, but it was no longer all that relaxing. Do as he wished? Make himself useful? ‘Well that’s exactly what I’ve been doing for the past three hours,’ he thought begrudgingly. Holding back an irritated sigh and instead, replacing his pen back into its holder upon his desk, Vincent stood up and stretched. Well now that he actually received the order to work after he’d pretty much done everything he could think of, he felt that it was time to go make sure the others were doing theirs
 particularly one scientist called Cataline Gale.

How she always seemed to have so much free time he would never know.

“Room, lab coat.”

As he left his room, he also recalled something else relatively interesting
 in the end, it didn’t matter that he had gotten used to Complications’ overdependence on smart-technology. After all, it had never been the toys he was interested in. It was them, the detainees
 those immune to the virus of perfection. He had heard that they were all being relocated that day. Perhaps it would pay off to go and have a look


Or rather, he had other things to worry about as well.

“What are you
” he trailed off, trying to make sense of why on earth a Complications scientist would be treading the hallways with a bucket of paint
 let alone a bucket of bright pink paint
 Well, he knew one way to find out. “Go put those back in your room and let’s head down to the detainment cells,” he sighed, grabbing and giving her wrist a jerk. Immediately, he heard a silent broadcast of her thoughts
 and it took various degrees of self control in different ways to keep from physically harming her.

“And also, whatever you were planning to do with that, it’s not going to work,” he added with a knowing look.

Touch his pristine and organized domain?

Never.

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She had just gotten to the entire traveling part with her bucket of pink paint, when the person that she least wanted to see arrived in front of her, wearing a white lab coat, and looking every inch the serious Vivi that she had grown to annoy so much. ‘Man, I knew that I should’ve checked if the coast was clear before I travelled here to decorate his room.’ Well, now that he was here, there was nothing that she could do - except to make things even worse for the uptight psychologist.

“What are you
” he said, while Cataline merely grinned in his direction. Bewilderment was so much fun too~ Especially in his face. “Go put those back in your room, and let’s head down to the detainment cells.” But she wasn’t going to go back to work - not when her pranks were on the line like that. Maybe the Complications were fun to play with, but Vivi was about as fun, if not more. Speaking of him, he grabbed and yanked her wrist. She sighed, he was always so interested in going back to work. “And also, whatever you were planning to do with that, it’s not going to work.” he continued. Couldn’t he take a day off from his boorishness, and have some fun for once? It’d been a couple of days since she’d last been able to drink alcohol - maybe she could bring him and his stash of music
 mostly the music, actually, with her.

Man. He always knew when she was planning to do something bad. But that only made it more memorable when she actually succeeded. “Vivi, what are you saying?” she asked with wide-eyed innocence. “I was just planning to,” So, exactly how would she explain her actions in such a way that even paranoid Vivi would believe her. It wasn’t as though she had ever succeeded, really, in lying to him, but there was a first time to anything, right? “perform an experiment on how the Complications reacted to bright colors! Now that you’re here, you can help me with it.” She shot him a bright smile, before looking downwards.

That didn’t really sound possible in the slightest. Cat blamed Vivi’s influence for making her a bad liar
 because everything was supposed to be blamed on him. “Alright, alright, you caught me,” she muttered, sheepishly, with her hand running through her hair. “I was going to go - wait, why am I telling you this? I’ll try again later,” she said with a wink, “and this time, I’m going to succeed. So keep your eyes closed, Vivi. It’s no fun when you always foil my plans.”

So, since both Vivi and Jessie had decided to bother her day, Cat supposed that she ought to be going to work. She was supposed to go play with the Complications, right? That would involve her tablet-thing
 which was currently
 ah, forget it. It’s somewhere at the bottom of some pile of stuff. Whoops. More importantly, she was still in her casual clothing. There was no way that she would try to bother the Complications without her ever-so white and sterile lab coat on. And her pink paint was going to be bothersome when she put on her 
 serious-ish face. So what was the fastest way to get rid of it
 and dress herself properly?

“Vivi, take off your lab coat,” Cat ordered, with an impish grin on her face. Then, without looking to see if he had complied with the order, she dropped the paint brush and upended the bucket over Vivi’s head, allowing the pink paint to fall down. Then, throwing the bucket randomly backwards, over her head, with a few paint splatters dripping onto her hair, she grinned again. “You wanted me to get rid of the paint, didn’t you? Now hand over your lab coat - I need it.”