Catherine's Links
Cat /does not/ trust Jeff, not even as far as she can throw him. Even though he says that she can trust him and that he won't hurt her, she finds it hard to believe when he seems just fine hurting everyone else. She's scared, and refuses to let her guard down for a good while, but the stress takes its toll and she finds herself assuming something almost friendly with him. Never tender or coming to a real understanding, but..friendly.
Cat really turned his world upside down. Five years of isolation and suddenly there's more of himself wandering in. Proxies. Victims. When it becomes clear he can't get rid of her, Jeff decides to enlist her in his new plan to defeat the Slenderman, but she's being stubborn about the 'trust' thing. It's frustrating and for her to abandon him now would be devastating. She doesn't have to like him, but he wants her to believe in him.
She feels protective over Asia and particularly relates to her as similar people in a really just sucky situation. She doesn't trust Jeff around her and kind of moms her even though she's only a year older. There's a lot of trying to do normal human stuff with her even though it's clear Asia isn't entirely a person yet at the beginning of the story.
Cat is great, and Asia doesn't mind her protectiveness, even if it is unnecessary. She lends a lot of new perspective to chew on.
Cat is cautious around Jack, but he's literally so enthusiastic and a little bumbling she doesn't have the energy to stress out about him too much. He's definitely /weird/, and way too overfriendly, but it's better than the alternative. She also thinks his organ harvesting shit sucks.
please. please be my friend
Catherine exercises caution as a standard procedure up until she gains the ability to fight back. With her newfound powers she doesn't tolerate Anselme's shitheadedness at all and is quick to lodge a tree through him, but unfortunately that only makes him want to stick around more. They are constantly in a tug-of-war that she's tired of but nevertheless has no choice to be in lest he cross a line and actually wind up killing her. Needless to say she's stressed out, but later on she comes to tolerate his presence as bigger threats begin to loom over the horizon. He's easy to ignore once you get the hang of it, and she never really found him scary anyway.
Cat is the second most fun person to mess with (Jeff being the first because of the whole Slenderman stuff). He doesn't have any long term plans for her, and enjoys letting her take the lead during their little tiffs. She's a momentary cure for his boredom. Although he doesn't have high hopes, watching her campaign against the Slenderman is interesting, in a common enemy type of way.