Katie Briggs

Description

Katie grew up with her mother and her half-sister. Her father lives abroad, and even though they have a decent relationship, they do not talk a lot. Katie is often put off by how much she is the opposite of her anxious, analytical father. Her mother is too busy with her own world, so Katie has grown up mostly next to her half-sister Keren. Keren is Katie’s rolemodel, and she hopes she can become similar to her, eventhough she’s like, the smartest person she knows.

Katie is loud, short-tempered, and aggressively present, with a real heart of gold. She is honest, straight-to-the-point and bold. Katie prefers people to be honest with her and is difficult to trust others. Whenever she trusts people, she’s extremely loyal and will go through fire for them (literally, she’s done it). Her fiery personality can be intimidating to people, but people with good insight can see a person who tries to control her feelings outwardly as much as she can.

Because she shares her feelings outwardly, she is extremely honest. She does tend to exaggerate her opinions. Whenever something’s bad, it is immediately SUPER HORRIBLE. Whenever something’s good, it is THE BEST THING EVER. Anything that slightly annoys her is KILLING HER and anything tasty is THE PERFECT FOOD.

Katie’s close friends are all high achievers, either being extremely charismatic or insanely smart. Katie feels like she falls under neither category. She’s unsure of what she wants to do in her future and feels like she has no real goals to strive for. Katie is afraid she will end up achieving nothing but does not feel motivated to do one specific thing. Katie is trying to keep herself busy with finding out who she wants to be. She likes to try new things and explore within her limits; nobody’s gonna tell her she can’t!

Most people find her romantic relationship with Derek odd, since they often seem like opposites. It can almost feel to Katie sometimes that, since Derek is working so hard on his future, it could bring her down. However, Derek gives Katie stability, a place where she can calm herself down, talk about what’s wrong, and have someone understand her. Derek even motivates Katie to take her time exploring herself. Katie’s going to find her place at some point, and it is probably not in the place she expected.

Likes:

• (Making) Loud Music
• Punching Things
• Loyalty
• Farming Apps
• Mint Tea

Dislikes:

• Waiting
• Being Unproductive
• Being Left Behind
• Accidentally Breaking Stuff
• Salmon

Abilities

Even though Katie appears to be ‘regular’, the fact that she can beat things up with tremendous strength seems almost inhuman, but there’s no clear explanation for it. Comic writers have essentially determined that her extreme durability and strength is very situational and will never truly be explained, but we like her that way.

Katie is able to take a bunch of hits, as long as she’s upset, it’s almost as if she can’t go down. She clearly has limits though, and even if she doesn’t die, she gets knocked unconscious often. Most superpowered heroes should be able to take out Katie if she just has her guitar-axe on her. Katie has her contacts, however. With Derek’s equipment on her side, she can be a legitimate threat for quite a few villains.

Katie’s too angry to die.

Notable Comic Arcs:

• Far(from)Gone (Chaotic Rhyss! #113-134): A plotline where the hinted criminal activities in the industry sector of Fargone start back up. Factories are being used for smuggling and several traders have set up a plan together to hijack the entire city. Katie keeps herself busy with the central district, trying to guide all the innocents out of the place while breaking her way to the train station, hoping to open up transport in and out of Fargone.
• Chaotic Defender (Chaotic Rhyss! #460-#500): Katie gets captured by the Goddess and is almost killed in the process. The conflict itself doesn’t bother her, but she takes Rhyss leaving his friends behind afterwards very hard. She feels betrayed, and lashes out at him whenever he is around, which in the end, was what Rhyss needed to get back to who he is. Katie then joins the Friend Force! as it is formed afterwards.
• Chaos! Going Global! (Chaotic Rhyss! #520-#545): Malka’i relics that have been scattered all over the world have started to go beserk, making them appear as beasts. Rhyss apologizes to Katie for leaving everyone behind after the conflict with the Goddess. Katie then finally opens up about her own feelings, as she felt betrayed by Rhyss, someone she could always rely on, to suddenly vanish from her safe space.
• Oblivaeon/Schism (Chaotic Rhyss! #623-633): As most big heroes are trying to stop Schism and his enforcers, Katie, similarly to the other Friend Force! members, help with the search and rescue. Katie lets her fears get the best of her however, and at some point believes that Schism might be right in creating a new universe to retreat to, and stops some heroes from getting to an enforcer on time. She regrets it later on, and wants to redeem herself as a hero.

Comic Notes (Can be expanded or retconned on whenever):

• Katie is a member of Friend Force! starting under the alias: Pink Punk.
• Her signature weapon is a guitar with a blade around the edges, called her Guitar axe.
• Katie is inexplicably very durable and quite strong, able to take quite a couple of hits from superpowered bad guys.
• Katie has a fiery friendship with Cocoa, probably either arguing or gushing about their significant others.
• Katie’s main struggle in the Friend Force is the fact that she seems to be the only one not being able to figure out what she wants to be in the future.
• Katie starts a Roller Derby squad. Yesenia and Luka are both members of this squad too. Katie's Roller Derby name is 'GROWL'.
• After the Chaos! Going Global! event, Katie realizes she’s quite good at communicating with kids, and starts giving guitar lessons to the kids in her neighbourhood, slowly finding her purpose.
• After Oblivaeon, Katie eventually becomes part of the superhero biker gang.
• Needs more links lmao