Katya Popov

As  a child Katya Popov was born an Alpha Trufflefloss. She was often ostracized  for being odd and unapproachable. She was a violent child who would  often fuss and act out without reason. She had a hard time making  friends and many had no patience for her antics. Her family was very hot  headed and she did not fit in with their Alpha ideals, like honor and  strength. Her brother was the only who stuck up for her, but still was  weirded out by some of her more unpredictable behaviors. On a trip to  Zeta with her family, she got infected with the Peppermint virus. Her  brother, not wanting to also get infected, ditched her even as she cried  for his help. She was abandoned by the one person she relied on. She  was rounded up with the other infected floss and spent the time waiting  for a cure alone and scared. When the cure came, her family was reached  out to while she was in recovery and did not even claim her as their  own. That was the last time she saw her family, though the thick glass  of the observation room when they turned away from her and left her  behind for good. The alpha gem on her forehead split and cracked into  many separate pieces, swirled together, forming the first Psi gem.

She  went berserk in the lab and was the first of the Psi to tap into their  new abilities, the power to take over and control other floss against  their will. She started hurting doctors and anyone who got too close.  She became well known among the other infected floss, and they started  to follow her lead, fighting against those who were holding them in  confinement After the cure came, many of the infected had split gems  just like her and they formed an alliance with one another under her  lead. She was only one of many who had no home to return to.

She  gathered a bunch of the infected Floss who followed her and they fought  back to break free of Zetas confinement. They took hold of their destiny  and fled to the North. They reached Pagoto and created the new clan of  Psi under Katya's rule. Despite her rebellion, the Zetas wanted to  remain peaceful with this budding clan and Zachari reached out to aid  them in developing their new land. Relations between Psi and the other  Pzekazi clans have remained strong, however Katya's disdain for Alpha  will never die down. She detests the Alphas, and reluctantly agreed to  join the Clan Council only because Zachari urged her to.

Now,  years later, the Psi are a great nation, ruling over the harsh landscape  of southern pogoto and she had risen as a powerful leader. Still young,  in her teenage years Katya is known to be unpredictable, fierce, and  ruthless. She is loyal to her clan and her people and a force to be  reckoned with. She and Zachari become very close friends and he became  like a surrogate brother to her. They are inseparable when they are  together and their nations remain very tightly knit. Though on the  surface, the Zetas' rigid nature and reliance on data and science is in  great contract to the Psi's joyous and devil-may-care philosophies, the  two nations learn a lot from one another and have made each other  stronger in their alliance.