Katarina Claes

Katarina Claes is the quintessential villainess of the visual novel game Fortune Lover and the main protagonist of the series. After hitting her head as a child, she suddenly remembers her previous life as a high school student and she tries desperately not to wind up with bad endings like her game counterpart. She is the reincarnation of Emika Yuhikari. Katarina is a pretty young woman with hip-length brown hair that has a single hair strand hanging on the right side and light blue eyes. When she was younger, she wore a blue dress with a blue necklace, and a white belt on its front as well as white socks and black Mary Jane shoes. Under certain circumstances when glaring, she is noted to have a fairly malicious expression, befitting her original role as a villainess. In Fortune Lover, Katarina is a spoiled girl who often is horrible to lower-class citizens and is willing to use any means to get what she wants. Katarina is willing to go as far as to abuse her adopted brother Keith along with her mother. She herself does not mind using underhanded tactics, such as when Prince Geordo accidentally 'tripped' her, she demanded him as her fiancé as compensation (in the anime, it occurred because she was paying too much attention to him instead of the road; Geordo wanted to engage with her as compensation, to which she unintentionally agreed) . She is vile by nature, bullying Maria Campbell and leading the charge in harassing her, though this ultimately leads to her undoing. In the sequel game Fortune Lover II, Katarina is revealed to be alive and even more vengeful than before towards Maria. Presently, upon regaining her memories of her previous life as a humble Japanese schoolgirl, she turns into a kind individual. She is honest with her feelings and is not afraid to extend a hand to someone in trouble. As a child, Katarina became a tomboy who enjoys sweets and romance novels. She can be highly competitive and had a bit of a mischievous streak as a child, most of which mellowed out as a young adult. She loves nature, having been a skilled tree climber in her original life which transferred into her current life. She also develops an interest in gardening and farming vegetables, mainly as a contingency plan in case she is exiled in some of the routes Katarina ends up in. Even after she made it through the point of all of the death flags endings, she continues to maintain her hobby as she has come to enjoy doing so. Katarina's greatest trait is her overwhelming charisma due in part to her honest and open personality. Very few people who have genuinely met her have not been at the very least intrigued by her personality and behaviors, mostly a stark contrast to typical noble decorum as one would expect of a lady of her status. Even when kidnapped, she got to know her captor and immediately struck up a friendship in a short conversation. She has unintentionally charmed many individuals as a result and finds herself surrounded by friends whom she genuinely cares about and vice-versa. She is incredibly simple-minded. Despite being a fan of romance novels, she is utterly oblivious to her friends' close affection towards her, both males and females alike. As a result, she often misinterprets the rivalry of her friends who are vying for her attention, usually making incorrect assumptions. Her peculiar habits and interests alongside her forgetfulness of noble decor and manners have often labeled her unladylike, especially by her mother. She is especially fearful of her mother's wrath. As such, she tries her best to maintain as much social grace as she can muster. Even in dire situations, Katarina can often lose sight of important matters to the point that when she was kidnapped, she effectively forgot her own situation as she indulged herself in sweets and romance novels. Katarina is a heavy glutton with unparalleled appetite with a particularly sweet tooth who can gobble piles of food and could theoretically keep at it ad eternum if it depended on her own volition (an extra drawing shows her beating all the princes in an eating contest), but mostly prevented from doing so due to normal physical limitations. Sweets are a particular weak point for Katarina and are often a very effective weapon at keeping her from doing anything else or distracting her.