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Character: Catherine Bloom
Series: Gundam Wing
Character Age: 19
Canon:
Gundam Wing is just one of many mecha shows that features young teenagers fighting for Justice and Peace in giant space robots. Loosely summed up, the plot of Wing is that the Earth and the space colonies got into a big fight and now a bunch of kids have to fix everything with said giant space robots or possibly by becoming major political figures at fifteen. Such is the way of THE FUTURE.
Catherine Bloom, a knife-thrower who works at a circus cleverly named The Circus, is not a part of this fight; like many characters in the series, she detests the war going on and the violence that it brings, because it killed her family when she was younger. Catherine treats Gundam pilot Trowa Barton as a younger brother, a role he himself comes to accept as the series progresses (his personality-altering amnesia probably helped). She's protective of Trowa, always encouraging him to smile - and willing to punch sense into him when he tries to emulate Heero's self-destruction. Despite the war going on around her and Trowa's less-than-cooperative behavior at times, Catherine is a helpful, upbeat young woman who looks over those she holds dear to her and looks to the bright side of things.
Note: a running joke in the fandom is that Catherine likes to serve soup, which she has been shown serving whenever Trowa is, say, entertaining company or keeping a half-dead comatose boy in his trailer.
Sample Post:
Don't cry, don't cry! Are you lost, too? I'm Catherine, I'm with the visiting circus troupe. Maybe we can find our way back together! Come on, it's alright, just buck up, smile, and pop that eye back in your socket - it's a very nice blue, by the way! That's it...if you're a good, brave boy, I'll give you a free pass for our show! Won't that be nice? We have lions and tigers and we used to have some bears, but we replaced their act with gorillas - we hear they've very popular here!
Oh, don't worry about the gorillas, I'm sure they're harmless! They're very dexterous, at least, I used to work with one in an older act - one of them took your arm? And then played keep-away with it? Now that's just outright bullying - and you're such a small one! I won't stand for it! We'll find these gorillas and I'll give them such a talking to...! No, I don't care if they are big and purple and have bad breath and can sit where ever they want to - they've got to learn some manners! They're going to get a piece of my mind or two when we find them- what? Oh- no, that's not what I meant...
What a horrible day you've have - and it's only eleven in the morning! When we get back to the circus, I'll treat you to a bowl of my special soup - you might say it's brought some men right back from the dead! Not that there's anything wrong with staying dead, if that's what you prefer...but it's just right for what ails you, if I do say so myself! Broken heart, broken arm, missing arm...
Come on, now, don't cry! Turn that frown upside down!
Ah...I didn't mean that literally.
And the voting post.