Katarina Claes

Katarina Claes (カタリナ・クラエス, Katarina Kuraesu) is the main protagonist of the light novel/anime series I Reincarnated into an Otome Game as a Villainess With Only Destruction Flags. 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 voiced by Maaya Uchida in the Japanese dub and Jeannie Tirado in the English dub.
==Appearance==
Katarina is a pretty young woman with hip-length brown hair that has single hair strand hanging on the right side and light blue eyes.
==Personality==
At first, Katarina was the villain of the otome game, Fortune Lover, bratty, petty, and entitled. Upon regaining her memories of her previous life as a humble Japanese schoolgirl, she turns into a kind individual who is willing to help anyone in need of help. She also loathes high society, finding the etiquette too constraining, though largely due to her inability to play the role of nobility, with her middle class mind with a free-spirit.
As a child, Katarina became a tomboy who enjoys sweets and romance novels. She doesn't mind getting dirty such as climbing trees or working on her garden; she fails to comprehend how her dresses might make climbing harder and a higher position gives a view of underthings. Her love of romance novels is due to her love of shojo manga and games in her last life; so she is dismayed by the small genre in her current life.
She is also willing to forgive people who do wrong towards her or people close to her. She is also incredibly simple-minded as she doesn't understand romance and is oblivious to her friends' close affection towards her. Katarina can be a little witty, as she managed to get a vegetable garden planted at school; using the bluff about them being flowers, which are when the plants are ready to harvest.
Katarina's inherent nature is playfulness, however, she is also hard-working and committed to defying the original game's death flags, which cease to exist from childhood, yet her ignorance of that fact ties into her absentmindedness. From a magic book's advice, she would attempt to boost her own magical earth element, which makes her remember advice from her previous life's grandmother, about how gardening is "communing with the earth," therefore began her habit of gardening; yet her love of the activity became the primary reason it became a habit, and she seems to have genuinely forgotten the gardening's original purpose.
She is simultaneously highly perceptive and highly oblivious. Upon meeting a person, she is able to quickly deduce their insecurities and strengths; she can misinterpret the causes of the insecurities, but even so, she is able to provide emotional support that helps the individual overcome their previous perceived flaws, and be able to embrace the hobbies they love. Katarina's obliviousness comes into effect with how she continuously misunderstands, misinterprets, or simply fails to realise how another person would be infatuated with her.
She is extremely charismatic and compassionate. Though, the charisma often takes a clumsy or awkward shape, it merely further endears her to her loved ones, after her initial kindness and understanding charmed them. Her compassion aided her greatly in childhood, as she was able to empathise with just about anyone she met, making her beloved to her many (unbeknownst to her) suitors; it is somewhat a detriment as a teenager, as she is swift to sense a person's unhappiness, yet fails to understand it is born out of their unrequited love for her, thus she can temporarily make it worse. Her compassion is of immense assistance when she is in danger; she forgives her kidnappers, while also trying to offer them comfort for the past troubles that drove them to that crime. She is unable to unintentionally unravel a conspiracy, as her kidnappers are pawns, and the masterminds would have escaped had she not turned the minions to good.
Despite her lack of romantic experience and desire, there are moments in which she is moved by one of her harem; boy or girl, she becomes bewitched by their attractiveness and personalities. However, she never follows up on any of the brief repetitions of feeling seduced, as her lack of experience means that she doesn't know how to proceed, also she doesn't believe herself worthy nor believe they would be interested in her (albeit, ironically they are). Although, while their attraction began when they were all under 10, these moments for Katarina only start once she reaches the late teens during the otome game's main setting, since when a teenager mind in a child body, she found them only adorable, but as a teenager proper again, she is among peers for the first time since her death.
==Abilities==
Katarina possesses earth magic which she awakens at the age of 5. However, her magic is so weak that she could only crack a small area of ground. this limits her to use only the 'Earth Bump' skill. Despite its weakness, she can be surprisingly tactical with it, as she uses it to trip an opponent, making them fall, thereby giving her time to escape or an ally time to counter.
She is also good at climbing trees and is great a gardening. Having misunderstood a book on magic, Katarina too the literal interpretation of "communing" with her power, rather than focus internally.
The original game Katarina was evil, thus meant to wield darkness with great power and even have a familiar. However, unlike her game counterpart, Katarina is too pure and simple; lacking negative and evil emotions to power it. Though her extraordinarily potent goodness meant she changes a malevolent, dangerous dark familiar into a harmless, adorable pet. 
==Gallery==
Katarina Anime.png|Catarina Claes
Katarina Child Anime.png|Young Catarina Claes
Yande.re 658630 chibi dress katarina claes megane ooshima miwa otome game no hametsu flag shika nai akuyaku reijou ni tensei shite shimatta....jpg|Catarina and her five different personalities
A Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro x HameFura x My Senpai Is Annoying Collaboration Poster.jpg
==Trivia==
*Things Katarina doesn't realize because she's dense.
**She tracks muddy footprints into her home.
***Katarina constantly forgets her mother's scoldings about this.
**She broke all the death flags before high school.
***Katarina is too focused on the game story to realize that she's changed her relationships with the cast as a child; they became her friends or at least don't hate her.
***Katarina fails to understand that it was the bullying and abuse of status that doomed her game counterpart; she worried for years over nothing, rather than just enjoy her life.
**Her plans to make the prince break the engagement fail because her psyche is now dominated by her past self; the new "humble" version is attractive to him.
***Unless she OUTRIGHT says she doesn't want to marry him or even tells the queen and king that she has no interest, Katarina is stuck. She does offer to release his obligation (as she believes he is engaged out guilt for indirectly causing her childhood head wound), but he refuses, mentioning that he finds her interesting. Nevertheless, Katarina goes on to assume they are only engaged so that Geordo can stave off unwanted proposals.
**Her mother is equally dismayed Katarina is still engaged to the prince and wants her to break off the engagement; not that it's Katarina's fault, as she's trying her hardest to ditch the prince.
**Her brother is a siscon because she was so nice to him.
**Purely by accident, Katarina has managed to make three girls (the gardener, the book lover and the heroine), who were straight in the game, fall in love with her. Sophia is actually the reincarnation of her previous life's best friend, Atsuko, albeit with less awareness of this fact, plus an apparent existence of two personalities; regardless, it may imply that her old best friend may have carried romantic feelings for her, thus indicating she had extensive charisma even before, just her awkwardness and lack of nobility meant she only caught one wannabe lover.
**She thinks Maria and one of the capture targets falling in love dooms her; when in fact, it was the bullying and abuse of rank that did in game Katarina.
*Everyone who knows her knows Katarina is too stupid to pull off elaborate schemes.
*Its wondered if she suffered brain damage both in-universe and by fans from the head injury that gave Katarina back her Earth memories. Given she should have more emotional maturity and wit, since she's mentally early-30s.
**Arguably her revival wasn't a continuation of maturity, rather a reset. She died as a teenager before experiencing anything of the adult world, or even romance during her teens; she regained a sense of sapience at 6 years old, after which she simply went through another childhood, rather than progress into an adult as her chronological age would suggest. 
*Differences in Verge of Doom Katarina
**She gets her head injury while bullying Maria.
***Katarina apologizes for ruining her muffins and eats one off the ground, calling it delicious.
**Katarina realizes it's too late to change anything significant; she can only stop bullying Maria to avoid banishment or death.
**One of her followers decides to stick with her post-formation
**Katarina acts as a guardian angel to Maria whenever she's in trouble; this makes Maria realize she is genuine in her desire to reform.
**As she didn't alter the "script" when they were children, Katarina doesn't cause the harem to form.
***Geordo has no affection for her and is only curious about her change in personality.
***Mary isn't in love with her, as Katarina didn't steal the prince's line.
***Sophia warms up to her after becoming called beautiful and compared to a princess in a story they both read.
***Keith accepts her apology and reformation after considerable effort on Katarina's part; though he does not develop into a sitcom.
*The Japanese word "baka" meaning stupid or idiot is combined with her name to make "Bakarina," in an affectionate joke from the fanbase, referencing her obliviousness.
*While not wholly unique, Katarina is an uncommon reverse harem protagonist as she actually has a mixed harem: four males and three females in her *main* harem, while having two more "unofficial" interested males, and one kind-hearted manipulator female. Thus far.
*The spelling of her name is inconsistent across mediums, as official anime releases use "Catarina," while manga uses "Katarina."
==External Links==
*Katarina Claes at the Destruction Flag Wiki
*Katarina Claes on Villains Wiki
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