Kat (Gravity Rush)

Kat, also known as Alua, Queen Alua, Kitten, Gravity Queen, Kitty Kat, Sea Kat, Black Kat and Gravity Kitten, is the main protagonist from the Gravity Rush series.
== Charactah Account ==
An amnesiac young girl who wakes up with no memories as she falls to Hekseville. There, she meets Dusty, a strange black cat that gives her gravity-shifting powers. She quickly embraces a superhero role within the city of Hekseville as a gravity shifter. Her adventures eventually take her to the ends of the world, where she is allowed glimpses of her clouded past.
Kat is a down-to-earth, intelligent, selfless girl who is willing to make personal sacrifices in order to save people in need. Despite having no memories prior to her fall to Hekseville, she is mostly very upbeat and welcomes the attention and praise of being a superhero. At times, she expresses the desire to have a romantic partner, but she demonstrates great emotional strength when confronting danger. Kat is outspoken and sensitive to the feelings and attitudes of others as can be seen in her relationship with Raven and Yunica. Kat is not very fond of sarcasm, injustice, nor receiving cryptic advice.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Gravity Daze The Animation: Ouverture
=== Manga ===
* Gravity Daze 2: Gravitational Vertigo Reminiscence
=== Video Games ===
* Destiny of Spirits
* Everybody's Golf 6
* Gravity Rush
* Gravity Rush 2
* Playstation All Stars Battle Royale
* Playstation All Stars Island - Gravity Rush: Infinite Skies
* Ragnarok Odyssey Ace
== Trivia ==
* Kat's name in the original Japanese version is "Kitten."
** Incidentally, "Kitten" is one of her many nicknames in the English version.
* Kat's voice actress, Sanae Kobayashi, has had major voice roles in both anime and film; notably, she was the voice of Alexis Rhodes in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, and Chris Thorndyke in Sonic X. Among her video game roles, she voices Seong Mi-Na from Soulcalibur IV and Ohatsu from Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams in the Japanese versions of those games.
* Touching Kat (via touching the screen in Gravity Rush or the PS4 touch pad in Gravity Rush Remastered) will cause her to jolt and feel uneasy. It is no longer possible to have her react this way, due to the touch pad being used for Style switching instead.
* It is/was believed that Kat slept in the nude. However, she started sleeping fully clothed in the sequel due to sharing a room with Syd on the Banga Settlement.
* According to the Gravity Rush 2 Complete Guide, Kat is 17 years old at the outset of Gravity Rush 2, but is later referred to as an adult, but is not old enough to drink alcohol, so if the games follow Japan's liquor laws, Kat would either be 18 or 19.
** According to her character bio in Everybody's Golf 6, Kat is 160cm (5 feet 3 inches) tall, just one inch over the average height for a Japanese woman, also making her a head shorter than Syd, who is about 5' 11". It is not known if her high heels are factored in, though. Her weight remains unknown to this day, however.
** Even without the guide, she is implied to be a teenager when she states that she cannot drink alcohol, suggesting that she was 19 at the very most.
* Kat's dark skin and blonde hair share something in common with the Japanese subcultures of gyaru and ganguro fashion. These subcultures emerged in Japan in the late 1990's and early 2000's, largely as a way for young women to rebel against the traditional Japanese standard of feminine beauty as light-skinned and dark-haired. Given Kat's rebellious personality and the occasional comments she receives from others about being less-than-stunning in the looks department, the connection to such subcultures seems likely. By contrast, Raven represents an idealized form of Japanese bihaku beauty: pale-skinned with long, dark hair.
** This is supported by producer Makato Isomine and Naoko Sato's comments that they were concerned while creating the first game that Kat would come off as "too Japanese," and aimed to give her (along with the rest of the series) a more westernised/European feel.
* According to character designer Shunsuke Saito, Kat does not wear underwear with her default outfit. 
* Kat is the only character to swear in the whole series with a single use of the word "crap" when spotted by police in The Hekseville Phantom. For some reason, this only applies to the NTSC release and was changed to "damn" in the PAL region. Either way, it seems out of place given her personality, the series' overall tone, and the lack of any other swears throughout.
* Kat was featured in a promotional art piece created by Guerrilla Games concept artist, Choro Choi, in celebration of International Women's Day 2019, alongside female characters from other PlayStation 4 titles such as Aloy (Horizon Zero Dawn), Ellie (The Last of Us), Chloe Frazer and Nadine Ross (Uncharted: The Lost Legacy), Lady Maria (Bloodborne), Freya (God of War), Atoi (Tearaway Unfolded), Sackgirl (LittleBigPlanet), and Kara (Detroit: Become Human).
** In Gravity Rush 2, Kat's first and final playable appearances are played in the first person perspective (not counting the descent into the mines at the very beginning). The only family that Kat is known to have had is her grandmother, who gave her the music box a century prior to the Eto chapter. Not much else is known about her, or any other family Kat may have.
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== External Links ==
* Kat at Gravity Rush Wiki
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