Kate Openshaw

Kate Openshaw is a character from The Midnight Library horror book series, featured as the main protagonist of the first story of the first book, "Voices". She is a student who inherits the ability to hear telephone conversations from the future, until this very ability brings about her downfall.
==Biography==
Kate Openshaw was a descendant of the woman who was cursed into hearing phone conversations that were yet to take place in her head, which carried over to her female descendants, but was unknown to everyone around. Eventually, the voices in Kate's mother's head made her terribly ill. When her husband and daughter came to visit her at the hospital, she kissed Kate on the ear and, after talking to her for a while, asked her to bring flowers to her grandmother's grave. At the cemetery, Kate began hearing conversations about a funeral that had not taken place yet, even though there was nobody around. At the same time, her mother miraculously got better.
Kate eventually came to realize that the voices she heard were a foresight, and she used it to her advantage a number of times, such as winning a bet against her classmate, and selling off a ticket to a WestZone concert she no longer needed. Her mother eventually told her the truth of how said ability became the burden of their family, how she transferred it to Kate to save herself from dying, though she had come to regret what this did to her daughter, and that nobody could learn of the curse without dying. Though by that time the voices in Kate's head had become a real nuisance due to overabundance of phone antennas, she didn't hold it against her mother.
At midnight, Kate heard a conversation between two robbers who planned to rob the house of her friend Susie's family, threatening to kill anyone who gets in their way. She tried to warn the police, but couldn't provide enough detail to make them believe her. She wandered off in an attempt to stop the robbers on her own, or at least provide evidence of their crimes in form of photos. While awaiting them, she heard another conversation, implying that one of the robbers was going to kill Susie, and hoped to save her from such a fate. It turned out, however, that the conversation was about her, as one of the robbers found the girl's hiding place and killed her.
===Alternate fate===
In the Damian Graves version of "Voices", Kate manages to avoid getting killed, but the voices in her head overwhelm her to the point where she is left in a catatonic state, and is implied to have stayed this way for the rest of her life.
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