Katie Peluso

**Katie Peluso** is a major character featured in Project Melody who is a mage with the power of Lumokinesis, she meets, assists, and eventually joins Tomoya and his friends during the duration of the story. She is best friends with Chelsea and is a close friend with Marco, during the main story she meets and interacts with Tomoya during a yacht party she was attending with the two.

## Summary

Katie is a Lumokinetic mage. She wields the ability to create, shape and manipulate visible light. Her ability to be able to control and even create light is a major advantage for her as it has helped her train at not only becoming a better fighter, but also a better friend and person overall. Katie is a 21 year old Argentinian-American woman, she attends university alongside Chelsea and is majoring in finance, and is residing with her parents at the moment. Eventually, one of the homes she can choose to purchase all throughout the county is also located in Solis, where she was originally from before moving out to Rosa as a child.

Her involvement and enrollment in the White Hornets came from a series of coincidences. Katie uses her online popularity, such as on PhotoFan, to garner connections from other popular social media users and brands. She uses this to her advantage as a way to also be invited to numerous events happening throughout the county and nearby areas in the region. She also has had involvement with mercenary groups throughout the area because of their notorious nature of hosting high-end events with the help of the profit they gain from their practices. Eventually this led to Damien knowing about her and further then recruit her into his own group. Then later on, she eventually interacts with Tomoya during a party hosted on a yacht. Her involvement in the White Hornets with Chelsea and Marco has been described by her to be an eye opening experience and a way to meet other great people who share the same passion for life with her.

## Appearance

Katie has long emerald green hair and mint green eyes. She has bangs swept to her left and usually has her hair in a ponytail, but also uses other hairstyles as well. Her initial casual attire consists of a random t-shirt from one of her drawers, tight blue jeans, and a pair of white low top sneakers. Her formal wear is a dark blue dress, swimwear is a pair of a red velvet colored bikini piece set, and her sleepwear is usually a shirt and gray pajama pants.

## Personality

Katie can be described as an eager passionate person with an extroverted attitude towards the world and people around her, while at the same time has introverted qualities dedicated to keeping herself comfortable and grounded. Her curiosity for the happenings in her life have led her to lead a life with many awry moments, which helped contribute to her overall experience being alive which also eventually became a benefit for her because of the lessons she learned during that experience no matter what had occured. She can be described as just another social butterfly in her age range, her comfortability with other people has its own advantages and disadvantages, however she seems to be focused on the advantages and how she can use it to treat herself. One of these actions she performs thanks to her bolding confidence is to have connections with many popular figures in social media. Her popularity on social media such as Instagram helped her get to this social status, which also led her to have a sort of fame throughout the app, and eventually grows throughout the internet over time especially as she posts more.

While she is said and shown to be a good hearted compassionate person to her closest friends and family, she does have some other traits of hers even she herself finds undesirable, such as her attention seeking impulses that she still sometimes lets out, given how it's a leftover behavior from her childhood. Luckily, she hasn't gotten herself in any major trouble whenever the behavior acts up, it actually did help her gain the reputation she has. Still, it's something deep within her subconscious mind that she eventually decided to work upon during the events of the story, especially after she discovered the dream replicating machine operated by Oneirokinetic magic. Her compassionate nature also helped her become more confident with herself, which led her to decide to learn the saxophone because of her interest in the instrument and Jazz music since her younger years. Not only has her time learning and using the instrument helped her become more patient, but also hardworking and motivated all throughout. Her time getting to know people in the music world was a big first step at broadening her perspective in life, and eventually becomes a treasured figure within the White Hornets as her passionate music skills spreads to those around her.

During the story's events, her personality is truly revealed more as it is shown that much of her lifestyle is in response to the coping mechanisms she has created over the years. Her coping mechanisms were designed to help her cope due to numerous series of events that had previously occurred in her life involving both friends and family. These events eventually led to a spiral of emotions emanating from within her, causing her to lead into a lifestyle where she can fully focus on her outer world without having to sit within the shadows of her inner world for too world. The social media era currently taking place in the world helps her at achieving this, no matter if she is at home or not. Over time however, she starts to dive into the world of Shadow Work along with her friends, leading her into a path of healing.