Catarina Soares

**Catarina Soares** (キャターリナ ソレス, *Soresu Kyatārina*) is a young brazilian woman who was granted the ability to manipulate her cursed energy after the battle between Saku and Nazar, where Nazar absorbed Tōtetsu, one of the four special grade cursed spirits that were seperated from it. As a result of these events, Catarina was marked as the *antipode* of Nazar, an
idiosyncratic event in jujutsu society due to the immense amount of cursed energy produced.

Due to Aoba Hamorebi's abilities, Saku was able to detect Catarina's evolution and travelled to Brasil to search her out. Mimei Futamigawa eventually convinced her to join their group and come back with them to Japan. Though she is still in the process of learning how to control her abilities, Catarina's power is great enough to have been labeled as a ‘Special Grade Potential’.

## Appearance

Catarina is an adolescent woman with a small stature, slim frame and brown skin, being of mixed Xerente and European descent. She has short, dark hair and light brown eyes. In her hometown of Palmas, she often wore simple white shorts and a yellow t-shirt as well as white sneakers. After travelling to Japan, she started wearing a red-brown coat with white fluff, a pink scarf, jeans and a white hoodie in accordance with the colder climate. In general, Catarina prefers simple clothes that allow her freedom of movement and that don't stand out in a crowd.

## Personality

Catarina is a calm, quiet and kind young woman, who generally prefers being on her own. She has never had any great ambitions in life, and was always content passing her days in the most simple way possible: going to school, seeing her family, doing chores at home and practicing sports. The power she received upon becoming the antipode of Nazar was one that had always been inside of her, though she did not possess the cursed energy to utilise it. Even so, it has influenced her life since birth, always giving her 'good luck': a happy family without sickness, good grades at school and succeeding in all hobbys she took up. This caused others to be envious of her, and as Catarina grew conscious of this, she started to close herselff off to others, focusing on her home and family and spending as little time as possible with others after school.

Mimei confronted Catarina that it is useless for her to be ashamed of her good fortune in life and that if she wants to help others, she should take advantage of her gift. After joining Saku, Catarina slowly becomes more self-confident and starts to open herself up to other people, connecting with the other members despite the language barrier and the more abrasive personalities of Kaasa and Jitsu. In her spare time, Catarina likes to knit, do the crossword and swim.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill Level**:

**Multilingual Speaker:** Catarina's mothertongue is Brazilian Portuguese and she is relatively fluid in the Xerénte language, the indigenous language of her mother's side. Due to her good fortune, she is also very quick to learn new languages, speaking English perfectly due to exposure in her teenage years and starting to quickly pick up Japanese after her arrival in Japan.

**Immense Luck:**

### Jujutsu

**Reversed Cursed Energy:** Uniquely, Catarina's cursed energy is inheritely positively charged. This is the result of her gaining her powers as a counterreaction to the immense amounts of cursed energy released by Nazar during its battle with Tōtetsu and Saku. Almost as to keep the world in balance, Catarina was gifted with an equal amount of reversed cursed energy, a never-before-seen event in the jujutsu world. As a result, Catarina's presence is naturally harmful to cursed spirits, and she possesses a certain degree of spontaneous healing, though she has not learned yet how to control it. This makes Catarina an anomaly in the jujutsu world that, according to Mimei, could profoundly change the balance between humans and cursed spirits. The downside to this is that Catarina is incapable of most traditional jujutsu sorcery techniques, who all require normal cursed energy. By training under Mimei, she is slowly learning how to utilize her unique abilities and develop her own applications.

#### Innate Technique

**God Willing** (神志, *Shinshi*): As the antipode to Nazar, the incarnation of misfortune, Catarina's ability is the incarnation of 'good fortune'. Everything that is affected by her technique automatically generated the most favorable outcome possible for her. This allows her to manipulate the reality of objects, people and her environment, conditoned on the fact that she must touch them first with her hands. God Willing is not just limited to the present and can even influence the past and the future of Catarina's targets. However, the technique cannot generate impossible events. Catarina has always possessed this technique, even before awakening her cursed energy, and it has made it so she has never had to live any misfortune up until now.

Due to only recently awakening her cursed technique, Catarina can still not really control it and has difficulties with generating a specific outcome. Even so, God Willing gives her a natural advantage in every situation in- and outside of combat because it will automatically always generate a positive result for her. Through training with Mimei, Catarina has started to control the trajectory of God Willing and has developed a number of extension techniques.

* **Godsend** (天与, *Ten'yo*): A defensive technique which automatically detects and exploits the flaws of attacks made against Catarina, granting her the good fortune of being able to dodge them. She cannot fully control it yet and has to reinforce its potency continually through her voice, by saying *Lucky* (ラッキー, *Rakkī*) everytime she wants to avoid an attack. Unlike her other usages of God Willing, it is not a prerequisite for Catarina to be touching her target with her hand to be able to use this technique.
* **Godspeed** (神恵, *Jin'e*): A teleportation technique where Catarina uses good fortune to instantly and successfully arrive at the destination of her choice, regardless of distance or obstacles. She is also able to wish this good fortune on others, allowing her to transport objects or other people in the same way. This technique is even able to circumvent barriers, such as the one surrounding Tokyo Jujutsu High. For the technique to be effective, Catarina has to focus herself without being distracted for a few minutes, making it not very applicable in combat.