Katherine Tempest

Finished concept art of Katherine Tempest and Arka

Katherine Tempest is a witch proficient in void magic hailing from a small village in Finland. She is a core member of Salvation Team and side character of the Fate's Wish: Salvation story arc.

Katherine Tempest is a Finnish girl born into a religious village of witch people. They all worshipped and practiced use of a substance known as void. One day in a tragic accident of misuse of void, Katherine lost her right forearm to the abyss. Since then she has always been afraid to tap into her powers again, opting to only study the void instead. Though this lifestyle was turned on its head when she was approached by American government officials to join a clandestine operation.

## Personality

Kat is a very bubbly girl, and quite feisty too. She's generally optimistic and a ball of sunshine, though she is capable of showing other emotions if she is feeling them. She is also a bit shy and not very outgoing, getting embarrassed by things pretty easily; but warms up to people once she gets to know them better. Despite her shy nature she does enjoy meeting new people, and just needs her alone time to recharge.

Katherine does her best to excel in her academics as she likes proving to herself how good she is and likes making those around her proud. When she isn't studying in school, she likes to visit the main street of her village and order sweets from some of the local businesses. She has a very close connection with nearly everyone in her village and is loved by all. Being the village prodigy, she keeps high standards for herself and beats herself up over failures more than she should. She keeps an open mind when it comes to new ideals, and is very respectful to everyone and their opinions so she is quite easy to get along with.

## Appearance

Katherine is a Finnish girl with a small, fragile build; being only 157 cm (5 ft. 2 in.) tall and weighing only 41 kg. (90 lbs.). Her hair is a soft auburn chestnut color with a golden streak going down her bangs. She also has a golden streak going across her lips. A major identifying characteristic of her is her lack of any iris or pupil in her eyes. She was born with a rare condition that caused her eyes not to develop any iris or pupil. She can still see fine despite this, although she is a bit sensitive to bright lights. Her right arm all the way past her elbow was lost in an accident one day, and since then she has her arm wrapped in bandages. Due to the way her power works, her size can change often. As her magic depends on having energy stored up in her body she eats a lot of sugars and fats which store in her breasts and thighs primarily, which will shrink back to normal size after using her powers all up.

During the events of Salvation, Katherine wears the ceremonial dress of her people. This is partly because her people believed it was her calling to go on this mission, but also because the dress was one of the most open pieces of clothing they had; which would be important in the heat of South America. The dress itself is a mix of golden and white silks and cloths covering half of her side, with a transparent cloth making up the other side of the dress. Holding her dress up is an assortment of belts, one of which holding a ceremonial knife. She also has a cute cat beanie on her head.

## Abilities

### Void Magic

Katherine's determination allows her control over a substance known as void. She carries a staff with her that helps focus this power, though it isn't needed to use void magic. She is the most proficient void witch from her village. After peering so far into the abyss and practicing a near impossible spell, her powers shifted in the way that they work. Instead of just needing to eat matter from the surrounding environment to perform void magic, the void now has to eat matter from Katherine herself. Not knowing this while attempting to cast the spell she lost her arm. She has eventually learned to combat this by eating tons of food, as the void consumes that first before her body parts. Although it does feed off of her, she is still able to consume matter outside of herself in conjunction when using void.

Void magic itself has many properties from matter erasure and manipulation to gravity manipulation.

#### Void and the Abyss

Void is theorized to originate when dark matter enters into a black hole. Once it travels through a black hole fully it's properties change and it finds itself in a new plane of existence known as the Abyss. Void witches are capable of tapping into this dimension through determination and harnessing the power of void.

### Arka

Arka is a little void being that always hangs around Katherine. He was created as a result of the finished spell that happened during Katherine's accident. Arka is extremely mousy and nervous, and is always paranoid of things going wrong. Katherine keeps him around and enjoys making him feel safe, but he doesn't do much outside of helping her with minor things in day-to-day life such as bringing her an object or reminding her to do things.

### Physical Abilities and Skills

She doesn't have much to offer when it comes to physical power, and only knows basic military training. She speaks Finnish and English, being so good at English that she helps teach other people in her village to speak it sometimes.

## Early Life

Katherine was born in the nearby city of Lahti, Finland to her parents. Growing up her whole life in a small village she has a strong connection with most of the people in her hometown. She naturally aced in her academics leading her village to view her as their prodigy. Trying to impress everyone she studied an impossibly complicated theorized spell that would make her the most powerful void witch ever. It proved to be too much of a challenge though when it went wrong and her arm was devoured by the void. In its place a small void construct was brought to life in front of her as finality for the completed portion of the spell. Following these events, she formed a bond with the little void and named it Arka. Fearing the possibility of making another horrible mistake, she stopped practicing the use of void and opted for only studying it in theory. To her surprise the village people supported her in this decision, as they realized how much pressure was put on her and cared more for her safety. After a few years of this, she was eventually approached by the U.S. military to join Salvation team. She was cautious and unsure about it but became much more confident in her decision once she got the support from her townsfolk to go.

## Gallery

Katherine Tempest and Arka finished conceptKatherine Tempest Wallpaper from the Fate's Wish Salvation, Salvation Team Wallpaper Collection. Salvation-6
## Trivia

* Katherine was originally planned to have heterochromia, but this trait was later given to Charles instead