Katrina Graham

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## Description

### **Race**

Part-Human (American-Chinese), part-Galran

### **Age**

16 (debut)
 18 (current)

### **Relatives**

Ming Graham (mother)
 Rhys (father)
 Unnamed grandmother
 Unnamed grandfather

## Stats

### **Affiliation**

Team Voltron
 Galaxy Garrison (formerly)

## Media

### **Debut**

TBA

**Katrina Graham**, commonly referred to as **Kat**, is the Black Paladin, piloting the Black Lion, acting as the leader of Voltron, and was a former pilot cadet at the Galaxy Garrison. She is one of the main protagonists in an upcoming fan series.

## Appearance

Kat is a young female teenager and is often described as thin or "frail-looking". She has pale skin and gray eyes with black irises and medium-length hair reaching below her shoulder blades. It is extremely messy and prone to getting tangled. Her bangs are left in front of her forehead, she doesn't bother to style them. The only time Kat ties her hair is when she wears her helmet, which she ties her hair into a low bun. She is also the second shortest of the Paladins.

Her Paladin armor is largely dark gray in color, mirroring her teammate's armor, and has the color black as accents, signifying her role as the Black Paladin.

Kat's casual wear consists of a white t-shirt underneath a gray jacket with a hood and white hoodie strings. She wears dark blue jeans with noticeable pockets and white sneakers with black stripes on them.

While Kat appears completely human, she does portray certain Galran traits such as sharper incisor teeth which was often commented on by her dentist on Earth, noting for them to be unusual for a human. When angered or furious, her become slitted like a feline's, a trait often shared with Galrans. It is also revealed her scares heal differently than others; rather than turning the same shade as her skin, it turns a pale, sickly shade of purple.

## Personality

Kat is a bubbly, cheery, and easygoing girl who does most things with an upbeat attitude. She is extroverted in nature and a social butterfly, being the complete opposite of her friend Felicia. She can be extremely blunt sometimes without thinking, and tends to be impulsive and is mostly driven by her emotions. She doesn't act cocky or overly confident in her abilities and is highly observant of other people's behavior, a trait she learnt because of her turbulent home life.

At first glance, Kat can look immature and childish, her friends even commented on the fact that the Black Lion chose her instead of someone more capable, which made Kat develop a sense of inferiority around her team mates, who were more mature than her. Kat often uses humor to cope with stressful situations, either nervously laughing for staying uncharacteristically silent, which makes others think she is more suited for the role of the Blue Paladin.

However, it was revealed her humor and flippant personality is used as a facade to hide her deeper insecurities. She is extremely afraid of losing her teammates to the Galra and developed an inferiority complex surrounding herself and her role as the Black Paladin, as well as the stress to grow into a person more suited to be a leader. Kat often forces herself appear more professional or mature, using Allura, even Lotor at one point, as role models.

As the team leader of Voltron, Kat constantly retains a brave, determined and positive outlook. However, when depressed or under intense pressure, she requires the same emotional support she often provides to her friends. Having to make difficult choices gradually begins weighing more heavily on Kat, especially when her plans fail, or her team becomes divided. Throughout the series, Kat begins expressing uncertainty about the team's next course of action.

During the final stages of preparing to battle Zarkon, Kat temporarily became less cheerful and grew more depressed, blaming herself for everything that went wrong with Lotor. She wasn't able to call herself a Paladin and had a hard time piloting the Black Lion. While she still cared for her friends and tries to find a way to defeat Zarkon once and for all, every little event weighed on her much more heavily than normal. In this state, she feels especially burdened by her position as a leader, to the point where, despite normally being open, she doesn't feel like she can talk about her current feelings of depression.

In the episode "Falling Down", when Allura blames Kat for losing the Black Lion to Zarkon, she snaps at her friends for seemingly only being concerned with their own wellbeing and taking her support for granted, and not caring for Kat's own emotions and feelings. When Felicia tries to comfort her, Kat slaps her hand away and runs to her room, later running away from the Castle of Lions in Diane's tampered escape pod, asking her friends to find a new, "better" Black Paladin to pilot the Black Lion.

When Kat meets Leria, the latter begins to talk about Kat and her feelings of self-doubt. While on Leria's ship alone, Kat is able to think more clearly; she does want to reunite with her team and continue being the Black Paladin, but feels as if she is not good enough. She also feels her burdens are too heavy for her to bear anymore and briefly considers starting over, leaving behind her identity as "Kat" and becoming a brand new person like Leria. However, Leria talks her out of it after a coincidental run-it with a Galran Fleet. She realizes that she doesn't need to be a strong, perfect leader like wat Allura wants her to be, but rather, she just needs to be herself. She finally accepts who she is as a person, understanding that she cannot mold herself into the perfect leader, but can mold herself into being the best leader that she could be. Kat's newfound determination later helps her to defeat Zarkon in a one-on-one battle, successfully saving the universe.

## Relationships

### Familial

#### Mother

Kat's relationship with her mother, Ming Graham, can be dysfunctional at best. Initially, before the family fell apart, Ming loved her daughter dearly despite sharing her with an otherwordly alien father, Rhys Graham. She treated Kat with love and care, and Kat's fondest memories of her mother prior to her worsened state now was during family dinners where the trio would laugh and share stories at the dinner table. However, after Rhys' disappearance, Ming fell into a state of despair, slowly deteriorating and eating away at her mental state until she could not care for Kat anymore.

Eventually, their relationship reached its breaking point when Ming had a ten-year-old Kat pinned to the bed, attempting to cut off both their left pinkies as a "*yubikiri*" (pinky swear) promise. Before Kat's left pinky would be deformed forever, though, she was eventually saved by Felicia's mother who tackled Ming to the ground.

#### Father

The earliest memory Kat has of her father was the dinnertimes they had. She briefly remembered her father telling all sorts of mystical stories, to which she now assumes were from his space travels as part of the Galran army. According to her mother, Rhys left when Kat was four years old, in result, she doesn't remember how her father looks like. As the years went by, she found no real attachment to her father anymore and eventually found his old Marmora Blade hidden away in her home's storage room.

### Team Voltron

#### Felicia Winters

Kat's childhood best friend, previous neighbor, and roommate back in the Garrisons.

#### Diane Marquis

Kat's teammate when she was in the Garrisons.

## Abilities

### Equipment

* **Bayard:** Kat's main weapon. It transforms into a short knife-head with a purple blade. It later transforms into an Altean Broadsword.
* **Paladin Armor:** Her Paladin Armor allows for safe travel in space; it contains a highly advanced computer system, a communication system, a laser gun, a grappling hook and tether, holographic capabilities, an energy shield for defense, breathable air, and a jetpack for brief sustained flight.
* **Marmora Blade:** A blade left behind by her father, found by Kat accidentally when rummaging through her home's storage room. It is a small double-edged knife made of luxite that can manifest into a larger, single-edge blade when activated by Kat's Galran heritage.

### Skill Set

#### Combat

Kat is an agile close-range combatant who uses her size to her advantage. She is able to maneuver past opponents swiftly and undetected if she wills to. While she isn't as strong as her other teammates, she certainly is faster and more observant. Due to her mother's erratic behavior, Kat is very skilled at observing her opponents and her small size makes it even easier to find out their weak spots.

#### Piloting

While she was at the Galaxy Garrsion, Kat was a fighter-class pilot, suggesting that she has notable piloting skills earning her placement in that class. Her piloting skills were smooth and on the same level as the ones who did far better in the class, albeit hers had a more "go-with-the-flow" style. When Kat began doubting herself as the Black Paladin, she noted that the Black Lion felt "heavy" to fly. This issue was solved when Kat resumed being the Paladin of the Black Lion during the episode "Self", commenting that the flight felt comfortable.

## Trivia

* Kat is the second youngest of the Paladins.
* Her character theme is "self".
* Kat is exactly three-eighths American and three-eighths Chinese, in turn making her three-quarters Human and one-quarter Galran.
	+ Unlike Keith, who is half-Human, half-Galran, Kat doesn't portray a lot of Galran traits unless she is particularly stressed. Most of the time, these instances go unnoticed.
* Her favorite food are Chinese steamed buns (baozi).
	+ Kat's mother frequently made steamed buns when her father was still around. They are Kat's favorite food because they remind her of the happy memories of family dinners before her father left and her mother spiraled into depression.
* According to the creator Lloydxxlol, Kat's character arc went through many drafts before it was solidified. One of the drafts included a mind-control plot by Zarkon where Kat would become a mind-controlled zombie and fight her teammates against her will. It was later scrapped because of the idea's absurdity.
* Kat's character is based on Ruby Rose from the animated web series *RWBY.*
	+ Both characters' development revolves around them learning to be leaders to their respective teams.
* Kat's English voice actor would be Karen Fukuhara.
	+ Her voice claim is Glimmer from the animated TV show *She-Ra and the Princesses of Power*.