Karin

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**Karin** is one of the four friends that arrive at The Cabin at the beginning of the game. She is the last character to die (on day 16) after The Protagonist locks her in the basement and kills her in the boss battle (except for one ending in which she becomes Protagonist's companion).

## Physical Appearance

Karin is a tall, 27-year-old woman. She has long, red hair kept in a braid and green eyes. Karin wears a long white dress with two yellow stripes at the bottom. She also has a long, yellow, double necklace.

In her boss fight, however, her hair is no longer in a braid and is untamed.

## Personality

Karin is the most stubborn and grumpy of the group. She often complains and doesn't hesitate to point out every mistake The Protagonist makes. She is also very smart and tough. She can face everything. After The Protagonist serves meat for the first time, she is very fast to develop an obsession with it. She then doesn't hesitate to force Anatoly to go out of the cabin or even to chop off Gregor's limbs just so she can have more of the meat.

From her profile: "*Karin will chew you up and spit you out. If Gregor thinks the glass is always half full, Karin thinks the glass isn't full enough, needs to be cleaned better and could probably use something stronger than water. She's one tough cookie, & a difficult walnut to crack. Maybe you can marinate that away?*"

## Backstory

***\*This section is for only confirmed lore. Anything unconfirmed must go into the Theories section. \****

### Residence origin:

According to various quotes in-game from the cast, Karin and the rest of the bunch came to the cabin from Ukraine. "*Bread and jam aren't much of a meal, but it's more than we had when we left Ukraine.*"

### Mouse story:

Karin almost died when she was six. It was probably the coldest winter on record. She and her parents were snowed in. At first, they had enough wood, but it ran out. Before wedding day her father chopped down one of the biggest trees in the forest. He spent months whittling it down, cutting the pieces carefully, measuring the armrests so they fit perfectly, sanding it down so not even a splinter could come out. He named it 'Mother's Chair' and every Saturday he washed her feet while she sat in it. Whistling a tune his grandmother taught him, looking deep into her eyes as he rubbed her ankles. Took him weeks of working on it in secret. He was hyperventilating while he dismantled it, each heavy breath was a foggy cloud, his tears were freezing to his cheeks. The fire only lasted two days. And later the frostbite turned his fingertips completely black. He cried almost as hard over his fingers as he did the chair. After a while, when the food was running out, he began to search every inch of our cabin, but he finally found what he was looking for, a little mouse. Holding it wiggling in his hands must have been painful, between wincing, he divided it in two, one piece for little Karin and one for her mother. His corpse was the first Karin ever saw that was frozen solid.

### Escaping Ukraine:

Karin, Mariah, Gregor and Anatoly's village went mad from starvation after the rationing got extreme. Parents were sending their children to orphanages instead of starving at home. It was terrible. Eventually they decided that they needed to escape. So, they stole supplies until they had enough for the journey. To keep their spirits up, Gregor described it as a 'vacation'. "*You don't normally face **death** during a vacation though...*"

## Trivia

* In early development of the game, she was called Kate.
* Karin's appearance shows a very strong resemblance to Vasilisa the Beautiful, a character who finds the Baba Yaga during her own folk tale.
* She snores very loudly at night.
* Karin quickly develops a very unhealthy and unusual obsession with meat after it's served for the first time.
* She steals the Protagonist's knife from the drawer (the same one that they took from Potato's corpse).
* It is theorized that in one of the endings after her death she is the one that turns into Turnip - a new member of Chompettes.