Catherine

* Human
* Monster

**Catherine,** also known as **Fluffy** and **The Youth Beast**, is the antagonist of the 2018 short horror film *Troubled Youth* and its 2018 sequel. A woman who has been turned into a monster, she acts as the monster minion of Eva.

She is portrayed by Gordon Tarpley as the Youth Beast and Nekhebet Kum Juh as Catherine.

## Physical Appearance

As a human, Catherine is a young Asian woman with short black hair and dark-brown eyes. She wears a red top.

In her demon form she appears as a scaly dog-beast covered in thick dark-green fur and big devil horns. Her teeth are very sharp. She has three toes each that resemble hooves.

## Characteristics

As the Youth Beast, she seems to have no will of her own, acting only on Eva's command.

As a human, Catherine is soft-spoken.

## Background

At some point in the past, Catherine went to Eva because she wanted the power to stick up for herself. Eva turned her into a monster as a result.

## Crypt Monster Universe

### *Troubled Youth* (2018)

Eva has ordered Catherine to transform and sicced her on Journey High's students and faculty. Catherine rampages through the school before making her way into a science classroom, where Eva and four other students are hiding. Catherine pretends to attack Eva, and stops directly in front of her. Eva reveals her true colors and tosses some of the dust in her necklace to the students hiding in the closet next to her, causing Catherine to attack them.

### *Troubled Youth II* (2018)

One week after the attack on Journey High, Catherine has returned to her job in the school library. She gives several students books they requested, and is approached by Sarah when the computers stop working. Sarah briefly berates Catherine for not knowing anything, and calls her a nobody. Moments later, Eva comes to Catherine, having witnessed her conversation with Sarah, and Catherine tells her that this wasn't what she asked her for. An unsympathetic Eva reminds her that she gave Catherine her powers, and she still lets sheep like Sarah push her around in spite of it. She turns Catherine into her monster form, and sics her on Sarah. After chasing Sarah through the library and wounding her leg, Catherine changes back to her human form and tried to pretend nothing happened. As Eva helps Sarah out of the library, Catherine coldly remarks that Sarah deserved what happened to her.

### *Taste* (2019)

There is a news article on Clover's computer talking about "The Journey High Monster", with an artist's rendering of Catherine's monster form.

## Crypt Extended Universe

### Troubled Youth: I Was A Teenage Sheep

While Catherine herself does not appear in the creepypasta, she is replaced by a teenage girl named Cindy who takes on the same form that Catherine does.

## Powers and Abilities

### Unique Abilities

* **Transformation:** Thanks to being cursed by Eva, Catherine now has the ability to transform into a monster. However, she can only become a monster when Eva tells her to.
* **Superhuman Strength**
* **Superhuman Speed**

### Weaknesses

* **Connection to Eva:** Because Eva is the one who gave her the power to turn into a monster, Catherine can only become the Youth Beast when Eva allows her to.

## Relationships

### Eva

Eva is the one who turned Catherine into a monster, and is the one who controls her through a strange black powder. Catherine reportedly went to Eva for help because she was tired of being a pushover, and Eva turned her into a monster to, in a way, give her that power. However, it was apparent that this deal was largely tipped in Eva's favor, as she was the only one who could turn Catherine into a monster and would use her as part of her plan to weed out the "sheep" and the "wolves" of their high school. At the point of "Nobody's Sheep", Catherine no longer wants to be Eva's minion as this was not the power she wanted. Ultimately, Catherine's connection to Eva became both her greatest strength and her greatest weakness.

### Sarah

Sarah does not care about Catherine or her feelings, seeing her as a nobody and not caring what happens to her in the slightest. She is very curt and rude to Catherine, calling her a nobody and being very dismissive of her. Her silence when Catherine tells her that she might have deserved being attacked by the monster indicates that she isn't used to Catherine standing up for herself around her.

## Trivia

* On February 1st, 2022, a video of a glowing purple wheel was released with a symbol on it pertaining to Catherine, or rather her monster form. Catherine was later one of the monsters confirmed as playable characters for Monster Fight Club, although the project was cancelled later that year.

## Gallery

### Monster Fight Club

Catherine's intended character model for Monster Fight Club
### Promotional Material

The wheel released on February 1st, 2022Still image of the wheel

## References

1. ↑ *Troubled Youth* (dir. Emily Dell; January 19th, 2018)
2. ↑ *Troubled Youth II: Nobody's Sheep* (dir. Emily Dell; October 12th, 2018)
3. ↑ *Taste* (dir. Alex Grybauskas; April 5th, 2019)
4. ↑ *Troubled Youth: I Was A Teenage Sheep.* Vena Cava, Vincent (writer) & Shih, Kevin (developer) (February 11th, 2019)
5. ↑ Tweet by Crypt TV; https://twitter.com/CryptTV/status/1488614490010578946