Katherine Eaton

## Appearance

**Hair**: Black

**Skin**: Fair

**Eyes**: Dark brown

**Height**: 5’1” (156 cm)

**Weight**: 110 lbs (50 kg)

**Markings**/**Noticeable** **Features**: The strong scent of coffee which surrounds her at most times. Otherwise none.

## Personality

Kimiko is not one to sit still and relax, never was. Growing up the way she did, she didn’t have any choice but to be hardworking and extremely ambitious in order to get where she wanted to be. When she grew up she remained ambitious, working hard for everything she had and establishing a strong sense of independence and drive. It is seldom that anyone actually sees her not working. Does she even have a life outside of work? No one knows.

Some describe her as harsh, easy to argue with but not so much to get along with. She has trouble seeing things from different points of view, even if she is in the wrong. In a way she holds a lot of silent anger that makes her unapproachable and almost impossible to negotiate with. Most of her coworkers and superiors describe her as an absolute menace, but she’s too good at her job for anyone to dare stand against her.

She has no fear of god or haughty noble and will not shy from telling them off if they’re not following her advice. And no, do not challenge her to a duel, she will only reject it and you will be the one looking like a petulant child. Thank you very much.

But, she does have a softer side, although it is very well hidden beneath layers upon layers of ice. Kimiko being a hopeless romantic in a sense – she wants to have a perfect life with a husband, dog and maybe a kid. But, she is also realistic enough (or rather, not very hopeful) to know that such things might just not be for her. Though, she does have a massive soft spot for children. But, work always comes first - at least usually. She has never had time to explore herself in a romantic sense. Making her hopelessly lost and often cold when rare attempts at establishing a connection is made.

## Abilities

* Extremely detail-oriented
* Has an incredible way with numbers - a math prodigy
* Great knowledge of economic theory
* Has a great work ethic
* High-level organisational skills

## History

Kimiko does not know much of the land her mother fled from (though she has heard the story about how she was smuggled aboard a ship in a basket of salted fish many times). What she does know is that she grew up as one of the casteless children in the filthiest parts of the Ashmoor slums. Still, it was better than being a slave.

As a very young child she began working in one of the many factories alongside her mother. Only through sheer luck did she not get absolutely mangled during that time as - due to her being one of the smaller children - she was the one who crawled inside the machines when a part got stuck.

At the age of around eight, dumb luck struck again, though it didn’t feel like that at the time. The factory owner needed someone to stay and organize paperwork after the factory closed, and as the Fo and Rew castes were his employees, they had caste-guaranteed rights (no matter how few). Kimiko and her mother were casteless. The choice was an easy one to make.

Kimiko learned to count from learning how to sort receipts by size of sum.

It didn’t take long for the owner to take note of her affinity for numbers. Deciding it would be a shame to waste such a talent (a loyal employee with skills such as that? Oh his capitalist heart took a leap of joy) Kimiko got the chance at an education.

Well, it wasn’t quite that simple. No tutor would teach a casteless child. And well, the adoption wasn’t technically legal but, there wasn’t as if Kimiko nor her mother had any official papers which would say anything otherwise. Overnight, Kimiko became Katherine - the youngest of six siblings, the only one with dark hair in a family of blondes. Needless to say it was a lonely life - though her mother was allowed to live in the house as a maid, they didn’t see each other often.

Now in the Ech caste, she received an education befitting one of her status, the time she would have spent with friends instead spent with her nose buried in a book. Always studying and reading (math and economics especially), working in her “father’s” factory. Doing the bookkeeping as a teen.

Alas, she felt trapped. A mutual dislike defining every single one of her familial relations (well, except for with her biological mother and her “sister” Adelia who was acceptable company at best) she became cold and distant. Preferring to execute her tasks with frightening precision and ruthlessness.

By the time she was headhunted by the Ashmoor bank her “father’s” business was in decline due to his questionable leadership (and perhaps some careful embezzling but that’s not of importance).

Since the age of 19 Kimiko- or rather, Katherine has been employed by Ashmoor bank, steadily climbing the ranks due to her capability and unforgiving tactics. Still, she feels that she could climb higher and faster were it not for her relatively low caste that she’s been facing great difficulty in getting out of through sponsorship. She suspects that her superiors has something to do with it to make it so that she doesn’t threaten their positions. And to pay her a lesser wage for work she is already doing (though not officially, of course). Even though she is seen as only a lesser employee, she is strangely enough often found in important meetings - making sure that the correct numbers are presented as no one knows them quite like she does.