Cathy

**Cathy** is a major supporting character in the *Divine Comedy*.

She was a sinner who was condemned to Hell for attempting to murder a burglar to avenge her late husband but committed destructive acts on her journey to do so. She would manifest as a cat-like sinner and now seeks to redeem herself for her sins but her need for revenge impedes her path of doing so.

## History

### Background

Cathy was around during the early 60s and was originally a sweet and happy young woman, as shown in flashbacks. However, Cathy is shown to have obviously changed drastically since then after her husband's murder. From what she could recall herself, she went to school with her late husband Martin, where they first met after he caught her from slipping down the steps of the bus. She and Martin fell in love during a roller derby date and were happily married three years later.

However, during their anniversary, their house was broken into by an intruder who was pursued and restrained by Martin. While Cathy was calling the police, the burglar fatally stabbed Martin and smashed a flower vase on Cathy's head. She witnessed her husband slowly dying before she lost consciousness as the burglar left and burned down the house. Once she recognizes the attacker in a police sketch, Cathy becomes consumed with vengeance and goes on her own manhunt to find the burglar and kill him herself. She gathers all the information she could about her husband's killer and goes off to find him.

### Arrival in Hell

Unfortunately, tragedy struck Cathy once again for as she was fighting off the cashier at the gas station who was trying to stop her from stealing gas in a jerry to refuel her car. The struggle between the two became violent when Cathy, unable to get her bearings after being struck in the head, envisions the cashier as the killer and in a fit of vengeful rage charged at the cashier with a shattered beer bottle. Stabbing him, the cashier's cigarette falls on a puddle of the gas which ignites and engulfs the station in a fiery explosion; the cashier was killed in the explosion but Cathy barely survived. She continued onward nonetheless becoming elated that she was close to getting her revenge but it never came as Cathy's wounds were so severe she died in her car on her way to the killer.

She was taken by Death and led to Purgatory where she would end up in Hell for the sins she committed after her husband's death. Manifesting as a cat-like sinner, Cathy would be condemned to the Wrath Circle and by extension the Violence Ring. She spent several decades isolated from her damned peers and became a shell of her former self, now a bitter and scorned woman, a far cry from what she was before, promising violence to any that bother her while living in a decrepit version of her home. This was especially prevalent after she was forced to give up a picture of her husband as a token of passage to board Charon's ship. However, a bit of her humanity was still in her, as she became the latest patient for Charlie Morningstar's rehabilitation program in Hotel Purgatory.

## Trivia

* Her theme song would be "Hourglass" by Set it Off.
* Cathy is one of the "younger" sinners as she was twenty-five years old when she died.