Cate

**Catherine Mayweather**, generally referred by as '**Cate**, is a character featured in *Don't Escape 4 Days in a Wasteland.* She is the deuteragonist, being the most important character in the game after David.

## Appearance

Cate is a woman in her late twenties to early thirties, with auburn red hair tied back into a ponytail and dark blue eyes.

Throughout the game she's always seen wearing a long-sleeved blue shirt, a pair of grey trousers held up by a brown belt with a grey buckle, and a pair of black boots with grey laces. She can often be seen carrying a gun around on her person.

## Personality

Cate is best described as hotheaded, aloof and ruthless, bearing little patience, that quickly runs thin for most people she meets.

She is very sarcastic and snarky, which is in line with her stoic, even stiff social behavior. She acts cold and indifferent to other people's moral plights and prone to making insensitive, yet pragmatic suggestions concerning customs in the post-apocalypse, seen prominently when she disapproves of laying Maggie's body to rest and later makes a tongue-in-cheek remark about the futility of interring the dead when stumbling across the two dead men by the RV, snidely asking David to bury them as well and admits that she is irritated by Barry's woeful moods. Cate is generally secretive and not open for talking about her past nor how in-depth her knowledge about Sidereal Plexus is.

She initially reacts with justified distrust towards David and his claims, that he foresees the future in his night terrors, but accepts this as a real possibility and later a fact surprisingly quick, though this is helped by her own experience with the phenomenon, which has her uncharacteristically committed to finding the shuttle to escape the dying planet. David is regularly ridiculed by Cate, who views him as wimpy, overly idealistic and naïve, although she warms up to him over their three days of knowing each other. Due to her impulsive nature, she is typically the first to suggest using force and violence to solve issues, best seen during David and Cate's first encounter and when they come upon Barry, first suggesting she distract him using her gun and later to threaten an enraged Barry confronting David, the latter of almost resulted in Barry being shot, showing an immense lack of forethought and preference for quick, short term resolutions. Underneath her ice queen persona, however, is a loyal and genuinely caring individual for the people she loves, one who has a noticeable soft spot for kids, as seen with Cody, around whom she typically drops her standoffish exterior, oftentimes comforting and reassuring him that everything will turn out okay for them.

## History

Cate, before the lunar explosion, was an employee at Sidereal Plexus, and has been shown to have extensive knowledge of their operations (she is fully aware of the Evacuation plan and the Sleepers) - Although she claims to regret working there for undisclosed reasons.

During the game, she crashes her helicopter into the house that David was using as shelter, and the two team-up after a rough start. Cate remains a supporting character throughout the game. Unlike Barry and Cody, who are optional to recruit and can die on days 2 - 4 if not enough preparations are taken, Cate will always join David from Day 2 onwards, and if David survives the nights on days 2 and 3, then so does she. Her life is only in danger if the spaceship on day 4 is inadequately prepared for the trip to the moon, so Cate is killed in the resulting crash landing.

Throughout the game, Cate's history with Sidereal Plexus is slowly revealed through emails in the company building and her knowledge about their activities.

In the real ending, when all characters are send to an alternate dimension where the lunar disaster never happened and remember their adventure in the previous dimension, Cate can be seen looking for David, suggesting she developed feelings for him.

## Abilities

Cate is a trained pilot, able to fly helicopters and planes alike, even ones that may appear to be damaged in some shape or form.

Cate has been shown to have premonitions or visions in her dreams, being able to (correctly) pinpoint the location of a building she had not previously been aware of after having a prophetic dream about it.

She additionally has been trained to shoot, and carries around a gun due to this.