Kaitlyn Lewis

Kaitlyn Lewis is the Assault Sapper of Raider 2 Section and one of the main characters. She is a corporal in the Tartarian Militia.

## History

Kaitlyn was born into a wealthy family in Russia. As a teenager, her parents were arrested and executed for their role in the Second Kronstadt Uprising, causing Kaitlyn to flee the country with her family's money. Afterwards, she allegedly supported revolutionary groups in several countries as an arms dealer and manufacturer. While under investigation for supplying the gun that assassinated de-facto US president Kyle Hank, she mysteriously disappeared. Kaitlyn ended up in the Afterlife soon after.

## Appearance

Kaitlyn has light neck-length hair and an androgynous face. she is rather skinny and short at 5’6”, and is often mistaken for a boy. She is usually seen sitting or standing in a corner, causing many to not notice her. She often smiles, although without any passion or emotion behind it. Kaitlyn wears a fur hat and  thick Soviet Army greatcoat modified to have more pockets and storage areas for explosive charges. She wears comfortable fleece pants and leather steel-toed work boots underneath. She dons a ballistic vest for protection. Plastic explosive charges, ammunition bandoliers, and grenades are strapped to every inch of her uniform. Kaitlyn frequently covers her eyes and face, using shades, goggles, and masks to ensure that nobody can read her face. She even created a ceramic-steel reinforced face plate with external cameras and tubes for food and fluids so that nobody can see her face in battle. Despite this, she has no sense of modesty and will dress inappropriately while in normal life. The face plate would malfunction in the final chapters of Vickers's War, snapping shut permanently.

## Personality

Kaitlyn has autism, which affects her social skills. Most people find her annoying or creepy, which causes her to mostly keep to herself and close friends. People also keep misinterpreting her body language and facial expressions, much to her annoyance. She dresses to minimize any chance of this by hiding these entirely. Kaitlyn cares immensely for those who are poor and downtrodden, often making donations of food, money, and anything valuable. She supports revolutionaries fighting against tyrannical governments, and dislikes those who are greedy and power-hungry. She would rather spend a day in a workhouse than a week in luxury. Kaitlyn is often called a socialist. She is skilled at craftsmanship and has a wide variety of knowledge on electrical works, mechanical engineering, computers, gunsmithing, and explosives. This causes others to laud her as a child genius and prodigy, when in reality she is only skilled as a result of her interest in these topics. Kaitlyn creates explosives, devices, and maintains weapons for the unit. Kaitlyn prefers open-source software and blames capitalism for most software being shit. Kaitlyn is perpetually one unskipable ad away from waging a crusade on the corporate class and blowing up an office somewhere.

## In combat

Kaitlyn possesses a massive arsenal of weapons and explosives, being able to indirectly support her team while staying away from the brunt of fire. She is in Charlie team of group 2, tasked with assaulting enemy positions under cover of fire. Her main weapon is a Masha gun, a beast of a rifle designed for taking out light armoured vehicles in open combat when WWIII was predicted to start in Europe. With both semi and fully automatic fire, a bipod, and 20-round magazines of anti-material shells powerful enough to tear a man in half. It is laughably impractical in any position except prone with the bipod deployed, which doesn't stop Kaitlyn from hip-firing it in automatic when she feels like killing something several times over. The Masha gun also fits rifle grenades, of which Kaitlyn has plenty. As a sidearm, Kaitlyn carries a 30-round Katusha Krew pistol carbine with a wooden holster stock. Kaitlyn also carries a large armament of explosive charges, grenades, rifle grenades, Molotov cocktails, claymores, mines, tripwires, electric wires, and breaching charges. When called upon, Kaitlyn advances on an enemy position, grenades it, then moves to clear it.