August Catawnee

**August Catawnee** was one of the main characters in the first season of *Another Life*. She was portrayed by Blu Hunt.

She was the lead engineer and youngest member of the crew aboard The Salvare.

## Throughout the Series

### Season 1

The mission was supposed to take six months – three months to Pi Canis Majoris and three months back. Assuming all went according to plan. A month into the journey and Niko is awoken from Soma sleep. She's been awoken because the Salvare hasn't yet reached Pi Canis Majoris.

Apparently, the scientists on Earth got the incorrect coordinates for the system – it will now take around seven more months to get there. William, the holographic computer (AI), informs Niko of all this.

Ian Yerxa was the previous captain of the ship, so there's a bit of tension around the leadership now that Niko's been put in charge. Most of the rest of the crew have worked under Ian and are ‘feeling a little awkward’ with this new situation.

The argument about the ship's course upsets some of the crew, especially Michelle Vargas, who feels that Ian should challenge Niko more. The crew can't seem to get along with each other, forget with their new leader.

William changes course towards Sirius A and Ian commands the engineer, August, to engage the shield. Though the shield works, the flares damage the FTL (faster-than-light) drive and the ship is basically unable to fly away from the star. While Niko is peacefully dreaming of being back home with Erik and her daughter Jana, the Salvare is being torn apart.

In a panic, August wakes Niko up and she immediately takes control of the situation. Banishing Ian from the bridge, Niko takes manual control of steering and slingshots off the star to safety.

Niko may have saved everyone, but the ship has sustained plenty of damage. All comms are down and the Soma system is offline. There are replacement crew members asleep, and they aren't affected, but no new chambers can be activated.

Niko tells the crew of the Salvare that she killed Ian because he was a threat, which worries most of them and causes them to get angry. Bernie and Javier support her and Niko reminds them of the mission, but Michelle calls her a murderer and wants to throw her out of the ship. There is a crash and they start losing oxygen.

Niko is told by August that they have five hours until they are all unconscious, but they could source a comet. William says their long range sensors are down and suggests backtracking to Sirius, but they would not have enough time. Michelle suggests microlensing and they try looking for nearby planets.

August, Oliver and Cas walk into a cave where they find enough crystals to breathe a lifetime and start mining.

As the crew mines, August suddenly lifts her visor, which worries Oliver. However, she tells him that oxygen is at 19% and she can see as opposed to when she had her visor on. She tells Oliver to lift his visor up as well, so he agrees, which makes them the first people to ever breathe air on another planet.

August and Oliver talk, and the latter says that he signed up on the mission because he wanted to feel something real. He says his home was not the same since St. Petersburg had been flooded. She tells him that her brother should have been there and she wanted to honor that. Oliver apologizes for what he had said before and she accepts his apology. Cas tells them that she would go to the Salvare and tells them to keep their visors down, which they do not obey.

William tells Cas that they need to get back into orbit in 9 minutes or the mission would end. As Oliver and August leave the cave, they try contacting Salvare, which is already in the air. Oliver complains that Niko did not even try to save them, but is surprised when a shuttle, piloted by Niko herself saves them. As they lift off, August and Oliver hold hands and they make it in the end.

Later August wonders if they had a virus or bacteria, and when Bernie walks into the room, Michelle tells him to back off because he had brought soil samples on board. Niko calms everybody down, and Zayn tells them that Petra's stress hormones were all elevated. Michelle tells Niko that comms were still down, but William points out that they had Sirius A as a reference point, which Niko tells him to move them towards. She tells the team to help out and gets them moving.

August and Oliver check the cooling systems, while Niko fixes the ship with Cas. Niko hurts her hand and Cas tells her to take a small break because she has not slept in days. Niko complains about Yerxa, which Cas does not like and she tells Niko that Yerxa had read her wrong, because if he had known what she was really made of, he would have known she would kill him.

August tells Oliver that on Earth there was a man who she had had a crush on for a long time, who reached out to her for frozen yogurt. She had imagined a future with him because she always wanted a big family. Oliver tells her that his relationship had always been long distance, but August points out that he had never really left for good and wondered how their relationship was, but Oliver changed the subject.

August approaches Javier and thanks him for everything he did. He shows her that he fixed everything. She hugs him and tells him that they should go tell Niko.

After a loud knock, Niko is awakened. She sees blood on the floor and finds August bleeding out. She tells Niko that there is something on board hunting them.

Niko comforts August while she calls William. However, August tells her that he is offline, and asks her if she looks better or worse than her brother Billy. August tells Niko to tell her parents that she was not scared, but Niko tells her that they would be making it home.

Cas and Niko find each other. The former tells Niko that they need to get off the planet, which was Canis Majoris. However, everybody was separated, so they drag August to the medical center. Niko tells August that her brother was not afraid, but she could tell that she was lying. All of a sudden, the three of them are attacked by an alien who drags August away. Niko cries while Cas tells her they need to leave.

August refuses to eat because she wants to check the somatic interface. Michelle tries to grab a plate to eat, but Bernie does not let her take it. Cas tells them that she was in charge until Niko wakes up and Michelle tells her that their sensors picked up a moon. Bernie is excited because they need food, but Cas tells her to stay on course.

August and Javier talk. Javier says that he does not trust soma tech and August suggests working in the mess hall. He tells her that he dreamed he was a dad, which would not happen soon. Javier says that he is not upset, but he tells her that he does not have parents who own an asteroid, which meant that he had not gotten the chance to go to a fertility clinic. She tells him that she got her eggs frozen so that her parents could have grandchildren if she died.

August, Javier, and Oliver clean mold. Oliver complains that if the mold ate through all the seals and gaskets, they would all die. August asks them if they would enjoy swimming, and Javier says that he would like to skinny dip, but Oliver says that he would not like to catch an infection and have his nervous system fly out of him. August gets up and leaves, and Javier tells Oliver that he thinks she is cute, but Oliver simply states that she is smart and their boss. Javier tells him that he might be into her and did not see the issue since he did not have a girlfriend.

Oliver complains that cleaning was not part of their job description and says he needs a massage. August says that she gives really good massages, so she starts rubbing his shoulders. Javier picks up a sponge and throws it at her. She throws it back and gets him, but Oliver tells them that they should not be wasting water. Javier tells him that he was always very serious and throws a bucket at him, which makes him slip and fall on his back, hitting his head. Oliver walks out of the room and August goes after him.

Javier asks Oliver how his head is doing and they start arguing. August tells them to stop, calling Javier a bully and telling Oliver that he is a suck. Oliver walks up and kisses August; Javier tells them that he will leave, but August stops him and kisses him too.

August is electrocuted, while Oliver and Javier assist her in finding out what caused the fires. She finds an electrified alien and she tells Niko that they were closer to fixing the problem.

August tries clamping the ship back together, but there appears to be a short with the clamp on the outside of the ship, so Niko says that she would go out and fix it herself.

Oliver realizes that it made sense that William was glitching, since they were using a lot of energy creating exotic matter. Michelle asks if that was the same stuff they used for FTL and heads to the particle accelerator. August says that if pressure kept building up, they would explode. Oliver says that there is an off button, which Michelle finds.

Oliver and August make out and start having sex as well, but when she starts taking his pants off, he asks her to talk with him. She is confused, and tells him that she needs to feel something other than panic and tells him to tell her what he is feeling. He says that he wants her, but admits that he is a virgin, saying that he had had sex with his girlfriend in VR.

August says that she feels claustrophobic not knowing where they were going, but Oliver says that it was alright. Sasha asks Bernie if he can sit with everyone and gives them a salad. There is a lot of food on the table in order to do intermittent fasting. Niko says that they have to ration, which everybody is okay with.

William tells Niko that Beauchamp is fine and she tells them that everybody hanging out was fun, also asking if everybody was hooking up. William says that he has seen flirtations between Bernie and Zayn, August and Oliver, which Niko says is a good thing because they could blow off steam that way. William asks if they are gossiping, and Niko says they are not sarcastically, calling him Erik before going to bed.
On the Salvare, Cas tells Niko that she wants to talk, asking why she had gone behind her back and woken up Beauchamp. Niko tells her that Beauchamp was the next person on the list, but Cas is convinced that it was in order to hurt her. Javier asks them if they had seen August and Oliver and he goes. Cas says that she knows Beauchamp was probably a better second-in-command, but wants her job. Niko tells her that she had done it for her and knew that she would be okay.

In the airlock, Oliver and August make out while Oliver says that he knows it is messed up and wants to touch her, so August tells him to follow her lead as she unbuttons his shirt. Oliver helps her take her shirt off as well, but they see lasers shooting past them.

Cas asks Niko if she does not trust her, but Niko tells her that she does. Zayn and Bernie approach them, which makes Bernie point out that not everybody was happy. Javier asks who was happy and Bernie tells him that everybody. Javier grabs Zayn's tablet and sees that August and Oliver's oxytocin levels were high and asks why, to which Zayn simply responds that it is a human sex hormone.

Oliver and August call for Niko while having their shirts put on sloppily, but Javier simply goes to punch Oliver. He is stopped by Cas and both August and Oliver tell them about the lasers they saw shooting past the ship. Niko runs to the airlock and sees Erik outside, so she asks for a flight suit since Erik could not breathe and was dying. William tells Niko that Erik is not outside and she starts crying, but William makes her realize that it was a hallucination. William tells them to think reason and not with their emotions. They were being caused by endorphin levels being spiked, so Niko tells Beauchamp that everybody is high.

Beauchamp asks Sasha if he thought what he had put into the salad was oregano, and Sasha simply says that he had raided Bernie's stash. Bernie says that he has that plant because he needs help sleeping, so he self-medicates. August complains that now he had self-medicated everybody, so Niko tells him to use his head. Niko says that they should use different things to try to flush the drugs out, but William advises against it. Oliver says that both him and August could not have hallucinated the same thing, but Beauchamp tells him that what they saw were electrically charged, cold hydrogen particles.

Sasha approaches Javier, which scares him, but he does not know why. Sasha asks what is happening with William, but Javier only sees the way that William looks at Niko, which he realizes were looks of love. Javier does not know how that would affect William, but is dragged away by August, who says that they have to become friends again.

August, Oliver and Javier start dancing together as Bernie approaches Zayn, who he describes as "sulky," and ze says that ze would never be in the DSM because it was not dark matter which affected them, but drugs. Bernie tells hir that they should dance and kisses hir, and ze kisses him back.

August, Oliver, and Javier are still partying in a small room, where August says that they need to get drunk. Javier complains that the vodka is peach and August says that she never thought she would be sharing it, so Javier says that he would not mind sharing and tells them to just go with it. August and Oliver admit they are virgins, but Javier says that is fine and kisses August, kissing Oliver next. After that, August and Oliver start kissing, while Javier helps remove Augusts' pants and they turn the lights off, starting to have sex. However, halfway into it, August pushes Javier away, which upsets him.

Niko asks what was going on with William, who nobody had seen. August calls for Zayn and Niko when she finds Javier on the floor, who was still breathing.

Javier is brought to Zayn's lab, but William is still away. Everybody thinks Sasha is probably sleeping off the drugs, but August mentions that he did not have any and refused to take part in the experiment. Niko tells Bernie to go with her to the mess hall.

Niko and Bernie watch as everybody eats the salad, but notice how Sasha did not eat any. She is called to medical by Zayn. Zayn tells Niko that ze found Sasha's CT scan in her deleted files, which contained something not human. Niko calls for Beauchamp while August tells them that something had locked her out of the observation deck and goes to get them back online with Oliver. Niko tells Zayn to bring Javier back.

As August and Oliver walk, they are separated by a door closing, which Oliver is not able to open. Niko runs through the hallway and is also denied access to the observation deck as Sasha drills into Beauchamp's eyes.

An alarm starts sounding and August says that the temperature in the particle accelerator was elevating, but she was stuck. Zayn and Bernie are in the lab, which was getting hot. However, Sasha turned off the comms and was trying to make the ship blow up. Niko understands why the aliens would choose Sasha, but focuses on getting August to the particle accelerator, telling Cas to focus on Sasha.

Niko tries getting the door open with Oliver, which they manage to do with a fire extinguisher. August tells them that they could not go down because they would burn to death.

Niko, August and Oliver try using manual technology by pulling on a lever in order to build pressure. They discuss trusting William again, and Niko says it is all her fault. A noise starts and they manage to finish making it work.

The FTL engines are engaged and they head deeper into dark matter. August says that the files shown were not originated from anywhere in the ship's systems, which Sasha was able to do because of the symbiotic relationship between the alien in his brain and him. Beauchamp realizes they were headed for a black hole, so Niko tells them that they were going to abandon ship and head straight for Pi Canis Majoris.

Cas moves the small shuttle, which surprises the crew since Niko was not there. They head straight towards Pi Canis Majoris. Beauchamp says that they could not pull away from the black hole, but Cas tells her to shut up. Cas does not listen, but August tells them to look at how the stars were warping and the Salvare shows up again. Niko tells them to come back since she was with William again, having connected Sasha's brain to the energy source.

August says that she knows he is mad at Niko, but wonders how long he would stay mad because if something went wrong, he may never get the chance to make peace with her again, which he could regret.

August asks Zayn what ze was drinking and asks hir if ze smelled something and pulls out a bag. Zayn wonders how she had been able to smell it from inside a cupboard, and August reveals that she had thrown up in the morning and was very tired. Zayn asks her if she had had sex recently and wonders if she had used protection and August reveals that she had not, but did not bother because of Sirius B, but realizes she was pregnant.

August asks Sasha if he can help Javier, but he is unresponsive. August tells him of everything he could do for humanity and is called by Zayn to perform her pregnancy test, which comes out positive. Zayn tells her to consult with the father if she wants to keep it or not. Javier wakes and August greets him. She is happy he is back and holds his hand.

Oliver, Cas and Niko smile as they see that the Artifact was in fact, destroyed. When they make it back onto the Salvare, Oliver kisses August and is taken to Javier.

Oliver tells them how he defeated the Zakir alien and Javier tells them about what Sasha had done to him. August is silent, and says that while they did that, she discovered that she is pregnant. They both laugh, but she tells them that she is serious and does not know who is the father. Javier tells her that she does not have to keep the baby if she does not want, but she says that she does not know if it would be right to get an abortion after so many people had died.

### Season 2

Niko takes the long way to the mess hall and breathes deeply as she hears the Salvare creaking. In the mess hall, she tells the crew that the the Salvare was caught in a shockwave which was travelling at a very high speed and would disappear in 9 hours. August and Zayn say that they would not be able to last that long, so Niko tells them that they would have to leave, boosting the FTL bubble as much as possible. Javier wonders if the Achaians could track them, and is told that William had not deleted all the Achaian code and introduces them to a new AI.

August, Javier and Oliver tell Niko that the FTL engines were working fine, but the outer ring was damaged, so they would go out to replace the array and patch the holes on the ship, so they could jump back to Earth.

Outside, August and Oliver work on replacing the array. Oliver says that they had fixed everything up to a certain standard and tells William that he could now pressurize the corridor outside of Observation. August asks for help, so Oliver heads her way, but sees an Achaian ship in the distance, which was heading towards them.

The Achaian ship heads towards the Salvare, so Niko tells August and Oliver to head back inside immediately. Niko says that they need to jump, but August tells her to give them some time. Niko tells William to give them full impulse so they could gain some distance, but they are shocked by the Achaians, which critically damages their impulse drive, made them shoot plasma into space and the mooring for the outer FTL ring was offline. Niko orders August and Oliver to get back into the ship, but August says that her umbilical was stuck, so Oliver goes to help.

Oliver heads towards August, who cannot get free. Oliver tells her that he would cut her umbilical so they could buddy-breathe back to the ship. August tells him not to do it, but he does it anyway. Meanwhile Javier, calls for them to get off. Oliver promises August that they would make it, but they are hit by the plasma, which causes them to scream in pain before dying from the blast.

## Personality

She has a bit of an innocent personality, though she is aware of the dangers of space due to what happened to her brother. She tends to have a positive outlook on the situations that occur.

## Appearance

**Season One (10/10)**

* *Across the Universe*
* *Through the Valley of Shadows*
* *Nervous Breakdown*
* *Guilt Trip*
* *A Mind of its Own*
* *I Think We're Alone Now*
* *Living the Dream*
* *How the Light Gets Lost*
* *Heart and Soul*
* *Hello*

## Gallery

See also: Category:Images of August
* Promotional
* Season 1 Screencaps

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