Kathatine

**Kathatine** is a young pegasus mare that worked as a station staff on the Cartoon World Railway before moving on to being a railway enthusiast movie maker.

## Backstory

Kathatine spent her early time working as station staff at ????, operating a news stand or sweeping the platforms. Many of the engine crews met her while she was on the job and would often visit her just to talk to her. But after 7 years, she decided to move onto something else.

## Bio

Now a railway enthusiast, Kathatine went to filming trains on the CW Railway. However, she had a tendency to trespass in areas she wasn't allowed to. One of them being at a sharp corner on a steep gradient, in which was the route used by Skunky and Shai-Shay while they were delivering log trains. Which she ceased the moment to video the rare engine power setting. Shai-Shay had noticed her presence as she stood by the line with her camera on its tripod, to film the passing trains. While Shai-Shay noted her trespassing, his crew brushed it off since they knew who she was. But Shai-Shay didn't even give a smile as he already had enough on his mind.

The next day, Kathatine paid Shai-Shay and his crew a visit to show them her videos she took. But Shai-Shay told her off for her trespassing, but she basically ignored him stating she didn't call it trespassing since she was a former worker on the railway. But then she shown the three a video she didn't remember filming. That being, show casing several log cars come rolling down the hill before it reaches the curve and then stops, but other things that make it unusual is the fact there is a broken fence, burnt grass, and a bare tree. Even so, Shai-Shay became increasingly annoyed with the young mare. The next few days, the weather changed to cold, misty, and sometimes had light rain. Which made the job even more hard, but what made it worse for Shai-Shay, was he kept seeing Kathatine filming in the same spot. His crew stated she wasn't doing harm, but the engine retorted that they shouldn't encourage her as it was still risky none the less. For should there be a chance she could be in real danger but she wouldn't notice in time due to filming.

Several more days went by but now, Shai-Shay had to carry on his own as Skunky had an accident with the cars, at the curve which not only broke a fence, but sparks from his funnel had set some of the grass ablaze. Shai-Shay continued onward but the weather only got more worse, making the journey harder each day. As Shai-Shay's frustration only grew as he saw Kathatine was still in the same spot filming away. Then on the last day, things took a turn for the worse. The cars were being more troublesome than ever while the day was quite foggy as Shai-Shay saw Kathatine again but said nothing as he didn't wanna hear his crew gave him more grief. As he goes over the hill, the log trucks play tricks at him, which then causes a coupling to snap, sending half the train hurtling back down the hill, at the curve where Kathatine stood. As the conductor quickly screwed the brakes on the caboose on but it wasn't enough to stop the cars. The Mare was still filming where she heard the sound of wheels rumbling. Turning her camera to capture it, only now noticing the train hurtling down through her camera, but by now there was nothing she could do. By the time she realized what was going on, she had no time to clear out and was only left to scream in fright which was quickly silenced as the cars crashed, which Shai-Shay heard from the top of the hill. Quickly, he drove to next signal tower to phone for help before going back. Where they found the cars all in a mess, as all the logs were scattered around them. With the Caboose still standing. Shai-Shay's crew searched frantically, but could find nothing, then the conductor came out from the wreak, his head down. He was unhurt but then he lifted up his hands showing Kathatine's camera (still intact, but the tripod gone) and her neck scarf (covered in blood) As he sadly said she was crushed. The crewmen ran back to the wreckage and then soon they had found Kathatine, or more appropriately, what was left. Underneath one of the bigger logs, sticking out was Kathatine's wing, and one of her legs, both covered in blood while several feathers were scattered all over the place. This left Shai-Shay horrified as his face went pale.

A few days later, the police pay Shai-Shay a visit with Mr. Logstein, where they show case a video of the last recording the camera caught which shows the same exact video that Kathatine shown before. Shai-Shay went pale as he realized the original video was a match. As he connected the mist, the bare tree, the burnt grass and the fence Skunky crashed into. He then shared how Kathatine shared the video, but added in she didn't remember filming that video. Judy predicts that the mare witnessed her own death, which of course causes some confusion as Mr. Logstein states the fact was, Kathatine was trespassing and was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Stating that it couldn't possible be a premonition. But none the less, there is nothing else to prove otherwise. With Judy saying there are many things that cannot be explained, before the police left the scene. Shai-Shay remains quiet for the next few days while his crew were suspended for 4 months for encouraging the trespassing. While the log trucks vow never to cause trouble again, or else they could cause serious hurt. At the same time, Kathatine's mother and sister were both heartbroken for the loss of the sweet mare as they paid to have a memorial stand placed on the curve she died on. But also serving as a warning to all railway enthusiasts to never trespass on railways like she did or they would suffer her fate. They and the other engines also tried to help Shai-Shay move on, but the engine just couldn't let it go asking if she had listened to him would she still be alive. But Steamy stated that if Kathatine basically ignored what fate shown her, she was never going to listen to the warning. She had sealed her fate all the way. But the ordeal still left Shai-Shay sufferings several nightmares that required both Princess Luna and Annabelle to help him cope with it.

### Personality

Kathatine is a cheery mare who always brought a smile to everyone's face as she did her work.

## Physical Appearance

Kathatine is a young pegasus mare with a cream colored coat. With brown hooves. A short white mane and tail, and brown freckles on her cheeks. With her wings having white feathers on the ends. While her cutie mark is a ????. She is also known to wear a light pink neck scarf and is seen carrying a black camera bag for her digital camera.

According to a picture used for the memorial made for her, Kathatine used to wear a station employee uniform that consisted of a light blue dress with a beige apron with a name tag on the left breast area. But she still wore her neck scarf.

## Trivia

* Kathatine makes her appearance in *Video Premonition*