Kat Neese

**Kat Neese** is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Esperanza Jimenez) of Raising Dion.

In the Netflix Original series, she is portrayed by Jazmyn Simon.

## Summary

Kat is “a surgical resident and Nicole’s sister.” She considers herself to be the responsible one of the two, and always tries to look out for Nicole and Dion, even when the former doesn't appreciate her meddling.

## Biography

Kat first appeared in "ISSUE #101: How Do You Raise a Superhero?", when Nicole took Dion to the hospital for a checkup after she first witnessed him use his new superpowers. Kat, however, couldn't find anything wrong with Dion, and naturally didn't believe Nicole's claims about Dion's powers.

After Nicole got fired for showing up late one time too many, Kat arranged for her to get a job interview at the same hospital where she herself works. Nicole was forced to end the interview early because of Dion, and thus didn't get the job.

In "ISSUE 104: Welcome to BIONA. Hope You Survive the Experience", she dropped by at the apartment to give Dion his birthday present since she had to work on the day of his party. She gave him her old Ipad; something Nicole was not entirely okay with even after Kat assured her she had removed all her old files and installed parental settings.

In "ISSUE #107: Why So Vomity?", when Dion was hospitalized after coming down with a mysterious illness, Nicole once more tried to convince Kat about Dion's powers. At first, Kat dismissed her again, but she finally learned that Nicole was telling the truth when she saw Dion levitate himself while sleeping. She agreed to help keep Dion's powers a secret, and deleted his medical records. Unfortunately, she was caught in the act by her girlfriend Danielle. She tried to convince Danielle to keep this between them, but Danielle felt betrayed by Kat and reported her to their boss, resulting in Kat getting fired.

In "ISSUE 109: Storm Killer", Pat came to her house when he failed to contact Nicole and Dion (who had fled the city after seeing The Crooked Man kill Charlotte). Although Kat didn't know Nicole and Pat had a falling out recently, she still didn't trust him and lied that Nicole was visiting their parents' house in Saint Louis. When Pat was gone, she called Nicole and tried to convince her to come to her place, but Nicole didn't want to take any risks.

In "ISSUE 201: A Hero Returns", Kat has just returned from a trip to Ghana, and comes to stay with Dion and Nicole for a while. At this point, she is no longer a full time doctor, though she does give medial advise through video calls. In "ISSUE 202: Sankofa" she admits that she was never actually happy being a doctor, and mostly became one because their parents wanted her to. When she hears about Tevin Wakefield, she encourages Nicole to spend more time with him.

In "ISSUE 205: You vs. Me", after Nicole has to stay at Biona because she got infected by the spores from the Sinkhole, Kat and Tevin take Dion to the Warren family cabin, but Kat is clearly no fan of camping. The trip is cut short because of Brayden Mills attacking Dion. Back home, Kat learns of Nicole's condition, and that the serum Biona gave her to combat the infection will only giver her 36 hours. This reminds Kat why she wanted to be a doctor, and she joins Biona to help Pat Rollins find a better cure despite his hatred for him. Their research comes to a halt however when Pat, upon realizing he will never be forgiven for his actions as the Crooked Man, injects himself with all the P-DNA that Biona had so far been able to isolate and hoped to use for a cure. Kat and Jorge Suarez do what they can to keep Pat alive while hoping to extract the P-DNA from him. Pat survives, and now has powers of his own, which he uses to escape Biona.

At the end of "ISSUE 208: Who You Are", Kat has been offered a job and her own lab at Biona, where she intends to continue the P-DNA research and hopefully find a way to take Pat's powers away again.

## Personality

Kat is “the one that has her life together, and can’t help but correct Nicole on her life and parenting. All in all, she’s a wonderful and supportive aunt and sister, but has a hard time biting her tongue as she watches her sister make mistakes.”

## Trivia

* She once thought about putting her sister, Nicole, on a 72-hour psychiatric hold..
* Like Nicole, she is very protective of Dion as she said she would have busted down the doors of BIONA with Nicole to get him back.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "‘Raising Dion’: Jazmyn Simon Joins Netflix’s Superhero Family Drama Series". *Deadline*. June 26, 2018. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
2. ↑ "ISSUE #107". *Raising Dion*. Season 1. Episode 7