Cath

## Who?

**Calathea** (or **Cath** for short) is a sixteen-year-old girl who has lived out inside of the forest for as long as she can remember. Not much is currently known about her past life or anything else except for the fact that she lives in solitude. No parental figures or guardians of any kind seem to be present anywhere at all, but she seems to be perfectly fine fending for herself, almost as if she grew to live on her own, and she doesn't seem to be moping around about that.

Cath also has an attachment to the forest around her that she has come to call her home, taking interest in all the nature around her and its beauty. She seems to even go as far as to use her own healing magic if she were to notice one slight difference in her surroundings, even if one single flower started wilting. She would make sure to keep the nature around her alive and in peak condition. She's not afraid to also use it to her advantage or turn it against others if she had to despite it potentially putting the forest in disarray. One example of this was when her and **Cyrus** tried to combat several angry spirits that took on the form of forest animals, all of which were supposedly summoned by **Marmon** and **Risk** off-screen.

## Abilities

**Cath** was never truly a fighting-type. Mostly aiming to live a peaceful life in the forest on her own and just minding her own business. She doesn't seem to know any true magic that would lean DIRECTLY into combat. The magic she mostly focused on was either healing or the growth/strengthening of other things. These "things" being organic matter more specifically like people or nature itself. She uses this to help whoever she can if she were to ever come across someone that's seriously injured to heal up wounds. Doing this for a certain period of time can be enough to tire her out though and drain her magic for a while. So, if she's really in a tight situation or a wound is severe enough, she will focus enough on healing it half-way enough to the point the wound is no longer severe and can focus on being healed by natural means. She may also do this out of fear of other side-effects that come with her powers since they're somewhat flawed *(which we'll get to in a moment)*.

She can also use this healing on natural organic material, like trees or plants. Even bringing some back from the dead and even wilting which she actually **DOES** use in her own spare time, since she doesn't like to the dreary atmosphere of the decaying woods, or life fading away from it. This may potentially apply to fruit also, bringing it back from rotting/decaying. NOW, for the interesting part: *the downsides*. We all know healing can tire her out, of course we all know that, and it can drain her magic down too if she uses it too much. But, with too much healing, comes consequences. If she were to over-heal way too much, this may possibly prove fatal for humans or whoever is exposed to her effects which is why she mostly has to prioritize it or limit herself occasionally, and even keep track of how much she healed a person.

The reason it would prove fatal is because if she were to heal an area too much on somebody, this would cause an overgrowth of cells and tissues, which may end up indirectly become cancerous, leading to tumorous growths on the skin. This may even end up killing the person faster if the tumors are too big, if she were to end up over-healing a really sensitive/important organ like the heart for example, or it ends up doing physical life-harming damage to the body itself. This may cause immobilization of certain people depending on where the growths come from or how heavy they are.

Asides from these affects, these can actually be beneficial to her too on the battlefield, if she were intending to physically attack/overpower somebody with this method. With plants, this may help with plants too since she may possibly cause them to actually grow bigger (like make the grass taller, or trees grow in different areas and sizes to her will), this gives her slight control over nature itself and allows her to have the power to manipulate it to her whim. This can be good for surprise attacks or trapping an enemy. The use of "over-healing" on another person in battle can be useful in slowing them down completely thanks to the tumors on their body, and possibly provide a slower way of killing them off. The effects of this growth can be permanent though. Unless if these were plants, maybe a bit of trimming on the grass can fix it or chopping the trees and removing the ones that have been used by her powers. No biggie. Uhhh, for the poor people on the other hand...*have fun with that.*