kate fuller

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Player name: Ren
Contact: blahblahren
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CHARACTER
Character Name: Kate Fuller
Character Age: 18
Canon: From Dusk Till Dawn the Series
Canon Point: season two, episode 2 In a Dark Time

History: Before the events of the show, pretty much all that's known about Kate is that she was quite sheltered. She lived in a small town and her father was a pastor, and she felt a great deal of pride in him for that. She was a strong believer, she was home schooled, and she still called her parents Daddy and Mama, and believed in them and their marriage. It only takes one look at her to know she's the picture of wholesomeness and innocence.

Six months prior to the start of the series, Kate's mother dies in a car crash, prompting her father to load her and her adoptive brother Scott into an RV and drive them away from their hometown for a vacation. She doesn't want to be there, she's in an actual high school now, she's going to graduate soon and doesn't want to miss out on all that. She never wanted this trip, never asked for it, and doesn't understand the point of it. She's left behind a boyfriend and the first couple episodes are devoted entirely to her wanting to get her dad to turn the RV around and get them back home.

When that doesn't work, she calls her boyfriend Kyle to try to get him to come to her to rescue her, but they don't get very far. Her father and brother find her before they can leave, and in the course of the confrontation Kyle reveals that Jacob had left his congregation entirely, rather than just being on a vacation. This shakes her belief in her father even more, thanks to his odd behavior before then. Why would he pack everything into their RV and effectively kidnap them without telling them he had no intention of ever going back? In the end, after Kyle physically assualts her father, Kate tells him to get lost and sticks with her family after all.

The rest of the trip goes very poorly, with the RV breaking down, Jacob going into some rage-fueled fit and then getting drunk in a biker bar, and then nearly running Kate over while she's behind the RV because he's too drunk to realize his daughter isn't even in the vehicle yet. While he's drunk Kate rummages through the things he's packed and finds details about the traffic accident that killed her mother that don't match up with what her father told her at all. Kate takes it upon herself to call the courthouse in her town, pretends to be someone working on the case, and gets them to email her the documents with details about what happened that night. Once she knows that's on the way, she takes the keys from her father and drives her family to a motel herself so they can all take a break.

While there, her father overreacts to her and Scott arguing to the point of grabbing her brother by the shoulder and shoving him into the wall to tell him never to speak to his sister so rudely. Things are unraveling fast, so after Kate gets her father calmed she leaves them alone to go relax by the pool. Once she's there she reads the report from the crash and learns that absolutely nothing her father has told her about her mother's death was true.

While Kate's at the pool, Seth and Richard Gecko are starting to come up with a plan to get themselves over the border into Mexico and wouldn't you know it, it just so happens to involve the family in that RV they saw roll in earlier. They bust into the hotel room Scott and Jacob are in and take them hostage, Richie is sent to fetch Kate, but instead of bringing her straight back he gets caught up talking to her. She flirts with him a little, still angry with her father and choosing to rebel by accepting cigarettes and talking to strangers, and she opens up to Richie about her doubts about her family, connects with him and lets him give her advice. They form a bond quickly, but when they shake hands he taps into all her thoughts and speaks them out loud, confirming all her fears about her father and his lies. Scared, she runs back to her room and gets caught up in the Gecko trap.

For the most part, Kate follows the instructions Seth gives her and goes along to keep her family safe. He promises her that if she does she'll be safe, no bumps or scrapes, and she chooses to trusts him. She does what he says and keeps quiet, tries to keep things calm... except for when she holds Richie's hand to pray with him and get him to close his eyes so that Scott can pull a gun on Richie and try to turn things around.

Once they're across the border, Seth and Richie take the Fuller family to a bar/strip club called the Titty Twister to meet up with a contact, and once there Seth sits with her family and insists they're in this together for better or worse now. When Jacob protests, Seth pushes the issue by telling Kate all his sins of the last few days, the people he's killed, and asks her if she forgives him for them. She hesitates for a moment before saying yes, she does, and Seth counts this as some sort of victory, cheering and rewarding her with a shot of tequila.

He tells her to confess next and again she hesitates before admitting that, despite being the preacher's daughter, she french kissed her boyfriend in the back of the church once. Jacob looks suitably upset but again Seth counts this as a victory. He congratulates her, teases her a little, and then leaves to go try to find out what's going on with his contact.

Unable to just sit there waiting, Kate gets up to go find Richie with the intention of convincing him to let them leave. He'd spent the entire trip telling her she was different, she feels a connection to him, so she thinks if she has any chance it's got to be Richie. He tells her he wants her to stay, he wants her to see the bar for the place it really is. He wants her with him, and she can't understand why but it's clear she's swayed by the passion he speaks with.

As a last ditch effort, she asks him to please set her free and kisses him. He's surprised by this, considering the voices in his head have been asking him to "set me free" from the beginning, and Richie asks why she said that before leaning in to kiss her again. Kate lets him for a moment, caught up by him again, before she realizes what she's doing and pulls back. Seth walks in then and she flees, embarrassed.

Alone with Richie, Seth tries to talk his brother into leaving the bar. It's clear by now the place is no good, that the bar has something to do with what's been wrong with Richie the whole day, but Richie refuses to leave. They decide to throw knives for it, and Kate takes this moment to insist that if Richie gets a bullseye, it means she and her family can go. She holds a target over her head and when Richie throws the knife, it's completely on target. She's gotten her freedom, but before she can leave everyone in the bar is directed to their seats.

A show starts then, introduced by Carlos, the man responsible for getting not only the Gecko brothers but also the Fuller family in this bar, and staring the woman from Richie's visions, Santanico Pandemonium. During the performance, Richie is attacked by a Texas Ranger that's been tailing him and Seth, and actual pandemonium breaks out when fucking vampires erupt from the walls and Santanico Pandemonium leads them in killing nearly everyone there. When the bloodbath is over, the only people left alive are the Geckos, the Fuller family, and a man named Sex Machine (not really his name is Professor Fuller) who has been studying the culture and backstory of the things that live there. He gives them a quick rundown on the monsters, names them culebras, and despite how weird it all is, everyone agrees. They're up against Mexican Draculas.

From there, it becomes a quest to get out of the bar (which is also surprise an ancient Aztec temple used to sacrifice people for their blood) and not die in the process. Richie gets shot, but is dragged off by Santanico Pandemonium, who later turns him into a culebra to save his life. Scott gets bitten and turns as well, bites Jacob in a vain attempt to keep their family together, and when Jacob tells him he won't live as an evil creature and Kate shouts at him for what he's done, Scott abandons them to find his own way. Kate is forced to kill her own father before he turns into a culebra himself, gets kidnapped twice and almost sacrificed as a blood offering. Her blood is uncommonly pure, Professor Tanner tells her, and he hopes that by sacrificing her he can gain some sort of recognition from Carlos for providing the temple with her blood.

Once Kate finally escapes outside with the keys to the RV, she could leave. But she doesn't, and when Seth finally comes out the bar alone and covered in blood, she approaches him and asks if he wants company. He says yes and together, they drive off into the literal sunrise in a really nice car because fuck the RV.

From then, it's three months of living with Seth, but their luck goes south very quickly. He loses the car, all their money, and by the time season two of the show picks up he and Kate are living in a motel room in Mexico pulling off small robberies to make ends meet. She's stuck with him the entire time because she feels like she has no other choice, but their ideals are so different that they butt heads often. She still believes that she can help her brother somehow, that Seth should be trying to find Richie, and that Seth's decision to cope with Richie being turned into a culebra by using drugs and alcohol to solve the problem is very, very stupid.

She's been forced to grow up in those three months and now she's the one calling the shots, taking care of things, trying to find answers to save Scott while trying to save Seth from himself, and it's given her a more cynical outlook on life.

Personality: Throughout the show, Kate shows three very different sides to herself. Before meeting the Gecko brothers she's a teenager stuck somewhere she doesn't want to be with a father she is rapid losing trust in. She has the kind of behavior you would expect from a teenager stuck on a bad road trip, from spending time on her phone texting her boyfriend to begging to go back home, but peppered in with that is concern for her family. She wants to go home with her brother and her father, she wants to work with them to move past the pain of her mother's death. Her faith is strong and she expects her father's to be as well, but once it's clear that it's not anymore, she loses some of her ability to trust him.

Once her father gets incredibly drunk and starts to lash out while still lying to them, Kate's gotten to the point where she's completely done with him. She stops calling him Daddy, switching instead to a colder Dad when she speaks to him, and starts to talk back more often. She ignores calls from him, purposefully tries to make him uncomfortable so he'll stop talking to her, and shows very little respect for him even in front of the people who have taken her family hostage. The entire time, however, she is on Scott's side. She protests having to share a bed in the hotel room with their father but the second he's violent towards Scott she tells him he can absolutely have the free bed, she'll share with Dad. Once he makes it clear he's going to pull a gun on Richie, even though she doesn't support the move, she goes along with it in the hopes it'll keep her family safe. In the end, everything comes down to family for Kate.

At the pool with Richie, she asks him for a cigarette even though she doesn't smoke, but when he points out that she's not inhaling she immediately admits she isn't a smoker. She shows how trusting she is even of this strange man that she accuses playfully of picking up on underage girls, just because he gives her some sound advice and reminds her, as she puts it, of a travelling preacher. Her faith is strong enough that she sees the good in everyone, is willing to give even career criminals like Seth and Richie second chances.

Once the family is taken hostage, her only goal becomes listening to the instructions she's given so that she can make sure nothing happens to them. She does what Seth tells her, offers to help with their plans when they need one of the Fullers to lie to police, and tries to keep the peace when things go wrong. She switches into survival mode, into a protective mode, and even when she's held captive by Seth during a firefight, with bullets firing past her, she only screams when Seth's arm gets grazed. She's brave enough to keep quiet and let him fight to get them to safety, but compassionate enough to scream for him when he gets shot.

The "captive" persona is one that fades almost the second they pass the border, and once the massacre in the Titty Twister starts, it takes her awhile to get to a place where she's no longer afraid. She spends the first part of the fight screaming and hiding, praying for God to protect her and her family, but once it's clear she's going to need to protect them herself, she doesn't hesitate. She grabs a chainsaw and saves her father from a culebra stripper by cutting the woman in half. From there she takes the lead, pushing her group forward and insisting no one gives up.

And she's able to push them all, grown men with violent backgrounds, into believing that they can beat the maze under the Twister. She gives them hope and her father tells her it's because of the light in her soul that she'll always, always see the good in people.

She'd had a sarcastic side from the start, shown when she teases Richie for hitting on her, but it really takes center stage once she starts focusing on getting things done. It slips out venomously at times, most noticeably when her father turns down her help because she's bad at lying and her response is to suggest he's the one that should do it. When Professor Tanner hits on her she shoots him down with wit, and when he claims chivalry isn't dead shortly after leaving her and her father to die, she knees him in the balls and proclaims it is dead now because he just killed it. Gone is the girl that screamed and prayed during a fight, replaced now by a girl who screams fuck you at her enemies and doesn't think twice about jumping into expensive cars with someone she had forgiven for killing people just hours before.

By the end of season one, Scott is a culebra and her father is dead by her hand, so she really sees her only option is to go with Seth, no matter what he's planning to do. In the time she's with him she's hardened farther, learns to help him case places to rob and how to use a gun, how to protect herself from the real world as well as from culebras. Seth is rapidly losing hope, so it often comes down to her to keep them going. She still believes in God, still wants to find a way to help Richie and her brother learn to live as culebras without harming innocents, but for now those things are put aside in favor of staying with Seth, recuperating from the night at the Titty Twister, and learning what life is when the only person she has left is Seth Gecko.

Inventory:
A black long sleeved top, slightly blood-splattered, a pair of jeans, and black boots
A bible that is not actually a bible on the inside
A backpack and a ratty woven bag filled with bundles of pesos (at least 20 grand worth)
A cross necklace
A stake and a Beretta M9 semiautomatic pistol

Abilities: Kate is a normal human girl, but there are many times in the course of the first season that her pure soul and thus, her pure blood, are very powerful. There's a light in her that can be recognized by her father, but also by the supernatural senses of the culebras.

As for talents and things she excels at, Kate learns in the time she's with Seth to fire a gun and shows an ability to effectively use swords and other bladed weapons (also chainsaws).

Flaws: Primarily, Kate is just a good person, to a fault. She's forgiving and compassionate and her faith lets her give people who probably don't deserve it the benefit of the doubt. It's maybe not an obvious flaw to most, but for Kate it opens the door for her to be taken advantage of without there being a whole of effort put into tricking her.

She's also not above making people uncomfortable on purpose, swearing when she gets mad, and she did sort of spend three months stealing money from people in Mexico and helping Seth indulge his drug habit by shooting him up herself, but to be fair that was so he wouldn't do it wrong in his haste and OD on her.

And even then she props him up with pillows so he won't drown in his own puke while he's unconscious she's pretty cinnamon roll when it comes down to it.

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