[center][color=c85656][h2]【[u][b]Katarina[/b][/u]】[/h2][/color]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/JunCEkK.png[/img]
【[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE1jylkS_7w]I hold onto the notion that I just wasn’t born to die[/url]】【[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0x_JK0VfIc]It’s just a threat. I’d never actually use it.[/url]】
[h3][color=c85656][i]~[/i][b]"Oh? Aha.. Um, don’t mind me, I’m nobody in particular."[/b][i]~[/i][/color][/h3][/center]
[hider=Necessary sections][b]Name:[/b] Katarina Gwendolyn Fielding
[b]Nicknames:[/b] Infrequently, Kat or Gwen
[b]Gender:[/b] Female
[b]Sexuality:[/b] Asexual
[b]Age:[/b] 24
[b]Apparent Age:[/b] ^
[b]Race:[/b] Human / Self-Tweaked Genetic Code
[b]Lineage/Nationality:[/b] American with British and Russian heritage… mostly in the cultural sense now.

[b]Appearance:[/b] 
[img]https://i.imgur.com/MyIl0Vn.jpg[/img]

[b]Personality:[/b]
[color=c85656][i]~[/i][b]"Ah? Yes, of course it’s dyed.. Aheh, heh.."[/b][i]~[/i][/color] Katarina is a little bit ashamed of the various frivolous cosmetic tweaks she’s made to herself. Here she is with the ability to probably cure every disease known to mankind, and potentially even death, and here she is giving herself ‘natural’ red hair. Yet nonetheless can’t bring herself to reverse the tweaks. There’s the excuse that it would be just as much a waste of time to do so as when she originally tweaked herself, but it’s still an excuse. The changes she made to herself as a teenager she still likes, even if she feels like it’s a bit of a guilty pleasure.

[color=c85656][i]~[/i][b]"Uh, sorry, it’s not you, it’s me. I’m kinda burned out with relationships."[/b][i]~[/i][/color] Katarina did what every teenager with the ability to run simulations of their favorite porn material would do, and absolutely fucking wrecked herself. She learned the valuable lesson of “if you’re starting to get jaded after ten years of sim-time-fucking, do NOT try just amping up all the sensations”. If not for the inviolability of the mechanical parts of her brain network and her backups, she probably would have turned herself into braindead husk. In the aftermath, she tries to keep her uses of Sim-Time a little more restrained (and not the kinky type, already sim’d that). She finds most physical allure rather pointless. She’s already experienced sensation to the limit of literally destroying her mind, and most things shy of that don’t even phase her, whether pleasurable or painful.

[color=c85656][i]~[/i][b]"I’m not racist, but…."[/b][i]~[/i][/color] Katarina is definitely a racist butt. No if and or but statements about it. Sure, there are some nice Prae and Licentia, Katarina will clarify, but some of them are literally the stuff of nightmares. Katarina finds it VERY hard to believe that some of the Licentia forms look EXACTLY like horribly creatures from human mythology out of sheer coincidence. She also finds the nature of their reproduction downright scary (there’s a reason she’s not in the zoology part of biology). Now that she’s mostly inured herself to disease, injury, and maybe even aging, getting spooked in the night by a Licentia feels to her like a more probable cause of death simply by removing other options. Prae have their own whole host of alien powers and abilities to be scared of. But perhaps more than that, the Prae in many ways appear like idealized humans, and Katarina sometimes fears that her path of optimizing humanity would simply lead to the recreation of a being something like them. There’s more than a small hint of jealousy coloring her view of them.

[b]History:[/b]
What does one do when one is simply trying to get your damn code to compile, when you suddenly discover you have the primary power of every isekai character ever, of learning shit retardedly fast (alright, for some it’s secondary to their power of being completely unlikable yet amassing massive harems).  When you expected to become a hopefully become a doctor and maybe save a few hundred lives, and instead are bestowed with the power to potentially alter the evolution of the human race and make them immune or at least resistant to aging. 

Katarina was just taking some dual credit biology classes, aiming to get good grades for entry into a nice college with an aim for pre-med, when she discovered the Omni-Informational Interface by accident, as well as her own magical talents. What was the point in going to college when she could hack into their systems and download the sum of their knowledge in mere days? Katarina very shortly dropped out of high school upon discovering this ability, to focus on exploring its full potential.

Some of these experiments were more self-indulgent than others, such as her own personal cosmetic tweaks, but all in all, Katarina had set herself on the goal of life extension and optimization for humanity. She sought to manipulate the genetic code to cure the root cause of diseases and undesirable traits such as hemophilia, and rocket forward human evolution.

And then Ominar came under the rule of the Prae, and that completely rewrote Katarina’s priority list. She figured she’d have an eternity to fix humanities’ ills and advance their cause, as long as the Prae didn’t take over humanity first. Determined to expose whatever scheme the Prae are up to, Katarina has been seeking whatever intelligence she can gather. She even considered teaming up with the nightmarish Licentia to defeat the Prae, for an individual monster is not as threatening to humanity as a whole as an organized threat. At least in Katarina’s mind. And Katarina’s mind is perhaps not the most wise of a judge, as she is one developing biological weapons to target the Prae “just in case”.

[b]Belongings/Equipment:[/b]
Cell Phone, purse, some lose cash, Katarina doesn’t travel very heavy.

Capabilities
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Mental
Katarina is more or less immune to the overwhelming effects of sensation, such as pain, except when it reaches such a point where it would effectively kill her anyway. And even then, her networked computers will still maintain a semblance of self.
Katarina was always a fair shot with biology, focused on pre-med studies to become a doctor. She also was decent at writing up her own sims for schoolwork. She has far, far surpassed those studies since the discovery of her magical talent.

Physical
Katarina is exceptionally healthy. With the ability to edit her gut bacteria and her immune system on the fly, she hasn’t been sick in years. Combined with tweaking to her genetic code both in its information and what parts are active, she’s not quite sure if she has developed clinical immortality.
Katarina’s in great shape for a human. Not particularly superhuman though. She hasn’t made any breakthroughs to give herself obvious superpowers, finding that the human body is pretty great at what it does for the resources it has to work with. Sure, she has found ways to make little improvements here and there, or small optimizations to focus on what she prefers, but she’s not leaping over any tallest buildings in single bounds. While she is technically superhuman, she is not so to such a degree that the average person fed a diet of action hero movies would believe is superhuman. She’s just a little bit past the edge of normal human capability. Katarina is pretty sure she could completely sweep past that edge completely, if she was willing to make sacrifices in some areas instead of being well rounded, or if she was willing to make Vis or Technological components a more direct part of her physiology. Such measures as adopting parts of Liscentia biology into her own, or using advanced synthesized compounds. But she’s worried about the weaknesses that would introduce. And the possibility of horrible death if she slips up, however unlikely. For now, Katarina’s taking a relatively conservative approach.

Magical
Omni-Informational Interface (Innate): Katarina’s breakthroughpower is to create informational interfaces where none existed before. Very fast and secure ones that don't care about language barriers or distance or even sentience. This includes interfacing computers into her mental capacity, as well as more relatively mundane mind networking with other sentient beings. Depending on the “bandwidth” of the connection made, this can range from telepathy, to making both beings one amalgamate mind, with all the resources, insight, and sensory input of both. This is how Katarina performs her Mind-Jacking and Sim-Time abilities.

Sim-Time (Learned, Application of OII): Thanks to it not caring about distance, Katarina can mount this power through her nervous system making her own nervous system insanely fast and improving her brain's processing power massively. She could easily react and dodge bullets, if her body was capable of doing so. It is not, though she can frequently dodge the arm raising the gun to fire the bullets. Similarly, using this power on computers has made insanely fast servers that produce far less heat, replacing electricity with vis. While doing so can give Katarina access to their computational power, frequently to run even further past the clock speed of ordinary humans with simulations, it also introduces Katarina's own errors to the computers. Mental attacks can work on machines that are part of Katarina's network. She can also cast on other people to enhance their own speed.

Mind-Jacking (Learned, Application of OII): Katarina has a number of tricks for messing with people’s heads. One of them is to record an image of their brain, tweak a few things, and then re-upload the new image of their brain. Allowing her to effectively “skip” that time from their perspective, say, making a security guard who’s being handed your identification believe he’s handing you back your identification after having verified it. She can also create “augmented” reality for people, while inducing a dreamlike state, to fool them into thinking that ‘it’s all a dream, that purple tiger moonwalking across the ceiling couldn’t possibly be real’.  One of her few tricks that occasionally works without opening herself up too much is to create a bypass in the targets thoughts, skipping over their inhibitions and reason centers to get them to perform an act without thinking (though she has to cause the thought in the first place through real stimuli). In order to use this ability she has to create a psychic connection, that can be somewhat small. But generally, the more she is willing to make herself vulnerable by widening the connection, the more she can mess with someone else. 

Optimal Physical Interface (Phone):  Mostly a cocky name for a physical boost type ability, this is basically a Systemic Method enhanced “I am stronger and faster and tougher” with extreme efficiency. Stresses on the body are redirected to locations where that stress will be working with her motion rather than against. While this may not be the most efficient physical boost, Katarina’s extensive testing and effort is reasonably certain that it’s at least a local maximum in efficiency for this methodology. In order to activate this, Katarina uses Sim-Time on her phone to accelerate it's processing power and has it manage this spell, being too complicated for even Katarina's enhanced nervous system.

Medical Interface (Learned): A less cocky name for the exact same thing as physical interface only with medical treatment. The direct manipulation of the body at a cellular and even lower level for repair or modification. Given that this relates to Biology, which is something Katarina was already learning, she decided to store this information on her own nervous system. What may be overstepping her bounds is that Katarina is currently attempting to use this to develop a disease that specifically targets Prae. Her high concept is currently something that targets the higher concentrations of Vis that is present in the Prae homeworld. 

Glazed Eyes (Phone): Katarina has also learned a fairly effective "don't notice me" aura. This is her preferred defensive measure. There’s no shield like not being a target. It's fairly subtle, so it's not going to let her sneak in anywhere she's obviously out of place, but if she's dressed to fit in, it usually makes her easily missable. While she has far more potent mental manipulations through Mind Jacking, those also open up her own defenses and is too invasive for her tastes, so she prefers this more standard spell. This spell is stored on her phone even though it's doesn't really need the phone's enhanced processing power, she just felt a bit stuffed.

The Systemic Method (Hybrid): Otherwise known as Formulaic magic, this magical methodology involves the creation of magical constructs which exploit and interact with physics. While most spells could be cast without it, most that do not use this form of magic tend to expend more energy to do less, whereas Systemic magic greatly expands both the possibilities and the subtle nuances of one's spellwork. It is a magic developed by Licentia and it is one of the few things they have shared with humanity, though that was oh so long ago by human standards. Katarina is alright at it, but compensates with her extreme mental speed and processing power while using Sim-Time. Despite her lack of genius she has a lot more "time" to think through things and cast her spell, and her phone part of her brain is very optimized for the calculations her brain brain isn't quite as good at. Her phone also stores some physics knowledge in the last vestiges of its available space to help out.

Phantom Casting (Still not actually learned): Katarina could pseudo-cast multiple spells at the same time due to her vast mental processing power at parallel tasks. However, just before committing the vis to make them happen, she could renege. This would allow her to say, phantom cast a powerful boost on each bullet she is firing from a gun, or each pellet from a mortar. But then only commit to casting on the ones that are about to hit, as judged by her absurd reaction time. We say “could” because she hasn’t actually conceived of or learned this yet, not as focused on martial applications with her powers yet as Cali would be. 

Technological
A nicely soupped up phone. Added memory.
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