#*katari

- pre-heist, katari is a merc living with her output, lily, in their shared apartment in night city. she's best friends with jackie after having met him a year prior, and good friends with misty and viktor vektor. katari is also an exotic that wears the horns and tail of a dragon (her implants were designed by lily)

- best friends with johnny. johnny calls katari out for doing dumb shit, katari calls johnny out when hes being an ass. affectionately calls him her brain tumor that could

at first, katari fucking hated johnny. after she met with takemura in playing for time, she told johnny to take a long walk off a short cliff. she took these words back later.

- wears an eyepatch sometimes post heist. when viktor was digging around in katari’s head after takemura saved her, he had to do some surgical work around her right eye that left a scar. katari’s pretty self conscious about it atm so she either wears an eyepatch or her shades

speaking of takemura, katari is thankful that he saved her life but she does not trust him at all

- other friends include rogue, panam (partners in crime), judy (also partners in crime), kerry, river, and dum dum

- in love with lily. also used to work at their club after quitting her job at clouds

katari does inform lily that they have johnny silverhand's engram in their head. lily hates this. they have a conversation and katari admits that she regrets doing the heist with jackie in the first place, not only because he died, but because she would soon follow because of decisions she herself made.

- she permanently fucked up her back when she was a teenager. she worked her ass off for months to pay back her ripper for her new spine.

also permanently fucked up the joints in both of her hands as a teenager. again, also had to work her ass off to pay her ripper back for new finger joints.

- katari loves dragons. so much so that she replaced her optics and installed holographic, interchangeable horns and a tail on her body.

her optics arent entirely cosmetic. theyre also infrared and have different levels of zoom.

- always contemplating replacing her arms entirely. shes worried her body might reject it. a week after viktor & takemura save her life, she says “fuck it” and replaces them both.

- at the end of the game, katari is fully ready to give her body to johnny. at that point, she has accepted that the only solution to the relic problem involves one of them going back to her body - katari rationalizes that she has a very short time to live if she goes back to her body, while johnny has the rest of his life. katari would rather give johnny a second chance at life than struggle to hold on to her own. lily is angry af after this happens, and tells johnny to leave night city or they will kill him [lily took a page from rogue's book on this one].