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Katherina
Legacy Name: Katherina

The Common Kerubi
Owner: Ilya

Age: 12 years, 8 months, 2 weeks

Born: August 11th, 2011

Adopted: 12 years, 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Adopted: October 1st, 2011

Statistics

• Level: 4
   
• Strength: 14
   
• Defense: 8
   
• Speed: 10
   
• Health: 10
   
• HP: 0/10
   
• Intelligence: 7
   
• Books Read: 7
• Food Eaten: 0
• Job: Unemployed

Full Name::
Katherina Tauchermann

Appearance::

Age::
30-something
Height / Weight::
5’8 (173 centimeters) / 135 lbs. (60 kilograms)
Hair Color / Eyes Color / Skin Tone / Build::
Short bob blonde, grayish blue, fair, a little on skinny side

Race::
German
Birthday/Zodiac Sign::
March 3rd / Pisces

Favorite Colors::
Light blue, pale pink, spring green, most of pastel shade colors and white
Things She Likes::
Cross stitching, reading book in park/garden, doing charity events and…certain someone
Personality::
Kind-hearted, feminine and optimistic, she is very attached to her family members especially her older brother who is often annoyed by her ‘princess-liked’ behavior which is the result from their parents being very fond of her as the youngest child and only daughter

History::
The surrogate mother of Alexander and Reinh-Kyre, the girl Karl-heinz has been familiar with since her birth as his youngest cousin and, the ‘could-have-been’ fiancée of ‘De’.

Along with her older brother, Karsten, and Karl-heinz, in their childhood the trio had been referred to by the servants at the Zelersenburg resident as ‘the Knight, the Prince and the Princess’. Since she is the only girl that related to ‘this generation’, everybody feels ‘obliged’ to protect her and thus…she’s rather meek and naïve in some situations that require decisiveness and being head-strong.

Usually she lives in Hannover with her parents, while her older brother sneaks around and comes home only once in a while after he had become fully involved with their relative-in-law family as Kyle’s guardian.

That was…until one day when her cousin phoned her asking for a huge flavor...

One single call, and she temporary moved down to Frankfurt to become Alexander’s mother…and later Reinh-Kyre’s as well.

As much as it might feel strange by the usual norm to become a mother to the children who are not biologically hers…there was not even one second that she had a doubt about it. After all, those children, especially one of them, is the combination of two people she loves the most in this world.

Random Facts::

The Zelersenburg manor in Frankfurt has always been one of my favorite places in the world…

Since a very young age, every year my parents always take my brother and me down from Hannover to visit Aunt Janina, my father’s older sister, who married into the Zelersenburgs. And here, I usually spent time with my cousin Karl-heinz on various indoor activities while my older brother was mostly outside, running wild along with the other kids his age who are children of the Zelersenburgs’ servants. Though I love my brother and want to please him, running outside with him was a choice that wouldn’t be approved by my parents, so I opted for reading books with Karl-heinz inside and tried the piano with him.

It routinely continued like that until the year I turned 12. That was when I first met him.

He is another cousin of Karl-heinz, a son of his father’s older brother, whom even Karl-heinz hadn’t met before, unless a brief encounter was counted when Uncle Stefan took him to meet the family in Germany when both of him and Karl-heinz were still less than a year old.

He was 18 at the time, the ‘XVIII’ was visiting from abroad to be ‘presenting’ – which I knew by this day as ‘to confirm that he was sufficiently prepared to take over the military duty’ – to the family. Unlike Karl-heinz, he was radiated with the sense of authority and at first seemed very intimidated to me especially with the glare he gave to my older brother when he was first introduced to us.

People who work related to army are all scary to me…so I was somewhat cowering behind my older brother.

However, when he noticed me, instead there was a kind smile on his face before he greeted me in a rather flawless German for someone who had never lived here before, ‘Hello, little lady. It looks like we will be the same family from now on.’.

He was incredibly kind to me that day, and has always been…taking me under his wing as if I was his own younger sister and, unfortunately, often criticized my real older brother for not caring about me enough. I wish my older brother and Christian, later Kasimir, and Karl-heinz could all get along. They are my favorite people in the world aside from my parents.

Because I was like a little sister he never had, I was probably the only female closest to his age that he was in a good term with. As years passed and my adolescence shifted toward the later years of teen, the older folks started talking about the idea of a marriage between XVIII and me. Surely I was somewhat excited about it and he must have heard the rumor himself, or maybe the Zelersenburgs even told him up front about it…

One day when I was sixteen, him twenty-two, he took me out on what everyone, myself included, thought was a first date. However, the main event of the day that engraved in my memory was anything but what it seemed.

“Kathy…I believe you’re mature enough not to take this in a wrong way. To put it simple –I’m not going to be marrying you since…if I do, I’m going to cause you nothing but grief.”

He waited for a reaction from me which was…a silent, confused blank stare back at him. After a while, he must have assumed that I needed more information about what was going on before I could give him an intelligent response. He continued, “As you know…the rules within Zelersenburgs said ‘the one being protector of the generation has to protect the others at any cost, sacrifice anything needed to do so.’, which means…you’re not included in the ‘others’ but instead the ‘sacrifice’ part. Aunt Janina is the same. I don’t doubt that if anything ever happened that endanger the family, my father would take off with only Uncle Dieter, Uncle Marcus and Karl-heinz…leaving Aunt Janina behind as if she has never meant anything to the Zelersenburgs. I do not want that to happen to YOU. It’s best that you stay as my and Karl-heinz’s cousin/relative by law so that…if the ‘hunt’ may happen someday, you can detach from us and live your life like any other ordinary people because you only relate to us by Aunt Janina’s marriage.”

On our ‘first date’, I got my heart broken…but when I looked back at it nowadays, I realized that I learned what ‘true’ love is on the same day.

Years passed by and eventually another reason why he refused to marry me surfaced. He came out, not verbally but boldly through action to the Zelersenburgs. Certain it was quite a shock for me, but not in a bad way…by then I had learned to accept people who prefer same sex relationship and understand how some of them forced a marriage to keep face or deny their own desire with disastrous outcome.

Yes…that is what he meant by ‘I’m going to cause you nothing but grief’ when he talked about us marrying.

We both went on with our lives as platonic brother-sister which I gratefully embraced. I even got to meet his ‘boyfriend’, whom my brother Karsten was assigned to look after, but there was still some awkwardness between me and them.

It took a tragedy to eliminate that awkward space between me and Kyle.

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