Catherine Wallace

OOC

Game	Journal	Portrayed By	Fairy Tale
Fairly Tales	hey_diddle	Julia Stiles	The Fiddler Cat Hey Diddle Diddle

Basic Stats

Full Name: Catherine Margaret Wallace
Nickname(s): Cat
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Date of Birth: February 3, 1988
Zodiac: Aquarius
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Single
Hometown: East Texas
Occupation: Professional freeloader? For-hire serenader? Random chick with a guitar?
Pet: None

Family

Father: Unknown
Mother: Jennifer Gold (née Wallace)
Step-Father: Arthur Gold
Half-Sister: Samantha Wallace (b. 1984)
Step-Sister: Virginia Gold (b. 1985)
Half-Brother: Harrison Wallace (b. 1986)
Half-Sister: Elizabeth Wallace (b. 1989)
Half-Brother: William Wallace (b. 1989)
Half-Sister: Megan Gold (b. 1994)

History

Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Wallace was kicked out of her parents' house in early 1984 when she got pregnant with her step-dad's child. Fancy that: step-dad got to stay even after slipping into the young girl's room a few times, and poor innocent Jenny hit the curb with an ever-growing belly. Late 1985 found her trying to find a dad for daughter Samantha but ending up instead once again on the streets with a bun in the oven. Mid 1987 was try number two for a daddy for Samantha and Harrison, but all they got was baby sister Catherine. Early 1989, try number three for a daddy for her brood earned Jennifer babies number four and five and still no husband. It was finally in 1992 that Jennifer found Mr. Right and a father for Samantha, Harrison, Catherine, Elizabeth, and William in Arthur Gold, who brought along seven-year-old daughter Virginia from a previous marriage. In 1994, their large and varied family got even larger when Arthur and Jennifer welcomed Megan into the family. And then Jennifer stopped with the procreating, because she and Arthur had their hands full with the seven they already had. And the Wallace-Gold family finally settled down in their little east Texas home.

As such, the first six years of Catherine's life were very unstable, moving around and often staying in homeless shelters whenever her mother couldn't scrape together enough money for rent on a cheap apartment. But when her mother married "Daddy Arthur" — as he came to be known to the older children — they also got an actual house. Samantha, Catherine, and Virginia all shared a room, while Elizabeth and Megan shared a second room and Harrison and William shared a third. Once her environment stabled, Catherine's personality began to come out, too. Arthur had plenty of money to provide for the family, and he was able to hire people to help take care of the children when Jennifer got overwhelmed, so pressure was off the older kids to help take care of the younger ones. Catherine found that she rather enjoyed being able to just stretch out and laze around all afternoon, not doing anything. And now that she had choices for food, her tastes became pickier and pickier, until she finally started nudging the cook out of the kitchen at the age of thirteen and taking up the only responsibility she came to have at home: making meals. That way, no matter what was for lunch or dinner, she had complete control over it and it would always be "just right." Sometimes it would just be her own food, since her parents and siblings got tired of fish after a while, but occasionally she would make meals for everyone. She also became more obsessed with cleanliness as time went by, keeping her part of the room she shared with Samantha and Virginia neat and tidy, and keeping her clothes clean and her hair neat. She would often sit around and fuss with her nails or hair. The family came to call her Cat all the time, since that's what she acted like.

It was when Cat was fifteen and picked up a guitar just for kicks at a friend's house that memories flooded back to her, memories of past lives and fairy tales. Chalking this all up to insanity brought on by the beer she and her friend had been drinking (shh), she shrugged it aside and didn't pay it any heed. It wasn't until she was getting home from school a few days later that she came to find that her memories weren't just the result of too much to drink. Presented with an explanation, a journal, and an invitation to a place called the Pentamerone in New York City, Cat's head swam with the new information. She supposed that it all made sense, but she didn't like it. So she buried the journal away under her bed and forgot about it. Until, that is, her senior year of high school. When faced with having to decide what she wanted to do with her life after high school, she found the journal under her bed again and came to a decision. Even without any money, without having applied to any schools in New York City, she decided to pack her bags and head for the Big Apple. A small-town girl, she was fascincated with the idea of living in a big city. Jennifer was a little worried about letting Catherine go off on her own, but she'd grown up the hard way and survived, and she had faith that she'd passed that trait on to her children. Arthur and Jennifer gave Catherine a little money to help her get her feet on the ground, then put her on a plane to New York after she graduated from high school in summer 2006.

Once in New York, Cat found the Pentamerone and made herself at home, ending up as a roommate to a (slightly older) girl who also lived at the Pentamerone, Heidi Vasquez. After sharing a room with two sisters for twelve years, Cat was used to the idea of a roommate and didn't mind. To earn her keep, she helped to keep the place clean and also helped with the cooking. After living in New York for a year and not really doing much outside of the Pentamerone, she's started looking at maybe going to college. The first thing she bought with the money her parents gave her (and, okay, they've been sending her bits of money ever since) was a guitar, and she's spent the year learning to play it. She's not particularly good, but she's prone to lounging around in her and Heidi's room or the lounge on the first floor, strumming the guitar idly and serenading whoever walks past. It's usually something cheeky, either a line or two from a song or something just off the top of her own head. But anyway, she'd be interested in studying music, if she could get a scholarship (though it's possible she might be able to appeal to her mother and Arthur about paying for her to go to school, especially if she would be able to continue living at the Pentamerone, so they wouldn't have to pay for dorms or an apartment).