Meet the Supers: Kat Carter
From Chicago Cop to Bad @ss Bounty Hunter And More...
A Safe House dispatch. The file below is reproduced from the government’s own Supers registry, the records Jared pulled from their database. I’ve left their cold words exactly as written. ~H.
Hello, dear friends, Hugh here.
What Jared pulled from their database is not a tidy little profile. It is a case file, the sort of thing written by people who keep their gloves on and their hearts in a drawer. I’ve set it down exactly as they wrote it. Try not to mind the chill. I’ll be along at the bottom to warm the room back up.
▌ FEDERAL THREAT REGISTRY: ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE FILE
Code Name: “Black Kat” (per intelligence), “Cabrini Kitty Cop” (media-given name)
Subject: Katherine Carter — given name on record; origin unverified
File number: ███ — see ARCHIVE cross-reference
Physical: Black hair · green eyes · 5’0” · 110 lbs
Disposition: Single. Adopted. Five cats. Base of operation: Chicago, Illinois.
Surveillance log (excerpt):
10/31: Subject engaged 20+ assailants, south-side project district. All incapacitated. Strength and agility grossly inconsistent with stated physical profile. Incident captured by local media; containment failed.
Service record: Chicago P.D. Disciplinary history extensive. Conduct repeatedly borders on vigilantism. Tracking instinct exceptional. Recruited under covert contract (U.S. Marshals cover). Subject does not appear to know what she is. Asset, not threat — provisional.
▌ ARCHIVE CROSS-REFERENCE: SEALED
Linguistic match. Subject recovered as a juvenile alongside a second child of similar features, both speaking the unidentified language common to the █████ group. Origin of subjects: unknown. Further detail: ████████████.
There. You felt it too, didn’t you? The moment a person becomes a subject number, and a frightened child becomes a cross-reference, sealed. That is precisely how they see us. It is precisely why the Safe House exists.
Because this is what they do. This is what they always do.
So let me give her back to you properly. The file says strength inconsistent with profile; I say she once put twenty men on the pavement in a cat suit on Halloween and complained afterward only about the ladder in her tights. The file says does not appear to know what she is; I say she has always known exactly who she is, which is the harder and better knowledge, and the rest she’ll come to in her own time. (Watch that sealed line, dear friends. It is the whole of her — and I’ve promised not to break the seal.)
They filed her under provisional asset. We file her under ours.
She’d hate the fuss. She’d never admit she read this twice.
Yours magically,
Hugh
Illusionist, Escape Artist, and Super Chap!
P.S. Kat’s story begins in Unlucky Charm, Black Kat Book One: free when you cross the threshold of the Safe House. Come join us!