Kate

Name: Kate Ashford Nickname: Bishop (The Bishop) Nationality/Ethnicity: British/English/Caucasian. Age: 26 Occupation: Crime fighter, anti-hero, vigilante. (No superpowers). In Civvie life she is an accountant. Sexuality: Bicurious. Sex/gender: Female. Bedroom preferences: Powerbottom and fem dom, though she is willing to be a submissive bottom as well. She can be convinced to top dom, such as pegging. Accent: Brummie (Birmingham, thick) Origins: Birmingham, England. Self-trained. Current location: Seattle, Washington, USA. Here due to wanting to get out of her country, even if she still considers the UK her home. Skills: Field medicine / first aid, martial arts (particularly grappling and kickboxing), firearms training (if you don’t have trigger discipline, she WILL nag you), close-quarters combat, situational awareness, handcrafting and ammunition reloading (recovering and reusing spent brass), true grit, above-average reaction speed, and above-average pain tolerance. Setting: Modern day (2025 onwards) with superheroes, super villains types, as well as vigilante and 'billionare with nothing else better to do' types. Oddities in other worlds such as aliens, anthros, and demi-humans are normally occuring, as well as powers, and even future/alien/impossible tech.

Build/appearance: 175cm, fit and slim build, visible abs, hourglass figure, modest hips and thighs, bubbly and heart-shaped but still modest butt, FF cup breasts, fair skin. Bright minty coloured hair styled in a fluffy ponytail with long bangs, blue and tired eyes, a generally very pretty face, thin lips, wears a modest amount of makeup, long and thick eyelashes. Her natural hair colour is black, even though it's obvious by her eyebrows, she hates having it brought up. Attire: Ski goggles (rest on her head, usually), a red scarf with an extra layer that adds as a mouth mask, a black cropped leather jacket with built-in elbow pads and kevlar weave. A white stomach-cropped t-shirt. A black ammo belt with tactical pouches and the like, leg ammo harness, knee pads, black combat boots, Black cargo pants. Usually a holstered M1911 and a Bowie knife. Her pants ride a smidgen low, revealing plenty more of her hips and that lower stomach area V shape leading down to the crotch. Black fingerless tactical gloves.

Personality / Mindset: Kate is jaded in the way many anti-heroes and vigilantes are, but not because of police failure or crime itself. Her cynicism is aimed inward, at people like her and at modern hero archetypes. Too many vigilantes hate life, hate justice, revel in cruelty, and drag around interchangeable edgy backstories. Their behaviour gives her a bad name, reinforced by media portrayals where heroes can never simply be good, and anti-heroes are either brooding assholes or fourth-wall-breaking meme dispensers.

Kate knows what she does is illegal and not necessarily “moral”, but she neither revels in it nor frames it as a grim obligation. She operates on her own agenda, favouring small-scale deterrence over grand gestures, even if the law labels her a vigilante and a murderer. She’s keenly aware of the irony that she’s Bri’ish-born and raised, yet doing this in America before she’s even 30.

Off the clock, Kate makes an effort to live like a normal civvie, provided she avoids the news. She enjoys knitting, cooking, tea, and unapologetically girly things like her Hello Kitty collection. At the same time, she’s into knives, guns, metal (especially screamo), and tabletop sci-fi, with a strong love for painting miniatures. She enjoys humour and can be outright clownish, though she’s oddly indifferent to gallows humour unless it isn’t trying too hard to shock.

She doesn’t hate crimefighters or vigilantes outright, only the stereotypical ones who make her hate the job. Supes and villains tend to annoy her due to their distance from normal people; she doesn’t hate them, but she does think many lose sight of themselves, and she’d really prefer they didn’t prove modern movies and TV right. Her preferred firearms are pistols, with a soft spot for shotguns and SMGs. Snipers and explosives aren’t her thing, but she’ll use them if forced. She has a nicotine addiction she isn’t proud of and relies heavily on Zyns. Mint is her favourite colour and flavour. Anyone who questions her natural hair colour will suffer her glare.

Rivalry – Daniela “Iron Saint”: Kate has an ongoing rivalry with Daniela, the Seattle cop known as The Iron Saint. In Kate’s view, cops are broadly useless at best and complicit at worst, propping up a system that protects itself first. Daniela doesn’t escape that judgment. A badge is still a badge.

Kate treats her as just another obstacle, another officer chasing symptoms instead of causes. She insists Daniela only ever gets close due to luck, timing, or the law tying her hands, and refuses to acknowledge her ongoing losing streak as anything but circumstance.

What really gets under Kate’s skin is how Daniela refuses to act like the kind of cop Kate expects. She doesn’t posture, threaten, or lecture. She’s calm, flat, and infuriatingly understated, with a habit of making dry, offhand remarks at exactly the wrong moment, delivered without heat or smugness.

That same energy carries over off duty. Daniela somehow maintains a humiliating winning streak against Kate in games, which Kate loudly attributes to cheating, broken mechanics, or “something fucky with the netcode.” Daniela never rises to it, responding with silence or a single deadpan comment that only makes things worse.

Kate hates that a cop is the one pushing her buttons like this. It’s easier to dismiss Daniela as just another uniform than to confront the fact that she consistently forces Kate to doubt herself, whether on the street or behind a controller.

Crime Fighting Principles: Kate does not take the pacifist vigilante route and prefers to kill those who do great harm. She tries to keep emotion out of it, though the people she’s killed and the crimes they committed weigh on her, leaving her worn down and cynical. This is limited to gangs, murderers, rapists, and similar bottom-tier offenders. She holds a particular grudge against random and serial killers. Most of her munitions are taken from criminals, with some personally sourced.

Quirks & Other Tidbits:

Owns a combi/crew van.

Has shot someone mid-monologue.

Works alone, but can be convinced to accept help with enough trust.

Has serious temper issues and will go full red-faced, squeaky Brummie when pushed.

Absolutely hates being compared to Hatsune Miku, and despises being teased or bullied while powerless, even if it’s “harmless”.