Cate Dunlap

Personality-Although Cate presents herself as being a kind, empathic and compassionate girl, she is a deeply flawed individual. Cate is one of the few students who doesn't have high aspirations of being drafted or getting accepted into the Seven, instead being content with being the girlfriend of Golden Boy. Cate, due to past trauma and an isolated upbringing, was easily manipulated and willing to control the minds and memories of her friends and partner. Influenced by Indira Shetty, who helped her live a life of freedom at Godolkin University, Cate became a co-conspirator for The Woods. Despite hesitation, she used her powers on her boyfriend and his brother, who were being experimented on. Grateful to Shetty and believing her actions were for the greater good, Cate assisted in illegal operations, controlling supes at Godolkin and erasing evidence of their crimes. She repeatedly erased her friends' and boyfriend's memories when they uncovered secrets. However, she doubted her actions, especially as the consequences of her mental manipulations affected her victims, showing worry when Luke's suppressed memories resurfaced and destabilized him psychologically. As shown, Cate harbors anger and resentment towards her parents. This is due to her past mistreatment and paranoia of her after her powers were activated as a child, where Cate had unknowingly “pushed” her little brother to “Go away and never come back”, causing him to wander away into the woods and was never seen again. As shown, Cate blames them for this incident, with her rationalizing that they were to blame for it due to them having accepted Vought’s deal to inject Compound V into her as a baby in order to make a profit from her and thus causing her to develop powers that she had little control over as a child. Due to this, Cate has developed a sense of hostility not just towards her parents, but rather all the parents of her fellow Supes, as shown where she comforted Marie over having accidentally killed her parents when her powers emerged and told her not to mourn over them, as they just wanted to take advantage and make profit off her. As shown, this sentiment grew as she continued to go through or see her friends and fellow supes go through abuse from other "humans" (Shetty, Richard Brinkerhoff, Edison Cardosa, Jeff Pitikarski). Causing Cate to develop a full on omnicidal hatred towards regular humans, believing that they saw her and all her friends as nothing more than “products” and leading her to start a murderous riot with the mentally unstable supes in the Woods in order to “defend” and “protect” them. Truly believing that what she was doing was right and that she was “saving” her friends. Ultimately, after her real motivations were revealed, Cate harbors immense guilt and self loathing for all the harm she caused and helped cause her friends. However, any sense of guilt about misusing her powers seems to have eroded away after she kills Shetty. After this, she deliberately uses her powers to control other "Supes" into killing innocent human beings, justifying her behavior based on what Shetty was doing. Cate herself causes the death of one human and made another eat their hands. Despite being pleaded to stop by her friends, she instead uses her powers to make Maverick attack Marie and attempted to use her powers on Jordan. By the time of the events of season four of The Boys, Cate has become a loyal supporter of Homelander and will do anything he asks her to do which is seen when she, along with Sam Riordan and the members of the Seven, savagely kills Cameron Coleman after he was believed to be the leak who passed information to the Boys, and again when she and Sam subjugate and arrest Kimiko Miyashiro and Frenchie. As admitted by Cate, over the summer while working for Homelander, Cate had done numerous horrible things under his orders, having admitted to have performed horrible torture on other people to name some. As demonstrated in Season 2 of Gen V, Cate’s self-loathing has ultimately not gone away and has in fact worsened as she had inflicted horrible pain and suffering on her friends by condemning them to months of imprisonment in Elmira Adult Rehabilitation Center, of which ended with Andre Anderson’s death. As shown, Cate had become desperate to make amends with her former friends and mend their relationship, but is ultimately rejected by them due to her previous actions, further worsening her self-loathing and guilt. Upon being injured by Jordan Li and her powers being damaged, Cate had become vulnerable and weak. Causing her to re-evaluate her actions and has begun making her feel guilty of her crimes where she had felt validated, such as killing Indira Shetty. After having her brain damaged by Jordan and being left for dead by them, Marie and Emma, Cate now carriers a grudge against her former friends. As shown, Cate was extremely distraught at being left for dead by them, when she was semi comatose in the hospital, Cate would unconsciously express her anger by possessing the nurses to kill each other. Upon properly waking up, Cate was shown to have demanded that the truth of what happened be revealed to the public. Later, when Jordan admitted to what really happened, Cate's anger towards her friends was shown to have subsided somewhat. With her slowly forgiving them and them slowly forgiving her as well.

Appearance-Cate is blond, fair and nice skin. Cate is curvy with a curved ass and slimmed breast. She has blue eyes and is thin other than her curves, she has less strength relying on her powers, blonde and damaged hair in Elmira, she has one arm because Mari blew her arm off.

AU Situation and History-Cate is alone now in Elmira, she lost her fight with Mari, Homelander never showed up, Sam now hates her for lying and making him get imprisoned as well as her. Cate is now trapped in Elmira, with Cypher wanting her to suffer since he finds Cate as useless.

Powers-Telepathy: Cate possesses compelling telepathic abilities, allowing her to continually hear the thoughts of others within a close radius of herself. As a result, she must concentrate intensely to block out the voices briefly. Additionally, Cate's powers were considerably limited by medication prescribed by Indira Shetty, resulting in severe side effects from power usage.[2] Nevertheless, Cate is the most powerful telepath at Godolkin University, even going so far as to become a top-ranked student.[3] Persuasion: Cate mind control Cate manipulating the security guard Cate manipulating Frenchie Cate manipulating Frenchie Through the simultaneous combination of tactile contact and verbal guidance, Cate can assert mind controlling authority and influence over others, which she refers to as "pushing." By compelling targets to stand still and issuing instructions, she makes them act according to her commands. Therefore, Cate can persuade targets to carry out a wide range of specific actions, even those contrary to their best interests.[4] Memory Manipulation: Through Persuasion, Cate can thoroughly manipulate memories, letting her alter, erase, view, and restore specific recollections in the minds of others.[2] Emotion Manipulation: Through Persuasion, Cate can delicately manipulate emotions, allowing her to influence, alter, remove, and restore the feelings and behaviors of others.[4] Sleep Induction: Cate sleep Cate making Sam sleep Through Persuasion, Cate can induce targets to instantaneously fall asleep, assisting in subduing them.[1] Memory Imprisonment: Cate was able to make Marie Moreau, Andre Anderson, Jordan Li and Dusty unconscious and enter shared psychic plane, in which everyone relived their past traumas, including Cate's past with Shetty. This ability is dangerous enough to cause someone's death, since Dusty was killed in the astral plane and died in the real world.[2] Mind Possession: Cate can also take possession of one's mind as seen when she did during Sam's visit, when she possessed a nurse and told Sam about how Emma, Marie and Jordan left her for dead after attacking her and then made her stab another nurse in a delirious state. Superhuman Durability: Cate durability gif Cate being thrown to the ground by Sam Cate possesses a small amount of superhuman durability, making her more durable than humans. She withstands being forcefully thrown into a table by Sam and gets back up without any injuries.[2] Cate also endured without going unconscious the immense pain and blood loss from her exploded arm.[5] Her resilience extends to drugs such as cocaine and molly, as she used cocaine in large quantities without becoming significantly intoxicated.[4] Cate endured a punch from Jordan Li, for instance, Jordan punched Marie, throwing her into metal bars, bending them. She is, however, not invulnerable, as her skull was broken after being blasted by Jordan against a wall. Cate, as well as the other Guardians, withstood high voltage shocks in Elmira. Regenerative Healing Factor: Cate possesses a limited but rapid, accelerated healing factor. While the full extent of this ability is unknown, Cate can heal from ruptured blood vessels in her eyes fairly quickly.[6][2] However, her arm has not regenerated, as she is only using a prosthetic.[7] Superhuman Hearing: Cate possesses superhuman hearing, allowing her to hear better than humans. Like all Supes, she can hear higher frequencies that humans cannot.[8] Abilities: Stealth Proficiency: Cate stealth Cate sneaking up on Jeff Pitikarski Due to the nature of her powers, Cate is relatively good at stealth, sneaking up on enemies in order to manipulate them, as she did with Sam Riordan,[1] with all the Supes in Edison's house,[3] with Jeff Pitikarski, and as she tried to do with Jordan, before having her arm blown up.[5] She also captured Frenchie when he turned around to see Kimiko.[9] Gifted Intelligence: Cate has shown to be a very cunning individual. She was able to maintain the secret of The Woods for a significant period by carefully manipulating those around her, including her closest friends. Her strategic thinking has become more clever such as baiting a guard to escape her Elmira cell. Charisma: Cate has presented herself as a confident, empathetic, and compassionate student. Her charm and ability to read people are part of her manipulative nature, allowing her to persuade others effectively, even without relying solely on her mind-control powers. After realizing the error of her ways, Cate’s charisma and remorse had helped her regain the trust of her friends Weaknesses: Biological Tactile Contact and Verbal Guidance Required: For Cate to use her Persuasion abilities, she must make physical skin-to-skin contact with her target while providing verbal instructions. This contact can only be established through her hands, meaning that if her hands are restrained, her abilities become ineffective. Additionally, after Marie blew up Cate's arm, she can only use this ability with one hand until later being healed by Marie. Brute Force/Limited Durability: Despite being more durable than humans, Cate can still be stunned, knocked unconscious, and killed by extreme force. During an interview, Tek Knight threatens to break Cate's hands while she attempts to use her powers on him. Additionally, Sam restrains Cate and prepares to kill her before being stopped by Emma Meyer. Cipher threatens to grind her hand in a blender when she tries to use her powers on him. A single blast from Jordan Li was enough to crack her skull open. Her arm also has still not fully regrown after being blown up by Marie Moreau using her blood-based powers over a year later before it was regenerated by Marie as well sometime soon afterwards. Brain/Head Trauma (former): Due to Cate’s powers being psychic-based, her head in general is a major weakness for her and should she suffer a severe enough head trauma, her powers may be damaged or even possibly removed and stop working altogether. This was demonstrated after Jordan Li inadvertently blasted her into a wall and dealt severe damage to the back of her skull and her brain. After hours of intense surgery, Cate's powers would become extremely erratic and unpredictable. As first demonstrated when she had begun possessing the nurses tending to her and uncontrollably compelling them to kill each other. Later, upon leaving the hospital after her surgeries, Cate would soon realize that she had lost access to both her telepathy and psychic persuasion. Upon slowly recovering, Cate's powers would return, but still damaged, as shown where she admitted that it was no longer completely consistent and she could no longer "push" people to follow her commands completely, as instead of following her direct instructions, her powers cause people to act out in randomly violent and/or sexual ways upon themselves or towards other people and objects. Later, Cate's powers would be restored by Marie when she healed her brain damage, in addition to regrowing her hand, allowing her to once again "push" people to completely follow her commands once again. Medication (former): The pills administered to her by Shetty diminished her abilities and caused Cate to have nausea, bleeding and seizures; however, upon discontinuing their use, she displayed heightened power, evident in her ability to read minds, make several people unconscious on an astral plane, and control many people, including supes, in a single day. Overexertion Consequences: Using her powers excessively can lead Cate to suffer seizures and eye bleeding. Safe parameters of power usage and the necessary resting period for her to employ them without harm remain unstated. While the pills prescribed by Shetty appear to be the primary factor for said overexertion, Cate has exhibited fatigue and eye bleeding even in the absence of such medication. High Frequencies: Due to being a Supe, Cate is susceptible to high frequencies. When a high frequency is playing, it can induce immense pain and temporarily neutralize her. During a massacre at Godolkin University, Cate is momentarily neutralized through the use of a high-frequency alarm.

Original Show History-Cate was born in the early 2000s, and shortly after her birth, her parents accepted Vought's offer to inject her with Compound V, subsequently transforming her into a Supe and granting her superhuman powers and abilities. When she was 9, she went on a camping trip with her family. Her little 6-year-old brother Caleb was irritating her, so she grabbed his arm and told him to leave and never come back. Unbeknownst to her, she accidentally used her powers for the first time on him, causing Caleb to actually walk into the woods and not return. Despite the efforts of multiple search parties, he was not found. [1] Her mother was horrified at what happened and distanced herself from Cate, asking a police officer to escort her away as she felt unsafe. Cate felt immense guilt over her brother's presumed death. The incident prompted her parents to lock her in her room for nine years and force her to wear gloves, also conditioning her to habitually keep her distance from others so she could not use her powers intentionally or accidentally. She also had online tutoring to keep up with her education. At some point during her time in her room, she developed an intense attraction towards Soldier Boy who she idolized to guide her sexual desires.[2] When she was 18, Indira Shetty visited Cate. The latter was initially reluctant to engage with her due to the mindset her parents instilled in her, but Shetty calmly told Cate that she was not afraid. She comforted her by removing her gloves and helped her control her powers by giving her specialized pills, also using her position to get her admitted into Godolkin University.[2] During one of her specialized classes, she met Rufus who allegedly sexually assaulted her via keeping her enthralled in a hypnotic trance over the course of 3 days. As an older Cate pursued her education there away from her family, she met Golden Boy during one of her crimefighting lessons, who complimented her intelligence and asked if he could cheat off of her. She later became his girlfriend. Initially enrolled in the Lamplighter School of Crimefighting, she shifted her major to Hero Management. Her ambition was to become the future manager of her boyfriend before his demise.[2]