Lady Metaphor

Born in the countryside of Hantigue, Katherine de Boulognes was the youngest child of her family. Sadly, her parents died in a car accident when she was six and Katherine was put in an orphanage in the city of Frusburg. Katherine had two older brothers and a sister. When she entered the orphanage of Frusburg, she was separated from her brothers and was left only with her older sister, Amelia. Her sister, being in her late teenage years, had to do chores around the orphanage and couldn’t take care of Katherine. Katherine became anti-social and concentrated all her efforts in school and didn’t mingle with the other orphans. She proved to be a very promising student but with a weird personality. Amelia slowly sank into depression. Her physical and mental state deteriorated incredibly. Katherine thought her sister was exhausted because of the chores but found her sister crying and yelling of pain at night. Years passed and the sisters continued to survive together. Katherine couldn’t find what was hurting her sister during all those years...

One day, Katherine walked in on her sister having sex with the orphanage director. Katherine never knew his name, he was known as the Director. Katherine was now thirteen; her sister had left the orphanage and worked in a bakery. Apparently that wasn’t enough to pay for Katherine’s tuition at the orphanage. Amelia, having lost touch with reality, killed herself later that night out of humiliation and insanity.

After that incident, Katherine was deeply hurt. She had lost all reason to live. She thought of hanging herself in the dormitory when all the orphans were playing outside. At that moment, the Director intervened. He took her to his office and raped her. He told her she was the reason her sister died and that if she killed herself that would be an insult to all of her sister’s life. Even though she despised the Director, she knew he was right. The Director continued to have sexual relations with Katherine for a year until one day he compared her beauty to Amelia’s. Katherine then realized that the director had raped her older sister at several occasion in the past and that he was the source of her sister’s pain.

Strangely enough, Katherine managed to maintain her high grades even when she led such a twisted life. She dreamt and hoped naively for a better life. She poured her heart into poetry and soon became obsessed with it. She eventually came to the conclusion that life was all but a dream or a nightmare. She then killed the Director when he was having sex with her and left the orphanage. She left Frusburg with the money she stole from the orphanage and roamed the cities of Hantigue in search for a dream and a purpose. In the big city of Porso Knev, she settled down as an assassin for the various warring factions that battled for monopoly over the city’s black market. Katherine had killed a lot during her years of voyage in Hantigue and was now skilled with short blades. She killed for the excitement, the deception, the hunt. She then joined a group of mercenary assassins shortly after settling in Porso Knev and became a great asset to the group. She was now known as Lady Metaphor after vowing to never really mean anything, to never really feel anything but to only enjoy this pitiful dream until the day she will be forced to wake up.