Catherine

Catherine is a 5-star character in Arknights. Catherine's weapon type is Spanner and class is Supporter. Faction: Victoria.

Continuing to bang on about it all was just further a disgrace to the dead, doing nothing to help the reality.

In circumstances like these, one could hardly believe the term "bereavement pay" ever existed.

No one had a snowball's hope of getting anything meaningful out of those lackadaisical officials, at least not for now.

So in the end, all the protests earned was a promise—verbal, of course—that they'd end the conflict ASAP and return everyone to work sooner than ASAP, if only every single factory would just shut up and stay that way from now on until the steam engines turn again.

"Believe in Victoria, and after that, go back inside."

Not unexpected, the remaining workers agreed.

Still more behind her than were dead, luckily.

Catherine was just the one who stepped up precisely when people were hoping for someone with a backbone.

She led the lot back into the safety bounds, and wrapped the whole affair up on the spot.

The funeral was over just as fast as those negotiations.

The way back from church to the workers' residences wasn't any longer than it used to be.

Catherine hiked up to the first floor, and just like always, just like that, pulled the door open and went in.

Harvey never locked the door. All the workers on the assembly line were brothers and sisters to one another; everyone visited each other whenever they liked.

Thick as thieves on the clock, and off it too.

But now, Catherine stands as straight as ever in her sitting room.

She looks about it. It's all the deathly same; there's still half a jumper sitting on the tea table next to the window.

That's Lindy's knitting, at least before Lindy went to the hospital.

Then Catherine took over and promptly snapped one needle while not watching what she was doing.

She couldn't be arsed to replace it, so she pilfered the thinnest screwdriver out of her toolbox and used that instead.

That is why the last two rows have every stitch unworked, leaving only a long succession of yawning holes.

Let's finish that first, Catherine mutters to herself as she picks up the jumper, catches sight of what was underneath it, and then freezes.

Only a worker could recognize it for what it is at a glance: a scale miniature of a steam engine, built bloody well for being cobbled together from resmelted scrap.

Could only be Harvey's work.

"Right. He always was brilliant at this sort of thing," it hits Catherine.

It's obviously just a random thingamajig built by someone with spare time to kill.

Nothing valuable about it. No need to treat it like a part of him that's still here, clutching it, weeping long, bitter sobs over him.

The phase where their sacrifices were exchanged for concessions was over now.

Dressing death up any further than this should be enough to make anyone sick.

All that happened here was someone made a decision, and didn't hesitate once about it...

and that was that.

Catherine puts the jumper down, opens the window, leans over and strikes a match against the heel of her boot.

The scent of a cheap cig scatters through the air, floats out of the window, melts into the grimy grey urban scape.

"Seems I'm not going out for drinks today," she thinks to herself.

Catherine is is an NPC in Arknights. She is a supporting character in the latter half of Act II of the Main Theme.

Catherine is currently the oldest playable female Operator in-game with a confirmed age.

She is the first Artificer Supporter to be released since Stainless — her grandson.

This also makes them the third pair of blood related Operators to share the same class and branch, following Nearl and Blemishine as well as Beeswax and Carnelian.

Catherine is the free Operator of Ending a Grand Overture, awarded from the Pending Bills mission which requires the player to clear GO-4 with Catherine's Token available in the Office of Proposed Resolutions for Nay!, Nay!, Nay!, Nay!, and Nay!.

As a 5★ Artificer Supporter who specializes in Defense and Support, Catherine is a melee Operator with a melee attack that deals Physical damage and has similar stats to Pioneers including 2 Block, and having Catherine deployed allows the player to deploy Support Devices, which will be elaborated below.

Backing: I will do my duty, and you do what you can.

Believe in me, and we'll all pull through.

Free operator from the Ending a Grand Overture event, awarded from the Pending Bills mission (clear GO-4, Token available in the Office of Proposed Resolutions).