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@duplikcte asked from x meme!

💘 (Kate prefers to drag him by the scruff of his collar. Maybe a movie on the couch date, maybe her cha cookhouse special dish just for him with a side of dupli-kisses)

"you know you didn't have to drag me over here to get some attention," he spoke as he saw the spread of food on the coffee table, he also took in the fact that the television was on--he could put two and two together to see that kate wanted to have some quality time tonight. "but here i am not having anything for you, i gotta say that's not a very fair warning."

of course he had to tease a little as he went in to give her a kiss on the cheek.

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how does kate feel about her brother Paul, in ur opinion

My dear nonnie, you are asking a question that is worth behind the scenes content in a Blu-ray edition of a movie & lucky for you I am the director with a lot of commentary that needs to be unpacked.

TRIGGER WARNING: child abuse, emotional abuse, experimentation, patricide.

Short Answer (what I will say): She loves her brother but it's complicated.

What I actually mean: Kate and Paul are siblings doomed by the narrative (my narrative) and I am intentionally going to make it that much worse for the cha twins.

KATE & PAUL'S RELATIONSHIP

Complicated is an understatement.

The Cha Twins have such a violent and traumatizing history together that, while it led them both down different paths, it's almost baffling that they haven't turned on one another and still keep in contact.

Whether it's Kate coming to visit him in prison or Paul picking up a burner phone just to call and check up on her - the twins will always look out for each other.

That's what you do when the only person in the world who can understand a fraction of the hell you survived is your own twin who lived the same story.

Sure, Kate doesn't want him working for some evil organization and maybe it's not so different from how the GDA operates (or that Paul will ever forgive what they did to her even though Kate consented to it.) but at the end of the day, they both have one thing they can agree on:

They've got their father's blood on their hands and wouldn't think twice about killing him for a second time if he decides to crawl out of the deepest pit of hell for revenge.

IF YOU ASKED KATE ABOUT PAUL

She wouldn't give you a straight answer. Just enough to keep it simple and vague. Enough for you to stop asking questions about her personal life (because why are you?) and a cold glare to shut you up if she got annoyed.

But the truth is, she cares. She cares about Paul so much and if anything ever happened to him and I mean anything, it would probably be enough for her to walk away from being Dupli-Kate all together.

No more hero shit. No more GDA. No more Cecil. She'd be Kate and she'd be gone with nothing short of a letter with a few words as the only thing she left behind.

You wanna know the fucked up part? No, not the fact that if someone killed Paul and she would immediately spiral down a road of vengeance to the point of self destructive tendencies of losing herself.

The fucked up part is that in my canon, the curse that gave them their powers is the reason why they can't die. Why it won't let them. This curse intervenes in ways that they shouldn't have escaped death. Wounds that should've killed, crippled or done worse to them heal but it's slow enough that they feel all of it but fast enough that they are already back on their feet.

(Talk about being lucky, right?)

So if one day, for whatever reason, Paul died and it was completely out of her control or she realizes she could've done something different or that the curse could've done something like it always did (but hey it's a curse, a big "fuck you" to her bloodline)- that'll be Kate's true suffering. Her true pain she can't control.

Not the abuse she endured from a father that beat the weakness out of her and made her feel like her mother's death was her and Paul's fault and that they wouldn't survive without his love in the world.

Not being strapped down to a chair by the GDA and enduring the pain of feeling every moment that her clones died and that pain transferring back to her since the age of 12 to make herself stronger - to weaponize that suffering and give it meaning despite the toll it took.

Her real pain lies in the fact that a world without Paul is a frightening one to live in because after that. She'll truly be alone.

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Do you think Kate is able to make clones that could look like other people or only herself ((at like different ages and whatnot))?

KATE CHA : THE SOLDIER. THE EXPERIMENT & THE ABSOLUTE NERD.

1. COPIES OF OTHER PEOPLE

If you're asking if Kate can make clones that can restructure their DNA to look like other people -- then I'm sorry to tell you this but the answer is a flat no.

It's impossible really, because the fact is that this isn't a power that works like molecular manipulation or shapeshifting where the cells can be freely restructured. This is a power that originated from and will be forever tied to a ancient curse that has its own set of rules.

And the twins are it's only priority when it comes to making them suffer for their ancestor's actions.

A. INTROSPECT: DOWN TO A SCIENCE / UP TO THE BONE.

The silver lining is that Kate Cha is such a nerd that she even put herself down as a subject for study at one point (yes, she used her clones to go through the same process and study her as the original, because who knows you better than you?) and that included studying how her powers and her blood worked.

Yes, she knows pain down to a science. She's spent years as the GDA's crash test dummy to a now highly trained and invaluable operative for intelligence gathering, tactical strategy and combat, behavior profiling, and most importantly, interrogation (torture).

It took some time and concentration (and several bodies) but Kate was able to make younger clones of herself prior to that of her current age of twenty-four years.

These younger clones are based off the original Kate's memories and emotions. Interestingly enough, they don't retain the original kate's memories as an adult and even though they are still individually their own person, their emotions and memories are based on the year that Kate was a specific age. Months and even specific events are changing variables too.

Some 12 year old Kate's just got her hands stained with her father's blood. Some 12 year old Kate's are still adjusting to living with the GDA alongside their brother Paul.

Some eight year old Kate's just had a good day at school and need a nice warm bowl of food before getting homework done.

Some ten year old Kate's are still learning how to cook and discovering their passion for it. Even if they feel baking just has a cosmic grudge against them.

The list goes on but you get the gist.

B. THE WORK AROUND: LIFE FINDS A WAY, RIGHT?

If Kate wanted to make clones of other people, she could. The GDA's resources are at her disposal. She's a high ranking member and I doubt this is the first time she thought about it. As Cecil would say:

"Kate is a paranoid insomniac who studies her enemies like she's a kid that got a brand new toy to play with. She's a high functioning sadist with anger issues and enough prep time that would make Bruce Wayne want to take her as his next robin....if he can get that dark and twisted part of her reigned in on a leash first."

All she needs is a little DNA and a couple of hours or weeks in the lab and then POOF -- a couple of clones of someone she does or doesn't know. It's just how she uses them that matters.

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Would you rather sleep with Mark or Rex?

"Mark."

The answer slips from Kate’s mouth faster than the blade flicks grime from under her fingernail—blunt, sharp, and delivered with a disinterest that borders on ruthless. She doesn’t look up, the curve of her lip set in a permanent near-sneer of concentration as she scrapes beneath her nail with a worn, silver pocketknife, its surface dulled from use. The overhead light catches the steel just enough to flicker against her cheekbone.

"Rex and I—" she pauses, rolling the edge of her thumb over the now-clean nail, "—we had our history. And we ran that thing into the ground before it even had legs." There's a shift in her tone, not softer, but heavier—like someone thumbing over a bruise they’ve long stopped feeling. "It wasn’t just messy. It was stupid. Emotional landmines everywhere, and neither of us had the patience or clarity to defuse anything before it blew up in our faces."

She flips the knife shut with a soft click, finally glancing up with that unreadable expression she’s mastered—one part aloof, one part calculating. "Rex was Rex. You don’t try to build something on a foundation that's already cracked in half." Her voice is quieter now, not gentler, but more… intentional. "And I’ve got trust issues deeper than the Mariana Trench, so even trying to keep things casual would’ve been like pouring gasoline on a slow burn."

Slipping the knife into her back pocket, Kate then stretches her arms up with a low, satisfied sound as her shoulders pop. "And just to be clear—before your imagination gets to the gutter—I don’t want Mark just to test his stamina or to see how long before he folds like a paper crane. I like him. More than I expected to. He's... sincere in a way I’m not used to. Makes me feel like I don't have to armor up every second he's around."

She snorts, catching herself in that rare flicker of honesty and quickly buries it beneath a smirk. "Don't go thinkin' I've turned soft. I’m still not the kind of girl who catches feelings like colds. But I’ll admit—there’s something about him that makes me want to try. Maybe not now but... eventually. Trust isn't cheap with me."

Then the smirk sharpens, shifting from contemplative to cocky as her gaze finally settles on the person who asked. "And before you put anything out there like a little 'why not both' suggestion—listen, even if I entertained the hypothetical threesome, those boys would not last a minute in a five-woman job." She taps a finger to her temple, as if referencing her duplicates. "We would wring them dry and wouldn't break a sweat doing it. It’d honestly be funny as shit watching them try to act like they're in control for the first ten seconds."

“They’d need electrolytes, a defibrillator, and probably a therapy session after to process such a life changing experience.”

She chuckles lowly, eyes glinting. “But hey, it’s nice to dream.”

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is your Kate's original body still in the cabin?

to be honest with you, I haven't watched or read the full capacity of that scene between the show and the comics.

I only know the bits and pieces based on the outcry of duplikate and immortal hate ( which is warranted because for all the changes that the show does make, I had hoped they would go in a different direction and flesh them out more and show more scenes but 🤷‍♀️ ) and when and if I do watch that scene with its full context, I'll likely change some things around for my Kate when it comes to if she was in the cabin or not but rest assured that my Kate is a "I always have a backup" / "I'm always three steps ahead" kind of person, one that wholeheartedly refuses to be checkmated.

It should be noted that she wouldn't just up and leave her team the way show! / comic! Kate did. While my version doesn't trust her team, she does care and believe in them in her own way as the big sister of the group.

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Hi! I've only seen the show and I wish they did more with Kate, so it's nice to see someone roleplaying her. (:

maturing is realizing that we didn't hate Kate, we just hated the way she was written (and by extension her brother) and further more, having little to no actual character development: when I was reading through her wiki for the comics and the show and found out about the curse being tied to her powers, I was honestly disappointed with the end result of her character of just being a mom now and "omg her and immortal's kids are immortal now!"

To me, Kate doesn't seem like the settling down type. She just doesn't if she's willing to put her life on the line. If anything, my kate wants a purpose to her suffering & the GDA gave her one and she put that pain to good use.

That and the lack of on screen chemistry with immortal was so out of left field and show!Kate sounded like a teenager whining every time she mentioned her deaths and feeling them. Canon!Kate was so badly written that I felt the need to step in and make her better since show!Kate isn't going to be changing anytime soon.

Robert Kirkman and his writing team could've done so much with Kate and her brother, especially with the curse itself to contribute to the invincible world but 🤷‍♀️

My mini rant aside, I wholeheartedly agree with you. They should've done more with Kate and I hope more Kate writers come out of the woodworks soon.