Katarina Claes

Katarina Claes (カタリナ・クラエス, Katarina Kuraesu) is the quintessential villainess of the visual novel game Fortune Lover and the main protagonist of the series. After hitting her head as a child, she suddenly remembers her previous life as a high school student and she tries desperately not to wind up with bad endings like her game counterpart.

Appearance
Katarina is a pretty young woman with hip-length brown hair that has a single hair strand hanging on the right side and light blue eyes.

Personality
In Fortune Lover, Katarina is a spoiled girl who often is horrible to lower class citizens and is willing to use any means to get what she wants. Katarina is willing to go as far as to abuse her stepbrother Keith along with her mother. She herself doesn't mind using underhand tactics, such as when Prince Geordo accidentally tripped her. She wanted to have Geordo as a fiancé as compensation.

Presently, upon regaining her memories of her previous life as a humble Japanese schoolgirl, she turns into a kind individual who is willing to help anyone in need of help. As a child, Katarina became a tomboy who enjoys sweets and romance novels. She doesn't mind getting dirty, as she will climb trees or work on her garden. She is also willing to forgive people who do wrong towards her or people close to her. She is also incredibly simple-minded as she doesn't understand romance and is oblivious to her friends' close affection towards her.

Game Description
Katarina was a selfish, spoiled princess type. Because Prince Geordo injured her during childhood, they had gotten engaged. Because of this scar, she considered the prince to be hers, and bound him to her. In addition, she didn’t think highly of suddenly getting a stepbrother and often bullied him.

Gerald Stuart
If the heroine captures Prince Geordo successfully and gets the happy end, Katarina's extreme harassment of the heroine causes her to be declared a criminal and stripped of her social status, ending with Katarina being exiled.

In the bad end, Katarina attacks the heroine with a knife in a fit of jealousy, and instead gets killed by Prince Geordo. He then breaks up with the heroine and embarks on a journey to another country.

Keith Claes
Whether happy end or bad end, Katarina gets exiled or dies. In the happy end, Katarina's horrible harassment of the heroine causes her to become a criminal, then is deprived of her noble status and exiled.

In the bad end, Keith is unable to protect the heroine and Katarina manages to inflict a deep wound on her. Keith is heartbroken and kills Katarina with magic then disappears.

Alan Stuart
In this route, Katarina is not the main rival to the heroine and is instead replaced by Prince Alan's fiance, Mary Hunt.

Nicole Ascart
The rival in this route is Sophia Ascart, Nicole's younger sister. Katarina is not featured in this route and does not interact with any of the two.

Fortune Lover II
In the sequel of the first game Fortune Lover, Katarina returns as a villainess with new magical abilities.

Before Reincarnation
Before reincarnating as Katarina, she was a 17-year-old high school student. Her family consisted of a mother who was a part-time housewife, a typical salaryman father, and two older brothers. She was commonly called a monkey by her classmates, due to her quirk of randomly climbing trees. She was usually scolded by her teachers because she would regularly forget her homework. Because of this, she would always ask for help from Acchan, her best friend.

After Reincarnation
Katarina Claes, before remembering her past as a high school student, was very arrogant and quick to anger, such as when she became bored of a ribbon she herself had only just picked out, and threatened to fire the maids who helped her put it on. . Upon meeting Gerald, she became possessive of him almost immediately, and was shown to have had a crush on him before hitting her head.

In the Series
After remembering her past life, Katarina becomes anxious about the number of ways she could end up ruining her life, such as death or exile. She then resolves not to end up like the game's Katarina, and decides to focus on trying to stay alive.

After unknowingly accepting Geordo's marriage proposal, she decides to train her swordsmanship and magic to protect herself, the latter leading her to start a farm to hone her earth magic. Unintentional, she begins to form positive relationships with the love interests and other 'villains' of the game, unknowingly averting her bad endings.

Milidiana Claes
In Fortune Lover, Katarina and Millidiana have a very close relationship. Millidiana has raised her daughter to be just like her: a proud noblewoman who believes in the hierarchy of nobility and is excellent at etiquette.

In the present timeline, while initially happy about her daughter's engagement to the prince, after Katarina's behavior becomes more eccentric due to remembering her past life, she wishes to annul her daughter's engagement, believing that not only was she no longer suitable to be a princess, but that she would also bring shame upon the family. She agrees with Keith from time to time on opposing Katarina's role as a queen.

Katarina's overall relationship with her mother may be considered somewhat negative, as Katarina would very much wish to avoid meeting her mother, although this isn't attributed to abusive conduct, but rather that Millidiana has very high standards for Katarina and is very strict with her, in particular. Milidiana is annoyed by Katarina's conduct that heavily deviates from the norm for nobles and reprimands Katarina on a regular basis.

In a side story, Miri Diana feels uneasy upon hearing Katarina's rising popularity and how her daughter has a lot of secret admirers.

Luigi Claes
In Fortune Lover, Luigi was the root of Katarina's rotten personality. His constant doting on her and lack of strict guidance led to Katarina becoming extremely spoiled and selfish.

In the present timeline, not much has changed. He still loves his daughter dearly and dotes on her. But most of all, he cares for her well-being as well.

Keith Claes
In Fortune Lover, Katarina and Keith had a cold relationship. Due to her sometimes physical abuse towards him and general neglect from the mansion staff and his family, he became a playboy who vied for attention.

In the present timeline, because the current Katarina was able to prevent Keith from being lonely, their relationship instead became very positive. Unbeknownst to Katarina, instead of being a playboy like his game version, Keith had become a sis-con who is completely infatuated with Katarina and sees other people, like Geordo, as rivals. Keith is constantly worried about his sister, who is oblivious of how many people she unintentionally seduces. Despite the fact their relationship is a positive one Katarina often relays on Keith to help her with the thankless tasks such as homework in turn Keith takes upon himself to make sure Katarina doesn't embarrass herself in public.

During Keith's kidnapping, He also confesses his love to her after he has awoken from his slumber. Katarina realizes that Keith sees her as a woman, but would constantly forget the fact and always needs to be reminded.

In Verge of Doom, Katarina and Keith despises each other. After Katarina regains memories of her past life, she tries her best to win over Keith and to become real siblings with him (out of both regret and precaution). After their reconciliation, he desires to become close with her and open his eyes to the life that he had missed due to the misunderstandings about his background.

Anne Shelley
Anne is the personal maid of Katarina. Not much has changed between Anne and Katarina's relationship in-game and in the present timeline. However, Anne and Katarina have a stronger relationship after Katarina regains her past memories. She remains very loyal to Katarina despite her lady's strange decisions.

Tom
Tom is the gardener of the Claes mansion. Despite being a commoner, Katarina befriends him. He occasionally teaches her farming during her days at the mansion.

Geordo Stuart
In Fortune Lover, Prince Geordo has no love for Katarina and mainly uses her as a shield so that other women would avoid making any attempts to grab his attention.

In the present timeline, Geordo has genuine romantic feelings for the Katarina we see in the series, who is oblivious of Gerald's love towards her, and only believes that Gerald is simply using her to lower any unnecessary attention from other noblewomen. Furthermore, Gerald refuses to annul their marriage despite how certain people, like her brother, Keith, and Katarina's mother, are now opposed to the marriage as they feel Katarina is not suited to be a princess. Despite of her fear of the bad endings involving his route, she is good friends with Geordo, and trusts him completely to the point where it worries Keith.

After Katarina's kidnapping, she finds out the Geordo is genuinely in love with her after receiving her first kiss from him as a confession. When she is aware, she would become hyper aware of Geordo's sweet words and actions towards her, something she used to think was just normal behavior of him as a prince. Despite this, she would regularly forget about his feelings whenever her minds in preoccupied with other matters.

Katarina supports a possible relationship between Geordo and Maria, believing that he will still inevitably fall for their friend.

In Verge of Doom, Katarina stays madly in love with Geordo until she's 15 years old, but loses her love after gaining memories of her past life. She realizes the doom that will occur if she continues to be engaged with him, so she actively tries to break, despite his rejection. She stills likes Geordo, but it is more of admiration than adoration.

Mary Hunt
In Fortune Lover, Mary and Katarina were fellow rivals for the heroine. They were barely acquainted with each other, and there was not much interaction between them.

In the present timeline, Mary was the first female friend that Katarina made. They met during a tea party, where Katarina met her in the garden and told her how she had 'green fingers'. This moved Mary. She eventually became infatuated with Katarina, causing Mary to be sharply protective of her and cutting her rivals' advances as much as she could. During their childhood, Mary also visits the Claes mansion regularly as an attempt to escape from her sisters' harsh remarks and bullying.

She also states that if she were a man, she would definitely ask for Katarina's hand in marriage. Mary states that one of the reasons why she fell in love with Katarina was because Katarina was always there for her when she was most stressed and despaired. When Katarina praised her necklace, Mary felt happy and grew even more fond of her because it was a memento of her mother.

Originally, Mary had no interest in romance novels. But after Sophia and Katarina exchanged romance novels, she began to borrow them from the two as well.

In Verge of Doom, the two barely interacted until they arrive at the Magic Academy. Mary and Katarina become friends due to their similar interests in gardening. Katarina is one of the few nobles who approaches Mary despite of her unapproachable and perfect image, which Mary appreciates a lot.

Sirius Dieke
In the present timeline, Sirius first heard of Katarina through Geordo and Nicole before they entered the academy. He was surprised to see how much Geordo and Nicole had changed due to Katarina's influence. He misinterpreted Katarina's acts of kindness and viewed her as a hypocrite, going as far as to call her a 'saint'. His impression of her eventually led him to hate her, as well as framing her in bullying Maria. Still, he slowly opened his heart to her and eventually fell for her.

Sirius finds a similarity between his dead biological mother and Katarina. He grew indebted and grateful to Katarina for showing him light once again. Eventually, they become good friends. Despite being expelled from the academy, Sirius, who now confidently uses his original name "Raphael" thanks to Katarina, still keeps close contact with her. As Raphael, he aids her in getting into the Magic Ministry in order to delay her marriage with Prince Geordo.

Alan Stuart
In Fortune Lover, Katarina and Alan did not interact with each other. They were not acquainted, as she did not care for anyone that isn't her fiancé.

In the present timeline, Alan was irritated seeing Mary who always spoke of Katarina, visibly infatuated. In order to make Katarina stay away from Mary, Alan then visited the Claes mansion regularly to compete with Katarina on a daily basis. He slowly opened up, and became good friends with Katarina when she showed him Gerald's weakness. This made his inferiority complex toward Gerald gradually go away.

After Katarina fell into a long sleep due to Sirius, Alan helplessly felt grief and realized his feelings for Katarina. He began competing with his rivals afterward.

In Verge of Doom, Alan and Katarina barely interacted until they arrive at the Magic Academy. They find kinship in wanting to find Geordo's weakness.

Maria Campbell
In Fortune Lover, Maria was the beautiful heroine and the center of hate for the villainess Katarina. She was constantly bullied by Katarina and her clique due to her getting close with Geordo, Katarina's engagement partner. Katarina's childish and high-horsed nature leads Maria to become the root (albeit not directly) of all her destruction ends.

In the present timeline, Maria and Katarina became very close friends. This started from Katarina accidentally sabotaging Geordo's line while rescuing her from other girls. Katarina then fended off Maria's bullies as much as she could. She realizes that Maria was not the perfect protagonist of the game, but was instead a hardworking girl who deserves happiness, which made Katarina desire to befriend her.

During their academic years, Maria wholeheartedly bakes sweets for Katarina on a nearly daily basis. She also states how much she adores Katarina and wishes to stay by her side. Maria's desire to stay by Katarina's side leads both of them to apply in the Magic Ministry.

In Verge of Doom, Katarina despised Maria for being a privileged Light Magic user despite being a commoner. She originally lead the bullying of Maria, until she regained memories of her past life and did all she can to stop the harassment that she caused. Katarina apologized for her previous behavior, and Maria accepted it, and now the two are good friends.

Nicol Ascart
In the present timeline, Katarina stated how lucky Nicol was to have such a family. They were words Nicol wanted to hear from a very long time, due to the criticism the Ascart family received(and especially Sophia). Nicol opened his heart to Katarina and then became one of her close childhood friends. He began to harbor feelings toward Katarina but refused to make any advances because it was 'forbidden' since Katarina has Geordo, Nicole's friend's fiancée.

However, Sophia fully supports Nicol's relationship with Katarina. She encourages her brother to make moves on Katarina.

In Verge of Doom, Nicol and Katarina have only started interacted when they arrive in the Magic Academy. She is awestruck by his beauty.

Sophia Ascart
In the game, Sophia and Katarina were fellow rivals for the heroine. They did not interact much, if at all, due to Katarina's self-centered nature and disregard for anyone that isn't her fiancé.

In the present timeline, Sophia and Katarina became friends. They became very close and often discussed about romance novels from time to time as novel readers.

In Verge of Doom, Katarina becomes friends with Sophia thanks their similar tastes in romance novels. Katarina becomes her first friend in the Magic Academy.

Before Katarina's reincarnation, Sophia was Atsuko Sasaki, nicknamed 'Acchan', her best friend in her past life..

Sienna Nelson
In Verge of Doom, Sienna is Katarina's friend and most loyal follower in the spin-off manga. Katarina, in the past, often encouraged Sienna to keep her chin high as her selected follower, and to be more proud of herself as a noble. After she gains memories of her past life, she becomes a little bit clingy to Sienna, not wanting to be alone as loses the confidence to approach her other followers in the same way as she did in the past. She plays the 'straight man' (tsukkomi) towards Katarina.

Dewey Percy
Katarina and Dewey are colleagues of the Ministry of Magic, where Katarina works at post-graduation. At first he looked cold towards Katarina but after having a conversation with Maria, he apologized to her and have opened up to her. After the Magic Ministry Test, the two have become good friends and would often eat lunch and do tasks together with Maria and Sora.

Sora
During the Magic Academy's School Festival, Katarina was kidnapped by Sora. However, during her time as a hostage, they became friends with each other and Sora even developed a romantic interest in Katarina. They promised to travel somewhere together as they share an adventurous trait. After the event, Sora repeatedly flirts with Katarina and by all means tries to romance her, which all ends up in vain due to Katarina's denseness.

Sora and Katarina are later colleagues of the Ministry of Magic, under the Magic Tools Department.

Caesar Dall
While pretending to be of lower status, he and Katarina often talk together as close friends. Despite Cesar having little trust in women, Katarina remains an exception and both have mutual trust.

He is waiting for the moment where Katarina breaks her engagement so he can bring her to his homeland and marry her himself.

Cyrus Lanchester
Cyrus and Katarina are good friends. Cyrus shares Katarina's interest in farming and Katarina helps him out. They both see each other as old people, making them very comfortable of each other despite of Cyrus' fear of talking to women.

Selena Burke
During Katarina's kidnaping n the midst of the School Festival, she had forged a friendship with Selena, who prior to the event was merely acquainted with the point where she didn't even remember her name. Despite the fact that Selena was the one who orchestrated her kidnapping, she was not wary of her due her impressions as a kind fiancée to Prince Ian. After Selena opens up her feelings about being a prince's fiance and about the truth of the kidnapping, Katarina gives her advice about being honest and upfront about her feelings to Prince Ian, and the two share a bond. The two became very good friends after the event.

Ginger Tucker
Katarina is very doting and friendly towards Ginger, as she was her underclassman and a member of the student council. After Ginger discovers Katarina's farm and have a meal together where they eat newly harvested vegetables, she believes that they have shared a bond and became even closer. Katarina's enthusiastic approaching and feeding of Ginger unknowingly freaks her junior out. Unlike the other junior members of the student council, Katarina believes that Ginger is not "rude, unintelligent or ugly", but instead insists that Ginger is "kind, cute and a tsundere". Once Katarina graduates, she notes that being able to see Ginger and Fray's antics will be one of the many things that she will miss rom the Magic Academy.

Kai Gerran
In Verge of Doom, Mr. Gerran is currently Katarina's sword training teacher. She is a very enthusiastic and diligent student to him, and is always willing to learn.

Pochi
Pochi is presently Katarina's darkness attribute dog familiar, staying true to the game's events during Fortune Lover II as Katarina's destined familiar. Katarina is very much attached to Pochi, being very enthusiastic about having a dog that actually likes her. They would often play fetch in Katarina's farm. It is also thanks to Pochi that Katarina has been admitted as an employee into the Magic Ministry, under the title of "Wielder of a Darkness Familiar". The dog is very loyal to Katarina, and would often protect her when she is in danger

Alexander
Katarina and the bear have been enemies since of finding Keith. Katarina addresses the bear as 'Ugly Bear'. She isn't sure why Alexander dislikes her, but she would reciprocate the rude attitude and small pranks that the bear would do to her.

Arte
In the collaboration manga, Arte and Katarina become good friends where Katarina deeply respects Arte and admires her works.

Earth Magic
Katarina possesses earth magic which she awakens at the age of 5. However, her magic is so weak that she could only crack a small area of ground. this limits her to use only the 'Earth Bump' skill.

Dark Magic
Katarina is able to use dark magic later in the novel series.

She also obtains a familiar named Pochi after destroying a dark familiar that was placed in Keith's neck, manifesting through a magic tool that she held at the time. According to Pochi, users of dark magic are fated to succumb to illnesses and have their life forces drained at some point during their lifetime but for some reason, Katarina remains immune. She also gains the Dark Covenant, a book of lost magic that on she can read.

Tree-climbing
Although played for laughs, Katarina possesses the ability to easily climb any tree.

Physical Strength
Katarina has strong physical strength; this may be the result of farming since her childhood.

Trivia

 * Katarina dislikes everything related to academics.
 * Along with Anne Shelley (who is incapable of magic), she has the weakest magic.
 * Katarina is officially the dumbest out of all the characters.
 * Katarina and Nicol Ascart share the same level of charisma, although Katarina's charisma is limited to only some people.
 * Katarina's physical strength is on par with Keith, Nicol and Sirius; making her the strongest female character in terms of physical strength.
 * Katarina is the only one in the cast who still can't read Ancient Scripts, despite studying it for two years.
 * This could be because Katarina is already multi-lingual by nature, knowing different forms of japanese thanks to her past life, as well as the preferred language of Sorcier.
 * Katarina is very similar to Selena Burke.
 * Both women are brown haired duchesses that are engaged to a blonde prince of the kingdom. They are both deemed unfit to be fiancées of princes by their family and other noblewomen of high society.
 * They both have very weak magical aptitudes.
 * When Katarina is asked what she would like her lover to do for her, she replies that she would like them to treat her like the princesses in romance novels, although she changes her mind.

"Being held like a princess like in those romance novels, having them whisper sweet nothings into my ears in a place with a beautiful night view... or so I thought. Lately, though, I've discovered that hearing sweet nothings in my ears is way too intense! This is a lesson I've learned the hard way."

- Katarina