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⏵ player information
name and pronouns: Emm (she/her)
age: 18+
contact: sprucemooses@disco, sprucemoose

⏵ character information
name: Caitlyn Kiramman
canon: Arcane
age: 21-ish
canon point: the end of 1x08, after Jinx knocks her out in the shower
history:

Caitlyn is the scion of House Kiramman, one of the founding families of Piltover, a prosperous merchant city-state. Piltover was founded 200 years ago as a refuge against a great war fought by mages, which decimated entire populations and drove some peoples nearly to extinction. It is composed of a utopian overcity, Piltover proper, and a dark and impoverished undercity built down into fissures, referred to by its inhabitants as Zaun. Piltover is governed by the Ethos, a code of laws that, among other things, very strictly prohibits any tampering with magic. Caitlyn's mother sits on the Council, the oligarchic ruling body of the city.

When Caitlyn was a child, her parents decided to sponsor a promising young student named Jayce Talis, with whom Caitlyn became very close. Secretly, Jayce was studying a way to harness the power of magic through technology. Though this was very much against the Ethos, his eventual success led to his instant overnight celebrity and cemented Piltover's place as the City of Progress.

As a young adult, Caitlyn joined the police force of Piltover, the enforcers, and dedicated herself to the investigation of crime in Zaun. But despite her over-zealous desire to solve every crime and right every wrong, Sheriff Marcus thwarted her at every turn. Unbeknownst to her, Marcus was in the pocket of a Zaunite drug lord, Silco, and couldn't allow her to investigate anything that might lead her towards Silco's operations. And so, as punishment for her insolent desire to do her job, Caitlyn was assigned to the graveyard shift on the night that a mysterious terrorist blew up a tent and killed six enforcers. Caitlyn barely escaped with her life. It later came out that the terrorist had also stolen one of Jayce's newly-refined hexgems, stones that could power portable magical devices. Marcus took this as opportunity to fire Caitlyn at the behest of her overprotective parents.

Caitlyn threw herself even more deeply into her work. She had, at some point, come to the radical - and correct - conclusion that the bulk of the undercity's crime was organized by and stemmed from the efforts of one individual. She followed the trail to Piltover's maximum security prison, Stillwater, where she met and freed a prisoner named Vi, who claimed to know the criminal mastermind Caitlyn was hunting.

And so Vi and Caitlyn embarked on a journey together across Zaun, Caitlyn hunting for evidence of Silco's crimes and Jayce's stolen hexgem, Vi hunting for her long-lost sister, the terrorist known as Jinx. Over the course of their adventure, they saved each others' lives a few times, grew closer, and eventually Caitlyn developed romantic feelings for Vi. They eventually realized they needed to convince the Council to help, an endeavour which failed so thoroughly that Caitlyn and Vi parted ways. Caitlyn returned home by herself, only to be kidnapped by Jinx.

abilities:

Sharpshooter. Caitlyn is, in her own words, an excellent shot. Someone put a gun in this girl's hand when she was 4 or 5 and now it's her whole personality. See this scene for a precocious gun-toting child.

Detective. Caitlyn has an impressive analytical mind. She manages to unravel a criminal empire that no one else even believed existed while being actively thwarted and disallowed from properly questioning a single witness and barely able to investigate crime scenes.

personality:

Despite being born in the highest echelons of Piltover’s aristocracy, Caitlyn has never felt she belonged there. Dishonesty and corruption run rampant amongst the most wealthy and powerful. And, while she can hardly claim that she's never told a lie, Caitlyn is anything but manipulative, has no ability or appetite for playing political games, and values nothing in her relationships so much as sincerity. She was a lonely kid, with Jayce seemingly her only friend in the world, and she grows up to be an equally lonely adult, with no indication that she made new friends in the interim.

She may not feel like she belongs, but Caitlyn is still an aristocrat at heart. She gets offended when she's not shown a certain level of respect, and has a tendency to say derisive things out of ignorance for how the lower classes live. She also acts with no fear of repercussion; as Marcus says, "she does whatever she wants," including committing multiple felonies, and her only punishment is a stern talking-to from her mother. And part of that privilege means never learning to take no for an answer, at least when it comes to pursuing her goals. She has a strong, laser-focused desire to uncover the truth and to prove herself correct, and when she sets her mind to something, no one and nothing is going to stop her.

But with privilege also comes naivety, and Caitlyn has been horribly sheltered by her parents. She's lived her life in a wealthy little bubble, and has no perspective of the world outside the very narrow one she grew up with. She doesn't question the structures of power or systemic abuses. She struggles to understand moral complexity. Good people are good and bad people are bad, and Caitlyn is blind to even the most obvious clues that some of the “good” people are not actually all that good. When it comes to “bad” people, conversely, she’s very open to seeing the good in them. She’s quick to trust, even when she shouldn’t, and very slow to distrust, even when she really should. In general, she views the world through the lens of her own narrow experiences, and isn’t quick to understand other perspectives.

Her parents' overprotectiveness has led to Caitlyn distancing herself from them and her surname as much as possible. She wants to stand on her own two feet, out from under her mother's shadow. And she rightly believes she has the skill to do so: she's both an excellent detective and an excellent sniper. She has her limitations, though. Her poor reflexes in moments of unexpected danger and comparative lack of fighting ability means she needs to be able to use her brains, rather than her brawn, to get out of tight situations. She also struggles in social situations outside of her comfort zone, and typically tries to hide her unease with exaggerated toughness, or just collapses into an awkward mess.

So much of Caitlyn’s personality, goals, and desires are bound up in her privilege and social status. But who Caitlyn is, at heart, comes from somewhere else. As a child, her mentor asked, “What are you shooting for?” She never answers in words, but she does in action, over and over. Moreso than justice or righteousness or any other high-minded ideal, Caitlyn is kind. While Jayce speaks of making the world a better place and improving lives in the broadest, most idealistic of terms, Caitlyn is motivated by something much more concrete: who is hurting right now, and how she can help them. Caitlyn’s mentor said, “Knowing how to handle this weapon means being able to protect people, to be of service to the city,” and Caitlyn shaped her entire moral worldview around those words.

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