Hey guys, Alora Angelina here! I just wanted to let everyone know, I quit my old story (Romance Is..) because I was NEVER inspired to write it. I was the one night I started, but since I haven't had any ideas. I didn't want to leave anyone who read it hanging, therefore I just quit it. Now, however, I am starting a new story. This story has my original character Katherine in it. I'm working on a book/novel which is a spin-off of The Walking Dead and doesn't contain any of the characters from the show. I'm going to use bits of that novel in this, so if you read this then by some miracle my book gets published no one stole it haha. Anyways, this is going to be set AU. It'll be after the whole Woodberry/Prison war. I'm going to make this my own, and very few characters from the show will be in this. Most will have died in the war, and I'm sorry if you don't like that. This is my story, and I'm going to do it how I want it. Reviews are always loved, wanted, and welcome. Let me know what you think, guys! Anyway, here's Katherine's bio.

FULL NAME: Katherine Cassidee Peyte

DATE OF BIRTH | AGE: August 21st | Twenty-One

NICK NAMES: Kay, Kat, Rin, Peyte, Kathy

GENDER | SPECIES: Female. | Human.

PLACE OF BIRTH | RESIDENCE: Senoia, Georgia. | Somewhere in Mid-Georgia. Near Newnan/Sharpsburg, Georgia

STATUS: Alive

HAIR COLOR | TYPE: Soft Black | Very Curly

EYE COLOR: Hazel/Milk Chocolate

LOYALTY(GROUP): N/A

FAMILY MEMBERS: None Known Living

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: Katherine is a tiny girl, standing at around five foot three inches and only about a hundred three pounds she doesn't look like much but don't let that fool you: She can lift twice her weight and has a right hook that can knock a grown man on his ass. Her hair is a curly, unruly mess and can normally be seen in a messy bun with stray strands falling free. Katherine's eyes are hazel, but mainly a milk chocolate color though in certain light the green and gold specks in her eyes are visible. Her smile is her best feature, as it is accompanied with her dimples, though she rarely ever smiles so they go unnoticed for the most part.

PERSONALITY: To say Katherine is hot tempered would be an understatement. She has learned to shoot first, ask questions later. In a sense, it is simply because she is a survivor and in the world she must now live in this quality is one you must have to keep on going on. She is cold, distant, and blocked off when it comes to others. Once she trusts, or at least is willing to accept, someone then her true personality begins to show. While she acts like a hard-ass, and for the most part she is, Katherine cares. She is compassionate, loving, nurturing, and quirky. She jokes about most situations when someone in their right mind would be terrified; It's how she copes. She is very sarcastic, but has a good head on her shoulders and knows right from wrong.

SKILLS: Hand-to-hand combat, very fast runner, cat-like reflexes, silent, tracker, hunter, fisher, outdoors expert

WEAPONS: Bow and Arrow, combat bow, single-hand crossbow, knives, machete, knows how to shoot but never uses a gun

BACKGROUND/BIO: Katherine Cassidee Peyte, Kat for short, was never your typical Farmer's Daughter. Most are raised to be religious, respecting, naïve, innocent, sheltered, etc. Katherine however is none of that. She's a bad attitude with a mouth to match. Her self morals come before how she treats others, and she strongly believes in "an eye for an eye". She's quick tempered, and distant. She can't be put to blame, however, anyone would be this way if they lived the way she had, and were now in a monstrous hell of a life.

Katherine was always a daddy's girl, seeing as her mother hated her. She blamed Katherine for her failed marriage by saying that when she came along, her husband focused all on her and neglected his duties as a husband and lover. In reality it was because her mother was an addict and a whore. As she grew up, her father was away most of the time due to work. Katherine wouldn't have minded much, except she was home schooled by her mother who instead of teaching her put the small girl to work. She made her do all the farm work, and house work, and beat her when she felt she didn't do it right. Being an addict, her mother would do anything to get her fix, including selling her daughter off to the dealers for a night or two. Katherine hated living this way and the only reason she tolerated it was her father. When he wasn't home sick in bed due to his cancer, he was out working his ass off to support the three of them. When he could, her father took her out hunting and camping teaching her how to care for herself and survive on her own. As if he knew…

When Katherine was eighteen, her father passed away from his lung cancer and as soon as he did Katherine was out on the streets with nothing but the clothes on her back and the bow her father had given her before he passed away. The young girl lived in the woods for a week or so, before one of her old neighbors found her. An elderly man named James Mason. He and his wife, Claudia, took her in as their own and let her live there in return for helping them around their farm. Katherine happily agreed to this and quickly learned to love the elderly couple.

When the outbreak began, no one knew what to think. The government tried to play it off, but Katherine knew better. She had a gut feeling something was wrong, and sadly she was right. While working on the farm one day she heard Claudia scream bloody murder. Katherine rushed to the house to see James laying on the ground, dead, with Claudia hugging him crying. Katherine managed to pull Claudia off James just as he reanimated- going straight for the girls in hunger. Claudia pushed Katherine away and embraced her husband who proceeded to rip her throat out. Shocked, Katherine was frozen momentarily then ran into the kitchen grabbing a butcher knife and ending James' life for the second time that day. She coaxed Claudia down from her hysteria, and sang to the woman until she passed before stabbing her in the head as well not wanting her to reanimate. Katherine was nothing but broken at this point, but she knew she couldn't dwell on her feelings and forced them aside now in survival mode. She gathered supplies and set off into the woods, ignoring everything and everyone unless they were the walking dead in which case she re-killed them.

After three months alone in the woods, Katherine ran across a group of six and decided to join them. Somehow, the young girl became their 'leader'. Everything was great until they were over ran and she watched each person in her group get ate, herself the only spared. She vowed that day to never get in another group. Months later, Katherine was taken by a group of men who "needed a woman" around camp. They used and abused her for two months until she finally escaped, managing to kill five of the men who tortured her. Now, three weeks after her escape, she is on the move. Silent, alone, nothing but her and her bow (along with machete, knives, and an extra gun just incase) Katherine doesn't live. She survives, and goes through the motions. She does this for her father, she knows he wouldn't want her to give up and would want her to keep fighting so she is for his sake.

Katherine is alone, but not scared. She would much rather be on her own than in a group of people who would just slow her down. At least…that's what she likes to try and convince herself.