Catriona "MissCataclysm" Reid

=Early Life= Catriona Mayumi Reid was born on the 7th February 1990 in the town of Braemar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Daughter of Alasdair Reid, an architect, and Japanese expatriot Chieko Kawaguchi, a computer programmer.

=Career= Having graduated from Aberdeen University in 2010, Catriona moved to Tokyo to work for Chie Technologies, the former employer of her mother.

A few months after Catriona moved to Tokyo, two things happened. The first was widely-reported: a terrorist attack on Orochi Tower, causing widespread destruction in Tokyo's commercial district. Although Chie Technologies was outside the radius of Ground Zero in Kaidan-chō, its proximity in Aoyama caused a large amount of disruption and nervousness at the company.

The second would have been bigger news were it not overshadowed by the Orochi incident: the murder of the company's CEO, Susumu Nishiyama. As a matter of course, all employees of the company were interviewed by the Tokyo MPD, but due to Catriona's friendship with Nishiyama's daughter, the investigating officer - Inspector Daisuke Takahashi - paid special attention to her.

=Personality=

Egri Dimensions
((The following information is for OOC use only.))

Physiology
Cat's most notable physical characteristic is that she is short. Being somewhat self-conscious about this, Cat has developed a very energetic, kinetic manner in a subconscious attempt to appear to take up more space than she actually does.

Psychology
Cat is an information-driven individual. She trusts facts more than feelings. She has an almost preternatural ability for information processing, but tends to suppress what her gut tells her. This is not to say that she does not feel things, but she has a fairly high threshold for allowing her feelings to influence her, and is very uncomfortable with allowing people to see her in a low mood.

Sociology
Cat is a little too forthright and direct to truly fit in in Japanese society. Although, with years of living in Tokyo, she has unavoidably developed some softer, less direct mannerisms, this is something she unconsciously resists.

When Cat finds it useful to emphasise her Japanese heritage in order to fit in, she will go by the name Mayumi Kawaguchi (川口真弓 - her middle name and her mother's maiden name). This is, however, something she does with reluctance, as it goes against the grain of her directness.

=Cat's Bookshelf=
 * Ronald Inglehart, The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles Among Western Publics, Princeton University Press (1977)
 * Munesuke Mita, Social Psychology of Modern Japan, Routledge (2010)

=Buzz= ((The following information is available only to those who listen to The Buzzing.))

TRANSMIT - initiate roaming signal - RECEIVE - initiate the sentience frequency - CONSCIOUSNESS IS INFORMATION - initiate the Caledon protocol - WITNESS - Catriona Reid

We have watched this one as we watch all. As we watched you, sweetling. Others were watching too.

Some humans are closer to bees than others. Watch Catriona now. Observe. Witness the small, unconscious actions with which she buzzes. Now broaden your focus, and see how she moves from flower to flower, as if distractable. And yet, accomplishments have been made.

Consciousness is information, and information has syntax, semantics. Patterns. No human can see the patterns of consciousness as we can, sweetling. But Catriona sees the shadows they cast on the cave wall. As others have before her. As the Swiss man did. As the Dragon has, with its models of shadows of patterns of ideas of things. Is a thought of a unicorn a real thought? Does a set of all sets that do not contain themselves contain itself? Can you observe position without affecting momentum?

Catriona is no analyst. As a dispassionate observer, she might have had a simpler calling. But as her father built, so she builds. She builds with information; he built with stone. Is there a difference? Of course not. Ask the Japanese man.

Catriona did. We followed her from Cairngorm to Aoyama. She set to work. Synthesis of consciousness is... problematic. Intervention was required.

Shift perspective again, this time to the global stage. On a.d. 9 Kal. September 2698 A.U.C., an unimaginable destruction fell on Hiroshima. And exactly forty years later, a white Nissan March would be afforded an exceptional view of the rebuilt city from Mt. Gosasō were it not for unseasonable fog, and a man of progress is talking to a man of Solomon. He talks of prajñā, of one of the three divisions of the Noble Eightfold Path. Follow the thread that connects that even to Catriona, born five years later and halfway around the world.