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A workplace portrait of subject "Cathleen Lockhart" by Fridolin Wyler This portrait was commissioned within District 11 of City 24 shortly after relocation to the new Administrative Nexus. The subjects expression hints at lingering trauma from the earlier "Metro Incident." 
A vacation portrait of subject "Cathleen Lockhart" by Fridolin Wyler This flaunting portrait was commissioned within District 11 of city 24 in preparation for what would become known as the "Dubai Incident." |
NAME: Cathleen Lockhart | NATIONALITY: USA - California - San Francisco |
AGE: 23 | EDUCATION: [Not Specified] |
GENDER: Female | OCCUPATION: |
HAIR COLOR: Blonde | ASSIGNMENT: |
EYE COLOR: Brown | RESIDENCE: |
HEIGHT: 6'2 | STATUS: DECEASED |
ETHNICITY: European (Scottish and Norwegian ancestry) | STATED CAUSE FOR EMPLOYMENT "I need a new Deputy-- Send anybody!" - Minister Orwell |
| Originally from San Francisco, Cathleen's young life was thrown into disarray by the portal storms. With the infestation encroaching across the desert, her family took refuge further north. During the journey her mother had developed a lung infection of unknown origin, causing their progress to stall. Up to the end, each breath produced small bundles of alien spores, before she inevitably choked to death in front of her daughters eyes. Some years were spent toughening it out in the Washington mountains after that. An only child with a sole caretaker, her father tried her best to teach her independence where he could, but his skills were different to the more feminine qualities of his wife, whose primary impact on Cathleen's life was signing her up for pageants and instilling a belief that beauty defined ones worth. Taught how to handle a gun, how to hunt and some basic safe practices, Cathleen had grown comfortable above the clouds where the spores couldn't reach. But this small refuge in the growing tide of infestation all around them had proven finite. For when the Combine came, they swept through like a storm. Encampments within the wilderness were found through their fires at night, through the smoke rising into the sky. Dropships landed and detained her father by force. Cathleen was found hiding in a bush. Both were subsequently taken for processing, then sent to inhabit City 1, formerly New York City. It was here that Cathleen got her start. Acting first as a serving girl, then as a bartender, her public position garnered the attention of lower ranking Administrative personnel. When one offered her a job, she thought it was because she was special. In some ways, she unfortunately was. Used as an attachment while in public, and a trophy to stare at while in private, Cathleen faced a career of lurking gazes and crude remarks. Perhaps out of ignorance, or desperation, she learned to misinterpret them as something else entirely. Over the years her employment contract would change hands. Some of her bosses were found to be corrupt or disloyal, others disinterested. Gradually her employers became more notable, with a steady rise noted in her prospective bosses power and position. After her latest employer had been fired after the "Bunny Outfit" Incident, Cathleen was unemployed. However, she was an unemployed woman with an extensive resume. When one particular man sought an agency to find a hire with specific traits, they went further than expected to find the right candidate. Offered a work transfer to City 24, Cathleen could not have known what to expect. Perhaps a secretary? Or a personal assistant of some kind? When she met Orwell, he simply told her to do what she was hired to do. Not out of maliciousness, but out of his own confusion. Unbeknownst to Cathleen in that moment, she had just become the Deputy Minister of Commerce. A series of events followed this unusual turn. The man most spoke of with revile or contempt showed his loyalty to those around him, putting himself at great risk for the well being of an employee. Although he had his challenges, she found herself coming alive under Orwell's wing. Both fed into each others faults, while also accounting for them. It was a difficult dynamic to avoid from spiraling out of control, but in many ways it was familial. Work was not quite so work when bonds had been formed. Which made her choice that followed all the more meaningful. Offered a chance of employment within the empowered Administration of City 13, Cathleen refused. Opting instead to remain loyal to Orwell and help see his dreams built from the ground up. Although they made headway within Industrial 24, matters grew complicated. Cathleen herself, while left in charge of the cities finances during Orwell's extended campaign to overhaul the cities zoning, faced assassination. Put into a critical state, it took a lot of effort and a fortune in supplies to buy her some more time. But her condition had grown worse while within recovery, for the death of their dreams was put on public display. City 13 had assumed control over Industrial 24. The slim sliver of hope Orwell and Cathleen kept between them had been dashed. Industrial 24 would never become an influential state, it would never know the opulence of a once great City 24, with its bounty of affluent and enriched citizenry. Maybe it was mere coincidence, or perhaps a complication few could have foreseen, but her time of death shortly followed the broadcasts end. Those four shots, opportunistically taken, had perhaps killed more than two administrative personnel. Only time would tell if Industrial 24's future had taken a turn for the better, or worse. |
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| COMBINE LOGISTICS COMMITTEE ▮▮▯▯▯▯▯ "They are so stingy." | MONETARY OVERSIGHT COMMITTE ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ "So much money can be intoxicating at times..." | CIVIC DUTY AND ENGAGEMENT ▮▮▮▮▯▯▯ "What is CCDE?" |
| BOARD OF OPERATIONS [CCA] ▮▮▮▮▮▯▯ "Everything is different here... It's concerning..." | MINISTRY OF PROGRESS ▮▮▮▮▮▯▯ "They keep secrets from me. Who would I tell?" | [MINISTRY OF] CIVIL PROTECTION ▮▮▮▯▯▯▯ "They thrive off killing the mood." |
| SECURITY COUNCIL ▮▮▯▯▯▯▯ "That was NOT Dubai you sent us to!" | CIVIL WORKERS UNION ▮▮▮▮▯▯▯ "They tend to hate work. The irony..." | RETAIL COORDINATION ▮▮▮▮▮▯▯ "Our little rebranded pinky finger on the ground." |
| CIVIL MEDICAL & RESEARCH UNION ▮▮▮▮▮▯▯ "They saved my life once! At a cost..." | ORGANIZED REBELLION ▮▯▯▯▯▯▯ "Inhuman monsters that just make things worse." | CITY 13 [FRENCH CITIZENRY] ▮▮▯▯▯▯▯ "Orwell is right about most of you." |
| CITIZENRY ▮▮▮▮▯▯▯ "Sometimes I'd rather forget they exist." | COLLABORATORS ▮▮▮▮▮▮▯ "They love to give me compliments!" | UNDERCLASS [CRIMINALS] ▮▮▯▯▯▯▯ "After that camp I can see I was a bit... aggressive." |
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| COMBINE LOGISTICS COMMITTEE ▮▮▯▯▯▯▯ "They are so stingy." | MINISTRY OF COMMERCE ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ "So much money can be intoxicating at times..." | MINISTRY OF ENLIGHTENMENT ▮▮▮▯▯▯▯ "I kind of thought they would be more fun..." |
| COMBINE CIVIL ADMINISTRATION ▮▮▮▮▯▯▯ "Our work is important! Some are jerks though." | MINISTRY OF PROGRESS ▮▮▮▮▮▯▯ "They keep secrets from me. Who would I tell?" | [MINISTRY OF] CIVIL PROTECTION ▮▮▮▯▯▯▯ "They thrive off killing the mood." |
| SECURITY COUNCIL ▮▮▮▯▯▯▯ "I'm not entirely sure why this exists?" | CIVIL WORKERS UNION ▮▮▮▮▯▯▯ "They tend to hate work. The irony..." | DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ▮▮▮▮▮▯▯ "Our little pinky finger on the ground." |
| CIVIL MEDICAL & RESEARCH UNION ▮▮▮▮▮▯▯ "They saved my life once! At a cost..." | ORGANIZED REBELLION ▮▯▯▯▯▯▯ "Inhuman monsters that just make things worse." | CITY 13 [FRENCH CITIZENRY] ▮▮▯▯▯▯▯ "Orwell is right about most of you." |
| CITIZENRY ▮▮▮▮▯▯▯ "Sometimes I'd rather forget they exist." | COLLABORATORS ▮▮▮▮▮▮▯ "They love to give me compliments!" | UNDERCLASS [CRIMINALS] ▮▯▯▯▯▯▯ "I hope you all die for what you have done." |
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