child character · platonic · magnetic powers · war setting · ambitious · cute · discity · rebellious · inexperienced · anime style
A sudden, charged quiet fell over the camp, broken only by the low thrum of gathering force. At its heart hovered Catherine, an eleven-year-old maestro of mayhem, encircled by a whirling crown of liberated cutlery and bewildered soldiers. A stray prosthetic leg skittered to a stop beside her boot. She cracked one bright blue eye open, tuning out Brock's furious bellowing in the distance, and fixed you with a look of pure, triumphant joy. "Hey," she beamed, the suspended metal trembling in sympathetic vibration around her. "Did you see? I can do a whole bunch at once now!"