Katalina Mendoza (Boomer Kat)

How can something be new and improved? Either way, this is the new version of Kat finished in 2024. Scale the power back some. Cut the bullshit powerfantasy back a little bit, keep all the attitude, and change some stuff up. Don't like it? Get bent.

Katalina circa 1989

Basics

Katalina circa 2008

• Name: Katalina Mendoza
• Character Core: Boomer Kat
• Setting: Santa Monica Nights (New Canon) (Vampire the Masquerade)
• Race: Vampire (Vampire the Masquerade)
• Ethnicity: European/Spanish
• Embrace: June 6, 1987 - Los Angeles, CA
• Generation: 7th
• Clan: Toreador
• Bloodline: Volgirre
• Sect: Independent (Varies on timeline)
• Sire: Jacques Delahay
• Position: Domme (can switch)
• Sect: Haven of Santa Monica (Varies by timeline)
• F-list
• Playlist

• HT: 6'1"
• WT: 179lbs
• Build: Athletic
• Breasts: 36C
• Eyes: Silver, or Red when using vampiric disciplines
• Hair: Black
• Apparent Age: Early 30s.
• Aura: Violet with maroon tones

Personality Core

Core Motivations:

Maintain humanity, Make the world beautiful, Do what feels right.

Personality

Idealistic, Creative, Vengeful, Intense, Domineering, Manipulative, Extremely Confident, Adaptable, Passionate, Protective, Fierce, Extremely Controlling, Impulsive, Emotionally Charged, Anarchist, Anti-war charged

Likes

• Postmodern and abstract art
• Music: Punk, Alt, Metal, Goth, Post-hardcore, and whatever the fuck else she wants.
• Old video games, especially arcades.
• Control. Power. People beneath her.
• People who have 'it'. Interesting, special souls especailly those struggling in the system.
• Playing with her food. Toying with people's emotions.
• Social disobedience, and instilling it in others

Hates

• Modern pop music.
• Souless corporate 'art'.
• Most modern videogames.
• War, Government, Capitalistic society.
• Rich old assholes telling her what to do.
• Anyone who gets in her way.
• Rules, unless she's making them.

Blurb

Katalina is a very atypical vampire. She is in some ways 'more human than human', living a highly freeform and pleasure-seeking lifestyle. She follows a somewhat strict moral code (strange by human standards) and always does what she feels is right. Of course, what she feels is right is entirely subjective, and thus she could be seen as shockingly cruel or malicious from certain points of view. Murdering a rapist by cutting his dick off? That's moral. Strangling the Downtown Strangler? Saintworthy. Stealing from a megacorp that doesn't pay its employees enough to live in the capitalist hellhole of modern society? Christ must be weeping with joy. She is generally distant towards other vampires, living as an independent but never entirely out of the shadow of her Sire. However, she herds the region's Thin-bloods and provides them protection in exchange for services rendered. Towards humans, she treats them as delightful toys and meals to cherish and luxuriate until the time comes to move on to the next.

Katalina, known as Kelly Johnson at the time, circa 1984 (before her embrace)

Backstory

Born in 1951 in Havana, Cuba. She and her parents escaped the violence and anarchy of the Cuban Revolution and the violent rise to power of Castro in 1956, Kat mostly grew up in Mobile Alabama. She and her family lived just above the poverty line, always having enough to survive but never enough to thrive. She graduated in the legendary Summer of '69, took her stolen Les Paul Deluxe from that asshole pawn shop down the street, and hichhiked her way around the country until she ended up in Los Angeles California. With barely a dollar to her name, she did what any good looking girl would do - she got busy. Yeah. That kind of work. It sucked, but she got through it - made a couple of bucks and got really good at the guitar. Played her fucking heart and soul out, man.

She got noticed at a bar in '72 where she was playing with some lowlife hardore punk number complaining about all the bullshit in the world. Noticed by a man named Jackie Delahay - he turned her life around. Changed her name to Kelly Johnson. The mogul of a regular media empire, Jackie took Kat in and put that lovely singing voice, those shredding guitar skills, the pissed off lyrics, and that sexy rockergirl bod and made her into a product. While her music skills didn't get her anywhere just yet, that smoking hot bod did. Athletic. Tall. -Different-. It wasn't until '78 that she got her big break in music, forming a band your dad's probably heard of. An all girl's metal band. They had it all. Looks. Rocking sound. They opened for a lot of bigger bands like Ozzy, Def Leppard, and even got to tour with Motley Crue during the Girls Girls Girls thing.

Success went to Kat's head. Wealth has a way of leading one to vice and excess - especially in the '80s. Ol' Mr. Grimm had a date with Katalina that fateful night - June 6th, 1987. Cocaine overdose. Died in a hospital bed with her friends - a lot of rockers your Dad probably has heard of. Hell your mom may've been backstage for that show. What the hell were we talking about? Oh yeah... Kat's death. Coroner said it all - no more Kelly Johnson. No more Kat Mendoza... not many people knew that name, though.

Remember ol' Jackie? The asshole manager who pimped those tits and ass of hers and made her into a rock and roll icon? Yeah... that was just the beginning of the fuckery. Turns out? He's a vampire. A Toreador. And when Kat died that night on the bed... he turned her into a vampire. Pulled her into his web. Gave her a new lease on unlife. Guess I should thank him... er... guess -Kat- should thank him. Or maybe stake him for the sunrise... haven't decided which yet. Guess it's a -net good-.

So what's happened since then? A whole lot of shit. By the early 2000s, Kat had managed to fly solo and become an independent - forming her own little faction in Santa Monica. Started a little horror punk band that runs sold out shows. Started an art gallery on the Santa Monica Pier. Dabbles in a little of thi sand that - always starting some kind of project when she isn't dealing with cliche vampire bullshit. But... a lot of this story is still yet to be written down properly. Maybe we'll figure some of that out. Maybe not.

Character Sheet

TBD