Ode to Katrana

Well, I'm not really going to write an ode, but I want to write a blog post dedicated to my online persona...Katrana. Katrana was a character I created on The Final Challenge mud. A shaman actually. In my mind, she was powerful, smart, quirky, and could kill people who attempted to harm her. She was everything I thought I was not. Katrana quickly became my most favorite character on this text based game. My poor other characters fell by the wayside: neglected and abandoned. Katrana had friends, she had love interests. In playing her I escaped the hell known as middle and high school. In reality, I was a highly intelligent, booksmart, naive, awkward girl. I had a few close friends, but I always felt 'outside'. Within TFC, I thrived, I was not the most powerful, or the most knowledgeable. But people there knew me. I could talk to them without fear of ridicule or judgement...except for when we were role-playing, and hey that was allowed. Little did I realize...Katrana was me. For the most part, Katrana's personality, her phrases and quirks are my own. Now granted, I am not a goddess in real life, nor can I kill people with a single word. I also do not have a red aura, or weasels who worship me. But every now and then I wish I was her. People would ask, but wouldn't you miss Scott...my response? Well no, I married him there too! :)