Editing Cate

[[File:Cate.png|thumb|234px|right|''CATE: Mushroom ''hunting''. You can "pick" apples, because they're right out there in the open. Mushrooms hide. You have to hunt for them.'']]

'''Cate''' is the captain of the [[Mucky Mammoth]]. In [[Act IV]], she joins [[Conway]], [[Shannon]], [[Ezra]], [[Junebug]], and [[Johnny]] on their travels down the [[Echo River]] in search of [[Dogwood Drive]].

A [[wrongle]] of Cate is viewable at http://kentuckyroutezero.com/cate.wrongle.

== Life and work ==

Cate is a tugboat captain who helps operate and pilot the [[Mucky Mammoth]] six nights a week. She knows a great deal about mushrooms and their medicinal properties, having become interested after coming across a book on homeopathic medicine in a used bookstore; eventually, she joined the Lexington Mycological Society Lexington and began to study the medicinal uses of fungi. She grows many natural plants on board the tugboat, and  also has an affinity for tea.

She is also a [[wikipedia:Doula|doula]], assisting women on the surface in childbirth, and helped deliver both of [[Poppy]]'s nieces.

== Inspiration & development ==

Per the {{V&A}}, Cate was originally based on the Greek goddess [[wikipedia:Hecate|Hecate]], a figure associated with nature, fertility, and liminal space of [[wikipedia:Crossroads (mythology)|crossroads]]. She was also originally planned to be a relative of [[Carrington]]'s and based on the mythological [[wikipedia:Psychopomp|psychopomp]] who would, free of judgement, guide deceased souls to the afterlife.

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