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Catherine
Title	Earnshaw Family
Other Names
Korean	캐서린 언쇼
Japanese	キャサリン アーンショー
Nicknames	Cathy, ■■■■■
General Information
Gender	Female
Affiliations	Wuthering Heights
Relations	Heathcliff (Lover) Mr. Earnshaw (Father) Hindley (Brother) Linton (Husband) Nelly (Butler) Josephine (Butler) Every Catherine (Mirror self)
First Appearance	Canto VI: The Heartbreaking
Status	Erased
Voice Actor	Kim Hyeon-ji

“	Why can't the people I love... also love one another?	”
–Catherine, Canto VI: The Heartbreaking

Catherine Earnshaw (Hangul: 캐서린 언쇼, Kaeseolin Eonsyo), also known as Cathy (Hangul: 캐시, Kaesi), was the only daughter of the Earnshaw family, wife of Linton, and the owner of Wuthering Heights, where she was raised alongside Heathcliff and her brother Hindley. She is a major character in Canto VI: The Heartbreaking.

Catherine is explicitly mentioned for the first time during Intervallo III: Miracle in District 20, after Heathcliff reveals having received an invitation from Wuthering Heights, which carries Catherine's signature, and she is then revealed to be the person behind Heathcliff's wish for burning revenge and relentless pursuit of self-improvement.

Upon Heathcliff's arrival to Wuthering Heights, he discovers it's her funeral he's attending, and that he has been chosen to receive her Golden Bough.

Seeking closure for the one he loved most, he desperately pursues answers regarding her death and the mysterious circumstances surrounding it.

Appearance

Catherine is portrayed as a woman of short stature with an average build and a fair complexion. She has upper-back-length dark blonde hair, mildly curly at the tips, and chocolate brown eyes that often gaze sideways. Catherine is described as the "most beautiful person in the world" by Heathcliff, and her presence captivates the Edgar Family at first sight.

Her typical attire consists of a floor-length layered ballgown dress. The bottom layer is frilled and white, while the top layer is warm brown with gold trim and floral embroidery. The dress features a high collar adorned with a brown cravat connected to it, embellished with a shiny gold pendant. Catherine also wears a gold, rounded necklace, possibly an award for her career as an inventor.

The sleeves of her dress are layered, with the upper arm portion being large, puffy, and frilled, while the rest of the sleeve is form-fitting and extends to her wrists before slightly flaring outwards. Catherine wears dark brown gloves and heels.

During her childhood, Catherine wore a similar hairstyle, with the addition of a few stray white flowers. She wore a long, frilled white dress with a loose belt around the waist, featuring swirls and miscellaneous embroideries. Additionally, she donned a thin, yellow ribbon on the collar, adorned with a green pearl.

Personality

As a child, Catherine was quite adventurous and outgoing, and she often encouraged Heathcliff to break the rules while playing with her such as the day she wanted to investigate the Edgar Family mansion. Catherine had a love of riddles, with which she enjoyed testing Heathcliff, and she had a passion for inventing things from a young age, dreaming of becoming a grand inventor one day. After the death of her father, with Hindley becoming head of the household, Catherine began to heavily resent her brother, who endeavored to ruin her friendship with Heathcliff, and started to treasure her connection with Linton and his sister Isabella, enjoying their attention and open affection towards her, while Heathcliff appeared to distance himself from her. Catherine grew up quite sheltered, often feeling trapped in Wuthering Heights, and once told Heathcliff of how it saddened her to see the feathers in their pillows, as birds were meant to fly free instead of be killed for their beauty. Wuthering Heights often scared Catherine, as ever since she was a child, she was terrified of the dark of the manor and the ghost of her mother she saw wandering the halls.

As she grew older Catherine fell in love with Heathcliff and made all major life choices with him in mind, although her perception of their relationship was warped by a disbelief that he could love her in return. She decided it would be best to marry Linton despite not having romantic feelings for him, using him and his love for her to further her own goals, and for the sake of one day being able to help Heathcliff. After Heathcliff's departure from Wuthering Heights, her health rapidly declined, as she worried of what his fate might be without anyone to help him, and felt deeply hurt over his perceived indifference towards her. After being gifted a mirror that allowed her to see into the Mirror Worlds, her perception of herself changed drastically as she became convinced that in none of these worlds was there a version of Heathcliff and Catherine who were both happy, and that she was always the cause of his misery. Furthermore, she came to realize that despite Linton's attention, even he carried no true love for her, but having now been heavily influenced by her experiences with the mirror, she asked for his hand, deciding to carry on with her alternate self's plan to give up her life, and the lives of many others, for a chance at giving Heathcliff happiness.

During the events of Canto VI, Catherine witnesses the events at Wuthering Heights, while her existence is slowly overwritten with that of Every Catherine, and communicates through the memories in her diary and the strikes of lightning that represent her grief. Upon seeing Heathcliff's breakdown following the reveal of Nelly's betrayal, Catherine, though unable to speak, shows Heathcliff an old memory in which she gifted him a ring, as a way of making him understand the love she's always had for him. Catherine later admits to Dante to having been dishonest with her feelings for the people she cared for, never being brave enough to admit to them, and growing angry at those who misunderstood her. All the way to the end she struggles with discussing it openly, but eventually, inspired by Heathcliff's courage in admitting his love for her, Catherine finally manages to do the same, and she departs peacefully, as both of them feel their hearts have been reunited.

Mirror Worlds

• World within the Mirror
  • Through the Mirror, Catherine meets an Identity who dubs herself Every Catherine, the entity who pushes her into giving up her life and forming a contract with Hermann. Every Catherine appears as a monochromatic and transparent ghost version of herself, with the tips of her hair fading off like embers. Every Catherine's name comes from her belief that every Catherine must share the same fate, only bringing unhappiness to the person they love.

Catherine and Heathcliff share a large number of Mirror Worlds, and matching Identities. Some of these were shown to be:

• In a world that resembles a modern school setting, Catherine appears younger, as a schoolgirl. She wears a school uniform with short sleeves, a collared white blouse, and a blue ribbon. Her hair is in a half-up style, with the rest being in a crown braid, and she has an ahoge on the top of her head. This Identity appears in the universe where Heathcliff is a schoolboy.
• In a world where both have undergone E.G.O corrosion, Catherine appears as a pale figure marked by red lines up her body, with her hair transforming into shadowy hands covering her eyes, chin, and shoulders. These shadows extend up her arms and radiate off her back, covering her hands, which appear as sharp black claws. The corrosion bears resemblance to the Wandering Mind Abnormality. This Identity appears in the universe where Heathcliff is corroded resembling the Big Bird Abnormality.
• In the world of K Corp. as shown in Canto IV, Catherine appears to be a researcher. She wears a black turtleneck, an open white collared labcoat with two pens in the side pocket, and buttoned sleeves. Her hair is in a high ponytail in this iteration, reaching mid-back. This Identity appears in the universe with Sunshower Heathcliff. As Heathcliff's Identity mirrors Dongbaek, there is a possibility that Catherine is intended to mirror Yi Sang in this universe.
• In a world where both appear in formal clothing, Catherine is shown in a sage green evening dress, standing in the middle of a bright red room. Her collared dress is paired with a pistachio-green cravat adorned with a gold pendant. Catherine accessorizes with a green tea party hat featuring a moss green ribbon and multiple feathers. The rest of her hair is styled into a low bun ending at her ears. This Identity appears in the universe where Heathcliff wears a black suit.
• In a world that resembles a medieval wartorn setting, Catherine is a nun. She wears a brown medieval habit with a tall veil that conceals all of her hair. The nun uniform is adorned with gold trim and features gold spots on the edges. This Identity appears in the universe where Heathcliff is a knight.
• In the world of U Corp. as shown in Canto V, Catherine appears to be a U Corp. worker. She wears work clothes resembling a sailor's outfit, with a thick purple jacket featuring numerous pockets on the sleeves, paired with a desaturated lavender collared shirt. She wears a purple metal headband equipped with a plug-in wire attachment to her shirt. Her hair is notably shoulder-length instead of reaching her back. This Identity appears in the universe with Pequod Harpooner Heathcliff. As Heathcliff's Identity mirrors Queequeg, there is a possibility that Catherine is intended to mirror Ishmael in this universe.
• In the Wuthering Heights of a certain world, Catherine appears to wear a long dark trenchcoat which obscures her entirely. Her hair is cut slightly shorter, only reaching to her shoulders. This Identity appears in the universe where Heathcliff and Catherine are both dead, with their images standing before their graves and looking over Wuthering Heights.

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Trivia

• Catherine is based on both Catherine Earnshaw and Catherine Linton from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Her character and relationship with Heathcliff mixes elements of both characters from the novel and their respective relationships with Heathcliff and Hareton Earnshaw.
  • The use of Catherine's diary as a narrative device is directly inspired by the novel. In Wuthering Heights, Mr. Lockwood, tenant to the old Linton family residence, spends a night at Wuthering Heights in the late Catherine's room, where he finds and reads her diary. During the night, he is visited by her wailing ghost, a meeting which pushes him to ask the housekeeper Nelly Dean to tell him of the two manors' history and his landlord Heathcliff's past.
  • Catherine's interactions with the mirror she speaks to Every Catherine through is inspired by a section of the novel in which Catherine Earnshaw falls into delirium while pregnant with Edgar Linton's child. She stays in varying states of delirium until her death and during one of her most intense episodes she fails to recognize her own reflection in a mirror, concerning Nelly who has to cover the mirror to prevent Catherine from growing more distressed. This interaction happens just two months before Catherine's death, similar to how Catherine in Limbus Company begins to make plans to end her life shortly after meeting Every Catherine.
  • The day of the start of Catherine's convalescence and "rebirth" (and therefore her completely succumbing to the Mirror's influence) coinciding with the beginning of Spring references her literary counterparts' fate: Catherine Earnshaw dies on the day of the Spring equinox, in giving birth to her daughter, Catherine Linton.
  • The final world Dante peers into, in which two figures stand in front of Catherine and Heathcliff's graves, explicitly references the last chapter of the novel, where Nelly Dean reveals that the shepherds of the moors have seen the ghosts of the two looking out of the windows of Wuthering Heights, or crossing the moors together.
• Catherine has a connection to the Wandering Mind abnormality, with her Corroded Mirror World form resembling it, and with the Mirror Dungeon fusion gift associated with Canto VI and Catherine, the Handheld Mirror, being made up of an E.G.O Gift obtained from the Wandering Mind, Mirror Tactile Synaesthesia. The Wandering Mind is described as an empty, humanlike statue, within which a mind ends up wandering into. This appears remarkably similar to Catherine's fate after being sealed in her coffin, with her consciousness being removed and replaced by another's.

The Pequod Harpooneer Heathcliff's defeat wail voice line getting censored.

• • Mirror Tactile Synaesthesia, based on a condition in which an individual experiences sensation in the same part of the body as another person, references Catherine and Heathcliff's connection and similarities, with their affirmations of having felt each other's miseries and their hearts having always been the same.
  • The event choice story that leads to obtaining the Mirror Tactile Synaesthesia E.G.O Gift, in which the chosen Sinner avoids countless of the Abnormality's encroaching arms to reach for a single hand, also appears similar to the events of Canto VI, at the end of which Catherine comes to realize she should not have meddled with the endless possibilities of the Mirror Worlds, as the person she loves the most is the Heathcliff of her world, and Heathcliff decides to focus his efforts in saving the Catherine of his world.

N Corp. Kleinhammer Heathcliff's's Uptie story getting censored.

• The title of the fourth Season, "Clear all Cathy," pays homage to a meme within the Korean community. It stems from the similarity in pronunciation between "Clear All Cache" and "Clear All Cathy" in Hangul, as both words are spelled identically. Despite its meme origins, the reference to "Clear All Cache" becomes a crucial plot point in the finale of Canto VI.
• Following Canto VI, with Catherine's erasure from the universe, any mention of her from Heathcliff's Mirror World selves is censored with "⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜" and when her name is spoken aloud, it is replaced by static. As the Heathcliff of this world is shown to be able to say her name openly, this likely means this static effect only affects the LCB-PDA Dante uses to communicate with the Identities.
• After the events of Canto VI, the only characters that appear to remember Catherine are Heathcliff, Dante, Demian, and Carmen through her narration during Identity Stories. The reasons behind Demian and Carmen's awareness of her remain unknown, although it appears to imply that the two exist outside the confines of the Mirror Worlds.