#open world rpg starring ecaterina WHEN

[sunbentsky-archived]

There is much Ecaterina regrets about her past and the things she’s done. 

First, she ran away from home when she was barely sixteen and fell in with a bloody and sadistic outlaw gang. Her parents, hearing about the kind of people she was surrounded with and the atrocities she’s taken part in, went to find her, and when they did, they were killed in front of Ecaterina while begging her to come back home. She tried to cut ties with the gang afterward, several times, but every single time she was coerced, threatened, tortured, caught and brought back. It became evident that this would be a life she could opt out of, and she accepted it, but still blamed herself for her parent’s death. 

The second major regret of her life is leaving her husband and daughter alone and running again. Not without good reason, though, because she tried to start over and settle down, yet her past caught up with her. Members of the gang she used to run with found her and kidnapped her husband, trying to lure Ecaterina out. She managed to rescue her husband, but would not get to enjoy more time with him and their daughter, as she left them the very next day, only now realizing how dangerous it was for them to be around her and how she could never stop running. 

Third regret: her daughter, now married and with a son, begging her to return to the civilized world and stay with them, as her husband turned into a violent and abusive man, and she could not care for her song alone. Ecaterina refused, knowing what happened the last time she was around her daughter. Months later, she learned that she’s died-- drowning, an apparent suicide. Once more, Ecaterina ran even farther. 

In the fourth instance things could have gone horribly wrong, they didn’t. When her grandson, now fifteen, managed to find her and write her about all the ways his father was torturing him and how he could bear it no longer, Ecaterina came to his aid as fast as she could. She killed her son-in-law, took her grandson, and they rode out together. She raised him from then on, taught him how to use a gun, how to hunt, how to rob and steal to survive, how to injure and kill to defend himself.

In a way, Bogdan was Ecaterina’s redemption-- or at least that’s what she hopes for. Through her grandson, she returned an honorable, kind-hearted person to the world, in exchange for all those whose lives she took. Still, her regrets, mistakes, and sins remain, and no matter how much she tries to be good and do good, she keeps falling back into old habits and giving in to her impulses. After all, it’s all she’s ever known for over forty years. 

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