Kat's Questionnaire

New York (state & city), at the south end of Manhattan, in the Battery Park area, a short walk from the Twin Towers memorial and not far from China Town. 8 Carlisle Street. That's where my personal business is, TezKat's Gym. It's in the basement. I live upstairs with a used books & comic book store below me, a floor of storage units above. I still have a good sized loan, but I own the building. I rent out both the lower and upper floors, to balance the funds. Businesses below and apartments above. I also let others rent gym space to teach their own classes. 

I grew up in this general area, but I sought out Battery Park for a specific and kind of silly reason. That's where the Justice Society was based in modern days. Before 2011 anyway, but we don't talk about that.

I kind of think of myself as this world's Wildcat. Ted Grant was a heavyweight boxer, Yolanda Montez hispanic (obviously), and I do box (among other ways to fight) and I'm descended from Aztecs. Both were street level heroes, and you've got to start somewhere if you want to change the world, even if that change comes from teaching the next generation of heroes, like Ted did.

This is a perfect place to start.

Too many power hungry and greedy people in this world, and too many of them have the power to stay on the top and get their friends there too. Working within the system won't change that, we need someone outside to make it work, and just maybe that person is me.

I'm starting in the local area, both as a 'street level' superhero and also helping the local community work inside 'the system' to enforce lasting change. As I grow to influence larger scale things, it's important to avoid being taken down by the corrupt monsters of the world. So, even if I can't start my own Justice League, I'll be recruiting people to each be the guiding force for their communities as well. Never someone who wants the power, but always someone who knows how to use it.

As we grow, we'll be getting people into office as well, using the grassroots method to elect people supported by their areas. As we get the US back from corruption, less of the corruption here will spread to the world. Then we just need to take down the worst leaders overseas. If they invade someone, we support the underdog not the attacker. Especially if genocide is a possibility.

I don't want to have to kill anyone along the way, either personally or via others fighting for the same goals, but I can't fault the French for clearing corruption how they did. If it has to be done, I don't intend to hesitate.

And until I'm not needed any longer, I'll fight to stay alive and keep fighting, but changing the world is always more important than my personal survival. We need a better world, and if I have to be a monster or a martyr to do it, so be it.

I've never met either, but I wouldn't be who I am without grampa Tezuka or KatAbra. Then there's MJ.

My dad's dad was a successful businessman in Japan, and he made even more money in the States when he immigrated here, taking his wife and son along. My dad never forgave him. That's one of the few things I still remember of him, him cursing his father for ever bringing him here. I think the money he left me was an apology to dad. He didn't have anyone left but me, and I'm told that he refused to ever be extravagant. I guess he wanted a legacy he could provide for, and what he got was me. I hope I can make him proud.

Next up is KatAbra. She's in the other world I'm linked to, and her cat powers are where mine come from. She styles herself as a mystic much more than I ever will, I'm focusing more on the cat side. I did learn one of her favorite 'spells' though, one of the few things that sets her apart from the three Wildcats: technology mimicry. She's more of a cat burglar than me, but still a hero, and sometimes she has to secretly swipe tech. So she learned to mentally connect to digital devices and store their data in her head. She knows this stuff better than I do, and can do so much more with it. All I've got is that I can get a feel for a device at hand, and echoing what it can do inside my mind. At least I can't lose my cell phone now!

Lastly and far from least, Mary Jane Bloom. She lost her parents when she was little too, but she remembered how stoned her dad got. Her mom died in childbirth, so he dealt with it by naming his daughter after his favorite pastime. She's the other kid I mentioned from the group home. She was only six then but she decided to study martial arts because of me. My first fan I guess, and the only person who figured out it's me out there patrolling the neighborhood after dark. We've always kept in touch, I guess I felt responsible for her. She's like the kid sister my parents never lived to give me. Her family was Jewish by the way, and she clung to that heritage just as tightly as she did to emulating me. I don't believe, but she does. She's studying to be a rabbi and I couldn't be more proud.

I don't want her to follow me into heroics, but maybe she can help behind the scenes, be an Alfred for me, or a Ted Grant to the kids starting out.