Cathleen Bate (Star and Stripes)

ALIAS

Star and Stripe Cassie

BIRTHDAY

July 4

HEIGHT

193cm (6'4")

HAIR COLOR

Blonde (Dyed, currently)

EYE COLOR

Brown

QUIRK

New Order

BIRTHPLACE

United States

FAMILY

Unnamed parents Unnamed younger sister

OCCUPATION

Pro Hero

APPEARANCE

Cathleen Bate was a tall woman with a well-muscled build. She had elegant facial features, narrow eyes, and long flowing blonde hair with eight distinct tufts swept backward and fashioned in a similar manner to the ones All Might possessed in his empowered form. Her hero costume was a high-collared skin-tight bodysuit with shoulder pads, boots and gauntlets. Fitting to her home country and hero name, the upper torso was decorated in stripes, and her gauntlets and collar are studded with metal stars. Completing the outfit was a long, striped cape that resembles of the U.S. flag.

PERSONALITY

Cathleen was very brash. She had a profound admiration for All Might, due to him saving her and her family years ago when he was studying abroad. She considered his two hair tufts to be a symbol of heroism and had her own hair styled in a similar manner with eight tufts, to symbolize her dedication of being a hero. Cathleen also admired his incredible strength, to the point where she always applied super strength to herself using her Quirk. Cathleen was also shown to have an intense desire to protect others and seek justice, to the point where she was willing to ruin her own reputation and career for the sake of others. From her desire to protect and admiration for All Might, Cathleen was extremely kind and selfless, willing to risk her life to save Japan from Tomura and All For One. However, Cathleen was shown to disregard the rules, making her reckless, with Timothy Agpar adding that her defiance for the rules is what made their nation shine the brightest. In the past, Cathleen had a more insecure side while she was training to become a hero, as she lamented over her Quirk not being able to empower her to match or surpass All Might's strength, believing this was because she was a girl. Her feelings were reinvigorated however after she was encouraged by her teammates, saying that she doesn't have to try to be like All Might because she's great and strong enough as she is. Because of this, she was also friendly and sisterly towards her squadron, referring to them as "brothers" and "bros". They are shown to reciprocate this closeness since the pilots in her squad referred to her by the nickname "Star". They also assured Cathleen that she could always rely on them in times of need, further demonstrating their great bond.

SKILLS

Overall Abilities: Cathleen was the No. 1 Hero in the United States, and regarded by All For One as "The strongest woman around." He also noted that she could easily shrug off cheap tricks and petty tactics. All For One even admitted that he'd planned to steal One For All before confronting Cathleen, demonstrating how much of a threat All For One acknowledged her as. Even more, her might was shown able to compete single-handedly against Tomura, while at 98% full power of wielding All For One. Notably, she was able to fly across the Pacific to Japan while standing on top of the plane she was riding, showing she had exceptional balance and endurance. All For One feared what would happen if she teamed up with Izuku Midoriya in combat against "Tomura". Admitting that even if Tomura's body had reached 100% completion, the duo would most certainly defeat him, forcing him to take "a massive gamble" in fighting her without One For All. Enhanced Durability: Even without New Order's protection, Cathleen still possessed impressive durability. She was able to withstand the explosion of the Tiamat missiles from a distance without her strength enhancement rule. Indomitable Will: Cathleen held a remarkably strong willpower, one that could rival that of All Might himself. Even when faced with death by Tomura's Decay, she still managed to oppose him through her vestige, battering Tomura and All For One within the vestige world and destroying multiple of the former's Quirk Factors, leaving Tomura in an injured state. Long after her demise and the destruction of her Quirk, it is revealed that Cathleen left a mental scar within Tomura and that an ember of her will continues to haunt him, further demonstrating her incredible tenacity and strength of will.

QUIRK Pt. 1

New Order, Cathleen's Quirk allowed her to set a rule onto her surroundings, allowing her to manipulate and bestow new properties onto herself and the world around her. In order to activate her Quirk, she had to first make physical contact with the target and speak its name, then explain the rule she wished to impose. She could only impose two rules at any given time. She could give herself additional abilities, as well as manipulate the condition of her opponent's body. While there seemed to be no limit to how much she was able to impede someone, even to the point of killing them, there was a limit on how much she could increase one's power, so she could not give herself infinite strength. She could even use her power on incorporeal things, like the air and laser beams, which she was able to shape into constructs, even very powerful gigantic ones. However, she could not arbitrarily affect a target she hadn't touched through clever wording; for example, after touching the air, she wasn't able to make it so that a person who touches the air around them will die. In order for her Quirk to function against a living target, the person in question must possess a subconscious link to the identity that Cathleen perceives them to possess. When using New Order against non-living entities that lack a sense of self however, Cathleen's one-sided understanding of them is enough to enforce a rule.

QUIRK Pt. 2

There are three known scenarios that render New Order ineffective: 1. New Order may be consciously nullified if her target has a fluid sense of individuality. This target may choose to superimpose one of its multiple identities into the field of Bate's conscious awareness thus, nullifying the impact of her Quirk. 2. New Order may be inadvertently nullified if a target does not understand itself to have an individuated sense of identity. Without a subconscious link to an individual sense of being, the target begins to question its own sense of being resulting in a state of subconscious flux (aka identity crisis). This scenario enabled Tomura Shigaraki to escape physical death. 3. New Order cannot amplify the user's power beyond its natural limit, meaning that if the user's body has reached the limit of how powerful it can become, the Quirk will be unable to save them. This was seen when New Order was unable to save Cathleen from Tomura's Decay, with the Quirk only being able to delay it at best. Note that a user of New Order may impose an identity they possess upon the Quirk. The will of a former user may convey with the Quirk's transfer to a new user. The Quirk can influence physical and non-physical realities. Enhanced Physical Prowess: Using one of the two rules that she can impose, Cathleen usually kept herself in a constant state of enhanced physical ability. Strength, speed, agility, reflexes, etc.; which, while not at All Might's level, are all still considered to be impressively high. In more desperate situations however, Cathleen would disengage her constantly activated rule of enhanced physical ability. This allowed her to perform Ultimate Moves with two rules of New Order, but subsequently made her weaker and more vulnerable.