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Magekind:
So, she's fully asexual? Odd.

As for her being a Kattah, they had to start somewhere, and from humans is as good a start as they get. There's obviously an old starting point, this is a new one. Someone has to be able to accept that fact and the probability of it, or forever remain weak. If Jon ever gets his head into philosophy, which is quite possible considering he wasn't always a warrior, not accepting this will weaken him.

I don't know if you can really understand how much weaker a warrior with a closed mind is over an open-minded one. In battles like the one you're talking about, it could easily be the difference between those that are still standing and the rest of your friends.

SirTimberWolf:
Not exactly asexual, her body still needs the biological material to reproduce; however she's 'primed' (as in she can/will get pregnant just about any time. There's no biological warnings or anything. It's just 'surprise, you've got kids.' Heh.) And she might always be that way, which would be a drag to be sure I suppose.

 Within the story there's several theories that they have about themselves and even the world in general (some religious, some biological, some mixing them.) Unfortunately no one (including Kat herself) has realized or even considered the possibility, they're too into what they're doing (Not that I can blame them, but it is a shame.)
 The thing with Jon (and this comes out the closer we get to him as a person) is that until he's had it beat into his head by the RIGHT people all the talk is useless, even his own ideas and insights are subject to question. This external need for validation comes into direct conflict with his closed off personality and mind. But ultimately (one would hope) I think it'll be such that he'll come out and be like 'okay, you know what? I need help.' But that remains to be seen. . .
 
 I personaly know the diffrence between an open minded one and a close minded. However save for Nicole, Tammy (one of the 'elders' that help run the clan) and a couple others, people don't generaly pick up on that kind of thing. Particularly with Nicole at the reigns and her ideal of being the 'alpha' of this little team will bring her and Jon into a lot of conflict about what they're gonna do.
 She's already done it with Kat. When she refused to pick up a weapon (a firearm) she took Jon out and laid the gun at Kat's feet, she then proceded to make a big show, give Kat plenty of time to react, etc. But when she didn't Nicole shot him with a paint round and tore into her about 'Do you see this? Everything you value, everything he's fought for is gone because you couldn't do something as simple as defend it.'
 Stuff like this brings out her zealousy but at the same time (be it a cultural thing or more likely, her own inability to save those she cared about) we start seeing more and more (through the characters) their grasp of the seriousness of the situations.
 Even having ran a number of gambits between the start and then, they still learn, still develop and that's not counting the physical and tactial stuff, it's just 'do you realize what you stand to loose here? Can you full appriciate it until you have?'
 But then again, maybe I'm just reading too far into my own little hopes.

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