"She loves to fight, and everything is win or lose, for her. She is interested in everything but bores easily, because of her agile nature. She loves competition."
— In-game description
Katt (リンプー , Rinpuu) is a playable character who appears in Breath of Fire II. She is a sassy young gladiator from Coursair. Ryu first meets her at the coliseum, where she is introduced as a naturally born fighter, who wields a claw-tipped staff in battle. Katt is the first Woren to appear in the series, and the next three games all include playable Woren characters. She also serves as a possible love interest for Ryu.
Katt has short straight red hair, green eyes, and a cat-like tail and ears. In her SNES and the GBA in-game portraits, she is portrayed with green eyes, however in some of her artwork, her eyes are depicted as red. She wears a lightly armored sports sleevless top that end shortly before her belly button, fingerless gloves and open-toe shoes, Her lower body is that of a tiger's and is naturally covered with fur. She wields a staff with clawed cat paws on both ends.
Personality[]
Katt is guileless and often speaks whatever is on her mind. She's somewhat arrogant, often bragging in front her opponents in the coliseum before battle. She accepts Ryu as a friend, during the story after he saves her from the poison darts, and joins his party in order to find out who launched the needles and seek the reason behind it. It is implied throughout the game that she may have romantic feelings for Ryu, but more depth to this is inconspicuous.
In Battle[]
Katt has the highest attack speed in the party, but suffers from low defense and average HP. Katt is not magically inclined like the rest of the cast. She can learn a few powerful offensive spells early in the game, but will only be able to use them once her AP grows large. This means that she won't be able to use these spells until much later in the game because her AP growth is extremely poor (merging her with the Devil Shaman does incidentally boost her AP enough to use these high cost power spells earlier, so less time can be spent on leveling her up). Her field abilities are Hunt and Smash, and her fighting ability is Dare (where she provokes the enemy party, concentrating all aggression on her). She changes her abilities and appearance when merged with the Devil Shaman. When combined with the Devil Shaman, Katt loses her field ability, but her combat capabilities improve dramatically.
Katt also appears as a minor boss early on in the game, in the fight in Coliseum.
Game Data[]
Abilities
Level
Ability
Type
Description
AP Cost
11
Fireball
Fire
Flame storm All
20
13
Hail
Ice
Ice fang All
17
15
Bolt X
Lightning
Thunder iron hammer All
30
Etymology[]
Katt means "cat" in Swedish and Norwegian. Her Japanese name, リンプー, is commonly translated as Lin Pǔ; "Lin" is Chinese for "forest", and "Pǔ" meaning "big". In the game's end credits her surname is listed as Chuan, which is Chinese for fist.