Born into a poor family, Kate's life seemed destined to be rough from the beginning. With few resources or real prospects, she relied on the things she did have: her looks, charm, her precious knife and eventually her use of Symbology skills to make a name and living for herself. When Kate eventually got wind about some weird guy named Vash and the bounty on his head, she headed West, hoping to figure out a way to collect the reward, or at least to see if this guy even existed. While Kate is very talkative and loves using the skills she's honed over the years to manipulate people while still managing to keep them at a distance, very little is actually known about her secretive past. People usually know her from her traveling spirituality shows.