Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Katia Grim

Crawler #9,077,265, a former art teacher and one of Brynhild's Daughters, sent to Carl and Donut by Hekla to level up: a doppelganger who must sculpt her own face and gets it wrong, in a Monster Truck Driver class whose constitution climbs with speed. Level 9 when she arrives at the One-Eyed Narwhal; 21 when she leaves the floor with them.

Segment appearances

Chapter 1 — Chandra; the garage
Chapter 3 — Heat one; Prepotente's warning
Chapter 6 — Spider legs
Chapter 10 — Carl's boxes; Rishi's junk
Chapter 15 — The Lollipop: the crawlers' table
Chapter 18 — Heat two: the hail, and Team Sparkles' cannon
Chapter 25 — Fursona; Mario Kart; the hotlist
Chapter 26 — Rend's sixth death; two ghouls
Chapter 27 — Plenty of Plenty: Lexis in the greenroom
Chapter 28 — The interlocution; the question Orren wanted asked
Chapter 35 — Eris and the five-sided coin
Chapter 36 — Jacobus, the reverse tooth fairy
Chapter 59 — Negative ROI; the GTO leaves early
Chapter 60 — Real Gs; the scarf
Chapter 70 — The memorial crystal; the Midnight Epicure
Chapter 78 — Damien's announcement; under a thousand
Chapter 79 — 715 deals; Britney in Carl's mind; the Nothing in quotes
Chapter 87 — Louis goes; Safehome Yolanda; the giant Imani
Chapter 88 — Interlude: Quasar; the eleventh floor — twenty-three crawlers; Chaco's parade
Chapter 95 — Inside Scolopendra; Club Scolopendra; 'I killed him'
Chapter 96 — Emberus explodes

Arc

Absent and everywhere: the thought Carl stops himself having — 'Katia could' (ch. 6); in the kinder facility with Heidi and the children, and in contact (ch. 15, ch. 27); her crossbow on Donut's back and her Bolt of Ophiotaurus in a god's eye (ch. 18, ch. 96); her Kina kneepads on a pig (ch. 95). 'She would’ve had all this shit figured out already' (ch. 70).