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Catherine O'Hara, British Airborne 1944

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Character  Catherine O'HaraLocation  Normandie, France

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Now that my interest in Valkyria Chronicles has revived through the new downloadable version for PC, I've been thinking a lot about how characters would look like in the real WW2 setting according to their skills and, sometimes, their respective personalities. In this case, I saw Catherine fitting as a marksman/sniper for the British Parachute Regiment (notice the parachute wings on her right shoulder) although I thought for a while about whether or not I should pick her for the Special Air Service instead. As I mentioned in this work's lineart, the name O'Hara is widespread in the British Isles despite the Irish origin.

Finding the characteristics of what a British paratrooper would wear in June 1944 was quite easy. As you can see, Catherine wears the Denison smock 2nd pattern as her camouflaged uniform, and wears the standard British 1937 pattern web equipment to carry her stuff. Her main weapon of choice is, of course, a scoped variant of the famous Lee-Enfield no. 4 Mark I rifle.

The biggest headache I had in coloring Catherine was to choose the color for her hair. Fortunately, there is a fan artist named minoharu who drew Catherine a few years back and he picked quite an appropriate hair color that can be filled with color wooden pencils. Meanwhile, the flag in the background is something I will use as a marker for the character's affiliated country in the crossover. Watching the characters section of Call of Duty 3 gave me that idea.
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It reminds me of the non-hero unit from an TRPG called Operation Darkness.