🥰🥰🥰🥰!! i love talking about characters/stories so 😄 i'm getting a sense that you're sort of folding the two ideas together? which i LOVE. i feel like in some ways it makes for a classic coming-of-age story. she's somebody caught in the tension between two potential worlds and her actions can make one or another world a reality for herself; she just has to make the right choice and try to see, clearly, the consequences of that action. and i think it's a very wonderful thing to have this... identifying with the world of one's mother and with the sort of cultural "stuff" that made up her world, especially when the link is so broken as it was by santana's mother's death. that's also a particularly resonant story i think for immigrant/diasporic cultures (i am not latinx myself so not trying to speak directly on that experience, but i'm a member of the jewish diaspora which is where i'm coming from on that!). i feel like you have a ton of material and potentials for growth, and even if she doesn't go in one direction initially, there's tons of room especially for the influence of other characters to push and pull her!
katharina is definitely interested in bonding LMAO she loves creeping up on motherless people and worming her way into their lives 🤣 she's, like i said, a bit weird and she's definitely socially strange--but she really likes people, in her way, and she's very gregarious and curious about others and would very much want to get to know santana and allow herself to be led into the 21st century a bit LOL. she wants to figure out and understand things like social media, modern pop culture, etc. as a way of trying to forge satisfying connections, because she's actually a mite dissatisfied with the state of things (as she's been doing the same crap to people for 700 years). her M.O. with people is really to forge a bond with them and make them dependent on her, and she's only interested in turning those she's closest with, so she'd really want to rope santana in and try to cut her off from other influences. but like... in a caring way? 🤪 at least in her head she's caring 😂