I do so love people who know what they want.
Hope that route remains for Katie in the game reboot here.
Hi! I know that there are a lot of Kati fans here and it is OK that there will be an open relationship/swinging/exhibitionist "thingie" path for Kati there as long as there are for Leia, Zoey and Daphne also.
I have never been a great fan of Kati in WIAB. While what Willi and Leia did to her was wrong on many levels, esp. "old" Kati always came across as not the wrong person hit by it. (Too) Heavyhanded yes, but not unearned.
"New" Kati has not quite the same vibe as "old" Kati did currently, but we can see in several scenes that "old" Kati is still in her and she is only on her best behaviour since she wants investments from Leia.
One example is that Teenager Willi and Leia were oftentimes bullies, but they want to solve what happened to their Mom. Kati has to be more or less bribed to cooperate on this. Miru even calls her out about that.
And there is one invisible elephant in the room: Highschool Willi and Leia were many things, but obviously no cowards and able to soak punishment. What has Kati said and done to bring Willi to flee Wollust and it was hinted that Leia wanted to as well, but was more or less convinced by Willi to stay? Just snitching about Willi and Leia´s budding relationship cannot be the main reason alone as there would have been 2 against one version. And it was made clear already in the rework it was something Kati did and Dylan lied to several people to protect Willi and Leia from this.
So Kati is not as innocent in all this as some might think and that you can revive the old feud full force is another big hint that there must have something really heavy happened back in the day to bring it to this situation.
But as I wrote in another post and since it is related to the topic of why Willi ran away - I am really looking forward to when Willi and Miru will have a discussion about Leia. In what chapter will it happen? What do you other F95 users think? "New" Miru is very observant, it cannot be too long until she adds 2 and 2 together, there were several big hints in the two reworked chapters alone. She already tried to initiate a talk about the "person you really loved" after he visited Monica, but I doubt Miru knows it at this time.