Kate Smith

Kate, as seen in her bed.

Kate is your wife at the start of the game as you play as Bob Smith. She has a broken leg and cannot move. Her only role in the game is as part of the tutorial.

She can die during the tutorial, whether it is by being smothered with a pillow, burning to death after the house is set on fire, or getting shot by a raider while listening to the radio. After being bandaged, if she survives long enough, her status effect of 'bleeding badly' changes to simply 'bleeding' and then disappears as her wound heals. However, she retains the status 'broken leg' for much longer (possibly indefinitely?).