Karen

Karen is a character that is only featured in Finding Miranda (2016), the third game set in the Elsaverse. She is Lucas' former wife, and doesn't have any powers known. Due to the particular gameplay elements in FM, she could be already dead when the game starts, so there's no canon-defined status for her.

Character Overview
Karen was Lucas' great love before Miranda. They were married, and he loved her so much that her loss hit him hard: he wandered around in a daze for months, with his work suffering from it, which eventually made him lose his job too. Lucas' departure caused his company, Infinitech, to drop its price, so Morland Reyes was able to purchase it at a bargain a bit later. Of course, and thanks to his foreshadowing power, Morland knew all of this in advance: in fact, he was the one who put Karen in Lucas' life to begin with. Because, as Chloe eventually confesses, Karen was actually one of Morland's minions, trained to seduce his targets and even kill them if needed; and Morland ordered her to drive Lucas mad with her constant and shameless cheating. But this is where Finding Miranda unique structure steps in, creating two alternative realities depending on the player's choice.

If players choose the "divorced" paths, Karen duly followed Morland's orders, cheating on Lucas until he discovered it and divorced her. Lucas secretly hoped for her to pay somehow for what she did, but never got the nerve to actually try to know how things were going for Karen. A few years later, and just when Lucas is starting to finally move on and fall for Miranda, Karen shows up unannounced at his door, asking for a second chance. She tells Lucas a sob and sexy story about how she used to cheat on everybody, which was fun at first; but things have gone too far and now everyone treats her just like a piece of meat. She now realizes that she misses Lucas so much, as he was the only man who was good to her, so she apologizes for all the bad things she did to him and hopes for him to take her back. What she doesn't mention, though, is that she was working for Morland back then, and still is: Karen's current orders are to kill Lucas with a poison she's wearing on her lips, a poison that almost killed her while Crow was trying to make her build a resistance against it. Morland's goal seems to be preventing Lucas from helping Miranda to solve her own issues, but Karen's visit makes Lucas realize he's in a way better place than her: his darkest wishes are somehow fulfilled, and he just kicks her out, something that Morland should have known it would happen. She never appears again in the Elsaverse.

In the "widower" paths, however, Karen fell in love with Lucas for real and refused to do her initial job, staying faithful to him. Morland already knew that would happen, so he went with the second step of his actual plan: killing Karen to drive Lucas mad. Crow was assigned to deal with her, and Karen died peacefully in her office, due to a carbon monoxide leak that was officially considered an unfortunate accident. The hardest part for Lucas was the fact that he couldn't even say goodbye to her; he was so hurt by her loss that decided to not open his heart to another woman ever again. But Miranda's friend, Elsa, helps Lucas by summoning Karen's spirit to his dreams: although it's likely she just used Lucas' own memories to create a facsimil of Karen, the fact is that Lucas is able to talk with what he feels is the real Karen, and realize that loving another woman wouldn't be a betrayal, but something he actually needs to do to be as happy as he was with her. In this path, Karen is depicted as a loving and supportive wife, but she's dead.

Miscellaneous

 * If Lucas has been defined as a timid man and Karen is still alive, her story includes a threesome with Chloe and a random man. The alternative is a threesome with two guys.


 * In the divorced paths, players can choose to accept Karen's apologies, this unlocking a sex scene with her and an achievement, but also triggering a game over.


 * If Lucas has been defined as an "aggressive widower", his dream of Karen includes an oral sex scene with her, in which Lucas states that she's the best at it. The alternative is a dream sex sequence with Miranda.