Cat Valentime

Cat Valentine

Cat Valentine (Ariana Grande) is one of Tori's spunkiest friends from Hollywood Arts. In a video on TheSlap she reveals that her full name is Caterina but only her grandmother calls her by her full name.^[3] She is relatively friendly and liked by all of the students. She lives in her own world, but is actually smarter than she appears or acts. She is sweet, pretty, naive, bubbly and happy, often unsuspecting of what is really going on around her. She has the spirit of a little kid, having a playful nature, and has a very short attention span so she can easily be distracted with colorful items by the others when they want her out of the way (such as "color the pretty tiger", which she colored purple). She can be somewhat of a drama queen, and doesn't take criticism very well. She often screams "What's that supposed to mean!?" when offended, which is very often and has become a catchphrase of hers.^[4] She also usually says "KK" in place of OK. Cat often says very random and strange things, which leaves the others confused or annoyed, the latter mostly being Jade. Whenever Cat plays poker with her friends, she often arranges her stakes into playful shapes (for example, in "Wok Star", she arranged her poker chips into a smiley face and in "The Gorilla Club", she arranged her sweets into a heart).
Cat is also an extremely talented singer and actor, as seen in "Freak the Freak Out" where she sings a duet("Give It Up") with Jade, and in the crossover episode "iParty with Victorious" where she shows a high vocal range. In Jade's play in the episode "Wok Star" she plays the lead character. (when she was trapped in a well)
A running gag of the series is Cat often telling her friends or random strangers about her brother, who seems to have many unnatural problems, such as having to take special medicine, getting stabbed in Japan, biting Cat's foot, or being shot by a clown who was their cousin, all of which Cat doesn't seem to find strange or abnormal. She has bright red hair, that she dyed to resemble her favorite snack, a red velvet cupcake. Ariana Grande was told to dye her hair that color so the cast of Victorious wouldn't be completely brunettes. Andre once nicknamed her "Little Red", which she took offense to at first, but then called it "creative".^[5] Cat is sometimes referred as bipolar because of her frequent mood swings. Cat's video chat screen name is "Happy Cat." It is revealed in the "Breakfast Bunch" that she is a Vegan.