Kate Sinclair

Name: Katherine ‘Kate’ Emily Sinclair
Alias: Rapture
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Species: Homo Superior
Faction: SHIELD
Orientation: Heterosexual
Occupation: Agent of SHIELD, FBI consultant
Play By: Jill Valentine (Resident Evil)



Overall Personality:

Kate comes off as that stoic, typical soldier type – not speaking unless spoken to, guarded against strangers and the best sort of person to have in a bad situation. In reality, she is highly scarred by the things she has seen and done, both physically and mentally. Kate has killed people, and sometimes she wonders if that should bother her more than it does – as it is, she tries not to think about it much, or else she fears she will break down. Her greatest fears are being seen as weak and others not taking her seriously. In this respect, she overcompensates, driving herself to exhaustion to prove to both herself and others that she is worthwhile.

She is an excellent friend and partner; thanks to the death of her FBI partner and the kidnap of her sister, Kate is endlessly vigilant in protecting those she cares about, though it often takes her a while to get to that point. She knows what it is like to lose someone and she can’t stand the idea of that happening again. If someone threatens a person in her life, she has no qualms about taking it into her own hands, breaking the rules to rescue them. She respects her superiors immensely, but is known for following her gut and being somewhat of a loose cannon when it comes to subjects like her sister.

Fortunately, Kate is trained to deal with problems, and her empathy allows her insight into the human psyche. She is a fantastic person to have on hand when things get ugly, as she is able to separate herself from the situation and figure out the best way to deal with something whilst everyone else is losing their heads and panicking. She relates easily to children, a born teacher and leader, and enjoys time outs with her friends. She is one of the lads, a girl able to give as good as she gets in a bar or a club.

Kate doesn’t find it easy to open up about her feelings, especially to men. She has trouble reconciling her inner thoughts with those who might want to know about them, and is prone to getting snappy if people pry. After her divorce, she has also been fairly uncertain around men she likes, and would rather not deal with the whole fallout of something she – pessimistically – believes to be doomed from the start. Even so, she figures in her loneliest moments that it might be nice to be courted again.

Her enemies will see a woman hardened by experience and necessity, a capable team-member and leader. She thrives in situations where her FBI and military training come into play, and loves being part of a team – being able to defend others and know fully that they have her back too.

Overall Appearance:

Five feet and six inches tall, and one hundred and thirty pounds – Kate’s visuals aren’t all that intimidating, given that she’s pretty regular in height and weight. However, all of this weight is sinewy lean muscle mixed in with the feminine curves that her uniform usually hides, muscle refined by constant training and exercise. Kate’s eyes are strikingly blue; the colour of cobalt, and her hair is a smooth dark brown. As it is long, she often ties it up and out of the way, tucked under a baseball cap so that it doesn’t fall into her eyes and make her look younger than she is.

Kate has a number of distinguishing marks – most notably shrapnel scars on her abdomen. They are crinkled and ridged to the touch, faded pink. They are painful in especially cold weather. She also has a couple of tattoos; one is a magpie in flight on her left shoulder, under which the words ‘follow the wind’ have been scripted. The other is a tiny four-leafed clover on the base of her right thumb.

Usually wearing her regulation gear, Kate likes anything that gives her free movement. Outside of SHIELD, she can usually be seen in Capri pants and tees, and one of her trademark baseball caps – either her blue FBI one or her black SHIELD one. She wears zip jackets to conceal her firearm, usually with sneakers or converse and fingerless black leather gloves. She’s not against dressing up if the situation calls for it.

Anything else:

Items:

A custom Sig Sauer handgun. It has a silencer, and Kate is never without it.
A variety of flashbangs and smoke grenades for special circumstances.
A combat knife for those situations where one might be needed. One blade is straight, the other is serrated.
A multi-tool with various small implements – scissors, a tiny screwdriver and wrench, small knives, a corkscrew and a few lockpicks.

The handgun has a holster at her hip, and the rest is kept in pouches attached to her utility belt.

Skills:

Trained by the FBI extensively, Kate is an excellent person to have on hand in a bad situation. She is a trained interrogator, a good listener and observer, which allow her to appear sympathetic towards any criminal or victim she is enlisted to talk to. She is able to keep her cool when things get rough, assessing circumstances and taking control if nobody else is doing so. Even if they are, Kate is good at following orders, and as an unfailing perfectionist, pushes herself to fulfil her tasks to the best of her abilities.

Kate is well trained in firearms, carrying a pistol on her person but also having experience with sniper rifles, automatic weapons and shotguns. She is trained in hand-to-hand combat as well, and presents a mean force even when unarmed. She can pick locks and hack security systems to get into places that she might not otherwise be able to enter. As a high school athlete, she was incredibly fit and strives to keep that level of fitness present as an adult.

She is a decent actress if she puts her mind to it, but it’s something she hasn’t tried for a couple of years.

Powers:

Regenerative Factor: Kate has a decent healing factor, able to heal from almost anything that doesn’t kill her instantly. She has a tougher immune system, and so can’t get most diseases unless they’re really severe strains.

Empathy: A low-level empathy, Kate can sense the emotions of others and manipulate them to some degree, making them happier, angrier, sadder or any number of feelings on the emotional spectrum.

Healing: Kate can heal the wounds of others with skin-to-skin contact. She can heal breaks, deep cuts, muscle damage and anything to that degree, though the process takes time and energy for her to do.

Weaknesses:

Regenerative Factor: Whilst Kate is immune to most diseases, the same is not for poisons. Her body must be exposed to a toxin once for her to be able to metabolise it and form an immunity. Whilst her time with SHIELD has given her immunity to common poisons such as cyanide, there is a lot out there that could affect her. She is also at as much risk from drugs as any other non-mutant.

Empathy: Kate’s own emotions impact her empathy. If especially angry, sad, happy, scared or anything else, she will project these emotions wildly and affect everyone around her. She also has issues in crowds of more than twenty people, where she is exposed to dozens of different emotions at any one time.

Healing: Though Kate can heal pretty much anything, it relies heavily on her current condition. For example, a small cut or sprain will not take much of a toll on her. However, healing a break or muscle tearing will tire her, and anything complicated like internal damage/bleeding might cause her to black out. If she is already in a poor state by the time she starts healing, the most severe injuries also put her at risk of over-exhaustion and possibly death.

Perfectionist: She will obsess over tasks until they are completely perfect, lest she fails her superiors or her own high personal standards.

Cold Weather: Cold days really screw with Kate’s muscles and make her more lethargic thanks to an old injury.

Stoic: She’s really, really not very good at talking about her own feelings, much to the surprise of those who discover she is empathic.

Father: Reuben Sinclair – Deceased / Edward Black (Foster Father)
Mother: Louise Sinclair – Deceased / Francesca Black (Foster Mother)
Other family:
Jennifer Sinclair – Twin Sister

Rocky Parker – Ex-Husband

Dante – Border Collie
Voltaire – German Shepherd

History:

Kate’s is a life rife with mistakes and bad ideas.
Starting from her birth, in fact – her parents, Reuben and Louise, were just twenty when she was conceived. The result of a friends-with-benefits relationship, Reuben quickly decided to ‘do the right thing’ when he found out about Louise’s pregnancy and (with no small amount of pressure from her father) proposed to her. Though they were young, and definitely not in love, she agreed, and the shotgun wedding happened three months before the birth of Kate and her twin sister, Jennifer.

Kate and Jennifer grew up in a rough area. Their parents worked constantly to give them what they needed, and rarely earned enough money for luxuries like expensive vacations. Jennifer and Kate were extremely close as a result, though their similarly outgoing personalities meant that they still had friends outside their own family. Unfortunately, as they grew older these similarities meant that they started crushing on the same guys and fighting more, though they could always count on each other to watch the other’s back if there was trouble.

Even more unfortunately, when Kate was fourteen and had just discovered her powers, her parents were killed in a car accident. Kate was rocked by this – though her parents hadn’t been the greatest, they also hadn’t sucked and she missed them terribly. She and Jennifer withdrew into themselves, being put into the foster system. Twin fourteen year old girls, however, were unlikely to be taken in, so it came as a huge surprise when, just prior to their fifteenth birthday, Kate and Jennifer were fostered by Francesca and Edward Black who specialised in teenage girls. Since they had only three years before they would come out of the system and be considered adults, the Blacks were quick to pick them up and put them back into a pretty regular life.

Unbeknownst to Kate, Jennifer had also developed powers of her own. The two of them practised in secret, the first time they had ever deliberately hidden anything from each other. They continued through High School – where Jennifer excelled academically, Kate was more of a sportswoman, though their effort and work ensured that neither of them truly failed in any respect. At eighteen, they said sayonara to their foster parents, and went off into the world.

Well, Kate did. Jennifer, more of a bookworm, stayed with the Blacks a little while longer until she found herself a decent job and a place to live. Kate went to college and got a degree in psychology, which she used to enter the FBI Academy and train at Quantico to become an agent. She continued to hide her powers throughout. She completed her FBI training when she was twenty-three and was promoted into VICAP. She met and married a colleague – Rocky Parker from the BAU – and though their marriage was not the best, it worked out.

During her FBI period, Kate investigated a case in Chicago where someone went on a spree killing using a shotgun. Due to errors not her own and bad intel, Kate and her partner (Solomon Rivera) investigated a crime scene that their suspect also happened to be investigating. As a result, Kate was shot at point blank range in the stomach by a double-barrelled shotgun, and Solomon in the head, killing him. Kate should have died too, but her healing factor suddenly decided to make itself known – whilst she coded in the ambulance, they managed to resuscitate her and she was back on her feet within the week. Her colleagues joked that she would be their front line of defense – though the scarring and damaged tissue would constantly plague her for the rest of her life, evidence of what happened when one wasn’t too careful.

It was just after this when Jennifer suddenly went missing. Stolen in the night, kidnapped from her house; Kate got a frantic call at four in the morning. Her FBI credentials got her into the investigation until her boss found out, and he firmly barred her from the scene – she was too close, too raw, and it wouldn’t help anyone find Jennifer if she was recklessly running from lead to lead.
The stress of the incident put immense pressure on Rocky and Kate’s marriage, and they separated just two years into their marriage, finally divorcing not too long afterwards. Whilst the divorce itself was not amicable, the two of them resolved to remain on good terms.

For the next year, Kate searched endlessly for her sister. And she was eventually approached by SHIELD, who had it on good authority that the illusive Weapon X had actually kidnapped Jennifer. Since Jen was a loner, a mutant living essentially by herself, she was a good target – and her healing factor made her even more valuable to them. SHIELD told Kate that if she wanted to find her sister, her best chance was by hooking up with them. She was formally retired from the FBI at the age of 25 and underwent extensive training to work with SHIELD as an agent specialising in interrogation and emergency response. Her powers helped immensely with both positions, and she remained a consultant to the FBI, who often asked for her help on mutant-related issues.

Even now, a year later, she keeps tabs on Weapon X, with contacts in her new organisation and old ensuring that she’ll be the first to hear if Jennifer resurfaces.

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