Katrina Sykes D4

Katrina Sykes
Seventeen Years Of Age
Female
The Fourth District Of Panem
odair
Fc is Julia Jones
Theme: Trailer Vs. Tornado by Sent By Ravens

Like most of the Sykes, Katrina’s angular features give her face a drawn out look as if she is always annoyed. She keeps her medium sienna hair at nape length; often done up in a sailor’s knot for when she is sailing she hates her hair getting whipped around by the wind and tossed like about like the waves in the sea. Her thin eyebrows scrunch together when she is thinking about something, which complements her chocolate brown eyes when they lose focus. Staring off into the distance as she imagines something far better than what she is doing is one of her favorite things to do. Her ears and nose slightly taper to points at the tips, the same way her chin points from her face. A deep cleft sits above her pretty, pouty lips that stand out from her chin.

She is tall for a girl, with her legs making up most of five foot eleven frame. Her arms are rather long as well, and muscular to boot; which it a boon as she is a prominent, powerful, and proficient swimmer, knifing through the water like some kind of fish. She is usually dressed in a simple outfit consisting of flannel shirts and blue jeans; at least, when she hasn't stripped down to her bathing suit to plumb the depths of the ocean that borders the district. Kat is not one for dressing up, despising all things frilly and "cute". No one has ever seen her in a dress and she would like to keep it that way. Most of the other non-career girls in her district are anathema to her for this very reason. She can't stand that sort of thing.

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Katrina has a non-nonsense, no bull approach when it comes to...well, anything. She is short on patience for those who don’t make plain what they mean; why not say what you mean? It over complicates things. In her mind, honesty, however blunt, is the best and only policy as it lessens the chance of a miscommunication or misunderstanding due to some silly reason. She speaks as plainly as possible, and cuts to the point as quick as she can; if someone’s feelings get hurt, then oh well, its their own fault for trying to hide behind a thin facade. This has not won her many friends, but she'd tell you that she hasn't the time for people to bother her anyway. This tough exterior gives many pause at interacting with her, especially would be admirers. It doesn’t bother her all that much, as she is not interested in carrying on a romantic relationship. She feels no need to have a man telling her how great she is, and besides, if she were to have a child, it might impede her personal goals and disrupt her plans.

These plans vary from time to time, but they always involve no one but herself. It his her goal to be her and to never let anyone or anything compromise that which she has made up her mind to do. She owns a small coracle, a boat that she paid for with money she earned herself. It is the pride of her life and something she tends to with more care than anything else. There is little that her sisters can do to piss her off more than to mess around with her ship. It is her daydream to be a mercenary queen, sailing the seven seas with a group of scabrous dogs and having all kinds of fabulous adventures. This is a side of her no one sees, and if they did, and made fun of her for it, she'd punch them. Repeatedly.


When one of her siblings warns someone that their big sister can beat them up, they mean it. Kat, as she is sometimes nicknamed, is a scrapper, mainly due to how her penchant for telling someone straight up what she thinks can land her in hot water. The lack of patience for what she perceives as stupidity. Protective of her sisters to a fault, she has found that ordering people to do things rather then telling them is the best way of getting done what she is trying to accomplish. And yet, despite all of that, she finds herself invited to train with careers every now and then, people that find her impressive. Though she could care less about that sort of thing.

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The oldest of the Sykes sisters, but the second oldest of the Sykes siblings, Katrina takes care of her sisters and the house in the absence of their older brother Branden, who disappeared while attending the wedding of Lucan and Amadi Hale. The official story from the peacekeepers is that the boat he was on sank on the way back from Piscatus Isle as none of the guests have been seen in a year and wreckage was found matching the ship they are on; and she is inclined to believe it, as she knows her brother wasn’t a particularly adept swimmer. The typical funeral for those lost at sea was held; though Katrina had thought him dead when the boat had failed to come back within the time given.

She handled the loss better than her two younger sisters did, one becoming introverted and quieter than she had ever been, the other becoming a simmering pot of tantrums and and anger. Katrina comforted them as best she could, having done the same for them when pets had died, or favorite toys become broken. This is not to say she relegated the death of a sibling to that same tier, but it was the best way she knew how to handle them. To her dismay, her efforts have not completely worked, and her sisters have started to become distant.

Growing up, she found she had a better aptitude for the water than all of her siblings, able to out do them in swimming distance, holding her breath, and overall liking the ocean. However, she considers herself to be only decent, constantly striving to be better. When she was younger, she often heard her older brother complain about the games, or rather, what he would have to do, should one of his siblings wind up getting reaped. Though she could tell he feared the reapings, she was happy and confident to know that despite his misgivings, he truly cared about his three sisters. Branden is gone now, given to the deep, but what he instilled in them every year has carried on to her. She would do anything for her younger sisters, even if it meant volunteering to take their place. When she has free time to herself, Katrina can be found enjoying the sand and the surf alongside many of the other denizens of her district.