Kallithea Shapiro ;; District Six

Kay is an extremely skinny, wiry girl that nobody seems to notice. Equipped with oversized glasses that keep slipping down and tangled sandy brown hair, Kay is the perfect example of the brain that never sleeps. Her skin is a pale white, as she never leaves her lab, and this pale skin contrasts sharply with her large, dark blue eyes. She is so short that it's all she can do not to get trampled on by the bigger scientists.

Kay does not look particularly strong, but she is. She has been known to lift large stones at a grown man's level, and use them as paperweights. Often she wears a white lab coat over a pale blue T-shirt and a pair of cargo pants.

Despite her above-average smarts and strength, Kay is quite mediocre at physical activity. Believing great strength to be a sign of great physical potential, many ask her to demonstrate in throwing a spear, swinging an ax, shooting an arrow. Many have been, subsequently, injured in the process, thus this young scientist decides to remain in the lab until it it mandatory to emerge.

Kay is, also, very fast and quick - but along with this she is extremely clumsy and walks through her delicate laboratory at turtle speed, which is more excruciating than you might think.

Behind her meek, quiet exterior, Kay is a mechanical, scientific, and mathematical genius. Her nimble, long fingers can assemble a few nuts and bolts into an automatic toy helicopter, she can understand most complicated equations that adults can't, and she developed a mild strengthening elixir when she was but three years old.

Kay is quite a scatterbrain for a child genius, only truly focusing on one thing alone when it comes to her work. She is rarely organized, often having to go a few steps and then run back, realizing that she's forgotten something. Her memory is terrible too, and she often has to think for quite a while to recall something she knows she should remember but can't.

Kay is also quite antisocial. Preferring to stay cooped up at home, she never really talks to anybody, but Kay's case is a strange one. When she does get out and about she does a wonderful job, appearing confident and incredibly friendly, being quite a good actress. Many people enjoy her company and wonder amongst themselves why she doesn't come out more often. Then, soon as she gets back home, she becomes a moody, quietly intelligent girl again and camps out in her lab for as long as she needs to.

Believing that children should be taught many things from a very young age, Kay's scientist father treated her as though she was an adult and had the same mental capacity as he did. So, while all of her friends were read magical stories about Fantasyland, Mr. Shapiro read her long science and math textbooks. Kay's massive brain memorized all of this, absorbed it, savored it. After this she was a little bit of a loner, for whenever somebody began a conversation with her it would gradually drift in the direction of academics.

Her mother was a social bird, fluttering around to everybody's doors and talking rapidly, spreading juicy gossip, to boost her family's status, so naturally she was quite devastated when she learned that her daughter was a bit of a loner. A bit of probing into the innocent Kay's mind she found out that it was her husband's doing, the reason why her daughter had no real friends. A huge fight ensued, and then Kay's father was storming out of the door with his bags packed.

A few months later Kay's mother died of grief and cancer.

Kay was left to fend for herself against the world, and as her parents had left her their entire fortune (which was a lot), she invested it entirely in a sleek, shiny, futuristic laboratory, setting aside a little bit for necessities such as food, clothes, and comfort, and settled down at the edge of District 6, occasionally going into the main part of the district.