Quake

"What's up Phil?" "I prefer you not call me Phil." "Ok, you're the boss AC."

- Skye and Phil Coulson

Skye is a genius-level hacker who worked for the Rising Tide "hacktivist" group before infiltrating S.H.I.E.L.D. in order to discover the truth about her lost parents.

Early Life
"She's a groupie, all the hacking into S.H.I.E.L.D., tracking powers. She might as well be one of those sweaty Cosplay characters crowding around Stark tower." "What? I would... It was just one time."

- Grant Ward and Skye

Born in a small Chinese village, Skye's parents were killed when she was just an infant. Designated as an 0-8-4, she was rescued by a small S.H.I.E.L.D team consisting of Richard Lumley, Linda Avery, and three other agents who managed to save her at the cost of three of their own. Once back in the states Skye was dropped off by Avery at the St. Agnes orphanage and was moved to  different foster homes to keep her safe. When she was nine she stayed with a family, called The Brody's, that Skye particularly wanted to like her, but she was soon sent back to the orphanage. Skye became obsessed with finding out the truth about her parents and eventually she ran away and at some point in her life joined the Rising Tide, a computer activist (Or as Skye would say, "hacktivist") group. Skye and the Rising Tide shared certain beliefs about the freedom and accessibility of information. It was through the Rising Tide, that Skye bonded and became involved with master hacker Miles Lydon.

Skye spent two years living out of her van and using her skills to reveal classified data to the public while searching for information about her parents. However, in all of her searching, the only evidence she was able to find about them was a document with all of the pertinent data redacted by S.H.I.E.L.D. It was then that she came on to the idea to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D.

The first mission
"With great power comes... a ton of weird crap that you're not ready to deal with."

- Skye to Michael Peterson

While investigating the rumors of something called "Centipede" in Los Angeles, Skye witnessed Michael Peterson's display of superpowers during an accident which would kill a normal human being. She posted video of Peterson on-line and left just enough evidence for S.H.I.E.L.D. to track her down. She met with Peterson and advised him either to run, as she did not trust S.H.I.E.L.D.'s motivations, or to get ahead of the situation by using his abilities to become a super-hero.

However, after the meeting with Peterson, she was captured by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Phil Coulson and Grant Ward, who were seeking out Peterson for his own safety, and taken to the Bus for interrogation.

After helping S.H.I.E.L.D subdue Peterson and get him the help he needed, she accepted an invitation to join Coulson's team, while maintaining contact with Lydon and Rising Tide. Realizing that S.H.I.E.L.D. wasn't the monstrous behemoth she originally believed it to be, Skye realized that she wanted her place in S.H.I.E.L.D. And after a harrowing incident in Malta, decided to commit herself to her training and the team, with team-mate Grant Ward acting as her supervising officer.

Conflicting Loyalties
"I'm not exactly a team player." "We're not exactly a team."

- Skye and Phil Coulson

When a hack from Miles Lydon endangered the life of "Registered Gifted" man Chan Ho Yin, Coulson's team sought to bring him into custody. Tipped off by Skye, Lydon evaded capture and met up with Skye at his Austin Texas apartment. Coulson, fearing that Skye might turn, tasked agent Melinda May to follow her. She confronted Skye and Lydon at his apartment and took them into custody.

While in custody, Skye tried to convince her team that Lydon was a good man who only believed in freedom of information. However, when agent Ward provided evidence that Lydon sold the information about Chan to mysterious sellers for one million dollars, she realized that he was not the man she thought he was.

Skye helped Ward extract Coulson and May when the operation to rescue Chan went bad. Afterward, Coulson gave Skye an ultimatum-- come clean with him, or be left behind. Skye decided to tell Coulson the truth about her quest for her parents and agreed to the stipulation of wearing a monitoring braclet, one that keeps her from operation electronic equipment, in return for being allowed to stay with S.H.I.E.L.D. In return, Coulson agreed to find out what he could about Skye's parents.

The Mystery Deepens
Soon after, during a visit the The Hub, Coulson was as good as his word and looked up the un-redacted file. Coulson was truthful when he told Skye that the document was not about her specifically, and that it was about the woman who dropped her off at the orphanage, an unnamed female S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Coulson apologized for the lack of specifics, but Skye was grateful for the information anyway.

However, Coulson was not being completely honest with Skye, as he indeed discovered more than he was willing to reveal to her until he knew more. To this end, Coulson recruited Melinda May to help uncover the truth.

Sink or Swim
While Agent Victoria Hand was on-board the Bus briefing Coulson's team and other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents on leads for Coulson's captors and plans to find him, Skye attempted to pursue a lead on the case by hacking the financial system in order to look into the finances of Vanchat. This caused a disruption to the briefing when her monitoring bracelet locked down the Bus' computer systems. Hand's course of action to remove her from the plane was backed by May, who claimed that she was of no use on the plane. The rest of the team helped to avoid being sequestered by S.H.I.E.L.D. and provided her with a satellite phone that she'd be able to use once.

While on the lam from S.H.I.E.L.D., she tried on her own hack financials but was met with similar success to her efforts on the Bus, forcing her to use social engineering to gain access to the home of Lloyd Rathman, impersonate Agent May, and force Rathman and the security guards to use a computer for her to divine the information she sought. After discovering Centepede's Mojave site on her own, she was able to inform the rest of the team that she was headed over there.

After participating in the rescue, Coulson saw fit to remove her monitoring bracelet

The Truth Revealed
Soon after, while Skye and the rest of the team visited S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy, Coulson and May travelled to Mexico City, Mexico, where they tracked down a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent named Richard Lumley, who had been involved with Skye's case and fell off the grid soon after.

Lumley told Coulson the story of that long-ago op. Soon after returning home, the other agents involved in the op began to be eliminated until only he and Avery remained. Avery took steps to hide Skye in the foster care system, making sure she would never be in one place for too long.

Coulson, tiring of secrets, revealed this to Skye but feared that that learning of all of the lives lost on her behalf would shatter her spirit. However, in the end, Skye's resilience surprised him. She was grateful that S.H.I.E.L.D. had protected her all of these years and now considered them to be the family that she never had.

Personality
She is a confident woman who is slightly obsessed with superhero culture and the shadow organizations that existed within it. She's edgy and can out-talk anyone with her unflappable nature.

Relationships

 * Phil Coulson - Team leader
 * Leo Fitz - Teammate
 * Jemma Simmons - Teammate
 * Melinda May - Teammate
 * Grant Ward - Teammate
 * Victoria Hand - Superior officer
 * Michael Peterson - Friend
 * Anne Weaver - Superior officer
 * Raina - Enemy
 * Miles Lydon - Ex-Boyfriend