Jiaying

"My mother? Is she alive too?" "No. No, they killed her." "Why?" "I don't know. But when your father got there he lost it. Tore up the whole village and everyone in it."

- Skye and Grant Ward

Skye's Mother was a mysterious woman who was killed by Werner Reinhardt.

World War II
Near the end of World War II, Skye's mother was captured by Daniel Whitehall and used as an unwilling test subject to discover the abilities of the Diviner. When she survived her contact with the Diviner, Reinhardt sought to have her experimented on to discover why she could safely touch the artifact. However, with the Allies rapidly approaching, Reinhardt was forced to flee, but not before ordering Skye's mother to be locked in a cage. She would later be found and freed by a Strategic Scientific Reserve team led by Peggy Carter.

Family
Skye's mother fell in love with Skye's Father, and the couple had a baby girl, living in her Chinese village until she was captured by HYDRA operatives.

Found by HYDRA
Forty-four years later, Skye's mother was one of the elders of the Chinese village where the Diviner was found, and was among those who were brought to Austria by HYDRA operatives operating within S.H.I.E.L.D. After Reinhardt learned that she was alive and physically unaged, he was finally able to experiment on her. She died as a result of the subsequent surgery, which involved the removal of her organs and bodily fluids. Although Reinhardt was unable to find out why she survived touching the Diviner, the experimentation was still beneficial as he was able to use her DNA to regress his body back to a younger age.

Unbeknownst to Reinhardt, the body of Skye's mother was discovered by her husband, who swore vengeance on the people who killed her.

Ever-changing Story
S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Phil Coulson and Melinda May went to Mexico City to obtain information about Skye's Father and Mother from Richard Lumley, the only living agent with first hand knowledge of Skye's origins.

According to Lumley, in 1991, a team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents was assigned to extract an 0-8-4 from a village in the Hunan Province. The team was massacred along with the entire village except for a baby.

A second team was sent that included Lumley and Linda Avery to investigate. They learned that the villagers were killed by monsters seeking their child. The team found the child in the arms of the original team's lead agent, who was dead. Agent Avery eventually sent the child to Saint Agnes Orphanage, where she would be named Mary Sue Poots. Later, Poots changed her name to Skye.

Coulson and May did not tell Skye that her mother might be a monster.

Upon learning that Grant Ward might know her origin, Skye talked to him while he was imprisoned in Vault D, the prison in the basement of the S.H.I.E.L.D. base known as the Playground.

According to Ward, when Skye was a baby, a group of HYDRA agents came to the small Chinese village, attempting to abduct her. Her mother attempted to protect her and was killed in the struggle. When Skye's father discovered what had happened, he went into a murderous rage and slaughtered everyone in the village.

Family

 * Skye's Father - Lover
 * Skye - Daughter

Enemies

 * HYDRA
 * Daniel Whitehall - Killer