Infernal Flame

Spy Academy: An Espionage Tale

She was so done. Her head was throbbing dully as she followed the guard’s directions towards… Wimberton? No, no, the Whitley Building, she corrected herself. Admittedly, she hadn’t traveled very far. It wasn’t a long journey from Craigallian, Glasgow to R E D A C T E D but it still hadn’t been a piece of cake. She had managed to change before arriving at R E D A C T E D so she was feeling a bit better. Dressed in a cargo green jacket, simple black tank, faded blue jeans and Angel’s combat boots, Kat felt comfortable but most importantly clean.

Her fingers tapped an erratic pattern on the strap of her backpack as she wound her way towards her house for this year. She was here. In S.P.I.G.A. After years of waiting and watching the rest of her siblings leave and come back stronger, and more confident it was finally her turn. She was 5 and hounding 16-year old Matías to put on his uniform and tell her stories about his school. She was 10 and bugging freshman Ángel and Elena about their classes and missions. She had grown up hearing her siblings tell stories about their time at S.P.I.G.A and always picturing herself here. Well, not here exactly, she thought as she turned a corner and nearly crashed into a stone face. So much for elegance and spy-like grace.

Even with all the stories and all the information she had loaded up about S.P.I.G.A she knew that it could all be different. The competition was intense here, with all the students competing to be the best. But Kat’s true competition lay only in herself. She wasn’t here to be #1 (her siblings had often taken that role), no, she was only here to get better. She knew she had a lot to work on, and she knew she could do it. And although making friends would be great, considering the fact that she’d probably be with these people for the next four years, she had her goal and she had to achieve it.

Making her way past that spot she had nearly crashed face-first into, she found the door to Whitley Building. Taking a moment to tighten her ponytail and push the fly-away hairs behind her ears, Kat shoved the door open. The deceptively heavy wooden door opened soundlessly, and saw the living room where 3 people were sitting and quietly conversing. An Asian guy and an Asian girl sat on one end of the couch while an American or British guy sat on the other side.

“Hi! My name’s Kat. What are your names and where do you come from?”

Sending them a bright smile she plopped into a comfy armchair across from the trio. One of the things she was most looking forward to was meeting other spy kids from all over the world and getting to know more about their cultures and learning from them. With only her backpack, as one of the guards had mentioned that their suitcases would be delivered to them, she carefully placed it to one side as she started chatting with them. She couldn’t wait to see who else would show up.

Spy Academy: An Espionage Tale

@Agent 47 Oh ok! I'll have my post up soon. :)

Spy Academy: An Espionage Tale

@Agent 47 I have a question. Will families also be coming to orientation? Because in my boarding school they usually come in the beginning but I know it differs per school.

Spy Academy: An Espionage Tale

@World Traveler Awww~ I'm looking forward to rping with everyone too! Kat would never beat up Devin though. She wouldn't mind sparring but beating up someone is not something she can condone (unless they deserve it lol). She'll take him up on that sailing offer though and will for sure eat outside when the weather is warm. She's from Venezuela and loves the sun and outdoors so she might race him outside~ ;)

@Avanhelsing As for Jackson, Kat would be happy to help him with guns! She has a true passion for firearms and loves teaching/helping others. She will probably ask him for help with martial arts though. She's become very rusty and would love some tips.

--
In general, Kat is very curious about most things, but most especially anything spy related. She would love to learn from all the students (especially @SpicyMeatball working with knives (as she's lost almost all her amateur ability) and @Xandrya learning some basic hacking skills (as she knows nothing). She's also always ready for a sparring or firearm practice or even just hanging out so just ask~

Spy Academy: An Espionage Tale

@Lionhearted@baraquiel Well I can't speak for @Agent 47 but they said 12 spaces and we still have some spots available so it wouldn't hurt to get started on a CS if you want. :)

Spy Academy: An Espionage Tale

General Information

Name: Katarina Glass Castillo

Nickname/Alias: Kat. Don’t dare call her Katerina. Only her parents call her that. And only when they’re mad.

Age: 14. May 26th 20XX. Classic Gemini

Gender: Female

Home Country: She’s half Venezuelan and half British.

Appearance: Kat has large expressive black eyes that seem warm and trusting but can be very deadly when needed. Her hair is long and thick, with soft black curls when not straightened. It reaches about her upper chest but she usually keeps her hair up and out of the way in a high ponytail. Her skin is light mocha brown and is evenly tanned with a dusting of darker brown freckles most prominently on her nose then tapering off on either side. Her bottom lip is fuller than the top and a dark pink while the top is smaller and a darker brown. Due to intense training and exercise, she is very slim with nicely defined muscles. Her palms and soles are calloused due to her constant training and she while she sports scars and bruises, it’s not so many to indicate a lack of skill. At 5’2 she is very small but makes up for it with her large personality.

Personal Information

Personality: Kat is an interesting person to say the least. Naturally a warm, cheerful, curious little thing, internally she can be quite suspicious and wary. But once you gain her trust the true Kat shines through. Talkative and quick-thinking, she will nag and pester her friends with questions a mile a minute. She is very expressive and emotional though she has learned to school both these traits and rarely shows them to outsiders.

A multi-faceted person she is both mischievous and mature, childlike and calm, excitable and brave. She can be quite stubborn and likes to be independent. Her curiosity often leads her to trouble, however. She often has a slightly over-inflated opinion of herself and once challenged, will doggedly persist with the task. She attributes both these characteristics as a coping mechanism she adopted as her family generally excels at everything.

Bio: Kat has been waiting for this her whole life. Her mother, Valeria Sofía Castillo Díaz, was a high ranking member of the Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional or Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN for short) and her father, Maxwell Glass, was also a high ranking member of MI6 when they first met. They were teamed up together during an international counter-surveillance mission against a -REDACTED- target. For the best part of a year, they were forced to act like a couple in order to fool the target. Acting turned into reality and fast forward two years they both quit their respective agencies and have since started their own private intelligence service.

Her parents tried to keep their work from her a secret when she was young but with four older siblings who all knew the truth, it wasn’t long before she too understood her parent’s careers and all those mysterious “business trips”. Her four older siblings, two older brothers, and two older sisters, have all gone to work in SEBIN, MI6 or other private intelligence agencies (not one of them works with their parents). Oh and if that wasn’t pressure enough, they’ve all passed through S.P.I.G.A will high honors.
Kat has been training and waiting for the day she could join S.P.I.G.A and on April 27th she got a letter with S.P.I.G.A emblazoned on the front. Easily the best morning wake up she has had.

Spy Information

Talents:

• Extensive training: With her family background, firearm and combat training is an essential part of life for Kat. Coupled with her genuine interest and passion for firearms, in particular, Kat has honed her skills into being a sharpshooter. In comparison, her martial art training is a little rusty.
  
  
  • El Juego del Garrote: A Venezuelan martial arts system which involves the machete, the stick and knife fencing. Although used almost ceremoniously, the garrote training has given her the advantage of being able to use different objects as weapons. However, as it’s rarely practiced, both in Venezuela and in her household, her grasp of garrote is slowly slipping.
  • Krav Maga: A military self-defense and fighting system developed for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli security forces, Kat and her family spend most of their time practicing Krav Maga as it’s real-world applications and a mix of fighting styles provide versatility and surprise. Kat is still learning and developing her skills in Krav Maga, moving into advanced although she’s not quite there yet.
  • Firearms: Kat’s all-time favorite! Well known for her passion for firearms, she has a lot of heirlooms and trinkets from her families and their times in different services. Due to her love, she spends a lot of time practicing and as such, she’s an excellent markswoman. Most of her guns have a fingerprint-enabled trigger.
• Disguise: Kat is great at blending into a crowd and slipping a tail. While most families spent Saturday afternoons at the park, the Glass’ would practice disguise, hiding-in-plain-sight and the art of slipping a tail. After many, many sessions, now Kat is great at disguising herself, even with no prior warning or limited resources— she’s been known to ‘borrow’ items during such cases.

Gadgetry:

• Biometric gloves: Ultra-fine skin-like gloves on the underside of her hand. Once Kat shakes someone’s hand, their fingerprints would impress on her palm and the biometric would scan, store and transfer those fingerprints to the correct position on hers.
• Smartphone: Her smartphone is face, voice and fingerprint protected. It looks and acts like any normal smartphone except, she has a pseudo-Candy Crush app called Starburst (designed by her parents) that, once the correct password is inputted, offers additional services such as breaking through standard firewalls, a secure server and access to facial recognition databases.
• Bren Infantry Light Machine Gun: Passed down from her grandfather to her father and now to her, the Bren is outfitted with a curved box magazine, conical flash hider and quick change barrel. Most importantly to her, her grandfather used the Bren during his service in World War II.
• Glock 36: She has two Glock 36 which she uses regularly. The .45 caliber and black matte finish make for ideal guns during missions. She especially likes that she can easily conceal them and that she got a custom-built double gun shoulder rig as her going-away present from her eldest sister.
• Hi-Power Browning: One of her favorite guns, the .40 SW was the first gun that was her own. Prior to the Browning, she was loaned those of her siblings but this one was her own. She calls it Pixie.
• Her brother Matías’ leather jacket and Ángel’s combat boots.

Other Items:

• Framed picture of her family taken on her 14th birthday.
• A Smith & Wesson Model 29. The double-action, .44 Magnum cartridge revolver is almost never used. It isn’t loaded but used as a token to remember her abuela.
• A locket with pieces of bullets from her family’s favorite guns.
• A collection of books inherited from her sister Elena in a mix of languages.
• A laptop for her general browsing and entertainment needs.
• A suitcase with clothes and toiletries, some stuff might have been stolen from her siblings.

Other Information

She speaks Spanish, English, Scottish Gaelic (her father’s family is half-Scottish) and French fluently. She’s semi-fluent in Russian and Mandarin.
Her siblings (in order of birth):

• Valentina
• Matías
• Ángel Sebastián
• Elena

Spy Academy: An Espionage Tale

@World Traveler My character won't but I tease my French Canadian friends all the time. 😂 I've been speaking French my entire life but I need subtitles for videos where they speak in the French Canadian accent.

Spy Academy: An Espionage Tale

General Information

Name: Katarina Glass Castillo

Nickname/Alias: Kat. Don’t dare call her Katerina. Only her parents call her that. And only when they’re mad.

Age: 14. May 26th 20XX. Classic Gemini

Gender: Female

Home Country: She’s half Venezuelan and half British.

Appearance: Kat has large expressive black eyes that seem warm and trusting but can be very deadly when needed. Her hair is long and thick, with soft black curls when not straightened. It reaches about her upper chest but she usually keeps her hair up and out of the way in a high ponytail. Her skin is light mocha brown and is evenly tanned with a dusting of darker brown freckles most prominently on her nose then tapering off on either side. Her bottom lip is fuller than the top and a dark pink while the top is smaller and a darker brown. Due to intense training and exercise, she is very slim with nicely defined muscles. Her palms and soles are calloused due to her constant training and she while she sports scars and bruises, it’s not so many to indicate a lack of skill. At 5’2 she is very small but makes up for it with her large personality.

Personal Information

Personality: Kat is an interesting person to say the least. Naturally a warm, cheerful, curious little thing, internally she can be quite suspicious and wary. But once you gain her trust the true Kat shines through. Talkative and quick-thinking, she will nag and pester her friends with questions a mile a minute. She is very expressive and emotional though she has learned to school both these traits and rarely shows them to outsiders.

A multi-faceted person she is both mischievous and mature, childlike and calm, excitable and brave. She can be quite stubborn and likes to be independent. Her curiosity often leads her to trouble, however. She often has a slightly over-inflated opinion of herself and once challenged, will doggedly persist with the task. She attributes both these characteristics as a coping mechanism she adopted as her family generally excels at everything.

Bio: Kat has been waiting for this her whole life. Her mother, Valeria Sofía Castillo Díaz, was a high ranking member of the Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional or Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN for short) and her father, Maxwell Glass, was also a high ranking member of MI6 when they first met. They were teamed up together during an international counter-surveillance mission against a -REDACTED- target. For the best part of a year, they were forced to act like a couple in order to fool the target. Acting turned into reality and fast forward two years they both quit their respective agencies and have since started their own private intelligence service.

Her parents tried to keep their work from her a secret when she was young but with four older siblings who all knew the truth, it wasn’t long before she too understood her parent’s careers and all those mysterious “business trips”. Her four older siblings, two older brothers, and two older sisters, have all gone to work in SEBIN, MI6 or other private intelligence agencies (not one of them works with their parents). Oh and if that wasn’t pressure enough, they’ve all passed through S.P.I.G.A will high honors.
Kat has been training and waiting for the day she could join S.P.I.G.A and on April 27th she got a letter with S.P.I.G.A emblazoned on the front. Easily the best morning wake up she has had.

Spy Information

Talents:

• Extensive training: With her family background, firearm and combat training is an essential part of life for Kat. Coupled with her genuine interest and passion for firearms, in particular, Kat has honed her skills into being a sharpshooter. In comparison, her martial art training is a little rusty.
  • El Juego del Garrote: A Venezuelan martial arts system which involves the machete, the stick and knife fencing. Although used almost ceremoniously, the garrote training has given her the advantage of being able to use different objects as weapons. However, as it’s rarely practiced, both in Venezuela and in her household, her grasp of garrote is slowly slipping.
  • Krav Maga: A military self-defense and fighting system developed for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli security forces, Kat and her family spend most of their time practicing Krav Maga as it’s real-world applications and a mix of fighting styles provide versatility and surprise. Kat is still learning and developing her skills in Krav Maga, moving into advanced although she’s not quite there yet.
  • Firearms: Kat’s all-time favorite! Well known for her passion for firearms, she has a lot of heirlooms and trinkets from her families and their times in different services. Due to her love, she spends a lot of time practicing and as such, she’s an excellent markswoman. Most of her guns have a fingerprint-enabled trigger.
• Disguise: Kat is great at blending into a crowd and slipping a tail. While most families spent Saturday afternoons at the park, the Glass’ would practice disguise, hiding-in-plain-sight and the art of slipping a tail. After many, many sessions, now Kat is great at disguising herself, even with no prior warning or limited resources— she’s been known to ‘borrow’ items during such cases.

Gadgetry:

• Biometric gloves: Ultra-fine skin-like gloves on the underside of her hand. Once Kat shakes someone’s hand, their fingerprints would impress on her palm and the biometric would scan, store and transfer those fingerprints to the correct position on hers.
• Smartphone: Her smartphone is face, voice and fingerprint protected. It looks and acts like any normal smartphone except, she has a pseudo-Candy Crush app called Starburst (designed by her parents) that, once the correct password is inputted, offers additional services such as breaking through standard firewalls, a secure server and access to facial recognition databases.
• Bren Infantry Light Machine Gun: Passed down from her grandfather to her father and now to her, the Bren is outfitted with a curved box magazine, conical flash hider and quick change barrel. Most importantly to her, her grandfather used the Bren during his service in World War II.
• Glock 36: She has two Glock 36 which she uses regularly. The .45 caliber and black matte finish make for ideal guns during missions. She especially likes that she can easily conceal them and that she got a custom-built double gun shoulder rig as her going-away present from her eldest sister.
• Hi-Power Browning: One of her favorite guns, the .40 SW was the first gun that was her own. Prior to the Browning, she was loaned those of her siblings but this one was her own. She calls it Pixie.
• Her brother Matías’ leather jacket and Ángel’s combat boots. She has no idea what they do yet.

Other Items:

• Framed picture of her family taken on her 14th birthday.
• Her brother Matías’ leather jacket and Ángel’s combat boots.
• A Smith & Wesson Model 29. The double-action, .44 Magnum cartridge revolver is almost never used. It isn’t loaded but used as a token to remember her abuela.
• A locket with pieces of bullets from her family’s favorite guns.
• A collection of books inherited from her sister Elena in a mix of languages.
• A laptop for her general browsing and entertainment needs.
• A suitcase with clothes and toiletries, some stuff might have been stolen from her siblings.

Other Information

She speaks Spanish, English, Scottish Gaelic (her father’s family is half-Scottish) and French fluently. She’s semi-fluent in Russian and Mandarin.
Her siblings (in order of birth):

• Valentina
• Matías
• Ángel Sebastián
• Elena

SPY ACADEMY: An Espionage Story

@Agent 47 Perfect! I'll have a character post up as soon as I can!

SPY ACADEMY: An Espionage Story

Hi there! I'm really interested in this~ I hope you still have room. :)