Skye Hamilton

**Skye Hamilton** is one of the three main POVs in the Alpha Academy Series. Skye is a talented dancer from Westchester, New York. She used to attend Octavian Country Day in New York, but went on to attend Alpha Academy in the inaugural year as a dance major.

## Biography

Skye was born to Natasha and Geoffrey Hamilton in New York. She started dance at a young age, performing her first recital at the age of 5. At the age of 7, she told her mother she wanted to be a professional ballerina like her. A few months later, her parents purchased Body Alive Dance Studio and Skye danced there from that age onwards. It was at BADS that she would later meet her 4 future best friends, becoming the alpha of the DSL Daters.

She attended Octavian Country Day for middle school. She used to spend some nights sneaking off onto the train into Manhattan and lying to get into clubs. Sometime during 8th grade, she applied to attend Alpha Academy. Her application essay was lost, and she never resubmitted it. During the summer after 8th grade, she became interested in Dune Baxter, whom she tried to kiss. However, it turned into a fiasco where she jumped into a pool of Jell-o. It turned out that Dune Baxter was more interested in a girl a year younger than Skye, named Kristen Gregory. It continues to be an embarrassing memory for her.

On July 22nd, Skye was in dance class when she received news that she had been accepted to Alpha Academy for 9th grade.

## Appearance

Skye has buttery-blonde hair (described as platinum, as well as white-blonde on a couple occasions) that is sometimes as wavy, and other times curly. Her eyes are a "Tiffany box blue" shade of turquoise, also described as turquoise and "sea-glass" colored, that she inherited from her mother. She has spray-tanned skin, muscle tone from dancing, a "tiny" waist, and full lips. Skye also has white-blonde eyebrows, full "bee-stung" lips, long legs, and her feet are smaller than her mother's. She spray-tans her skin.

She often wears "dance sleeves" which are like "leg warmers for the arms." One pair she made is black mesh with several charms: a horseshoe, dance shoes, lips, and a locker key.

## HADs

Skye made a series of HADs at the beginning of her time at Alpha Academy:

1. Maker [her] mother proud
2. Survive
3. Crush Renee and Triple like chestnuts in a nutcracker
4. Stay on Charlie's good side
5. Claim Renee's closet
6. Be the alpha
7. Destroy Triple

She then decided to have a fresh start, and began her HADs over again, calling them "New HADs" instead:

1. To stay at Alpha Academy
2. To earn Charlie's forgiveness
3. To heal and dance by morning
4. To swear off boy's until graduation
5. To be ~~my~~ the best
6. 11. Find a way to be sleeveless by next weekend.
7. 12. Ditch Triple. On the double.

## Trivia

* Her favorite kind of cake is *pont neuf* from Payard Patisserie & Bistro in Manhattan, New York.
* She is 50% Russian, on account of her mother.
* When she's nervous, Skye stretches. She also often dances when she's frustrated and needs to think.
* Skye says people think she looks like Taylor Swift because of her hair, and often compares herself to Taylor Swift.
* Her Alpha motto is: "Just dance."
* Skye's favorite characteristic in a girl is loyalty. Her least favorite attribute is fakeness.
* Her biggest fear is not making it as a dancer, as well as Shira Brazille.
* Skye likes math and poetry.
* She is younger than both Allie and Charlie.
* Skye is allergic to talc, as it causes hives for her.