Sydney Skelley

"A kid's place is exploring space! - Sydney"

Sydney Skelley is a main character and one of Jet's best friends in Ready Jet Go!.

In The Neptunians, she is the commander of the team and gains air manipulation powers, being the Air Element.

Appearance
Sydney is a young girl with brown skin. She has black hair in a bun, held by a yellow hair tie. She wears a grey t-shirt with a white-with-black-stripes undershirt. Her leggings are usually black, but can sometimes appear to be grey. She wears brown boots.

Personality
Sydney is the “sci-fi kid.” She loves sci-fi stories – any kind of story, in fact- but especially a multi-platform series, “Commander Cressida,” about a fearless female spaceship captain.

Sydney is all about using her imagination. She represents the power of imagination in science – the person who asks “what if?”. She knows that science-fiction ideas have inspired many technological innovations and advances and that scientists are as inspired by what they saw on Star Trek as anything in a scientific journal.

Sydney is shown to have great mechanic skills. With some help, she built her own robot in the episode Sydney 2, and she fixed Jet's super saucer in the movie, One Small Step.

Powers
Sydney gets chosen to wield the Air Element, and with it comes a variety of powers:
 * Aerokinesis: Sydney can create, shape and manipulate air, the common name given to the layer of atmospheric gases and various compounds (mostly oxygen and nitrogen) surrounding the planet Earth that is retained by Earth's gravity, and wind, movement of air relative to the surface of the planet.
 * Nephelokinesis: Sydney can create, shape and manipulate clouds, visible masses of liquid droplets, various gases and/or frozen crystals produced by the condensation of water vapor that is suspended and sustained by upward-moving air currents in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body.
 * Empathy: Being the kindest of the group, Sydney can fully interpret and replicate the emotions, moods, and temperaments of others without reading apparent symptoms, allowing them to understand introverts or discover one emotion is actually hiding another.

Trivia

 * Her last name, Skelley, is Gaelic for "storyteller", which relates to how Sydney loves telling stories.
 * Sydney loves ratatouille, which her mom makes.
 * She knows how to play the piano as shown in Potatoes on Mars.
 * She has her very own PBS Kids Spotlight segment.
 * In The Neptunians, Sydney is aro/ace just like Peridot.