Sabine is a short woman with dark eyes and Asian features (although she has never heard of a continent called Asia.) She keeps her black hair cut short and pinned back with hairpins to keep it out of her eyes and avoid any potential difficulties with the helmet of her spacesuit.

Sabine is small and not particularly athletic, her growth having been stunted by disease and hunger while growing up. The one things she really excels at physically is distance running, but even there she's out of practice due to years spent in tight spacecraft with only brief and unpredictable access to jogging tracks. Her hands show signs of old callouses, nearly softened but still appearing as bumps on her joints. The most prominent of these are a pair on the thumbtip and the first joint of her forefinger of her right hand. They are positioned in a way that has only one cause: she has spent likely hundreds of hours feeding raw wool into a spinning wheel.

She walks with a cane when not in a parade environment, and has a noticeable limp when she has to go without it.