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Every year, in penance for their uprising, each district shall offer up a male and a female between the ages of 12 and 18 at a public "reaping". These tributes shall be delivered to the custody of the Capitol, and then transferred into a public arena, where they will fight to the death until a lone victor remains.
Ryker Stix was born amongst the outskirts of District Two to parents who had worked in the stone quarries all their lives. Nero and Lana Stix were young, but they loved each other and they worked hard for all these had. He attended the district school, however his parents were never able to afford him attendance to the district academy and he was just fine with that. At 12 he began to help at the quarry as well, building callouses and muscles though no one would ever tell looking at the scrawny boy.
He was content with his life. An only child, much loved by his parents. Working on the quarry. He didn’t know much different and he was content to no know much different.
How did they feel about the games before being reaped? Ryker knew they existed. He watched them as was mandated of him. But being from Two and not training at the Academy he never thought he’d see the inside of the Games, so he didn’t pay them much thought.
How do they feel about being chosen? Ryker is scared. He knows he’s not ready or prepared enough for these Games, especially in comparison to the other Career tributes.
Three strengths and three weaknesses :
+He is unusually strong for his scrawny build. Willingness to work with others and learn from others. Kindness could win people over.
- He is vastly unprepared and has never thought through a day of strategy in his life. He’s impulsive and doesn’t think things through before acting. His weaknesses in training make him pessimistic in terms of his own outlook.
Chosen weapon(s) : Something small - a dagger, small knife, etc.
What is their district token & who gave it to them (if they have one)? N/A
What is their personality? Ryker is a quiet and mostly happy kid. He’s willing to listen to anyone and learn as much as he can.
Briar grew up the youngest of five and the only girl. Though her family was large the children did not go without what was needed as well as much of what they wanted. Her father is a physicist and her mother an engineer. Though they were often away from the home, when they were home, Briar’s parents were loving and doting, especially to their only girl.
To say Briar grew up spoiled would not have been an understatement. But she was not a brat in the least. She was sweet and behaved well except when her brothers were involved. They taught her how to fight and defend herself. Not for the cause of the games, but because they were boys and that’s what boys did. In fact, Briar never once fathomed she would be reaped for the games.
She came from a wealthy family. There were families with much less than her in Three. Families that had to take out the tesserae just to get by. She never paid the games any mind, instead playing the days away while they were aired all around the country.
Briar’s name was in the bowl once that morning. She didn’t believe there was a way that she could be reaped until her name was called from the stage. She had stood frozen, hr eyes on the escort. She had looked hurriedly to her parents and then searched for her brothers in their respective crowds. But she was escorted to the stage before she could find them. She was stunned and silent, not knowing how to react to the fact she was surely going to die in the coming weeks.
• Three strengths and three weaknesses : +Tough, book smart, agreeableness -naive, small bodied, shy
• Chosen weapon(s) : her own fists
• What is their district token & who gave it to them? A charm bracelet
• What is their personality? How do they act around other tributes and mentors? Briar doesn’t say much around those she doesn’t know. She never made friends easy at school and so decided to bury her nose in books. She is quiet and shy. But when once she gets to know her or approaches he, she is sweet natured and kind. She likes making others happy and will do whatever it takes to impress her mentors and the other mentors. She knows she cannot make it out of the arena on her own, so she will try to do what is needed to get help once in the arena.
Arista grew up with a small family to start with, and poor yet caring parents. She loved going with her father to work, playing in the sand and spearing fish to take home. But things quickly changed when she was ten. Arista was the youngest child in her home until the age of ten. Her parents had enough on their plate trying to care for her and her older sister, they hadn’t intended to have anymore children. But her mother fell pregnant once more and instead of one child, she gave birth to twins. An infection in the aftermath of her birth caused her death.
It was at that point that Arista was forced to grow up. Her father couldn’t possibly afford to feed four mouths or one paycheck and so Alana, her older sister, dropped out of school and went to work. That left Arista to care for her younger siblings while her father and sister worked.
One day she came home from the park, one twin on either hip to find only her sister home. Their father had been attacked by some sea faring creature, perhaps a shark, while trying to retrieve a net he had lost his grip on. He hadn’t survived. Arista was fourteen, Alana twenty and the twins only four. In the space of four years, Arista had lost both parents.
Alan insisted Arista stay in school and struggled to do what she could to keep their family afloat. But things were slowly crumbling. It was one night that she was out far to late, that she realized just what she could do to help her family and still stay in school. She turned to prostitution. She would get Aquarius and Arno to bed and then go out. Alana didn’t know, not that she would have approved.
Things finally began to look up. Alana thought Arista was helping to clean some of the richer families homes by night and Arista was okay letting her sister think just that. She worked her way up the social ladder, so to speak, until she was spending her nights in the company of peacekeepers and healers, and even sometimes the mayor.
• How did they feel about the games before being reaped?
Arista hadn’t thought much of them. She had too much on her plate and surely fate wouldn’t be cruel enough to taken even more of their family.
• How do they feel about being chosen?
Arista is distraught. She knows Alana won’t be able to make things work without her there to help. And to Aquarius and Arno, she was much more a mother than and older sister. She worries for her family than she does herself.
• Three strengths and three weaknesses : +caring, determined, initiative. -impulsive, flirtatious, careless
• Chosen weapon(s) : Spear
• What is their district token & who gave it to them? A necklace with a string of clay beads the twins made her in school
• What is their personality?
The line between appropriate and inappropriate is often blurred with Arista. She doesn’t know exactly where the boundary lies or when to stop. She acts impulsively, often speaking her mind without a second thought to who’s feelings might be hurt… at least until after the fact. She does care and often can be seen as a motherly figure especially to those younger than her.
District 1 Mentor | Twenty-Four | Victor of the 68th Annual Hunger Games
Short Bio: Diamond never wanted for anything. As the daughter of the mayor of District 1, she was raised in a very wealthy lifestyle. But her mother was a victor and expected the same of her daughter. So at the age of five, Diamond was enrolled in the District’s Academy. It was there that she learned and trained. She learned to right in the same day that she learned to throw knives.
Her life wasn’t all glitter and sunshine though. When she was nine years old, Diamond’s mother passed away due to cancer. Diamond used her mother’s passing as even more motivation to go on and win the Hunger Games. She trained harder and quickly became top of her training class, though her grades in her schooling began to slip.
How did they feel about the games before being reaped? Diamond was raised in a district where winning the Hunger Games meant great pride. She watched the games religiously and trained diligently for the games before her seventeenth year in which she volunteered.
What was their arena like & how did they win their game? Diamond’s arena was a tropical forest dotted with volcanos, some active and some inactive. She played the part of a Career tribute. She joined the Career pack. She is very manipulative and convinced her allies that the other members of the pack were out to kill them. Eventually it dwindled down to the boy from one and herself as well as the girl from seven. Volcanos erupted everywhere in an effort to gather them together. Diamond seeing this as an opportunity went after her ally first, shoving the larger boy into the boiling lava with much effort with just enough time to get out of the way. Making her way towards the final battle ground, Diamond knew it would be no trouble to kill the girl from seven. Much to her surprise, the girl from seven was a good match for herself. Diamond barely survived, being pulled from the arena as she bled out from a wound inflicted by a knife the girl from seven was wielding.
Victory year: 68th
How were they affected by their experiences in the game? She was raised that the Games brought pride to her district and has never questioned that statement, however she sometimes feels the guilt of killing her District partner. To hide her guilt and the depression that follows when those memories surface, she drinks wine heavily.
Three strengths and three weaknesses: Strengths – Good intuition, ability to think things out and solve problems, empathy for her tributes. Weaknesses – Recurring bouts of depression that come on with no advance notice, tendencies to throw fits when she doesn’t get her way, she’s very private about her personal life
What are they like as a mentor? She treats all of her tributes the same. She loves them like they are her own children and cares for each one. She knows what they’re going through and will do anything in her power to keep her tributes alive.
What is their personality? Empathic, quiet, caring, fierce, honest. Diamond is rather quiet around others, mainly because she doesn’t like people digging too deep into her personal life. She cares about others though, mainly her tributes and she will show that around the other mentors as well as her tributes. She’s fierce and honest in the way she acts and what she does. She tells it like it is, when you can get her too talk. She may care about her tributes, but she doesn’t sugarcoat things for them.
Shiloh Clementine Williams | District 10 Tribute | Fourteen
“you know I like my chicken fried”
“and cold beer on a Friday night.”
Shiloh had been a district ten cowgirl for as long as she could remember. Well, that wasn’t exactly an accurate term for her job. She was a barrel racer in a rodeo. But that didn’t matter to the visiors from the capitol. The richest of the rich came to their rodeo, and they also had heads filled 90% with air. From the age of four, she had been called that ‘cute little cowgirl’ riding her horse, Shiloh. Technically, SHE was the one named clementine. But she had the announcer of the rodeo swap their names one day, just to see if the capitol noticed. But they didn’t, and it stuck. The last name was made up, too. The families in the rodeo pretended they were all the same family to play on sentimentality.
“a pair of jeans that fit just right”
The rodeo riders and workers were all a large family. They laughed together, played together, and made their living together. They were a group. She loved hanging out with other teens after work and comps for the day, and goofing around, eating meals cooked over a fire between their trailer homes, and singing songs. They were four families, but really, they were just one.
“and the radio on…”
She loved that life. All of summer felt like one long continuous day, running from one into the next into the next. They had a little band full of teens and makeshift instruments (her specialty was the bucket drums) that they would use to entertain the capitolites before the show while the adults got their horses ready. Capitolites liked little yeehaw kids. That’s what they were in ten for a day to see. She’d been entertaining them with her music since she was little, dialing up the accent and getting money in return to feed herself, the horses, and the other families in the rodeo. Ten’s finest.
This was just another competition. This was just entertaining capitolites beforehand, gaining their affection, and trying her hardest.
When she thought about it like that, it wasn’t so scary. So she tried to think about it like that.
How did they feel about the games before being reaped?: it was a distant fear, but nobody she knew had ever been reaped. For her and her gang, it felt removed. Distant. Not really something to focus on too long.
How do they feel about being chosen?:she’s pretty nervous, and feeling a little betrayed that nobody from her group voulenteered for her. But she understands. She wouldn’t do it eighter. Now she’s got to win over the heart of the capitol, which she’s been doing since she was little.
Three strengths and three weaknesses :
Chosen weapon(s) :
What is their district token & who gave it to them (if they have one)?: her lucky horseshoe bracelet braided with leather. She got it when she was four, and has worn it for every rodeo competition she’s been in. and well. This is a competition too, yeah?
What is their personality? She’s sugar and spice and everything nice. Heavy Texan accent, lover of horseplay (and horses) and mischief and DRUMMING. She will turn anything into sticks, and use tables or floors to hit. she’s been known to wear too-big jean jackets and cowboy hats because she’d forget to bring her own and one of the older kids would give her theirs. Now, she just does it for comfort. An all around cutie, regardless.
Athena Lux | District 1 Mentor | Victor of the 69th Annual hunger Games
Short Bio:
Growing up, Athena idolized the District One victors and mourned those that went in and didn’t come out. Her parents were avid fans and so some of her earliest memories are of watching the Games with her parents. It only made sense that she would begin training as soon as was feasibly possible. The Academy took precedence to academic schooling the year before she reached reaping age, the academy already being her after school curricular. At the Academy it was clear to see that Athena was destined to be a future tribute and at sixteen though dreams came through when she volunteered and made her way to the Capitol.
How did they feel about the games before being reaped? Athena had trained for the Games for as long as she could remember. Raising her hand and volunteering was the second happiest day of her life, the first being named victor.
Victory Year: 69th
What was their arena? A vast swamp. Murky, smelly water was stock full of animals from edible fish to mutated alligators. Tree loomed high and towering and covered in moss. Mosquitos carried a hallucinogenic venom similar to that of Tracker Jackers without the death sentence.
What was their strategy that lead to Victory? Career alliance and overall charming personality.
How were they affected by their experiences in the game? Athena, like most victors, likes to pretend she doesn’t have any ill effects of the games. But to close of a call with an alligator in the arena often pops up in her dreams. Not to mention the scars from that encounter that scale her left leg and sometimes cause her pain.
Three strengths and three weaknesses :
Confident, energetic, amiable
-Impulsive, vain, blunt
What are they like as a mentor? Easy going, but helpful. Being from One she doesn’t often have to push her tributes into training or alliances. She talks strategy and makes plans with her tributes on how to make it out alive. However, she can be blunt in her unabashed way of telling it like it is.
What is their personality? Athena is charming and personable. She is willing to work and talk to just about anyone, though when it comes down to it her district always comes first.
Short Bio: Charity is the youngest of 7 kids. The youngest by eighteen years. Just when her parents thought their children had made it out of the Games safe, a feat for a family with 6 kids within 7 years and all with terrase, Charity was born. Being the baby of the family, quite literally, she is was very protected and babied. It wasn’t until she was almost three though that her parents realized something wasn’t quite right with Charity. She wasn’t talking and though the child’s doctor insisted it was normal at the age of two, it was no longer normal at three. She could say few things - mama, dada, cup, please, along with a few others but none of it sounded real clear. Her parents were told six months later that she was partially deaf in one ear and completely deaf in the other. She would need hearing aides - which her parents couldn’t afford, or continue living life as she was. Life as it was was the outcome.
This new finding only meant Charity was further protected. She was taught at home by her mother and an older sister. She was rarely allowed out of an arm’s length and never NEVER allowed out of eyesight except after she was asleep. She learned to communicate with sign language and slowly her verbal language developed but is still not strong to this day. However, as she got older, she wanted to explore and so she developed a sneaky tendency to fake sleep and sneak out later. This was the only time she was allowed away from her overbearing family.
How did they feel about the games before being reaped? She never really knew about the games, her parents keeping her from knowing much about the games.
How do they feel about being chosen? Terrified. Everything she has ever known is being ripped away from her. She barely even knows what to expect because she was so overly protected in her early years.
Three strengths and three weaknesses :
S: Enhanced senses to make up for her deafness. Ability to sneak around quietly. Super friendly.
W: Deafness. Naive. Overly protected.
Chosen weapon(s) : N/A
What is their district token & who gave it to them (if they have one)? A locket with a picture of her family in it given to her by her mom.
What is their personality? Charity is a sweet girl and is willing to make friends with just about anyone. She wants to be able to explore and so though she is scared to die, she is excited to finally be able to get away from her parents’ overbearing tendencies.
Meet Tati Le Battilon. Tati is the only daughter of Gamemakers Briony & Ammon Battilon and as such she knows all the little secrets - not really, that’s kept hush hush right? Her choice in tributes is often a wild card draw, but perhaps that’s because she really knows the secrets of the Games and therefore has a better idea of who to place her bets on.
Meet Ajax. Just... Ajax. No one knows his last name. In fact no one knows where he came from either. He just sort of appeared, but he appeared with a seemingly unlimited amount of money, so who cares? Ajax seems to be a fan of the middle districts - 5, 6, 7 and 8 - but he isn’t dumb with his unlimited money. If it’s obvious there’s better tributes in other districts, he’s happy to take his money elsewhere. He pays attention to the odds of the tributes, training score and all over feeling the tributes give him.
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