─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───
Introducing.... THE TWINS!( THG'S OCS )
...
...
Patience 'Io' Mendoza ( She/ Her ) \\ District 11
Erin 'Phoro' Mendoza ( He/Him) // District 11
─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───
The Two second oldest Children of a family of Five, Patience and Erin were adopted into the Mendoza Household, A Distillery and Blacksmithing family as Infants after their Late parents ( Unnamed )from Covey passed tragically within the results of a violent riot.
Left with no one to raise them, Their Father - Skylar Mendoza, A previous winner of the Games takes responsibility onto himself to help raise them as his own. Along side his wife, Evangeline Mendoza and his Eldest Daughter, Celestine.
On the pairs 17th birthday's, Patience is reaped into the games to the horror of their family. And Subsequently making Erin volunteer as the Male tribute that year as well, not wishing to abandon his twin to the cruel whims of the Games ahead.
With their own Father acting as their mentor, Patience and Erin prepare Mentally and Physically for the trials ahead.
─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───
The "Older" of the two Twins.
Aspires to become a Performer, Specially a singer. Having grown up hearing stories from Their mother Evangeline about her time being an Actress who put on shows in District 11 and watching the other performers within her community Patience wishes to become a Opera singer and to preform for her Family at one of her Mothers events.
✨👑Princess👑✨Attitude, A High achiever and Perfectionist. Extremely Bossy, competitive and critical toward others ( aside from her Brother ) but is overall polite and well mannered. Though more times then not, her Temper gets the better of her.
Primarily the Dominant speaker of the twins, Often acts as the Mouth piece for Erin when around groups of people and vehemently expresses not to speak to him as it makes him uncomfortable and to simply direct questions to her if anyone has any.
Is fiercely protective over her twins Peace, and both would and has gone through great lengths before to ensure its maintained.
Isn't much of a hunter but a incredibly good scavenger , Her Mother also taught her some basic Medical knowledge so if push ever came to shove she could at the very least keep their wounds from getting infected.
Skilled Manipulator , Has done it before. Likely will do it again, what did she get out of it ? Who knows, probably something sweet. Patience is aware the Capital likes her but doesn't understand thats a bad thing.
Primary weapon of her Choosing that their Father had trained her to use was a Crossbow for long range and Axes and Whips for close range.
Has a big fat crush on Cato, not that Erin approves. In fact, he is actively in the process of dragging Patience away. She swears she's just looking ! - No harm in admiring from afar. Her brother claims its antics like this that might end up getting her hurt or killed in the Arena, and despite how much she hates hearing it.. She knows he's right.
Almost definitely the more mature and Level headed twin. Constantly getting Patience out of situations she digs herself into because she refuses help from anyone else.
Before being put into games , Erin worked in their families Brewery with their Older sister Celestine doing manual labor for their Grandfather. While she ran the actual establishment and served drinks, He helped brew the actual Alcohol and moved Casks within the cellar so he didn't have to talk to people.
It isn't what he wants to do with his life, but helping out the family is more important to him. If he had the choice though, He'd likely want to become a Ceramic maker. As he has a passion for Pottery and Sculpting.
Has a severe case of SM ( Selective mutism) , rarely does he talk to anyone aside from Patience or their actual family. Most times then not he is completely silent and gets incredibly uncomfortable and irritated when spoken to. When Erin does speak however, he's usually very soft spoken. Still rather reserved but more playful and laid back. I don't have a voice claim for him, but I imagine when he speaks he has either a stutter or a lisp. Either I think would be cute.
He's a great listener, as one might expect and enjoys listening more then talking. It brings him a great sense of purpose being able to be an Outlet for anyone mostly Patience who needs a ear to listen to them.
Erin's primary skills lies within his ability to go undetected and listen to conversations around him, since he doesn't talk not many people pay attention to him and because of that tributes tend to let things slip thinking he won't say anything about it. He was taught his sneaking skills by their Father as well , from his more Rougher upbringing as a child.
While he is non confrontational, Erin is the only one of the twins who knows how to hunt. He doesn't enjoy it , but it helps to have an extra set of hands to bring in food whenever they had food shortages in the District.. which often ends up happening with how much the Capital takes from them. Usually it is Celestine that goes with their Father to hunt , as out of the entire family she is the best shot.. He wonders if she feels guilty about not being able to protect them.
Primary weapon of choice for Erin here is most certainly knives when it comes to close combat, preferring to keep things light in case they have to run or more likely have to sneak up on other fellow tributes. But with him being very resourceful, I could see Erin also carrying a handmade double sling shot.
Just something he could throw together and whip out quickly in a fight if he truly needed to, Though I can also see him making bombs. With the knowledge he has on hand from their upbringing it wouldn't be too big of a surprise.
Doesn't get's Patience's obsession with romance, or attraction at all really. It seems like such a problematic and uncomfortable subject especially with what they were going into. The last time anyone showed any sort of attraction to him, he quite literally ran away because he didn't want any part of what was happening. Though he did apologize for it later after the guilt started creeping up on him.
Most definitely falls somewhere on the Ace spectrum but I'm not sure where that might be.
Gets super uncomfortable when Ceaser flickerman or the camera crew is around, if he could fold into himself to get smaller he would. Anytime the guy gets close he feels his anxiety spike through the roof and it takes him hours after he's gone to fully calm down again.
─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───
Patience and Erin live in a very queer household, Their Older Sister being a very mean Lesbian and their Father being Trans. Their family is seen as social outcasts of sorts but are mostly tolerated because of their families Brewery since they are the ones who serve the drinks.
Evangeline struggles with memory problems and Skylar because of this often leaves notes around their family home to remind her of things so she doesn't forget. So within their household it is pretty normal to write to each other as a form of endearment.
Evangeline herself use to once be Covey, but was adopted by Patience and Erin's Grand Father who had a reputation for taking in orphan children as " Strays " as the District called it. It was in this same way she met Skylar and the pair fell in love, though not immediately as at first Skye hated her.
The Mendoza kids have never seen their Father get angry, they have always known him to be a rational and calm man though with his small moments of weakness where he gets frustrated. But within District 11 Skylar has a previous reputation for being incredibly aggressive from when he was a teenager , especially after getting back from winning his Game.
The only time they had reasonably gotten close to seeing him angry was when Patience was reaped , and when Their Fathers brother - Emilio showed up outside their home and Skylar threatened to shoot him. They have never met their uncle, but from stories Erin and Patience have been told by Celestine - Their uncle was the reason why Evangeline struggled with her memory problems. and why their Father refused to let Emilio meet any of them.
