LIVIA BIJOU • AGE 27 • CAPITOLITE - ESCORT
Livia Bijou was born to two Gammakers, and as such it was expected of her to have a deep love for the Games. Her parents were therefore horrified when their only child wept every time a tribute was killed. They were told that the young girl would grow out of it, that this was common for Capitol children and not to worry too much. It was a few years later, when Livia was 12 and began questioning her teachers about the morality Games, that her parents finally decided something had to be done.
She was taken to a specialist who prescribed the young girl proxanax, a powerful anti-depressant, and promised her parents that by the next Games she would be ’normal.’ Livia’s tears stopped, the crippling guilt she felt over watching other children die vanished, and what remained was a bright and bubbly shell of who she once was. With her new-found gusto for The Hunger Games she entered Escort training school, much to her parents’ delight, and by the time she had turned 19 she was already a District 11 Escort, one of the youngest in the past ten years.
Now, at age 27, Livia has moved up to being District 5’s Escort and on the outside she couldn’t be happier. Though her medication creates only positive, euphoric feelings she can’t help but feel like she’s living in a fog, a fog that blinds her to things she would normally find appalling and heartbreaking. Even with the significant behavioral changes Livia still remains a caring and kind person, but it can be difficult to see that under the materialistic and overly enthusiastic facade.
fc: Lana del Rey
