- Skilled: Having been trained to hunt and to kill the supernatural from a young age, Ember is much more deadly than she appears to be. Since having joined the rebels, she has never missed a training opportunity and knows better than to neglect her rigid fitness schedule, especially now that her body is naturally more feeble than it has ever been previously. She knows her way around innumerable weapons, despite not having***** much of a desire to use them on the offensive.
- Intelligent: Ember is relatively brilliant. She has read countless novels touching on countless topics, preferring classical fiction. Although she is not mathematically or scientifically gifted, she has a noteworthy grasp on the abstract and the metaphorical. Her mind makes connections in this way that others might fail to notice or to understand. You might say she has an artist’s mind.
- Kind: Ember’s kind nature is seen as trustworthy or amiable, giving her an advantage in social endeavours. When she manages to make an ally/friend she is quite loyal to them, and—usually—that loyalty is reciprocated accordingly.
- Adaptable: Ember registers new information and adapts to it in record time, uses the best of the resources currently available to her and manipulates change to her advantage, when possible.
Weaknesses:
- Fragile: Ember has been through a lot. Of late, she is delicate in both a physical and a metaphorical sense. After coming back to life, Ember’s body was weaker, more prone to aching and bruising. Her mind is sensitive, delicate.
- Temperamental: Ember is not tolerant of any behaviour meant to offend herself or one of her friends. She is always ready to attack, and doesn’t often stop herself from doing so. Her temper leads to a rather loose-tongue; she may say things she doesn’t mean and damage current/future relationships.
- Reluctant To Kill: Ember has never killed before, despite having reason to. She regards the act in the deepest fearful respect, and would hesitate greatly before killing another person. Even when threatened, she would prefer to maim and escape rather than murder.
- Empathetic: Ember has a deep sympathy for those around her, which strings into the reluctance to hurt them.
- Stubborn: Even when realizing she is wrong, Ember will continue to fight for her cause. This can mean negative effects in building worthwhile relationships, and/or choosing the best course of action for strategy.
Biography:
Ember was born in District Nine. It was the so-called Dark District, and where she was blinded by a smoke-blackened sky from the day she was born. She was trained by her parents to hunt and to kill the “unnatural”—vampires, werewolves and witches—under any circumstances and whenever she were to meet them. She did not fully adopt this philosophy, but her parent’s views did manage to gradually and firmly establish a mistrust of supernatural creatures. That is, until she met the werewolf Scott McCall, who was to become her closest friend.
Ember had two siblings: an older sister and a younger brother. Ivory Grace, the sister, died in the 70th Hunger Games. Their mother died during the birth of her third child, Ebony Grace, who was born with grotesque deformities due to Nine’s poisoned atmosphere. The infant died soon after being born.
District Nine was among the first Districts to rebel against the Capitol. Ember’s father was shot down by a peacekeeper during one of the first riots, which, of course, was a devastating blow to her. All of her family members were now dead, and nothing was left to tie her to the sick place she could never call home again. Ember set off on the task of escaping her District and finding Scott. She ventured off into the dense forest of the unknown, searching for the rebels, searching for a fight, and searching for the sun.
Finding the rebels after weeks of travelling throughout Panem brought a new hope and purpose to her life. That hope and purpose being to fight for the people who needed it in the most extreme of ways, and simultaneously, to protect the only people she had left. She threw herself into the rebel’s workings, completely dedicated to helping the cause and to fighting, which came naturally enough to her. She had been doing it for her entire life.
Voldemort’s death came as a shock. A massive shock, that left something to be desired. His death had not resolved Panem’s dire state, had not resolved anything. So … Now what? Fighting for a cause without a clear leader or plan was becoming tiresome, and building up relationships only to watch them die in a moment was even more so that way. Confused, unsure of what to do or who to fight for, Ember waited for the other shoe to drop. It did before long. Then it did again. Again and again and again.
Coin seized control of Panem, and—ironically enough—turned violently on the rebels that brought her to power. The new president subjected the remaining rebels to months of torment under the guise of glory, and almost immediately her rebels turned on her, as well. Over the course of those awful months, Ember was killed and turned into the creature she hated most—a vampire—and then captured and tortured by the Capitol extensively.
Then she died for a second time. This time, it should have been permanent.
When Ember awoke, she felt dizzy and very cold. The world had lost its focus, its colour. Hoarsely, she called out for help, for the rebels, but everyone had gone. She was alone. The confusion was intense, but she started to understand when she realized one, interesting little detail: she was hungry. She was hungry for food, and not for blood. Coin had reanimated her using the infamous serum, that much was clear, but why Ember had then been abandoned was not. Ember could not remember the circumstances of her death, could not determine how long it had been since she had died, could not find the rebels anymore.
Ember had sought out the rebels once, and you could be damn sure she would seek them out again. They were her family.
Ember Grace and Dean Winchester were killed in the escape from the Capitol. Please allow your characters to respond accordingly. I apologize for the confusion!
