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AGE: 19 KNOWN ALIAS: N/A LOCATION: DISTRICT 11 OCCUPATION: HARVESTER
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[ BACKGROUND ] i. VICTOR OF THE 1ST EVER HUNGER GAMES, GALLIGAN MITCHELL from district 11 a man excruciatingly full of himself, favored lustfully by the capitol as the first ever bloodshed comes to an end. he is 17 when he wins by sticking a blade into the heart of a 12 year old girl.
ii. 9 years later he is married to aimie dorsey, a working class woman. she is beautiful, and his desires are fulfilled. they bear a child named willow. he loves the child but does not love the woman who had birthed it, finding his initial pursue to have been laden with shallow intentions. he stays for 2 years, then after, leaves her to challenge his fame, to see what he can he can milk from the capitol while simultaneously locking in to his job of a mentor full time.
aimie dorsey hates him. willow is too young to understand.
iii. she finds love in a man named theodore, and together they raise willow, then produce a child of their own – raine. raine is willow’s first love. the two are joined at the hip. they bring out the best in each other. aimie truly believes this is where her happiness can finally begin.
willow does not know she is not of kin to raine. she believes that they are fully and truly related by blood, no inkling that the first ever victor of the hunger games was her biological father. her mother decides its best not to tell her.
iv. they work by day, and humble themselves by night. dinner is always at the table, everyone sits beside one another. raine and willow grow up outside, underneath the blazing sun as their hands busy themselves at the top of trees, picking the ripest fruits come harvest season. they both love to climb. aimie believes she is free of galligan.
v. the 28th annual reaping manifests in the square of district 11 and raine is called to participate. willow is devastated. so is her mother and father.
three months later she is dead. struck through the heart. there was never any chance she’d win.
aimie then after approaches galligan, screaming at him and pleading with him, confronting him on how he could have let her die.
vi. piercing glances and angry voices litter the air as willow stands firmly. 17 year old thoughts wander loosely in attempt to sew themselves together. she doesn’t undestand why her mother is so angry, so volatile. she’d never seen her mother this way. willow had heard of galligan – how he was the only thing granting district 11 any sort of pity. but she’d heard of his selfishness from her mother, how she spoke so poorly of him whenever he came up.
but the way he looked past her mother, and stared at her with such kindness and compassion – she didn’t understand how others thought this way. she’d lost her sister, the thing that meant the most to her in her broken world and it seemed he truly felt sorry. the look in his eyes portrayed his failure, his guilt, how he wished so much he could turn back time. “mom,” she cried “please, let’s just go…”
vii. they return to the orchard, but life is not as bright. her mother was broken down once again, livid at how galligan had ripped everything away from her once again.
working becomes a chore to willow. it’s not the same without her sister. theodore threatens departure, hurt at how aimie could have been so caught up in frivolous details while the true crime was the concept of the games, how the capitol had let their child die.
days pass like molasses. willow is overcome with boredom. she ponders what life has in store, only ever truly questioning things when galligan was involved.
[ PERSONALITY ] if you asked her, she’d probably call herself a badass – witty, intelligent, smart, cool, collected, fun.
willow is stubborn, sassy, enabled in her own right. she has a knack for sarcasm and loves to pick fun on others, especially if she believes they deserve it. she looks down on the higher districts, calls them petty and weak. to her, they have no idea what suffrage looks like.
she hates her job. it’s like jail. wake up, out to the fields, the sun sets, go to sleep. repeat. a tendency to skip out on her duties, willow is regarded as a trouble maker among her family. she rather be inside, relaxing. despite her discipline, she believes that working should be a choice, not an obligation. the root of this argument has caused an immeasurably large amount of feuding with her mother. but she loves her mom, even if she’s “brainwashed”.
despite her love of relaxation, she believes that work has its purpose. she just doesn’t want to be the one to fulfill that purpose. willow does her duties when she has nothing else to do….it just seems there’s always something else to do.
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