name: Nixie* Rellia
Age: 12
Height: 4’ 10”
Weight: 77
Eye Color: Bright green
Hair Color: shoulder length, Auburn/red
District: 3
District Job: N/A
District Token: Her district is an old computer chip hanging from a chain. It was a fun little toy her father gave her to wear--the components on the chip from her initials N.A.R (her middle initial stands for Alana).
How character name is related to district: Nixie is named after a type of light bulb known as a Nixie Tube.
Physical Description: Long, blazing, shoulder length red hair, bright green eyes, very pale complexion. She usually wears brown slacks and a plain white blouse. She is short, even for her age, and quite thin, as her family has a hard time affording food. What she lacks in muscle, she makes up for in ingenuity.
Character Portrait: How Many times your name is in the Hunger Games: 3
Volunteer or “naturally” reaped?: Naturally reaped. What can I say, she has really bad luck!
5 positive personality traits: (note that since she is suffering from deep depression, her positive traits don’t show as often as they used to).
- Good sense of humor (on the rare occasion she expresses it)
- Very kind, caring of others
- Selfless--she puts others’ needs over her own
- “Innocent”
- Easy to get along with
5 negative personality traits:- Withdrawn
- Depressed
- Perhaps cares -too much- about other people
- easily intimidated by those who are more domineering
- Tends to be somewhat anti-social
History: Nixie's parents had absolutely nothing to do with the uprising or the rebels. In fact, despite the tyranny of the Capitol, her family were upstanding citizens who never dared speak out against the capital at all. Her father, an engineer who worked largely with the Capitol's computer systems for their hovercraft, was electrocuted to death 3 years before, working on one of their Force-Field generators. Her mother is just a simple technician, and barely makes enough money to squeak by--and that's skipping meals for sometimes days at a time.
Nixie used to be a very outgoing girl, despite her hardships--that is, until her father died. She became very withdrawn after that, to the point of curling up in bed and refusing to eat. Twice her mother had to take Nixie to the local healer for treatment. Though she is a little better now, she still spends most of her time in a deep, dark depression. During the reaping, while her mother was sick with worry, Nixie herself accepted her name being drawn just as she's accepted most everything for the last three years: with complete indifference.
Though Nixie is only 12, she is something of a genius. She already knows a great deal about electronics and just seems to "get" how things work. She genuinely used to love working on various components, and making brand new things out of junk parts. However, this side of her as almost ceased to exist with the death of her father. The real question is, can she make use of her brilliance, or will the depths of her depression lead to her death in the arena?
Weapon specialty: None (yet)
Skill speciality: Computer science, Electronics (installation and maintenance), Improvisation with electric devices. Due to her stature, she is quite agile.
Threat Level: To Be Determined
Relationships: She was once very close to her mother, but ever since her father’s death she has pretty much stopped caring about life in general. She loves her mother, but has pushed away, withdrawing somewhere inside herself.
Name: Farro Amaranth
Age: 16
Height: 5’ 8”
Weight: 152
Eye Color: Grey
Hair Color: Short, Black, mussy
Physical description: Though short, Farro has a good bit of muscle, despite the fact that he is slowly starving in District 9. Typically wears worn faded jeans and a stained, torn, brown T-shirt that has clearly seen better days.
Character portrait: District: 9
District Job: Plows the fields for harvest
District Token: A locket that has a picture of Kasha and him together on one side, and a picture of Quinoa and him together on the other side. It is engraved “to my big brother; may the stars watch over you, as you have watched over me.”
How character name is related to district: Farrow is named entirely after a type of grain. Two types, really as is last name stems from yet *another* type of grain.
How Many times your name is in the Hunger Games: 25
Volunteer or “naturally” reaped?: Volunteered for his best friends brother
5 positive personality traits:- Strong sense of honor and loyalty, especially to friends and family
- Generally cares about the wellbeing of others
- Outgoing personality
- creative
- daring
5 negative personality traits:- VERY much a smartass (his mouth often gets him into scraps)
- Tends to speak his mind (it’s a wonder he hasn’t been executed yet)
- A prankster (think Fred and George from Harry Potter)
- Though not quick to anger, when he does it is explosive
- Tends to act on impulse, rather than planning things out
Weapon specialty: Being from a farming district, he is very skilled using scythe’s and sickles. He also has excellent hand-eye coordination.
Skill speciality: Farming; Farro knows how to grow food, how to harvest. Gardening, making things grow, is his specialty. He also has superb hand-eye coordination.
Threat Level: To Be Determined
Relationships: Very close to his parents, and his two brothers and sister. He also has a best friend, Quinoa Oryz.
Bio: When Farro was nine years old, he watched the very first Hunger Games. Mandatory viewing for everyone in the districts. A young woman from district 4, Coral, was the very first victor. But it was the man from his very own district that had impressed him most. A rebel, a freedom fighter--forced to fight in the Games. It was better than execution, because he stood a chance of survival. He almost made it too, but Coral would prove too much for him. Harrow Eldridge, male tribute from District 9. Fell in love, and was betrayed (in a manner of speaking) by his fellow tribute, Anastasia. The heartache may have, in the end, been what caused him to fail in that last battle. Harrow’s fierce loyalty, undying love for Anastasia, and strong heart resonated with Farro. He would come to idolize the fallen tribute, seeing him symbolically. Maybe because Farri could strongly identify with the man,
Farro himself is close to his mother and 3 siblings--two brothers and one sister. He would do anything for them, and that includes taking Tesserae every year since he was 12. He didn’t want his siblings to have to take Tesserae, and made damn sure they didn’t have to. Though he loves his entire family, he has special love for his younger sister, 14 year old Kasha. The two can always be seen together when Farro isn’t out plowing the fields, usually tagging along with his best friend Quinoa (who, Farro suspects, has a thing for Kasha).
Farro would end up volunteering as tribute, when Quinoa’s brother, Kani, was actually reaped as the district 9 male. As soon as Kani’s name was called, Farro knew that Quinoa would volunteer. But he couldn’t let that happen. He wants Kasha to be happy. He wants his best friend to be happy. Loyal to the end--that’s his ideal. Knowing that Kasha and Quinoa really do care a lot for each other, Farro stepped up, volunteering before Quinoa had a chance.
But Farro has no intention of dying in the arena. He loves his family enough to try to come back to them; even if it means getting his hands dirty. After all, Harrow was willing to take lives--so why shouldn’t he. Especially if it means his family gets to see him again.
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