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Dawn Telle

Age 17
Gender Female
District 11

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Even though they're twins, Dawn is the polar opposite of her brother. She is short but slender, with a round face and large eyes that give her a child-like appearance. Those eyes are a piercing icy blue color, accented by the off-white paleness of her skin. She has stick-straight blond hair that she keeps as clean as possible, which is especially hard since she hasn't cut it once and thus can sit on it.

She tends to dress simply, opting for a plain shirt and shorts rather than anything fancy. She keeps her face plain, not that she would be able to afford any make-up. But if she could, she wouldn't wear any anyways. Dawn likes to keep her "natural beauty" as intact as possible. However, there is one thing that detracts from her "natural beauty", and that is the fact that her right leg does not gain any any fat or muscle mass. It's a scrawny little thing that doesn't even support her weight, and she is forced to limp around on crutches. On the days that it gets really bad, she can't even handle that and is steered around in a wheelchair by her brother Dusk or someone else.

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Quiet

Dawn, or Dawnie as her twin brother likes to call her, has never been one for talking. She's always been more of the silent type, preferring to sit and revel in her thoughts rather than babble with the other girls about whatever they talked about. It is this trait that has labeled her snobbish and rude, but Dawn's really a kind girl. She's not antisocial, she was just never really interested in socializing. She's quite fine talking with her own voice in her head. She doesn't need other people to have a conversation.

Levelheaded

When stuck in a hard situation, this girl doesn't panic and freak out like it's the end of the world. Because she has no one else to bother her, Dawn just simply talks in her head, playing out what would be the best way to get out of the problem. When she finds a solution, she acts it out, and if it doesn't work, she just waits until she can think up a better one. Because she doesn't talk to anyone, Dawn tends to block out anyone who talks to her, so she isn't worried by anyone criticizing her for a solution that didn't work.

Depressed

Even when Dawn cancels out the voices of others, their teasing about her leg and her standoffishness gets to her. Has she ever seriously thought about suicide? No. She's thought about it some but never acted anything out, which is obvious because she's still alive. Her only solace is in her brother Dusk. They are polar opposites in both looks and personality, but, as twins, they get along very well. His seemingly eternal happiness can often cancel out her gloominess, and people are often surprised to see her laughing when she's with him.

And she's not depressed in that she's a stereotypical emo. She doesn't cut herself (heck, she couldn't do it if she wanted to; Dawn has a deathly phobia of blood), she doesn't wear all black, and she doesn't hate everyone and everything. True, she dislikes some people, but she does love someone. Dusk.

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Dawn was born the average child of average parents, both of whom worked in the orchards, along with her twin Dusk. They were just like any twins, best friends while also worst enemies. No one knows exactly what happened to Dawn's leg, but she was in an accident when she was only a few years old that shattered all three of the main bones in her right leg. She almost died, but the small amount of medical knowledge they had in District 11 pulled her through. However, something happened that caused her leg to not be able to grow any muscle or fat after that. She couldn't walk on that leg anymore, no matter how hard she tried.

At first Dawn didn't care. She was just a little girl, and her parents didn't act like she was any different from Dusk or anybody else. But when she started gong to school, things changed. People started noticing her crutches before the girl on them, and she seemed to never have any friends besides her twin. She started to fall into a depression, but never did anything further than cry herself to sleep and wonder when it was all going to end. She never killed herself, for fear of leaving her brother by himself.

Things just went downhill from there. Even in the dark cave of her mind, Dawn had room for crushes, and by the time she was twelve, she thought she had found the perfect man in Tylerson Lane. She confided this in Dusk, and, of course, he encouraged her to ask the boy out. Dawn wouldn't do it, so Dusk did it for her. The next day at school, Tylerson was walking towards her with a smile on his face... and dragged her into a closet. You can guess what happened next.

Six months later, the very tiny and slight Dawn was very clearly pregnant. How she had survived that long, nobody knew. Not even she could understand it, for she had felt like she was going to die soon many, many times. But it wasn't she who was going to die. Still a few months away from her due date, Dawn was in premature labor. The baby was born after a full twenty-four hours of labor, and died not long after. She was weakened so much from the birth, Dawn almost passed away for the third time in her life.

Recovery since then has been difficult. Her parents and Dusk knew that it wasn't her fault she had gotten pregnant, but everyone else assumed Dawn was a slut. Tylerson got away clean because no one was told that he had fathered the child, and most likely no one would have done anything if they were told. Dawn is now teetering ever so closely on the brink into total depression, but still, she keeps herself alive for Dusk. Just for Dusk.

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Dawn's name (and her twin Dusk's name) come from something that happened in my Algebra class. We were doing a word problem (one of those "john is x many years old than tom. in y years, john will be z times as old as tom. how old are john and tom?" problems) and my teacher had named the first person Dawn. He was trying to figure out a name for the next person, and I suggested Dusk. He ended up using the name "Loser" (complete with quotes) but my train of thought went something like this.

"Ooh, Dusk!"
"Hey, Dawn and Dusk would be cool characters as twins!"
"...but that would be kind of weird for wolves. They need to be humans."
"But the only human rpg I'm on is an A:TLA rpg! That won't work!"
"Hey, I should join that Hunger Games rpg I saw a while back!"

and HERE I AM![/color]

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Ilse Madonfried

Age 10
Gender Female
District 8

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Ilse is, by a lot of people's standards, adorable. As just a nine-year-old, she's not very tall, only four feet seven inches. Her medium-blond hair has a slight curl to it, but not enough that she can't take care of it. She has almond-shaped blue eyes that are mostly hidden by her seemingly constant gap-toothed smile. Her somewhat long nose is almost the same width all through its length, with a light spattering of barely visible freckles across it.

Her sister Lilian occasionally brings home scraps of fabric and thread for Ilse to work on so that she'll be able to get a job easier when she's older. Because of that, Ilse has mix-matched patchwork-like clothes that don't always fit perfectly because she made them herself. She likes to use bright colors when she can, which often results in weird combinations. Her feet are almost always bare, leaving them tanned and dirty. They've built up such a resistance to the hard ground, they don't even blister or crack anymore.

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If Ilse were an animal, she'd be a fox. She's very clever and can think up ways to get what she wants that almost always work. Some would say it's because of the cuteness she has because she's so young. But, really, she's very devious, and she plays up to the part of the "innocent little kid". If it's absolutely necessary, she'll even resort to the blubbering act until she gets what she wants. Normally she doesn't have to go that far, because most of the time people give in before then.

Even though she likes to pretend that she can get along just fine by herself, Ilse strongly relies on the help of others, especially that of her sister Lilian. Without people like Lilian and Rese, the current leader of The Justice Squad, she wouldn't be able to get by on a day-to-day basis. She's extremely attached to them and would probably lose her will to live if anything happened to them. Perhaps it's lucky that Lilian is past the age of eligibility for reaping. That way, even if Rese does get drawn into the Hunger Games, (and most likely die) Ilse will still have one person to be with.

Finally, egocentric. While it's bad to think you're the least important person in the world, it's even worse to think you're the most important. In Ilse World, everybody does everything for Ilse the way Ilse says it should be done when Ilse wants it done. And that applies to everyone, even her beloved Lilian. If you don't do what she wants, she will, as said earlier, trick you into doing it.

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When Ilse was born in District 8, she already had five older brothers and a sister. Lilian, the eldest, was 13; Terrynce, 9; The twins, Arren and Jonquil, were 6; Nikolai, 4; Ian, 1. Ilse's parents barely had time for her because they had to work, so she was often left in the charge of Lilian and Terrynce. This happened so much that Ilse even began to call them Mother and Daddy, much to her parents' dismay. Even though she knew they were actually her parents, she called her mother and father by their first names. Jon and Alynn.

Little Ilse, at the age of five, was devastated when Lilian turned eighteen and started to make a living for herself making clothes. Lilian still lived at home, but her work hours were longer than her school hours had been and Ilse was left alone much of the time. After she got over the tragedy of "losing her sister", Ilse realized she could get away with a lot more than she could've when Lilian was watching over her. So she started to sneak out during the day and steal little scraps of food from the market. It wouldn't have been very much of a problem, if it weren't for the fact that she was spotted a gang of teenagers that liked to call themselves The Justice Squad.

Really, they weren't serving justice for anyone or anything. They were just a bunch of gangly fifteen-year-olds who liked to steal food so they could eat a bit extra than they could at home. They called themselves The Justice Squad because... well, because it sounder cooler than The Guys Who Steal Food. Anyways, when they saw Ilse, they saw a chance at getting even more food, because of two things. One, she could be used as a distraction to shopkeepers because of how young she was. Two, she could steal food herself because she was small enough to be unnoticeable. They approached her and asked if she wanted to help them, and she, with all of her childhood naivete, agreed.

Four years later, Ilse still works with The Justice Squad. The original boys aren't still in it, of course, and have been replaced by younger friends and kid brothers. And, now that Ilse is nine, the distraction technique doesn't work as well as it used to, but her robbery skills are better than some of the boys'. Still noone, not even her "mother" Lilian, knows about her involvement in crime. It's only a matter of time, however, before it gets out.

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Ilse is actually the name of someone at my school. Back when I was a library aide, we would have to scan people's badges for tardies. And this one girl was Ilse. So... yeah.[/size][/color]

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Hawkeye Eagle Flight

Age 23
Gender Male
District Capitol - Avox

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Standing at five feet eleven inches, Hawkeye isn't tall, but he isn't short, either. His skin is such a color that he looks tanned year-round, but it's entirely natural. The black hair on his head is kept trimmed short, but still long enough to run your fingers through it. Chocolate-brown eyes peer out from underneath faint eyebrows with the blank expression he wears after becoming an Avox. The broad triangle of his nose sits directly in the middle of his rectangle-shaped face, stopping above a stubbly mustache. His mouth is wide, with pink lips and teeth that are not entirely straight.

Once you get past his face, you notice Hawkeye's body. Everything about it is broad. Wide shoulders, wide chest, wide thighs, even wide feet. His muscular stance gives him an intimidating look that makes up for his lack of a height over six feet. However, if you just happened to glance at Hawkeye, you wouldn't be able to tell. He tends to slouch in such a manner that makes him look like a short fat guy. This has to do with the fact that since he has been tortured so much as an Avox, he often doesn't have the strength to stand up to his full height.

Working as an Avox in the Capitol, Hawkeye dresses in a simple uniform. It consists of a long-sleeved loose white shirt with a black dress jacket and pants, completed with shiny black boots that are slightly too small for him. He never complains about it, and it's not just because he can't talk about them either. He doesn't want to trouble his owners.

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One thing that a lot of people notice about Hawkeye is that he never holds grudges. He sees no point in them. If someone does something wrong to him, he forgives them right away and thinks nothing of it. It doesn't matter how bad whatever they did was. It happened, and that's that. He feels that if everyone thought this way, the world would be a much better place. Sometimes, though, it's this attitude that gets Hawkeye in trouble. When he was a kid, other children would do terrible things to him, knowing that he wouldn't get angry. It's even worse now that he's an Avox. The people know he won't get angry, and they won't get in trouble because he's just an Avox.

Along with being forgiving, Hawkeye is one of the friendliest people you'll ever meet. He doesn't give a batshit about who you are; he'll come up and greet you to the best of his ability, normally with a wave. He likes to get to know people, to see what they're like. The only exception to this is when he is working. It would be socially inappropriate for him to start signing to the person he was working for, and he would get severely punished.

Hawkeye prefers his life to be as simple as possible. It's not that he can't handle complex things; he just prefers his life to be basic and structured. This has become even easier now that he is an Avox. Before, when he was living in District Four, one minor incident could change his whole schedule for the day. But now he always has a specific thing to do at a specific time, and if he doesn't do those things then he's in trouble. That's never happened to him before, though. When he has a schedule, he follows it.

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Hawkeye was born in the seafood-bearing District Four during the year of the 34th Hunger Games. He was a fullblooded Saulteaux Indian, although the race was no longer considered separate from the rest of Panem and he was just an ordinary citizen of District Four. His parents were Falconwing and Lilybird Eagle Flight, and they named their first (and only) child after Falconwing's grandfather. Lilybird had been a victor of the 27th Hunger Games when she was 18, so thus her family lived in the lap of luxury. They had tried many times in the past to have children and had almost given up hope when Lilybird became pregnant with Hawkeye.

Even though his family was rich, Hawkeye worked as a fisherman starting when he was sixteen. It was a simple life and it took hard work, but he enjoyed it. When he was eighteen, he moved out of the mansion he shared with his parents, saying that he "couldn't stand being spoiled like that." His parents were upset, but they respected their son's decision. So Hawkeye left and found his own home to live, where he made out a meager living as a fisherman on the docks.

It didn't take long for Hawkeye to get noticed by the local girls. Young son of a victor, fairly attractive, living on his own - all the women were looking at him. But Hawkeye had is eyes on one of the few that paid no attention to him - Rinnia, the daughter of a Peacekeeper. He unsuccessfully asked her to date several times, and eventually gave up. But by then everyone knew that he was in love with Rinnia. One person decided to use that to her own advantage. Arina Lakeview had held a personal grudge against Rinnia's father for many years, ever since he had arrested her husband. When the word got out about Hawkeye and Rinnia, Arina figured it would be easy enough to murder the Peacekeeper and peg it on Hawkeye.

That's exactly what she did. When Rinnia's father ended up dead with the only substantial evidence pointing to Hawkeye, he was arrested without question. Before Hawkeye could argue his innocence, he was taken to the Capitol and Avoxed. There he's been for the past four years, living out his young life in misery but never being able to do anything about it. Sometimes he thinks about who the real murderer of Rinnia's father could've possibly been, but he never once has thought about revenge.

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I was watching M*A*S*H while on here. If you've seen the show, one of the main characters is Hawkeye Pierce. (His real name isn't Hawkeye, but I forget what it really is ) Anyways, the thought popped into my head to name a character Hawkeye.[/size][/color]