Crystal Smith (District One)

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Edits in darkorchid. These edits are for the changes that have occurred in threads over a one year period for Crystal
Name: Crystal
Age: 15 16
Gender: female
District/Area: District one
Appearance:

Crystal is tall (about 5'11'') and slim. She has layered blond hair with lots of different coloured highlights that range from wight to brown. She has fair skin that burns easily, which is how you'll usually see her because she spends so much time outside. She has light brown eyes which she is always squinting because she needs glasses. She does wear contacts but they still make her squint. Crystal likes to dress in light colours and is usually seen in a loose white top and either shorts or light fabric pants. You will almost never see her in a dress or skirt, nor will she ever wear make-up. The only thing that keeps people from thinking of her as a tom-boy is how long she grows out her hair.

A year has past and much of the trauma of the past few months has begun to show. At least enough to keep people from recognizing her. Her hair is a slight bit dimmer with fewer variation, and of course much less well kept. Her skin still burns but a long spell in the woods, and an overall lack of shelter has left her with more of a tan. Her eyes somehow seem brighter now, while also more distant to those around her. For whatever reason her eyesight seems to be getting better, part of her believes that the blurriness of her vision was linked more to stress then anything else.

What Crystal likes is no longer a factor in how she dresses. She throws on what she can steal from the change rooms in gyms and off clotheslines. She does attempt to get clothes that don't immediately give away her status but that's not always possible.

The most notable change is in her weight, she's gotten thiner. However the same reason for her change in weight has given her a much thougher appearance as well.

Personality:

Crystal is quiet and a little bit odd. She says things that sometimes don't make sense or are just awkward. She is embarrassed by this and sometimes thinks there's something wrong with her because she can't ever say the right things. That is why she's so quite, better then embarrassing herself. Crystal is works best with a routine and gets nervous to the point of panic when she doesn't know what to do with herself. In fact she gets near panic about many things, what people think about her, having to talk to people, having to do things without instruction, and most commonly The Hunger Games.

Despite everything she's been through Crystal hasn't really changed much as far as her personality is concerned. The most major change is probably the fact that she's now...happier. Sure the solid routine of her life was pretty much thrown out the window, but so was everything else that went along with it.

She now leans on her career skills more heavily and with more confidence. Her quiet nature has been quite handy in going unnoticed. Her greatest flaw becoming an advantage and her training being put into regular use have made her an all around tougher person.

History:

Crystal is a career because her father wants her to be. She is an only child because her mother had such a difficult pregnancy with her. It's clear to Crystal that her father would have preferred her to be a boy, a career, to win the Hunger Games for them and make them all rich. She became a career to impress her father, who was a career himself but he never volunteered for the Hunger Games, and she actually enjoys it. The repetition and scheduled days are meditative and relaxing to Crystal. It's the thought of actually fighting without any kind of direction that makes her nervous. She is good at being a career but lacks any kind of instinct, bravery, or social skills, that would be necessary in the arena. So she just trains every day to keep her mind away from what she's actually training for.

The greatest and most devastation change in Crystals life occurred just last year. While jogging one day Crystal decided to alter her route slightly to avoid heading home. That route took her to Marcuss, an insane boy who immediately tried to kill Crystal. When for who knows what reason he decided to let up and Crystal didn't die that day. Who did was a peacekeepers son. Fearing blame Crystal ran off with Marcuss to district thirteen. They never made it though, Marcuss was caught and flown who knows where and Crystal left with no where else to go went bask to District One. She couldn't go home though, she couldn't let anyone know she was there. The only safe place was the streets, a place Crystal is getting more and more familiar with as time goes one.

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