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Jan. 4th, 2013 10:17 pmPlayer Information:
Name: Hannah
Age: 20
Contact: aim: xfeilynx, plurk: hannahcake
Game Cast: -
Character Information:
Name: Katniss Everdeen
Canon: The Hunger Games (book)
Canon Point: At the end of Mockingjay, before the epilogue
Age: 18ish
Reference: Katniss Everdeen wikipage
Setting:
Katniss comes from a place called Panem, a screwed up, post-apocalyptic version of North America. Anything resembling our current world is in the distant past, and if there are other people alive in the world, they’re totally cut off from this society. When The Hunger Games timeline begins, Panem is separated into Twelve Districts – each one responsible for supplying some necessity for the running of the society, such as food, or coal, or luxury items – and the Capitol. For a long time, it was believed that the Thirteenth District – the nuclear district – had been bombed out of existence during an uprising against the Capitol some three quarters of a century before the current timeline.
In truth, what actually happened was a stalemate between this district and the Capitol. It was agreed that District Thirteen would be allowed to retreat underground and live autonomously while the Capitol pretended to bomb them in order to avoid mutual destruction and the likely wiping out of the remnants of the human race. So when the series opens, the setting stands as above.
The name Panem comes from the term panem et circensus, meaning ‘bread and circuses’, which basically means distracting people from important things like politics and human rights by using entertainment and food. The Capitol is where the central government, run by President Snow – essentially a dictator – is set, and it very much ascribed to this way of running things. The Capitol got the entertainment part of things, the primary form of which was known as ‘The Hunger Games’, a tournament created after the first uprising against said Capitol. 24 tributes, a boy and a girl between the ages of 12-18 from each district, were sent to the Capitol in order to fight to the death for the entertainment of the masses, a stark reminder of what it meant to rise up against the Capitol.
Katniss was one of these tributes in the 74th Hunger Games, and accidentally started a whole rebellion against the Capitol, oops. It wasn’t her intention, but she resisted the government on live tv and became a symbol of a wider resistance. This gets her dragged back to the 75th Hunger Games after she fails to snuff out the fire she sparked, but a secret plan by resistance leaders across the districts gets her and several other tributes pulled out, bringing the rebellion to full light. Her own district gets razed to the ground, and District Thirteen starts acting openly, working in concert with most of the other districts against the Capitol. Panem falls into all out war, and another major player comes to the fore in the form of President Coin, the leader of District 13. She believes that Katniss is too powerful a symbol, and tries to limit her access to real power as much as she can.
Ultimately, Coin is responsible for the death of Katniss’ sister, which in turn leads to her own downfall. The rebellion against the Capitol is successful, although not without terrible cost – one of Katniss’ love interests is broken and turned into a weapon to try and kill her, her sister and several friends die, not to mention many of the rebels. Ultimately, though, President Snow is captured. Coin briefly takes over, but Katniss realises that her reign would be just as terrible as Snow’s, albeit in a different way; when she’s supposed to kill Snow, she instead kills Coin. How this affects her character is detailed in her wiki link, but the effect this has on the setting is that the age of dictatorship is (we’re told) over. The Capitol and Panem itself becomes a democracy, with a Commander of another District’s rebel forces being elected leader. Katniss returns to the one part of her district that wasn’t razed to the ground and lives there as others slowly return to make a life in the area.
Personality:
Katniss’ personality has changed a fair bit over the course of the three books she’s been featured in, and at her current canon point, a lot of the anger that has kept her going has burned out; she doesn’t need it anymore. However, were she to be dragged into the middle some sort of war where she’d be expected to fight again – well, that anger might just come back. But it probably would be directed more at the people making her fight than anything else. She’s at a place in her life where she believes that fighting serves no purpose and that humans are only going to continue to wipe each other out if they don’t stop. However, throughout all three books, Katniss has been described as a survivor. So long as she feels she has something to live for, she’ll have something to fight for.
At this point, the girl is essentially broken, although she’s been making an effort at putting herself back together. So much has happened to her that the only way she could deal with it was to withdraw from mentally existing for a while. This is an example of both how terrible her experiences have been, but also of how Katniss deals with pain; she withdraws. She doesn’t like to talk to other people about what her problems are or why she’s hurting, and she’s huge on pretending like everything’s okay, or going catatonic if she can’t pretend. She’s at a point where, surrounded by the only (two) people she can trust absolutely and who are as screwed up as she is, she’s able to try and move forward; however it’s a slow process, and being dragged away from those two people and her comfort zone is likely to send her right back to being unstable. It’s possible she’d return to being catatonic, but Katniss is the type of person whose sheer outrage at the fact that it was supposed to be over and now it’s not will be enough to light a fire in her, although that instability will definitely still be there.
To be frank, she’s kind of an ass. Trauma has had the effect of softening this aspect of her in some ways – when she’s comfortable – and sharpening it in others. If she’s not feeling safe or at ease, she’s going to be acerbic as shit, assuming she’s not dazed or mad. She doesn’t take kindly to people disagreeing with her, although she will (very reluctantly, after some time) agree with them if they have the patience to stick around and make her understand where they’re coming from. While she used to be hella independent as a result of having essentially taken over as head of her small household from the age of eleven, she’s now needs the presence of at least Peeta in order to function like a normal human being. That’s not to say that she’ll be catatonic without him, but that she’s likely to be distressed, off balance, occasionally out of it, and tying lots of knots if she can’t be sure he’s safe or around. The presence of other people she cares about can alleviate this and help her focus, but he’ll always be at the forefront of her mind in some way.
Katniss is – rightfully, given her experiences – suspicious of people offering to help her when there’s no obvious reason why they should. Depending on how badly she needs to accept the offer in order to survive, she will reject or accept offers of assistance based on this; if she can’t understand why a person would help her and what’s in it for them, and she doesn’t need it to survive, it’s possible she’ll reject it out of hand despite the intentions. Trust doesn’t come easy to her, at all, if ever these days. Being a survivor, though, she’s fine with taking advantage of those offers so long as she can see why and where they come from – even if she disagrees with the reasoning. She hates being beholden to people, and will make every effort to make sure she doesn’t owe anyone anything.
Despite how badly her traumatic experiences have affected her, a cornerstone of Katniss’ personality has always been her need to protect people. First and foremost her sister, then Peeta, with her friends and family coming in after this. During her stint as the Mockingjay, this need to protect also extended to the citizens of Panem; as the symbol of their resistance, she felt a personal connection to them, as though she owed it to them to see the country through its rebellion. Coupled with this protector instinct is a crippling sense of responsibility if she fails to protect someone she deemed under her care. This is seen most clearly with the death of her sister, who she quite literally dedicated her life to protecting. She almost loses her mind as a result of this (and still isn’t entirely convinced that she didn’t). The idea that Peeta might be in danger can completely overwhelm her to the point where the only thing she can do is distract herself with mindless tasks; even throwing herself into something important and attention consuming doesn’t work. It has to be simple and repetitive.
She definitely has a temper, and while she does (on occasion) try to keep that under wraps, it rarely works. Even when her life could depend on her being charming (or at the very least pretending that she doesn’t hate everyone currently around her), she can’t manage pulling on a few smiles. She’s a very instinctual person, often going with her first impulse before she actually thinks anything through; unlike most of the rest of the characters in her series, she’s incapable of cutting herself off from her emotions and taking a pragmatic course of action unless she’s been so emotionally wrecked by something that she literally can’t let herself feel anymore. She definitely has her principles, but they’re not as clear cut as they once might have been. More than ever now, Katniss understands what it is to break your principles, and that the reasoning might not even make sense to you.
She’s a pretty awkward person, socially, and isn’t concerned with making friends. While she does have something of a sense of humour, it’s pretty much dry comments and sarcasm – seriously, she’s as charming as a rock. She shows a stunning lack of self-awareness, and consequently has a rather skewed idea of herself and her own personality. Katniss is a realist, and so she focuses on the parts of her personality that logically, no one would really want to expose themselves to for too long. While she focuses on her standoffishness, her brusque nature and bad temper, other people have seen her passion, the absolute devotion she had to her younger sister and the other people she cares about, her sheer bloody mindedness and determination to either survive, or to go down fighting if she can’t survive. She has a very specific, accidental sort of charisma – if she’s focussing on trying to be friendly and win people over it usually ends up awful, but there’s something about her that draws people to her only when she’s not actually trying to catch their attention. She’s a very ‘speak from your heart’ sort of character, and in a world where everything was very calculated and controlled, that is what drew other people to her.
However, the world Katniss is in has changed drastically, and there is no real need for the Mockingjay anymore. She has a better understanding now of what it was about her that lit the spark that set Panem on fire, but she’s trying to move on from that. It would take something pretty drastic to draw out that charismatic part of her again. She’s been trying to move on from that kill or be killed mentality that turned her into such an efficient fighter (and a victor), but it would take something notably less drastic to drag that out of her. Threaten the life she’s managed to carve out for herself, give her something she thinks she’ll have to protect, and she’ll regress right back into that state of mind.
Keeping in mind the above, Katniss is likely to be a mix between extremely agitated that she’s been taken away from the one place she’s finally managed to settle in a little, and kind of resigned to the whole situation. Her sense of self worth is so low that she would sort of feel as though she deserves to be taken away from what little peace she managed to carve out for herself back in Panem. There would be some ‘I fought so hard to survive and now this has happened??’ irritation about the whole in between life and death thing, but ultimately she wouldn’t really understand the it. Mysticism and the supernatural have no part in Katniss’ life, and she’s very pragmatic by nature. She wouldn’t think it was fake or anything, but would rather shrug it off as something else shitty that’s happened in the life of Katniss Everdeen. Ultimately, her feelings on the matter would be something like, ‘I never wanted this to happen, I’m angry/distraught that it has, but not particularly surprised’. While she’s in Tu Shanshu, it’s likely that she’ll switch between that agitation and a sort of catatonia – although she’s settled in District Twelve again at this point, she’s by no means stable. Part of what allows her stability back home is the fact that she’s in a (relatively) safe place, with only people that she knows she can trust. Throwing her into a new setting like this without warning is likely to screw up a lot of her progress.
Appearance:
Book appearance, copied from the wiki – ‘Katniss has straight long black hair, which she normally pulls back into a long braid, olive skin, and gray eyes. She is small in stature and thin for her age as she was generally malnourished because of her district's poverty.’
She does have an official movie face, but I use a different PB that I feel fits her character better. This is Caitlin Stasey, whose appearance can be seen here in Katniss’ icons. What can’t be shown in these icons are her burn scars, which cover her body pretty extensively – her hands especially, but they also cover her torso and part of her neck. Her face was untouched, but much of her hair was burned; it has since grown back in.
Abilities:
- Singing.
- Being rude as shit.
- Looking surprised in public.
- Mad survival skills; how to make fires, what food to eat, how to otherwise survive in the wilderness when everything in that wilderness wants to kill you.
- The use of a gun and how to put one together, although it’s never actually said what kind :’|
- The use of a bow. With the right bow, she can shoot with accuracy for over one hundred metres. This accuracy extends to a degree to throwing knives, although it’s usually accidental.
Inventory:
- Clothes (Pretty simple – trousers, a button up shirt, sturdy boots, a hair tie, underwear)
- Mockingjay pin
- A pearl
- A bow and arrow
- Some hunting snares
Suite: I don’t have a preference as to the suite, but it’d be great if she could room with one or both of her canonmates, assuming they get in. This is just because of general instability, having familiar faces around will help her a lot.At least once she stops trying to kill Finnick for being a mutt
In-Character Samples:
Third Person:
To say that Katniss had been distressed when the kedan had pulled her from the ocean would be a bit of an understatement. The last time she’d been near a body of water like that had been the Quell, and she’d visited that place enough in dreams and hallucinations to know that this was far too real for her liking.
Besides, the kedan had looked like they would fit right in at the Capitol. The old Capitol, the one that was supposed to be packed away and forgotten about, moved on from.
Sort of like Katniss herself. She was supposed to be closeted away in what was left of District Twelve, allowed to live out the rest of her life quietly with Peeta and Haymitch and Haymitch’s geese. The only pieces of the Capitol that were supposed to be left were her memories.
Needless to say, it took a little while for her to be subdued. The story about being somewhere between life and death sounded just terrible enough to be true, but she was still suspicious, sitting with her back pressed tightly to the wall of the cart and a white knuckled grip on her bow. An arrow danced between her fingers, an almost obsessive movement that belied how ready she was to shoot, should the need arise.
“Real or not real.” She murmured it under her breath, lips barely moving as she looked out at her surroundings. She couldn’t tell, and that was the worst part. Katniss was supposed to be the one who could tell real from fake, who could see the truth. But she couldn’t explain any of this.
Did they want her to kill again? To stand up and be the girl on fire, to spark another rebellion? The kedan told her everyone had to work, but that could mean anything.
Katniss looked down at the patchwork skin on her hands. I don’t do that anymore. She thought about telling that to this emperor of theirs, and a sardonic smile touched her lips. As if that had ever stopped them before. Any of them. It wasn’t just a case of don’t, though. It was won’t. It was can’t. She could remember making that decision back in the Capitol after she killed Coin, ended everything and started something else. They could do whatever they wanted to her, but she wouldn’t let them raise her up again.
Network:
[There’s a girl staring at the screen with a look that’d seem almost dead if not for the intensity in her eyes. Katniss is really fucking unhappy, and it shows] It was supposed to be over. [She’s addressing the screen, but it sounds almost like she’s talking to herself.] It was supposed to be over, and they were supposed to leave me be.
[Her fingers twine around each other, drawing attention to the way her hands are scarred with burns and stretched, pale skin where it was grafted on. Observant people might note similar marks crawling up the side of her neck] They told me this emperor knows everything, but that just sounds like another word for president to me. I won’t play this game again, not ever. [Her fingers form a fist and she tears her eyes away from the screen to stare at it. She’s silent for so long, it seems almost as though she’s forgotten she was recording]
Where’s Peeta? [It doesn’t seem to have occurred to her that he might not be here.]
Name: Hannah
Age: 20
Contact: aim: xfeilynx, plurk: hannahcake
Game Cast: -
Character Information:
Name: Katniss Everdeen
Canon: The Hunger Games (book)
Canon Point: At the end of Mockingjay, before the epilogue
Age: 18ish
Reference: Katniss Everdeen wikipage
Setting:
Katniss comes from a place called Panem, a screwed up, post-apocalyptic version of North America. Anything resembling our current world is in the distant past, and if there are other people alive in the world, they’re totally cut off from this society. When The Hunger Games timeline begins, Panem is separated into Twelve Districts – each one responsible for supplying some necessity for the running of the society, such as food, or coal, or luxury items – and the Capitol. For a long time, it was believed that the Thirteenth District – the nuclear district – had been bombed out of existence during an uprising against the Capitol some three quarters of a century before the current timeline.
In truth, what actually happened was a stalemate between this district and the Capitol. It was agreed that District Thirteen would be allowed to retreat underground and live autonomously while the Capitol pretended to bomb them in order to avoid mutual destruction and the likely wiping out of the remnants of the human race. So when the series opens, the setting stands as above.
The name Panem comes from the term panem et circensus, meaning ‘bread and circuses’, which basically means distracting people from important things like politics and human rights by using entertainment and food. The Capitol is where the central government, run by President Snow – essentially a dictator – is set, and it very much ascribed to this way of running things. The Capitol got the entertainment part of things, the primary form of which was known as ‘The Hunger Games’, a tournament created after the first uprising against said Capitol. 24 tributes, a boy and a girl between the ages of 12-18 from each district, were sent to the Capitol in order to fight to the death for the entertainment of the masses, a stark reminder of what it meant to rise up against the Capitol.
Katniss was one of these tributes in the 74th Hunger Games, and accidentally started a whole rebellion against the Capitol, oops. It wasn’t her intention, but she resisted the government on live tv and became a symbol of a wider resistance. This gets her dragged back to the 75th Hunger Games after she fails to snuff out the fire she sparked, but a secret plan by resistance leaders across the districts gets her and several other tributes pulled out, bringing the rebellion to full light. Her own district gets razed to the ground, and District Thirteen starts acting openly, working in concert with most of the other districts against the Capitol. Panem falls into all out war, and another major player comes to the fore in the form of President Coin, the leader of District 13. She believes that Katniss is too powerful a symbol, and tries to limit her access to real power as much as she can.
Ultimately, Coin is responsible for the death of Katniss’ sister, which in turn leads to her own downfall. The rebellion against the Capitol is successful, although not without terrible cost – one of Katniss’ love interests is broken and turned into a weapon to try and kill her, her sister and several friends die, not to mention many of the rebels. Ultimately, though, President Snow is captured. Coin briefly takes over, but Katniss realises that her reign would be just as terrible as Snow’s, albeit in a different way; when she’s supposed to kill Snow, she instead kills Coin. How this affects her character is detailed in her wiki link, but the effect this has on the setting is that the age of dictatorship is (we’re told) over. The Capitol and Panem itself becomes a democracy, with a Commander of another District’s rebel forces being elected leader. Katniss returns to the one part of her district that wasn’t razed to the ground and lives there as others slowly return to make a life in the area.
Personality:
Katniss’ personality has changed a fair bit over the course of the three books she’s been featured in, and at her current canon point, a lot of the anger that has kept her going has burned out; she doesn’t need it anymore. However, were she to be dragged into the middle some sort of war where she’d be expected to fight again – well, that anger might just come back. But it probably would be directed more at the people making her fight than anything else. She’s at a place in her life where she believes that fighting serves no purpose and that humans are only going to continue to wipe each other out if they don’t stop. However, throughout all three books, Katniss has been described as a survivor. So long as she feels she has something to live for, she’ll have something to fight for.
At this point, the girl is essentially broken, although she’s been making an effort at putting herself back together. So much has happened to her that the only way she could deal with it was to withdraw from mentally existing for a while. This is an example of both how terrible her experiences have been, but also of how Katniss deals with pain; she withdraws. She doesn’t like to talk to other people about what her problems are or why she’s hurting, and she’s huge on pretending like everything’s okay, or going catatonic if she can’t pretend. She’s at a point where, surrounded by the only (two) people she can trust absolutely and who are as screwed up as she is, she’s able to try and move forward; however it’s a slow process, and being dragged away from those two people and her comfort zone is likely to send her right back to being unstable. It’s possible she’d return to being catatonic, but Katniss is the type of person whose sheer outrage at the fact that it was supposed to be over and now it’s not will be enough to light a fire in her, although that instability will definitely still be there.
To be frank, she’s kind of an ass. Trauma has had the effect of softening this aspect of her in some ways – when she’s comfortable – and sharpening it in others. If she’s not feeling safe or at ease, she’s going to be acerbic as shit, assuming she’s not dazed or mad. She doesn’t take kindly to people disagreeing with her, although she will (very reluctantly, after some time) agree with them if they have the patience to stick around and make her understand where they’re coming from. While she used to be hella independent as a result of having essentially taken over as head of her small household from the age of eleven, she’s now needs the presence of at least Peeta in order to function like a normal human being. That’s not to say that she’ll be catatonic without him, but that she’s likely to be distressed, off balance, occasionally out of it, and tying lots of knots if she can’t be sure he’s safe or around. The presence of other people she cares about can alleviate this and help her focus, but he’ll always be at the forefront of her mind in some way.
Katniss is – rightfully, given her experiences – suspicious of people offering to help her when there’s no obvious reason why they should. Depending on how badly she needs to accept the offer in order to survive, she will reject or accept offers of assistance based on this; if she can’t understand why a person would help her and what’s in it for them, and she doesn’t need it to survive, it’s possible she’ll reject it out of hand despite the intentions. Trust doesn’t come easy to her, at all, if ever these days. Being a survivor, though, she’s fine with taking advantage of those offers so long as she can see why and where they come from – even if she disagrees with the reasoning. She hates being beholden to people, and will make every effort to make sure she doesn’t owe anyone anything.
Despite how badly her traumatic experiences have affected her, a cornerstone of Katniss’ personality has always been her need to protect people. First and foremost her sister, then Peeta, with her friends and family coming in after this. During her stint as the Mockingjay, this need to protect also extended to the citizens of Panem; as the symbol of their resistance, she felt a personal connection to them, as though she owed it to them to see the country through its rebellion. Coupled with this protector instinct is a crippling sense of responsibility if she fails to protect someone she deemed under her care. This is seen most clearly with the death of her sister, who she quite literally dedicated her life to protecting. She almost loses her mind as a result of this (and still isn’t entirely convinced that she didn’t). The idea that Peeta might be in danger can completely overwhelm her to the point where the only thing she can do is distract herself with mindless tasks; even throwing herself into something important and attention consuming doesn’t work. It has to be simple and repetitive.
She definitely has a temper, and while she does (on occasion) try to keep that under wraps, it rarely works. Even when her life could depend on her being charming (or at the very least pretending that she doesn’t hate everyone currently around her), she can’t manage pulling on a few smiles. She’s a very instinctual person, often going with her first impulse before she actually thinks anything through; unlike most of the rest of the characters in her series, she’s incapable of cutting herself off from her emotions and taking a pragmatic course of action unless she’s been so emotionally wrecked by something that she literally can’t let herself feel anymore. She definitely has her principles, but they’re not as clear cut as they once might have been. More than ever now, Katniss understands what it is to break your principles, and that the reasoning might not even make sense to you.
She’s a pretty awkward person, socially, and isn’t concerned with making friends. While she does have something of a sense of humour, it’s pretty much dry comments and sarcasm – seriously, she’s as charming as a rock. She shows a stunning lack of self-awareness, and consequently has a rather skewed idea of herself and her own personality. Katniss is a realist, and so she focuses on the parts of her personality that logically, no one would really want to expose themselves to for too long. While she focuses on her standoffishness, her brusque nature and bad temper, other people have seen her passion, the absolute devotion she had to her younger sister and the other people she cares about, her sheer bloody mindedness and determination to either survive, or to go down fighting if she can’t survive. She has a very specific, accidental sort of charisma – if she’s focussing on trying to be friendly and win people over it usually ends up awful, but there’s something about her that draws people to her only when she’s not actually trying to catch their attention. She’s a very ‘speak from your heart’ sort of character, and in a world where everything was very calculated and controlled, that is what drew other people to her.
However, the world Katniss is in has changed drastically, and there is no real need for the Mockingjay anymore. She has a better understanding now of what it was about her that lit the spark that set Panem on fire, but she’s trying to move on from that. It would take something pretty drastic to draw out that charismatic part of her again. She’s been trying to move on from that kill or be killed mentality that turned her into such an efficient fighter (and a victor), but it would take something notably less drastic to drag that out of her. Threaten the life she’s managed to carve out for herself, give her something she thinks she’ll have to protect, and she’ll regress right back into that state of mind.
Keeping in mind the above, Katniss is likely to be a mix between extremely agitated that she’s been taken away from the one place she’s finally managed to settle in a little, and kind of resigned to the whole situation. Her sense of self worth is so low that she would sort of feel as though she deserves to be taken away from what little peace she managed to carve out for herself back in Panem. There would be some ‘I fought so hard to survive and now this has happened??’ irritation about the whole in between life and death thing, but ultimately she wouldn’t really understand the it. Mysticism and the supernatural have no part in Katniss’ life, and she’s very pragmatic by nature. She wouldn’t think it was fake or anything, but would rather shrug it off as something else shitty that’s happened in the life of Katniss Everdeen. Ultimately, her feelings on the matter would be something like, ‘I never wanted this to happen, I’m angry/distraught that it has, but not particularly surprised’. While she’s in Tu Shanshu, it’s likely that she’ll switch between that agitation and a sort of catatonia – although she’s settled in District Twelve again at this point, she’s by no means stable. Part of what allows her stability back home is the fact that she’s in a (relatively) safe place, with only people that she knows she can trust. Throwing her into a new setting like this without warning is likely to screw up a lot of her progress.
Appearance:
Book appearance, copied from the wiki – ‘Katniss has straight long black hair, which she normally pulls back into a long braid, olive skin, and gray eyes. She is small in stature and thin for her age as she was generally malnourished because of her district's poverty.’
She does have an official movie face, but I use a different PB that I feel fits her character better. This is Caitlin Stasey, whose appearance can be seen here in Katniss’ icons. What can’t be shown in these icons are her burn scars, which cover her body pretty extensively – her hands especially, but they also cover her torso and part of her neck. Her face was untouched, but much of her hair was burned; it has since grown back in.
Abilities:
- Singing.
- Being rude as shit.
- Looking surprised in public.
- Mad survival skills; how to make fires, what food to eat, how to otherwise survive in the wilderness when everything in that wilderness wants to kill you.
- The use of a gun and how to put one together, although it’s never actually said what kind :’|
- The use of a bow. With the right bow, she can shoot with accuracy for over one hundred metres. This accuracy extends to a degree to throwing knives, although it’s usually accidental.
Inventory:
- Clothes (Pretty simple – trousers, a button up shirt, sturdy boots, a hair tie, underwear)
- Mockingjay pin
- A pearl
- A bow and arrow
- Some hunting snares
Suite: I don’t have a preference as to the suite, but it’d be great if she could room with one or both of her canonmates, assuming they get in. This is just because of general instability, having familiar faces around will help her a lot.
In-Character Samples:
Third Person:
To say that Katniss had been distressed when the kedan had pulled her from the ocean would be a bit of an understatement. The last time she’d been near a body of water like that had been the Quell, and she’d visited that place enough in dreams and hallucinations to know that this was far too real for her liking.
Besides, the kedan had looked like they would fit right in at the Capitol. The old Capitol, the one that was supposed to be packed away and forgotten about, moved on from.
Sort of like Katniss herself. She was supposed to be closeted away in what was left of District Twelve, allowed to live out the rest of her life quietly with Peeta and Haymitch and Haymitch’s geese. The only pieces of the Capitol that were supposed to be left were her memories.
Needless to say, it took a little while for her to be subdued. The story about being somewhere between life and death sounded just terrible enough to be true, but she was still suspicious, sitting with her back pressed tightly to the wall of the cart and a white knuckled grip on her bow. An arrow danced between her fingers, an almost obsessive movement that belied how ready she was to shoot, should the need arise.
“Real or not real.” She murmured it under her breath, lips barely moving as she looked out at her surroundings. She couldn’t tell, and that was the worst part. Katniss was supposed to be the one who could tell real from fake, who could see the truth. But she couldn’t explain any of this.
Did they want her to kill again? To stand up and be the girl on fire, to spark another rebellion? The kedan told her everyone had to work, but that could mean anything.
Katniss looked down at the patchwork skin on her hands. I don’t do that anymore. She thought about telling that to this emperor of theirs, and a sardonic smile touched her lips. As if that had ever stopped them before. Any of them. It wasn’t just a case of don’t, though. It was won’t. It was can’t. She could remember making that decision back in the Capitol after she killed Coin, ended everything and started something else. They could do whatever they wanted to her, but she wouldn’t let them raise her up again.
Network:
[There’s a girl staring at the screen with a look that’d seem almost dead if not for the intensity in her eyes. Katniss is really fucking unhappy, and it shows] It was supposed to be over. [She’s addressing the screen, but it sounds almost like she’s talking to herself.] It was supposed to be over, and they were supposed to leave me be.
[Her fingers twine around each other, drawing attention to the way her hands are scarred with burns and stretched, pale skin where it was grafted on. Observant people might note similar marks crawling up the side of her neck] They told me this emperor knows everything, but that just sounds like another word for president to me. I won’t play this game again, not ever. [Her fingers form a fist and she tears her eyes away from the screen to stare at it. She’s silent for so long, it seems almost as though she’s forgotten she was recording]
Where’s Peeta? [It doesn’t seem to have occurred to her that he might not be here.]
