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1. Player Information
Name: Ki
Username: AIM: Ruruinabox
Plurk: windystride
Current characters in ToS: N/A
Reserve: http://shadowmods.dreamwidth.org/1162.html?thread=39306#cmt39306
2. Canon Character Information
Name: Peeta Mellark
PB: Josh Hutcherson
Journal: http://breadonfire.dreamwidth.org/profile
Age: 17
Appearance: A stocky, broad shouldered, mid-height teen. Unlike the majority from his district, he lives in the merchant part of the district and is marked with the features of being from a merchant family; ashen blonde hair, blue eyes, and pale skin. He's been reasonably well fed for most of his life (and by reasonably well fed, I mean he's never completely starved in his early life), so he has some meat on him.
During his first Hunger Games, Peeta lost his left leg at the thigh. It was replaced by an artificial limb and sometimes causes him problems getting around in an efficient manner.
Even with the setback of being tortured and starved by the Capitol, since being with District 13, he managed to gain a bit of the lost weight back, and gained much of his strength back through training.
Since his hijacking, he carries himself less confidently than he used to, an edge of suspicion in everything he does. Glimpses of his old personality come through, and he'll give a kind smile and he'll sit a little straighter. But more often than not, when he loses his control, his hands and face begin to twitch, everything around him becomes his enemy and he becomes wild and frantic, like an animal cornered.
History: http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Peeta_Mellark
Powers/Talents: While Peeta has no supernatural abilities, he has remarkable strength. In the books, he's to have lifted a hundred pound bag of flour with ease and carried it a fair distance to his family's bakery just as easily. Normally this is controlled fairly easily. When he loses himself to the hijacking, Peeta loses control and uses his strength as a weapon.
Peeta has three talents so to speak; baking, painting and his charisma. He's baked all of his life and probably anything you can imagine. It was his family's business; they all worked together to run the shop, even if his father was the 'baker'. In their small business, he decorated amazing looking cakes, which plays into his next talent, painting.
When given a set of oils he could paint vividly realistic portraits of anything he wanted, on canvas or otherwise. In his first Hunger Games, he's able to paint an almost perfect camouflage on himself to hide from Tributes that were hunting him down. After his and Katniss' victory, he's forced to pick a 'talent' to show off to the world and he selects painting, because he has to, but also for his own therapy. He paints things from his experiences in the games, and they're so vivid and real that they freak Katniss out a bit and bring everything back to her. It helped him work through his nightmares that lingered from the games.
When he's not half-gone mentally, Peeta is a charmer. He can easily get someone on his side, or what ever side he wants them to get on. It's never to be manipulative. He only uses these powers to protect, when he can. He charms all of Panem when he speaks with the host of the Hunger Games during his interview, and captivates them with the story of the star crossed lovers from District 12. He manages to convince the more dangerous tributes that he's on their side long enough to protect Katniss from them, people he would normally never want to be associated with. Throughout the story, his words save Katniss, not in a touching way necessarily, but in their charming, clever ways. And often times, he never informs her of what he's going to say beforehand, allowing real reactions. Even the Capitol recognizes his ability. After they capture him, they use him in a propaganda video, having him plead with the districts, rebels and Katniss for a ceasefire and to end the war.
Personality: Before being kidnapped, tortured, and having all of his worst fears and more placed like booby traps in his mind, Peeta was a good and honest guy. He fought for the girl he loved, Katniss Everdeen, always placing her safety far beyond his own, seeing the good in every person he could, and could easily define right from wrong. Peeta was a bit of a pacifist, not wanting to kill others despite being thrown into The Hunger Games twice, and only killing when he absolutely had to or on accident. He was honest as he could be, and was even described in the book as 'one of the only truly good people to come out of the arena.’
Throughout the series, Peeta proved again and again what a nice guy he was. He used humor and kind words to help people through hard times, even if it was at his own expense. He truly cared for other people, and whether it was giving bread to a starving girl from his class, or offering a portion of his winnings from the hunger games to a suffering district, Peeta was always looking to help others, and he never expected anything in return.
At the start of the story, we discover Peeta was a dedicated lover. He was thrown into the whirlwind that is the Games with Katniss, the love of his life since the age of 5, but despite all of the confidence he had, he was never able to speak to her. When her father died and she and her family began to starve, Peeta took a beating for slightly burning two loaves of bread to give to her. To him, it was worth every bruise he received to save her life.
Before the games even started, he pushed Haymitch to talk and give them strategies, and was probably the first one in a long time to convince the drunk to help them both. Katniss helped of course, and he would have admitted that in a second, but had he not initiated things with the older man, he probably would have been much more reluctant to help the two teens slated to die under his watch again. Part way through the training process, Peeta confided in Haymitch that he loved Katniss. They used it in the interviews to make her more desirable, something she needed after her disaster of an interview. Peeta told all of Panem that he was in love with the Girl on Fire, and thus began the story of the star crossed lovers from District 12.
While he's never manipulative, he never truly informs Katniss of what's going on in the situation. Since the books are told from Katniss' point of view, we find she's never sure of his intentions, and never sure if his words and actions are sincere. He was constantly trying to hide things from her to protect her it seemed, not because he was a bad person; because despite all of his intelligence and wit, she was still the girl he'd fallen in love with and had never managed to speak to before the train ride to the Capitol.
In their first two Hunger Games, he did everything he could to ensure her victory, and while Katniss was unsure of his loyalty, he proved how truly loyal he was to her and her victory. He protected her, in subtle ways, obvious ways, and everything in between. Further on in the games, when the rules had changed back to only allowing one victor, he freely offered himself to Katniss to allow her to win. He was willing to give up everything for her survival. He knew she had a family to look after; his own family had little hope of him coming back, and they weren’t relying on him the same way Prim and Katniss’ mother depended on Katniss.
At the end of the book, despite being wounded and hurt to find all of romantic things Katniss did in the arena weren’t real, he still faced the crowd with her as her lover. This continued into their victory tour, and especially played it up when he discovered Katniss and everyone they knew were in danger. He’d already practically given her his life, and he’d continue to do so from then on, even if she didn’t feel the same for him.
He teamed up with Haymitch again during the Quarter Quell, convincing him to protect her instead of himself (and was completely unaware of the reasons Haymitch had chosen to protect her). He made alliances easily with the other victors, despite Katniss' refusal to team up with anyone else. He weaved a story about Katniss already being pregnant, nearly causing riots in the Capitol because of it. The token he brought into the arena was a locket with a mockingjay on it, with pictures of Katniss' best friend Gale (someone Peeta was a bit jealous of for capturing Katniss' affections, or so it seemed), and Katniss' little sister and mother. It was all for her.
Until he's left in the arena by the rebels, and the Capitol captures him.
In the beginning, they take decent care of Peeta but then they began to twist him. They did this because they fully intended to use him against Katniss and the rebels. They starve him, torture him, change him. The technique they used to drive him insane was taking the venom from a Tracker Jacker, (a giant gold wasp whose venom targets the parts of brain that causes fear and causes terrible hallucinations) and using it to alter all of his recorded memories of Katniss. They twist his image of her in his head, to the point that when he sees her, he only sees a monster who needs to be killed. They make him think that she killed his family, destroyed District 12, and was coming for him next.
He loses touch. The 'hijacking' as it's called, turns him into an almost completely different person. Gone is the boy with the bread, and all that's left is a bitter and violent husk. He makes rude and negative comments, especially to Katniss when he sees her. Although, most the time when he sees Katniss or anything that reminds him of her, he becomes insanely violent, and combined with his strength, is a deadly combination. He nearly chokes Katniss to death in their reunion for nothing more than her running at him. The tracker jacker venom also drives him to be suicidal and he can't even see why the rebels wanted him back.
After spending a bit of time with the rebels, he's fine with people who do not directly relate to Katniss. He attaches to a girl named Delly Cartwright, and she helps him through hard times, scolding him when he's not being nice. She grounds him really, and is a large part of why he recovers. He recovers enough that he decorates a wedding cake, something that takes all of his concentration and effort. There's no evidence of shaky hands or psychotic episodes when it's complete; only a beautiful piece of work that only the old Peeta could have completed.
Peeta is still mentally unstable but functional. When he's cleared, he's sent into battle with Katniss' squad. They both stay out of the others way, mostly. It's apparent he's avoiding her to keep himself in check, for themselves and their squad. He bonds with the others on some level though and the entire squad, including Katniss, ends up playing a game to help his recovery called 'Real or Not Real.’
Slowly but surely... he's recovering. Not fast enough, but he doesn't completely lose himself when he sees Katniss at this point. His world still revolves around Katniss. From their first moments on the train to having his memories altered and being shoved into a war with her, his life always hinges on hers.
Why would your character be chosen? His loyalty and his heart. It transcends what most would do for any person. While he was changed against his will, he's still in there, locked away from his fears that had been drawn out by the Capitol hijacking him.
How much does your character know about nonhumans? Peeta has pretty much no knowledge of nonhumans beyond what he knows about animals and mutts from his world.
Why this character: Peeta is a product of war between two opposing forces. While he would normally be on the rebels’ side, he was captured by the Capitol and changed for the worst. They used him to try and end the rebellion and to manipulate Katniss. There's two sides to Peeta; the boy with the bread that we grow to love and adore throughout the story and the tormented, poisoned 'mutt' that the Capitol all but hands back to Katniss and the rebels. He's a strong character in his convictions (beyond what the Capitol twisted) and is aware of how much he's changed and he hates it. He's interesting on many fronts and can form bonds with many different types of characters, while also having conflicting bonds due to his hijacking. He won't ever be a one note character.(And I may or may not have a thing for torturing my characters. Don't judge.)
AU Addendum: N/A
Past Game History: N/A
4. Samples
First-Person: [His arrival here hadn't been the smoothest. That’s what they'd told him at least.But here he was, stuck in some new set of games. A game of hearts. Or choice. Or something. He should have paid more attention to the woman that had explained things to him, but he could barely muster the strength to keep his eyes open at that point, and he only did that to keep images of a dark haired mutt from his vision.
Now though, he wanted to learn. His squad was better off without him, so he was in no rush to get home.]
Hey.
[He wrung his hands, thoughts circling back once again to Katniss. The pause wasn't at all intentional, and when he realized how long it had been, he decided what he needed. With a slight smile on his lips and in his voice, he asked;]
Anyone know if there's a bakery here?
Third-Person: It had been another long night.
Katniss had gone to bed from her watch hours ago but whether she was sleeping or not was debatable. His stomach twisted into knots as he stared at her tent, before he finally rolled over, facing away from the camp. Not that this view was much better. Capitol building with windows that had been shot out, casting jagged shadows as the sky began to turn orange around them. Orange...there was something about that color...
It calmed him.
For the first time in weeks, he felt himself relax, sighing. He heard Mitchell shifting from behind him. He didn't blame him. Most of the time, he barely trusted himself. It was why he was guarded nearly 24 hours a day. He needed it.
When the shadows began to grow, Peeta rubbed his eyes. A trick of the light. Maybe it was his exhaustion finally getting the better of him or maybe his insanity was finally going to take him when he closed his eyes to rest. When his eyes opened again though, they were on him, the tendril-like fingers wrapping around his body, each of his limbs, artificial or not, and pulling him. Before Peeta could call for help or snap, he's gone, his world black and terrifying.
In the Capitol, he thought many times 'this is it; this is what it's like to die' and once again he found himself having those thoughts. Maybe it was a stray pod, one that had been triggered by something and they were just close enough that he was the first one claimed. Good. Maybe Mitchell would have enough time to warn the others so they didn't come with him. They didn't need to. They weren't the ones that were a danger to the entire squad.
It feels like an eternity that he's floating in darkness. A quick and painless death... not something he deserved, but it was oddly comforting. Finally, an end to the nightmares.
Until his eyes opened again, the darkness gone. He sat up immediately, arms trembling as he did, but not at all because of his weight. Blue eyes darted about the room. Oh no. They had him again. The Capitol captured him again. The nightmares were not even close to over. Even as the woman approached him, he didn't hear what she said. He backed away from her, limbs not responding properly and earning a look of confusion from the woman.
“Get away!” he shouted. Panic. Confusion. Upheaval. The Capitol. Death.
Katniss. She was there again, long fangs and claws and red eyes.
No the nightmares weren't stopping. Not now, not ever.
Third Sample http://yeeeeeeeeeeah.dreamwidth.org/1258.html
Name: Ki
Username: AIM: Ruruinabox
Plurk: windystride
Current characters in ToS: N/A
Reserve: http://shadowmods.dreamwidth.org/1162.html?thread=39306#cmt39306
2. Canon Character Information
Name: Peeta Mellark
PB: Josh Hutcherson
Journal: http://breadonfire.dreamwidth.org/profile
Age: 17
Appearance: A stocky, broad shouldered, mid-height teen. Unlike the majority from his district, he lives in the merchant part of the district and is marked with the features of being from a merchant family; ashen blonde hair, blue eyes, and pale skin. He's been reasonably well fed for most of his life (and by reasonably well fed, I mean he's never completely starved in his early life), so he has some meat on him.
During his first Hunger Games, Peeta lost his left leg at the thigh. It was replaced by an artificial limb and sometimes causes him problems getting around in an efficient manner.
Even with the setback of being tortured and starved by the Capitol, since being with District 13, he managed to gain a bit of the lost weight back, and gained much of his strength back through training.
Since his hijacking, he carries himself less confidently than he used to, an edge of suspicion in everything he does. Glimpses of his old personality come through, and he'll give a kind smile and he'll sit a little straighter. But more often than not, when he loses his control, his hands and face begin to twitch, everything around him becomes his enemy and he becomes wild and frantic, like an animal cornered.
History: http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Peeta_Mellark
Powers/Talents: While Peeta has no supernatural abilities, he has remarkable strength. In the books, he's to have lifted a hundred pound bag of flour with ease and carried it a fair distance to his family's bakery just as easily. Normally this is controlled fairly easily. When he loses himself to the hijacking, Peeta loses control and uses his strength as a weapon.
Peeta has three talents so to speak; baking, painting and his charisma. He's baked all of his life and probably anything you can imagine. It was his family's business; they all worked together to run the shop, even if his father was the 'baker'. In their small business, he decorated amazing looking cakes, which plays into his next talent, painting.
When given a set of oils he could paint vividly realistic portraits of anything he wanted, on canvas or otherwise. In his first Hunger Games, he's able to paint an almost perfect camouflage on himself to hide from Tributes that were hunting him down. After his and Katniss' victory, he's forced to pick a 'talent' to show off to the world and he selects painting, because he has to, but also for his own therapy. He paints things from his experiences in the games, and they're so vivid and real that they freak Katniss out a bit and bring everything back to her. It helped him work through his nightmares that lingered from the games.
When he's not half-gone mentally, Peeta is a charmer. He can easily get someone on his side, or what ever side he wants them to get on. It's never to be manipulative. He only uses these powers to protect, when he can. He charms all of Panem when he speaks with the host of the Hunger Games during his interview, and captivates them with the story of the star crossed lovers from District 12. He manages to convince the more dangerous tributes that he's on their side long enough to protect Katniss from them, people he would normally never want to be associated with. Throughout the story, his words save Katniss, not in a touching way necessarily, but in their charming, clever ways. And often times, he never informs her of what he's going to say beforehand, allowing real reactions. Even the Capitol recognizes his ability. After they capture him, they use him in a propaganda video, having him plead with the districts, rebels and Katniss for a ceasefire and to end the war.
Personality: Before being kidnapped, tortured, and having all of his worst fears and more placed like booby traps in his mind, Peeta was a good and honest guy. He fought for the girl he loved, Katniss Everdeen, always placing her safety far beyond his own, seeing the good in every person he could, and could easily define right from wrong. Peeta was a bit of a pacifist, not wanting to kill others despite being thrown into The Hunger Games twice, and only killing when he absolutely had to or on accident. He was honest as he could be, and was even described in the book as 'one of the only truly good people to come out of the arena.’
Throughout the series, Peeta proved again and again what a nice guy he was. He used humor and kind words to help people through hard times, even if it was at his own expense. He truly cared for other people, and whether it was giving bread to a starving girl from his class, or offering a portion of his winnings from the hunger games to a suffering district, Peeta was always looking to help others, and he never expected anything in return.
At the start of the story, we discover Peeta was a dedicated lover. He was thrown into the whirlwind that is the Games with Katniss, the love of his life since the age of 5, but despite all of the confidence he had, he was never able to speak to her. When her father died and she and her family began to starve, Peeta took a beating for slightly burning two loaves of bread to give to her. To him, it was worth every bruise he received to save her life.
Before the games even started, he pushed Haymitch to talk and give them strategies, and was probably the first one in a long time to convince the drunk to help them both. Katniss helped of course, and he would have admitted that in a second, but had he not initiated things with the older man, he probably would have been much more reluctant to help the two teens slated to die under his watch again. Part way through the training process, Peeta confided in Haymitch that he loved Katniss. They used it in the interviews to make her more desirable, something she needed after her disaster of an interview. Peeta told all of Panem that he was in love with the Girl on Fire, and thus began the story of the star crossed lovers from District 12.
While he's never manipulative, he never truly informs Katniss of what's going on in the situation. Since the books are told from Katniss' point of view, we find she's never sure of his intentions, and never sure if his words and actions are sincere. He was constantly trying to hide things from her to protect her it seemed, not because he was a bad person; because despite all of his intelligence and wit, she was still the girl he'd fallen in love with and had never managed to speak to before the train ride to the Capitol.
In their first two Hunger Games, he did everything he could to ensure her victory, and while Katniss was unsure of his loyalty, he proved how truly loyal he was to her and her victory. He protected her, in subtle ways, obvious ways, and everything in between. Further on in the games, when the rules had changed back to only allowing one victor, he freely offered himself to Katniss to allow her to win. He was willing to give up everything for her survival. He knew she had a family to look after; his own family had little hope of him coming back, and they weren’t relying on him the same way Prim and Katniss’ mother depended on Katniss.
At the end of the book, despite being wounded and hurt to find all of romantic things Katniss did in the arena weren’t real, he still faced the crowd with her as her lover. This continued into their victory tour, and especially played it up when he discovered Katniss and everyone they knew were in danger. He’d already practically given her his life, and he’d continue to do so from then on, even if she didn’t feel the same for him.
He teamed up with Haymitch again during the Quarter Quell, convincing him to protect her instead of himself (and was completely unaware of the reasons Haymitch had chosen to protect her). He made alliances easily with the other victors, despite Katniss' refusal to team up with anyone else. He weaved a story about Katniss already being pregnant, nearly causing riots in the Capitol because of it. The token he brought into the arena was a locket with a mockingjay on it, with pictures of Katniss' best friend Gale (someone Peeta was a bit jealous of for capturing Katniss' affections, or so it seemed), and Katniss' little sister and mother. It was all for her.
Until he's left in the arena by the rebels, and the Capitol captures him.
In the beginning, they take decent care of Peeta but then they began to twist him. They did this because they fully intended to use him against Katniss and the rebels. They starve him, torture him, change him. The technique they used to drive him insane was taking the venom from a Tracker Jacker, (a giant gold wasp whose venom targets the parts of brain that causes fear and causes terrible hallucinations) and using it to alter all of his recorded memories of Katniss. They twist his image of her in his head, to the point that when he sees her, he only sees a monster who needs to be killed. They make him think that she killed his family, destroyed District 12, and was coming for him next.
He loses touch. The 'hijacking' as it's called, turns him into an almost completely different person. Gone is the boy with the bread, and all that's left is a bitter and violent husk. He makes rude and negative comments, especially to Katniss when he sees her. Although, most the time when he sees Katniss or anything that reminds him of her, he becomes insanely violent, and combined with his strength, is a deadly combination. He nearly chokes Katniss to death in their reunion for nothing more than her running at him. The tracker jacker venom also drives him to be suicidal and he can't even see why the rebels wanted him back.
After spending a bit of time with the rebels, he's fine with people who do not directly relate to Katniss. He attaches to a girl named Delly Cartwright, and she helps him through hard times, scolding him when he's not being nice. She grounds him really, and is a large part of why he recovers. He recovers enough that he decorates a wedding cake, something that takes all of his concentration and effort. There's no evidence of shaky hands or psychotic episodes when it's complete; only a beautiful piece of work that only the old Peeta could have completed.
Peeta is still mentally unstable but functional. When he's cleared, he's sent into battle with Katniss' squad. They both stay out of the others way, mostly. It's apparent he's avoiding her to keep himself in check, for themselves and their squad. He bonds with the others on some level though and the entire squad, including Katniss, ends up playing a game to help his recovery called 'Real or Not Real.’
Slowly but surely... he's recovering. Not fast enough, but he doesn't completely lose himself when he sees Katniss at this point. His world still revolves around Katniss. From their first moments on the train to having his memories altered and being shoved into a war with her, his life always hinges on hers.
Why would your character be chosen? His loyalty and his heart. It transcends what most would do for any person. While he was changed against his will, he's still in there, locked away from his fears that had been drawn out by the Capitol hijacking him.
How much does your character know about nonhumans? Peeta has pretty much no knowledge of nonhumans beyond what he knows about animals and mutts from his world.
Why this character: Peeta is a product of war between two opposing forces. While he would normally be on the rebels’ side, he was captured by the Capitol and changed for the worst. They used him to try and end the rebellion and to manipulate Katniss. There's two sides to Peeta; the boy with the bread that we grow to love and adore throughout the story and the tormented, poisoned 'mutt' that the Capitol all but hands back to Katniss and the rebels. He's a strong character in his convictions (beyond what the Capitol twisted) and is aware of how much he's changed and he hates it. He's interesting on many fronts and can form bonds with many different types of characters, while also having conflicting bonds due to his hijacking. He won't ever be a one note character.
AU Addendum: N/A
Past Game History: N/A
4. Samples
First-Person: [His arrival here hadn't been the smoothest. That’s what they'd told him at least.But here he was, stuck in some new set of games. A game of hearts. Or choice. Or something. He should have paid more attention to the woman that had explained things to him, but he could barely muster the strength to keep his eyes open at that point, and he only did that to keep images of a dark haired mutt from his vision.
Now though, he wanted to learn. His squad was better off without him, so he was in no rush to get home.]
Hey.
[He wrung his hands, thoughts circling back once again to Katniss. The pause wasn't at all intentional, and when he realized how long it had been, he decided what he needed. With a slight smile on his lips and in his voice, he asked;]
Anyone know if there's a bakery here?
Third-Person: It had been another long night.
Katniss had gone to bed from her watch hours ago but whether she was sleeping or not was debatable. His stomach twisted into knots as he stared at her tent, before he finally rolled over, facing away from the camp. Not that this view was much better. Capitol building with windows that had been shot out, casting jagged shadows as the sky began to turn orange around them. Orange...there was something about that color...
It calmed him.
For the first time in weeks, he felt himself relax, sighing. He heard Mitchell shifting from behind him. He didn't blame him. Most of the time, he barely trusted himself. It was why he was guarded nearly 24 hours a day. He needed it.
When the shadows began to grow, Peeta rubbed his eyes. A trick of the light. Maybe it was his exhaustion finally getting the better of him or maybe his insanity was finally going to take him when he closed his eyes to rest. When his eyes opened again though, they were on him, the tendril-like fingers wrapping around his body, each of his limbs, artificial or not, and pulling him. Before Peeta could call for help or snap, he's gone, his world black and terrifying.
In the Capitol, he thought many times 'this is it; this is what it's like to die' and once again he found himself having those thoughts. Maybe it was a stray pod, one that had been triggered by something and they were just close enough that he was the first one claimed. Good. Maybe Mitchell would have enough time to warn the others so they didn't come with him. They didn't need to. They weren't the ones that were a danger to the entire squad.
It feels like an eternity that he's floating in darkness. A quick and painless death... not something he deserved, but it was oddly comforting. Finally, an end to the nightmares.
Until his eyes opened again, the darkness gone. He sat up immediately, arms trembling as he did, but not at all because of his weight. Blue eyes darted about the room. Oh no. They had him again. The Capitol captured him again. The nightmares were not even close to over. Even as the woman approached him, he didn't hear what she said. He backed away from her, limbs not responding properly and earning a look of confusion from the woman.
“Get away!” he shouted. Panic. Confusion. Upheaval. The Capitol. Death.
Katniss. She was there again, long fangs and claws and red eyes.
No the nightmares weren't stopping. Not now, not ever.
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