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CHARACTER NAME: Haymitch Abernathy
CHARACTER SERIES: The Hunger Games

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Kissing this character: Yes
Flirting with this character: Yes
Fighting with this character: You can, but be advised he will fight like hell if he feels threatened, so don't go there unless you mean it
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Warnings: He has PTSD and nightmares, and carries a knife with him, so be cautious about waking him up or acting in a threatening manner towards him. He will absolutely fight if he feels threatened.

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PLAYER
Katie:
Age: 18+
Contact:

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CHARACTER
Name: Haymitch Abernathy
True Name: Same
Canon: The Hunger Games (Mockingjay, during his stay in District 13)
Age: 41
History: Here

Powers/Abilities: He's human, so nothing supernatural. He is incredibly cunning and clever and skilled at turning situations to his advantage or finding flaws to exploit. Strategy is a particular skill of his. He's also good at getting drunk and falling off of things.

Inventory: Clothes: shirt, pants, beanie, sweater, all the same shade of gray; white undershirt; military boots; pocket knife; empty flask; a gold bangle bracelet

Job History:

25 years - Victor/mentor: as the Victor from District 12, he was "rewarded" with a house and money to live on, so he didn't need a job. However, as the Victor, he was also expected to mentor the tributes from District 12 every year, helping them learn skills and strategies to stay alive in the arena. He was also expected to try and find them sponsors for as long as they remained in the arena, which required mingling and socializing with people he generally despised. The one year that he had tributes who won, it was also part of his job to accompany them on their Victory Tour.

Suppressions: He learned early on to hide his true feelings about the Capitol and to go along with the narrative they spin, because people die if he doesn't. Which has led to huge amounts of guilt. Guilt that he survived when 47 other kids didn't. Guilt that his actions got people he cared about killed. Guilt that he wasn't able to keep 23 years' worth of kids from dying in the arena. Until Katniss and Peeta become Victors themselves, there's not another person in District 12 who understands any of what that's like. He manages to suppress it only by drinking copious amounts of alcohol, which earns him a reputation as the town drunk, and by choosing to isolate himself from the rest of the population, which makes it even harder for anyone else to understand him. He keeps his emotions close, too, because he knows that any hint of weakness or vulnerability can be used against him.

Greatest Fear: More people dying because of their connection to him.

Greatest Desire: To be able to care about people without them becoming something to be used against him. A world where he doesn't have to isolate himself to avoid pain.

Greatest Regret: That people he cared about died because of his actions.

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Name: Haymitch Abernathy
Canon: The Hunger Games
Scrubs Color: Navy blue
Visible Age: Early 40s
Gender: Male
Height: 5'10"
Physique: Paunchy, but with a frame and build that hints at past strength
Complexion: Pale
Hygiene: It depends on the situation, but usually he doesn't take a lot of care with his appearance or clothes. He's a bit of a slob, really.
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Blue
Defining Marks: Scars on his abdomen, not that most people are likely to see them.
Accent/Speech: American English.
Bearing/Demeanor: Standoffish isn't quite right -- he's not rude, exactly, just reticent. He tends to walk, or sit, in a manner that makes it clear that he's not interested in having conversations with someone he doesn't know, and if he's forced to, he will share as little information as possible.
Gait: Normal.
Habits: He stays mostly around where he lives, only venturing to the common buildings of the villages when there are fewer people around. It's not paranoia, it's a survival tactic.
Skills: He's good at planning, at looking at long-range solutions, and waiting while they play themselves out. His biggest asset is his intelligence, which allows him to examine a situation and find a way to exploit it. He's also good with a knife.

More information about Haymitch is here.

BASICS

Your name or nickname: Katie
Your year of birth: 1982
A reliable DW account the mods can PM to reach you: seekingcrocodile
Link to your hold comment: Here
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Character name: Haymitch Abernathy
Character type: Fandom
Fandom/Canon: The Hunger Games
Character DW journal: juststayalive
Does this character have previous CR?: No

HISTORY

History

What is your canon exit point?: The end of Catching Fire

PERSONALITY OVERVIEW

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PERSONALITY QUESTIONS

What skills does your character bring to the situation? Mainly his intelligence and his wit, his ability to assess a situation in a hurry and develop a plan to make the most of it. His ability to find a weakness and a way to exploit it. There's some patience, too -- he can wait months, or years, to see a plan come to fruition, if he has to. Also he's got some skill with a knife, but he's not likely to get close enough to anything to use one.

Why did you choose this specific character for 6I, and how do you picture them fitting into the game? He's been in survival situations before, and come out of them, well, alive, if not unscathed. There are a few people in the game he knows already, which helps, but the really interesting part would be seeing how his interactions with those he doesn't know change. He isn't going to trust strangers at all, but given his intelligence and observational abilities, he may come to realize sooner than the others from Panem that things aren't exactly what they think they are. Whether he figures out what's really going on, or thinks it's something else entirely, will depend.

How do you imagine your character will survive in 6I, and in what ways will they contribute to the settlement, if any? Planning. He's good at making plans, or deals. He'll swap information for food, or other supplies for food, and shouldn't have a hard time learning some skills to aid in acquiring or preparing food. Long-term plans, whether they're for food or for some other necessities, are also something he can contribute.

How will your character react to...

Being separated, possibly permanently, from loved ones and their previous life, including loss of powers, if applicable? He won't mind being separated from his previous life, although he'd prefer it not to be in a place that feels like an arena. He hasn't really got loved ones at home, since he willingly distances himself from everyone, and one of the few people he cares about happens to be here already. Being away from the life he knows will not be the biggest issue he has to deal with.

Their environment being manipulated, possibly in strange or extraordinary ways, and possibly in ways which restrain them? This isn't new to him, since it's exactly what happened to him once already. Back in Panem, these experiences and what followed them eventually caused him to turn to alcohol in an attempt to be rid of them. This will be just like being in another arena to him, and he'll be looking for a way to get out, or end what he thinks is a game, or fight back against the people who brought them here. He knows the value of discretion, though, so it won't be apparent that that's what he's doing.

Being physically and/or mentally manipulated, such as having hallucinations or suddenly possessing special abilities they did not have before? He has nightmares already, so that won't be so much different than his life before. He'll think he's even having them during the day, when he's awake. He's not likely to react well to having special abilities he didn't have before. That would be too much like the Capitol's mutts, and thinking that he's being transformed like that too would be a destabilizing factor for him. Depending on the situation, it would be likely to cause him to distance himself from others because he doesn't want to harm them in some way.

POWERS & SPECIAL ABILITIES

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about

NAME: Haymitch Abernathy

NICKNAMES: None known

AGE: 41

PANEM CITIZEN NUMBER: PNA1C4.D14G1

MARITAL STATUS: Single

SEXUALITY: Straight

OCCUPATION: Mentor

HOMETOWN: The Seam, District 12

CURRENT RESIDENCE: Victor's Village, District 12

PARENTS: Deceased

SIBLINGS: Brother, deceased

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NAME: Katie

AGE: --

AIM: available on request

EXPERIENCE: I used to do this on LiveJournal, so that should tell you something!

CONTACT: PM (or if we're in a game together, you can find my plurk info)

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TIME ZONE: CST

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Haymitch

Abernathy

Citizen of Panem. Victor. Mentor. May have been involved in starting the rebellion, and he definitely was involved in plotting it, at least the parts of it that required help from the Mockingjay. Wants nothing more than to go back to living his life in peace.

personality

MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES/WARNINGS: PTSD, nightmares

LIKES: Liquor, and certain people (but he'd never admit it), being alone

DISLIKES: The Hunger Games, President Snow, most of Panem

He survived.

He survived because 47 others died, some of them by his hand, when he was just a teenager. And it's eating him up inside.

He hates everyone. He hates them because they're part of the system that sends children off to slaughter each other for entertainment. He hates them because they sit idly by and allow it to happen. He hates them because it's easier than coming to like someone and then watching them die, either because another teenager slaughtered them for entertainment or because their family couldn't afford food or medicine.

He hates them because none of them understand what it's like to know that you're only alive because 47 other children died. Or what it's like to watch for 23 years as children you're supposed to be helping stay alive don't have the resources or the skills to defeat those who are bigger and stronger, and one by one they die. Forty-six of them.

No one can understand that, and he hates them all for it.

Even when he finally ends up with a tribute who has a chance at winning, it's still easier to keep hating. After twenty-three years it's a hard habit to break, and Katniss Everdeen is a hard person to like most of the time. She doesn't let people get close either. He actually puts some effort into his role of mentor, because he sees in her the kind of fighting spirit that might actually get her through this alive, but he's still surly, sarcastic, arrogant, and even (outwardly, at least) indifferent. As he gets to know her better, his opinion of her increases and they grow closer. By the end of her Games, when she wins and manages to save Peeta's life too, they have so much more in common than they do with anyone else. Not only because they won, but because they embarrassed the Capitol in doing so. He finds himself having to coach them through their Victory Tour as well, because he has experience that no one else does. They're the closest thing he has to family now. He's going to do whatever he can to keep them alive. Katniss, specifically, because he does have more in common with her and knows that if it weren't for her Peeta probably wouldn't have made it as long as he did, but for Katniss' sake, he'll devote as much time and energy to keeping Peeta alive as he does to keeping her alive. He even makes an agreement with Katniss to keep Peeta alive in their second Games, not her, even though the basis for the rebellion is already laid out, and their intention is to keep Katniss alive. He understands Katniss better than he understands anyone else he knows, and probably better than anyone else she knows, too.

His opinion of Effie starts to change after the announcement of the Third Quarter Quell. After witnessing how far the Capitol is willing to go, and seeing the reactions of three people she knows well when they realize that two of them will have to go through the worst time in their lives all over again, her support of the Capitol begins to fade. These people are Victors; they're supposed to be safe from the Capitol's scheming, and even they aren't. Once she starts to show her more human side, less brainwashed by the Capitol, he starts to see her as less of a tool of the Capitol and more of a victim in her own way. It's different from what happened to him and Katniss and Peeta, but she is still a victim of the Capitol's policies.

He wasn't always incapable of caring about someone. It's not that he doesn't care now; it's that he won't let himself. He had a family once, and a girlfriend, until the Capitol killed them as retribution. After that, his only friend is alcohol, which helps him get through having to mentor all of the tributes he knows will never make it home again. During the Games, he formed an alliance with one of his fellow tributes from District 12, a tribute who as it turns out had been a friend of Katniss' mother. He is upset by her death, even though it happened after she had ended their alliance. Whoever he is now is who the Capitol made him, by forcing him to kill and then taking away everyone he cared about.

He's canny and calculating. He won his Games by outsmarting his opponents. He discovered the force field around the arena, which he was later able to use to his advantage (although that was what caused President Snow to kill his family). Once he realizes he's got tributes who might actually stand a chance, he starts building a strategy to get Katniss out alive (though he doesn't bother sharing this fact with Katniss). It wouldn't have taken much to convince him to join the rebellion against the Capitol; he hates them and their Games. A strategic mind like his would have been sought after by the rebels (even if it comes in a difficult-to-get-along-with package).

He was able to obtain some necessary items for Katniss in the arena, so he is capable of being polite and negotiating with others when necessary. He just doesn't often find it necessary. He can also cut down on his alcohol consumption, when he has a reason. He just doesn't often have a reason.

He has terrible nightmares after his time in the arena, and doesn't sleep when it's dark. When he does sleep, it's with a knife clutched in his hand. It's best not to be within arm's reach when waking him up.

As for Teleios itself, the fact that it's not Panem with its ritualized murder of children or oppressive government, and that so many of his fellow citizens are there and living better lives than they had in Panem, will be a big point in Teleios' favor. He may even find the nightmares subsiding somewhat, after enough time. It will be a bit of an adjustment that he'll have to have a job though! It will probably take the intervention of those he considers friends before he'll start regularly showing up for work. Being there to pay for crimes he committed is a complex issue. He killed, yes, but he was forced to do it, in a 'kill or die' scenario. He hasn't been able to get the images out of his head ever since, or get over the guilt of having done it, even if he had no choice. He knows that if these kills had happened anywhere other than inside the arena, the punishment would have been severe. As for anything related to his involvement in the rebellion, he won't view these as crimes at all, despite what the government of Panem would have to say about that.

appearance

HEIGHT: 5'11"

WEIGHT: 190

HAIR: Blonde

EYES: Blue

He usually looks a little unkempt, like he doesn't spend much time tending to his personal appearance or the state of his clothes. (This is because he doesn't.) His hair could use a trim, but at least his beard is kept trimmed. He wears basically whatever is available, rather than trying to make some sort of flashy statement with his clothes.

history

Haymitch Abernathy was the second victor from District 12, who won the 50th Hunger Games when he was sixteen. He also is the the only living victor in District 12 and he mentored twenty-three years of tributes before the 74th Hunger Games. Later he was reaped in the 75th Hunger Games, but Peeta Mellark volunteered to take his place. Haymitch was reaped in the Second Quarter Quell (or the 50th Hunger Games) along with another male tribute, Maysilee Donner, and another female tribute. During his interview with Caesar Flickerman, Haymitch is asked about what he thinks of the Games having twice as many tributes; he replies by saying he doesn't see much difference as they are going to be just as stupid.

Haymitch and one of District 1's female tributes make it to the final two, and they fight, but both are severely injured. Haymitch, at one point, slices her eye out, and later is disarmed and hit in his stomach by her axe. A weakened Haymitch rushes to the cliff while holding his intestines in and reaches the cliff with the District 1 female right behind him. Haymitch falls to his knees due to his injuries. The District 1 female tribute throws her axe, aiming for his head, but he dodges it. She then just stands there thinking she would outlast him, but the force field returns the axe into the arena, burying itself into the District 1 female's head, killing her and leaving Haymitch the victor.

In Mockingjay, it is revealed that two weeks after he was crowned victor of the second Quarter Quell his mother, younger brother and girlfriend were all killed by President Snow because of the stunt that Haymitch pulled with the axe and force field. For the next 23 years, Haymitch mentors the tributes for District 12 alone. Due to the horror of the Games, his grief over his family's deaths, and the fact that every tribute he trained was killed in the arena, Haymitch turns to drinking and isolates himself from the rest of District 12. He begins sleeping with a knife in his hand and refuses to let anyone into his house. Katniss later mentions that it was as if he had sentenced himself to solitary confinement.

Haymitch first appears when he goes on stage during the reaping. Drunk and staggering, he head-dives off the stage. He is then seen on the train taking Katniss and Peeta to the Capitol, drunk again, and vomits on the expensive floor, which disgusts Effie. Peeta cleans him up, washes him and puts him to bed. The next morning, he eats breakfast with Katniss and Peeta who get into a fight with him. Katniss breaks it up by throwing a knife between Haymitch's hand and his drink glass. He is pleased to have finally gotten a pair who will put up a fight. He examines them and begins to formulate a plan for them.

During the Games, Haymitch helps Effie line up sponsors. He also communicates with Katniss through giving or withholding of her sponsor gifts (he does not send water when she is close to a source, sends broth and medicine when she "plays her part" convincingly). He does not help Peeta during the Games as only one of them could live, and he knew Katniss stood the best chance, although it is implied that Peeta may have told him to help Katniss and not him. He is thrilled when both of them come back alive and hugs them both. Before Katniss goes to her final interview with Caesar, he tells her that the Capitol is furious about her and Peeta's act in the arena with the berries, because the Capitol saw it as an act of rebellion and tells her she must act in love with Peeta so that even Capitol and the rest of Panem will see it was not rebellion. After the interview, he is positive that the Capitol is convinced she was in love and not rebelling. He goes back to District 12 with Katniss and Peeta. When he gets home, he starts drinking heavily again.

When the time comes for the victory tour, Haymitch accompanies Katniss and Peeta along with Effie Trinket and their stylists and prep teams. He coaches Katniss through the "madly in love" facade which she must keep up with Peeta. Haymitch continues to help them throughout the rest of the time until President Snow declares that the third Quarter Quell tributes will be reaped from the existing pool of victors. Haymitch continues drinking, maybe worse than usual.

Haymitch promises Katniss that he will try to save Peeta this time, because he feels as if he owes him, for saving Katniss the first time. Haymitch's name is called by Effie but barely has time to frown before Peeta volunteers. Haymitch begins to plan the rebellion. He jokes and says "stay alive" and urges them to befriend other tributes. When the games begin he works with District 4, and later 3 and 7, since Katniss, Peeta, Finnick Odair, Beetee, Wiress, and Johanna Mason were in an alliance together but are working with Plutarch behind the scenes to help the second rebellion.

When Katniss blows up the force field and is in the hovercraft that rescues Katniss, Finnick and Beetee; he, Finnick and Plutarch gather together and talk about what has happened. When Katniss enters the room, he is annoyed and explains everything that has recently happened. Katniss is enraged with all of Haymitch's lies that she cuts his face with her nails and since he cannot attack her, they both yell at each other until she is taken away.

During the rebellion, he stays behind in District 13, helping to coordinate things (and smooth over incidents between Katniss and President Coin), until the group goes to District 2. There he helps them formulate a plan to take out a military stronghold and gain control of the district, although once again he is not part of the actual fighting. Once the rebellion has been successful and the war has been won, he returns to District 12 with Katniss and Peeta, where he goes back to his old life of drinking, and begins to raise geese.

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Player Info

Name: Katie
Age: 33
Contact: siriuslydementd
Characters Already in Teleios: Neal Cassidy
Reserve: here

Character Basics:

Character Name: Haymitch Abernathy
Journal: juststayalive
Age: 41/42
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Canon Point: after the war/death of the presidents
Debt:
Class A: 7
Class B: 34
Class C: 8828
Inciting a rebellion

GRAND TOTAL: 759 years, 8 months

Canon Character Section:

History: here

Personality:
He survived.

He survived because 47 others died, some of them by his hand, when he was just a teenager. And it's eating him up inside.

He hates everyone. He hates them because they're part of the system that sends children off to slaughter each other for entertainment. He hates them because they sit idly by and allow it to happen. He hates them because it's easier than coming to like someone and then watching them die, either because another teenager slaughtered them for entertainment or because their family couldn't afford food or medicine.

He hates them because none of them understand what it's like to know that you're only alive because 47 other children died. Or what it's like to watch for 23 years as children you're supposed to be helping stay alive don't have the resources or the skills to defeat those who are bigger and stronger, and one by one they die. Forty-six of them.

No one can understand that, and he hates them all for it.

Even when he finally ends up with a tribute who has a chance at winning, it's still easier to keep hating. After twenty-three years it's a hard habit to break, and Katniss Everdeen is a hard person to like most of the time. She doesn't let people get close either. He actually puts some effort into his role of mentor, because he sees in her the kind of fighting spirit that might actually get her through this alive, but he's still surly, sarcastic, arrogant, and even (outwardly, at least) indifferent. As he gets to know her better, his opinion of her increases and they grow closer. By the end of her Games, when she wins and manages to save Peeta's life too, they have so much more in common than they do with anyone else. Not only because they won, but because they embarrassed the Capitol in doing so. He finds himself having to coach them through their Victory Tour as well, because he has experience that no one else does. They're the closest thing he has to family now. He's going to do whatever he can to keep them alive. Katniss, specifically, because he does have more in common with her and knows that if it weren't for her Peeta probably wouldn't have made it as long as he did, but for Katniss' sake, he'll devote as much time and energy to keeping Peeta alive as he does to keeping her alive. He even makes an agreement with Katniss to keep Peeta alive in their second Games, not her, even though the basis for the rebellion is already laid out, and their intention is to keep Katniss alive. He understands Katniss better than he understands anyone else he knows, and probably better than anyone else she knows, too.

His opinion of Effie starts to change after the announcement of the Third Quarter Quell. After witnessing how far the Capitol is willing to go, and seeing the reactions of three people she knows well when they realize that two of them will have to go through the worst time in their lives all over again, her support of the Capitol begins to fade. These people are Victors; they're supposed to be safe from the Capitol's scheming, and even they aren't. Once she starts to show her more human side, less brainwashed by the Capitol, he starts to see her as less of a tool of the Capitol and more of a victim in her own way. It's different from what happened to him and Katniss and Peeta, but she is still a victim of the Capitol's policies.

He wasn't always incapable of caring about someone. It's not that he doesn't care now; it's that he won't let himself. He had a family once, and a girlfriend, until the Capitol killed them as retribution. After that, his only friend is alcohol, which helps him get through having to mentor all of the tributes he knows will never make it home again. During the Games, he formed an alliance with one of his fellow tributes from District 12, a tribute who as it turns out had been a friend of Katniss' mother. He is upset by her death, even though it happened after she had ended their alliance. Whoever he is now is who the Capitol made him, by forcing him to kill and then taking away everyone he cared about.

He's canny and calculating. He won his Games by outsmarting his opponents. He discovered the force field around the arena, which he was later able to use to his advantage (although that was what caused President Snow to kill his family). Once he realizes he's got tributes who might actually stand a chance, he starts building a strategy to get Katniss out alive (though he doesn't bother sharing this fact with Katniss). It wouldn't have taken much to convince him to join the rebellion against the Capitol; he hates them and their Games. A strategic mind like his would have been sought after by the rebels (even if it comes in a difficult-to-get-along-with package).

He was able to obtain some necessary items for Katniss in the arena, so he is capable of being polite and negotiating with others when necessary. He just doesn't often find it necessary. He can also cut down on his alcohol consumption, when he has a reason. He just doesn't often have a reason.

He has terrible nightmares after his time in the arena, and doesn't sleep when it's dark. When he does sleep, it's with a knife clutched in his hand. It's best not to be within arm's reach when waking him up.

As for Teleios itself, the fact that it's not Panem with its ritualized murder of children or oppressive government, and that so many of his fellow citizens are there and living better lives than they had in Panem, will be a big point in Teleios' favor. He may even find the nightmares subsiding somewhat, after enough time. It will be a bit of an adjustment that he'll have to have a job though! It will probably take the intervention of those he considers friends before he'll start regularly showing up for work. Being there to pay for crimes he committed is a complex issue. He killed, yes, but he was forced to do it, in a 'kill or die' scenario. He hasn't been able to get the images out of his head ever since, or get over the guilt of having done it, even if he had no choice. He knows that if these kills had happened anywhere other than inside the arena, the punishment would have been severe. As for anything related to his involvement in the rebellion, he won't view these as crimes at all, despite what the government of Panem would have to say about that.

Powers/Abilities: None

Appearance: 1 2 3 4

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He's been here in this strange city for almost a month now, and despite his initial unease at finding himself in a new place without his permission, with someone else's idea of what he's supposed to accomplish here, he found it easier to settle in than he expected. Once he had realized that Katniss and Peeta and the rest of them seemed not only happier here but healthier as well, it seemed like less of an imposition to be brought here and more of an opportunity. For....he's not quite sure for what, yet, but at least they're all allowed to live their lives with minimal interference from anyone in a position of power. Maybe that's the opportunity this place provides. It might not be much to some people, but to him and those he cares about, it's everything.

It hadn't been without an adjustment period, of course. Back in Panem, all he'd had to do was make it out of the Arena alive and the Capitol gave him a house to live in and money for the rest of his life. Small compensation, really, especially since he'd had no one to share it with. Not after the Capitol made an example of him. Here he's expected to actually do some work in exchange for wages, which, truth be told, has been the biggest adjustment. He's used to doing whatever he wants to do, when he wants to do it, without interruption from anyone. He's still getting used to having to show up at a specific time and do a specific thing. He's never been very good at doing what was expected of him. But at least he gets something in return for his work, which is more than can be said for most citizens of Panem. For the chance for Katniss and Peeta to be safe here, he can find a way to live here.

Some things haven't changed though. Most of his income still goes to alcohol, which at least is better than what he could get his hands on in Panem. He didn't deny the habit there, he's not going to deny it here either. At least here he doesn't have to drink alone. There are others who enjoy it just as much as he does, and he doesn't ask them their reasons for doing it if they don't ask him his. The people who really matter know why he does it, and if they judge him for it, that's their problem, not his. They don't have to come with him to one of the bars in the city, and for their sake he'll refrain from drinking so much that he'll end up as an embarrassment to them or himself. That's easier here, because the images don't affect him as much now. The war is over; no one will have to endure the arena again. The Capitol's influence has faded, and can't reach them here, at any rate. Those who died for the cause in Panem are here safe and sound. There's no need to shut himself off from the world here. He doesn't have to worry about losing anyone he cares about. He's even found himself starting to make friends.

So when he can manage to get himself out of bed at what others might consider a reasonable time, and make his way to his job, he rewards himself with a trip to the bar to see these new friends of his. It's much better to have company when drinking, anyway. Which is why he keeps coming back to this place, and making an effort. He can have a life here, same as the rest of them do, and he's not going to waste it. He'll start with the friends he makes in this bar and go from there.

Player's Name: Katie

Characters Played Here: Killian Jones, Sirius Black

Character's Name: Haymitch Abernathy

Series/Canon: The Hunger Games

From When? Between the second and third books (right after the rescue from the arena)

Previous Game(s): N/A

World Description: N/A

History: here

Personality:

He survived.

He survived because 47 others died, some of them by his hand, when he was just a teenager. And it's eating him up inside.

He hates everyone. He hates them because they're part of the system that sends children off to slaughter each other for entertainment. He hates them because they sit idly by and allow it to happen. He hates them because it's easier than coming to like someone and then watching them die, either because another teenager slaughtered them for entertainment or because their family couldn't afford food or medicine.

He hates them because none of them understand what it's like to know that you're only alive because 47 other children died. Or what it's like to watch for 23 years as children you're supposed to be helping stay alive don't have the resources or the skills to defeat those who are bigger and stronger, and one by one they die. Forty-six of them.

No one can understand that, and he hates them all for it.

Even when he finally ends up with a tribute who has a chance at winning, it's still easier to keep hating. After twenty-three years it's a hard habit to break, and Katniss Everdeen is a hard person to like most of the time. She doesn't let people get close either. He actually puts some effort into his role of mentor, because he sees in her the kind of fighting spirit that might actually get her through this alive, but he's still surly, sarcastic, arrogant, and even (outwardly, at least) indifferent.

He wasn't always incapable of caring about someone. He had a family once, and a girlfriend, until the Capitol killed them as retribution. After that, his only friend is alcohol, which helps him get through having to mentor all of the tributes he knows will never make it home again. During the Games, he formed an alliance with one of his fellow tributes from District 12, a tribute who as it turns out had been a friend of Katniss' mother. He is upset by her death, even though it happened after she had ended their alliance. Whoever he is now is who the Capitol made him, by forcing him to kill and then taking away everyone he cared about.

He's canny and calculating. He won his Games by outsmarting his opponents. He discovered the force field around the arena, which he was later able to use to his advantage (although that was what caused President Snow to kill his family). Once he realizes he's got tributes who might actually stand a chance, he starts building a strategy to get Katniss out alive (though he doesn't bother sharing this fact with Katniss). It wouldn't have taken much to convince him to join the rebellion against the Capitol; he hates them and their Games. A strategic mind like his would have been sought after by the rebels (even if it comes in a difficult-to-get-along-with package).

He was able to obtain some necessary items for Katniss in the arena, so he is capable of being polite and negotiating with others when necessary. He just doesn't often find it necessary. He can also cut down on his alcohol consumption, when he has a reason. Again, he doesn't often have a reason.

He has terrible nightmares after his time in the arena, and doesn't sleep when it's dark. When he does sleep, it's with a knife clutched in his hand. It's best not to be within arm's reach when waking him up.

Does your character have any close ties to existing canon characters? N/A

Why do you think your character would work in this setting?

He originally came to town to help with the efforts to reverse Peeta's highjacking, and now has decided to stay in town rather than return to a place that hasn't felt like home in a very long time. Besides, even with the progress that Peeta has made, he still has more progress to make, and he wants to be there for that. He's had good conversations with a few people in town already, and while he isn't going to go around telling everyone his history, he is capable of carrying on a normal conversation. As for expanding CR, his job at the stables would bring him in contact with others who like animals, and in canon he used to visit the black market and so would visit the market place here. He also would visit the various establishments that sell alcohol, and even try and make contact with those who make their own moonshine.

What will your character do for work? At the stables, feeding the animals, etc.

Inventory: Clothes and the knife he always keeps with him when he's sleeping.

Samples:

Third-Person Sample:

The nightmares had finally faded late last night -- or early this morning, depending on who you ask -- enough to let him drop into a sleep aided by an alcohol-induced stupor and a faint lightening of the horizon indicating a retreat of the darkness. Katniss and the other inhabitants of the house had long since learned to let him sleep it off; there's a reason he arranged for the shift that he did.

It's pushing noon when he finally blinks awake, with a fuzzy mouth and a pounding headache. He reaches for the flask stashed under his pillow next to the knife. He takes a couple of swigs -- to take the edge off the headache -- and checks over his clothes. They're rumpled from having been worn yesterday and then slept in, but that can be easily fixed. He straightens them before heading for the door (wearing the same clothes two days in a row -- what would Effie say!).

He heads for the marketplace first, for lunch. There's a wonderful array of food vendors there, many of them alien, offering dishes that eclipse even those available in the Capitol. Some of the vendors, too, remind him of Greasy Sae and her fellow vendors at the Hob back in District 12. Panem hadn't done much to inspire his loyalty, but it is still the only home he's known, until now.

He has about an hour to fill before he has to be at work, so after he finishes lunch he wanders through the stalls, making purchases here and there, filling his pockets with trinkets. He never saw the need for anything like this before, but somehow living with others has given him more of a need for these sorts of things.

At the stables he does the rounds, making sure all the tenants have food and water, lingering by the horses. He likes them best. They're very majestic, and not for the first time he finds himself imagining how much easier it would have been for all those refugees to District 13 if they could have ridden a horse across the country instead of having to go on foot.

It's easy work, and that suits him fine. Once he's done with it for the day, he gathers up his coat and the rest of his items. Before he goes home and distributes the trinkets to their new owners (Katniss, Peeta, even Effie) he'll stop by the saloon for a late dinner. Wonderful place, this saloon. He wishes they had those back home.

As he heads in the direction of the saloon, he wonders when he started thinking of District 12 as home.

First-Person Sample:

You want to know what they did to me? It's simple, really. I was a boy, with a family and a future (not much of a future, but a future), and a girl. I probably would have married that girl (and if we get married young in the districts, it's because we tend to die young). Then my name came out of the vat and I wasn't just a boy anymore. I was a tribute, a sacrifice for some supposed mistake made by ancestors I'd never met. I was paraded, put on display, given odds, bet on. I was entertainment in their blood-soaked Games. I still see the images and hear the sounds every night before sleeping: the axe flying towards my head, the sizzle behind me, the axe coming back in the other direction. The thud as it hits its target, the cannon firing. Then the rest of the images start, of the other tributes, some my allies, then long-forgotten memories of my mother, my brother, my girl, all killed within two weeks of my victory to make an example of me.

You want to know what they did to me? They pulled my name out of a vat.

Player's Name: Katie
Are you over 16? Yes
How Many Characters Played Here: 4

Character Name: Haymitch Abernathy
Canon Character or OC: Canon
If Canon, What Canon: The Hunger Games
How long will this character be in game: Until Peeta is better, or his month is up.
History: here

Personality: He survived.

He survived because 47 others died, some of them by his hand, when he was just a teenager. And it's eating him up inside.

He hates everyone. He hates them because they're part of the system that sends children off to slaughter each other for entertainment. He hates them because they sit idly by and allow it to happen. He hates them because it's easier than coming to like someone and then watching them die, either because another teenager slaughtered them for entertainment or because their family couldn't afford food or medicine.

He hates them because none of them understand what it's like to know that you're only alive because 47 other children died. Or what it's like to watch for 23 years as children you're supposed to be helping stay alive don't have the resources or the skills to defeat those who are bigger and stronger, and one by one they die. Forty-six of them.

No one can understand that, and he hates them all for it.

Even when he finally ends up with a tribute who has a chance at winning, it's still easier to keep hating. After twenty-three years it's a hard habit to break, and Katniss Everdeen is a hard person to like most of the time. She doesn't let people get close either. He actually puts some effort into his role of mentor, because he sees in her the kind of fighting spirit that might actually get her through this alive, but he's still surly, sarcastic, arrogant, and even (outwardly, at least) indifferent.

He wasn't always incapable of caring about someone. He had a family once, and a girlfriend, until the Capitol killed them as retribution. After that, his only friend is alcohol, which helps him get through having to mentor all of the tributes he knows will never make it home again. During the Games, he formed an alliance with one of his fellow tributes from District 12, a tribute who as it turns out had been a friend of Katniss' mother. He is upset by her death, even though it happened after she had ended their alliance. Whoever he is now is who the Capitol made him, by forcing him to kill and then taking away everyone he cared about.

He's canny and calculating. He won his Games by outsmarting his opponents. He discovered the force field around the arena, which he was later able to use to his advantage (although that was what caused President Snow to kill his family). Once he realizes he's got tributes who might actually stand a chance, he starts building a strategy to get Katniss out alive (though he doesn't bother sharing this fact with Katniss). It wouldn't have taken much to convince him to join the rebellion against the Capitol; he hates them and their Games. A strategic mind like his would have been sought after by the rebels (even if it comes in a difficult-to-get-along-with package).

He was able to obtain some necessary items for Katniss in the arena, so he is capable of being polite and negotiating with others when necessary. He just doesn't often find it necessary. He can also cut down on his alcohol consumption, when he has a reason. Again, he doesn't often have a reason.

He has terrible nightmares after his time in the arena, and doesn't sleep when it's dark. When he does sleep, it's with a knife clutched in his hand. It's best not to be within arm's reach when waking him up.

Why are you bringing this character into this setting on a temporary basis? Eli will recruit him to help un-brainwash Peeta Mellark. He's not particularly helpful on a good day, but he has reasons for accepting. He promised Katniss he'd help keep Peeta alive. Peeta is important to the rebels' cause. He doesn't like what the Capitol has done to him. He also has details that may be helpful in their efforts, either to those who are trying to help or to Peeta himself. But mostly he'll do it because of the promise he made to Katniss.

Inventory: Clothing and the knife he always keeps with him when he's sleeping.