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juststayalivePlayer'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.
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.
