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[mockinjay]

I'm an angel on fire. And I'm burning. To escape the cold.

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Character Name: Katniss Everdeen
Series: The Hunger Games Series
Age: 17
From When?: Beginning of Mockingjay, right after the first Peeta video from the Capitol -- instead of making a deal with Coin, she made one with the Admiral.

Inmate/Warden: Warden. Katniss doesn't realize her full potential, but she can be as influential as Peeta. She's passionate about certain subjects and despite herself, she will get emotionally involved with people who she feels that she can help, that she can protect. As a Warden, Katniss will fight hard and focus on her inmate, she will work with them as much as she can so she can get her deal. This will motivate her but before she realizes it, her inmate will become a part of her mission, one more person she needs to save.

Item: Peeta's Pearl.

Abilities/Powers: Katniss is human, but a survivalist. Anything that could be useful for her to survive, she has learned it. She can walk and run silently, climb trees with ease. She can tell apart plants and fruits that are poisonous from the ones that aren't. She can set up traps and fish. She's a hunter and with her perfect aim, she is very deadly if she means to be. Her weapon is a bow and arrow,and she's good at quick thinking and acting in a split second to do what she has to to survive and protect her allies.

Personality: Katniss is very emotionally stunted. She grew up dealing with a lot of struggles, she's a survivor. Her father died when she was still young and her mother became emotionally unavailable when depression hit her shortly after. So Katniss put it upon herself to take care of her younger sister, Prim. Her family nearly starved several times, which made Katniss follow in her father's footsteps and start hunting for food outside the District limits.

While she managed to feed her family and care for her sister, she became very stoic and unable to really form emotional bonds with people. She doesn't really understand emotions that well and whenever someone wants to do something for her, she has a hard time trusting them and their actions/offers. Because things never came easy for her, so it's more than likely they are doing it for their own benefit.

But Katniss isn't completely immune to connecting with others. While it's hard to get through to her and while she does her best to remain distant and not show she cares about someone, some people end up slipping through the cracks. People who show her kindness over and over again, or people she sees helping others, no matter how questionable their means may be.

As long as they are doing good, Katniss starts to respect them in a way. She doesn't often show it, though, unless they're at risk somehow. There's nothing Katniss won't do to protect/save people she cares about, or people who are doing good, including giving up her own life without a second thought.

She is very stubborn. She will step in the line of fire over and over again, she will do things her way. It's not so much because she's defiant (although she is definitely also defiant, especially with authority figures) but because she needs to see things for herself. She's not very good at listening to people, she's much better at listening to her instincts and when it doesn't involve emotions, she trusts them. She needs to take action and she needs to try things her way. She's not always right, but she won't rest until she sees for herself that something doesn't work.

Once she's proven wrong, however, she will accept it. Katniss isn't exactly a proud person in the sense that she has to be always right. Because she doesn't normally connect emotions to situations, she manages to focus on what is and what has to be. She doesn't really question things once she has concrete proof of what they are.

She is very much an introvert and is more likely to listen and observe a conversation without uttering a single word, than to join it. She will reach her own conclusions and keep them to herself. Until she doesn't. Because she doesn't share much, her mood can become explosive and when she becomes extremely frustrated or passionate about something, she's likely to blow up and speak up -- not necessarily in the best way possible. Her communication skills are far from great.

As a combination of her inability to deal with emotions, and her need to act and react to things without listening, Katniss can be extremely cold in situations she feels like she's in danger. She's willing to kill to protect others and wouldn't feel remorse for the act itself, even if her actions would haunt her. Her own coldness scares her because it's something she knows she needs to be to survive, but it's not a quality she admires in herself. It's just a necessity.

Barge Reactions: Katniss' reaction to the Barge will be very similar to being brought to 13. She doesn't trust the Admiral, she doesn't like anyone in this place. She's there for a reason, she's there because she doesn't have a choice and she'll do what she came to do and she will leave. Creating connections with people isn't a priority.

The only person she'll make an effort getting to know is her inmate. Because she needs them. This will be for her much like her connection to Peeta was in the first games. She'll need it to survive -- or in this case, to save 12 and Peeta and the other Victors. It's means to an end, it's a mission, it's a game. It's pretend and putting up with it for a goal. To save the lives that were lost because of her.

She'll keep to herself for the most part, listening to other conversations and leaving the room whenever she gets sick of it. She'll interact mostly with other Wardens at first, and she'll ask questions when she feels the knowledge could help her somehow.

With time, she'll more than likely form some kind of bond with inmates she feels she can help or protect somehow. And people who offer her help in general will silently gain her respect. Especially older people who might serve as some kind of father figure like Haymitch, Cinna and Boggs.

Deal: She wants to leave the Arena for the Quarter Quell with Peeta and without 12 being destroyed.

History: THG Wiki.

Sample Journal Entry: VTM threads.

Sample RP:
She doesn't understanding what is taking so long. When she accepted the Admiral's offer, she thought he actually needed her there. Like Coin, pressuring her to be their Mockingjay, her face of the revolution. Everything was so pressing, so immediate, so life or death. She figured it'd be the same here.

But she's been on the Barge for weeks and she hasn't been assigned an inmate yet. She hasn't been given a mission. Something to focus on. And all this time, Peeta, Johanna and Annie are stuck at the Capitol. With Snow.

Just thinking of him is enough to make her eyes narrow, her jaw clench and her grip on her bow tighten as she draws the string and lets the arrow fly.

Because she's being completely useless while she's stuck here, waiting, she's been spending a lot of her time at the enclosure. She sets it to the woods outside of 12 more often than not. She shoots her arrows at the trees, finding the smallest branches or sometimes leaves she can use to train her aim.

When she's feeling particularly frustrated, she sets it to the training rooms back at the Capitol. The holographic figures running by and attacking her make her move faster, make her try harder, make her tired enough to sleep for a couple of hours before her next nightmare wakes her up. And reminds her Peeta isn't there. Neither is Prim. But at least her sister is safe.

There was one time she set the enclosure to the Quarter Quell settings. The heat and the humidity. The monkeys, the bugs. The mockingjays and the salt water. It was all there. But the Victors weren't. No Peeta, no Finnick, no Beetee. No Mags or any of the people who died to save her. Just the noises of the Arena. Sometimes she was sure she could even hear the faint noises of the cameras hidden in the trees.

She just sat there, sweating, killing a monkey or two occasionally from the beach. Until the lightning on the tree nearly gave her a heart attack. She remembered all of it then. She didn't sleep for days. And she never wanted to use that setting again.

Special Notes: Katniss is a mix of both book and movie canon. They are similar enough that she's still the same character so both are influencing my choices.