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Sep. 24th, 2012 12:26 amPlayer Information
Name: Kevin
Age: 21
AIM SN: dragon8writer
email: dragon8writer.star@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yep
Currrently Played Characters: Faith, Red
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Character Information
General
Canon Source: The Hunger Games
Canon Format: Book series
Character's Name: Primrose Everdeen
Character's Age: 13
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played.
Prim is used to living in relatively harsh environments – a district where laws are kept by military force, or district 13, where people could be forced to go underground to avoid bombings. She even worked as a medic on the front lines of the war effort.
That said, she is a 13 year old girl, and she is used to being looked after. She will most likely bond with others in port – she has canon mates in the game, and she’d be willing to trade her skills as a healer to make other arrangements.
What form will your character's NV take?
A small first aid kit that opens up, like a laptop
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: She’s a skilled healer; and good with animals. That’s about it.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Prim has the potential to turn into a small yellow duckling! In this form she can fly at 40 MPH, and communicate with other animals (including humans.)
This will mostly just help her to survive/escape traps with luck, but could be fun for plots.
When Prim transforms, her wounds shift with her - and are generally analogous; a small cut to her arm would be a small (on a duckling) cut to her wing; a mortal wound to her human form... Same thing for her duck self.
Partial transformations are possible - but they take a lot of concentration to hold in place - and they're generally useless.
In practice, it's essentially starting the transformation and then forced it to stop part way, rather than as if she had fully transformed one body part. This means it takes a lot of training to hold them for any real length of time, and even then they're only be useful in fairly specialized circumstances - being able to grow a duck bill or a tail, for example, doesn't do much beyond providing a cute sight gag, in most cases.
Her communication is telepathy based. Specifically, she can broadcast her thoughts - though fully formed sentences are harder than basic impressions or feelings to get across.
By default anyone with a radius of ten feet would pick her up. With concentration, she could increase this (up to 15, maybe 20 for the most basic), or reduce it, in the equivalence of shouting or whispering.
With a close personal connection - or, better, physical contact - she could also direct a thought singularly to one person, so long as they're within her basic radius.
This ties into her ability to speak to animals - who, not being made any more sentient themselves by her powers, can generally give off only basic impressions themselves.
Humans will have to speak out loud if they want her to hear them.
Weapons:
None
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Primrose comes from Panem, a dystopian future government where the capitol city relies upon 12 broken districts. Through “bread and circuses,” - panem et circenses – their political power is stripped from them, in return for an endless supply of food and entertainment. The rest of the world – 12 districts in totally – provide both.
Each district toils with a special purpose, working to produce things the capitol citizens took for granted, under the watchful eye of armed peacekeepers. District 12, where Prim grew up, mines coal.
The true entertainment, however, comes in the form of Hunger Games – the capitol’s yearly reminder of a doomed rebellion seventy five years before, the left the districts in utter servitude, and destroyed District 13. Each district was forced to send two children – one boy, one girl - to a pre-made Arena, filled with various traps to ensure a bloodbath, and given weapons with which to kill each other. Only the last child standing was ever allowed to leave.
This is where Prim comes in – not as the main character, but as Katniss’s little sister. Her father died in the mines, an explosion that devastated her mother, and left her incapable of taking care of her two daughters; left Katniss to take care of the both of them, becoming more of a mother than a sister to her, and the provider of the family. Although Prim – unlike Katniss – did not seem to resent her mother’s failure, she did express a desire to protect her, and an unwillingness to share what she didn’t feel the woman could handle.
Things further fell apart when her name was drawn in the reaping – the picking of those who will participate in the hunger games. Katniss, as protective of her little sister as she was, volunteered to take her place; she went onto the train, took her place in the games – and left Prim to watch, alongside her mother, as her big sister’s life was put to use for the capitol’s amusement.
Prim’s actions in the interim are unknown; Gale – Katniss’s friend and illegal-hunting partner, would have continue to funnel them meat and ensure they stayed well fed. Her mother, working as a healer, would have tended to the wounded, possibly trying to avoid dealing with the possibility of her daughter’s death. Prim most likely would have helped her mother, working with patients – humans, as well as her two pets, Lady the milking goat, and Buttercup the cat.
She would also have watched her sister, each night, as she played in the hunger games. She saw Katniss pretend to be in love with Peeta, her fellow tribute – the better to win support from sponsors, who could send her items in the ring.
Perhaps most important, in terms of impact, she saw her sister win; she listened when the game masters proclaimed that two people from one district would be allowed to win the hunger games; and when – after Peeta and Katniss had managed to survive all odds – the game masters changed it back; and told them to kill each other. And when Katniss, in desperation, offered to share poisoned berries with Peeta, betting that the capitol would rather have two victors than none.
The ploy worked, and Katniss returned; she, Prim, and their mother moved out of their small house, and into the Victor’s square; they were given a steady stream of food, and money, some of which Katniss put to use in the black market of their relatively-security lax town (repaying the townspeople who had supported her in the games.)
Prim, now living in better conditions, continued to assist her mother in attending patients; and though Katniss was still haunted by the games, and those who had been lost. But things shifted for the worst yet again when President Snow informed Katniss her actions had had unintended side effects; where some saw her move with the berries to be only a lover’s attempt to save another, others saw it as an act of rebellion against the Capital. They saw her fistful of berries as a way of refusing to let herself be dominated. It sparked a rebellion – one President Snow enlisted her to help fight against.
Again, Prim was left home, while Katniss traveled the districts and attempted to convince them that she was just a love struck girl; she stood at home, in a more comfortable house, and watched Katniss fail as the rebellion continued to swell (although Prim herself wasn’t not privy to this, as it all occurred off screen.)
Because she failed to stop it, Snow took more extreme measures to punish Katniss, and stop the rebellion; a more stern head of the peacekeepers was installed, their generally lax guards replaced with harsher ones; laws that had been ignored were suddenly enforced – with more and more people being sent to Katniss’s mother badly injured, and Prim eternally helping her to heal the sick. Worse was what Snow did with the upcoming year’s Hunger Games, he declared that all the “tributes” would be reaped from previous winners – and as the only female winner in District twelve – was sent back into the games; this time, she wasn’t even allowed to say goodbye to her family before she left, and Prim was again left at home with her less than stable mother.
It only got worse – forcing Prim to grow up ever faster; Katniss, unwilling to be a palm in the games helped to break down the force field surrounding the arena; and was scooped up by a rebel hovercraft, which revealed there had been a plan in place to rescue the tributes from the start; and that her mentor in the games – Haymitch – had in fact known all along. That he had been using her as a game piece, the same way the capitol had.
The capitol found its retribution by fire-bombing district 12, destroying it the way they had long ago destroyed District 13. Except, as it turns out, District 13 wasn’t destroyed – it had remained underground, with nuclear missiles aimed at the capitol, creating a standstill until the rebellion. Like Katniss herself, Prim – along with the other survivors – were brought to the base, where they would be trained as soldiers and used in the efforts. Katniss in particular was to be the face of the rebellion, bringing the various districts together and helping in the war.
Peeta, unfortunately, was much less lucky. He was captured by the capitol, used against Katniss and made to cry out against their rebellion. To protect him, Katniss agreed to be the rebel’s symbol – their “Mockingjay,” – only if they promised to give Peeta, and the other Victors, immunity.
Still, the issue of whether Peeta would remain alive or not weighed heavily upon Katniss, and the rest; and it was Prim’s insight which brought answers, of a sort. She was the one who pointed out that the president would keep Peeta alive, because it was the only way he had left of hurting Katniss.
Prim had grown during all this, supporting her mother and watching her sister fight in the arena; fleeing from her home. Though we don’t see her during much of this time, even Katniss has to admit that Prim is no longer a little girl; that she has grown up.
Working in the rebel stronghold, Prim began to work towards becoming a doctor, getting trained in medicine. When Peeta was finally rescued – only for them to find out he had been brainwashed into hating Katniss – it was Prim who provided the first viable solution. They had turned him against Katniss with the use of fear-inducing venom, injecting him every time he remembered something pleasant about Katniss, and tainting the memories; so she had him think those memories back up, and inject him with a more calming drug. Though the result on Peeta’s part was mostly confusion, it was still seen as a relatively intelligent suggestion, in a time where no one else had other ideas. If allowed to continue, she might have become a great doctor.
Unfortunately, the rebel leader – Coin – had other ideas. With the various districts joined together against the capitol, Katniss’s job was complete; she had become a liability, with their being too great a chance she would put her influence to use electing someone other than Coin herself. Her first hope was to make Katniss a martyr. She sent the still-brainwashed Peeta into Katniss’s squad, in the hopes that he would kill her. When that didn’t work out, and the capitol failed to end her threat, Coin took more drastic measures.
Using a hovercraft made up to look like it belonged to the Capitol, Coin dropped a series of silver parachutes into a group of children that President Snow was using as a living shield. These parachutes were usually used to hold food, treats, or other such good things – particularly in the arenas. The children reacted instantly, grabbing at them. When they done so, a good portion of those parachutes exploded, injuring many of the children. Healers rushed in – 13 year old Prim among them; and the rest of the parachutes exploded, killing everyone, and badly burning Katniss who had rushed forward towards her sister. Prim died in the explosion – although for the purpose of this game, I would say she was ported shortly before the parachutes went off.
Katniss was devastated, as were the Capitol citizens; Unaware it hadn’t been the Capitol’s move, attempting to take out the healers, resistance crumbled at the brutal action of attacking their own children. She went quiet, too traumatized to even think about protesting when Coin stepped into power. Katniss didn’t say a word – not about anything, not too anyone; not until she ran into the ex-President Snow, who revealed the truth to her; one she couldn’t deny, because Gale himself had come up for the idea of those parachutes – and because she knew it could be no accident that a thirteen year old girl had found herself in the field with the other medics.
When it was time for her to execute President Snow, with her bow, she turned the arrow and fired it into Coin instead; President Snow still died in the aftermath, from sickness or from being trampled by the crowd. A new president was chosen. Katniss – deemed traumatized – was sent back to District 12, where she would receive treatment by phone. No one knew why Katniss had shot President Coin.
Sometime later, Peeta joined her; and they slowly built a life together, with the others who had returned. They planted primrose bushes behind their house; they had two children, who they greatly loved; they wrote down a book, containing information on everyone they loved, and everyone they had lost. They moved on. But Katniss never forgot her sister.
Point in Canon: From the moment of explosion – right before death.
Character Personality: Katniss described Prim’s personality best when she said that it contains the best of their family. We see her father’s level headedness in the way she deals with the panic and death about her; she doesn’t panic, or scream, or generally even freeze. When her father was in a damaged mine, she joined Katniss in finding their mother; when the town was being destroyed, she had the presence of mind to follow, and when the badly injured arrive at her doorstep, she is always quick to help with treating them, rather than simply staring at their wounds.
On that same note, she inherited her mother’s “healing hands,” - not only the skill for treating the injured, but the compassion that leads to her diving into the work. She gives herself freely to those who need her – taking care of both animals and humans; it was after all that urge that led to her downfall, rushing to help the injured children of the capitol. She looked forward to becoming a true doctor, with the classes in thirteen. Was willing to work towards it – something she had inherited from her sister.
The “fight” she received from Katniss, the ability to stand strong and keep moving forward for what she believed, was as integral as a level head when it came to surviving all that befell her. She watched her sister be sent away twice; she helped to support people she might not even have a chance to save; she was moved from her home to an underground bunker in 13; and yet still she moved onward, never gave up hope. Still she encouraged Katniss not to give in, even when it seemed Peeta might never recover.
In the end, though, it was something purely Prim which tied the whole package together and made Prim who she was; an insightfulness that allowed her to see to the heart of matters, when others were still reeling in confusion. It was her, after all, who realized that the president would keep Peeta alive in order to hurt Katniss; just as she was quick to look towards those known for telling the truth, generally ignoring those who she thought would sugarcoat things to comfort her.
In the end, it is generally these insights which will lead to Prim deciding who to trust; her recognition of motivation that will lead her to declare one person can be followed, and her understanding of whether someone will tell the truth which will lead to who she listens to. Further, just because she values the truth, doesn’t mean she’ll always tell it. Although she can be brutally honest, she utilizes her judgment on when. The truth about why the president would keep Peeta alive was a brutal one, after all – but it was one Katniss needed to hear; if only because Katniss couldn’t take any more people lying to her, or attempting to manipulate her.
Similarly, her mother – who had broken down at their father’s death, and who neither of them fully trusted not to break down again – was generally told no more than necessary by Prim. No more than she thought her mother could handle. Even her honesty, in the end, is tempered by her insight.
Despite her good qualities, however, Prim does not always make the right decision, at least by other people’s perspectives. In part, this may be because she doesn’t put herself first. When the Capitol threatened to bomb District 13 anew, for example, she ran to her rooms to get her cat Buttercup – and was almost locked out of the bunker as a result. Her response was simply that she couldn’t leave behind the cat again. Similarly, when she was given a chance to go into the field and help the wounded, Prim took it – never mind that she was only 13 years old herself, and still learning medicine. It wasn’t that she didn’t value her own life, of course – merely that her loyalty to her cat, and her compassion for the injured, outranked her own safety in her mind.
Character Plans: Her first step will be to find her sister, with luck, and hopefully bond with her.
Her second step is going to be to try and continue her education as a healer – perhaps trying to find some work at the hospital.
Appearance/PB: She’s played by Willow Shields – with blonde hair, and blue eyes; she stands at about 4’ 8;
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[Prim’s smile lights up when the com turns on at last - although it fades quickly when she turns to face the screen. Wherever she is – wherever that explosion sent her…]
Hello? [She hesitates; but if the Capitol sent her here, they already know who she is anyway. Most people did, anyhow.] My name is Prim. I’m looking for my sister; Katniss. She might be looking for me.
[She hesitates – but you can’t ask to get something for nothing, and respect a response. So.]
It wouldn’t have to be for free. I know a lot about herbs – I could help heal you; if you’re sick. Or pick out herbs for you.
Third Person Sample
Prim stirred faintly in her bed; pushing back the covers as she woke.
The room around her seemed empty; and big; and strange, still. She’d moved before, but not to a whole new world. It was different, somehow. Or maybe she was different. Knowing as she did what awaited her when she went back – light and sound and fire, and…
She pushed the thought out of her mind, closing her eyes a moment and forcing herself to relax before moving towards the window.
There was a familiar pull upon her form, as she felt herself condensing, arms shifting to tiny wings, body becoming steadily rounder as her clothes shifted to yellow feathers. Shaking her head, and feeling the weight of her beak, she fluffed herself out a moment before hopping to the window sill. Spreading her wings, she jumped –letting the air catch at her a moment before taking to the air.
She didn’t think she should be able to do that; she was flying nearly as fast as a full grown duck. Yet, she didn’t think she should be able to transform at all, so… She didn’t like to analyze it too much. She didn’t want to analyze anything at all; but she had to, sometimes. It was a dangerous place – even without the Darkness – but she was safe, for now, with the light back. She could already hear the other birds singing their calls of safety.
Tilting her wings, she flew towards them, wondering if they’d have any news. Failing that, maybe she’d find Rue. Either way, she knew she wasn’t sleeping again tonight. But with a new world laid out before her, maybe that wasn’t too bad.
Name: Kevin
Age: 21
AIM SN: dragon8writer
email: dragon8writer.star@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yep
Currrently Played Characters: Faith, Red
Conditional: Activity Check Link: here
Conditional: Official Reserve Link: here
Character Information
General
Canon Source: The Hunger Games
Canon Format: Book series
Character's Name: Primrose Everdeen
Character's Age: 13
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played.
Prim is used to living in relatively harsh environments – a district where laws are kept by military force, or district 13, where people could be forced to go underground to avoid bombings. She even worked as a medic on the front lines of the war effort.
That said, she is a 13 year old girl, and she is used to being looked after. She will most likely bond with others in port – she has canon mates in the game, and she’d be willing to trade her skills as a healer to make other arrangements.
What form will your character's NV take?
A small first aid kit that opens up, like a laptop
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: She’s a skilled healer; and good with animals. That’s about it.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Prim has the potential to turn into a small yellow duckling! In this form she can fly at 40 MPH, and communicate with other animals (including humans.)
This will mostly just help her to survive/escape traps with luck, but could be fun for plots.
When Prim transforms, her wounds shift with her - and are generally analogous; a small cut to her arm would be a small (on a duckling) cut to her wing; a mortal wound to her human form... Same thing for her duck self.
Partial transformations are possible - but they take a lot of concentration to hold in place - and they're generally useless.
In practice, it's essentially starting the transformation and then forced it to stop part way, rather than as if she had fully transformed one body part. This means it takes a lot of training to hold them for any real length of time, and even then they're only be useful in fairly specialized circumstances - being able to grow a duck bill or a tail, for example, doesn't do much beyond providing a cute sight gag, in most cases.
Her communication is telepathy based. Specifically, she can broadcast her thoughts - though fully formed sentences are harder than basic impressions or feelings to get across.
By default anyone with a radius of ten feet would pick her up. With concentration, she could increase this (up to 15, maybe 20 for the most basic), or reduce it, in the equivalence of shouting or whispering.
With a close personal connection - or, better, physical contact - she could also direct a thought singularly to one person, so long as they're within her basic radius.
This ties into her ability to speak to animals - who, not being made any more sentient themselves by her powers, can generally give off only basic impressions themselves.
Humans will have to speak out loud if they want her to hear them.
Weapons:
None
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Primrose comes from Panem, a dystopian future government where the capitol city relies upon 12 broken districts. Through “bread and circuses,” - panem et circenses – their political power is stripped from them, in return for an endless supply of food and entertainment. The rest of the world – 12 districts in totally – provide both.
Each district toils with a special purpose, working to produce things the capitol citizens took for granted, under the watchful eye of armed peacekeepers. District 12, where Prim grew up, mines coal.
The true entertainment, however, comes in the form of Hunger Games – the capitol’s yearly reminder of a doomed rebellion seventy five years before, the left the districts in utter servitude, and destroyed District 13. Each district was forced to send two children – one boy, one girl - to a pre-made Arena, filled with various traps to ensure a bloodbath, and given weapons with which to kill each other. Only the last child standing was ever allowed to leave.
This is where Prim comes in – not as the main character, but as Katniss’s little sister. Her father died in the mines, an explosion that devastated her mother, and left her incapable of taking care of her two daughters; left Katniss to take care of the both of them, becoming more of a mother than a sister to her, and the provider of the family. Although Prim – unlike Katniss – did not seem to resent her mother’s failure, she did express a desire to protect her, and an unwillingness to share what she didn’t feel the woman could handle.
Things further fell apart when her name was drawn in the reaping – the picking of those who will participate in the hunger games. Katniss, as protective of her little sister as she was, volunteered to take her place; she went onto the train, took her place in the games – and left Prim to watch, alongside her mother, as her big sister’s life was put to use for the capitol’s amusement.
Prim’s actions in the interim are unknown; Gale – Katniss’s friend and illegal-hunting partner, would have continue to funnel them meat and ensure they stayed well fed. Her mother, working as a healer, would have tended to the wounded, possibly trying to avoid dealing with the possibility of her daughter’s death. Prim most likely would have helped her mother, working with patients – humans, as well as her two pets, Lady the milking goat, and Buttercup the cat.
She would also have watched her sister, each night, as she played in the hunger games. She saw Katniss pretend to be in love with Peeta, her fellow tribute – the better to win support from sponsors, who could send her items in the ring.
Perhaps most important, in terms of impact, she saw her sister win; she listened when the game masters proclaimed that two people from one district would be allowed to win the hunger games; and when – after Peeta and Katniss had managed to survive all odds – the game masters changed it back; and told them to kill each other. And when Katniss, in desperation, offered to share poisoned berries with Peeta, betting that the capitol would rather have two victors than none.
The ploy worked, and Katniss returned; she, Prim, and their mother moved out of their small house, and into the Victor’s square; they were given a steady stream of food, and money, some of which Katniss put to use in the black market of their relatively-security lax town (repaying the townspeople who had supported her in the games.)
Prim, now living in better conditions, continued to assist her mother in attending patients; and though Katniss was still haunted by the games, and those who had been lost. But things shifted for the worst yet again when President Snow informed Katniss her actions had had unintended side effects; where some saw her move with the berries to be only a lover’s attempt to save another, others saw it as an act of rebellion against the Capital. They saw her fistful of berries as a way of refusing to let herself be dominated. It sparked a rebellion – one President Snow enlisted her to help fight against.
Again, Prim was left home, while Katniss traveled the districts and attempted to convince them that she was just a love struck girl; she stood at home, in a more comfortable house, and watched Katniss fail as the rebellion continued to swell (although Prim herself wasn’t not privy to this, as it all occurred off screen.)
Because she failed to stop it, Snow took more extreme measures to punish Katniss, and stop the rebellion; a more stern head of the peacekeepers was installed, their generally lax guards replaced with harsher ones; laws that had been ignored were suddenly enforced – with more and more people being sent to Katniss’s mother badly injured, and Prim eternally helping her to heal the sick. Worse was what Snow did with the upcoming year’s Hunger Games, he declared that all the “tributes” would be reaped from previous winners – and as the only female winner in District twelve – was sent back into the games; this time, she wasn’t even allowed to say goodbye to her family before she left, and Prim was again left at home with her less than stable mother.
It only got worse – forcing Prim to grow up ever faster; Katniss, unwilling to be a palm in the games helped to break down the force field surrounding the arena; and was scooped up by a rebel hovercraft, which revealed there had been a plan in place to rescue the tributes from the start; and that her mentor in the games – Haymitch – had in fact known all along. That he had been using her as a game piece, the same way the capitol had.
The capitol found its retribution by fire-bombing district 12, destroying it the way they had long ago destroyed District 13. Except, as it turns out, District 13 wasn’t destroyed – it had remained underground, with nuclear missiles aimed at the capitol, creating a standstill until the rebellion. Like Katniss herself, Prim – along with the other survivors – were brought to the base, where they would be trained as soldiers and used in the efforts. Katniss in particular was to be the face of the rebellion, bringing the various districts together and helping in the war.
Peeta, unfortunately, was much less lucky. He was captured by the capitol, used against Katniss and made to cry out against their rebellion. To protect him, Katniss agreed to be the rebel’s symbol – their “Mockingjay,” – only if they promised to give Peeta, and the other Victors, immunity.
Still, the issue of whether Peeta would remain alive or not weighed heavily upon Katniss, and the rest; and it was Prim’s insight which brought answers, of a sort. She was the one who pointed out that the president would keep Peeta alive, because it was the only way he had left of hurting Katniss.
Prim had grown during all this, supporting her mother and watching her sister fight in the arena; fleeing from her home. Though we don’t see her during much of this time, even Katniss has to admit that Prim is no longer a little girl; that she has grown up.
Working in the rebel stronghold, Prim began to work towards becoming a doctor, getting trained in medicine. When Peeta was finally rescued – only for them to find out he had been brainwashed into hating Katniss – it was Prim who provided the first viable solution. They had turned him against Katniss with the use of fear-inducing venom, injecting him every time he remembered something pleasant about Katniss, and tainting the memories; so she had him think those memories back up, and inject him with a more calming drug. Though the result on Peeta’s part was mostly confusion, it was still seen as a relatively intelligent suggestion, in a time where no one else had other ideas. If allowed to continue, she might have become a great doctor.
Unfortunately, the rebel leader – Coin – had other ideas. With the various districts joined together against the capitol, Katniss’s job was complete; she had become a liability, with their being too great a chance she would put her influence to use electing someone other than Coin herself. Her first hope was to make Katniss a martyr. She sent the still-brainwashed Peeta into Katniss’s squad, in the hopes that he would kill her. When that didn’t work out, and the capitol failed to end her threat, Coin took more drastic measures.
Using a hovercraft made up to look like it belonged to the Capitol, Coin dropped a series of silver parachutes into a group of children that President Snow was using as a living shield. These parachutes were usually used to hold food, treats, or other such good things – particularly in the arenas. The children reacted instantly, grabbing at them. When they done so, a good portion of those parachutes exploded, injuring many of the children. Healers rushed in – 13 year old Prim among them; and the rest of the parachutes exploded, killing everyone, and badly burning Katniss who had rushed forward towards her sister. Prim died in the explosion – although for the purpose of this game, I would say she was ported shortly before the parachutes went off.
Katniss was devastated, as were the Capitol citizens; Unaware it hadn’t been the Capitol’s move, attempting to take out the healers, resistance crumbled at the brutal action of attacking their own children. She went quiet, too traumatized to even think about protesting when Coin stepped into power. Katniss didn’t say a word – not about anything, not too anyone; not until she ran into the ex-President Snow, who revealed the truth to her; one she couldn’t deny, because Gale himself had come up for the idea of those parachutes – and because she knew it could be no accident that a thirteen year old girl had found herself in the field with the other medics.
When it was time for her to execute President Snow, with her bow, she turned the arrow and fired it into Coin instead; President Snow still died in the aftermath, from sickness or from being trampled by the crowd. A new president was chosen. Katniss – deemed traumatized – was sent back to District 12, where she would receive treatment by phone. No one knew why Katniss had shot President Coin.
Sometime later, Peeta joined her; and they slowly built a life together, with the others who had returned. They planted primrose bushes behind their house; they had two children, who they greatly loved; they wrote down a book, containing information on everyone they loved, and everyone they had lost. They moved on. But Katniss never forgot her sister.
Point in Canon: From the moment of explosion – right before death.
Character Personality: Katniss described Prim’s personality best when she said that it contains the best of their family. We see her father’s level headedness in the way she deals with the panic and death about her; she doesn’t panic, or scream, or generally even freeze. When her father was in a damaged mine, she joined Katniss in finding their mother; when the town was being destroyed, she had the presence of mind to follow, and when the badly injured arrive at her doorstep, she is always quick to help with treating them, rather than simply staring at their wounds.
On that same note, she inherited her mother’s “healing hands,” - not only the skill for treating the injured, but the compassion that leads to her diving into the work. She gives herself freely to those who need her – taking care of both animals and humans; it was after all that urge that led to her downfall, rushing to help the injured children of the capitol. She looked forward to becoming a true doctor, with the classes in thirteen. Was willing to work towards it – something she had inherited from her sister.
The “fight” she received from Katniss, the ability to stand strong and keep moving forward for what she believed, was as integral as a level head when it came to surviving all that befell her. She watched her sister be sent away twice; she helped to support people she might not even have a chance to save; she was moved from her home to an underground bunker in 13; and yet still she moved onward, never gave up hope. Still she encouraged Katniss not to give in, even when it seemed Peeta might never recover.
In the end, though, it was something purely Prim which tied the whole package together and made Prim who she was; an insightfulness that allowed her to see to the heart of matters, when others were still reeling in confusion. It was her, after all, who realized that the president would keep Peeta alive in order to hurt Katniss; just as she was quick to look towards those known for telling the truth, generally ignoring those who she thought would sugarcoat things to comfort her.
In the end, it is generally these insights which will lead to Prim deciding who to trust; her recognition of motivation that will lead her to declare one person can be followed, and her understanding of whether someone will tell the truth which will lead to who she listens to. Further, just because she values the truth, doesn’t mean she’ll always tell it. Although she can be brutally honest, she utilizes her judgment on when. The truth about why the president would keep Peeta alive was a brutal one, after all – but it was one Katniss needed to hear; if only because Katniss couldn’t take any more people lying to her, or attempting to manipulate her.
Similarly, her mother – who had broken down at their father’s death, and who neither of them fully trusted not to break down again – was generally told no more than necessary by Prim. No more than she thought her mother could handle. Even her honesty, in the end, is tempered by her insight.
Despite her good qualities, however, Prim does not always make the right decision, at least by other people’s perspectives. In part, this may be because she doesn’t put herself first. When the Capitol threatened to bomb District 13 anew, for example, she ran to her rooms to get her cat Buttercup – and was almost locked out of the bunker as a result. Her response was simply that she couldn’t leave behind the cat again. Similarly, when she was given a chance to go into the field and help the wounded, Prim took it – never mind that she was only 13 years old herself, and still learning medicine. It wasn’t that she didn’t value her own life, of course – merely that her loyalty to her cat, and her compassion for the injured, outranked her own safety in her mind.
Character Plans: Her first step will be to find her sister, with luck, and hopefully bond with her.
Her second step is going to be to try and continue her education as a healer – perhaps trying to find some work at the hospital.
Appearance/PB: She’s played by Willow Shields – with blonde hair, and blue eyes; she stands at about 4’ 8;
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[Prim’s smile lights up when the com turns on at last - although it fades quickly when she turns to face the screen. Wherever she is – wherever that explosion sent her…]
Hello? [She hesitates; but if the Capitol sent her here, they already know who she is anyway. Most people did, anyhow.] My name is Prim. I’m looking for my sister; Katniss. She might be looking for me.
[She hesitates – but you can’t ask to get something for nothing, and respect a response. So.]
It wouldn’t have to be for free. I know a lot about herbs – I could help heal you; if you’re sick. Or pick out herbs for you.
Third Person Sample
Prim stirred faintly in her bed; pushing back the covers as she woke.
The room around her seemed empty; and big; and strange, still. She’d moved before, but not to a whole new world. It was different, somehow. Or maybe she was different. Knowing as she did what awaited her when she went back – light and sound and fire, and…
She pushed the thought out of her mind, closing her eyes a moment and forcing herself to relax before moving towards the window.
There was a familiar pull upon her form, as she felt herself condensing, arms shifting to tiny wings, body becoming steadily rounder as her clothes shifted to yellow feathers. Shaking her head, and feeling the weight of her beak, she fluffed herself out a moment before hopping to the window sill. Spreading her wings, she jumped –letting the air catch at her a moment before taking to the air.
She didn’t think she should be able to do that; she was flying nearly as fast as a full grown duck. Yet, she didn’t think she should be able to transform at all, so… She didn’t like to analyze it too much. She didn’t want to analyze anything at all; but she had to, sometimes. It was a dangerous place – even without the Darkness – but she was safe, for now, with the light back. She could already hear the other birds singing their calls of safety.
Tilting her wings, she flew towards them, wondering if they’d have any news. Failing that, maybe she’d find Rue. Either way, she knew she wasn’t sleeping again tonight. But with a new world laid out before her, maybe that wasn’t too bad.
