Purg App - Revised
Dec. 3rd, 2014 02:20 pmGAME TRANSPLANT
Mun
Mun name/journal: Kay
Mun Age: 23
Contact: I'm dragon8writer on plurk or aim
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Characters currently in game: Barbara Gordon
Character
Name: Primrose Everdeen
Fandom: The Hunger Games - the books, not the movie
Gender: Female
Age: 13 (Noting on the app that it does ask us to discuss suitability for a character under 14 - I will simply say that Prim's canon had difficulties of its own. Difficulties such as children being made to fight to the death yearly. She also spent time in a game where monsters came out each night, killing anyone they could find. She is more than used to the world of horror)
Canonpoint: Final book - mid explosion;
Former Game(s): Sirens Pull
Character Journal:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Character Inventory: What she's wearing - a yellow feathered cloak lined with pockets, a yellow mask, and two now defunct communication devices - both a standard one for Sirens Pull, and a Teen Titans comm.
Weapon - A sharp red dagger, shaped like a feather and held by a bright yellow sheath. When put away, it looks like like nothing more than a stylized duck's feather. It was inspired by this
Useless item - Katniss's mockingjay pin.
Abilities: Prim's best known natural ability is healing. Mrs. Everdeen taught Prim quite a bit about medicine. She is not a fully trained doctor, of course She wouldn't be able to perform heavy surgery, for example, but she does know a lot about herbs. She knows how best to treat wounds, and she has a steady hand when its needed most. Prim actually did work as a nurse in District 13, and was training toward her dream job of becoming a doctor. So if you didn't have anyone else handy... well, if a novice had to perform surgery, Prim would probably do better than most. That isn't to say I envy your chances, though.
Prim also studied up quite a bit on medical techniques while in Siren's Pull, spending a lot of her time in the library with a medical textbook and a dictionary.
She was also a member of the Teen Titans while at Sirens Pull, if only for a few months. Not long enough for any hefty training, especially since she was uninterested in fighting, but enough that Prim learned some very basic self-defense. She built up at least a little muscle, so she isn't quite as delicate as Katniss once called her.
Prim also learned how to perform basic rescue operations, such as saving people from buildings or helping them escape dangerous situations. Considering her distaste for hurting people and her relatively low levels of physical strength, her abilities are geared more toward evasion than attack or even defense. When it comes to a fight, her specialty would be finding escape routes and making her way decisively through them.
I would also say that she knows the basics of cooking, and how to take care of house. Prim would have helped with chores around the house, even when Katniss was there. As for when Katniss was away: while her mother was supposed to take care of Prim, the simple truth is that Mrs. Everdeen wasn't incredibly reliable. Prim undoubtedly helped out in the kitchen the same way she did with patients. She's no more a gourmet cook than she is a full-fledged doctor, but she won't mess up a simple meal any more than she would have a quick stitching. She can take care of herself.
Special abilities: Prim was given the power to transform into a small yellow duckling in her previous game - a power which apparently affected her on a fundamental level, considering she was allowed to keep her powers when the game ended.
While Prim's transformation is arguably magical in nature, it nevertheless follows explicit rules. Clothes are transformed with her, including anything inside her clothes, but not anything she's holding. This is why the inside of her cloak is covered in pockets, so that she can bring small objects with her when she transforms. She cannot recover these items without transforming back. (I'm not sure how the VOCA would work with this? Perhaps it would change size, or meld with the transformation, still functioning, but not being visible.)
Wounds are transferred between forms, but are generally analogous between forms - a small cut to the hand would become a small cut on her wing, and would keep its ratio to the rest of her body. It would be no more dangerous to her in duck form than human. A fatal wound to her human self, on the other hand, would be just as fatal to a duckling - but change size to better match her new body. In other words,, there won't be any wounds bigger than her body can fit after she transforms.
Prim also has certain abilities in her transformed state that are not available to her as a human, and that would not normally be available to a duckling of her size. She can fly at 40 MPH, about the same speed as an actual grown duck. She can also communicate with animals. This includes humans, to a limited degree.
Specifically, Prim is capable of projecting telepathic communication. By default it is picked up by any animal, including humans, within ten feet. If desperate, she can stretch it out to fifteen or even twenty feet. It is also possible for her to direct communication to a single person, but that requires either a very close personal connection or, better yet, physical contact.
Prim can also receive telepathic communication from animals, while in duckling form, but her abilities do not make animals any smarter. Unless the animal in question has human intelligence, all she can receive are the basic emotions and instinct-based responses of the creatures nearby. A general sense that something is scared, or hungry, or about to pounce, for example. She is not able to pick up even this limited telepathic communications from humans. They have to speak out loud for her to hear them.
Finally, Prim does have the ability to do partial transformations, but they are very difficult and nearly useless. The reason is that she doesn't actually just transform the body part. Prim begins a full transformation, and then forces it to stop part way. This requires a great deal of concentration to hold. She could build on this with practice, but currently she won't be able to handle it longer than a few seconds, and would be unlikely to manage any real use out of it. It's main use is simple visual gags.
REVISIONS AS REQUESTED -
Primrose's partial transformations are limited to her duckling form, though they are proportional to her human sized body. Generally her transformation works simply by focusing on her desire to transform. When she begins a partial transformation, she focuses on transforming beginning with a particular part of her body. She might focus on her arm for example, with the change beginning as a wing and spreading across the rest of her form.
In a normal case, the transformation is near instantaneous. In these partial transformations, Prim focuses on halting the morph right at the start. She has to maintain her focus on pausing it, while being careful to not think of actually reverting.
In theory, I would say Prim could activate a low-level version of her powers by using a partial transformation. Her telepathy would be limited to about five feet, and she could levitate a few feet off the ground. However, the amount of focus required to maintain the form makes it nearly useless in combat. At best it could be a way to stealthily reach out to her companions, though even that would require a great deal more practice than she's had.
Prim has experimented with growing a duck bill for laughs, or a wing just to see if she could, but by and large she just transforms fully or not at all.
Background Information: http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Primrose_Everdeen
Previous Game History:: http://thepull-mods.dreamwidth.org/1418.html and http://thepull-mods.dreamwidth.org/5024.html explains a bit about the world in general. However, Prim's life can't be understood just by looking at them. (I will be providing links to her threads at the end of this, though)
Prim wasn't directly involved in may of the events, but she didn't precisely keep to herself either. When Tim Drake put out a call for Teen Titans, Primrose signed up and became The Duckling. She didn't want to fight criminals, but she did want to help people. She also believed that she had a better reason than most to put her life on the line. Prim originally came into Sirens Pull from within the explosion that would have killed her. She saw it, felt its heat in the moments before she was snatched away, and was aware that if and when she was sent back home, she would arrive back inside that explosion. She spent the duration of the game with that grisly fate hanging in the back of her mind. She knew that no matter what she did there... She was going to die. It was a fairly scary thing for a thirteen-year-old girl. It was also something she very much didn't want to burden Katniss, Peeta, or even Rue with.
To a certain extent, however, her pending death was also a freeing thought. Even if she didn't entirely value it as such. Prim's actions had no consequences to her well-being: her fate was sealed. That, combined with the impermanence of death in Siren's Pull, led to Prim taking chances she might have otherwise been too scared to risk. Even though she was truly frightened of dying, she wanted to make the best of her time there, while she was effectively immortal. She channeled all her energy into trying to do good and worked very hard not to think about what would happen when it all ended. She threw herself into doing what she wanted: into learning medicine, spending time with her sister, and being a superhero. Partially so that she wouldn't have to think about the end.
As stated, Prim isn't much of a fighter. She wasn't interested in becoming one, either. She joined the Teen Titans as more of a support member, and a healer. She did do basic training with them, in particular running drills on how to save people from burning buildings, but poured most of her her time into massive medical books. That obviously wasn't enough to make her a doctor, but it did help her build on what healing knowledge she already had. It taught her how to recognize signs of certain illness, as well as some of the better treatments available. Despite the general discouragement of adults, Prim publicly offered to come to anyone's aid should they need healing. Unfortunately, she didn't really go into action while the game was still around, so she's well trained but still lacking in experience. The biggest dividend of her time as a superhero was arguably her superhero persona, The Duckling, and the bright cheerful costume it led to.
The young Everdeen also made a few friends, and was able to spend some wonderful time with her sister, Peeta, and Rue. That not only made her happy, but gave her a taste of what an ideal life might have been like. While she knew she'd never have that life in Panem, she'd occasionally wonder whether they couldn't set up shop on some other world and just be a family. Perhaps they could even have a normal life. Siren's pull was actually more stable than Panem, while it lasted, as food was plentiful and the housing was good. She even made friends, including the Archangel Raphael who went out of his way to protect her, and two merchants who thought they could merchandise her superhero persona. Due to OOC failure on the part of all muns involved, not much came out of it - but it was still a significant thread that showed people outside the Teen Titans were aware of her superhero persona. Not to mention that it was a delightfully odd friendship, which allowed Prim to actually speak with children her own age.
Prim also learned about the modern world during her time there. From September to April, Prim picked up on the nature of Christmas Thanksgiving, and other holidays, as well as what we would call modern technology. As a result, there's a lot less confusion these days when other characters refer to things from home that didn't exist in Panem.
The biggest effect on her character had to be the game's ending, though. Everything broke loose. The Darkness was spreading, and monsters were spreading with it. A portal to the multiverse at large had opened up, and Prim had a choice of whether to stay or run. She tried to do what she could for the people who remained, to help them as much as she could. She knew that her chances of surviving the blast were slim to none if she returned home. In the chaos of trying to defend against those creatures, and quite possibly with the interference of Raphael, Prim ended up inside the nexus - the space between worlds. A space where she discovered that she could choose to go home... or not.
Of course, Prim didn't really choose this world on purpose. Still, it isn't Panem, which proves that she no longer has a direct link back to her home world, and even if she were to escape from here she would likely end up simply back inside the nexus. The young hero has to wonder if she now has a chance of survival. For the first time in a while, she has a reason to think about her own well-being. A reason to actually hope that she could reunite with her family and grow old with them and live a full life.
Links to some of the most important threads (I'm a little self-conscious of these since they are quite old, but... In no particular order (except where I found them in my inbox)
Intro - http://sirenspull.dreamwidth.org/380458.html
Turning into a duckling the first time - http://sirenspull.dreamwidth.org/401565.html?thread=42428061#cmt42428061
Using up a miracle of ultimate power to heal a cat - http://sirenspull-logs.dreamwidth.org/261406.html?thread=12884766#cmt12884766Oh Prim...
Prim making friends after turning into a duck - http://sirenspull-logs.dreamwidth.org/257045.html
Offering to help people as a *SOOPER HERO* - http://sirenspull.dreamwidth.org/477252.html
Prim wishing she could stop the end. :( http://sirenspull.dreamwidth.org/497025.html#comments
Prim rescuing a kitten with Raphael - http://sirenspull-logs.dreamwidth.org/255857.html#comments
Prim's invitation to the Teen Titans - http://andproper.dreamwidth.org/1902.html?thread=622#cmt622
Primrose Everdeen the Teen Titan http://sirenspull-logs.dreamwidth.org/244502.html?thread=11624726#cmt11624726
And training! http://sirenspull-logs.dreamwidth.org/263483.html?thread=12335419#cmt12335419
Personality Description:
Katniss summed up Prim's personality wonderfully, when she said that it contains the best of their family. We see her father's level head in the way she deals with the panic and death about her. Though it's true Katniss describes Prim as having been scared stiff of the wild in their first book, Prim seems to have shed such behavior by the third book. Perhaps she was always stronger than Katniss gave her credit for. Prim is rarely seen to 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 didn't stare in terror at the blood. She helped treat their wounds with a steady hand, seeming less and less phased by injuries as the books went on.
On that same note, Prim inherited her mother's "healing hands," - not only the skill for treating the wounded, but the compassion that gave her passion for the work. Perhaps she embodies it even better than her fragile mother, who fell apart under stress while Prim and Katniss carried on. The diminutive blond gives herself freely to those who need her, whether they are human or animal, and whether or not it's in her best interests. She is the strongest voice of compassion in the family, wishing to take care of the mangy cat her sister saw only as another mouth to feed. She also nursed a goat back to health - though that one was of use, giving them milk and cheese. Still, Prim would have taken care of it if it was a rabid dog or a terrified rabbit. In fact, part of why Katniss stopped taking Prim into the woods is that Prim had wanted to try and heal all the animals Katniss shot for dinner.
That doesn't mean Prim is entirely selfless, of course. She's still a young girl after all, especially at the start of the series. She had her weaker, more oblivious moments, where she wished very much for treats her family couldn't afford. Treats such as cakes in the window. She also does eat meat, despite loving animals. It's simply that Prim is a kindhearted and compassionate person, who hates to see suffering and wants to relieve it. I'd argue that it isn't so much the death of the animal that bothered Prim, as the pain happening right in front of her. Prim's desire to help people can occasionally outweigh her common sense.
That's what leads to her death, actually: rushing to help the injured children of the Capitol, without a thought as to why a thirteen-year old girl might have been allowed on the front lines. Prim had been looking forward to becoming a true doctor. She had been taking classes in District Thirteen. She had no doubt been so eager to join in with healing the wounded that, if she suspected anything, it certainly didn't stop her. Prim rushed in to help those children and when the second waves of bombs exploded - well, actually, that's when she arrived in Siren's pull.
Prim was able to survive in there in the same way she had survived in Panem - the "fight" that she received from Katniss. The ability to stand strong and keep moving forward for what she believed in and wanted. That was just as integral as a level head when it came to working through everything that happened, and it's evident from her ability to keep things together. While we don't know exactly what befell Prim while Katniss was away, a lot of it can be imagined.
First came the games. The fear that Prim must have felt when she was called up as a tribute could only have been matched by the horror of Katniss taking her place. I don't doubt that a girl as compassionate and warm heated as Prim loved her mother, and forgave the woman's faults, but the truth of the matter is that their sole surviving parent was a fragile woman, who caved in on herself when her children needed her most. Her husband died, and she left Prim and Katniss to fend for themselves. Mrs. Everdeen had apparently come back to herself a bit over the years, but it was Katniss who had kept the family alive with her hunting. Katniss who laid ground rules, but also doled out the occasional allowances, such as a cat. Katniss who kept the family from starving, and Prim watched her sister be sent out to die - twice.
Mrs. Everdeen promised to take care of Prim while Katniss was away, but her role as a parent was limited. Prim herself admitted that she knew better than to tell their mother anything truly sensitive. The blond might have talked to Gale a little, but while he was providing the family with food... he also had his own issues: watching Peeta and Katniss in their romance. Most likely Prim ended up keeping a lot of her feelings to herself, in order to avoid burdening loved ones, who she didn't think could take it. Time hugging her cat, Buttercup, and milking her goat, Lady. Time watching her sister struggle to stay alive on national television while the guards became more fierce and injuries became more common and starvation and pain among those who didn't have winning families began to kick in.
Then, when their home was bombed, Prim dealt with being moved into the scary forest just to survive, setting up a medical tent with her mother, with no knowledge that District 13 would come to the rescue in the following days. We don't see it in the book, but we can imagine what Prim must have undergone, just surviving without her rock of a sister, with just a mother who she could not rely on. Yet she survived. The little blond didn't give up hope. She even encouraged Katniss to keep holding on to her hope, when it seemed Peeta might not recover from his capture by the Capitol. Instead of giving up, Prim grew up, becoming a little more thoughtful and a little more insightful.
That's actually the final piece that makes Prim who she is. It's something purely hers that ties the whole package together: insight. An insight that allowed her to see into the heart of matters, when others were reeling in confusion. It was Prim, and not her hunter/Hunger Games survivalist sister who realized that President Snow would want to keep Peeta alive in order to hurt Katniss. She also didn't leap to believe the rebellion leaders any quicker than Katniss did. She instead suggested that they would do anything to keep their Mockingjay happy, so long as Katniss had a way to make them keep their word. Being thirteen means people expect her to be childish. Her sister, in particular, was quite guilty of seeing the little scared girl every time she looked at Prim. She was wrong. The fact of the matter is that Prim has shown herself quite capable of handling herself, and taking things as they truly are. She doesn't want things to be sugarcoated, especially not when it comes to the pain of those she cares about. She wants to know the truth, and she wants to be able to help. If she actually gets all the facts, she's quite likely to come up with the right answer. She certainly did for Katniss, when her sister was worried about how to live up to her responsibilities without giving up what she wanted. Prim used her trademark insight to point out just how important Katniss was, when Katniss herself didn't see it.
That said, while Prim would encourage a loved one to tell the truth... She wouldn't always return the favor. Her mother had proven to be fragile, as mentioned, and Prim herself said that she knew better than to tell her mother everything. Her insightful nature, combined with her unwillingness to cause others harm, can lead to lying by omission when she feels it's necessary. That's why she would also be unlikely to tell her sister about the explosion, unless forced to. It would cause pain and stress. Prim would rather bottle up her emotional upset than share the pain, at least until there's a way to deal with it. If she was to share it with anyone, it would be with those who cared and worried less.
The truth is that, despite her good qualities, Prim doesn't always make the right decisions. At least not from an objective perspective. Part of it might be that for all her insight, she is a child, who occasionally doesn't fully take her own mortality in to account. Or maybe it's just that when someone is in danger, Prim doesn't think about herself to begin with.
When the Capitol attempted to bomb District Thirteen and the sirens went off, Prim did the unthinkable. This survivor, this girl who had trekked through the woods and watched her sister be sent off, actually ran back into her room to rescue her cat. Prim claimed that she couldn't bear to leave Buttercup behind again. Never mind that it nearly got her killed. Not to mention how Prim leaped at the chance to treat soldiers on the front lines, and never mind that she was only a thirteen-year old herself, a relative novice at medicine.
None of that is to say that she doesn't value her own life. Just that her compassion sometimes outweighs her common sense and prevents her from using her much lauded level-head or insight.
Being taken to Sirens pull for a few months didn't directly change most of this. She joined a superheroes team, despite not wanting to fight, just so that she could help people. She got to spend a little more time with her sister, which was nice, and she picked up a few skills that she will hopefully be able to use. Things such as some general self-defense, and tips and tricks to saving someone from a burning building. To be truthful, though, she did not have that many threads during her time there, and there wasn't a wealth of personal growth or insights before the game ended. Its biggest impact will be in how she responds now that she isn't entirely new to world travel, or super-heroing.
The other thing to keep in mind is her canon point. She was taken from right in the middle of the explosion, right as she was dying. This insightful levelheaded girl had to remain strong as a result, scared to tell anyone the truth. Scared to tell anyone that she was a dead woman walking. If Prim had been willing to put her own safety at risk before, she was doubly willing to do so when she thought she was doomed to die. Death in Siren's Pull was only temporary, after all, but death when she returned would be permanent.
She did have a few friends at this point. Tim Drake was a little bit of a mentor. They didn't have many conversations, but he was her team leader, and he he believed she could be a superhero without actually having to fight. That she could just heal and rescue. His belief in her, when everyone else just worried about her safety, is part of what gave her the strength to keep going and working hard at being a hero. Even though she didn't really get to save anyone in the end, Prim certainly threw herself into her training and she certainly tried. Of course, she had more than Tim's belief on her side. Prim had literal divine intervention, in the form of Raphael, an ark angel (courtesy of supernatural.) He had enough tact not to reveal his interference unless necessary, but the two of them would occasionally talk, and he took it upon himself to protect Prim when she was doing her heroic activities.
Despite the risks she took, Prim never actually ended up seriously injured. Which means she kept her belief in herself, but as a byproduct hasn't had to directly face her mortality in this new world - or realize just how painful death can be.
She also had a bit of a social life in Siren's Pull. She befriended two girls her own age, merchants; while they only had one or two conversations, it's practically the only time she ever got to talk to someone her own age on screen for any extended period. Considering they owned their own businesses, Prim thinks people her own age can be fairly weird, but at least she'd be willing to try again if she met other thirteen-year olds.
Then the game ended with her going into the nexus, and her direct bond with Panem was arguably broken. With there being no reason to think she'd ever get sent back home and into the explosion, even if she manages to escape this new world she's found herself in... The situation has changed a little. She actually has a reason to think of herself for the first time in a long time, which will certainly be interesting to watch play out.
Still, Prim isn't really a selfish person by nature. Again, that isn't to say she's selfless - but she does take pride in her new status as a superhero, and as a healer. She would rather go to the aid of others than hide in a building and not make waves. She'll just be a little bit more cautious and thoughtful in her approach than she would have been in Siren's Pull, where she was doing everything possible to overcome all her fears.
To further answer some of the app's questions, I would like to say that the greatest effect of all this - both her childhood and her game experiences - has been to teach Prim perseverance. She's learned to keep going, to keep fighting onward. She's learned about human nature and how it isn't always friendly, such as how she got killed by her own allies. She's had plenty of time to figure that out. She's also learned to keep moving forward no matter what changes.
Still, in truth, Prim hasn't really learned to be cautious. She will try to avoid getting caught as she helps people in need. She doesn't have a death wish, especially not now that she has a chance to survive all of this. She does, however, place a high value on the lives of others. She'll take risks that might get her captured by the guards, because as little as she'd like being hurt, she truly hates the idea of another suffering while she does nothing. If pressed, she would admit it's likely impossible, but a world where everyone's happy and nobody has to hurt would really would be her favorite thing.
Thankfully, Primose Everdeen has quite a bit of experience at not getting what she wants. She can handle it. She'll just keep trying. Trying to save people, and trying to survive this alongside her sister. Trying to get to a world where everything is okay. That's her only real goal at this point, and if she has any fears or doubts it's that she's not going to have what it takes. Thankfully, for all her insights, Prim is still a thirteen-year old girl. She doesn't often turn those insights on herself.
Third Person Sample:
"Katniss?" Prim's head whipped from side to side, pigtails bouncing across her back. Her head hurt mildly, and she couldn't remember exactly how she had gotten here. The nexus - had she fallen into one of the portals? At least it didn't seem to be Panem. She wasn't ready to deal with Panem yet.
She looked around the room, curious. This felt a lot like when she had arrived in the port. There was a bed, which looked pretty nice at the moment.... a chair... and a box. The box had probably been left for her, if this was like last time.
She lifted the box's lid up, sliding her way into it as she tried to pull things out. There was clothing, just an ugly jumpsuit. She was still wearing her yellow Duckling outfit, so maybe she needed to change? But she wasn't sure she wanted to show off her identity just yet. Even if it hadn't really fooled anyone back home.
There was a bottle of water, so maybe she was going to be here for a while? A device she guessed was to connect to the network here. Did everywhere but Panem have them? She put it on the floor besides the box. There was what looked like a yellow feather, too, though it was really heavy. Maybe it was supposed to go with her costume? She lifted it up, and then froze. Something beneath it -a pin. A mockingjay pin. Katniss's pin. Was she there? Was her sister there? Did they have her sister?
"One Two or Three?" The sudden voice in her ear made her jump, head hitting the box's top and she yelped in pain. There was a noise of sliding metal as she stumbled backward. The feather she had picked up -but it wasn't a feather anymore. The yellow sheath had fallen off of it, revealing a red dagger that looked as if it were drenched in blood.
A weapon. Her mind shot to the mockingjay pin. Her entire body trembled, but she couldn't seem to let go of the dagger. The weapon. The pin Katniss had worn into the hunger games. Maybe she was in Panem after all. Maybe they had lost. Maybe she was in The Games.
The knife finally fell from her hand, clattering to the floor. Prim didn't want to hurt anyone. They couldn't make her.
"One. Two. Or three?"
First Person Sample:
This isn't Panem, is it? [Her voice is soft and uncertain, like she really wants to believe what she's saying. Then, more disappointed:] Katniss isn't here, is she? She's gone back home.
I don't really know where I am. I pressed a button, and my head hurt, and... [She pauses, biting her lip.] Everyone keeps smiling. It's like they don't know how to be sad. Or maybe they're scared to be sad.
It sort of reminds me of Panem. I don't think the Capitol looks like this, though, and no one's trying to kill me so it's probably not an arena.
There's something in my ear, too. [She reaches up to press it. She wants very much to tug on it, but she's a little worried.] I think its gone silent for now, but it kept telling me to press a button. That's how I ended up here. I pressed number one.
Mun
Mun name/journal: Kay
Mun Age: 23
Contact: I'm dragon8writer on plurk or aim
Timezone: PST
HMD: Here.
Characters currently in game: Barbara Gordon
Character
Name: Primrose Everdeen
Fandom: The Hunger Games - the books, not the movie
Gender: Female
Age: 13 (Noting on the app that it does ask us to discuss suitability for a character under 14 - I will simply say that Prim's canon had difficulties of its own. Difficulties such as children being made to fight to the death yearly. She also spent time in a game where monsters came out each night, killing anyone they could find. She is more than used to the world of horror)
Canonpoint: Final book - mid explosion;
Former Game(s): Sirens Pull
Character Journal:
andproperPermissions Post: Here.
Character Inventory: What she's wearing - a yellow feathered cloak lined with pockets, a yellow mask, and two now defunct communication devices - both a standard one for Sirens Pull, and a Teen Titans comm.
Weapon - A sharp red dagger, shaped like a feather and held by a bright yellow sheath. When put away, it looks like like nothing more than a stylized duck's feather. It was inspired by this
Useless item - Katniss's mockingjay pin.
Abilities: Prim's best known natural ability is healing. Mrs. Everdeen taught Prim quite a bit about medicine. She is not a fully trained doctor, of course She wouldn't be able to perform heavy surgery, for example, but she does know a lot about herbs. She knows how best to treat wounds, and she has a steady hand when its needed most. Prim actually did work as a nurse in District 13, and was training toward her dream job of becoming a doctor. So if you didn't have anyone else handy... well, if a novice had to perform surgery, Prim would probably do better than most. That isn't to say I envy your chances, though.
Prim also studied up quite a bit on medical techniques while in Siren's Pull, spending a lot of her time in the library with a medical textbook and a dictionary.
She was also a member of the Teen Titans while at Sirens Pull, if only for a few months. Not long enough for any hefty training, especially since she was uninterested in fighting, but enough that Prim learned some very basic self-defense. She built up at least a little muscle, so she isn't quite as delicate as Katniss once called her.
Prim also learned how to perform basic rescue operations, such as saving people from buildings or helping them escape dangerous situations. Considering her distaste for hurting people and her relatively low levels of physical strength, her abilities are geared more toward evasion than attack or even defense. When it comes to a fight, her specialty would be finding escape routes and making her way decisively through them.
I would also say that she knows the basics of cooking, and how to take care of house. Prim would have helped with chores around the house, even when Katniss was there. As for when Katniss was away: while her mother was supposed to take care of Prim, the simple truth is that Mrs. Everdeen wasn't incredibly reliable. Prim undoubtedly helped out in the kitchen the same way she did with patients. She's no more a gourmet cook than she is a full-fledged doctor, but she won't mess up a simple meal any more than she would have a quick stitching. She can take care of herself.
Special abilities: Prim was given the power to transform into a small yellow duckling in her previous game - a power which apparently affected her on a fundamental level, considering she was allowed to keep her powers when the game ended.
While Prim's transformation is arguably magical in nature, it nevertheless follows explicit rules. Clothes are transformed with her, including anything inside her clothes, but not anything she's holding. This is why the inside of her cloak is covered in pockets, so that she can bring small objects with her when she transforms. She cannot recover these items without transforming back. (I'm not sure how the VOCA would work with this? Perhaps it would change size, or meld with the transformation, still functioning, but not being visible.)
Wounds are transferred between forms, but are generally analogous between forms - a small cut to the hand would become a small cut on her wing, and would keep its ratio to the rest of her body. It would be no more dangerous to her in duck form than human. A fatal wound to her human self, on the other hand, would be just as fatal to a duckling - but change size to better match her new body. In other words,, there won't be any wounds bigger than her body can fit after she transforms.
Prim also has certain abilities in her transformed state that are not available to her as a human, and that would not normally be available to a duckling of her size. She can fly at 40 MPH, about the same speed as an actual grown duck. She can also communicate with animals. This includes humans, to a limited degree.
Specifically, Prim is capable of projecting telepathic communication. By default it is picked up by any animal, including humans, within ten feet. If desperate, she can stretch it out to fifteen or even twenty feet. It is also possible for her to direct communication to a single person, but that requires either a very close personal connection or, better yet, physical contact.
Prim can also receive telepathic communication from animals, while in duckling form, but her abilities do not make animals any smarter. Unless the animal in question has human intelligence, all she can receive are the basic emotions and instinct-based responses of the creatures nearby. A general sense that something is scared, or hungry, or about to pounce, for example. She is not able to pick up even this limited telepathic communications from humans. They have to speak out loud for her to hear them.
Finally, Prim does have the ability to do partial transformations, but they are very difficult and nearly useless. The reason is that she doesn't actually just transform the body part. Prim begins a full transformation, and then forces it to stop part way. This requires a great deal of concentration to hold. She could build on this with practice, but currently she won't be able to handle it longer than a few seconds, and would be unlikely to manage any real use out of it. It's main use is simple visual gags.
REVISIONS AS REQUESTED -
Primrose's partial transformations are limited to her duckling form, though they are proportional to her human sized body. Generally her transformation works simply by focusing on her desire to transform. When she begins a partial transformation, she focuses on transforming beginning with a particular part of her body. She might focus on her arm for example, with the change beginning as a wing and spreading across the rest of her form.
In a normal case, the transformation is near instantaneous. In these partial transformations, Prim focuses on halting the morph right at the start. She has to maintain her focus on pausing it, while being careful to not think of actually reverting.
In theory, I would say Prim could activate a low-level version of her powers by using a partial transformation. Her telepathy would be limited to about five feet, and she could levitate a few feet off the ground. However, the amount of focus required to maintain the form makes it nearly useless in combat. At best it could be a way to stealthily reach out to her companions, though even that would require a great deal more practice than she's had.
Prim has experimented with growing a duck bill for laughs, or a wing just to see if she could, but by and large she just transforms fully or not at all.
Background Information: http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Primrose_Everdeen
Previous Game History:: http://thepull-mods.dreamwidth.org/1418.html and http://thepull-mods.dreamwidth.org/5024.html explains a bit about the world in general. However, Prim's life can't be understood just by looking at them. (I will be providing links to her threads at the end of this, though)
Prim wasn't directly involved in may of the events, but she didn't precisely keep to herself either. When Tim Drake put out a call for Teen Titans, Primrose signed up and became The Duckling. She didn't want to fight criminals, but she did want to help people. She also believed that she had a better reason than most to put her life on the line. Prim originally came into Sirens Pull from within the explosion that would have killed her. She saw it, felt its heat in the moments before she was snatched away, and was aware that if and when she was sent back home, she would arrive back inside that explosion. She spent the duration of the game with that grisly fate hanging in the back of her mind. She knew that no matter what she did there... She was going to die. It was a fairly scary thing for a thirteen-year-old girl. It was also something she very much didn't want to burden Katniss, Peeta, or even Rue with.
To a certain extent, however, her pending death was also a freeing thought. Even if she didn't entirely value it as such. Prim's actions had no consequences to her well-being: her fate was sealed. That, combined with the impermanence of death in Siren's Pull, led to Prim taking chances she might have otherwise been too scared to risk. Even though she was truly frightened of dying, she wanted to make the best of her time there, while she was effectively immortal. She channeled all her energy into trying to do good and worked very hard not to think about what would happen when it all ended. She threw herself into doing what she wanted: into learning medicine, spending time with her sister, and being a superhero. Partially so that she wouldn't have to think about the end.
As stated, Prim isn't much of a fighter. She wasn't interested in becoming one, either. She joined the Teen Titans as more of a support member, and a healer. She did do basic training with them, in particular running drills on how to save people from burning buildings, but poured most of her her time into massive medical books. That obviously wasn't enough to make her a doctor, but it did help her build on what healing knowledge she already had. It taught her how to recognize signs of certain illness, as well as some of the better treatments available. Despite the general discouragement of adults, Prim publicly offered to come to anyone's aid should they need healing. Unfortunately, she didn't really go into action while the game was still around, so she's well trained but still lacking in experience. The biggest dividend of her time as a superhero was arguably her superhero persona, The Duckling, and the bright cheerful costume it led to.
The young Everdeen also made a few friends, and was able to spend some wonderful time with her sister, Peeta, and Rue. That not only made her happy, but gave her a taste of what an ideal life might have been like. While she knew she'd never have that life in Panem, she'd occasionally wonder whether they couldn't set up shop on some other world and just be a family. Perhaps they could even have a normal life. Siren's pull was actually more stable than Panem, while it lasted, as food was plentiful and the housing was good. She even made friends, including the Archangel Raphael who went out of his way to protect her, and two merchants who thought they could merchandise her superhero persona. Due to OOC failure on the part of all muns involved, not much came out of it - but it was still a significant thread that showed people outside the Teen Titans were aware of her superhero persona. Not to mention that it was a delightfully odd friendship, which allowed Prim to actually speak with children her own age.
Prim also learned about the modern world during her time there. From September to April, Prim picked up on the nature of Christmas Thanksgiving, and other holidays, as well as what we would call modern technology. As a result, there's a lot less confusion these days when other characters refer to things from home that didn't exist in Panem.
The biggest effect on her character had to be the game's ending, though. Everything broke loose. The Darkness was spreading, and monsters were spreading with it. A portal to the multiverse at large had opened up, and Prim had a choice of whether to stay or run. She tried to do what she could for the people who remained, to help them as much as she could. She knew that her chances of surviving the blast were slim to none if she returned home. In the chaos of trying to defend against those creatures, and quite possibly with the interference of Raphael, Prim ended up inside the nexus - the space between worlds. A space where she discovered that she could choose to go home... or not.
Of course, Prim didn't really choose this world on purpose. Still, it isn't Panem, which proves that she no longer has a direct link back to her home world, and even if she were to escape from here she would likely end up simply back inside the nexus. The young hero has to wonder if she now has a chance of survival. For the first time in a while, she has a reason to think about her own well-being. A reason to actually hope that she could reunite with her family and grow old with them and live a full life.
Links to some of the most important threads (I'm a little self-conscious of these since they are quite old, but... In no particular order (except where I found them in my inbox)
Intro - http://sirenspull.dreamwidth.org/380458.html
Turning into a duckling the first time - http://sirenspull.dreamwidth.org/401565.html?thread=42428061#cmt42428061
Using up a miracle of ultimate power to heal a cat - http://sirenspull-logs.dreamwidth.org/261406.html?thread=12884766#cmt12884766
Prim making friends after turning into a duck - http://sirenspull-logs.dreamwidth.org/257045.html
Offering to help people as a *SOOPER HERO* - http://sirenspull.dreamwidth.org/477252.html
Prim wishing she could stop the end. :( http://sirenspull.dreamwidth.org/497025.html#comments
Prim rescuing a kitten with Raphael - http://sirenspull-logs.dreamwidth.org/255857.html#comments
Prim's invitation to the Teen Titans - http://andproper.dreamwidth.org/1902.html?thread=622#cmt622
Primrose Everdeen the Teen Titan http://sirenspull-logs.dreamwidth.org/244502.html?thread=11624726#cmt11624726
And training! http://sirenspull-logs.dreamwidth.org/263483.html?thread=12335419#cmt12335419
Personality Description:
Katniss summed up Prim's personality wonderfully, when she said that it contains the best of their family. We see her father's level head in the way she deals with the panic and death about her. Though it's true Katniss describes Prim as having been scared stiff of the wild in their first book, Prim seems to have shed such behavior by the third book. Perhaps she was always stronger than Katniss gave her credit for. Prim is rarely seen to 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 didn't stare in terror at the blood. She helped treat their wounds with a steady hand, seeming less and less phased by injuries as the books went on.
On that same note, Prim inherited her mother's "healing hands," - not only the skill for treating the wounded, but the compassion that gave her passion for the work. Perhaps she embodies it even better than her fragile mother, who fell apart under stress while Prim and Katniss carried on. The diminutive blond gives herself freely to those who need her, whether they are human or animal, and whether or not it's in her best interests. She is the strongest voice of compassion in the family, wishing to take care of the mangy cat her sister saw only as another mouth to feed. She also nursed a goat back to health - though that one was of use, giving them milk and cheese. Still, Prim would have taken care of it if it was a rabid dog or a terrified rabbit. In fact, part of why Katniss stopped taking Prim into the woods is that Prim had wanted to try and heal all the animals Katniss shot for dinner.
That doesn't mean Prim is entirely selfless, of course. She's still a young girl after all, especially at the start of the series. She had her weaker, more oblivious moments, where she wished very much for treats her family couldn't afford. Treats such as cakes in the window. She also does eat meat, despite loving animals. It's simply that Prim is a kindhearted and compassionate person, who hates to see suffering and wants to relieve it. I'd argue that it isn't so much the death of the animal that bothered Prim, as the pain happening right in front of her. Prim's desire to help people can occasionally outweigh her common sense.
That's what leads to her death, actually: rushing to help the injured children of the Capitol, without a thought as to why a thirteen-year old girl might have been allowed on the front lines. Prim had been looking forward to becoming a true doctor. She had been taking classes in District Thirteen. She had no doubt been so eager to join in with healing the wounded that, if she suspected anything, it certainly didn't stop her. Prim rushed in to help those children and when the second waves of bombs exploded - well, actually, that's when she arrived in Siren's pull.
Prim was able to survive in there in the same way she had survived in Panem - the "fight" that she received from Katniss. The ability to stand strong and keep moving forward for what she believed in and wanted. That was just as integral as a level head when it came to working through everything that happened, and it's evident from her ability to keep things together. While we don't know exactly what befell Prim while Katniss was away, a lot of it can be imagined.
First came the games. The fear that Prim must have felt when she was called up as a tribute could only have been matched by the horror of Katniss taking her place. I don't doubt that a girl as compassionate and warm heated as Prim loved her mother, and forgave the woman's faults, but the truth of the matter is that their sole surviving parent was a fragile woman, who caved in on herself when her children needed her most. Her husband died, and she left Prim and Katniss to fend for themselves. Mrs. Everdeen had apparently come back to herself a bit over the years, but it was Katniss who had kept the family alive with her hunting. Katniss who laid ground rules, but also doled out the occasional allowances, such as a cat. Katniss who kept the family from starving, and Prim watched her sister be sent out to die - twice.
Mrs. Everdeen promised to take care of Prim while Katniss was away, but her role as a parent was limited. Prim herself admitted that she knew better than to tell their mother anything truly sensitive. The blond might have talked to Gale a little, but while he was providing the family with food... he also had his own issues: watching Peeta and Katniss in their romance. Most likely Prim ended up keeping a lot of her feelings to herself, in order to avoid burdening loved ones, who she didn't think could take it. Time hugging her cat, Buttercup, and milking her goat, Lady. Time watching her sister struggle to stay alive on national television while the guards became more fierce and injuries became more common and starvation and pain among those who didn't have winning families began to kick in.
Then, when their home was bombed, Prim dealt with being moved into the scary forest just to survive, setting up a medical tent with her mother, with no knowledge that District 13 would come to the rescue in the following days. We don't see it in the book, but we can imagine what Prim must have undergone, just surviving without her rock of a sister, with just a mother who she could not rely on. Yet she survived. The little blond didn't give up hope. She even encouraged Katniss to keep holding on to her hope, when it seemed Peeta might not recover from his capture by the Capitol. Instead of giving up, Prim grew up, becoming a little more thoughtful and a little more insightful.
That's actually the final piece that makes Prim who she is. It's something purely hers that ties the whole package together: insight. An insight that allowed her to see into the heart of matters, when others were reeling in confusion. It was Prim, and not her hunter/Hunger Games survivalist sister who realized that President Snow would want to keep Peeta alive in order to hurt Katniss. She also didn't leap to believe the rebellion leaders any quicker than Katniss did. She instead suggested that they would do anything to keep their Mockingjay happy, so long as Katniss had a way to make them keep their word. Being thirteen means people expect her to be childish. Her sister, in particular, was quite guilty of seeing the little scared girl every time she looked at Prim. She was wrong. The fact of the matter is that Prim has shown herself quite capable of handling herself, and taking things as they truly are. She doesn't want things to be sugarcoated, especially not when it comes to the pain of those she cares about. She wants to know the truth, and she wants to be able to help. If she actually gets all the facts, she's quite likely to come up with the right answer. She certainly did for Katniss, when her sister was worried about how to live up to her responsibilities without giving up what she wanted. Prim used her trademark insight to point out just how important Katniss was, when Katniss herself didn't see it.
That said, while Prim would encourage a loved one to tell the truth... She wouldn't always return the favor. Her mother had proven to be fragile, as mentioned, and Prim herself said that she knew better than to tell her mother everything. Her insightful nature, combined with her unwillingness to cause others harm, can lead to lying by omission when she feels it's necessary. That's why she would also be unlikely to tell her sister about the explosion, unless forced to. It would cause pain and stress. Prim would rather bottle up her emotional upset than share the pain, at least until there's a way to deal with it. If she was to share it with anyone, it would be with those who cared and worried less.
The truth is that, despite her good qualities, Prim doesn't always make the right decisions. At least not from an objective perspective. Part of it might be that for all her insight, she is a child, who occasionally doesn't fully take her own mortality in to account. Or maybe it's just that when someone is in danger, Prim doesn't think about herself to begin with.
When the Capitol attempted to bomb District Thirteen and the sirens went off, Prim did the unthinkable. This survivor, this girl who had trekked through the woods and watched her sister be sent off, actually ran back into her room to rescue her cat. Prim claimed that she couldn't bear to leave Buttercup behind again. Never mind that it nearly got her killed. Not to mention how Prim leaped at the chance to treat soldiers on the front lines, and never mind that she was only a thirteen-year old herself, a relative novice at medicine.
None of that is to say that she doesn't value her own life. Just that her compassion sometimes outweighs her common sense and prevents her from using her much lauded level-head or insight.
Being taken to Sirens pull for a few months didn't directly change most of this. She joined a superheroes team, despite not wanting to fight, just so that she could help people. She got to spend a little more time with her sister, which was nice, and she picked up a few skills that she will hopefully be able to use. Things such as some general self-defense, and tips and tricks to saving someone from a burning building. To be truthful, though, she did not have that many threads during her time there, and there wasn't a wealth of personal growth or insights before the game ended. Its biggest impact will be in how she responds now that she isn't entirely new to world travel, or super-heroing.
The other thing to keep in mind is her canon point. She was taken from right in the middle of the explosion, right as she was dying. This insightful levelheaded girl had to remain strong as a result, scared to tell anyone the truth. Scared to tell anyone that she was a dead woman walking. If Prim had been willing to put her own safety at risk before, she was doubly willing to do so when she thought she was doomed to die. Death in Siren's Pull was only temporary, after all, but death when she returned would be permanent.
She did have a few friends at this point. Tim Drake was a little bit of a mentor. They didn't have many conversations, but he was her team leader, and he he believed she could be a superhero without actually having to fight. That she could just heal and rescue. His belief in her, when everyone else just worried about her safety, is part of what gave her the strength to keep going and working hard at being a hero. Even though she didn't really get to save anyone in the end, Prim certainly threw herself into her training and she certainly tried. Of course, she had more than Tim's belief on her side. Prim had literal divine intervention, in the form of Raphael, an ark angel (courtesy of supernatural.) He had enough tact not to reveal his interference unless necessary, but the two of them would occasionally talk, and he took it upon himself to protect Prim when she was doing her heroic activities.
Despite the risks she took, Prim never actually ended up seriously injured. Which means she kept her belief in herself, but as a byproduct hasn't had to directly face her mortality in this new world - or realize just how painful death can be.
She also had a bit of a social life in Siren's Pull. She befriended two girls her own age, merchants; while they only had one or two conversations, it's practically the only time she ever got to talk to someone her own age on screen for any extended period. Considering they owned their own businesses, Prim thinks people her own age can be fairly weird, but at least she'd be willing to try again if she met other thirteen-year olds.
Then the game ended with her going into the nexus, and her direct bond with Panem was arguably broken. With there being no reason to think she'd ever get sent back home and into the explosion, even if she manages to escape this new world she's found herself in... The situation has changed a little. She actually has a reason to think of herself for the first time in a long time, which will certainly be interesting to watch play out.
Still, Prim isn't really a selfish person by nature. Again, that isn't to say she's selfless - but she does take pride in her new status as a superhero, and as a healer. She would rather go to the aid of others than hide in a building and not make waves. She'll just be a little bit more cautious and thoughtful in her approach than she would have been in Siren's Pull, where she was doing everything possible to overcome all her fears.
To further answer some of the app's questions, I would like to say that the greatest effect of all this - both her childhood and her game experiences - has been to teach Prim perseverance. She's learned to keep going, to keep fighting onward. She's learned about human nature and how it isn't always friendly, such as how she got killed by her own allies. She's had plenty of time to figure that out. She's also learned to keep moving forward no matter what changes.
Still, in truth, Prim hasn't really learned to be cautious. She will try to avoid getting caught as she helps people in need. She doesn't have a death wish, especially not now that she has a chance to survive all of this. She does, however, place a high value on the lives of others. She'll take risks that might get her captured by the guards, because as little as she'd like being hurt, she truly hates the idea of another suffering while she does nothing. If pressed, she would admit it's likely impossible, but a world where everyone's happy and nobody has to hurt would really would be her favorite thing.
Thankfully, Primose Everdeen has quite a bit of experience at not getting what she wants. She can handle it. She'll just keep trying. Trying to save people, and trying to survive this alongside her sister. Trying to get to a world where everything is okay. That's her only real goal at this point, and if she has any fears or doubts it's that she's not going to have what it takes. Thankfully, for all her insights, Prim is still a thirteen-year old girl. She doesn't often turn those insights on herself.
Third Person Sample:
"Katniss?" Prim's head whipped from side to side, pigtails bouncing across her back. Her head hurt mildly, and she couldn't remember exactly how she had gotten here. The nexus - had she fallen into one of the portals? At least it didn't seem to be Panem. She wasn't ready to deal with Panem yet.
She looked around the room, curious. This felt a lot like when she had arrived in the port. There was a bed, which looked pretty nice at the moment.... a chair... and a box. The box had probably been left for her, if this was like last time.
She lifted the box's lid up, sliding her way into it as she tried to pull things out. There was clothing, just an ugly jumpsuit. She was still wearing her yellow Duckling outfit, so maybe she needed to change? But she wasn't sure she wanted to show off her identity just yet. Even if it hadn't really fooled anyone back home.
There was a bottle of water, so maybe she was going to be here for a while? A device she guessed was to connect to the network here. Did everywhere but Panem have them? She put it on the floor besides the box. There was what looked like a yellow feather, too, though it was really heavy. Maybe it was supposed to go with her costume? She lifted it up, and then froze. Something beneath it -a pin. A mockingjay pin. Katniss's pin. Was she there? Was her sister there? Did they have her sister?
"One Two or Three?" The sudden voice in her ear made her jump, head hitting the box's top and she yelped in pain. There was a noise of sliding metal as she stumbled backward. The feather she had picked up -but it wasn't a feather anymore. The yellow sheath had fallen off of it, revealing a red dagger that looked as if it were drenched in blood.
A weapon. Her mind shot to the mockingjay pin. Her entire body trembled, but she couldn't seem to let go of the dagger. The weapon. The pin Katniss had worn into the hunger games. Maybe she was in Panem after all. Maybe they had lost. Maybe she was in The Games.
The knife finally fell from her hand, clattering to the floor. Prim didn't want to hurt anyone. They couldn't make her.
"One. Two. Or three?"
First Person Sample:
This isn't Panem, is it? [Her voice is soft and uncertain, like she really wants to believe what she's saying. Then, more disappointed:] Katniss isn't here, is she? She's gone back home.
I don't really know where I am. I pressed a button, and my head hurt, and... [She pauses, biting her lip.] Everyone keeps smiling. It's like they don't know how to be sad. Or maybe they're scared to be sad.
It sort of reminds me of Panem. I don't think the Capitol looks like this, though, and no one's trying to kill me so it's probably not an arena.
There's something in my ear, too. [She reaches up to press it. She wants very much to tug on it, but she's a little worried.] I think its gone silent for now, but it kept telling me to press a button. That's how I ended up here. I pressed number one.
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