Haymitch Abernathy (young)

🦋 OOC Information

Name: Katie
Contact: siriuslydementd
Age: 21+
Other Characters: Jon Snow
Invitation: n/a
Permissions: Here

🦋 IC Information

Character Name: Haymitch Abernathy
Age: around 18
Canon: What is their canon? The Hunger Games
Canon Point: the end of Sunrise on the Reaping
Character History: Wiki
Canon Abilities: He's incredibly clever and knows how to use a situation to his advantage. He has a few basic survival skills.
Inventory: What items does your character have with them? His clothes and a flask.

🦋 Personality

Option 2: You may instead choose words from the following list to expand upon as your personality section. Elaborate on what this word means to your character, specifically their thoughts about it. For Canon Characters, you can choose five words. For Original Characters, you will need to choose seven words. Keep the word count to 100-300 per choice.

• Green
Green is the color of good memories in Haymitch's life -- Lenore Dove's eyes, the grass in the meadow where they would meet. But it isn't the color itself that matters so much, more just the fact that it's color. So much of his life is colorless and bland -- the unadorned walls of his house, the clothes made from scraps of fabric and old flour bags, the settlement in the Seam where everything is covered with a layer of coal dust. It's a hard life, but it's the life he's been given and he'll make the best of it, taking on whatever he can to ease the burden on his mother and brother.

But the moments in his life when he's the happiest, those are the ones with color in them. Not the over-the-top, showy color of the Capitol, but the color that means he has a few moments to himself, with the girl he loves. A few moments to pretend that he's not living a hardscrabble life under an oppressive system.

It doesn't much matter what color it is, but he's partial to green because of its association with Lenore Dove.


• Dead
Dead is what he should be right now. The odds were against him when he went into the arena, especially with how many other tributes had better training and resources than he did. His conviction that he would die in the arena, combined with what he sees as the Capitol's indignities and their illegal actions, together convince him to agree to carry out a plan of rebellious sabotage. If he's going to die anyway, why not cause some trouble for the Capitol in the process? (The rebellious streak he was born with doesn't hurt, either.)

But then it came down to just him and one other person left in the arena, and he used his wits (and knowledge of the arena) to come out the victor -- or at least alive. The Districts had again been punished for their rebellion with death.

But the death as punishment didn't stop there. His act of defiance in the arena, of using the Capitol's own system against it, needed to be punished. And it was those he cared about the most who paid the price. Three innocents, in the course of protecting whom he had ended up in the arena, ended up dead.

He should be dead, but he's not, and the guilt of making it out of the arena when 47 others didn't is eating him up inside. But even worse is the knowledge that three people died as a direct result of his actions -- so now, to keep more innocent lives from being lost, he pushes everyone away, for their own good, and so that he doesn't have to feel the pain of loss again.


• Sin
Sin as most people understand it is not a concept as such in Panem. At least it's not called sin -- it's not an infraction against a religious entity, to be absolved through confession and piety -- and there is no forgiveness. In Panem, sin is against the state, and infractions are punished swiftly and brutally, sometimes fatally. The Capitol views the Hunger Games as retribution for the Districts' sins -- rebellion against the Capitol.

But to Haymitch, the sin goes the other way. It is the Capitol that sins against the Districts, exploiting their resources for the Capitol's excess, and reaping the Districts' children to serve as sacrifices (and entertainment).

And just as the Districts must pay for their sins against the Capitol, the Capitol must pay for their sins against the Districts.


• Child
Child is what Haymitch was before he went into the arena, despite his insistence to take on adult responsibilities to help his family. He does this partly to remove some of the burden of supporting them from his mother, and partly so that his brother actually can be a child. As the older brother, he sees this as his responsibility when his father dies, even though he's still a child himself at the time. He never really had a chance to be a child, so he's determined to make that possible for his brother for as long as he can.

He takes on a protective role in the arena, too, especially for the younger tributes, who are little more than children. It's his opportunity to meet tributes from other Districts, combined with discovering that former victors have had their own children reaped as punishment, that drive home the idea that Panem's children are expendable, valuable only as entertainment for the Capitol.

In the end, it's the deaths of so many innocent children that make Haymitch determined that it will come to an end -- someday.


• Flower
A flower is a sign of spring, of color returning to the life of District 12. A flower is a sign that there are some things untouched by the Capitol. A sign that life goes on, even when it feels like it won't.

Flowers, sometimes, are even a literal symbol of life, when they grow on edible plants, an important sign for those dependent on scavenging whatever food they can find to supplement what little they earn. (Or they're in the arena and know not to trust what food is provided to them.)

A flower is even a sign of hope, because it shows that life goes on, and where there is life, there's something worth fighting for, if only one can be patient enough. For Haymitch, a flower is the one spot of peace in an otherwise pain- and anger-filled life.




🦋 Fae Court


List your top three choices for your characters adoptive court. The mods will choose the one out of those three options that seems the most fitting based on your app.

• Dawn


• Dusk


• Spring

Ability: Do you want your character to gain the ability of their court? (Delete the other two options.)
3) Yes, but they either have no ability of their own, or they refuse to trade theirs away; they will buy their court's ability on credit.



🦋 RP Samples


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