Lorde Liberi - Capitol
Jan 6, 2024 20:21:03 GMT -5
Post by parsnip on Jan 6, 2024 20:21:03 GMT -5
Lorde Liberi
Documentary Extraordinaire
Documentary Extraordinaire
Lights
The Liberi family aren’t known for much in the Capitol, but as Saturn City started to develop as the media centre for Panem, Illus and Pavera Liberi decided it was time to enter the entertainment industry. Not in the way of shows or film, but by helping to facilitate the Games themselves. Working in the smallest jobs to start with, building their way up from cleaners to the very people who push the buttons on traps and triggers. But, what did this mean for young Lorde at the age of five? It meant that his first experience of the Hunger Games was first-hand. Seeing the tributes as nothing more than a flashing light on a screen until it flickered to a red buzz.
Camera
Lorde, as a youngster, was a creative visionary. He’d form stories out of paper toys at the kitchen table, and organise flower petals as arena pieces. He was the ultimate Hunger Games fan, all the way into his teens. But, it wasn’t his total focus as a child (thankfully). When his father passed away while Lorde was twelve, there were no songs and no dancing. In fact, there were no celebrations of his life in any which way. Lorde felt pain and grief naturally, but most of all he wanted everyone to hear just how special he dear dad was. There was no way to do it, though. He was just a little boy who’d lost his father. Though, eventually, he found a way. He sat himself before a camera and smiled briefly, pouring into it the love he held for his parents, and he spoke. From there, his first documentary was formed, “Gamemakers”, which aired on absolutely nobody’s screen. It sat in his drawer unreleased, out of fear of not coming across well. It was probably for the best, as it was a harsh first episode pilot detailing the unsung efforts of the real Gamemakers, those that press the buttons.
Action
Growing up into his late teens, Lorde was a pleasant and friendly face. He’d try his best never to get on the wrong side of people, and typically was above all of the drama. It didn’t stop him from unfortunately getting involved in the politics of media and press, however, causing him to get embroiled in various scandals, albeit entirely indirectly. He was often involved by proxy – present at the right parties but with the wrong people. His name wasn’t know very well by many, slipping under the radar, but those that did hear it would associate him wrongly with others. It would take a lot to remove that stain, but rather it would take even more to remove himself from the very people that seem to be the correct rung of ascension on the ladder of media success.
Fights
Removing himself from the insidious and manipulative groups that held him in contracts and policies seemed like an impossible task. Lorde decided it was time to take them on not just literally, but in the absolute legal sense. He’d saved up, hired expensive lawyers, and sat himself in front of the camera once again, just like he did for his father. This time, the exposé was targeted the very people that brought around his rise in the media industry, and got him various small-time roles within film and television. Not because they wronged him, and not because they made him look bad, but because they were terrible people. Only here was it revealed to the public that their ring of depravity ran far deeper than people had assumed. Exposed, guilty, and now imprisoned for their behaviour, the mad men finally pushed Lorde to release that first piece. The one he’d been fighting to release for months.
Et cetera
Now that he’s a grown man of the broader age of thirty-six, Lorde is a single occupier of an apartment in Saturn City. Noise-cancelling walls and many-glazed windows allow him to sit and create content in peace, but still he enjoys gallivanting into the Capitol main in search of new places to broaden his horizons. Hardened by the decisions he’s had to make in the past, Lorde is a resilient and stalwart figure in the Capitol, the kind that people should feel comfortable with their problems. His friendship circle is wide, his contacts are wider, and his family consists purely of his father, and his father alone, who still works within the Games as an operator. One day, he thinks, maybe he’ll recreate the documentary of the Unsung Gamemakers. When the time is right.
Reaction
He’s a tall and dapper chap these days, carrying himself usually wearing a suit or some kind of smart attire, and very often a briefcase of sorts containing all manner of requirements for the day. Appointments, transcripts, notes; Lorde is a stoic journal-keeper and ensures he has notes on everything. His features are a mixture of rugged and rich. He has a beard, or sometimes down to the moustache, yet he likes to keep a well-maintained and styled undercut hairstyle. Was it intentional? Likely. He wants to appeal to all parties, old and young, rich or poor, extravagant or understated.
Lights, Camera, Action
Looking ahead, Lorde plans on creating a documentary series on the thing he fell in love with as a child; The Hunger Games, to him, represents pageantry and grandiose extremities at their finest. He's made it his mission to know every detail, to interview as many people as he can, and to get the fullest perspective on the Games so that the people of Panem can fully enjoy them. Most of all, to highlight the workings of his father. If not directly, but to present the work of the Games and the Gamemakers across Panem for all to see. He doesn't see it as a tool of fear any longer, if at ever. Rather, he sees the Games as his vicarious legacy. Through each passing event, he believes he grows as a person.
Fights, Et cetera, Reaction
But, to what end? While he doesn't fancy himself as a martyr, Lorde wishes to establish his own legacy one day with the idea of never being forgotten. Like tape, he wants to survive generations so that his lessons can be passed down. If not physically, then in the form of a meticulously pre-recorded series of tapes to guide his descendants, whomever they may be. Until then, he is focused on securing an established media outlet to present his documentary series from, and as far across Panem as he can reach.
