Midas Farrow, District 2

Midas stands at about 6’1 and weighs about 180 lbs, giving him a large, burly build from helping out in the mines as well as training for the Games. His brown hair is so dark it almost appears black and matches the shade of his deep, brooding eyes. He keeps his hair trimmed very short due to the heat of the mines.

Being raised in the working class of his district, though he might still be considered by some to be an attractive guy, he’s acquired a lot of scars over the years along his arms and face between mine work and training with his extremely tough mentor. In fact, just last year, there was an incident where some gunpowder was ignited too close to his left eye, leaving a nasty scar and damaging his vision in that eye. While he was not blinded, he lost peripheral sight on his left and can no longer see very well out of that eye.

Midas comes across pretty quiet at first because he’s always been really shy. He’s never spoken much around people he doesn’t know, and in school, when he was younger, he would often get picked on for being “stupid”. As he got older and larger however, most of the teasing stopped, at least to his face. Now with his rough appearance, especially with his scars, most of his peers just steer clear of him. Once he’s befriended though, it can almost be hard to get him to shut up if he gets excited about something, which tends to happen often. He’s an all or nothing kind of guy; he’s either really passionate about something or completely indifferent.

Despite having such a burly and rough physique, Midas is actually a very loving guy. The reason he started training in the first place was so he could enter the games and win so that he could get his family out of the poverty that is the lower class of District 2. Though he may seem to be kind of a big teddy bear to his few friends, those who fear him have a right to. He’s fiercely loyal and anyone who threatens his friends or family… well lets just say he’s not afraid to get violent at that point.

Midas was very unfortunate at his time of birth. His parents had at one point been very wealthy, however shortly before Midas’ was born, his father lost almost all of their family’s fortune making a bad bet on a tribute in the Games. This forced both his parents to have to move to the slums of District 2 and work. Their pride gone and their marriage in shambles, the one thing that held them together was Midas.

The young boy, who loved his parents very much, didn’t understand why they were so miserable and argued all the time. His mother blamed his dad for losing all the money, and when he turned to drinking to ease the pain, he cost them even more and was nearly always on the verge of losing his job. Midas knew it would be up to him to take care of his broken family and was determined to give them the wonderful things he thought they deserved. The easiest way to do this would be to win the Games.

Between his home life and being teased at school, Midas didn’t have anyone to turn to until he was about 10 years old. Some of the bigger kids in his grade at the time (he hit his big growth spurt a bit later), were bullying him behind the school. That’s when Julian had found him. Julian, who was a grade younger and much smaller than Midas even, told off the other kids. Midas was shocked out how much spunk this little guy had, and even more surprised when the boys so larger than him actually listened and jetted off.

Julian helped him up with a bright smile on his face and introduced himself. When Midas didn’t respond, Julian continued talking anyway and led Midas to his house to help him get cleaned up. Midas’s eyes grew wide as he entered the beautiful victor’s village, the place he dreamed to someday live. Midas gasped, and Julian laughed. It dawned on Midas that Julian must be the boy born to two victors that everyone talked about at school.

For a while, Julian became Midas’s sort of body guard, and after a couple of month Midas got the courage up to ask Julian’s father Serge, a previous victor, to be his trainer for the games. Serge had been reluctant at first, but upon thinking about it and how Julian and Midas would never compete in the same games anyway, it couldn’t hurt. The two trained together and grew to be extremely close. Midas spent a lot of time with the Bryze’s partially to train and partially to escape his rough home life, but he still worked whenever he wasn’t training to help support his family.

At about 13, Midas finally had his growth spurt and grew far larger than Julian, becoming an ideal boy to become another victor for District 2. Julian is still very protective of Midas though, especially at school, but it’s funny seeing as Midas is just as much of a killing machine and almost twice the size of Julian these days.

In his history, Midas is closely tied to pthalorarity's character Julian Bryze. He helped me with the tie in, so there shouldn't be any conflicting information, but let me know.