Mason Redwood D2 finished.

What is this, some sort of bio you're doing on me. Oh, I guess it is. Okay, first thing I guess you'll need is what I look like won't you. Well I'll start with my hair. I have black hair thats short and often, I stick it up in spikes with hair gel from the capitol. Don't ask me why. I like it that way. Do you have a problem with that? I didn't think so. My eyes are light green, like the trees that grow atop the nut. My eyes are small and somewhat beady with a malicious look to them. My nose is somewhat crooked from being broken a few times but never being set back into place properly. I remember it before it was like that though. It was straight and quite large. I'll admit, I'm growing a little bit of stubble around my mouth. You got a problem with that? My mouth, oh my mouth could make most girls drool. Its almost always set in a cocky smile which most girls go nuts over.

My face is relatively square shaped with a very angular chin and cheekbones. Overall, I look quite mean. I like it that way because, well I am mean and if anyone has a problem with it, they can come talk to me.

As a career, I've been training for the games my whole life so I have a pretty nice body. My arms are long and are quite well muscled. The skin on them is tanned from working outside while training. My mid-section is hard as a rock with a six pack of abs from all the hard core preparations we do. My legs are quite hairy but I really don't care because thats just how I am. Got a problem with it?

As you can tell, I'm a mean kid. I pick on the younger kids and I steal other guys' girls. I'm a bad boy with a charming smile. I love to fightand train with other students, although I don't like to fight with girls, I just don't think thats right. Don't judge me, my mama taught me to never hurt a girl. I will, however, steal them from other guys especially if I don't think they deserve that girl or she deserves to be treated better than he's treating her.

I don't admit this often, but I'm very afraid that my dads going to come back and hurt my mom and I. I'll tell you more about that later however. When it comes to trust, I have little of anyone other than my best friend, Anita Whitehaven, whom I can tell anything and she won't judge me. To be honest, I've had a crush on her for ages but I haven't told her that yet. She helps to keep me calm when I feel like fighting and she's the pacifist during training. I would die if anything happened to her.

One of my many talents is my ability with almost any weapon. I can usually pick up a weapon and after a short time, have mastered it. The only weapon I can't seam to get is the bow and arrows. They just don't go for me. Another of my skills is that I have excellent vision, no one can sneak past me even when there is little light.

We Redwoods have a long history of violence and aggression. My dad is a prime example of that. I remember when I was younger often coming home to find my dad drunk and fighting with my mom. A few times he even beat her. I stood up to him once and he beat me for it. I will never forget that day. I was 12 at the time and I had just started at the academy. I came home one night and I found my mother cowering on the floor as my father screamed at her and beat her. I couldn't take it any more so I stepped in front of my mother and yelled back at him. For a moment, he just stood there, stunned, then he exploded. He kicked me and punched me and screamed at me. I cried for the first time in my life during that time because I was so scared. My mom finally came to my rescue and told him to pack his things and never come back. He left us soon after that. I have never stopped hating him for what he did to us.

Before this episode, things in our house were tense. My dad would often come home late from working and would usually come home drunk. He was not a pleasant drunk, I can tell you that for sure. I soon became scared to come home because I was terrified that my father would be there and that he would be in a drunken rage. That was also when I started getting into trouble. You see, I never used to be a bad kid, I just had a few hard things happen in my life. All that changed though, when I met Anita. She was a career like me but she was unlike anyone I had ever met. She had compassion, grace, sensitivity, and she was caring. She made it possible for me to get back on track with my life and to forget what had happened with my father. I will never be able to thank her enough for how she saved me.

You are probably wondering by now, what happened to my mother. When I was 15, she met another man named Jason and they started dating. About a year later, they got married. I like Jason much better than I do my dad. For me, he has become the dad I never had, something I think I needed in my life. He is a bit strict, but he is much more loving than my father. He has saved my mother and has stitched back together our family. You see, I may be cocky and mean and nasty but now that you know my history you'll understand why I'm like this.

I may be tough, but I have a much softer side that few people except my mother and Anita have ever seen.