Phenakite Shore | One | fin.

Phenakite has bleached blonde hair that reaches well past her shoulders. The hair is wavy and smooth, very fine to the touch. She likes to curl her hair and wash it with pretty smelling shampoos and hair mists. She likes to tease her hair to make it big and pretty. Phenakite has an angled jaw that seems a little low for her face. Her lips are wide and full, but the bottom lip is thicker than the top lip. Her nose is thin and long, but somewhat pointed and the tip points down. The bridge of her nose is very defined, seeming like two harsh straight lines. Her eyebrows are darker than her root color of sandy blonde and are neatly plucked. The color of her eyes is in the medium between brown and green, giving them a somewhat amber appearance. Her eyes are open and let in a lot of light to her eyes. Phenakite’s eyelashes are very long and dark.

Somewhat tall for her age, Phenakite is five foot eight and is lean. She’s trained with agility and the occasional hand-to-hand combat, giving her a runner’s build and a lean stomach. Her arms and legs are freckled with the occasional scar. Her legs are long and toned from running so much. Phenakite tends to walk with an air of arrogance and poise, somewhat like a princess who knows she’s better than her subjects. She loves the color pink and is always decked out with the prettiest clothes because glamour is very important to her. She knows how to apply makeup and is good with a sense of style. Her voice is always very nasally and seems to go higher as she speaks.

[ personality ]

Phenakite often comes off as the spoiled career who always wants everything to go her way. She’s greedy and selfish to other people by forcing them to go along with her plans. If they refuse she will keep on nagging, coming across as abrasive so she pushes a lot of people away. God forbid someone mentions it to her, she’ll bite their heads off. Phena, as she likes to be called, is also very gossipy and knows most secrets of her classmates and District One from traded information. She’s not very trustworthy, so don’t tell her anything you wouldn’t want your entire District knowing. Phena is a determined career, but as you might have guessed, her pampered existence makes training hard. She will be going into the Games, it’s even written on her headboard.

With friends, Phena may even act even more detached from the social norms. Feeling more relaxed, she will tell her friends the brutal truth and as one might see, this often puts up a barrier between her friends. As a teenage girl, she’s made her way into a group of friends and tends to be a bit over-emotional around them. She can be a bit of a diva and always needs the spotlight, so she doesn’t often like being ignored. She’ll often make excuses for her actions by saying “You deserved to know what they were saying!” even when she knows she was out to cause drama.

Being spoiled and selfish often pushes people away because she’s so self-involved and loves everything about herself. She hardly ever thinks about anything but herself, so she never really makes any true friends who will really care for her. Phena is often in a follower mentality, needing the stability of a group to feel comfortable. However, this might prove more difficult for someone so abrasive and somewhat rude. Her gossip seems to make her quite a few enemies so she doesn’t really pay attention that as long as people don’t say anything. She’s still popular because people always want to know the truth, and Phena is a person who has it. She’s also played into the delusion that it would be easy for her to become a victor and she wouldn’t die if she played the Games. She expects everything in the world to come easy to her.

The Shore family had always been a model of excellence and set a standard for other citizens of Panem. The leaders of the family, Tiberius and Rose, had raised their children with morals and planted the ideas that formed their family. The Shore girls were perfectly molded by their parents, believing the stories that the Capitol was good and the rebels had to be rightfully punished. Rose and Tiberius had told them another lie that so many other children in District One believed in; that they were needed for The Hunger Games to punish the other Districts. Victory marked you for life as a hero and gave your family pride. Phenakite believed just as her twin sister had. In her heart, she swore from the moment she understood the words that she would be a victor.

As she grew, unlike her sisters who trained relentlessly every day of their lives, Phena believed that she was already fit for the Games and didn’t need to train for the Hunger Games. Instead, she bathed in her family’s riches. She enjoyed the company of expensive jewels and clothes. Phenakite was a District One girl and it showed as she grew into the pampered girl she is now. Her family was wealthier than many of District One, but she was never really sure where this money came from. Honestly, she didn’t care very much as long as it was there. She became bossy and ordered around her siblings and servants to do her bidding. Phena had become very skilled in getting her way, and she would do anything to advance her goals.

By age twelve, she had learned how much she wanted to win the Games and that perhaps she did need to improve on her natural talents. So she reserved herself to training twice a week. It was then that she realized that she loved hearing other peoples’ secrets and how fun it was to share them. She forced her way into the social scene at school and became one of the most popular girls at school, but she probably has twice as many enemies as she had friends.

Now, she’s seventeen and she’s sure that come the 61st Games she will be a tribute-turned-victor bathed in even more riches. So far, not much has happened in her life, but there will be blood if she has her way.