Riamond Rokossovsky [D13] {Finished}

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Name: Riamond Rokossovsky
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Age: 27
Gender: Male
Location: District 13
Native District[/b]: District 10

Appearance: Riamond is average in terms of his height and his weight. If anything, he's a little on the porky side. He stands at roughly 6'1, but looks smaller due to his hunched over appearance. His skin is white, not scarred but tired from the years he's lived, shown by early wrinkles around his eyes. His hair is dark and long, hanging over his forehead and ears in a tangled mess. His face is unshaven and ragged, his eyes a lost blue.

He can be found to wear the uniform of District 13, but with some modifications of his own. He wears a dark jacket over the usual grey jumpsuit, identified with the District Badge on his shoulder. In addition, he likes to walk around bare-footed as the cold metallic floors keep him calm and relaxed.

When he is alone in his room, he wears a black sleeveless vest with his grey jumpsuit bottoms. He constantly wears a chain around his neck, with a ring attached to it. His eyes look very tired in the evenings, a time where he is in a fragile state of mind. Despite being told frequently to do so, he never has a clean shave.

Personality: Riamond suffers from depression, a condition that isn't taken too seriously with other members of District 13. He prefers to be alone than in company, spending most of his time sleeping in his room, or obsessively working out. This seems to keep him occupied, but he is frequently thinking about his past. He struggles with moving on in his life, which is a major problem.

He also has a very short temper, his anger isn't usually a direct result of peoples actions but he is often tense, the smallest thing setting him off into a rage. He enjoys walking barefooted to keep him calm, a therapeutic technique he picked up in District 10. When calm, Riamond is very easy to talk to. His tone is hushed and he can be quite open, even humorous.

He has an intense fear of leaving District 13, it being the only place he feels safe and secure, as well as being somewhere he can leave the past behind. He will refuse to talk about his past to anyone, getting angry if it's brought up. District 10 is a distant memory to him, but it is still something he thinks about with pain every day of his life.

Riamond enjoys meditation from time to time, as well as playing his metallic pipe instrument. This all contributes to keeping his calm. He enjoys eating, more so than he does working out, which is why he is larger than he is muscular. He dislikes the outside and the Capitol, as well as a more irrational fear of domesticated animals - He doesn't trust them.

History: Born and raised in District 10, Riamond was a fairly well behaved child. He went to school with no issues, other than being just as disruptive as any teenager. He wasn't bullied, but always became wound-up easily, anger issues were present from a young age. He became increasingly angry during Reapings, especially his first Reaping. He refused to go outside, eventually his mother dragged him out.

This anger would peak every year at the Reaping, until he was eighteen, when he got through without his name being read out. Fortunately, after the ordeal was over his anger subdued. He was less prone to moments of rage and seemed more mature and settled. He soon found a job in the fields, working with people similar to him in that they no longer live in fear of the Reaping.

At twenty he met a woman named Cara, whom he fell in love with. They married at twenty two, and by the age of twenty three, Riamond was a father to a baby girl, named Tannia. It was apparent that with Riamond's parents passing, he could not support his family alone. Thus he turned to a loan shark, a man who went by the alias Hex. Hex provided the funds that Riamond needed to purchase a house and feed his wife and daughter. His wages were slim in the fields, Riamond payed Hex everything he owed him through his family inheritance.

Hex wanted more. He claimed an extra 25% interest on the initial investment. Riamond could not afford this, and faced the consequences of Hex's power. The loan shark threatened to take away Tannia if the money was not paid. Riamond offered his life in exchange for his family's welfare, Hex rejected this. With his family at risk, powerless Riamond was forced to take his family and flee.

They made it out of D10's boundaries, but Hex had powerful friends, Peacekeepers were soon on their trail. Riamond was not fast, but he was faster than his pregnant wife. She was captured. Unable to act, Riamond fled further with Tannia in his arms. He escaped the recons of D10, going off the radar. Travelling for months, surviving on whatever game he could catch with pitfall traps, he made it to a beacon of hope, the D13 ruins.

Tannia was frail, lacking her mother's breast milk, she had survived on mashed up leaves and berries, but it was not enough. Despite making it to a civilization he didn't know existed, Riamond was unable to keep his daughter alive. Distraught, he tried to flee, but the powers of District Thirteen restricted him from leaving. He was made a citizen.

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Comments/Other: Fin~.[/color]

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