Hades Birch [D2]

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"Hi there! My name's Hades Birch, I'm a fifteen year old boy and I live in Panem and I am from District two.

{A P P E A R A N C E}

Right from the get go you can see the hard work etched across Hades' body, it screams of hard work and correct treatment. Hades has a pretty strong build at first sight. The career training he goes through really shows, he isn't very big and strong but he has a broad stocky build like most careers. From all the time he's wielded heavy weapons and the times he can train like most careers, living in District two does have it's perks. One is the food you can consume, and the food he can eat means he can have a decent diet and a decent diet means he has the build he likes and most careers have. He isn't pale but he isn't tanned either because he isn't always outside like some of the lower districts are. However he isn't so fussed about this. He stands at 5'7 so just about average height for a fifteen year old.

Along with the strong body he has long dark brown hair that's very straight but also quite girly at times. It goes up to the top of his neck (way longer than most boys would like) and he only cuts it when people tease him enough about his masculinity and about having 'pissy girl hair' and reluctantly gets one of his family members to cut it for him, however he never cuts it really short, he just prefers long hair. His hair is rarely ever scruffy, because of his constant need to look good and impress people it's always well groomed and well looked after, never falling out in clumps or scruffy, presentable and well received because most of the things he does is to have people think highly of him.

He has clear hazel eyes and white teeth. He doesn't eat any sweets because the careers don't want him to get fat so with no sweets his teeth can't really get rotten. He has thin, pink lips. Since he's about in the middle of puberty there are signs, a cracked voice and a few signs of pimples on his face (that he is trying very hard to get rid of) and some hair growing on his arms a lot of leg hair which he refuses to trim or shave, that's where he draws the line. A stubble of arm pit hair is also starting to appear.

One of the things Hades prides himself on is skill and strength when it comes to fighting. As said before he is built like an athlete, he is strong from all the career training and can lift some heavy things from all the training he's been doing. Although he doesn't get into street fights often he would be pretty good at it, his strength isn't overwhelming but physically stronger than most untrained kids.

{P E R S O N A L I T Y}

His personality screams try hard once you get to know him. He just thinks everyone wants to and as a result of this rarely ever expresses how he is truly feeling because he is always trying to prove himself and act how people think will like him. This leads to him seeming like a try hard -which he is- which really annoys his older brother Terry Birch. However Hades just feels like he needs to make his family proud, he feels like he needs to make everyone proud and he feels like he needs to make everyone like him because he wants to be the best.

Him and his brother clash some times, their personalities and attitudes are very different. Terry is loving who still loves Hades and doesn't enjoy being a Birch but for Hades being a Birch was the best thing that ever happened to him. Hades believes that because he's a Birch and they're his family it's his obligation to be the best he can be, it's his obligation to do what they want and then they'll like him, as if it's his obligation to be the very best. This annoys his brother but they still do love each other very much, despite Terry trying to rid Hades of this attitude.

Despite being a career Hades isn't arrogant or entirely sadistic like a lot of them are. He doesn't try to be the big tough guy or the playground bully, he trains hard like anyone else, no he trains harder than anyone else. In his eyes when he trains is a desire to win, even stronger than that is a desire to impress as well. He became a career so his father could be proud, so his whole family could be proud, he trains so hard because he knows there is a chance that one day he could be great, he doesn't care what people think about his family, he will change that if he must.

Everything Hades does is to impress, everything he does ,in his mind, brings him one step closer to being the best. Which also brings on his fascination with magic and the other cool things such as that. He knows quite a few 'magic tricks' he usually preforms them to make people laugh. Simple 'is this your card' or 'my coin in your ear' kind of thing. He's still a very basic beginner at this but like everything else he strives to be the best at it.

At first Hades believe he had no purpose in life, he was adopted but he had no idea what to do with his life. And then it hit him, he couldn't just wait for a purpose, he had to make one and that's exactly what he did. He gave himself the purpose to be all popular, and be the best. Whenever he is upset at someone he doesn't usually tell them, not because he's afraid, but because he wants people to like him, and to get people to like him he has to be the best. So he has made that link and pursues the goal even now despite the obvious disapproval from Terry.

{H I S T O R Y}

Drugs destroys many families in Panem. And Hades is one of the prime examples of drugs and alcohol destroying families, he wasn't always a Birch, he had been born to one of the few families in Distict 2 that never had much begin with. Hades wasn't a planned baby but it wasn't as if his parents could have an abortion, they never would've been able to afford it after all. So they ended up having him but they were far from fit parents, he should've been taken away right from the get to but this is Panem we're talking about. It took a while for Hades to go.

His mother drank herself to death, her liver failed one day and she was just dead, leaving his father who didn't really give a fuck anyway. He barely payed attention to their toddler child, and for years Hades had to go through this, a father who was involved in a drug scene and just never seemed to care much about their child, Hades just about got the food he needed and it was horrible; to this day Hades doesn't remember, he was really young. Around three years old. He spent three years living like this, three whole years of his toddler life with that guy.

However, one day fate smiled on him, his father was killed in a fight, his skull crushed by a huge 7 foot man and Hades was free! He was free, he was taken into a home, he was taken into care as a three year old and spent only one year in a home. Hades barely remembers much of his time in the home, and it seemed luck was on his side once again. Once again fate smiled on him because one day he was taken away from that home and into the Birch home, with only a father and a brother but it was still so much better, the four year old Hades could finally grow up in an environment where he could enjoy life, grow up like any normal child should.

As he grew older he grew more grateful, although he didn't remember much of his early life it didn't mean he wasn't aware of it. He knew he would've turned out horrible if he hadn't been adopted. He didn't care what people thought of Birch's or what his brother thought about them. He felt like he had no purpose in life but he wanted to find a purpose in life. But then he realized, he realized what his purpose should be, a purpose that never ended. He wanted to be the best. He wanted to overcome any of the scorn his family got in life; he wanted to make everyone proud, his district, his family, everyone. And there was only one way he could do that. The only way he could do that was to be the best.

And to this day that goal is still pursued.