Rikki "The Wave" Tiber D4 FIN

My name is Rikki Tiber, but most people just call me "The Wave" or just Wave. I'm from District 4, your A-typical muscle head from a Career district. Oh, I forgot to mention why people call me Wave, it has to do with the fact that I'm almost always surfing. I don't have a regular job or anything, my family is well off, and we have a good relationship. We don't want for much. So I fill up all my time with surfing, being out in the water, or even just sitting on the beach. The sound of the water soothes me and quiets a very anxious mind. I'm obsessed with the Games, obsessed with training and getting better, I want to make my family and the district proud.

That's why when I look in the mirror I see someone who's still too weak, someone who wouldn't last a minute on the battlefield. Although I'm very muscular, I suffer from anorexia and bolemia so it's difficult for the muscular build on me to be bulky. It's something I'm trying to work on, but that's for a different time. I'm limber and strong, my lightweight frame makes fighting easy for me, but still clocking in at only 110lbs isn't the best thing for someone who's almost 5'8". Damn I really need to start gaining weight. Despite that though, my abs are still toned and there is a visible muscle structure on me.

My clothes are almost always short shorts and a bikini top when I'm not swimming or surfing. I like to be free, feel the sea breeze against my skin, let the salty air surround me and lift me higher and higher into the realm of happiness. My skin is almost always tanned as a result of this, so I don't think I would ever be able to survive in any other element other than this one. A dangerous thing for the Games considering I don't think they would cater to my needs by building an arena just for me, the thought of that even makes me laugh. My eyes are a dark brown, odd considering all the blue eyed people you see around the district. I want ocean colored eyes.

Let's talk personality now...right off the bat I'm shy, I'm not comfortable around people. Ironic considering I want to be in the Games and train with them on a regular basis. They scare me though, not for any particular trauma or anything that happened in my life, it has more to do with the fact that they're so...unknown and random. There is no set way a person has to act or look or anything, it's because of that they scare me. On top of that I have severe arachnophobia, you don't find a lot of normal spiders around here, you get these huge scary looking things that are like as big as my hand, I think it's the tropical stuff around us.

I'm a spoiled brat too, I'll be the first to admit it. Whatever I want my parents are more than happy to supply me with whatever it is. My room is huge and the walls are lined with surf boards and spears and gauntlets, all courtesy of my parents because I'm an entitled girl that just has to make a sad face for my parents to buy me things. I mean there is a certain amount of entitlement to living in a Career district that is fairly wealthy, and some of us don't get to live forever. I mean who knows I could get reaped in the next Games or the Games after that and I would probably end up the dead one who never enjoyed anything.

That is also in connection with the fact that I like to party, do anything that is considered fun, live my life the way I want to live it. The few friends that I have LOVE when I tell them I'm hosting a party or planning some wicked awesome place to jump off the rocks and into the water. I guess you could call me a daredevil as well, I like to take risks, which is completely out of character for me, but it's something I love. The adrenaline rush that pumps through me when I am preparing to jump or perform a stunt, the heart stopping speed that comes as you rush off the edge into the water.

History, history...it belongs in a book, it really does. History implies something is outdated and old, and I'm anything but. I'm young, with plenty of more years ahead of me, write of my history after I die, write of my history when I'm in the Games, but really, at 18 years of age how much history can I have. I'll try my best to put my short history into this though, see if I can make it up to the level that you'll accept. If you can't tell that I'm being sarcastic here than you need some help, but seriously, how much do you want out of me?

Okay, so I was born just like everyone else, and I have a really good relationship with my parents. We're part of the upper class, and for as long as I remember I've been able to reap the benefits of the status that we live in. I don't want for much, if anything at all, and I was the model Career. Athletic, muscular, extremely fit, even when I was little it seemed my build was just too perfect for what it meant to be a Career. That's another thing I took advantage of, how easily I was able to get muscle growth, but there was a downside to it, something I had to watch out for.

I run out of energy too quickly if I exert myself too much, it's a muscular disorder that I have to deal with. It doesn't always affect me as much at some points as it does others, but there are times when I wake up in the morning and have to stay in, I will admit it. I think that's one of the biggest secrets I keep, and my family does it's best to make sure that my secret is kept. Saying I was up late training or practicing my surfing is the perfect excuse to get people to stop asking questions. When I just have the days when I walk around and do nothing though, when I'm with my friends, I'm fine, I can brush it off pretty easily and get us to rest every now and again.

It was worse when I was younger though, I didn't understand why someone like me who had everything, had to have this that seemed to take away everything. As I grew older though I came to realize that it wasn't a detriment it was, in it's own way, a blessing. It made me train harder, fight harder, work harder and become a better person. Well in most ways, I stayed a spoiled brat throughout all the years, but to me it seemed only natural to be that way. It's not like my folks did anything to stop me or make me be any other way. They just continued to give me everything.

That's why I started surfing in the first place, I asked my mom and dad to give me the ocean and to solve this request they gave me a surf board to conquer the waves and the waters with. That's how my relationship with the water grew, how I came to love the waves, the water, the creatures. I wanted to be its conqueror, I wanted to be its queen, I wanted to be the crown jewel of District 4.

codeword: Odair