Elise Krane | District 11 | FIN

Another poor soul born in the wrong land, District Eleven isn’t that known for bringing up academics but it seems Elise is one of those anomalies. ”You can’t use that knowledge here, what is the point in learning it?” But doesn’t stop her, knowledge can come with power and power can get people anywhere, even if they live in the grot of District Eleven. There may not be a time for her now to use her brain but that time is fast approaching on the horizon. Elise is only young, she has the whole of her life ahead of her and that time that she has, means she has plenty of opportunities to learn more.

Wanting to fit in with the somewhat ‘cool wealthy teenage crowd’ of Eleven, Elise sought out rather experimental ways to get her appearance up to their standards. Creating her own clothes with left over material, her style is something that gets her noticed & makes her stand out of the dismal dull masses of poverty. Although so far she has only been able to string together five different outfits so conjures up ideas on how to make them look different each time she wears them. Her particular favourite is a wool linen jacket, which suffices well in winter when tackling the brisk chill.

Blue eyes, the colour inherited from both parents, although her blue is slightly more prominent than theirs. A much more deeper and darker shade. Brown hair falls past her breast, the common colour in the crowd of matched individuals; she has yet found an intelligent way to change her hair colour although it doesn’t stop her from searching. She is what is considered a ‘regular height’ for her age although her skeletal structure is rather protruding, due to the lack of food that finds itself on the table in front of her however she has never been self-conscious of what is hidden beneath her clothes, rather focusing on her face.

The war of adolescence however, has marched its armies across her face. Large pimples regularly show up, revealing their horrific selves when Elise looks at herself in the mirror during the early hours of the day. Despite not having a coating of acne across her face, a single large pulsating beast does enough to deter her from venturing outside, unless she bursts its insides onto the face of the mirror, making it less identifiable. There are times where one does not show up for a long while and Elise waits in agony, knowing the longer they take to arrive, the larger they’re likely to be.

Too clever for her own good. Forever Elise has had her head stuck in books, sucking every single detail out of them, be it fiction or non-fiction, she will read it. Sometimes she takes interests in bizarre subjects, wanting to be knowledgeable in a wide range of topics however sometimes she disposes of these ideas as they grow boring. Knowing the mechanical structure of a train isn’t as exciting as knowing the anatomy of a human being. Forever she has had an ambition of being a medic although that opportunity as never leaped into her reach so she’ll forever remain practicing the field theoretically. Or whenever her brother grazes his knees…

Determination can sometimes be something that drags her down, her parents are always complaining that she is too stubborn. Forever people have told her to forget about her studying and focus on earning a living but that isn’t her dream. She wants to have the choice of what she does in her own life and won’t step down from an idea if she is told too. The only time she will give into something is when she decides to herself. Elise tries her hardest to cut the dictating strings that society has attached to her. Just because she is from a poorer District, doesn’t mean she can’t be successful.

Due to not having many people believe in her ambitions, Elise has had to become very independent with her progresses in the world. Nobody there to encourage her, or help her when she falls, she has to sought ways to pick herself up from the ground herself. Although there is a strong yearning of help inside of her that is calling out silently, waiting to turn up the volume when the right person comes along.

Courage is something that she believes will help her succeed; it’s as if she is the heroine in her own fairy tale, ready to conquer the world with her own means. She may be small but she has a loud voice and is waiting for the right time to use it. But for now, she must just continue learning on her own accord.

With the ambitions of being a medic, Elise is very much a people’s person, when someone is kind to her she is always happy to return that gratitude. Joyous in her nature, whenever she sees a frowning face she uses all her means to flip it the other way round. A sad world is not what she dreams of.

The eldest of a farm worker and gardener, Elise was blessed with a steady life, it may not have been the most fruitful but she made the best of it. Loving her younger brother since the day he was born, she was forever playing with him for a long time. Many times they spent exploring the fields of the District, playing adventure games with their friends in their early years. Sometimes they would be out until the sun set, only usually returning home for their evening meals and beds and as soon as the sun woke them up in the morning, they’d be off to use every last drop of daylight in their little games.

As soon as Elise started to get schooling, she was transfixed with all the knowledge that she could get her hands on, from the history of Panem that she lives in to the little details of learning to write, she very much enjoyed the schooling environment. When her brother began to learn, she would always help him afterwards but he was never as interested, he just wanted to go out to play. When time went out and Elise aged, the days she spent outside with her brother deteriorated as she had her mind lost in learning. Quickly her brother began to lose interest in their bond, he finally broke it forever when she began to ignore his pleas to come out and play.

Elise isn't blind to the real world despite sometimes being lost in imagination of the fairy tales that she has read so many times before bed. The games is a threat that leans over her, already knowing about the devastating results that it casts on the world. Unfortunately her family were unable to escape from the terror or Panem's reality, having their own reaped into the games. Elise didn't know Levi very well but seeing a cousin taken in such a way made her fear it even more.

When Elise and her brother aged, the tension between their perfectly calm parents began to grow. She always thought they were only together because of her and her brother, they seemed to despise each other. Elise never saw them together alone, the only time she ever did was when they were sat around the dinner table and well the short contact during the meal wasn’t really helping their relationship much either. Elise loved both of them but knew that them both being together was forced and that they’d be better separated but she kept that opinion to herself, knowing if she ever spoke up, a row with devastating effects would likely unfold.

Knowing that she’d at least need to bring some income into the house while studying, Elise decided to take up a job at a florist, which is how she found herself in the crowd of friends that she tries too impress. The owner’s daughter, a stuck up popular brat but someone that Elise idolised. She has a following of friends and boyfriend and Elise wanted to become friends with her, just so she’d be noticed. Elise had heard rumours of her being A delusional nerd, who belongs in the detention centre and she wanted to rid of that rumour and so befriending a popular girl seemed to only possible way. Trying to fit into a crowd that was the complete opposite to her beliefs, she is unbeknownst to the teasing that happens behind her back.

She just wants to fit into the right world and maybe tweak it to her own tastes. She’s just a girl born with a mind not suited to her surroundings.