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argentum pretiosum || district one || fin Aug 31, 2016 19:29:35 GMT -5

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Post by lance on Aug 31, 2016 19:29:35 GMT -5

because let's be honest I need another set of twins

argentum, boy of silver
seventeen years old
male
district one
vince kowalski
career, twin, quiet and reserved, empathetic, introverted, competitive af
one half of a joined whole

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lance
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argentum pretiosum || district one || fin Sept 1, 2016 4:08:30 GMT -5

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Post by lance on Sept 1, 2016 4:08:30 GMT -5

From the beginning, you were one.

Though medical scans, science, and the eyes of everyone around you suggested otherwise, in your minds, the fact was clear as day.

You emerged into the world, first your brother, then you, scant minutes apart from one another. Even then, there was little that could separate you. Your parents mention how the two of you would often sleep locked up in the embrace of the other, as if even one minute apart was unbearable. Your sister speaks of memories in fond retrospect of you and your brother as little kids, hand in hand and wreaking havoc together with the force of a small cyclone. Your peers noted how, despite your differences, when you were together, it was nearly impossible to tell you apart, not only from your identical mugs and tendency to share clothing, but for your startling likeness as well.

Your sister had once commented that you and Aurum were like one soul that inhabited two separate bodies, and both of you had to agree that that was pretty damn accurate.

Yes, physically you were two, but that was where the divide ended. There was no separate Aurum and no separate Argentum, but Aurum and Argentum, for one never did anything or went anywhere without the other.

Yes, physically you were two, but you were two halves of a whole, close even for twins. There was an unspoken bond connecting you to the other, one full of love and compassion and a certain wholeness, a feeling of completeness that only existed when in the proximity of the other.

Yes, physically you were two, but spiritually, you were one, two sides of the same coin even as you grew from childhood to your teenage years, two edges to the same sword even as your personalities diverged, two hosts to the same soul, as your sister had put it, even as the years piled on and the two of you gradually grew independent.

Even today, at seventeen years of age, you are still closer to each other than anyone else in the world.

With the theory of a shared soul comes several key differences that have made themselves clear as you and your brother grew older. Most notable was the personality split - Though you were both sociable around friends, you were easily more cautious and reserved than your outgoing brother. When you did take risks, they were carefully thought out with much calculation and patience, and they occurred at a significantly lower rate than they did for Aurum. You were rather introverted and shy, at least in comparison, and it was often your brother that did the talking between the two of you.

Yet with the difference of two separate bodies come similarities unchanged by the passage of time. Born identical, you have long since gotten used to seeing the same youthful face that mirrors have proven you own, seeing the same light brown hair that bleaches in sunlight, seeing the same soft pools of aqua blue that adorn your own eyes on him as well. You still continue your childhood habit of sharing your clothes - both for its efficiency and the burden it keeps off of the financial budget, as well as for the occasional prank and to keep everyone on their toes as to which twin is really which. Both of you share the same passion for many things, including fun in several different forms, girls, boys, and Career Training.

Ah, the Career training. The local Career academy was easily one of your favorite places to be, even if it was initially a struggle to convince your parents to allow you and Aurum to take part.

Your parents were co-owners of one of the luxury soap factories that populated your home, and like many family businesses, needed an heir, or heirs, as luck may have it. That distinction had originally gone to your older sister, Metalla, but when she partook in seven years of Career training only to not enter the games and gave up the family business in favor of becoming the head of a local Career academy, it had made the thought of you and your brother engaging in your own training somewhat less appealing. Only when Metalla had explained that training meant a higher success rate in escaping the Games alive, and then further explained that one twin would not be a suitable heir to their business if the other fell in the Games when they argued that there were two of you, they relented.

Your parents were loving and caring to both of you, but neither of them had been Careers themselves, and as such had not understood just exactly why you needed it. Yet in the end, they relented, allowing both you and Aurum to begin the long path to Careerdom.

You were trained by none other than Metalla herself. More than a decade your senior, her final reaping had been the year Opal Earnest, then Opal Shore, had claimed victory, and ever since had dedicated herself to training new recruits to add to the list of victors from One. Adding you and your brother to her list of recruits was something all three of you enjoyed - she was one of the closest people in both your lives aside from each other - and she trained you to the extent of her ability, pushing you two to your limits in your training.

It was here that you two discovered your competitive natures. Though they had always existed in the backgrounds of your personalities, occasionally coming to the surface in friendly games, nothing brought it out like your training did. Each day, you and your brother would engage in competition, sometimes friendly, sometimes deadly serious, when it came to training, Your stances had to be perfect, your reflexes quick and fluid, your accuracy on point.

Maybe it was just a friendly competition. Maybe it was the thought that, by being unable to keep up with the other, you wouldn't be as ready in case the Games did come knocking on your door.

Maybe it was the underlying fear that, if you couldn't keep your skills sharp enough to benefit not only you but your brother, then you would have a larger chance of falling when it came time to enter the death games themselves, and therefore leaving him - or having him leave you - behind.

For now, though, those fears are off in the distant future, not worthy of acknowledgement in the present day. Though you both may be seventeen and approaching your final Reapings, respectively, the thought of volunteering has been ever present on your mind. After all, it's not like a chance at a Pretiosum back to back victory would be impossible, per say; your last two victors had been your age and a year younger at the time of their victories, respectively, and if one of you volunteered this year, then such a thought was possible.

It's a risk that will require a lot of time and thought, however, for one thing is certain. You and Aurum have always operated as a team, as a duo, and if one or the other of you decides to volunteer, it'll have to be with the complete confidence of both that you'll be able to come back alive.

After all, a whole unit cannot work with one half missing.

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lance Librarian 3,638 POSTS Pronouns: He/Him/His last seen May 22, 2024 21:09:06 GMT -5 gay and chaotic? call it gayos	argentum pretiosum \|\| district one \|\| fin Sept 1, 2016 4:10:04 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by lance on Sept 1, 2016 4:10:04 GMT -5 and so is this one
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d10f ekta ram // [earthling] Administrator 9,466 POSTS Pronouns: She/Her last seen May 22, 2024 12:58:11 GMT -5 cameron stood in line for an hour for a stupid ride for me <3 best <3	argentum pretiosum \|\| district one \|\| fin Sept 5, 2016 15:57:52 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by d10f ekta ram // [earthling] on Sept 5, 2016 15:57:52 GMT -5 Silver and gold... can we serenade them with Christmas tunes pretty please? <3 ACCEPTED!
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