Max Laveaux | District Eight {FIN} | Hunger Games: The RPG

Max Laveaux | District Eight {FIN} Sept 23, 2017 12:01:09 GMT -5

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Post by kap on Sept 23, 2017 12:01:09 GMT -5

Max Laveaux
District Eight
Eighteen
Male

I want to leap over buildings
Want to fly over the shores

Fear. Genuine fear was surging through my veins as I saw the man take down my dear mother. I wanted to fight but I wasn't sure what to do. In that moment, I was a coward, but I never would be again. This was the one thing in my life that triggered my spiral into being the practically fearless man I am now. If I hadn't had fear that day, I could have saved my mother, but no. I was too pathetically scared to fight back, and I know now that fear isn't worth it. You can't just back down from things and not stand up for yourself or others, yet still expect things to go your way. It's just not possible. That's not how things work. No one ever won the Hunger Games by wimping out. They had to fight, just like I should have fought my mother's attacker.

Save the people from the villains
Catch the crooks who rob the stores

At my mother's funeral, I met the girl I now call my true love. Her name is Melrose. She was just a friend for quite a while after, but come four years later, when I turned seventeen, we started dating. The murder of my maternal figure had occurred when I was thirteen years old, so she's been gone for a while now. Regardless, I still think about it quite often. I think about how scared I was, and how I didn't do anything when I could have. She was screaming for my help, and I didn't come to her side. I was absolutely frozen in terror when it all went down. Now, however, I keep my beloved girlfriend close, and protect her in the way I wish I would have protected my mother.

Write my name upon the sky
When you call me I’ll be there

Every day, I think of my mother, and I feel guilt. Melrose tries to help me not feel guilty, and she's the only one that can even come close to doing so. I'm brave nowadays, though. If someone is to tease me or another person I care about, I stand up and defend whomever is being harmed, whether it's physically or not. I don't just back away from these things anymore.

Faster then a lightning flash
Rushing through the cool night air

My vibrant red curls are from my mother, whereas I have the same light colored eyes and scruffy facial hair as my father. Dad always tells me that what happened to Mom couldn't have been prevented, but I ignore him. I know he's only saying that to try to make me feel better. Some days, I even wish I could join her. Melrose and the rest of my family, however, keep me going. Dad is extremely supportive of me, and they all love me beyond belief. My younger sisters are kind souls, but I worry for them, too. They're all old enough to be reaped nowadays, and if they were, there's nothing I could do about it.

Ohh, Ohh,
Start ignition, count to zero

I've always been considered a kind soul by my friends. They tell me that I'm good at caring for others, and that I don't back down when my friends are being targeted negatively. This is true, for sure. I don't like to give up, and I don't like seeing others hurt. I do, however, end up a bit reckless. I'll try to defend someone else and just end up getting myself hurt instead.

I just want to be a super hero
Ohh, Ohh,

Some days I wish I could go back in time. I want to go back and change things I've done in the past, and things that I didn't do, too. Regardless of what I want, though, I know it's not possible. At least I have my girlfriend, though. She helps me through the hard times. She helps me forget the things that plague me in my memories.

With fearless thoughts, emotions swirled
I want to be the man that saves the world, yeah

When I'm with the ones I love, I have quite a soft side. I'm not the hardened, courageous person that others usually see. Around those I care for, I'm more likely to cry, and less likely to hide my feelings. In public, however, I tend to keep a more blank expression. I don't always like when people know how I feel.

The world is full of super problems
So we made up a super man

Someday I hope that I can shield others better than I did with my mother. I want revenge on the man that killed her. Now my goal is to find him. I know his name, but I'm not going to hurt him. No, my revenge is showing him how much he hurt me. I can never get my mother back, and he needs to know how badly that effected me. He was never caught for his crime- never turned into an avox. He should have been, though.

But he is just imaginary
And here we stand, without a plan