Payton Prim District 8

Payton is about 5'6. She has a very pallid skin tone and rosy tints lighting up her cheeks. Her eyes are such a deep blue that they look violet and sometimes black when she is upset. Her lips are full and also rosy. She's very petite, she has small breasts and slim features and is nearly box-shaped. If it weren't for her long strawberry-blonde hair and he girlish wardrobe, she would be easily be mistaken for a young boy.

Shy to a fault, Payton finds it extremely difficult to meet new people. She spends most of her time being absorbed in her work. She like that things can distract her from subjects that she'd rather not think about. Once she gets to know someone she has a good sense of humor and is really quite sweet. Almost motherly.

Payton was actually born in the 12th district by the name of Elizabeth Crincle, but when her mother became pregnant with her third child, she decided to flee their district. Come time for the Hunger Games, the family of 5 snuck aboard the train headed for the capitol.

The family intended to get off in district one, to start living life easier. But upon arriving in district 8, the capitol's guards decided to search the baggage car that the family was hiding in. Elizabeth's mother panicked. She took Elizabeth and her brother, Kurt and pushed them out of the car before they could be seen.

Elizabeth was only 8 at this time, Kurt was only 13.

The two changed their names, Kurt changed his to Joseph after his father, and Elizabeth changed hers to Payton, keeping her real name close by as her middle name. For six months they dug food out of garbage cans and slept in dark alleys where they wouldn't be noticed.

One day, close to Joseph's 14th birthday, she was looking in the fields for something to bring to her brother. She wanted to bring him a large tuft of cotton so that he could use it as a pillow. As she was picking away at the cotton plants a large man approached her dressed in excellent clothing with a soft, wrinkled face.

He inquired exactly what she was doing in his fields and she fearfully explained that her brother's birthday was coming soon and since he had taken such good care of her she wanted to give him a gift of a pillow. She explained, also, that they had been living on the streets and that she had no money or anything to give to him in return for the cotton.

He stood looking at her tattered clothes and her bare feet, blue with the cold of the coming night. He told her to bring her brother to his home just three miles east of the place they were in and to expect to take a hot bath if she were to work for him. She returned the cotton to the man and ran with urgency to where she thought her brother was and explained the situation that she had put them in, tearfully.

Joseph was angry at first, but on the long walk over to the man's estate, they made up. When they arrived to a gorgeous manor, they knocked very lightly on the large oak doors. They were reluctant to enter at first, the land owner made them bathe in differing bathrooms and dress in new, crispy clothing. And he set them to work teaching Joseph to pick the good tufts of cotton, the ones with the least thorns. And he taught Payton to sew pillows.

At the end of the night, the land owner gave them each a pillow, a warm meal and a night's stay in his manor.

From that point, the man (the children came to know him as Hugo,) taught them to weave, and sew, and pick cotton with care. He fed them and clothed them and eventually named them his apprentices and eventually they became a sort of strange, adoptive family.

Now 24, Joseph has come to find out that his Mother had been avoxed and so had his little known baby brother who was avoxed at birth. His father had been killed. In fear of being found, Joseph packed up his bags and thanked Hugo for all of his kindness and set out to make sure that the records exist of he and his sister's death in district 12.

Payton stayed behind, kept ignorant about her brother's discovery. She is expected to take over Hugo's tailoring business when he passes. Payton fears that it will be soon, and Hugo fears that Payton will be intimidated by greedy land buyers after his death. Hugo fears that with out Joseph's strong presence she will sell the land and be left poor and monopolized by these corrupted people.

He knows that she needs someone to be a stone for her, someone to guard her from the ill intentions of others when she usually sees the utmost good in everyone. Hugo sets out to find this man for her, before he gets too sick and old to do it for himself.