Nero 'Scarred' Banks ;; District 2

The once adorable face that was birthed on Nero has been diminished by the countless knife training accidents he was punished for brutally. Glossy black hairs mops around his head and almost hides his eyes away from the rest of society. His eye color is unknown due to the fact no one dare look at his face. The intimidation that runs through Nero's air literally strangles one's self confidence. Being a Career, it is only natural that he is tall and unbelievably strong.

After growing up to be seen as not only lanky, but extremely pale, his trainers all suggested that he be immediately fixed, in order to insure that he not only attracts the audience, but wins the Games in style. From there, he was taken into the District’s hospital, where he was transfixed into bronze skinned muscular 12 year old boy. The next two years of his life, after disgracefully backing away from his volunteering opportunities out of any pre teens fear, he was taken into training, where immediate change began to take place. He dyed his light brown hair to dead black and enhanced his appearance in every way.

Personality. Funny that one would ask; if only he had one. His training sessions have made him brain dead and have given him every influence over his physique rather than any sort of human emotion at all. No, the Capitol did not kidnap him and make him a robot and no, he didn’t witness any tragedies at all. The happy go lucky kid he once was before he turned 12 died long ago, and thus ‘Scarred’ was born. He’s not very anti social, surprisingly. Though he stays completely silent when standing behind a couple of people conversing, usually waiting for them to get out of his way. He’s very approachable, if you consider 7 minutes of awkward silence something of a good trait.

From what could be recorded, he hasn’t even said more than 2 words since his training began and the deadly intimidated approach took him over, driving him to a monstrosity that could either looked down upon by those with decent morality or worshipped by the very people who glue their eyes to the television, watching the delicious notoriety referred to that of ‘The Hunger Games’. Strictly speaking, a Career.

Nero was named after a former District 2 Career tribute, Nero Coburn, who had come in a close second during his Games. Clearly satisfied with his namesake, the young boy began practicing knife throwing, at times pretending he was the the tribute himself, lodging yet another fascinating result of his techniques into the enemy’s throat. It was there, at that moment he was playfully pretending to be his idol, that his parents began plotting out his life, already looking into appropriate trainers and when he should begin. From hand to hand combat to knife throwing itself, his body suffered much indeed. His face slashed, his skin sliced, and his hands diced with what looks like a check board of blood and scars.

After successfully walking away victorious from a challenge of another Career. A Career, who in fact, looked more like a mutt rather than a human. Feared by the District and his trainers as well, every thought he was unstoppable. Well, at least until Nero showed up. And the rest is pretty much self-explanatory. As he limped away, letting no words leak out like the blood emitting from his face, he stopped and silence overwhelmed the local audience. His heavy breathing washing over the crowd like an archer’s ambush strike, he pumped up his fist in the air, his chipped nails digging into his palm, drawing blood for all to see.

From that moment on, he was something District 2 was proud of. Just another successful experiment. That’s all he was. He may never know it, but it was his true fate after all. But raised in a country where murder was relative, born in a District where loss was impossible and victory was everything, and surrounded by hundreds of misled souls, cheering you on, respecting you only for what you were created to be. Only the perfected are respected here. A philosophy that surged through Nero’s brain all his life. And hence, Nero Banks, Career of District 2, left with only one stage of his training in the way of his path to the Hunger Games, became ‘Scarred.’