Chelsea Dubois - District 5

Chelsea, being born of one of the few ranches still remaining on District 5, is covered with wiry muscle from wrestling animals to the ground pretty much as soon as she was walking. She is also a tall, lanky girl, standing at 5' 11, thanks to both of her parents scraping the 6' 7" mark. Because of her height and scrawniness, though, Chelsea does not give a very intimidating appearance; she might, if her shoulders weren't thin and if her muscles were bulky opposed to the wiry state they're in now. Chelsea tries to use her leanness, though, to appear innocent to a stranger.

Since she does live on a ranch, Chelsea has to keep her hair short and simple; it is in a pageboy cut to keep the animals from gnawing at it. Her hair is the same color black as the oil that is mined from most other parts of the district, and most of the time, just as greasy, due to her unwillingness to wash it. Her eyes are probably her best feature, being a bright hazel, though oftentimes they show more about Chelsea than she likes.

Chelsea is an introvert; being alone is what makes her feel like she can do anything. Doing this also gives her time to plan for the next day's outings; sometimes she goes into town to break the monotony of life, and sometimes she would plan to go on with her daily routine. When Chelsea is alone, sometimes she doesn't plan at all, she just sits there and thinks . Doing this re-cooperates Chelsea, and if she gets time alone, then she needs; even sleep can't help her more. The introversion, though, keeps her from making very many friends.

Chelsea sometimes can't bear to sit and be alone, so instead, she explores. Every once in a while, she'll lose track of where she's going, and ends up in the wilderness. When she does, though, Chelsea tries to stay cool, and instead of concentrating on getting out, Chelsea concentrates on learning as much about her situation as she can; the plants around her, what she could use as food, in case she ever had to retreat into the woods. Through this, she had learned, even though her expeditions into the woods are about once every two weeks, a variety of the edible plants of Panem.

Since she lives on a ranch, Chelsea is very intoned with animals, almsot to the point where she can understand what they're thinking. She has n uncanny ability to get animals to trust her. However, like her introversion, being close to animals keeps her from having many friends. Those who do accept her, though, will still find that she has a bit of an icy edge, and still prefers to be alone most of the time.

Chelsea's parents were a rather obscure couple, being the ones in District Five who clung to their ranching roots. They raised Chelsea, her older brother, Todd, and her younger sister, Kiki, to keep the Earth whole. Both parents encouraged their children to refuse any offers they had to work on the oil rigs, even if it was a bit more money than they made on the ranch. Neither of the two cared much about having the luxuries of many of the richer families of District Five. They insisted if they wanted luxuries, they would find a way to move to District One or Two.

Ever since Todd turned twelve, the family became more careful about their consumption, cutting back to the bare minimum so that he could not take out any tesserae. Chelsea became used to going from a hundred percent portions to about sixty percent portions. It didn't bother her, though. Todd was one of her best and only friends, and the thought of him going to the games made Chelsea want to eat even less than she had to, almost to the point of anorexia. It got so bad that her parents actually had to force her to eat, though. Otherwise, Chelsea had a happy childhood.

At the age, of fourteen, though, Todd was injured when one of the bulls on the farm charged him. It was, coincidentally, the year that Chelsea turned twelve; Kiki was only nine. Chelsea needed to start taking out tesserae since her brother couldn't work; it shouldn't have been that big of an impactor, but it was one less pair of hands to feed all of the animals, one less pair of hands to make sure that none of the roaming wolves on the edges of the district caught the animals that were the family's only chance at life, apart from the Earth-killing oil rigs. At the age of fourteen, she has her name entered in the reaping ball 15 times. It scares Chelsea, the thought of going to the games, and most likely dying.