Gabriella McAfee - District 8

Gabriella has dark, fading red hair that falls to right below her shoulders. Long bangs cover her forehead and eyebrows. If you look closely, you will notice it's not an even cut. Pieces of her hair are different lengths because of the poor cutting and some pieces remain frayed. Her red hair is always a mess. She never bothers to put it up. Ever. Her hair is frizzy some days, wavy on others, and sometimes if there is really a reason to, she will actually brush it. Sometimes Charlotte brushes Gabriella's hair.

She has soft facial features, nothing about her sharp. A small button nose sits below two large almond shaped eyes. Two green orbs peer out from them, surrounded by thick, but short, eyelashes. They often look sad and unattached, small dark marks lie beneath from her nights without sleep. Her lips are a light pink and small. Her face has a slight chubbiness to it that makes her look younger than she is. Dimples curve on each side of Gabriella's face whenever she smiles.

While her face still keeps it's childlike nature with it's chubbiness, her body has matured. She stands at 5'5", matching the height of her twin sister exactly. Their height is average for those who live in the district, and like everything else, so is their build. Petite, and a bit underfed. Everyone in a district that isn't fed well starts looking the same. Gabriella is thin, but not as small as her sister. She has a bit broader shoulders. Her arm and leg muscle is lacking since she doesn't exercise much.

She has various scars up and down her body from multiple incidents. Most the scars were caused by her own hand. Several new scars line her wrists, and some burns can be found going up and down her arms and legs. Gabriella is generally always in a t-shirt and pajama pants. She wears a light jacket though she doesn't like it much. It's sole purpose is to cover the markings up and down her body. She often throws a hat over her head since she never does anything else with her hair. Warm walking boots are her shoe of choice. Everywhere, anywhere.

Gabriella's personality is unstable, and somewhat undefinable. She was diagnosed with Emotionally Unstable (Borderline) Personality Disorder a few months after Valerie's death. The disease has erased a lot of the old traits that used define Gabriella. Before the incident Gabriella was probably the most energetic of the three girls. She had always found a way to look on the brighter side of things. She was an optimist, and always had a reason to smile. It was the traits like that that her new disease erased. She became depressed, empty. The old optimistic nature was erased and she was left broken in a way. Smiling wasn't as common in the first few years but it has slowly gotten a little more common with the years in passing.

The disorder comes with several symptoms. Gabriella is very dependent. Sometimes she just physically can't do things by herself. She depends on Charlotte for so many things everyday. She gets separation anxiety a lot. Charlotte and her parents don't really like Gabriella to go outside much, but she feels the need to be close to Charlotte at all times. The thought of losing her too frightens Gabriella.

At the most random times she goes into fits of violent and emotional tantrums. Charlotte is one of the only ones who can calm her dad. Her father is another, but he doesn't do so often. Charlotte often hugs Gabriella to her even when Gabriella is being violent. She hits whatever is in her way and she tries to struggle free. Often times she results to biting and scratching. Charlotte sings to her a lot which calms her down faster than anything else.

Worse even than harming other people is how much she harms herself. Charlotte is absent a lot because she takes Gabriella's factory shifts and she has her own life. Often times Gabriella still has night terrors or goes into a tantrum with no one to stop her. She hurts herself with whatever she sees first. A knife once. Her nails. Sometimes she results to burning herself. The girl has thoughts of suicide, but Charlotte always seem to appear at the right moments. Gabriella is always overshadowed by her sister. Her perfect older sister. She's the normal one. She never saw it happen.

Gabriella was born with two other sisters. Last born, but still a part of the set. Triplets. And nothing had made her parents more happy. They were a middle class family. There was nothing that separated them majorly from the lower class except that hygiene was easily to keep under control and food wasn't as hard to come by. Still, they struggled through times. Feed a family of five was hard during the winter time, but they always seemed to manage.

The girls grew up together. Best friends. There was always someone to play with, someone to talk to, or someone to listen. They shared a connection, no one else understood. Gabriella found it easier to talk to her sisters more than anyone else. They had a way of knowing what each other was feeling when they were near without needing to ask. They sometimes said the exact same things. It was like they almost possessed one mind.

Once when they were twelve, their parents brought them to the square. They had been saving up money and were allowed to purchase some things that they never got the chance to before. Gabriella bought some pears, it had been a long time since she had tasted the sweet fruit. A moment later when she turned around, she noticed both of them were missing. She quickly went to look for them, calling out their names.

It didn't take long to locate Valerie. There was a huge commotion going on around where she stood. A peacekeeper was waving a gun in her face. Gabriella pushed several of the bystanders out of the way so that she could get closer. The man sounded drunk and was going on about Valerie stealing some chocolate of his. Gabriella frantically searched for her parents or Charlotte and continued to push her way to the front. The voices were getting louder. He keeps saying he saw her steal. Her voice was so low, Gabriella couldn't hear her. When she finally pushed the last two people out of her way, she got a clear view of what happened next.

The man raised his gun and shot. Valerie was trying to turn in run, her coins jingling in her pocket, unspent. The man shot once. Twice. Three times. Four. Gabriella lost count. She was was on the ground. The man was gone and she was crawling to Valerie's now mangled body. Blood was spilling everywhere. The young girl's face was now unrecognisible. That was where her family found her. Holding her older sister, sobbing uncontrollable. Maybe Charlotte had felt a part of the three of them die because she was the first one there, almost immediately. Their parents came immediately after. Before she knew it, Gabriella was being pulled off of Valerie.

It took years of therapy and still it didn't help. Gabriella had horrible night terrors. For the first two months, she barely slept for fear of reliving it all. Slowly it turned into more. She was diagnosed with Emotionally Unstable (Borderline) Personality Disorder. At times she would go into horrible fits of random emotions. She became extremely dependent on other people and was afraid of being separated.

Often times her unstable self-image and feelings of emptiness caused her to hurt herself. Charlotte and Gabriella did everything they could to erase the memory of their older sister. Every time they looked at each other, they only saw her. Who could imagine what their parents were going through? They died their hair and started wearing different clothes. For a year Gabriella even removed all the mirrors from her room.

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