Chase Carson - District 4

Even though he has lived in District 4 his whole life, Chase could easily be mistaken for somebody from district 12. Rather than having the bronze colored hair typical of the area he grew up, his hair is an extremely dark brown that is just one shade away from black. He keeps it fairly close-cropped, so as to avoid it getting in his eyes. His eyes are an earthen shade of brown. He has a rugged shaped jaw, with a slightly cleft chin.

He is about six feet tall and weighs 140 pounds, making him a little thin for his height, but he is still well fed. He is muscular, but not to a point where it is very obvious. He has never done much practice with heavy lifting, so most of his muscles are in his legs and abdomen. Most of the exercise that Chase gets is swimming, so his relatively thin build is helpful to him in that. Chase can squat up to 130 pounds and benchpress 120 His hands are covered in faint scars from ropeburn he endures while making the snares and lines he loves so much.

Chase is much more of a thinker than he is an athlete. He mostly keeps to himself, tuning out all else so that he can solve whatever problem is at hand and for Chase, there is always a problem. To keep his mind exercised Chase makes a habit of blowing coincidences out of proportion, digging deeper hoping to find some kind of hidden meaning. When there is no such meaning, Chase believes it to be his own fault and looks harder. This need for Chase to solve problem hangs on the brink of obsession, with Chase shutting himself in his room for days on end until he can figure it out.

Being a boy at near genius level, Chase looks at the world in a different way than do most people. Where most people may simply see a rope or length of fishing line, Chase contemplates thousands of possibilities: a net, a snare, a way to catch fish that nobody has ever thought of throughout all of the history of Panem. Unfortunately, this prevents him from seeing eye-to-eye with most other people. Some people believe him to be schizofrenic because he is often seen talking to himself. Chase has no such mental disorder, he simply thinks it is hard to sustain a conversation with somebody who doesn't understand what you are talking about.

Chase is a pacifist by nature, figuring it to be much easier to simply outsmart and confuse his enemies rather than confront them head-on. His mind works in pulleys and gears, and there is a solution to every problem. He hates the concept of the Games, and wishes they didn't exist, but he knows they always will. He has tried to cope with the loss of his brother, but his habit of solving problems causes him to try and think of ways to get around the games. He wasn't rebelling, no that would be illegal, he was just working on a hypothetical situation. What if there were no games? What if there was piece in Panem? No. Stop thinking these things. Thinking these things get people in trouble...

Chase grew up in a family of fishermen, as is common in district 4. When he was young he tried his hand at net-and-trident fishing, but he never quite caught the hang of it. When he was just a toddler, Chase lost his older brother to the Hunger Games, and this experience has haunted him since. Even though he never really knew or could remember his brother, he personified him as the essence of good. Every good aspect he encounters, he tags onto his brother. His lifelong goal was to be as good as the brother he pieced together, but unfortunately perfection is unatainable.

In his early teenage years, Chase discovered that he could catch fish much more quickly and efficiently with mechanical traps and cages. This more than made up for what had been lost along with his brother a decade earlier and allowed his family to rise up in District 4, becoming one of the more wealthy groups. His family still lives right on the coast as they did before, unable to part with the memories of Chase's brother.

Even though his family is better off because of him, he still thinks that he hasn't done good enough and this self-doubt causes him to spend more and more time alone. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot reach the point of perfection he imagines his brother to be at, and anything less is not enough. Fortunately, his fish traps act as a sort of self-therapy, allowing him to work away the frustration, but the doubt is still there.

I would like to claim Nicholas D'Agosto.