Ridgely Dragonsbane - District 1

Ridgely is all of five foot four, built like a very small beanpole, thin and lanky--he's also rather pale, no matter how much time he spends in the sun to try to combat this. Strangely enough, though, he doesn't sunburn or anything, either, although he bruises quite easily. He's got a really light smattering of freckles, and these huge, gorgeous dewy blue eyes that he hides under a shaggy cut of dark black hair that he somehow manages to see under.

Usually, he wears jeans that fit (as opposed to, you know, pants that slide down the rear and leave nothing up to the imagination), although he is rather skinny and thus must wear a belt if he wants pants that are the right length. (Even in post-apocalyptic times, it's hard to find fitting pant sizes.) He likes his shirts kind of baggy, though, because he thinks tight shirts make him look even scrawnier. (They kind of do, actually.) Ridgely also has this habit of wearing a sash around his waist and a matching bandanna, and occasionally paints his nails to match, although not often, because his friends look down on boys that wear nail polish. He also has a tattoo on his ribcage that says "carpe diem" on it that nobody knows about.

Ridgely is a pretty agreeable guy, generally. He's the type to go along with stupid ideas that his friends come up with because he wants to feel like he belongs, but he's not stupid. He just likes to be part of the group, for better or for worse, although if it seems like it's leaning too much towards "for worse" he will likely abandon ship. He doesn't get exasperated often, but when he does, he blows his bangs out of his eyes. And it's really adorable when he does so. Just sayin'.

He's actually quite good with words--he can even do poetry! although he'd never show that to his friends--except when an attractive girl is around (then the only simile he can think of is "like two beautiful tumors"). And he likes reading chick-lit under the covers with a flashlight at night when nobody is looking, and is the type to bawl at the end of Titanic (although if someone's around, he'll try to hide it--unless, you know, it's a girl who likes sensitive guys, but give him a break. He's sixteen.)

Oh, and Ridgely likes to be called Ride because everyone knows Ride is a cooler name than Ridgely--some people humor him, some don't, but he actually doesn't press that too much because he figures he'd rather not bother. He's normally pretty level-headed, but if he gets into a debate, it'll go on for a long time and he'll get really emotional and his face will get flushed (this is the only time it will do so, outside of when he's getting laid, maybe), but he doesn't debate often because he likes to be liked, and debates don't get you liked very much, from what he's experienced. His ultimate goal in life is to find a beautiful set of boobs--er, I mean, a beautiful girl--who will tell him what to do sometimes but usually leave him alone and let him do his own thing and settle down.

Once upon a time in District 1, a man named Charlie and a woman named Sparkle got married. A few years down the road, the woman got pregnant. While her baby was still in the womb, Sparkle decided that she was bored with Charlie and Charlie died in a horrible accident that couldn't be traced back to Sparkle. And poor Sparkle had to raise her baby, whom she named Ridgely before anyone could convince her out of it, alone.

Well, not really alone, because less than two years after the baby was born, Sparkle married a man named Kain, who was around fifteen years younger than her and ridiculously attractive, if you liked the muscled, testosterone-fueled type. (Sparkle does--Ridgely doesn't.) Sparkle never had any other children, which is quite surprising considering the number of breeding-related sounds that come from her bedroom each night, and thus Ridgely became an only child. He doesn't especially like being an only child, and secretly thinks that Kain is infertile, although he'd never say such a thing out loud.

Aside from the premature death of his dad and the consequent replacing of his dad with Kain, Ridgely's lived a pretty normal life. He gets decent grades in school and goes to work out with friends sometimes, mostly for the sake of having company more than the sake of training for the Hunger Games, because he has no intention of participating, since all five feet four inches of him would likely get smattered to bits in such a competition. He secretly sleeps with really big stuffed snow leopard at night because he gets really lonely, but hides Snowball (the snow leopard) under the bed in the daytime so that nobody will see him.