Emery Wellington - District Four {done}

Emery is average in height, standing at 5'5" tall, and weight, weighing in at 120lbs. She has a swimmer's body, lean and well-built while not bulky or over-muscled. She likes it, and enjoys keeping herself in shape. Her hands are small, with thin, but relatively strong, fingers. She wears a gold band that her aunt gave her for her thirteenth birthday on her left middle finger. She has very fair skin, barely darker than ghost white. Light freckles spatter her face, crossing both cheeks as well as the bridge of her nose. The freckles also dot along her shoulders, and occasionally down her arms.

Her hair is copper-red in colour, and natural highlights brighten it. Her hair reaches her breasts, and it's tapered to thin end. She grew her bangs out to keep them out of her face. She doesn't like her hair long like this, she prefers it cut short. She has close-set pale blue eyes and a small, slightly upturned nose.

Emery's fingernails are often torn and tattered, the result of near-constant nail-biting. She'll often bite them too low, making her fingertips bleed. She has a scar on her left palm from a fishing accident when she was younger.

Outgoing and friendly, Emery is very much a people person. She's sociable, easy to be around, and eager to please and be trusted. Emery tends to live in the moment a lot of the time, which in turns has a habit of getting her in to some trouble once in a while.

Emery is hands-on, more tactical than anything. In school this lead to her getting lower grades than she could have if the subjects she needed matched the way she needed to learn them. This caused her to be underestimated, which she hates. She's hands-on with people, too, always craving other people's touch - a hug, a handshake, whatever. She often holds her friends hands, mainly because it's a form of comfort. It makes her better about anything that may be getting to her.

Emery's easily frustrated when things don't go her way, though. She's a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to pretty much anything she does. She takes any sort of failure personally. Emery also has a fear of love and any sort of commitment to any single person. She could do it yet, but it's out of her comfort zone and she would feel highly wrong. She's bisexual, but not yet fully aware of that yet.

Emery's father died at sea while her mother was five months pregnant with her. Anne-Marie was driven crazy by that, and was deemed an unfit mother due to neglect four months after Emery was born. Emery was then adopted by her Aunt Catherine, Anne-Marie's sister, and her husband, Johnathan. They had a pair of nine year old boys.

Emery was three and a half when she was reintroduced to her mother who, without Catherine finding out had turned to alcohol, and was once again pregnant. Six months later she gave birth to a little boy named Austin. Catherine took the little boy as fast as she could, and it was discovered that Austin, four years Emery's junior, had mild autism.

When Emery was nine, and Austin four, their mother was pregnant with yet another man's child. It was at this point that Emery opted not to see her mother. Anne-Marie was her mother merely biologically. Anne-Marie was given the chanced to look after her second son, Avery James, for a year before child services once again deemed her unfit due to neglect.

Aunt Catherine's house now was filled with five children- four of them boys. It was good that they were well-off, and that her own sons knew better than to pester friendly little Emery. Her own sons, Gavin was 17, Emery was 10. Nearly-six Austin still maintained control of all of them with his soft blond hair and bright blue eyes, but almost-one Avery was needing all his attention.

It was hectic, and Gavin and Carter became Emery's best friends. When she was four they taught her to swim, and Gavin taught her to fish at six. At eight there was an accident where she accidentally grabbed a fish hook. It buried in to her hand, and left a scar in her palm. When Emery was four, the year Austin came in to the house, Carter was reaped for the Games. He never came back. He was the first thing she cared for that she had lost, and she's still not over it four years later.

Now she has a very negative view of the Games, and she has troubles letting people get close to her. She's scared to lose them like she did Carter. She's turned in to a sociable young lady, who treats her little brothers like they're the world, and even calls Aunt Catherine 'mom' some times.

Birthday; Dec. 17
Gavin; 24
Austin; 11
Avery; 5