Frances Costello - District 4

Frances has long, muddy blonde hair - it would be brown but is naturally bleached due to all the time she spends outside - and blue eyes with flecks of green. She has a trail of freckles running across her nose and a bright smile which only appears when she laughs hysterically. Her face is slender with a pointed chin and high cheekbones. Her skin is lightly tanned but she has fairly bad skin which causes her to get a few spots from time to time - this is the one thing she loathes about herself.

She is medium height, around 5ft 3, and is quite muscular from swimming a lot. However, she has a large scar running across her hip from where she cut herself on a fishing hook. Her body is also scattered with other small cuts, bruises and scars. Frances' body is covered in small freckles and she also has a large birthmark on the back of her thigh.

Frances is quite quiet, but not shy, when you first meet her and it takes a while for her to be herself; but she becomes funny and feisty when she is around people she knows she can trust. Frances' has a good sense of humour but can sometimes make jokes at other people's expense.

She has a very caring nature when it comes to her family and friends; Frances would do anything to provide for them. She is very determined and never gives up on her goals. This fierce desire to keep them alive can lead to her being cold and selfish towards people who she doesn't know.

Her unwillingness to share and help the community makes her look very cold hearted to a lot of the people in the area; to cope, she surrounds herself with people who understand and laughs her way through the insults, snide comments and sometimes even physical assaults from the ones who judge her actions.

She also has a very strict moral compass, which can help or hinder her, depending on the situation. It means she always stands up for what she deems to be right, despite what others think; however, it also gets her in trouble. She is quick to judge others without knowing the full story, can be very harsh to opposing opinions and her unwillingness to back down can get her hurt.

She has never given much thought to her own opinion on herself; Frances doesn't have major body confidence issues due to the fact she tried not to focus on looks too much - except for her spots, which have always been the one exception. Other people tell her she is attractive but she simply shrugs it off or comes back with a hostile remark about 'the importance of personality'. She sees all her actions as necessary and tries not to think how they effect other peoples opinions of her.

Frances was born into a happy, but large, family; her Father is a fisherman and her Mother stays at home to take care of the house. She has 4 brothers, one deceased, who are all older then her. They get along very well generally but sometimes tease her about being girl and never take her seriously.

When she was growing up, she felt as if she was least loved by her Father because the boys could all help out with the fishing and, in their eyes, she couldn't. When Frances was 6, partly due to wanting to prove herself and partly due to her fascination to water and sea life, she learnt how to swim and fish. This gave her Father more cause to pay attention and upon finding out her knack for fishing, made her an official part of the crew.

The next few years were filled with happiness; her Mother and Father both loved her and she was finally getting noticed. But, when she was 13, her 18 year old brother, Aurelian, drowned in rough seas and the family sunk into depression. Her Father stopped working so food became scare; however the death pushed Frances to work even harder for the family. She was determined to never let her brother die in vain.
These days, she still works catching fish to sell and for her family. The death still haunts the family but, slowly, normality is beginning to return to their lives.