Lilia Brooks//District 4 [Done]

Lilia has dark brown, almost black hair that falls just past her shoulders. Her eyes, large and dark, are framed with long, thick lashes. Her face is narrow, and she has a slight problem with acne on her forehead. Her nose is long and narrow. Makeup isn't worth dealing with for her, as it's too much of a bother to put on every morning only to take it off in the evening.

From many hours spent swimming, her skin is very tanned and her muscles very wiry. Standing tall, she is only 5ft, and weighs in at just under 48 kilos. Her arms are longer than they should be, as is her torso. Most of the time she wears long dresses with a swimsuit underneath, preferring to spend her free time swimming. When it's too cold for just a dress, she wears tunics with leggings. She makes no effort to hide a long, white scar that runs across her back.

While she's muscular, her strength mainly lies in motion abilities; ie, she is good at climbing, running and swimming, but not at lifting heavy weights. She is capable of holding her breath for a long amount of time, and swimming to great depths without too much effort.

When you don't know her, Lilia can be very shy and quiet. However, when few people are around and she knows them well, she will become very vocal, and often giggly. Her sense of humour, while generally good, is often something that put her in awkward situations, as she will laugh hysterically at something that just isn't funny. She has a habit of running her nails over her eyebrows when she wants to avoid socialising. This is part of the reason why she spends so much time swimming, as she can escape the world.

Though quiet, however, she can fire up quickly when someone mentions something close to her heart. When this happens, she is vicious; she will argue until someone is in tears or backs down. Since she keeps her head down, it makes sense that she is an incredibly smart girl- most of her time that isn't spent swimming or helping her father is spent reading. She is skilled at fading into the background, meaning that while she knows a lot about facts and school, she also knows all the gossip around school, and can be relied on to know whether it's true or not.

Lilia has always avoided any romance, knowing that anyone she dates could soon be thrown into the Games without a chance for a real goodbye. She loves the outdoors and animals, even though she is also a keen meat lover. She is good at singing and could be an incredible singer if she cared. She is honest about most things, not bothering with fake humility or lying to make someone feel better. This has earned her enemies, but she avoids confrontation well enough, and can get away pretty damn fast if it does come around.

Lilia was mainly raised by her father,, since her mother died when she was six. She has plenty of memories of her, but the main one is the day she died. A six year old Lilia pulled her hydrophobic mother to the beach, and toddled into the waves. She wasn't close to drowning herself, but her mother was very over protective and, eventually, drowned. While for most people, this would drive them from water, it only intensified her love of swimming. It made her feel close to her mum.

Her father started working full time after that, and Lilia found that the only time she could spend time with him was by helping him with his work. He makes ropes for a living, and this job meant the family was fairly well off. Weaving ropes soon became therapy for her dealing with Lilia's mother's death for the both of them, and they were soon closer than they had ever been. But her death still had negative affects, and a once outgoing child became introverted and wary of growing close to others. She didn't want to go through the grief of losing friends. Not only for herself, but for others. Or at least, that was what she told herself. The real reason was because people were pains, expecting her to be made happy by lollipops and candies when she had been tearing herself apart inside. She buried herself in schoolwork and in doing so, developed a nerdyness and a razor tongue.

Eventually, she began to let people back into her life. She would walk with other people to the beach, have conversations with customers in the shop. But that didn't make her the perfect friend. Her life ran like clockwork, only with time spent wandering to unknown places. Her organisational skills/compulsions an issues for many people. Her habit of speaking her mind also developed issues for her, but none she couldn't run away from; quite literally. The only time she really got into trouble was when, aged twelve, she yelled at a Peacekeeper after he refused to let her onto the beach. Running from the law was slightly different. The only lasting effect of this encounter was a long, white scar running across her back.