Nyx Halone, District 3 - DONE! :D

Nyx has light brown hair that's very long, about down to her elbows. it's naturally streaked with blonde and it's naturally wavy, on the brink of curly. She has big, grey green eyes with long eyelashes and a cute button nose. Her skin is a milky white color despite all the time she spends outside and she doesn't have any freckles, although she's always wanted them. Her lips are kind of thin, but they're also a pretty red color that makes her cheeks look healthy and pink.

She's about 5'2" and she weighs 102 pounds, which puts her just in the healthy weight range. She's more tall than she is wide. This is because both her parents are fairly tall and her family's very poor so Nyx doesn't get much to eat. Nyx normally just wears a light white t-shirt and some ragged white shorts made out of wool. It doesn't matter much to her what she wears as long as she can work in it. She always wears a silver charm bracelet around her wrist with different charms on it that make it special to her. Her charms are one of the only things that makes her happy. She never takes it off and she never will.

Nyx can't remember her real personality, she only knows the person she's been trained to be. Her "training" started very early in her age though, she remembers that, around the age of six or seven. Maybe she used to be happy...she can slightly remember grinning and running around outside, feeling energetic and happy, but it's not even a memory, just a shadow of one. It happened so long ago...She knows she's always been shy around people she doesn't know though, she knows she's always had that and that it's just been magnified by everything that's happened in her life.

Now she just feels...well alone more than anything. Quiet and secluded, she doesn't get out much and she's mostly kept around the house. She escapes when she can though, mostly at night when she sneaks out the window. She's been taught to be timid and scared and she's always in pain. At night she sits on her bed and stares at her brown wall. Tears drip down her cheeks but she doesn't make any sounds or any movements. She just sits there, frozen, just an iceberg that's slowly melting away. Usually she just tries not to feel things, but emotions sneak into everyone, no matter how cold they are inside. Sometimes she's happy, but very, very rarely, and she's never feels completely warm inside anymore.

Sometimes she cuts. She hates herself now, and she hates everyone she's supposed to love, except for her small black cat, Mindie. Mindie's just a kitten so she can go everywhere with Nyx and Nyx loves her more than anything. Kids tease her a lot and it doesn't help her situation, but Mindie never yells at her or teases her, or hits her. Mindie is Nyx's life line, her only friend besides her younger sister Claire. Claire looks just like Nyx, but with dirty blonde hair. Nyx loves her more than anything and will protect her with her life if necessary. The only joy Nyx gets besides Mindie is working. To get extra money she does chores for her neighbors and other people around town. It keeps her mind off her home life and its makes her almost happy. Main point, Nyx is depressed, timid, sad, and scared and she needs a friend more than her pet cat. On Reaping days Nyx actually wonders if she should volunteer...But she can't leave Claire behind. She's the only provider for Claire and she couldn't do that to her, she just couldn't. That's the only reason why she doesn't run, the only reason.

Nyx can't remember a time when she wasn't hit. She does know it started around her seventh birthday though, when her father lost his mining job and her mother started working. Her seventh birthday was right after Claire was born because Claire and Nyx are six years apart. Claire's father was and is lazy and arrogant and Nyx was stuck taking total care of Claire. Nyx cries herself to sleep every night. When her mother was around things were better. Her mother died when she was nine from a freak factory accident. Nyx misses her everyday.

Her father hits Nyx in every way imaginable. Slaping her, punching her, wacking her. He also shoves her around almost all the time and swears at her every time he talks to her. Nyx can't stick up for herself, but she will never let him touch Claire. Claire is just a little girl, she will not feel the pain Nyx feels, Nyx will not let her have the same fate as she did. Nyx has an older sister named Kayla, but as soon as she had enough money she moved out with her boyfriend, leaving Nyx all alone.

Nyx also had an older brother that no one talks about. He died when he was just a month old. Her father threw him at a chair when he wouldn't stop crying and he died, Nyx's mother covered it up for him and no one found out, but Nyx knows and Nyx has promised to herself that if her father ever touches Claire she will go to the Peacekeepers and rat on him before he can blink. One time she ran with Claire. They were almost to the woods when a Peacekeeper caught them and returned them...she was punished brutally that night. The only thing she still will stand up for now is Claire and Mandie. If Nyx ever leaves her father, she will take Claire. She will not be like her older sister, she will not leave Claire to suffer. And one day Nyx will leave. She's planned it all out. That dream of leaving with Claire and Mandie is one of the only things that keeps her going. She even plans on leaving District 3 and moving to 1 if she can make it will Claire and Mandie, and she will never look back. Never.

I almost cried making this charrie. So depressing!