Avery Ondine; District 4

Standing at 5’6, Avery is usually under estimated for her abilities. Avery has a slim figure from training for the Games and gently toned muscles from the sport of fishing. She weights into a healthy category for a Career, even a bit on the light side. She is considered a fast runner as well as a swimmer, but lacks the use of throwing knives. She considers the weapons too light to throw, where as for her familiarity with heavier weapons, she throws them too hard and they go a bit off in direction. Therefore, she prefers spears and tridents, the stereotypical weapon for a District Four tribute, since she had trained to perfect the art of using them for years. She also is very skilled in the acknowledgement of fish and other sea life, and knows well from her brother’s tricks how to catch them.
Avery has the deformity of heterochromia, where the irises of each eye differ from one another. She has one eye that is a mid shade of blue and the other a green of the same intensity; at times they can be mistaken from a far as the same color. She never tries to enhance her features and is usually found with her blonde hair either falling at its usual place six inches from her waist or in a messy bun. Her hair has highlights from ice blonde to honey blonde naturally from all the sun that falls on her. She has a slightly tanned complexion due to her lifestyle in District Four as well as even a few freckles that sit along her nose that fade by the winter.

Avery is described as a spitfire in the mouth of many elders and adults- being born with expectations noted by the very acknowledgement of your existence feasts your attitude with burning flames. She is easily angered, but behind all the sly remarks and rebellious intentions, Avery has a passion to write out her life on paper with a freedom of what to say. Many have noted that she can get lost in the sight of a sunset, and give a short movement of her lips at times, as if speaking to herself what she thinks of it. She learned at a young age by her outcast brother that she’d have to appreciate the small aspects of life so that by the time she was picked for the games, she’d have already given her appreciation to avoid shock of the fear of failure.
Avery is very judgmental, and therefore she takes a bit to trust someone fully. It takes more than a few similar interests and just a handful of sentimental acts of thanks for trusting anyone with her life and other important subjects. Avery does not though show her distrust. Avery is very hard-headed, and she never gives up. She stands for what she believes in and never lets herself sit around upset. She is very productive in finding a way out of a difficulty.
The sixteen year old’s personality is inviting, though, for the most part. She’s someone wanted as an ally not only due to her abilities, but her intentions besides the keeping of her life. In a way, there’s a gleam in her eye when she speaks of the Capitol, which gives a knowing to others who disapprove of the Games that she’s not rooting for those of the fancy clothes and colors. As for others loyal to the Capitol, it seems that they will be lead into thinking that she’s but simply a mischievous girl needed on their side to their advantage.

As a resident of District 4, it’s very common to have a positive perception of the Capitol- especially if you’re part of the Ondine Family. Avery was born into a family very grateful of the Capitol. Raised into the Fishing Business, her parents were very wealthy and used their earnings to train their six children for a sealed victory in the Games of Hunger. Born into the Ondine Family, Avery’s lifestyle had been planned out for her. With a well known apellation, her parents put great effort to have a Victor in the family and took her birth into advantage to raise the chances of fame and fortune. Her lifestyle was dedicated to a structure that if she were to win or if she were to be a tribute, she would be an icon of district pride with her labor towards the people of the Capitol and those of District 4 as she assisted in the providing of nets and fish.
Avery had a distant relationship with her family, but that that she had with her twin brother and older brother was closer. Of the six children, Avery and her twin brother, Prosper, had been the focus of the family. Her older brother, Mason, had been an outcast of the family for his attitude towards the Capitol that was revealed only inside the household. He had been a heavy influence on Avery and Prosper because he was the only one who seemed to actually live; he was the only one in the family who was not thriving them into the dedication of winning nor obsessed with the gleam of fame and fortune. They had learned of his distaste of the Capitol’s ruling once when he was banned from the home. They had gone to him and he shared to him all his opinions and thoughts. Luckily, their father had allowed Mason to continue in the business of the Ondine Fishing Company.
Avery lost everything at age twelve, but her strong character helped her get back to where she was. The Ondine Fishing Company went out on their daily morning trip out to sea to collect their aquatic products but unlike any trip they had taken, none on the boat had managed to get to shore with a future. The 17 footer just in 100 feet of water had been attacked by a mutation of the Capitol. Exercising the specimen for the annual fight to the death, the mutated shark had escaped and made its way to District 4 waters. The boat capsized, and in shock many of the passengers did not survive. Prosper and Avery had gone to school alone that day and when they returned found the shop occupied by no one. Mason had locked up the shop and went home, and when they returned to home, they got the story. Capitol officials had persuaded them to change their story or consequences would be made. The story given to the District 4 media was a shark attack, but they knew the small detail of a mutation would never be spoken aloud. The Ondine Fishing Company was brought back up by the three of them and successfully took back their place as one of the most popular fishing companies/store.
At times, Avery begins to wonder about her loyalty to the Capitol. She feels as though she is caught between a vengeful hatred towards them, but she knows all the same that their ridiculous Games is but horrible. Avery also feels, however through the faint taint her father put upon her, that the only reason why they didn’t publish her story correctly was due to the fear that would strike the residents of District 4- but all the same, it should have been told to warn them. She decides in the end most of the time, that she has a poisoned loyalty to them and that there are more reasons amongst her family to why they feared so much the negative comments of the Capitol- and if their praise was only a mere game of opposite taunts.