blake elliot nolan ; capitol

basics

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blake "fall" elliot nolan
male ; age 17
capitol
heterosexual

appearance

Stretching well best the six foot mark, Blake tops out at about 6'4''. He weighed in at 161 pounds during the last meeting, giving him a body mass index of 19.6 which is on the lower end of the normal weight category. He is obviously pretty tall and he is thin with a bit of muscle but nothing too insane. His skin is colored with a bit of a tan and is rather smooth and clean, thanks to Capitol products. He has a pretty decent posture by keeping his back straight for the most part but his shoulders can often be seen in a hunched position, the probable result of having a load of stress from his various friends. However, he tries to push his chest out and keep his chin held high to keep his friends as optimistic as possible.

His head structure is quite oval like. It is rounded off and not chiseled with a rigid jaw line. This is the only part of his body that appears to have a slight bit of fat to it. However, it is actually due to the high cheekbones he has because of his ancestors race. His facial appendages appear normal on his face and are all proportional. His ears are pretty big, sticking out through his hair a bit. As for his nose, it has a thick bridge and ends with a big tip as well whilst his nostrils are clearly visible while looking at him straight on. His lips are long and aren't too thick, actually being a bit on the thinner side. He isn't the typical attractive guy, but some say that he does have something about him and that his smile just makes him 'cute'. The pearly whites are often seen as his best natural feature.

Well, his hair is messy, that's for sure. The brown hair on his head is often swept up in a messy way, either with gel or just on its own. It looks to be spiked up in a way as well. As for his facial hair, he has quite a bit of stubble across his jaw line, colored a dark brown as well. It helps him look a little more rugged but still doesn't take away from the friendliness he clearly portrays. His eyebrows are fairly long and are thick. They blend in with the rest of his hair color, actually seeming to be slightly darker. They barely curve up over his eye, instead curving at the end like a squiggly line. He takes pride in how his hair looks and appreciates when others take note of it.

His eyes are one of the only things that he has surgically altered. He promised himself when he was young to not join in on all the things that the people around him liked to do. They would die their skin a soft blue or color their eyes red or get tattoos across their head. Some would even alter their teeth or nails and do crazy things with their body. Blake only had two things done and one of them was the caramel colored eye dye. His eyes are colored a soft caramel color which includes striking silver accents throughout. His eyes are of a medium size, not too big but not squeezed tight. His left eye is open a bit more, giving him a slight look of surprise because his eyebrows adjust to this. They don't appear too alarming when looking at him because the color is just calm and soft enough, but he's been happy that he actually did change them from their original brown color.

As said before, Blake isn't too muscular. However, his chest is flat as well as his stomach. This is due to being on the thinner side, giving him some abs because of being skinny. His shoulders are broad and support a thin but long neck. They are often hunched forward, as also noted before and give him a look of exhaustion. His hips aren't wide, which is probably a regular thing for guys. He barely has any chest hair, just a few sprouting out here and there, while his back is completely bare. And in case you really wanted to know everything about him, his navel goes inwards.

His arms are long and ending with large hands. His biceps are of a normal size and aren't exploding with muscle but they aren't thin either. His bicep sizes are probably at the median between muscular and thin and he hasn't really had interest to change that. His arm hair is dark, but his arms don't look covered because well, they aren't covered. His arms end with his hands, so he doesn't have any severed limbs on the upper half, and they each branch out into all five fingers. His palms are large and soft, often a little clammy due to the stress he goes through. His fingers are long and thin and are often called "surgical fingers" due to being able to handle precious and smaller things. Don't take that dirty.

His legs are long too and appear a bit more muscular than his arms do. They end off with large, flat feet. His toes are thin too, similar to his hands. The leg hair he has is a bit more plentiful than his arms, giving his legs are darker look. As for the skin color, it is a little lighter on the inside of his calves due to having little to no attention from the sun. People always say that his legs appear to be fit for athletic things and it seems like he works out or runs to work on his legs.

His clothing choice is rather simple and not very far fetched really. For shirts, he can almost always be found wearing button ups, weather plaid or flat. Otherwise, he can be found in simple tshirts or sweaters that are commonly sold. His pants are all made out of denim and are straight cut, being a bit tighter than other jeans. He is usually wearing shorts cut off just at the knee on the warmer days, these being made from various cottons and polyester thanks to District Eight. His shoes are simple runners while his socks are simple cotton white ones. He tries to stay basic and not go too crazy like others around him. He can almost always be found wearing accessories, both hats and jewelery. They vary and none of them are super sentimental to him.

Being from the Capitol, appearance is kind of a big thing. As described before, his eyes were altered to fit this stereotype, but that's not all. Blake also has a light grey tracing across his arms, back and chest thanks to a tattoo artist. It has a weird illusion to it, appearing to be a different shade of black depending on the angle. They go across in a curvy line and have a sort of tribal look to them. However, it's not a line. The tattoo is made up of all the words in a book that Blake had read, printed in very small print across his body. They describe a man that would do everything for everybody else but never for himself. He was a poor man but he'd work every day to give money to the other poor people around him. He'd feed them and clothe them and do whatever he could to make sure they were happy, even though he was actually killing himself. While he was completely aware of the starvation he was going through, he ignored it to help others through tough times. He ended up passing away due to starvation and a flu bug. A week after he passed, every villager in his village died as well from starvation. They would have all died before had the man not fed them. This story was always like a Bible to Blake, something he followed as much as he could. And whenever he looked into a mirror, he would be reminded of the man's kindness and desire to become a better person.

personality

Maybe it was reading the story that changed him. Maybe he just wanted to make the world a better place. Either way, something clicked in him when he was young and he has never been the same since. Others come before him in every situation. He never focuses on himself, always caring about how others are feeling. He tends to try and "pick up all the broken pieces" in his friends' lives, always making sure that they are in the best possible condition for everything. To most, he seems like the perfect gentleman, always being there to aid others. Even if it's the smallest thing, you can almost be positive that Blake has thought of it. He's intelligent in this way because he seems to always be thinking of how he can help others and he succeeds a lot of the time. At least, that's what he hopes.

When you're too busy focusing on somebody else, you neglect others. In Blake's case, that includes himself. It isn't rare for him to get sick from being so stressed or under-acknowledged, but he ignores it and continues on with trying to help. Some friends try to talk to him about it but he brushes it off, ignoring that it's something he could possibly die from. Others think it'll be the death of him for sure. This has changed his self image of himself to a really low level. He almost hates how he is, thinking that he could do much better. He doesn't accept that he's already doing enough as it is, making him some what stubborn. When he gets sick from not sleeping or being too stressed, he sees himself as weak and often beats himself up about it when he's alone. However, this can prove to be a good thing (although it's rare) because he then strives to do better.

All Blake has ever wanted is to mean something to the world. Of course, he means something to his family and friends. However, he's always wanted to be important in some way. Maybe you might consider this greedy, but in his mind it's a way of thanking him for all his hard work with everybody else. Also, he wishes to be known and to mean something to possibly benefit his friends even more by giving them what they deserve, which in his mind is the world. He often gets afraid that his friends won't appreciate him if he can't help them more and more each day. He gets worried real easy and he always seems to be on edge and aware of his surroundings. He sometimes reads into things too much because of this. It's seen as a talent by him though because he can analyze his friends and their moods that much easier.

Blake tends to be very neat and organized, keeping everything ordered at home and ensuring that he knows where everything is. This applies with activities and events too, not just the household items he has. He tries his best to keep on top of things and to know what's going on with him, his friends and the rest of the Capitol. He tends to show very OCD behavior, being very obsessive of everything. If something is out of place, it can actually start annoying him until he fixes it. He does live alone so it's something that he does see as a possible good thing. Blake is very independent and can take care of himself if he actually ignores his friends. He tries to deny the help of friends if they offer it because that would mean they have to suffer the same kind of stress that he does every day.

He is evidently very busy with everything in his life. However, it isn't always from helping out his friends. Blake has always had a creative mind since he was young. He's fairly good at the arts, always being the top student in his writing, dramatic arts and visual arts classes. On the odd day where he is sitting around at home, he loves pulling out a pencil and sketching on a blank piece of paper. He's very inventive as well, seeming to have new ideas all the time.

history

Dale Nolan and Florencia Lamone met one day in the office. Both were workers at a small newspaper writing company when they first laid eyes upon each other. Their relationship started off very slow. A possible romance was completely out of the question based on how they were when they were younger. The friendship phase was quite long, but before they knew it, Dale and Florencia were completely head over heels in love for each other. And it was a true love. Even when Dale was offered a job at a bigger newspaper company and Florencia wasn't, they still stayed together and eventually tied the knot. Their first child and only child was Blake. They are no longer able to have anymore children.

September 23rd, during the year of the 41st Games was when Blake Elliot Nolan entered the world. He spent the first few weeks of his life in the hospital due to being born a month earlier than the doctors had planned. Problems during the birth didn't affect Blake, but it prevented his mother from ever having children again. His first few days in his home were great and he immediately warmed up to living with his parents and in the Capitol. Throughout his first years of life, Blake was a whiny kid. He was kind of an attention seeker and always kept his parents up at night. That changed when he turned six though. That's when he became the nice person he is on this day. That's when he first read the book and realized that the way he acted wasn't how he should.

His first years in school were tough as it took a bit of time for him to adjust to the schedule and the work. Bullying was an issue for him throughout most of the schooling years until he made his first true friend. And after a short while, he made friends with the other fifteen in the little 'group'. However, it didn't really stop right away. He was known to his bullies as "fall" because 'he was always on the ground'. Really, it was because they were pushing him there. But when his friends started embracing the name and using it as a nickname, it stopped. The bullying stopped there as he always had somebody to help him if he needed it as well. And once puberty hit, he became the protector for everybody in the group and wanted them to rely on him. He was seen as the nice guy by everybody from then on and he was considered the one to pick up the pieces of everybody's lives. When he finally turned twelve, he received the first alteration to his eyes and the tattoo followed later.

His teenage years were the most entertaining and adventurous. These years were the ones where his friends began to get into the various things that could make or break their lives, whether they were relationships, jobs or illegal substances. His 'job' became twice as hard at that moment. Did he ever try any of the things his friends did? Sure, peer pressure was always something that seemed to get to him. But he wouldn't let any of it claim him so he just stayed to drinking a bit while at the group parties. Now, he does the same sort of thing, just hoping for the moment to come where he's appreciated a bit more. He just wants the day to come where he means something to somebody. Maybe then, he'll be able to focus on himself. Or maybe that's just a long shot.

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