Spirea Draesaire - District 11

Spirea is a girl of average height for a fifteen year old, 5'3". She is quite thin, like most of the people of District 11, due to the shortage of food. She has a small, curved, downward swooping nose and small pale pink lips.

Her brunette hair is usually braided and pulled away from her face. Spirea has jade green eyes, which are very observant. Her eyes are somewhat dull, but on the outside of the pupil, they are shiny and bright.

When working in the fields, Spirea usually wears a simple white chemise as a top and dark brown leggings under a short tan skirt. The short length of the skirt allows her to move freely instead of having to pull it up. It also lets her run more freely than only allowing her legs to move a little bit.

Her skin was pale when she was a baby, the usually skin tone for a caucasion baby, but years in the sun has tanned it so it is a light doe color. Spirea doesn't mind that, though. She likes it and thinks it complete her beauty. Spirea's hands are somewhat callused, but most of the skin is still soft, thanks to her mother's remedies.

Spirea is brave and is never afraid to speak her mind. She often recieves a small smack on the back from one of the other workers to remind her that one wrong word, and the Peacekeepers could have her life. She is often heard singing her songs or chattering away to a worker who isn't really listening.

She often tucks some of the seeds she plants into a pocket that is located inside her skirt to take it to their little family garden in hopes to gather enough food for her younger siblings, risking her life. She has never been caught doing this. The workers don't even know.

She is quick tempered and often angered whenever the Hunger Games rolls around. So many times, she has to watch tributes from her District get killed. She also fears for her two siblings, who are above the age of twelve, when it is time for the Reaping.

The only time she is ever frightened is when the Reaping happens or when one of her family members is sick. She already lost her father to pnuemonia, she was ready for another funeral in the family when one of them caught the slightest cough. She pleads the Peacekeepers to let whoever in her family is sick to let them rest. They often do allow this, fearing that the ill person would contaminate the crop.

Spirea doesn't think before she acts, and one time almost fell out of a tree. She was competing against her friend to see who could climb higher. This is something she can't control and is one of her greatest flaws.

Spirea has five siblings, all younger than she is. Two are above the age of twelve. Spirea lost her father to pnuemonia. Her mother can barely provide for the family, too weak to work in the field, cleans off the crops that are harvested. Her mother is always grateful to the strict Peacekeepers for letting her do this instead of making her work. She believes that everyone is good, no matter how bad they act.

Spirea has attended school in the past, but quit right after she turned ten, when her father died. She is smarter than the rest for her age, though she quit school so early. The books she reads are usually more than five hundred pages long and have many confusing words. She likes to learn languages, but the languages she is fluent in, other than English, are French and Chinese. Her greeting most of the time is "Nin hao!" or "Bonjour!"

When she turned twelve, she took out tesserae, entering her name seven times into the Reaping, one automatically and six for the tesserae. She has never been picked, though her named has been entered twenty-one times. This helps her family much, but her mother is such a worrier, that she sometimes gets light headed when she just thinks about it. Spirea often has to rush home from the fields to take care of her mother.

Spirea's childhood was filled with gathering and hunting, trying to help provide for her family, which, even with everyone healthy, was poor. She loved to spend time with the rabbits and squirrels that were around the berry bushes. Her favorite animal to spend time with was the mockingjays. She would sing songs that were happy and hopeful, and the birds would spread it out all over the fields to the workers.