Elina Darkwood~District 11

APPEARANCE:

Elina is a fairly average height of 5'8, and has strong muscles throughout her body from tending the fields all day. She has a dark tan from the sun beating down on her skin, and is nearly bone thin from never getting enough to eat. Her hair is long and a natural dark brown. She has soft brown eyes, and a slightly pointed chin.

Elina is normally wearing a usual pair of torn jeans with an old white t-shirt. Her clothes don't really stay in the best of shape from the thorns on the plants, and she often has little time to mend them. Her brown boots lace up to her knees to keeps her jeans from completely ripping to shreds, and to help her feet dry when roving around on muddy land.

Most people wouldn't consider her as beautiful, for her lack of hygiene, although if she was cleaned up and taught more in the way of manners, she might look more respectable. But amongst the rest of her fellow District 11 counterparts, she's not far from normal. She's got a fairly curved and built up body, and has scars on her arms and legs, also from thorns. She never wears makeup, because with a life as busy as hers, you simply don't have time or money.

PERSONALITY:
Elina isn't too outgoing, while not being shy. She doesn't mind keeping to herself and her family. She has few friends because in truth, her mind is focused on feeding her aging grandmother and small sister. She often usually ends up having to pay with tesserae, or sneaking crops from the fields.

If someone were to get to know Elina better, they would see how kind, brave, and smart she really is. Elina is extremely loyal to those dear to her, and may even give her life to them. She doesn't fear death, but knows she has to stay alive to take care of her family.

When Elina was small, and her mother had yet to pass on, she was given a mandolin. Elina loved playing it and was quite talented until her parents were killed, and she had to start working. She now rarely has time for it, but has been increasing her skills with a knife on small plants and animals when hunting for food.

Elina never really was known to be sensitive unless people talked badly about her friends, in that case, she is short tempered. She also can viciously snap at anyone who tends to anger her. She also has a tendency to try to push people away if she sees them as a cruel type of person. On occasion, if desperate enough, she will steal from other people, which she is indeed quite good at, but these would have to be some great enemies of hers. Once you Elina's enemie, it's hard to return.

Elina truely thinks very little of the capitol and the other districts of Panem, but the Hunger Games is constantly a pain on her mind. With as much tesserae as her, it's a shock she hasn't been chosen yet. She knows she must try hard enough to raise her sister and keep her grandmother alive, but can't tell how long this will last for. In the future, her wish and goal is to have fully and properly raised her little sister until she can take care of herself. To see Leelee (Elina's little sister) thrive would make her more than fulfilled.

HISTORY:

A tiny one story house with a tiny fenced in backyard was all they had for a place to survive. Elina's parents and sister(lily, aka Leelee) could barely feed themselves, let alone survive. Eventually, her parents were caught stealing crops from the fields, and were put to death. Elina and Leelee were sent to their grandmothers to live and be taken care of. Leelee, being only 4, was too young to truly understand, and Elina, who was 15, completely understood.

Heart broken and traumatized, she now had to take care of both her dieing grandmother and Leelee, without any help. She dried her final tears of mourning and managed to pick herself up off her knees again. With a locket to remind her, and her heart to know, her parents would never leave her side.

Elina started having to work, and much harder than she expected. Not only did she have to go to school, she had to keep the house clean and find way to keep them all healthy. She would have rather just dropped out of school to help her family at home, but remembered her mother's lectures about how important it was.

Today, her little sister, who is now 7, likes to play Elina's old mandolin, and has yet to know where, or who, her true mother and father are. Elina fears soon that she will have to tell her sister about the truth. Their parents are dead, and they will never come back.

COMMENTS:

((Hey, The pictures at the top are a perfect picture of her body, but the clothes aren't something she'd be wearing. Just a note.))