John Donelly (D10)-Done

John looks like your typical farm boy. He has dark brown hair and dark blue eyes. At 5'11", he isn't the tallest or the shortest but somewhere in between. He is muscular enough to pose a threat in a fight but isn't noticed for it until you size him up. He is small enough to be discrete but big enough to be intimidating. From working on the ranch with the cattle his skin is very tan. His hand's have become calloused from hard work on the ranch.

He prefers to wear his school clothes as opposed to the hand-me-downs his father gives him. In the Fall and Winter, he likes to wear a worn, brown leather jacket lined with wool. John wears a ring that was given to him by his father and only takes it of to clean the pens. His looks don't attract very much attention because of a scar he got from a bull who he had just prodded. The scar is located on his right cheek and continues down past his lips leaving him with a scowl whenever he doesn't smile. Other than his scar, he looks just like his father. He has his mother's eyes and a small blond patch on the back of his head which has become a source of some of his torment by his peers.

John is a good, old-fashioned farm boy. He is well-mannered, follows the rules, and, above all else, holds women with utmost respect. If someone needs help carrying food for the livestock, John is there. If one of the calves gets out, John is there to wrangle it back into the pens. He will help anyone, anywhere, without asking for anything in return. Sometimes his kindness had gotten him into tight spots.

John would be treated wrongly by others for being so nice. They would make fun of him and he wouldn't defend himself. He finally snapped knocked a boy much larger than him out. Everyone had found new respect for John but he and his family were appalled. John obediently spent his after schools cleaning the animal pens until the dirt was clean. In the animals he found friends who wouldn't judge him for his awkward kindness. As much as the animals helped, however, he couldn't stay out of fights. One time he even broke a boy's arm when he wouldn't give him his ring back. His father said that the ring was his grandfather's and was older then the Dark Days! He always held it near and dear to him and would do anything to defend it. If he feels that you mean harm to anyone he likes he will fight first and ask questions later. If he catches you messing with an animal on his ranch or anywhere he won't stop until you can't stand up anymore. If he sees a sick and dying animal he'll try to nurse it back to health but usually never succeeds.

He is very headstrong and isn't about to let his temper get in the way of pleasing his family. Everytime he feels like he is getting angry, he thinks about his animals and responsibilities at home and just walks away. It was hard for him to let an insult fly at first, but once his parents started making him stay away from the animals as punishment, he forced himself to. Because of his obsession with his animals, John is viewed as sort of strange and feared for his anger. Noone seems to genuinly like John except his parents. He is finally getting back into normal society and is looking for new friends and people to make him strong. He has managed his anger well so far but can never be sure what comment or gesture the next day will bring.

John was born to a pair of ranchers 14 years ago in the farthest north area of District 10. He was raised on good principles by his mother, but was also taught how to hold his own in a fight by his father. School isn't really his thing but he tries his best because he wants to please his parents. The years of helping out on the ranch have made John strong.

John is known around the small ranching community he lives in as the boy with a golden heart. If you cross one of his friends though, he won't hesitate to teach you better. His short temper has gotten him in trouble plenty of times, but the animals on the ranch always seem to calm him down. John realized that caring for animals would be his life's work and so always tries harder on the ranch then at school. The only thing that the animals couldn't fix were the games.

For two years John had seen friends come and go without a victor but this year's Games were different. He watched the story of Mace Emberstatt play out in full from the reaping that he could have been chosen in, to the victor returning home once all was said and done. Mace wasn't the same though. John had took notice of this since he first drew blood. John was curious and secretly envied Mace. He knew that his parents would never approve of him volunteering and so he waited. John started practicing with some of the pitchforks and machetes his father had around the ranch and improving his endurance for running. John felt as though he were ready for the games, he felt as though it was against his principles to want the arena, and he knew he was right.

Looking forward to rping with everyone. also do you think he could be a good trustee for the den of thieves plot?