Alaska Hilt, District 12

Alaska stands around 5'5"/6" and is of small build. She is naturally skinny but because of the poverty and malnutrition that affects all of District 12, she is underfed and her body shows it. She has a slightly sunken face and some of her bones protrude more than they should. However, she is not dangerously underweight.

She has light blonde hair that falls in soft, natural waves to the small of her back. Her eyes are as blue as a clear sea and her complexion is pale considering the substantial amount of time she spends outdoors. She has a few light freckles across her nose that only become noticeable on sunny days. When she spends a lot of time in the sun, her hair turns golden.

She is very pretty with naturally straight teeth. She doesn't realize the effect she has on people sometimes - when the sunlight catches her in the right way, she is simply dazzling. However despite her beauty, most boys have given up trying to win her affections because of her inability to befriend anybody.

Alaska is essentially a shy, reserved girl at first. She has never been comfortable around new people because she never knows how to put herself across in order for people to instantly like her. She has low self-esteem but is definitely not a pushover. She has underlying temper issues that sometimes are difficult to control, but she mostly keeps a tight lid on it and keeps herself out of trouble.

She is light-footed and quiet; this often startles people as nobody ever hears her approaching. Rather than walking she almost skips, or sort of dances. It's like her feet barely touch the ground. She is independent and mostly prefers her own company, however this is mainly because she has never got on that well with anyone from her district. She often craves the company of another person - someone to confide in and someone to take her mind off the ever-present hunger in her stomach. She finds that she gets along better with males than other girls. She thinks girls are too complicated (and being one, she would know) so she prefers to keep her distance from them.

Nobody in the district knows that much about Alaska because she keeps to herself. She poses neither a threat nor causes much interest among people, so they generally leave her alone. However there is a side of Alaska that nobody gets to see because it has never had to show. She may be quiet and thoughtful and dainty but she is most certainly not made of glass. Her bubbling temper, her nimble speed and her ability to climb insane heights are all useful yet secret attributes. She is light because she is underweight and so it doesn't take much upper body strength for her to lift herself up several feet of branches of a tree, nor does she find it difficult to perch there, unnoticed, without even rustling a leaf. Having so much alone time as a child meant she was left to find her own entertainment, which often ended in climbing the one tree she had in her back yard. She used to climb and sit and watch everyone in the square go about their business.

The few people who are actually able to get a conversation out of Alaska find that she has a very dry sense of humour and she is very sarcastic. This is difficult to get used to and most of the time, people don't know when she is joking and when she is being serious. This amuses her and uses it for her own entertainment. She is intelligent and has always been top of her class, for she never had anything to distract her from her lessons. She is diligent and a conscientious worker. She doesn't like to be told what to do, but she knows that the only way to keep herself out of trouble is to follow the orders she is given. She knows she must comply in order to succeed in life. There are two fronts to Alaska when you first meet her - either she is hard and stony-faced, or she is so innocent and naive that you could only think there is nothing in her brain except cotton wool. If Alaska distrusts you, she will not let you in and she will freeze you out until you leave and are no longer a threat. However if she is just simply not interested in knowing you, she will act dim until you tire of her. In effect, she knows exactly how NOT to form relationships with people but knows nothing about the opposite.

Alaska is an only child and she lives in a small house in District 12 with her father. Her mother died in childbirth, so she never got the chance to know her. Her father works in the mines almost seven days a week, so Alaska barely spends time with him either. Yet she loves him more than the world, because he is the only flesh and blood she has and he has also kept her alive for the past seventeen years, so in theory, she owes him.

Alaska doesn't remember much about her childhood except for the fact that it was lonely. She went to school like the other children, but she never bonded with any of them. Except one. A boy named Arthur. They were best friends for the first two years of school, until he passed away because his family starved. I mean, everyone in the district was starving. But you got those handfuls of people who couldn't even just drag themselves along. There is only so much starvation a human body can take. Arthur's gave up before he even had a chance to live. Alaska never talks about Arthur and she never thinks about him. She (admittedly) barely remembers him, but she remembers the feeling of loss when he had passed away and thinks that this is why she has never let herself get close to anybody since.

Her father never mentions anything about other family members so as far as Alaska is aware, it is just the two of them. Daniel Hilt is not an affectionate man but he is hard-working and determined. Alaska admires these qualities about him. She can't help but feel that he resents her some, almost as if it was her fault that the love of his life had died giving birth to her. She never mentioned her mother around him. She dared not even think about her when he was around. She still looked up to her father because in her eyes, he was the bravest yet most broken man she knew.

Alaska had always wanted a sibling; someone she knew she could trust and she could love and they would love her too, unconditionally. She either wanted a younger sister - someone to take care of and protect, or an older brother - someone who could take care of and protect her. However, as she grew older and learned more of the atrocities of the Hunger Games, she decided that it was in God's best wish that she was never blessed with any siblings. She would never want either of them to be reaped and forced into that arena. Over her dead body would anyone she cared about be played in one of the Capitol's games. Her father never voiced his opinion on the Capitol or the Games. She knew he didn't agree with it - of course he didn't, it was barbaric. Who WOULD agree with it? - but he would never tell her so. Every year since she was old enough to be entered into the reaping, he would accompany her to the main crowds but allow her to find her own way in the clump of District 12 girls. She always told herself it was because he didn't want her to see him upset. He never allowed her to sign up for tesserae, but Alaska felt like this was simply because they could survive without it, rather than an attempt to slim her chances of being reaped. All in all, Alaska's relationship with her father is almost that of acquaintances, rather than father and daughter.

Craves companionship but has to earn her trust. Greatest fear is people leaving and the people she loves dying off because of the cruelty of the Capitol. Knows nothing about relationships of any kind but somewhere in her heart she wants to find someone she loves the way her father loved her mother, although she is too scared to open up to that in case it is taken from her too.