Amaranth Raign | D10

Amy is tall and lean, standing at about 5'7". She has an athletic body with definable muscles. She isn't drop dead gorgeous, but she cleans up alright, but she isn't super voluptuous. Her long hair falls past her shoulders and is blonde with a coppery sheen. Her almond shaped eyes are the color of the ocean during a storm, a distinctive grey-blue.

Amaranth's face is mostly round, but she has a squared off chin. Her eyebrows curve gently over her eyes and are naturally not too thick. Her nose drops down and ends in an obvious point that sticks out of her face nearly perpendicularly. She has a scar across the back of her calves from being whipped as a young child. It is a thin line that is barely noticeable now, about half way up her calf. Her skin is lightly tanned, but paler then others in her district despite her being outdoors most of the time.

Amaranth is rather quite, and she keeps to herself. This isn't because she is shy, she just doesn't speak unless she has something to say. She has a hard time making friends because of this and the fact that she is brutally honest. There is almost always a serious expression on her face and she has a hard time finding humor in anything. This makes her a diligent worker though, and it is this diligence that has kept her and her family alive.

You will probably never find anyone as fiercely loyal as Amy. She doesn't take friendships lightly and fights for those she cares about. She really hates the Capitol, but keeps it to herself since she knows first hand what they do to people who speak out against them. Amaranth would do anything to get away from them, but she can't leave her family.

This young lady has had some of the fire beat out of her, but she is still flaming in some areas. She loves to learn about anything she can get her hands on. She will practice to get something perfect and doesn't stop until she has it perfect. She doesn't give up on anything easily and once her mind is set, there is no way of changing it. Amy is strong-willed and determined, but wary and skeptical of others.

On a rainy day of spring, Delia Amber Raign and Carter Tempa Raign gave birth to their fourth child and their first daughter. They named her Amaranth Kes and she wasn't born into the worse off households in District Ten. Her family were shepherds, raising sheep on their land to make wool to send to District 8. Her father was in charge of the entire herd while her three older brothers, Darus, Kaiden, and Maks, would stay with three parts of the herd and travel with them. She rarely saw them, but when she did, they loved her to bits.

For the first five years of her life, life was like this. She would see her brothers every week or so and her parents loved on her twenty-four seven. Her mother was pregnant again and as the winter approached, they brought the entire herd into the barn and they got to spend the winter together.

It was on one of these snowy days that her youngest brother, Maks, went into town to get some bread. It was pretty clear so he should have been fine. Hours passed and Darus and Kaiden were getting ready to go looking for him when Maks came home. All Amaranth really remembers after that was the screaming and watching her brothers and father race out. Her mother dragged her into the cellar and they waited. Sounds of arguing followed with shouting and fighting. Delia began to sob softly, but Amaranth just stood and waited for her father and brothers to come and get them.

As everything grew quiet, they came up and raced outside. The pristine layer of snow was upset and marks of red cut through the pureness of the white. Carter was laying, crumpled on the ground, but Amaranths brothers were gone. She and her mother dragged him inside and it was days before he woke up. He explained that the boys were gone and they wouldn't be coming back. Delia cried for days, but Amy didn't believe them. She waited for them to come home, like they would after being with the herd, but the snow thawed and they still weren't home.

Carter was crippled now and couldn't leave the house, so keeping the herd got harder. They kept the sheep close to the house, but they were still getting picked off by the packs of wild dogs that roamed the area. Amaranth would have to leave school to help with the ranch. On her last day she heard two Peacekeepers talking about three boys they had beat up and drug to the Capitol.

The five year old girl marched up to them and demanded to know where her brothers were. They laughed and turned away, but she grabbed the closest ones coat and tugged on it, demanding and answer. He backhanded her and she sprawled out on the ground. He picked up the whip he kept on his belt and slapped it across her calves. "That'll teach you," he spat at her and she pulled herself up out of the dirt and raced home.

Amaranth never went into town again. Her father taught her how to take care of the sheep and by the age of ten, she was doing what her brothers had done before her. Only now, she had to make sure she took care of the sheep because she had three mouths to feed at home. Her little brother, Fenris Daren, was born with weak legs and couldn't walk on his own, so he never went much further then the front yard. Her mother would go into town and shop and take care of Amaranths father and brother.

One day in the winter, her mother brought home a puppy. Amy told her to take it back but she insisted that Amaranth keep it to go with her as a guard to the sheep. The pup grew up to be one of the best herding dogs in the district and one of Amy's best friends. She and Brush, which is what she named him, have been taking care of their family's sheep ever since.

Play By: Skyler Samuels

Being a shepherd, Amaranth has learned how to take care of the sheep and herself. She can build a fire and knows how to find water and she knows which plants are good to eat. She can use her staff and slingshot to ward off or kill the wild packs of dogs that wander their land and she has deadly aim with the slingshot. She is very strong, since she has to carry wounded sheep miles to bring them back to the barn at times, and she can track a lost sheep in some of the worst conditions.