Krimson Castellaw District 12

Krimson, though a resident of the Seam, has pale skin with freckles all over her body and fiery red hair that falls in soft waves to the bottom of her shoulder blades. She is tall and thin, but strong. Her shoulders are a little too square, and her jaw a little too pointed, but her waist is small. Her nose is strait and her grey eyes, the only thing that does mark her as a resident of the Seam, are evenly spaced with arched red brows accenting them.

Krimson is often told that she smiles too much for her situation in life, but she smiles anyway, knowing that a her smile might bring another person a little more joy in life. She is also often wearing skirts and dresses, feeling as though, just because she lives in the poorest district, doesn't mean she has to dress badly. So, her clothes are always clean and pressed and she often wears a ribbon to pull back her hair. Her parents always told her she was better suited for the town than the Seam given how she dressed and looked.

Krimson's personality is a bit confusing if you don't know her. She has a very good sense of humor, but she is also very sarcastic at times and this can give people the impression that she's rude and offending. More than once a person has left her company because of a sarcastic remark she offhandedly made without thinking and she has had to go and apologize and explain about her sarcastic tenancies.

She is also very loyal and gentle. Once a person gets to know her, and moves past her sarcasm, they find the loving and caring person that Krimson is. Once she is your friend, it's very hard to get her to stop being your friend. She will stick by you and do everything in her power to help you if you need it.

Krimson has a maternal streak in her too. She loves children, and is often found playing with or caring for the children in the Seam. However, she has decided that she will never have children of her own because of where she lives. She loves children too much to ever see one of her own be taken from her by the Capital and killed for their amusement.

As you might have already guessed, Krimson hates the Capital with a passion. She often devises plans in her head to defeat them, but she knows that she would need the whole nation of Penam behind her to succeed or the Capitol would bring down it's wrath on her and everyone else. So, because of this, she just keeps her thoughts to herself, not even daring to write them down for fear of someone finding them and turning her in to the Capitol to become and Avox.

Krimson is 21 years old and the only one left in her family. Her parents died either in a mining accident or from a sickness years ago. And her one brother, only 12 at the time, was taken in the Reaping and killed by the Capitol's gamemakers in the arena.

She now lives in their old house in the Seam where, to the best of her knowledge, not only was her mother born there, but so was her grandmother, and her great grandmother. And, it was the house where Krimson figured she, and her family, would die as she had no intention of any more Castellaw children being born here or anywhere. Not after Richard's death.

Richard was her twin brother. He was taken nine years ago in the reaping and since that day, that day that she had told her best friend goodbye, Krimson had vowed to never have children of her own.

Krimson's father was killed in a mining accident not two years later, and her mother, overcome with grief over the loss of not only her son but her husband, fell ill with pneumonia and died less than three months later. It was then that Krimson began doing everything she could think of to survive each day. She did laundry for the people in town to earn enough money for food. She took the Capitol's Tessera for more food. She began growing a garden of meager vegetables in a box inside her house. In time, she expanded her garden to a small plot outside and she not only washed people's clothes, she made them too. The people in town would come to her, asking her to make their child a dress for the Reaping and she would. It was a blessing and a curse for her, because she knew the use these clothes would be made for, and she hated it, but at the same time, she needed the money to survive. So, she continued making, mending, and washing people's clothes so that she could continue living each day.