Lilly Singer ||D12||

Lilly is short, stand her tallest at 160 CM, or around 5'2".
She weighs in at 120 pounds, a normal weight for her
size. Lilly has beautiful pale skin that offsets her dyed
hair. Her hair color often changes, but she normally goes
back to Red at one point. Few remember her natural color,
which is dark brown. Lilly has a round face which her
older brother says give her a babyish look. She has black
eyes, that stands out because of her pale skin. Her grandmother
often tells her she looks like a elegant china doll.

Lilly dresses in a way
that reflects her status. She does her best to mimic the
capitol styles, something her grandmother always
tells her to do. When she can get away from her grandmother's
fashion tastes,she dresses in simple, yet elegant, dresses. She
normally had her hair in a simple ponytail or bun.

Lilly has been raised as a polite girl. She remains silent
until spoke to, as her grandmother had drilled into her
head. A girl, who is yet a woman, should not speak out
of turn, her grandmother had always said. When you
are a full grown woman, then you can speak freely. She
tries to avoid speaking at all, one of her own rules. She
believes speaking creates unnecessary problems. She
knows that she can't go through life not speaking at all,
but she prefers to remain silent and let other's do the
talking. She prefers to observe, and file the information
away for later use on how to handle the speaker.

Lilly can come off as a cold person who is only polite for
society's sake. She does not know how to handle people,
the rules of the Capitol society her grandmother loved so
much never seemed to apply to the residents of District 12.
The only thing her grandmother taught her that she found
worked was not to speak out of turn. Not speaking out of turn
made her seem cold to the other residents, who avoided
her at all costs. That only made her more closed off to others.
She took a darker look on her life. Her turn to speak would
not come. Nobody would ever want to hear her speak.

The only comfort in the Coal district she could find was through
the one time she left her voice free, when she sang.
That's the only thing about Lilly that she liked about herself,
her voice. When she sang, it didn't matter if anybody wanted
to hear her. It didn't matter at all, because she wanted to hear
her sing. When she sang, she could feel all the problems she
had fade away.

Lilly comes from a wealthy merchant family, one that could
trace it's roots back to the beginning of Panem. Her
Grandmother would tell her that their family came from
a place called Asia, and that the Singer Family was a proud
Asian family, still rich in their culture despite holding a
normal Panemian surname. Lilly knew that was far from
the truth. They where Panemian, through and through. They
held more Capitol culture then anything. The Capitol was
what she was raised with. Her grandmother
always pushed it into her head, when she grew up,
she would go to the Capitol, like her Grandmother
failed to do.

Lilly and her older brother where raised by their grandmother,
after their parents died. Lilly's father had been a noble man
before he died. Her grandmother hated him, and told Lilly
that her father was a no-good lawbreaker, but her
brother said differently. He told her the story of how their
father died. He saved a poor man from being killed by the
peacekeepers for stealing. Their father stood up and took
the blame for a crime he did not commit. Their mother
followed their father shortly after that, taken by sickness.
Lilly was three when she lost them, her brother was
eight.

As a result of her Grandmother's way of raising her, of
having "do not speak out of turn; a little girl should not
speak unless spoken to" drilled into her head, Lilly became
detached. At school, she did not speak unless somebody
asked her a direct question. This put other children off,
and they started to stop speaking to her. The only one who
spoke to her at school was her older brother and that
was only when he wasn't busy with his friends. When she
told her grandmother of her problems at school, looking for
advice, she was told "Why do you care what they think? You
do not need friends from District 12! They will only hold you back
from going to the Capitol. You do not need them Lilly. You are
better then the other children, because you are not better then
them. Let them have their fun and games, they are going
to be stuck here for the rest of their lives, unless they get
picked for the Hunger Games. But you, you will get an invitation
from the Capitol, and you will go and be show your worth
as a Singer woman." Instead of making her feel better,
these words made her feel worse. It made her feel
even more alone.