America Haywood - Capitol [FINISHED]

Very light brown skin, skinnny, flat-chested and short. America has green eyes and jet black hair that is cropped in a pixie cut. She always wears flat shoes and loud dresses. She always wears eye-shadow and bright lipstick to stand out from the crowd even in the Capitol. America has never had any surgery or anything but some have said she is quite pretty.

She is quite short for her age but detests heels, her eyes are piercing and she has a strong bone structure. Her face is small and angular, she wears feathers in her hair (usually green) and usually her clothes are hand made by her which means she draws a lot of attention. Anything silk and shimmery is great for America! She shops and wears only the most expensive garments funded by her parents. She hates being small because she thinks it is why she is finding it hard to become famous so her aim is to stand out in the crowd by the clothes and makeup she wears.

America is an up and coming artist who expresses her emotion through her art. She can be really sinical and sarcastic towards the people she hates and she is only lovely to those in her clique of friends. She is ambitious, egotistic and enjoys being in the limelight but this leaves her with very little close friends. She lives in a large apartment in the Capitol and spends most of the time either doing art, shopping or trying to catch the public eye.
Single and usually lonely, this is what bothers America most - that her friends are always too busy to see her and no guy wants a short little girl like America.

She can't handle watching the games and so ends up behaving differently in public than she does behind closed doors. She secretly hates the hunger games and wishes she could do something about it. She can often get angry over little things, be paranoid but on a good day in front of the people she loves she is a bubbly 26 year old with an artistic talent. America doesn't think much of the districts apart from the fact that it means she is provided with so many art products. She had been in a relationship once but the guy had been set up by her parents and that ended badly.

There is no stopping America from being who she is, a highly determind woman who knows she will be successful from her art. There is only one thing she needs more than success and that is to find love as well as friends. She is not easily demotivated but her struggles include not being very good at meeting knew people (she immediately despises them) and sometimes being overambitious. America sometimes comes across as attention seeking and maybe even rude, but she just wants to succeed and it frustrates her that she has no one beside her to tell her to keep going. Even though it may look like she has a great life, money can't buy happiness or friends and this is when the going gets tough.

The Haywood family has been known as one of the best doctors surgeries in the Capitol and it had always been a dream for Lucinda and Abel Haywood's children to take over the business. America believed in this dream up until she got interested in art and now she regularly falls out with her parents. She used to live in a large house in the centre of the city and was taught how the Games were a life-long lesson: never disobey those who are above you. Her parents are the stiff-upper lip type that seem to almost despise America now that she has gone down the art business but nevertheless they still pay for her accommodation and basic needs. They are good to America in this way, but face to face they are not the nicest type.

America has one older brother named Cassius who is careless and rubbish at almost everything so is saved by the family business. However, knowing this her parents wanted America to have the surgery, but America is set on following her dream and climbing higher up the ladder of success and fame. She went against everything her parents taught when she stepped out into the real world and discovered that the Games are so brutal and not necessary. Nevertheless, she says nothing to no one and keeps her head down. She moved further out of the city centre when she was eighteen and has lived there for six years by herself. However she has one childhood friend, Faunia, who lives in the same building as America and they help each other out.

America is not widely known for her art but locally she makes a few sales here and there. Her art has been recognised a couple of times, though, and this has meant she has been able to circulate with the likes of past game makers and friends of the President himself. Her dream one day is to design an outfit for the games. Her friend, Faunia, has already established herself as a television presenter for a small evening programme, but even she is more famous than America. America uses this as motivation to become successful too - Faunia is someone she respects and looks up to.