Joseph Russel -district 7-

Joseph was born with blonde hair, but some how, as he got older, it became black. As he got older he developed a slight tan to. His eyes are sawdust brown, which attracted alot of attention in his District. As he worked in the woods though he became very pale. He has no face freckles what so ever but a few scars on his face. One came from an ax when he first starting working for the lumber industry.

The other scars came from little incidents along the way that he doesn't even know how he got them. He wears a t-shirt most of the time and jeans, which is all his father could afford for him. He is 5'4 and weighs 145 pounds. He is kind of muscular from all the work at the saw mill.

Joseph never really had a kind heart when it came to fighting or arguing. In this kind of situation he only wanted to win. That's why he thought he would be a good tribute for the hunger games. He hated people who worked for the capitol, or anyone in authority, but he wanted to bring food to his district. And that was the main reason he wanted to be in the districts.

Joseph loved people in general. He wanted to be around them all the time. That's why he loved working. The one thing that bothered him the most about his labors was the forest, and that was because his mother died in a forest fire. But other then the one experience he was fine with the woods. But he mention of his mother mad him sad, almost spiraling into depression. Following the day of sadness would follow days of anger, and then sadness.

He wasn't exactly popular, but people liked him. He was always there to help someone, even a complete stranger. He would talk to anyone who seemed in need of a friend. And if it came down to it, he would even talk to himself about his problems. This made him disturbed though. He knew people thought it was strange for him to talk to himself but sometimes he was his only company. That infuriated him when people teased him about his conversations with him self and usually led to blind anger.

Joseph was born in the year of the 44th annual hunger games. His life was pretty good until he turned five and everything went down hill. First his little brother was born. After that his mother and father started to fight a lot. "They weren't financially prepared for a baby" they kept saying.

Then when he turned seven, his mother died in a forest fire. As time went on his father got poorer, and more withdrawn from the world and more involved in his work. He stopped enjoying the little things with his kids and was always finding ways to make money, but he was still becoming poorer by the day. Then they started to run out of food.

As Jacob got older he refused to eat small portions of food and started giving them to his little brother so he would get enough food to receive nourishment. At first his brother wouldn't accept it. Then after a while his brother started to accept it. As he got older and gave more food to him, Joseph's plates got smaller. Then one day he just gave all his food to his little brother.

Joseph steals because his mother died in a forest fire when he was 12. As he got older his father became poorer and they started to run out of money and lower on food. Joseph began to refuse to eat in order for his 7 year old brother to get enough food. Joseph decided to begin hunting so he learned to make use a knife and stashes it under his bed frame. He then started stealing and snatching things to sell to feed him and his family.