Osage Reddenbok - District 7

Osage isn't exactly normal. Even if you can overlook what's on the inside, her outside isn't exactly pretty. Her few redeeming qualities aren't really enough to save the rest of her; she's got beautiful eyes, or at least her brother tells her. Stormy blue and round, the give a gray sort of palor to her skin and bone structure. She's got high cheekbones, which she got from her mother, and a thin upper lip, which she got from her father. Her hair would be pretty, if she left it alone. Light beachy-blonde and naturally curly, it could be the envy of the district, but Osage can't be trusted around scissors. She hacked it a few months after her 15th birthday, cropping it shorter than her brother's. A few hunks in the front and her bangs were left alone, giving her overall hair a choppy, uneven feel.

Small hands with stubby, chewed-off nails and destriyed nailbeds are constantly scratching at her neck and cheeks; a nervous tick of hers. Scratch marks riddle her arms, and her posture is rather hunched over. When straightened up, she stands at 5 feet 7 inches, but she's underweight due to her mistrust of anyfood that her brother doesn't feed her. She's not particularly well-endowed in the chest and her legs are skinny, and if you lifted her shirt, you could probably count many of her ribs.

Osage doesn't care what she wears. She mostly wears what her brother picks for her, which usually consist of either his hand-me-downs or the odd dress or skirt he buys for her for holidays. She absolutely hates shoes, and never ever wears them. She's built up an impressive layer of callouses on the soles of her feet, so walking in the woods doesn't bother her much. She likes coats with hoods to hide her face and hates scarves; she complains that they try to choke her.

Osage doesn't try to be crazy, like many kids her age seem to think. She wants so desperately to be normal like everyone else, but can't be. Osage is a damaged kid, but then again, who isn't? Riddled with nervous ticks, she's constantly paranoid someone is watching her. She hates the Capitol with a passion, but not for the right reasons. She thinks they control people through the water, the air, their food...that's why she distrusts any food her brother, Bark doesn't give her. She also has an almost pathilogical fear of peacekeepers, and much more so than the average District 7 citizen.

But past the crazy, Osage really isn't so bad. She may have a low self-esteem but she actually does aspire to have actual friends at some point. She's extremely determined to become the type of person she thinks Bark is; strong, confident, social, kind. In reality, Osage is very nice, self-sacrificingly so in fact. She verges on the point of being a door-mat, but at this point, her main priority is just to be normal. She'll work on the other bits when she crosses those bridges.

But Osage isn't completely abnormal. There is one thing that does make her similar to her non-dellusional female peers; she gets crushes. Big-time crushes. While the way she shows affection (spying from around corners, staring longingly from across the room at the back of her crush's head, ect) she falls for exactly the same kind of guy all other girls go for; tall, handsome, funny, and so on and so forth. One other thing is that she can recognize socially-acceptable humor. She teases her brother on occasion, and sometimes cracks a joke, but she does tend to laugh at inappropriate times or when she's especially nervous. She has been known to break out hysterically laughing when extremely agitated, but not because anything's funny. She associated laughing with being calm and relaxed, and when she's stressed, all she wants to be is calm and relaxed.

Born to Olive and Frank Reddenbok, Osage was second born, and named after her mother's favorite tree; the osage orange. Her middle name is, in fact, Orange. But it would seem naming their little girl was her mother's drying wish; Olive passed away shortly after Osage was born. Raised by her sociopathic father and brother, who was only older by 14 months, she didn't have the best childhood ever.

The Reddenbok's are not poor, if that is the only credit one could give to Frank. He may be horribly neglectful of his children, but he never let them starve. And even if he did make them work their fingers to the bone and expected perfect grades from school, he didn't let them die. Perhaps it was this horrible expectation of his children that made Osage crack, or maybe it was his constant condemnation of her; Frank loved Olive, and in the back of his mind, he always blamed Osage for her death.

Even at a very young age, Bark began caring for his sister. She grew very close to him, regarding him almost as a father, and as a result has grown very protective of him, and he of her. She has a hard time doing things on her own, and over the years, Bark has been doing alot of her work in the forests and in school, seeing as he's about ten times stronger and more focused on grades than she is. Osage wishes her life could have been normal, but on some level, she realized Bark has made it a little bit better.