Madaea Thyme - District 4

Madaea's shiny light blonde hair is straight and reaches down to her ribs. It reflects light and is very easy to manage. It is always let down because it is so beautiful. It sadly is Madaea's one beauty. Her eyes are a dull grey. She has one slightly lazy eye, which Madaea find interesting to observe in the mirror. There is not one beauty one can find in her eyes, except they are stormy and make Madaea look sad or angry. Her eyes are slender, and there is a small, unsightly scar above the left one. Her eye brows are almost invisible, just like most blondes. This bothers Madaea. Madaea's face is clear of acne, except for a small patch of pimples she can easily hide with her bangs.

Madaea is skinny and short, about 5'1". She is neither tan or pale, more of a peachy color. Her arms are adorn with scars, as well as her legs. She often appears as tired or sad. She has many scars on her face from her father's beatings.

Madaea is very catious of who she is with. Why shouldn't she be? The world is full of dangers. Peacekeepers everywhere, just waiting for a chance to kill somebody. She often does not go out after dark and is accompanied everywhere by her friend, Toulon.

Madaea is quick tempered, sadly. Whenever someone says something bad about her or Toulon. She is sure to come at you with a knife, holding the tip against the bottom of your chin. Many small things provoke her, and she acts too overly dramatic about it.

Madaea is quiet, always trying to keep her business. As said before, she is easily provoked. That is the only time she does not keep to herself. Other than that, she will stick to the far side of the street or always be found in a corner.

Madaea doesn't really talk to people, unless the talk to her first. Even then, she only replies with one word answers. If she does trust you though, she'll open up and you can see how she really is. She's funny and comes up with her own hilarious jokes. She has a laugh like a bell. She loves to draw, and she'll draw the most amazing pictures for you. She will scrounge all of District Four for new books to read.

During child birth, Madaea's mother, Laina, died. Madaea's father always blamed her for this. He was more cruel to her than her older siblings and gave her less food than the others. When Madaea turned twelve, her father made her sign up for tesserae twenty times. She was ordered to sleep outside in the cold. Her father often tried to kill her, not wanting her to live at a community home, because she would still be alive, while his beloved wife was not.

Hapiness spread over Madaea when her father died from the flu when she was fifteen. By then, all of her siblings were out of the house and married, leaving her the house. She lived happily, having her own rules. The only thing that troubled her was how she would pay for the house. She mustered up her courage and started to work as a house keeper for Mr. and Mrs. Nalbsies, a pair of neighbors she feared. Over time, she saw that she didn't have anything to fear from them. They were a loving young couple. They even paid her extra once every two weeks and gave her a dinner to take home.

Madaea usually wore a dress she made out of the large grain sacks that she had to ask for, but people were happy to give them to her. As she turned older, she started wearing her mother's dresses, which she had grown into. They were very pretty and made out of nice fabric. They were from when Laina was a teenager and rich.