Jewel Precious District 1

Jewel Precious is a girl who takes pride in her appearance, using it to her advantage in many situations. She has long brown hair that she frequently styles to her liking. People see her around the District, and they always know she will be wearing her long light brown hair pulled away from her face with a baby blue ribbon to tie it up with. The ribbon was her aunts, a beautiful lady who was murdered in the Hunger Games at eighteen.

Her eyes are a light blue with a smoky grey resemblance to them. It is frequently pointed out to her by her “friends” that her eyes look like a sky during a thunderstorm but change to a morning blue when the sunlight hits them. Her beauty is what has brought her into her elite group of friends, the snobs of the neighborhood. She’s lacking skill at nearly every tactic of combat other than knives but her charm and exquisiteness persuaded them to reconsider her friendship and give her a chance.

She puts a great effort into dressing her nicest and keeping her body in proper shape – one of her status shall not be permitted to resemble some underprivileged individual. She dresses in the finest garments and prefers silks and lace to cotton. The more expensive the item, the more she appreciates it. There isn’t a day she doesn’t adorn her wrists and fingers with diamond bangles or emerald rings.

Her skin is sun kissed but wouldn’t be described as bronze. She gets her glow from her frequent time outside helping her grandmother in the garden and her training at school.

From training, Jewel has been blessed with a healthy well-toned body, but she is nowhere as muscular as some of the other ladies in her classes. She doesn’t apply herself enough to show her strengths physically. She is what people would refer to as “average height”, standing at a mere five feet five inches. Despite her lack of stature, she still manages to look incredibly regal.
She uses makeup on a daily bases. She loves the dark mysterious look of smoky eyes and loves to highlight her high cheekbones with a bronze blush. Everyone comments on how she looks just like her father.

With everything that has happened to Jewel, and with the way her family has treated her, she’s anything but stable. She smiles, day to day, but her grin is just her way of hiding her true depression to save herself from having to explain. Her friends wouldn’t care. They would sigh and act their best to be sympathetic but the moment she left the room they would laugh and gossip. She knew this, she’s seen this happen to others. So, she has the brains to remain silent.

She has a very short temper. If someone were to insult or hurt either her or her grandmother she would snap. When she gets mad, it’s in a quick spurt of violence/fury then she’s alright again. She tries her best to control her anger, but living in a house of hotheads has rubbed off on her. She uses her anger to her advantage while in combat. She is of average skill in training, but is really terrible at up-close combat and has poor stamina. She can sprint but only for short periods of time.

Her lack of affection has her at a disadvantage and leaves her rather gullible. She craves attention, craves someone to be close to her. This is a very bad quality for if someone were to be sincerely nice to her or comfort her, she may become clingy and/or get emotionally attached to them.
Strengths: She has a fairly good aim, a good heart, and is very mature/ responsible for her age. (She gained this experience through frequently acting as a caretaker for her grandmother who is mentally not there) She is intelligent and good actress. She knows how to play up a role and make people like her. She is a major people person, her smile brightens a situation and is one of her best features.

Hobbies: Gardening and going for night walks. She dislikes the sun, preferring the calm of the night. Her favorite activity is to go on her nightly strolls down the streets. Something about the shadows in the corners and the moonlight illuminating her path makes her completely at ease.

Illness/injuries: She is lactose intolerant and that has given her weaker bones than others which seriously affects her performance in combat.

Weaknesses: She’s an emotional wreck at times and is very sensitive. The slightest insult hurts her but she doesn’t show it to anyone. She’s weak and despite her training she’s still not very talented when it comes to fighting. She has broken her wrists many times in training due to her lack of calcium and can easily fracture them again. It even hurts her to punch something too hard.

Opinions on the Hunger Games and the Capitol: She loves the Capitol- with their beautiful clothing, unique style, and friendly escorts- and she is really indifferent to the Hunger Games. She doesn’t love them, but she doesn’t hate them either. After the death of her aunt, her adoration to the Hunger games withered and now it is just a yearly event that brings back bad memories. She loves the idea of being a Tribute, though. The thought of being adored, of being cheered on, of getting people to love her, it is all she could possibly dream of. So, regardless of the loss given to her through the games, she still yearns to be in them just to experience the few days of fame.

Her mother married into a house of great wealth, her father is the actual reason behind their luxurious lives. He is an executive manager in the Gem Corporation and specializes in the Diamond inspection. It’s a fabulous job that is incredibly hard to come by. The Capitol even sends the Precious family food only found in other districts -special breads and corns only available in the District harvesting them or the Capitol.

Jewel Precious is an only child and this can be a blessing as well as a curse. It’s a very good thing for her family – one less person to feed or care for, not that it really matters with their economic stature- but for her, it’s a total lack of comfort and friendship. She doesn’t have a pet or any other close things to vent her emotions with. All she has is her blissfully deranged grandmother, a cold and heartless mother, a condescending father and a group of shallow so-called friends that she keeps around for her image.

Her aunt was her best friend growing up, being only seven years older than her. Her aunt Silken was twenty years younger than Jewel’s mother. When Jewel was only eleven, Silken was reaped and murdered in the games. It was a shock to everyone. Her death left Jewel distressed and in deep emotional turmoil. Her mother didn’t even seem to notice Jewel’s suffering, and brushed off her nightly tears as a way of being dramatic for attention.

When Jewel fails to bring home impressive grades in training or classes, her father is always the first to punish her. Whether it’s a night without supper, a week without her night walks or an actually beating with his leather belt, Jewel will pay for her irresponsible behaviour one way or another. Rarely is she given leniency in her family. She must be proper, she must be talented and she must be strong to survive.

Her grandmother is her closest family member. Despite her absence from reality or proper functioning mind, she is the sweetest seventy year old lady Jewel has ever known. The Precious family assumes that her mind went blank when Silken died. She went nuts, absolutely vacant of rationality. Her name is Crystal and she has the biggest fascination with flowers- preferably the lilies and roses. Jewel spends her free afternoons helping her grandmother in the garden, planting the flowers for her and taking out the pesky weeds. Her grandma chooses the plants and points where to put them but Jewel does the work for her. It’s a beautiful duo and the finishing project is always a garden of color and a beautiful display of artistic talent. Its Jewels way of keeping sane. A simple way keeping herself from slipping into a pool of depression. Her grandmother is her grounding source in the world.