Anemone Marsh - District four [DONE]

Anemone has delicate and petite facial features that could be considered attractive, although she herself doesn't really see herself as attractive, average would be more like it. She has straight dark brown, almost black hair that has a tendency to look oily from the sea air, her lips are considerably full and wide and would be her most prominent feature if it was not for her bright hazel green eyes.

Her once pale skin was given a distinctly olive tinge by the days spent in the mild mid Atlantic sun hauling in overfull fishing nets alongside her father, her strenuous physical activity aboard the vessels also led to her athletic build. As is tradition in district 4, from the moment a toddler is steady on his feet, she/he is compelled to learn the trade of his respective district. Therefore, in order to avoid punishment Anemone's parents followed the rules to the letter. A trident was thrust into her left hand, a net into her right. The many long days of casting her nets into the sea and laboring to pull them out again contributed to her sculpted and athletic build and stamina like few others would ever have the luck to enjoy. Anemone is almost a part of the ocean, she can endure years of hardship and days of near intolerable hunger.

As perfect as the above mentioned facts may sound, Anemone also has many flaws in her features which she's self conscious about, for example the fact that she's easily a head shorter than most of the other people in the district, which at first caused a lot of difficulty for her on the boats, she couldn't reach things as easily as others and used to be mocked as result of this shortcoming, no pun intended. She also has very chaffed and calloused hand with numerous tiny scars on them and on her body. She doesn't really put much time into her appearance, although she's a clean person, to her there are so much more important things than attractiveness. She keeps her nails short and her her a manageable length, the prettiest item of clothing she owns is her reaping dress, which she outgrew years ago. Her shoulders are also much broader than that of a average woman her age, her overall appearance makes her look both intimidating and harmless at the same time. She's also extremely flat chested, but it's the one thing she's never been too bummed out about, to her big breasts are attractive yes, but she figures it would be very uncomfortable for her.

As is to be expected of someone with such little regard to her physical appearance, Anemone is a full on tomboy, she won't really be caught in a situation where things like clothes, flowers or anything too girly are being discussed. She's a very reserved person, she socializes yes, but never reveals too much about her past or her current emotional state, you could say she's a good actress, but in fact she's just a bit self-preserving, she was raised to believe that showing ones emotions is dangerous, it could give people a way of hurting you even more that you've already been hurt in the past. Besides that she also feels like everyone in the district has enough of their own things to deal with, she doesn't want to burden anyone with the job of listening to her roller-coaster of emotions and issues.

Those who are close to Anemone are the lucky, or sometimes unlucky ones to experience her fun side, she for instance loves playing pranks on people, which can sometimes border or pure heartlessness, she has a tendency to not think things through properly and sometimes end up traumatizing someone undeserving, like the time she sneaked into her neighbor's house and hid the tesserea they received that day, there were many tears because that idiotic stunt and she ended up feeling bad about it for months afterward.

Anemone's temper is shorter than most people, on some days the littlest things can send her into a rage, which most of the time results in excessive cursing and the flying of objects and in some extreme cases even violence it's not that she's a bad person, not at all she just has no control over this specific emotion, maybe because she has such a tight leash around most of the others.

She's a talkative person, but she doesn't talk about gloomy things easily, she keeps her focus on positive things to lift the usually depressing mood of both her and the people around her. You wont find a person more loyal to their friends and family, there's close to nothing she wouldn't do for those she cares about, she'll take lashings just to protect the, and for her father and little sister, she'll even take a bullet to the head.

Anemone is as far from harmless as it comes, she's quick on her feet and always ready for a fight, but hurting someone for no reason isn't something that comes easily to her, she's always defending those who can't defend themselves. Fortunately she was never reaped for the Hunger Games, she would've been able to win, but her conflicting emotions with regards ti taking people's lives who's only fighting for their own would've torn her apart. She would've done it though, but it would've changes her forever, that's for sure. In the arena she wouldn't give up her own life for anyone, not even her fellow tribute, deep inside she has a switch that when flicked could turn off her humanity and kick her self-preserving side into fifth gear.

To sum it all up, Anemone is self preserving (When it comes to her emotional well being), self sacrificing (when it comes to her physical well being or her family), loyal, spontaneous and short-tempered.

Like most people in Panem, with the exception of the people from the Capital, Anemone's past is filled with depressing events and tragedy. The first fifteen years of her life was as good as it could possibly get in district four, she, her mother Palma and father Riprap had enough to live off, they never lived in luxury, but then again, no one other than the mayor and peacekeepers did.

Anemone didn't start off working on the boats, from the age of five she worked with her mother weaving nets by the dock when she wan't at school and on Sundays her father would teach her how to fish and fight which to him was the two most important skills for anyone possess. He didn't go easy on her on account of her being a girl either, he was actually much harder on her than he would've been on his son if he had, which he would've if Palma didn't miscarry when Anemone was ten years old.

When Anemone was sixteen years old she had her first same-sex crush, she never felt attracted to boys at all and always felt confused and scared about it. She and this eighteen year old girl never even spoke to each other but Anemone couldn't help to be pulled toward her, she even left her letters on her porch telling her about herself and her feelings, never mentioning the fact that she's a girl. Late one night when going to drop off another letter Anemone fount a note left for her by this girl, asking her to meet her near the beach at 3am that morning. Needless to say the girl was taken aback and shocked to find Anemone there waiting for her, she didn't even talk to her, she merely shook her head in disbelieve, turned around and ran away.

Later that day Anemone found the girl in the gallows in front of the justice building, being punished for her seemingly sneaky behavior earlier that morning. The peacekeepers were under the impression she was either trying to run away or sabotage something. Anemone was too late to try and stop the lashing the girl received only minutes before she arrived in the square.

There were never any word exchanged between them but when their gazes met for a moment, the hateful look the girl gave her made tears run down her cheek instantaneously, they've been avoiding each other since.

It was two years after the above mentioned event at the age of eighteen when Palma fell pregnant with Sunshine, Anemone's little sister, but happiness soon turned into disaster when time came for the birth of Sunshine, Palma lost consciousness shortly after and went into cardiac arrest, no one was able to save her. The death of her mother crushed Anemone, they were always close, more than she was with her father. She still holds some resentment toward her sister even though she knows deep inside it's not her fault.

Two days after Palma's death Anemone requested a job on the boats, it wasn't a common thing for a woman to request and it took some convincing but she was eventually allowed to. She did it because she didn't want to work on the docks anymore, it reminded her too much of her mother.

Since then Anemone has earned her respect on the boats and has been able, although it's been a struggle, to help her father keep food on the table. It's a bit harder than it was when her mother lived, they go to bed hungry a lot, but they're surviving.