Arthur Valentin ~District 4~ ((Finished))

Arthur has a very forlorn appearance and for good reason. He has messy dark brown hair, his bangs often covering his left eye. His eyes were a deep sea green, much like the color of the ocean that he lived next to, but they were sad eyes and often downcast. His skin was smooth and pale however his hands were rough from hard work. Arthur was fit and muscular due to hauling fishing nets and rowing large boats. He carried heavy objects nearly everyday. He is tall and his posture is good, sometimes when not working you would swear he was from one of the Career Districts.

His clothes are normal nothing out of the ordinary, usually a t-shirt and some terribly tattered jeans, when fishing he wore a cap that had belonged to his brother. When reaping day would come, around he dressed in a plain white shirt and a pair of black pants both of which was given to him by a neighbor after her son disappeared.

Arthur is a very calm person and keeps to himself as much as possible, the only interactions are between his fellow anglers and people at the market. Because of his tragic past, he has always appeared sad to others who know him and knew his family. Arthur has always strived to do his best in all things, never trying to let anyone down; the thought of failure is something disgusting to him. Everything he has succeeded at in the past he shows pride in, and definitely shows pride in his every day work. He is proud to be from District 4, as he says "There is no nobler a people than those of District 4."

Arthur has never had much of a romantic life, he is constantly trying to support himself, and whenever there is a job to be done is there and ready to do it. Although he has never been in a relationship he would like to, actually he craves it more than anything he has watched men and women in the District who seem to be in love, it seemed like a wonderful thing. He realized a couple of years ago that he was bisexual. He found some of the boys that were his age that worked with him quite handsome, but he also found the women in the district beautiful. He is shy when it comes to talking to other teens in the community. In fact, he feels some of the people already knew that he liked men and women; this of course was another reason he kept to himself.

Although it does not happen often, if his late parents and brother are ever talked of badly he becomes very angry, several times he has been pulled out of fights by peacekeepers. He could care less if he himself was ever insulted.

Arthur's parents Jacob and Olva Valentin married at the age of twenty-three and two years later the lovely couple gave birth to Alexander. Two years later Arthur was born Alex and Art the two brothers were called, they were taught by their mother until they were old enough to attend school.

In school Arthur and Alex were very well known, his parents were well respected and because of that so were their children. Arthur was picked on a couple of times for being so small, and each time Alex came to his rescue.

When Art turned sixteen his brother, now 18 left school to help their parents. Alex began working with his father and mother on the sea, hauling the heavy fishing nets on one of the largest fishing vessels in District 4. On art's 17th birthday he received, the most awful of news while on his way home from school, his neighbor and family friend stopped him before he walked into the home. "Arthur, lad there is something that I must tell you... I just don't know how I’m going to say it." The old man said. Art smiled at his neighbor and patted him on the shoulder. "Come on, you can tell me anything, no need to be nervous about it, if it's something that needs to be passed on to mom and dad, you know your welcome to come inside. They should be home by now." Art said continuing to smile reassuringly at the man. The old man shook his head and looked down as he took Arthur's hand into both of his. "Lad they aren't home, I’m afraid they'll never come home...there was an accident with the vessel a couple of hours ago, no one survived." The words devastated Art, of course at first he did not believe the old man but when he realized it was true he shut the world out, he did not allow anyone to help him. He kept entirely to himself.

After almost starving to death, he realized that he could not wallow in pity anymore; he realized that if he wanted to live he would have to start working. And he did, he worked hard every day and helped his neighbors who would always pay him in some way, with food, matches, clothes... things he might need. He took care of his parent’s house where he continues to live. Sometimes though he breaks down and cries, remembering his parents and his brother. He is almost 18 now, and it would be a year since his parents died. His plans were not even to observe his own birthday but to visit the grave of his family.

New Character, quite proud of him!!!