Gaff "Grim" Grimsdottir (District Four)

District Four is known for producing some of Panem's "best looking people," and Gaff is no exception. Gaff has short, sleek jet black hair and an attractive tan complexion, as is typically standard for the people of District Four. And due both to the nature of his district's industry and the fact he has been trained from birth to be a career tribute, Gaff has an incredibly healthy and muscular body. Tall for his age (5'8), dark, brooding, handsome, and snarky, Gaff is quite an attractive person, even by District Four standards. Weighing more or less around 154 lbs, with a healthy BMI of 23.4, and comprising of mostly lean muscle, Gaff seems to be the very picture of the "handsome, trained killer" aura that most District Four tributes seem to emit.

To top it all off, Gaff has his district's signature "sea" green eyes, a pair perhaps even more mesmerizingly deep and uncomfortably striking than is typical of the people of District Four. And while not everyone in District Four is as attractive as the stereotype seems to suggest, Gaff certainly seems to be. However, Gaff's deceptively attractive appearance is quite often an underrated asset to a career tribute, as the Capitol runs the games, and there is no where in Panem that values exterior beauty quite like the Capitol does (their version of beauty, anyways.) But even more powerful than what it attracts is what Gaff's appearance seems to disguise. A trained, aloof, merciless killer who has become incredibly bitter over the fact that his parents had him for the sole purpose of sending him to kill or be killed in a sadistic, state sponsored power game.

It cannot be said that Gaff is a dissimulating viper of any kind, as he goes through absolutely no lengths to hide his true personality. Cold, taciturn, snarky, misanthropic, aloof, elusive, and bitter, Gaff is endearingly referred to as "Grim" by those close to him, even his parents, the only exception being his sister, who calls him by his birth name. Gaff has been trained from birth to be nothing short of a merciless killer, and feels dull hatred towards his parents for always treating him more as a career than a son. The way Gaff sees it, life has never been particularly nice to him, so he sees absolutely no reason to be nice back to it. Filled internally with ice cold rage and struggling with his parents' neglect, Gaff has never felt anything more for his family than vague distaste and contempt, as he sees them as hardly deserving of the time he could be spending rightly hating them.

That mentality entirely changes when we get into the matter of his younger twin sister, Rose. It can be reasonably said that his sister is the only person in the world Gaff even vaguely cares about other than himself. She is a haunting mirror of his personality, sweet, gentle, and disfavored by their parents. Their obvious favor of Gaff over her has always elicited complete disgust from him, and while he remains an aloof big brother, hurting his sister is just about the easiest way to provoke his unending, hellfire rage. But while Gaff may not be as heartless as he seems, having his own strict code of ethics and conduct he adheres to, his sister may not be quite as innocent and naive as she seems, and just maybe she has as much in common with her brother as he does with her...

Gaff's misanthropic and cold view of the world he lives in has earned him the nickname "Grim," one his parents encourage as it makes him sound very, very scary. He hates the state, and holds a general disdain for the lifestyle he and the rest of the nation are forced to live in general. He does not understand why people place such a high value on life and friendship, the former of which he holds a very poor opinion of and the latter he simply does not at all understand. As he was quite literally "born to kill," he sees life as an expendable commodity that can easily be taken away, and believes humans arrogant for thinking they are "too good to kill," and that in some cosmic sense murder is wrong. The truth in his eyes is, nothing is wrong per se, there is simply what one chooses to do, thereby accepting the consequences thereafter.

It also may seem uncharacteristic of a trained career and ruthless killer, but Gaff also has an amazing gift for origami, regularly making the small figurines when he is idle or when he is upset, using it as a sort of comforting, repetitive coping mechanism.

Gaff's parents, while not victors themselves, decided that they would raise their child from birth to be a career tribute in the games. They did indeed get what they desired, a healthy, strong young son, but as fate sometimes decides, this was not all they received, getting a little something extra in the form of Gaff's younger twin sister Rose. While Gaff's personality and innate talent caused him to excel at his training, possessing a brilliant mind, strong body, a will forged of steel, and an nigh unbreakable desire to survive, it quickly became clear that his sister was far less suited to the lifestyle than her brother was, and she quickly fell out of favor with their parents. And while they clearly preferred Gaff, he over time grew disgusted with the way his parents only saw him as a trophy, not a son, and at the same time shunned his sister, whom he considered "one of the only human beings even remotely worth it." The siblings grew close, and Gaff came to watch over his sister like his parents never would, making sure she lead the normal lifestyle she wanted and deserved, the one he was never able to have.

While the people of his District always respected and even admired him, as career tributes often are in Four, Gaff himself was incapable of understanding things like friendship and emotions, as his entire life he had been trained to be an unfeeling killer. He is painfully aware that the day he will have to enter the games is drawing near, and that he himself has a very good chance of winning, but if he does in fact win, he finds himself at a loss as to what he would do with himself. His entire life has centered around training for the games, so once that goal is accomplished and he becomes a victor, possessing fame and fortune others could only dream of, what then? At length he has come to realize he does not fear the games, he fears what comes after them, and realizes that after all is said and done, he must find something to do with himself. For now though, he sees the games as his only concern, deeming that it would be best to decide what he would do with the rest of his life once the games had ended and he had gone home, since if he wasn't going home, the matter was moot anyway.

To this day, Gaff remains patiently awaiting the day he will be thrust brutally and unceremoniously into an arena with twenty-three other children poised to slit his throat. He knows his odds of winning, and better yet, he knows his chances of losing, and fears most what will become of his sister if he does not return. He knows that he does not want to win the games for himself or his parents, but rather because he wants his sister to grow up having her older brother. And if winning the games earns him the right to do that, to go home and maybe live the life he always wanted, well, than that's his mission. And he will coldly kill anyone who stands in his way.