Adam Samuels || District Two

Dark brown hair, with natural light brown highlights, clusters at the top of his head. Most of the time his hair is picked up and swooped off to the left; giving him height and slickness. Although he enjoys many of his features, the vain portion of his personality clearly showing, his hair is his favorite part. Not only is it different than mostly everyone in the District, but it also shows his wealth and good fortune. Occasionally he cuts his hair short and sleek, giving him and edge compared to most other people. But he hasn’t done that in a long time. Instead he keeps it long and slick. Despite all the products he puts into his hair it’s surprisingly soft and bouncy. So soft that Adam enjoys running his hands through it, a tendency to do this happens when he laughs. As he does this people like to look at him, mostly because he tries to draw the attention to himself. He flexes his muscles, smiles, and laughs.

His teeth, oh Adam’s teeth! Years of awkwardness in his childhood has lead up to some of the most perfect teeth you will ever see. Beyond straight, it looks almost to fake to be real. The gleam on them when he smiles is something different, almost not authentic –and that’s what makes him love it so much.- However, they aren’t fake, but years of awkward growth into something beautiful and worth the wait. No wonder why he constantly flashes smiles and trying his best to be happy all the time. The happier you are, the more you get to smile. Therefore he tries to keep his mood up.

His eyes are a deep brown in color, almost too close to black. It’s hard to tell the iris from the pupil, but that doesn’t bother him or anyone. It’s unique, and that’s what makes him happy about himself. And that should be all that matters to him, but it doesn’t. His muscle tone matters, the way his hair is styled matters, almost everything matters to him. He’s vain in that sense. His cockiness seems to radiate from his eyes. You can just tell from the gleam in them that he’s an arrogant and rude person, although he doesn’t really try to hide it anyways.

Adam’s body is shaved clean of hair, making it easy to work out and keep his muscle tone up. He isn’t the biggest or the strongest, although it’s hard to accept that in his head, but he is above average. His muscles tense up when he’s angry and swells as he gets angrier, which tends to happen way too often. Being very comfortable with his body he likes to be shirtless, he likes to show off his toned stomach, and he enjoys allowing girls to swoon over him.

This one jacket that Adam has is constantly on his body. Along with a nice pair of softer jeans, this is his major outfit. The special thing about the jacket is that it was cut off at the sleeves. When he was younger he got angry and ripped them off, making it a new fashion statement for himself. He liked it so much that he never switched to a new style.

Arrogance is one of his main qualities. Adam thinks very highly of himself, mainly because of his wealth status and how he was raised. Not only is he rude to those he feels are of a lower class than himself, but he’s even rude to those in the same social class as himself. He is of the elite few that actually have money in Panem and have enough to probably support four other families and his own. But his family doesn’t do that, instead they keep it to themselves and look down on people who need the handouts. Adam has gotten into this habit, following in his mother and father’s footsteps.

Going along with his arrogance, he is also very vain. His looks mean everything to him. His constant smile on his face shows how happy he is with himself and how much he loves himself. Whenever there’s a mirror around him, you can see him constantly look into it while trying to maintain a conversation with you. He worries about the way his hair flows to the left in a perfect way; and if it isn’t perfect you can see the comb climb out of his pocket -where it always is- and make its way to his hair to fix it. If the jacket he’s wearing at the moment has a string pulling, it immediately must be cut from the jacket so not to tarnish his good image.

There’s a sudden thrill, a pump of adrenalin, to getting into an argument with another person. Whether it is a physical altercation or just a vernal one, either way, you get that little push that makes you love the fight. Adam is one of those people that love to fight. In school, for the past few years, he has fought and fought constantly. He loves that thrill of yelling at someone as his fist connects with their jaw. Now, he isn’t the best fighter, but with the constant fighting he has gotten better and better. Now that he knows the thrill of fighting, Adam wants to go into the Games now, hoping to get more fighting in before he dies. Once school ends for him, how many other fights will he actually be getting into? Probably none: people grow up and become more mature, and that means no fighting. Therefore the Games are his last option. His parents agree with his mindset, and he plans on going into them soon.

One of Adam’s most vulnerable states is when he’s talking to the ladies. His heart flutters and his stomach grows weak. He feels as though he might pass out at any second. Stumbling over his words makes him panic and become even worse. That’s a major problem of his, talking to girls. The way it goes down is always the same: he stutters, he feels faint, he ends up making a fool of himself, and then he ends up hanging his head and walking away. Every single time the exact same scene plays out. He no longer knows why he goes after girls, why he shouldn't just sit at home and huddle in the corner. Oh, that’s right, because he’s a beast! Just not with the ladies.

Adam’s story begins back when his father was younger, back when the District was still focused on medicine. When the entire District drastically shifted to a new profession, that being mining, people panicked. But being the young entrepreneur he was, Adam’s father that is, he set out to start an empire. He wasn’t going to settle for a little shop, much like he had before the pivotal switch. Instead he wanted to become a rich man, someone who could provide for his future wife and his future child (seeing as he wasn’t married at the time and didn’t have any children). And thus the Samuels Corporation became a reality. Being one of the front runners in the new industry helped greatly with money in this new world. No longer did he have to worry about his future, as it was becoming a multimillion dollar Corporation. His father became a ruder person, one that would never give out handouts until necessary. His wife, soon to be Adam’s mother, was met at a bar and she was exactly how he wanted a woman: cold, hard, and slightly easy to get. By this time his Corporation was huge, owning most of the mining business, and he was about thirty years old. As was his new wife when he married her, the same year they met.

Two years later they had their first child, Adam. By then his mother had been changed to be more arrogant and more used to the richer style of life. They no longer cared about those poorer people that were begging for money. They were cold hearted and had their heads held high at all times. They were better than everyone else, and now their baby son was going to be the best out there too. As Adam was raised he was immediately taught to be better than everyone else. He was given the best clothes, the best haircuts, and the best schooling. He went to public school, yes, but he was taught by the best teachers his parents could get to teach him. School was more of a way to brainwash the kids. That’s why Adam loves the Capitol so much, that’s somewhat a reason for him to want to go into the Games (in present times). The years of schooling were plagued by fights. Whether it is verbal arguments or physical altercations, either way he enjoys the thrill and adrenalin that surges through his body as he yells at another person. It’s what makes him happy.

As he entered his teenage years he had been in multiple fights and had taken multiple people down. A lot of people didn’t like him anymore, seeing as that’s the way he always acted. He continued to think he was better than everyone else, showing off his -becoming- perfect body off. While all his “friends” grew into an awkward phase at the beginning of their teenage years, with puberty striking them with the harder end of the stick, he got the chance to grow even more attractive. This made his head swell in a way that he was one of the most arrogant and vain people you could ever meet. He didn’t go through all the pimples and the awkward smells. Instead he turned into a hot boy who was growing into his new body. And thus the training began. Every day after school and after the hour of homework, he would go to the gym. Not many people his age were there, being that he was simply a thirteen year old, but people got used to the fact that he had the money to pay for it and therefore didn’t question him too much.

At the gym he trained on as much equipment as he could. He ran for hours at a time, hoping to increase his stamina and speed. Eventually it did increase (but that wasn’t until years later after a long time of training). As he progressed he continued to gain muscle and continued to get stronger and stronger. The more he could lift the more confident he felt about going into the Games, something he had been planning for a while now. He felt confident and ready to go at any moment. However, he only had two more years before his chance was up. He was seventeen now, nothing big happening to him since he was younger. Adam was easily the biggest and hottest in his grade at the moment. However he just couldn’t do one thing: talk to girls. Ever since he was fifteen, when he accidentally spilled food all over himself talking to a girl he liked, he hasn’t wanted to talk to a girl ever since.