Sage Damli -District 6-

Sage’s skin tone is white, even a little pink; sometimes on summer he gets a ‘’peach’’ tone. If eyes are ‘’the window of the soul’’, we could tell a lot about Sage’s personality thanks to his light-blue eyes that more than one envy. His eyebrows are shaped like an arch, which could easily give him a sexy or a creepy look. He usually doesn’t shows his teeth, which look like a rabbit denture; he wishes to have a dental treatment to improve his smile. Sage kisses with his little lips, which has a pink tone and sometimes gives him a cute look. He has suffered from acne must of his adolescence, especially on his short-length nose.

Talking about his hair, Sage takes care about it day after day. Although he doesn’t likes it a lot (he believes it gives him a nerdy look because of the way it fits naturally) he washes it all days. Its length is medium, which gives him a chance of using different looks although he basically just pulls it to the side. Sometimes he decides to use a military-hairstyle, trying to look more mature. It is dark brown, but it may look lighter on the light.

His legs are muscular, which helps him to run faster than most of his friends. The right one has a birthmark, which is a five centimeters, brownish stain. He has some scars on both legs, which basically are from his childhood’s adventures. Although he doesn’t shave, he has little hair, which seems invisible some meters away. His feet are little; they are rough from time spent outdoors with no shoes on. Feet’s nails look disgusting, some of them even having fungi.

He is skinny (more than what he wants) people can count his ribs easily. Although he eats like an average District 5 resident, his fast metabolism gives him this look, making people think that he has food disorders –which he totally hates-. He would like to gain weight and even, to have a six-pack. His arms are also skinny, with basically no muscles, reflecting his weakness. He has some moles on his right arm, which overshadows the white skin tone.

He likes to stay on fashion, although he doesn’t get often expensive clothes. He usually wears a pair of jeans, going from black to light blue tones. A pair of tennis and a jacket is the perfect match to a colorful t-shirt. He uses his expensive clothes only at special moments, or on the Hunger Game’s Reaping.

Must people doesn’t talk to Sage, neither has he wanted to. When he talks to people that aren’t close to him, he doesn’t tell all of his ideas, giving answers of ‘’Yes’’ and ‘’No’’. He usually gets shy when making new friends, and many people believe he’s just another boring, social misfit teen. Although he behaves properly, he doesn’t even tries to be friendly to people; he makes up with the idea that no one will like him.

Sage does has friends. He met most of them on kindergarten, and since then they have become almost like family. He usually behaves like a normal, friendly teenager with them, but with Jamie –his best friend- it’s just laugh after laugh. His friends are mostly smart, or at least they try to. They are a close group, which doesn’t make new friends often. They sometimes stay at their school’s classrooms, complaining about District 5’s education.

Although to the eyes of many people Sage is just a negative boy, he actually is very determine about his future. He dreams night after night about escaping from District 5, to go to the Capitol and even to become famous. He knows that without hard work, this will never happen. He always tries to do his best, always open to new knowledge and discoveries. Although his dad dreams to see his son following his steps to become an important energy official, Sage doesn’t seems pretty interested on the idea.

He is someone who dreams a lot. He always says that on the future he will become someone important, and that he will fight for freedom. Many people admire his hunger for victory and overcoming challenges. On his class he is at the very top, being probably one of District 5’s smarter boys. When he becomes interested on something he always tries to discover everything about it, achieving every fact.

On the other hand, Sage gets negative very easily; if he cannot achieve a goal quickly, most of the times he won’t even try. He is also a very lazy person, always trying to avoid hard tasks. Sage can get mad and sad fastly. Anger can go in a couple of hours, but sadness can stay of him for even weeks! He gets shy when talking to new people; he always worries about what they will think about him.

Sage was born to Alexander Damli and Claudia Sande. His parent met at collage, and they fell in love since the first time their eyes crossed. They stayed like boyfriends many years, but everything changed when Claudia became pregnant of him. At that period, being single parents wasn’t an option, and that was when they decided that they were going to marry. They were lucky that Alexander had a stable job because if not, it would’ve been a disaster.

At early age, Sage had already proved his intelligence. Although his parents loved him, he often stayed with his grandmother because they were ‘’too busy’’. He didn’t have friends; he spent most of his time with his cousins, which were basically the only people he knew of his age.

On his childhood, Sage was basically a normal boy. It was on this period that he made most of his friends. He always kept running through the kindergarten, or reading books at elementary school. He seemed to be a pretty normal guy, and he liked his life, until everything changed. Stress at house increased day after day, but it was on October 25, when Sage’s parents committed divorce. His life changed that day; a nine year-old boy that lived one week with his mother and the other with his father, started to change. It was like if each day he started to doubt more about himself.

Sage’s parents keep pressuring him. Everyone expected something of him, but he wasn’t even sure about what he really wanted. With the time, he started to become more independent, emotionally and physically stronger. He didn’t depend anymore on daddy or mommy; he started to dream and to have hope on his future. Sage is nowadays a boy who keeps running from his father’s house to his mother’s home, and so on. But now he is different, he has surpassed all those bad moments and although he still is negative, lazy, and sensible, he knows he has a future.