Allegra Yarrow {Wanderer}

Allegra Yarrow {Wanderer} Oct 29, 2013 19:55:09 GMT -5

Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2013 19:55:09 GMT -5

Allegra Louise Yarrow

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A 15 year old who is now a wanderer after
running away from District 5.They say she
looks a lot like Ariana Grande
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...Day by day, I'm tired of...
...Playing games all the time...
...So that's it. Now I quit...
...I am done with this for good...

☆- Appearance-☆
This bit is quite pointless if you ask me. Who on earth judges a
person by how they look? I guess I will have to do it anyway
though so listen up because i'm only going to go through all of
this once. I am taller than a fair amount of the others my age
which is good for me as it makes it so I can easily stand out in a
crowd of girls my age. I'm not even going to give you a rough
estimate of my weight. It's just rude to ask that of a young
woman, got it? Let me just say that I am perfectly average weight
for my height, not that even that is any of your business. I guess
I am in pretty good shape since I have to do a lot of walking to
get from one part of Panem to another. I have tanned skin which
is another thing that helps bring attention to me among others.
My skin is soft and smooth since I am still only young after all.

Well that is the basic stuff but I guess you will need more details
to get an accurate picture of how I look, right? Well I will start
with the face area. My eyes are dark brown with other shades
hiding themselves in there somewhere. Nothing special really. I
have curly, dark brown hair that is starting to get quite long now.
Don't ask me what hairstyle I usually have it in because it
changes way too often for me to actually be able to tell which I
wear the most. Having a regular hairstyle is boring anyways. It is
much more interesting to keep it changing. There is one more
thing I should mention about my body that not many people know
of. I have some hereditary thing from my mother's side of the
family which means the big toe on both my feet has a web of skin
that connects to the one next to it. It can affect my balance at
times and is a complete eyesore. Thank goodness for shoes right?

I don't really know what else I can talk about when it comes to
looks. Well, there are the outfits that I wear so that could work.
At the moment I have a few choices that I cycle trough while I am
travelling. They are mostly darker colours that stop me from
standing out too much from the woodlands. I don't want to get
myself caught. When I settle down in a district for a while I always
make sure that I save up for at least one new outfit that is in
brighter colours and stands out. Unfortunately when I move on
most of them are left behind due to the fact that I only have a
small rucksack in which to carry around everything I need. The
lack of choice gets to me at times but then I remember that if I
want to find what I am looking for I have to put the effort in.

...Now and again when I look at myself...
...And I don't know quite what to say...
...Once I decide that I like what I find...
...In an instant, now comes the time for a change...

☆- Personality-☆
Let me get this perfectly straight before we go any further with
this thing. I am not even remotely interested in anything that is
normal or any word similar to it. In fact I want to experience the
exact opposite of that. I want to see all of the strange and
mysterious things that this world has to offer me. Why is that you
ask. It's because a regular life is completely and utterly boring.
Got it? There is no fun in doing only things that thousand, no
millions of other people do every single day. There is nothing
special and unique. People say you should express yourself as an
individual and then conform to the standards of this world. They
think exciting things are just going to land on their doorstep but I
know the truth. If you want to find interesting things then you
have to get off your lazy butt and search for them so that is what
I am doing. I don't care how many people call me odd, crazy or
freaky. There is nothing wrong with knowing what you want.

Speaking of what I want, I guess I should warn you all now that I
have my ways of getting the thing I want and need for all of my
adventures. You either give it to me or I will take it by a much
more forceful method. I'm not asking the world of people but just
a helping hand from human to human. Is it too much to ask? My
methods have been called blackmail, extortion and several other
names I don't care to remember but I don't give two hoots about
the views of such regular people who are obviously jealous. I
mean if they are going to use the things for such boring things
then its only right that the thing goes to someone who is going to
put it to proper use. My methods have also helped me get out of
some sticky situations with all of the neighborhood friendly
peacekeepers that always hang around you like dead geese.

Lets move on to boys. Quite frankly I don't really care for the idea
of getting all mushy with a boy. Love is just a strange form of
mental derangement. I did try dating a few boys a couple of years
back and I was just so bored and annoyed. What was with it
always being the same routine. Meet up at the district square, go
for a stroll around the district and end up talking in some grass
field or another. None of that. I want a guy who really knows how
to be an individual. Someone who can help me search for the
strange and mysterious and fill me with things that are actually
interesting instead of life stories like usual. The only problem is
that is proving so hard to find that even I am starting to give up.

I may sound like the strangest person in the universe but it isn't
as if I don't want any normality at all. I mean I do want to do
some of the things that are just normal like making good friends
and learning about new things. They are great in small doses.
People seem to forget that even the ones like me need people to
talk to and problems to be solved. In some ways I am glad that
some give me a wide berth but the other part of me wants them
to come closer and start a conversation. I mean I don't care for
what is classified as girl talk but if they started talking to me I
could at least direct it towards something that would keep me
talking. I'm not always going on random adventures and every
time I leave a district I do get a strange pang in my heart that
tells me to stay and make more friends there. I just ignore it
because the only way to find what I want is to go my way.

...Super Driver Hold on tight because I don't slow down for stragglers...
...I won't stop till I reach the top, Get ready, GO!!...
...Sweet success, or so they say, is never quite like you'd imagine...
...That's a lie! Give it one more try! So hurry up!...

☆- History-☆

Didn't I just mention not long back that life histories are extremely
boring? Oh well, lets just get this darn thing over with already. I
guess not many people know where I am actually from anyway so
they may learn new stuff about me like how I was actually born in
District 5 and spent most of my childhood years there. My father
had a job working with some of the oil that was plentiful in the
district and my mother stayed at home to look after me. My
youngest years were very full of fun and loving care from the two
people who had brought me into the world. They were a happy
couple that did their best to raise their children well which is never
an easy job in the districts of Panem when most people are
starving. I don't remember much of those first few years obviously
but the stories my parents used to tell me was all I needed.

When I was required to start school I did so happily and was
eager to meet all of the other people in my class and learn
alongside them. I was fascinated by the things that were being
taught to us as it was all so new to me. No matter what we were
learning I would always be sure to have several questions lined
up for our teacher to answer and would ask them with a smile. At
playtime I would play games with the other children of the district
and learn about each one of them. It didn't matter that we didn't
have many things to play with as we would just use our own
imaginations and be transported wherever we wanted to go. Back
then I found all of this interesting. My daily life was just perfect
for me. My class was full of the most interesting people in the
whole of Panem and I had the privilege to be with them. That was
what I thought back then anyway. It was all lies of course.

When I was 8 years old I started to pay attention to the reaping I
was forced to attend every year for the first time. Looking over at
the crowd that was in the front area split into various sections I
was absolutely shocked. I had thought that the whole district was
going to be gathered in there but that was just the ones aged
12-18. It was a massive amount of people yet such a short
percentage of the district and that was only one of 12 districts
and then you had the people of the Capitol on top of that. This
was the tiniest fraction ever of the people of Panem and for all I
knew there could be several other places like Panem around the
world. I had thought I was so unique but in the end I was only
one person in a crowd so massive I couldn't even imagine.

After that, everyday life started to lose the shine that it used to
hold for me. Things like brushing your teeth, going to school,
playing with friends. Millions of other people did that every day as
well as me and it just made it seem so insignificant. Even the
others in my class started to change in my view. The people I had
once thought of as the most special and unique people in Panem
were in fact extremely ordinary and I couldn't get my head around
the fact. I would go through the activities of the day in a sort of
daze, not really able to enjoy it all even half as much as I used to.
Then I figured that among the millions there must be some
people that really do lead a unique and interesting life that
contradicts that of the others around them. There must be some
who do strange and unusual things. Why wasn't I one of them?

That was when I realized that just standing there and waiting for
the strange and interesting things to come to you wasn't going to
work. You had to go and search for it yourself and that was what
I started to do. I would often drag my slightly older brother with
me and search around District 5 for anything unusual that I could
find and learn about. School was starting to become incredibly
boring since all we would really learn about is oil and Panem. I
would always sit there and wait until I could leave and do more
interesting things. I would roam throughout District 5 to try and
find something amazing about my home district but it was to no
avail and all I would get is more and more annoyed with the lack
of results. In the end I started to go into the woods. My older
brother Gerald disagreed with me at first but I managed to talk
him into coming with me and we started to search there. As time
went by I would go further and further out into the woods.

I started to get in trouble at home from my parents because of all
of my adventures. My brother had told them about me dragging
him off into the woods on my searches and my mum and dad
didn't like it one bit since they are law abiding citizens and going
into the woods was breaking the law. I told them quite frankly
that I didn't care if it was against the law. There was nothing for
me in the district so I had to search elsewhere and that just so
happened to be my best option. The result, I got grounded for a
week. I snuck out every so often anyway though without them
noticing. My parents were starting to become more and more
restricting of me in fear that I would offend the wrong people or
get caught out where I wasn't allowed to be and I just got more
and more annoyed by them and my anger with them rose.

Eventually, days after my second eligible reaping, I ran away from
home in the dead of night and snuck off into the woods with a
small rucksack on my back that was carrying everything I would
need to survive until I could reach a different district. Most 13 year
olds would have been scared in the woods alone at night but not
me. In fact it was really quite exciting. Some of the strange and
wonderful things can only happen in the dark after all. I walked
and walked through the night until I felt I was safe enough to get
some rest. The next day I continued in the same fashion and
eventually got into the routine. There was an element of normal
routine to my life still but I was getting to see and do things that
people in the districts couldn't. I could look anywhere I wanted for
interesting things. Panem was like an oyster in my hands.

The first district stop I made was District 4 as it wasn't too far to
travel from 5. For someone who wasn't born there, the people of
the district were quite unusual and I liked that. I managed to
settle down with a few people and stayed there a while to
explore what was there. I especially found myself attracted to the
coast. District 4 was the only one with a coast so I had never
seen such a thing before. There was a certain draw to the district
that was completely different to what I had experienced back
home in 5. I decided I wanted to experience the specifics of all of
the districts and snuck away from the place I had called home in
District 4. I have visited most of the districts now and have loved
exploring each and every one. I have never been back home and I
don't think I will ever go back there. It is for the best really.

...I don't know, you don't know, nobody does...
...But it's happening all of the time...
...I don't know, you don't know, nobody does...
...But I feel like that's all right!...

☆- Code-☆
Code: odair