annelae e. malley | district two // fin

As a young child, Annelae was seemingly albino. Her skin was so pale and her hair and eyes didn't match anything of her dark haired and dark eyed family. She would start this trend that would break the normal bloodline their family was so used to. She seemed to have received some recessive genes, since the coloration was not entirely uncommon.

A few of their ancestors had had the lighter shades of hair, eyes, and skin like they did, but since the darkness of appearance had been integrated it had not been something so common to them. As she grew, her body would come to take a darker shade of things. Pink would work its way into her skin and a darker hue of ocean blue would move into her eyes, though the lightness and gentleness would remain there entirely. Her hair slowly gained tones of gold, transforming into a more yellow color.

Not that she minded, she quite liked being different than her family. In different types of lights, her hair would seems to change colors, swapping from blonde to a pure ginger, despite the lack of freckles upon her face needed for that sort of thing. Most of the time, though, it would linger between the two colors with no issue at all from the lights, leaving both colors visible in every sense. Another recessive gene she received in the sense of her hair is the waves, near curls.

Nowadays, her hair is long, stretching down past her hips and tapering around her unevenly. It's very wavy, something she inherited from her recessive genes, and could almost be mistaken for curls some days. To her, it's a pain to take care of since such waves, or curls, tend to get knotted up very easily throughout the day, whether she wears it up or down. The color is a very peculiar shade of blonde, almost gold in most lights.

Light blue-green cat-like eyes plant themselves upon her face. They are surrounded by short barely noticeable blonde lashes. Those lashes are so short and thin, she smothers on eyeliner and fake lashes to possibly make them look any bigger. Her skin is covered with the results of an acne problem, but Annelae just tries to hides them with makeup. Her physique has not changed much over the years, though, other than her height, which seems to be the one thing she has gained from the immediate women in her family.

Like everyone else in the district, she is clad with muscle. Her arms and legs aren’t particularly body-builder looking, but covered by a thin layer of fat. This makes it look as if she’s not the fittest, but there are very strong muscles that have developed, but are disguised. Although she’s relatively slim, her hips are almost not there at all. She lacks any curves whatsoever and has what’s been called “a square butt”. Her breasts are also very small, not exceeding a B sized cup.

Annelae is a good natured girl and has a heart of gold. 'Nice' would be an understatement. She goes out of her way to help people and greets people with cheerful smiles all around. Anna is bubbly and full of energy. She can't keep still with her short attention span.

She radiates positive energy from her - she has an infectious laughter where she snorts awkwardly but doesn't quite mind it. There is a bright shine to her eyes constantly, a ball of hope and optimism that cannot be rid. She shows deep love for pets under her care and treats them like partners and friends, as though a constant reminder that she has so few real ones. She is friendly and sociable around close friends, though she has a tendency to shy away when situations get awkward.

Being treated unkindly is not uncommon to her. For someone that was a subject to teasing and other forms of bullying, Annelae grew temperamental. She's quick to anger and gets irritated easily by those that brush her the wrong way. She rarely follows what her mind tells her and follows her gut instincts instead, even if it means punching a boy in the face or any of that. She refuses to be treated like she's Annelae-r than others and can be very hot-blooded about things.

Anna doesn't take too kindly to people messing with her friends either - She is likely to rush to their defense if they dare to pick on them. She is loyal to those who treat her with respect, like an equal, or at least, don't try and pick out everything wrong about her. She has come to terms with the fact that nice people are hard to come by, so Anna has learnt to treasure them and doing whatever she can.

She's never been one to refuse a challenge. Annelae can be considered a bit of a daring girl who laughs at the face of danger even though she's more than likely to get hurt because of her clumsiness. She is mischievous by nature and seems to always go around looking for trouble. This has proven to be quite a problem, especially with the number of times she has injured herself. Being injury-prone doesn't stop her from living an Indiana Jones lifestyle. There's always something to explore, she's decided.

Nothing can contain her thirst for adventure. She feeds off adrenaline and loves the thrill of danger. Her family seems to have accepted that, rarely raising any opposition when she disappeared to go adventuring. She's a tough cookie, she tells herself, she can handle it. While it may seem very tomboyish of her to do such things, she is very much a girl, fond of her fair share of skirts and frills and laces.

It started with Annelae's parents, two childhood sweethearts that lasted the years. But like many young lovers, there was the problem of money. They struggled to make ends meet, and when Annelae Elena Malley entered the world, this only seemed to worsen their situation. They couldn't bear to give her away, so the next best option was finding a guardian for her. Anna was raised in the outskirts of the district, quaintly located a fair distance away from the hustle and bustle of city life.

Her parents were too busy trying to work things out in one of the cities, taking up jobs, so she spent most of her time with her grandmother - a strict woman with her large furry dog, named Kilo. Her childhood mostly consisted of her playing the days away with Kilo, be it taking care of it or exploring the outdoors with it. Her adventures was probably what developed her love for adventure, even though most of them ended in futile attempts to find new rocks. They were the only things she actually didn't misplace, organising them in boxes and making logs in jotter books.

Like most girls she played with dolls and had tea parties. She never quite grew out of dress up, sometimes donning dog ears for fun, even at this age. Childish as it may seem, she always loved playing pretend. She was never the smartest - Annelae always had a tendency to forget something one way or another and ended up devising a system of colored bands on her fingers to try and recall stuff. She grew up with a speech impediment that they couldn't fix, and she speaks with a stutter as a result.

Anna wasn't the popular girl in school - She got teased about her glasses or her body or her stuttering and she never enjoyed learning. At one point in time she was bullied so much that she was homeschooled for a period of time by her grandmother. She was naturally a shy kid and didn't like socializing, especially if it meant being treated badly. Anna was a wallflower in every meaning of the word. She started to make changes to herself, not allowing herself to succumb to the opinions of others.

When her dad got a promotion, she came out from her shell and tried socializing. It wasn't as bad as she had initially thought, and it motivated her to try and be more open and accepting towards meeting people. Anna opened herself up to the world and enjoyed it. Granted, the occasional rude word got her down at first, but she learned to internalise it, well, for the most of it. Her parents finally decided to take her back and had plans to settle in the city when she turned 16 or so.

At this point of time, Annelae had become accustomed to a rural lifestyle, save for the occasional dinner parties on Saturday nights. She descended into the hell that was puberty, pimples across her forehead and body at awkward angles. As unwilling as she was to leave her grandmother, Anna ultimately did, and they settled down in one of the biggest cities in the district. She accustomed herself to city life, but more importantly, started to understand how things worked in society. She was awkwardly out of place, a girl raised to fend for herself and with little grasp of society's expectations now in a city that overwhelmed her.

• ALPINE SKIER: Mikaela Shiffrin as Annelae Malley