Post by Pennybright on Sept 7, 2014 1:12:48 GMT -5
Name: Pencil (Penny) Montgomery
Age: 15
Gender: Female
District/Area: Seven
Appearance:
Pencil, or Penny as she's been nicknamed has never looked very spectacular, in fact by many old standards of beauty she'd probably be considered ugly. But beauty is not a factor or direct issue in her life, and her less than beautiful appearance has never hindered her, as things like being beautiful are close to meaningless and not something to fret over when you live where she does in Panam.
She does however have a appearance. Her hair is a muddy red, an almost copper like hue, and frizzes and fluffs up, though it is, technically a head of obnoxious curls. The humidity and lack of hair care in the district, usually put Penny at war with her hair, which is the only reason she ever cares about her appearance; when her hair is annoying. She usually cuts it short as she can to keep it out of the way. She's not the best at cutting and so it's very uneven in places and you never know what missing trinket you might find in what her siblings refer to as a rat's nest.
Away from hair, Penny is a very pale girl, well during the part of the year that it's cold. As soon as it's sunny, her skin burns badly, turning her anywhere from pink to lobster red every summer. Her eyes are a simple non interesting blue and she doesn't think of them much. She's never been able to see very well in her left eye.
Penny stands at around 5'7 and her weight is any body's guess. She's slightly underweight, but that's mainly from being poor her entire life and something she'd gladly change. She's very straight up and down and lacks a feminine figure. It's not uncommon for her to be mistaken as a boy.
She wears simple practical clothes, often her siblings hand me downs, and whatever works that she can make work. She usually wears the small oversized, stained blouse of her older sisters and very loose pants tied to her waste by a small rope that she rolls up. Her weather beat shoes are ripping apart and are several sizes small. The toe is cut open on her left shoe and she tries hard not to slide or slip in her shoes.
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Personality:
Penny has usually be a more logical and quiet person. She isn't out spoken like her brother and she isn't loud mouthed but somehow practical like her sister. She has a bold streak though, and often aids her brother in starting trouble and doing small crimes. Since everyone trust her to be sensible, and since she's always with her older brother, they usually have trouble catching him for any crime.[/p]
Penny is a bit of a free thinker, but she thinks decisions should be made rationally. She doesn't understand how getting together and killing other people will make things any better or right. Rather she'd like to see a new idea of government take fold, and doesn't believe a society has to crumble for change to be made. Several of her friends would like to have her help with there small acts of rebellion, but Penny refuses, finding it silly, hopeless and dangerous.
Because of this, it isn't odd for peace keepers and teachers to put her on the spot as a kid who is bred just like the capitol would like, understands not to rebel, keeps her head up and does what's told. This is of course false, Penny is simply not irrational and is wise in her choice making. She can also be disloyal and dishonest though, and has rolled a few people under the bush when bribed with food or money. Do to her sometimes pampering by officials, she can have a bit of a pride problem as well, and it's hard to say where she lies at times.
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History:
Pencil was born in a small cabin in the woods at the outskirt of the district. Her parents both worked at a logging company, usually cutting wood, and left her in the care of her elder sister, Elm, who also had to look after Pine, Pencil's other older brother. Pencil was named after the pencil pine tree, because she was always rather tall, and her parents were tried of the Willow's and Maple's in the district.[/p]
As a young child she was known to play around in the woods around her house and near the meadow she and the other local children play around at. When she came of school age, she was carful to avoid childish things, and preferred to stay in reality instead of her own dream world. When she was ten, both her parents were killed in a forest fire that wiped out fifty other loggers working a double, late night shift. Since then, Pencil has been raised with her older sister as her and her brother's guardian.
Penny, who was closer with her sister anyways, seemed to have recovered from being a orphan very quickly, leading to some believing her heartless, but she's learned to hide things on the inside. Like her fun side. Around her beloved older brother Pine, Penny often falls back into a childlike state of dreaming and fooling around, and considers it the only way to be logical and emotionless the rest of the time, while keeping sane.
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