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appearance:

The darkness of the shortcut brown hair contrasts with the ghostly pale skin of the girl. She is the opposite of the tanned, muscled tributes from district four. Her arms have barely any muscle and are thin from not enough food. The small bones in her body can be seen standing out against her ghost-like skin, and her stomach looks like it has been carved out of her body, leaving only a small bit of muscle under the skin, creating a caved-in look on her stomach, and this cave in can also be seen on her cheeks. This is the look of hunger from district eight where most cannot afford a slice of bread to call their own. The pale skin is also a notable feature from district eight where fumes from the factories blot out every drop of sunlight in the bleak district.

Ella is shorter than most people her age, and she stands at "a whopping" 4 feet 11 inches. Her hands are huge compared to the rest of her body, though. The large, bulky hands don't seem to fit well on someone as small as Ella. Her eyes are a dark brown and seem to pierce the air around her with a glance. She has a small nose and small lips that fit into her body's mostly small theme.

Smudges of dirt and grime coat her face and arms from the inability to gain enough money for regular hygene. Because of her large, clumsy hands she is unable to do the delicate work in district eight which is most of the work. Sewing, for example, is completly out of the question for the beefy hands.

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personality:

Ella is very distrusting of others, and when faced with someone new her mind starts to come up with reasons of why they would hurt her and why she should not trust them. Normally, she tries to avoid interactions where she needs to "make friends." Lets just say she is really shy and tries to avoid most people. She can be really stubborn too, and insist on one thing and tries to impose her ideas on others when in absolutely nescesary contact with other human beings.

Ella isn't very smart or hardworking either, and can normally be seen lazing about. In school her grades were basically the lowest they could go, and she has a hard time picking up on things quickly. We can say that she isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, actually she's one of the dullest knives in the drawer if you want to continue with that metaphor.

Ella does enjoy art, though. I know art is a broad term, but she really did enjoy every form of art, whether it be music, painting, scultping. Art class was the only class she got a relativly good grade in because it was a participation grade, even if her beefy hands couldn't do most of the delicate work. She still enjoys seeing and experiancing art even if she can't really make it.

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history:

Ella was born into one of the ok families in district eight. She normally had food on the table every night and had enough money for the prized "heated water" which so few have. The girl grew up with kind, loving parents until one night changed it all. Ella woke up one morning and ran downstairs. It was a cold winter night, and so her parents had started a fire in the living room in their fireplace with the few logs they had. Her parents had fallen asleep on the couch before putting out the fire though, and somehow the living room had caught fire around their sleeping forms. Ella made it out of the house just in time, but her parents weren't so lucky.

Ella found herself at the doorstep of an orphanage, only at the age of five. She grew up in the harsh orphanage enviornment. The orphanage owner was nasty and cruel as well as a part time drunkard. Often Ella took beatings upon beatings until she became the person she is today. Shy and untrusting of everyone around her because she is afraid of how they could hurt her. Her life in the orphanage was hard, and she was often neglected, hurt, or starving.

Soon after her 18th birthday, she was deemed an adult and so she was no longer fit to live in the orphanage. She was thrown out of the wretched place she had called home for the past 13 years. At first Ella had been overjoyed, but soon she realized she had no place to go to. Currently Ella lives on the streets of district eight, always searching for work wherever she can find it, but there isn't much to be found and so she lives in starvation and fear.