Dorian's Darling Characters
Dec 31, 2017 17:13:40 GMT -5
Post by dorian on Dec 31, 2017 17:13:40 GMT -5
Alaric Elfer
District One
District One
Alaric Maximus Elfer is more commonly known as Alaric Elfer or simply Alaric. His parents wanted him to be a champion and win the games from the time they found out his mother was pregnant. When they found out he was a boy, they began carefully picking his name. They wanted him to have a name whose meaning reflected wealth or power. His first name, Alaric is of German origin and it means "Noble Ruler". They wanted him to seem princely almost, after all he is from the district of luxury. His middle name, Maximus is a Latin name meaning "greatest". The reason they were fond of that should be obvious. Of course they didn't have a say in his surname, but it does fit with the theme ironically enough. He has a Dutch surname that combines "powerful" with "ruler".
Alaric is currently sixteen years old, his birthday had recently passed on December 7th.. With time running out to where he's eligible for the reaping, his family is pressuring him to volunteer as soon as possible.
Alaric identifies as male and he's biologically male. He prefers he/him pronouns because of this.
Alaric is from district one. District one is the luxury district so he lives a very comfortable life, rivaled only by those in the capitol.
Alaric has been described as looking like a vampire or a ghost. He has pasty skin, likely because he spends much of his time in his basement training or at the indoor training center. This basically makes it impossible for him to get a tan. Similarly to his pale skin, his eyes are a pale blue. The eye colour is almost gray so it would probably be called, "ice blue" His eyes naturally have large, dark bags under them from the lack of sleep he gets. Time spent sleeping is time that could be spent training after all! His parents care so much about appearance they could honestly be citizens of the capitol! So the bags and his teenage acne don't detract from his parents, they try to cover it with makeup. However, the flaw remains.
His hair is naturally a very dark brown, it looks black depending on the lighting. The darkness of the brown makes it, "espresso brown". His eyebrows, obviously matching his hair, is quite bushy. His hair is thinner and he gets it cut frequently to keep his parents happy. Because of the thinness it;s likely he could start losing his hair as early as his late thirties or early forties. Receding hairlines also run in Alaric's family. This flaw means he'll likely bald, something many people consider "unattractive".
Finally is his body type. His lean and slightly muscular, he can likely lift around one-hundred pounds. This number could be much higher considering his parents usually have him train eighteen hours on non-school days (this leaves six hours for food, sleeping, etc.). If he ever has to go into the games, Alaric is scared of the idea of having to see the look in someone's eyes when he kills them. So he primarily focuses on longer ranged weapons, even something like a flail is preferable to a sword. His legs are pretty muscular because long ranged weapons require being fast enough to run.
Alaric is often described as the strong and silent type. This is primarily because whenever girls flirt with him, he just ignores them. A lot of the time they assume he's playing hard to get, when in reality he's just not interested. This is because he's homosexual and interested in no girls at all. Not only that, he tries to avoid people in case they both volunteer and get reaped, he doesn't want to have to murder someone he once called "friend". Or a family member of a friend. He's also just generally introverted.
His introvertedness spreads from several other personality traits that came together to create that. His first trait is is low self-esteem. Alaric's parents constantly talk about his weak points and how he could do better. How he can train better, learn better, and represent their family better. This caused him to constantly notice his own short comings. The flaw can cause him to force himself to train or studies after he's already suffering from exhaustion. If he strained himself like this during something like the Hunger Games, he would be more vulnerable from the extreme fatigue.
A second trait that shaped Alaric into his current self is his inability to stand up for himself. This mostly stems from his low opinion of himself. When he was growing up, if he attempted to tell his parents he didn't want to train or study, they'd ignore him. This made Alaric feel even if he did stand up for himself, it wouldn't matter. This flaw will make it difficult to kill someone in a fight.
Like many people growing up in district one, two, and four, his life has been surrounded by his parents training him to the win the games. His parents have always made sure he spends at least twelve hours training in some way each day. That means on school days he goes to school for roughly eight hours and trains for twelve, leaving four for rest and food. Sometimes training can be something as simple as reading books about traps or snares. Sometimes it's running until he physically can't or having to fight someone.
Alaric has never really liked the idea of fighting in the Hunger Games. He doesn't like the thought of killing people or dying young. But, even more so he doesn't want to turn up like his brother. He had an older brother who was tired of the pressure to fight in the games, to volunteer. Three years ago when his brother turned eighteen, he ran away from the district. He ended up getting killed by Peacekeepers because of this. Thirteen year old Alaric watched as his parents burnt every last hint of the fact that they even had another son.
Alaric recently came out to his parents as being homosexual. They didn't respond very positively to this. But instead of just stating they were displeased, they amped up his training. Currently he's under extreme pressure to volunteer at the next games. Though he's planning to act like he's having a coughing fit or something at the reaping so someone else can be drawn or volunteer without him getting in trouble.
Alaric is currently sixteen years old, his birthday had recently passed on December 7th.. With time running out to where he's eligible for the reaping, his family is pressuring him to volunteer as soon as possible.
Alaric identifies as male and he's biologically male. He prefers he/him pronouns because of this.
Alaric is from district one. District one is the luxury district so he lives a very comfortable life, rivaled only by those in the capitol.
Alaric has been described as looking like a vampire or a ghost. He has pasty skin, likely because he spends much of his time in his basement training or at the indoor training center. This basically makes it impossible for him to get a tan. Similarly to his pale skin, his eyes are a pale blue. The eye colour is almost gray so it would probably be called, "ice blue" His eyes naturally have large, dark bags under them from the lack of sleep he gets. Time spent sleeping is time that could be spent training after all! His parents care so much about appearance they could honestly be citizens of the capitol! So the bags and his teenage acne don't detract from his parents, they try to cover it with makeup. However, the flaw remains.
His hair is naturally a very dark brown, it looks black depending on the lighting. The darkness of the brown makes it, "espresso brown". His eyebrows, obviously matching his hair, is quite bushy. His hair is thinner and he gets it cut frequently to keep his parents happy. Because of the thinness it;s likely he could start losing his hair as early as his late thirties or early forties. Receding hairlines also run in Alaric's family. This flaw means he'll likely bald, something many people consider "unattractive".
Finally is his body type. His lean and slightly muscular, he can likely lift around one-hundred pounds. This number could be much higher considering his parents usually have him train eighteen hours on non-school days (this leaves six hours for food, sleeping, etc.). If he ever has to go into the games, Alaric is scared of the idea of having to see the look in someone's eyes when he kills them. So he primarily focuses on longer ranged weapons, even something like a flail is preferable to a sword. His legs are pretty muscular because long ranged weapons require being fast enough to run.
Alaric is often described as the strong and silent type. This is primarily because whenever girls flirt with him, he just ignores them. A lot of the time they assume he's playing hard to get, when in reality he's just not interested. This is because he's homosexual and interested in no girls at all. Not only that, he tries to avoid people in case they both volunteer and get reaped, he doesn't want to have to murder someone he once called "friend". Or a family member of a friend. He's also just generally introverted.
His introvertedness spreads from several other personality traits that came together to create that. His first trait is is low self-esteem. Alaric's parents constantly talk about his weak points and how he could do better. How he can train better, learn better, and represent their family better. This caused him to constantly notice his own short comings. The flaw can cause him to force himself to train or studies after he's already suffering from exhaustion. If he strained himself like this during something like the Hunger Games, he would be more vulnerable from the extreme fatigue.
A second trait that shaped Alaric into his current self is his inability to stand up for himself. This mostly stems from his low opinion of himself. When he was growing up, if he attempted to tell his parents he didn't want to train or study, they'd ignore him. This made Alaric feel even if he did stand up for himself, it wouldn't matter. This flaw will make it difficult to kill someone in a fight.
Like many people growing up in district one, two, and four, his life has been surrounded by his parents training him to the win the games. His parents have always made sure he spends at least twelve hours training in some way each day. That means on school days he goes to school for roughly eight hours and trains for twelve, leaving four for rest and food. Sometimes training can be something as simple as reading books about traps or snares. Sometimes it's running until he physically can't or having to fight someone.
Alaric has never really liked the idea of fighting in the Hunger Games. He doesn't like the thought of killing people or dying young. But, even more so he doesn't want to turn up like his brother. He had an older brother who was tired of the pressure to fight in the games, to volunteer. Three years ago when his brother turned eighteen, he ran away from the district. He ended up getting killed by Peacekeepers because of this. Thirteen year old Alaric watched as his parents burnt every last hint of the fact that they even had another son.
Alaric recently came out to his parents as being homosexual. They didn't respond very positively to this. But instead of just stating they were displeased, they amped up his training. Currently he's under extreme pressure to volunteer at the next games. Though he's planning to act like he's having a coughing fit or something at the reaping so someone else can be drawn or volunteer without him getting in trouble.
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Hazel Woodward
District Seven
Upon her birth she was named Hazel Iris Woodward. Her given name, Hazel, was after her grandmother on her father's side, Hazel Jasmine Woodward.. The name Hazel came from Hazel trees, as her father comes from a logging family, a common profession in district seven. Her second given name, also called a middle name, was named for her mother's favourite flower, Iris. She has a flower middle name because her mother owns a small flower shop. Many of the business for it comes from her sending flowers to the capital or upper districts. Finally, her surname Woodward is an old English surname meaning "ward of the woods", fitting considering her father's occupation.Hazel is currently fifteen years of age, on March 7th, she shall turn sixteen. With three years of reapings behind her and three ahead, she's right in the middle of the ages able to be picked for the games.
Hazel was born a female and identifies as female. This means she prefers she/her pronouns.
As previously stated, Hazel was born in raised in district seven, the lumber district. District seven is considered a lower-middle district.
Hazel was born with what would be considered red hair with a brownish tint. Her father having brown hair and her mother having red caused her to have red hair that's slightly dark. Her hair is thick all together, but the strands are a bit thinner than average causing them to be fragile. This mixed with easily tangled hair causes her hair to be pulled out when she tries to brush it. She also gets hair everywhere, shedding frequently. Despite this, she does not actually have any bald spots. Her hair is usually unruly from it tangling easy and getting frizzy when she does brush it. Luckily for her, this flaw is fairly unnoticed in her home district, district seven, because it's a lower-middle district. But people from upper districts or the capitol would likely notice the flaw.
Hazels eyes are quite stereotypical for her hair colour. They're a light shade of green known as "forest green", ironic considering her district. She has trouble seeing thins from a distance meaning she's near-sighted, however she cannot afford glasses. This flaw doesn't disable her too much in day to day life, but if one day she needed to see enemies in the distance, she'd only see blobs of colour. Other than that, her vision problem is only considered a minor concern for her.
Hazels height is about average for her age, 5 feet 5 inches or 165.1 centimeters. However in her weight she's below average. Her mothers flower shop does terribly during the winter from lack of available flora so she doesn't have enough food from the end of November until March or April, depending on when the snow melts and flowers bloom. This causes her to sit at 101 pounds or 46 kilograms. This put her two kilograms or five pounds below the recommended weight for her height and age. This is bad for things such as the games because she would be easy to fight, lack of weight generally means lack of muscle mass. Her light weight also makes her get cold easier so even in the summer months she's cold. This makes her more likely to freeze to death or be unproductive in a life or death situation.
Hazel has always been close to her mother. When she was young and her personality was still in development, this closeness has caused her to have some similar personality traits to her mother, one example being their extroverted tendencies. She enjoys talking to others and being around them in general, especially those she's close to. Closeness is something Hazel craves, everything from just being in the same room as someone to cuddling is something she enjoys. This need for closeness combined with her extrovertedness and general optimism has caused her to be overly trusting of others. She trusts others so much in the past Hazel has been used and manipulated. It's usually over petty school drama, but in something like the Hunger Games that can lead to her doom. Alternatively, this can be good for making alliances in the game which could prolong her life. However, it's more likely that flaw would be the end of her.
Hazel does enjoy learning about different plants that grow across Panem. Her mother taught her about the flowers she sold when Hazel was young and her interest spread from there. When she got older Hazel read books about different plants, not just the ones around her district. Now she knows edible plants, medicinal plants, and poisonous ones. This can be very helpful if she ever gets reaped.
Now that you know one of her favourite things, you should probably know one of her least favourite things, exercise. Yes exercise. Growing up in a place where there's a likely chance you'll die, being unathletic is a fatal flaw, basically the worst you can have. When she was five she found out she had severe asthma and is very prone to asthma attacks. If she had to run for her life, she could very well die from an asthma attack anyway. Her bad lungs made her hate exercise of any kind because of the risks involved. Even having to lift heavy objects can be difficult for her as she lacks muscle mass.
Hazel had a pretty normal life growing up in district seven. Born on March 7th, spring was just beginning and her father was still at work. She wasn't due for another week so her dad didn't bother getting time off yet. He managed to get contacted to witness the birth however. Hazel was always a mama's girl and followed her everyone. Her mother of course loved her, she being an only child. When she was younger Hazel's favourite thing was helping at her mother's flower store. That was back when she was young, naive, and unaware of how little that type of store would make in a poorer district. Then they could feed her year round because she was smaller and needed to eat less.
In middle to late childhood, Hazel began to branch out to more than just her mother. She got closer to her father and made friends with the other children in district seven. This is when she began learning about the uses of different plants. She started making herbal teas for basic ailments such as sore throats. People she considered friends began manipulating her into following their commands. However, this didn't cause her to be any less trusting.
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