prairie-mae hayden | D10 | wip

Dark hair, olive complexion, dark brown irises.

Face and skin dotted with sun-spots (freckles).

Strong and muscular upper arms and thighs/legs from driving farm equipment and horse-back work.

Arms have faded white long and short white marks stemming back to accidents due to use of tools, including large horse-shoe shaped scar on upper thigh below her left butt check from where a horse kicked her.

Legs riddled with burn marks from lasso fails and scraps from barbed wire and bruises from slamming into metal gates. -- Not at all accident prone...

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Being born and raised on a cattle ranch has its advantages and disadvantages. Good things include: constant hard work and feelings of accomplishment, close-knit bond with family, the inability to be squeamish when removing a chicken's head or roasting a live pig over a wood burning fire, and high endurance with long and harsh work days.

Disadvantages include: the inability to spend time in school (farm work never stops), spending all day with crazy siblings and following parents orders can become too much sometimes, often going to bed hungry because chores were done inadequately, and finally no A/C for those extremely hot summer nights. And possibly another down side, in any District, may be the family's inability to keep and live off of their own goods.

Prairie-Mae is a middle child between eleven brothers and sisters. Gotta have a lot of hands contributing on the farm. George and Calista Hayden have run the 'Hayden' Livestock Ranch for over 30 years, but it has been a family trade for the last few decades. Life has most certainly been difficult in a former war-torn country and now more than ever as Peacekeepers and the Capitol continuously take much more than needed from this large family. George is a wiry and strict father who rarely allows for outside trips other than to the Market to get other necessities the family cannot make, such as clothes and shoes. Prair has never had much luck going to the Market for longer than a few hours, even to barter off eggs and meat for the other people in their home place.

The teenager doesn't really mind. She has her horse and a cow she's raising (for milk and soon meat). Her mother is sweet on her middle daughter, mostly due to the fact there are only five girls in the brood of twelve kids. Prairie hardly ever complains and gets her tasks completed on time. Born as a middle kid, she often has squabbles with her younger brothers, whom never want to do their simple chores -- mucking out the stalls, refilling the chicken feed, etc. Her mother is often away at the market which leaves Prairie in charge of her brothers while her father plows the fields or checks on the smoker.

The children under sixteen in the family are forbidden in or around the shed or the smoker. Sharp tools and a machine that locks and cooks for days. Prairie often finds herself chopping wood and using her horse to steer cattle back to the barn for their afternoon feedings and bi-monthly checks. She is an expert bare-back rider. With a bunch of mouths to feed, not a lot of money left, especially not even for a saddle. Her siblings ages range from 31 to 9. Her eldest brother George Jr. (Georgie) is 31, married and has a small family, and they live on the bottom half for the 15 acre ranch. He and his wife mostly raise the pigs and have goats.

Followed by sister Pasture (28), brother Kane (27), brother Bale (23), sister Farley (23), brother Buckley (23), brother Berke (21), sister Haylie (19), Prairie-Mae (15), sister Clover (11), brother Harland "Harley"(9), and brother Howland "Howie" (also 9). Each of her brothers and sisters names mean something to their parents, but the majority come from having something to do with 'farm', 'land', 'meadow' or just things you'd probably find within their home. Prairie-Mae knows all too well that no one has ever heard her name before and continuously attempt to understand why on earth her parents would give her (and her siblings for that fact) a name like that. Another reason to never want to attend market days. Children her own age don't make an effort to include or get to know P.

The Hunger Games & their affects on the Haydens'

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