Quick Reference Tribute Summaries

Name: Maeve Idlewild

Age: 14

District: Six

Gender: Female

Politcal alliance: Neutral

Personality:

• Doesn't want to die, but knows she doesn't have a chance to win this.
• Trying to find the will to fight, but doesn't know how.
• Has a complex about feeling constantly overshadowed.
• Prone to self-sabotage.
• Thinks of herself as a painfully average teenager — probably right.

History:

• Insists she's upset over a cat, but really she's upset that her sister is always better than her at everything. Including not getting murdered.

Character development or plotting you might be interested to write in-Games:

• Overall I am most interested in exploring the contrast between Maeve's experience in the Games and her sister's experience watching the Games on television. Situations that could have unexpected internal emotions that defy the appearance of what's happening outside of her head are most interesting to me.
• I would like Maeve to find her guts and have at least one moment where she gets to feel brave, even if that moment falls apart after.
• I would be interested in Maeve going head-to-head with someone who is susceptible to guilt. I have a potential idea (fighting could be optional, but I would like the tribute(s) approaching her to initially have a serious intention of fighting, even/especially if she changes their mind — might require multiple Day 1 posts due to attack requirements as I don't want her to avoid getting involved with the action and it might take a couple non-attack posts to set up). Feel free to message me on slack if you feel like writing an emotional sucker (this could be multiple tributes). If I can find that dynamic then I would maybe be interested in her final encounter being with someone super heartless in order to contrast the experience. Depends which direction she develops in.
• Ideally I would love to either have Maeve self-sabotage at the last minute before her death (to give up attacking in her last post) or to have the opportunity to contemplate it and actively decide against it. Depends which direction she develops in.

• He is prepared to fight for his life even though he doesn't want to kill innocents
• The thing motivating him most is that he wants to get home to his family
• He wants to show the Capitol that the rebels are capable fighters
• He has no desire to kill, but will if it means he has a chance to go home
• Since he fought as a rebel soldier, he sees himself as strong and capable
• He has a kind heart, and deep down doesn't want to fight, but is going to for the sake of his family
• He has an intense hatred for the Capitol

• Tarquin was a rebel soldier who mostly went on stealth missions
• He has both of his parents, his two brothers and his nephews back home that he wants to return to
• He killed a soldier who was on the Capitol's side while he was a rebel soldier and felt that he was doing the right thing

• I'd love to see Tarquin's true rage come out towards someone. I want some sort of dialogue to provoke his angry side, giving him another motive to fight aside from just returning home to his family. It would make him want to fight because he doesn't want this other person to be the victor.
• Alternatively, perhaps Tarquin finds that he feels guilty attacking a certain person, whether it be because he realizes that they're also a rebel, or they're one of the younger tribs, or some other reason perhaps brought up in some dialogue. It could make him start to feel like he doesn't deserve to win.

Name: Samiyuq Hernández Huapaya

Age: Eighteen

District: Five

Gender: Genderqueer [D5M position]

Politcal alliance: rebel/anti-capitol

Personality: By nature, has a gentle heart; by circumstance, was pushed to carve it out. Trying to heal from life at war and live as best ze can but hasn't gotten there yet. (Might have managed, someday. On the other hand, might have found an underground rebel cell to keep fighting with. Looks like neither is really on the table, now.) Loyal to family and the rebellion in that order. Traumatized as hell and has never entirely settled between wishing the war had killed hir and wanting to scrap for every bit of life ze can dig hir fingernails into. Furious enough, post-Reaping, to be very much in the latter mood.

History: Grew up on a small goat farm with a single parent; the two are very close. Fought in the rebellion mostly on account of how the Districts were being treated, but also partly because of hir parent, who always intended to leave Panem for their own parents' home in Peru someday and is quietly but intensely heartbroken to have lost the chance. Was trained for and took part in some combat, but by the end of the war was primarily responsible for the Nemesis-Cassiel Initiative, a project to breed stolen mutt bats and train them to carry explosives to strategic targets. (Genuinely loved the bats. Sending them to die in waves did a number on hir.) Made it home and, as far as ze knows, managed to slide under the Capitol radar. (Is wrong.)

Character development or plotting you might be interested to write in-Games:

Samiyuq is here to live, support other rebels, and kick the shit out of anyone who has anything to do with the Capitol, in that order. Ze's going to feel terrible about attacking anyone young/unaffiliated (and, if it comes down to them, other rebels), but not terrible enough to decide not to—at least initially. We'll see if that changes; ze's fought other teens but never anyone ze didn't feel stood a fair shot against hir, and I'm interested in figuring out how ze takes it if ze's really pushed on that.

Hir Quechua is significantly better than hir Spanish, but ze'll definitely take (pleased, if in this situation not exactly cheerful) note of and respond in kind to anyone speaking Spanish.

On gender: Samiyuq is transfeminine, and hir presentation leans masculine. Out of character, correct pronouns are ze/hir/hir/hirs/hirself (quick reference here!) and in Spanish ze uses –e endings instead of -a/-o (e.g. "elle era un soldade"), but in character, however it makes sense for your characters to read and refer to hir is entirely fine.

On appearance, on account of no fc: medium-light brown skin; long, gently wavy, dark brown hair; dark brown eyes; oval face; slightly short of average; has lost much of the hunted, half-starved look ze ended up with as an active rebel, but remains more wiry than soft.