anastasia novikov. d3. fin.

People around here have very poor opinions on my mom and I:

' Traitors '

' Capitol supporters '

' Murderers '


We prefer the term 'loyal'. That's all it is really, we're loyal to the government. Of course, especially with this being an upper district, there are other loyalists here too. More than people realize, though, we're a little different. See my mom designs, develops, and makes new technology for the military and peacekeepers. She keeps Panem safe, though others have argued she keeps Panem oppressed.

I've never met my father, but I don't really care about him. My mom did an amazing job raising me on her own, why would we need anything else? In fact, it's because of her amazing job raising me that I one day want to follow in her footsteps. She's taught me everything she knows and even talks about her most recent designs, as long as it isn't something that she isn't supposed to let anyone know exists. There's a lot of stuff out there that doesn't technically exist.

As for me? I don't let it all get to me. I try to be as sweet to people as possible, but it can get to you being called a murderer because of who your mom is. So, sometimes there may be some ice in my voice despite my sweet words. In my free time we have a small garden I like to tend to. I really don't see why people in district 11 complain, gardening is fun. Sometimes people call me sheltered, but I don't see it.

I just wish I looked more like my mother and less like whoever my dad is. He left us, plain and simple. My mother is a short brunnette woman with green eyes. Then there's me. I'm 5'10, I have black hair, and blue eyes. I'm assuming my dad has blue or green eyes, but the eyes could be from my moms side since blue is just a genetic mutation of green. The one thing I seem to get from my mom is the one thing I hate. My two front teeth are larger than normal and have a gap between them. Because of this I usually smile with a closed mouth and cover my mouth whenever I laugh.

Some people take everything way too seriously. Yeah the Hunger Games may seem bad, but are they really? Twenty-three deaths a year is nothing compared to what all of those anarchist rebels killed before the Games were a thing. It's the lesser of two evils and it's hardly an evil. Think about how much that money and respect of the victors helps the family. Plus, if you don't want reaped just don't buy tesserae and you'll be less likely to be reaped. I wonder why the people in the lower district hasn't realised that yet.

One example of people taking things too seriously happened when I was fourteen, so about a year ago. Apparently something happened with a family member of one of my classmates and a Peacekeeper involving technology developed by my mother. Now I may be tall and have a lean body type, but I'm definitely not buff by any accounts. Things broke out into a physical fight. I didn't start it, but I wasn't just going to sit there and take it. I ended up with a black eye and broken nose. But, after he was punished, he ended up far worse than I did. It probably helped that I gave the Peacekeeper a little bit of a tip.

My nose was mostly fixed, but the tip is a little bit crooked, just another thing to feel self-conscious about. My height is sort of a neutral thing for me. Yes being tall makes it so I can grab things from higher shelves and it makes me a little bit more intimidating, but girls are usually shown as short. The pretty girls are always the short one because being small is "cute". This is part of the reason I only date guys who are taller than me.

A lot of people around here are hypocrites. They talk bad about the Games, until our district wins. They talk bad about the electronics my mom makes, until it's something that helps them. They talk bad about me, but only behind my back. What they don't realize is not everything is black and white. I'm not one of those hypocrites, I'll say what I think. Yes, this upsets some people. But that seems like a personal problem to me. Honestly, if people want to dislike me or my mom because we actually support our government, that's on them.

Quixotic of THQ