User blog comment:Enraptured Misfit/The 377th Annual Hunger Games/@comment-5338425-20151204202356

Name: Elise Stokes

Age: Sixteen

District: 14

Gender: Female

Personality: Elise is an enclosed and shy girl, she is not very outgoing and is usually very quiet. She displayes remarkable intelligence for someone of her age and from her District, and as has a much softer side to those who hail from her District. Elise uses her intelligence to her advantage, others instantly assume she is a weak girl who is not a threat but she likes to watch others, she absorbs knowledge and uses it against her oppontents, she is very underestimated. She is intuitive and quick thinking, usually one to rush into a situation while others are still thinking what to do. Elise lives by the motto "every man for hismelf" and when others are in need she will not put herself in danger to save them, she has one goal and she will not let anything change that, she is very resilient. Elise does not make connections with people, and is ready to kill them if it means she will make it one step closer to home, she always follows her beliefs and will not let anyone change that.

Backstory: Elise was born to two scientists, Altur and Diana Stokes. Her parents worked on mutts for the Hunger Games, like the District industry implied. Elise was always destined to follow their fate, to do what everyone else did but she didn't like that. She always wanted to be more than that, most children from her District dreamed of becoming a victor of the Hunger Games, but Elise was a rare case of a child who refused to train and was very outgoing, which is the opposite of what she is today.

Elise was nine when she noticed a gap in the gate of her District. The gap was small, no adult could fit through it but Elise could with her small figure and she invited a friend, Raymond Wilson to go into the uncharted tropics of their District. They climed through the gap and were awaited by a jungle, and Elise went in, floowled by Raymond. They then heard a noise, suttle at first but as they moved towards it in increased in volume, curiosity was such a dangerous thing Elise one possesed. That was then they found the source of the noise.

There, in the tree was a cat. Elise laughed, looking towards Raymond who walked back with fear.

"Raymond, what's wrong" Elise said, fear started to grow on her face, the expression on Raymond's face could make one go cold "it's just a cat...isn't it?" That's when more of them came, their orange fur dotted with black spots, their round eyes taking in Raymond and Elise with interest, their sharp claws and teeth flashed in the glimmer of sun. Elise looked with horror as they started to surround her and her friend.

"Elise...they're not ca--a-ts. They're...They're mutts!" He screamed, afraid to move. Elise had heard mutts escaped through the fence, the fence was heavily armed and safe for a reason, Elise had just exposed herself to the dangers of the outside world. "Elise. You need to walk away...slowly" Elise did that, a tear falling out of her eye. That was when the first cat pounced out of the tree, blocking Raymond's path as he jumped back. Then they all started to jump out of the trees, surrounding Elise and Raymond. Elise started to sprint away, the cats pouncing on her as they clawed at her face. Raymond then ran, the cats to busy trying to maul Elise to notice him. Elise, in desperation lurched out her hand towards his ankle and he crased on the ground. Elise then ran, the cats now eating their new victim. She heard Raymond scream for her but she could not stop, her body was not letting her.

She ran without stopping until she slid under the District gates, where she waited for Raymond's return, his return that never came. The peacekeepers took no notice fo his dissapearance, as he was just a child of the Districts. His body still lies in the jungle, ripped aparts by the mutts. Elise became very enclosed after that, she didn't let herself take any risks, afraid of repeating the Raymond incident again. She was a changed girl.

The years passed by but she never let herself forget about Raymond, she was punishing herself. When Elise became thirteen she helped her father in the lab, helping her father design the monsters that haunt her every day, she sees the claws slashing at her face. She feels her skin being ripped apart. She remembers the screams that left her body. She became afraid of the monsters, as she calls them. She could not work in the lab anymore, the mere image of one of those abomonations would induce great fear inside her. Elise was haunted every day, everywhere she would go she would see them, literally. Then her life changed forever, that was when her name was called at the reaping of the 46th Annual Hunger Games.

Strengths: Intelligence, Weapon Skills and Resourceful

Weaknesses: Swimming, Agility and Climbing

Weapons:  She has trained with a real weapon as she is from a career District. She is efficient with a dagger as she had to use this weapon when she used to work around mutts and this would be her first weapon choice. She is also good at using a throwing kinfe, though it is a hard weapon to master her usuage of the dagger has made her adapt to using throwing knives, though her aim is not amazing on moving targets she is usually able to harm tributes with it, which she prefers to killing them.

Appearance: Elise is a beautiful girl, with caramel curls cascading just below her shoulder. She has round eyes that are a stormy grey and usually emotionless, or holding a look of sadness. She has a slim body structure, and is nothing compared to the muscular career girls, and has little to no muscle. Elise has pale skin, despite coming from the quite tropical District. She is average height at 5,8''. ''

Fear(s): Elise fears mutts, she has ever since she wat attacked by a group of them at a young age and her friend lost his life to them. She also fears water, as she sees it as unpredictable and you can ever be certain what is lurking under you.