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Annelie Elvander

Age: 18

District: 4

Gender: Female

Height: 5´7

Signature Weapon: Crossbow



Personality:

Annelie is very careful towards mostly anything. She values caution and often feels very uncomfortable when she is put out of her element. She doesn´t like to have to interact with strangers, often she´ll just smile without really saying anything. If Annelie gets scared, she´ll respond to her fear with aggression. She is a very emotional girl who has to work hard to keep herself calm when someone or something irritates her. She is very caring and nurturing, and is always willing to help if someone needs it. However, she is so selfless that it has come to the point where she wants others to be happy, even when she should for once put some care into herself. Annelie doesn´t think too highly of herself.

Backstory:

Annelie was born and raised in the distant District Fourteen until she was about four years old, when she and her parents moved down to District Four for reasons known only to them. It was said that they didn´t go willingly, but something happened, and they were forced to move away from Fourteen. The first year they lived in Four, Annelie´s parents got another child, they called her Laura. They loved Laura over everything else in life, themself and Annelie included. It seemed they wanted to forget Annelie slightly, since she was linked to the bad memories in District Fourteen. Annelie was very jealous of the love Laura got, while she was starved for attention. She hated Laura, but never showed it, and tried her hardest to put her family´s needs in front of her own. She wanted to understand and accept that when her parents saw her face, they only saw what had happened in Fourteen. But when they saw Laura´s face, they saw the meaning of a fresh start in life.

But one day, the family life was torn apart by a tragic accident. Annelie, who was ten years at the time, and Laura, who was only six, were bathing out in the ocean by the beach. Their parents were not present, as Annelie had tried to sneak away to have some alone time, but Laura followed her. Their parents had warned them about the dangerous currents in the river. Suddenly, while Laura was splashing by the sandy beach and Annelie was swimming out in the water, Annelie got caugth in the strong currents. She screamed and tried to swim back to land, but the ocean tides were too strong and they were pulling her further and further away. Laura, in her desperation to save her sister, managed to swim out to her and drag her back to land. But when Annelie just had managed to drawl onto the sand, Laura was overcome with fatigue. She couldn´t fight the waves as they pulled her away from safety and down into the ocean. Their parents found Annelie passed out on the beach, and Laura nowhere to be found.

After that, the relationship between Annelie and her parents got even worse, since they blamed her for the death of Laura. Annelie was often ignored and they treated her like air, while they still adored Laura and tries to forget she had died, they pretended like she was still alive. For four years Annelie lived with her parents, who had slowly turned insane, until she couldn´t take it anymore. She ran awya form home, with only her few personal possessions, her camera, one of the few things she cared for. For a year, she lived as a fugitive from her parents, she made her living by working at the docks of District Four. She didn´t earn much, but it was enough for her to survive. She liked this life and would never want to come home ever again. But her parents one day tracked her down, and demanded her to come home again to them. Annelie tried to run away from them, but they insisted on her coming home. Deep in her heart, she was curious to why her parents suddenly wanted her home again, and why she seemed to exist in their life again. But nothing could have prepared her for what awaited in her old home.

From the day she returned, she was mistreated and abused by her parents. They locked her inside the house at all times, she was not allowed to go to school or do anything at all. She was nothing but a slave for her parents. Annelie was beated and forced to work from morning til nightfall every day, every week of every year until she was eighteen years old. At that time, she managed to overpower her mother when she was going to put her shackles on one morning, and she was able to get out of the house. She ran through the streets, trying to find somewhere to hide. It was then she realized it was reaping day, and right before her parents got a hold of her, Annelie volunteered and was able to get away. Her parents were arrested in front of her, and prosecuted for hanging the following day. Only when she was on the train to the Capitol did Annelie realize what she had done.

Strengths:

Annelie is very intelligent. She is a good people reader, and can understand what people really mean with their words. She is a good shot with the crossbow, but she isn´t anything too amazing. But she can get the job done. Annelie is a fast learner.

Weaknesses:

Annelie is terrified of water because of what happened to Laura when she was little. She is also not that strong, and very fragile. Annelie underestimates herself a lot, and is hard to motivate towards anything. She isn´t very comfortable in natural envirements.

Alliance:

The Careers hopefully, if not, she´ll be a loner

Token:

A gold medalion with an azure-blue gemstone she got when she was baptized in District Fourteen.