User blog comment:DsHowe24/1st Annual DsHowe24's Hunger Games!/@comment-4951814-20130429015749

Ok, I am going to spill MY tribute's background, just purely so that you can understand how each one is connected.... ;)

Sextus:  When Sextus was about five, his mother had another baby to join the family. A baby girl named Aurelia. Life was good then. His father, Maddox Aldjoy, was killed in a powerplant accident three years later. After the accident, Sextus' mother, Arianwen, had a mental breakdown and turned to alcohol and drugs for the answer. Since she was drinking and getting high so often, she would be really bipolar and Sextus and Aurelia wouldn't know what to expect when they came home from school. Usually, they would be abused or tormented without a second glance, and would rarely come home to see her baking delicious cookies or cake from her (although it isn't completely a myth that she would) also resulting in his schizophernia. Last year, Aurelia came home from school early without Sextus, due to his weight club at school. Her mother beat her to death; Sextus came home to find his baby sister bloody, beaten, and stuffed in the closet. Horrified, he reluctantly turned to his own mother's drugs, giving her an overdose on purpouse during that night's dinner. She died instantly. Sextus (over looked because the thought of her overdosing was probably correct) moved in with his mother's brother, Lyric, who has neglected him until the reaping, where Lyric gave him the picture of eight year old Aurelia.

Ceritia: Cerita is the daughter of Lyric Arrows in District 5. However, when she was about 12, the Capitol held a mysterious games that was the kids between 4-10 and 12-18. There were 4 victors that year: herself, a 9 year old boy from D4, a 6 year old boy from 7, and a ruthless 18 year old D9 boy whom had killed her older sister. Her older sister had voulenteered to protect her, and died trying.

Cruz: Cruz was never really 'Cruz Polceck'. He was Matrix Stark. He lived in the capitol until he was 11, when his father, head gamemaker, said that the Hunger Games were a time of waste and money. It was in the middle of the Mysterious Age games that Ceritia had won. His father was immediatey put in prision along with his family (Cruz's mom, Cruz, sisters [2] and younger brother). The next day they were sentenced to death in a public shooting. Right before they shot Cruz, he elbowed the Peacekeeper holding him and ran away, making it to the districts. Being from the Capitol, he dyed his hair from the beautiful blonde, to a dark coffee color. There was really nothing he could do about his eyes. He ran all the way to District 12, and changed his last name from Stark, to Plocek and first from Matrix to Cruz so that he would fit in. Living on his own, he submitted his name twice for tesserae, and now his name is in there four times. He soon ventured into the woods where he saw Tristian Eveerdeen (Katniss's 17 year old granddad) who taught him snares and how to survive more than normal.

Saffra: Saffra was beloved by all in her district, especially her  20 year old   brother Rendwick. Rendwick was 18 when he had won the Mysterious Age games, and he had killed the last person, a 15 year old girl from District Five. But one day, Saffra and her boyfriend were going home from a date, when he had accidentally screwed up her name. Confused, because they had been going out for about a month or two, she became wary, and stalked him. She discovered him cheating, and went on a rampage. She ended up killing her boyfriend, the girl he was seeing, and a friend of his. She voulenteered because she thought she would either come back with the slate clean or die in that arena because she thought she didn't deserve to live. She's betting heavily on the first, but believes that anything could happen.

(These are the four most intresting characters I have, and I intentionally have their story's connected for this purpouse. Have fun with them ;])