User blog comment:He's a fish!/176th Hunger Games/@comment-5674187-20130529191627

Tribute Format: Patchouli "Patch" Levi

District: 8

Gender: Male

Weapon of Choice: Slingshot

Strengths (at least 1): He was good at thieving as well, since he and the gang (when they let him.) stole money and drugs. He has an innocent facade. Patch is not a melee fighter, and so the slingshot was a natural choice.

Weaknesses (at least 2): Due to him being kidnapped from a young age, he has a small to no education, meaning that he can't read much nor do math that isn't adding, or subtracting. He can't really trust anyone anymore, after everything.

Bio: When Patch was younger, he lived with his parents and siblings in a rundown area of District 8. Many people knew about the Morphling addicts in District 6, but the area that Patch lived in was just as bad, though hardly anyone knew about it. His mother, Lint, and his father, Fabric, both worked in the factories all day, leaving Patch and his two older siblings, Cotten and Lacey, home along. Despite the two jobs, the family was destitute, and so the three children took to stealing. It was all going well until the day Lacey was caught. She had stolen a loaf of bread from the bakery, when a Peacekeeper walked over and saw her. He arrested her and had had her executed publicly. Both of his parents took her death badly. His mother spiraled down into depression, hardly ever talking to anyone, and she often stayed up late into the night crying. His father became over-protective. He refused to let either Cotten or Patch out of the house. He saved up what little he made and bought a padlock, which he placed on the only door to the house. Patch and Cotten were prisoners inside their own home. However, one day, Patch was able to mess with the lock after his father got home. He rigged it to look like it was locked, when really the door could be pushed open. When his father went to work the next day, Patch sprung the lock and ran outside to go play with the other children. But instead of finding children, he found a ruthless gang of drug dealers. Afraid that he might rat them out, they kidnapped him. He was taken back to their hideout and forced to do all sorts of chores. Then the men started having him deliver the drugs or provide distractions when other gangs were around. He had nearly been killed several times. Then when he was 13, he was delivering drugs, when a Peacekeeper saw him. He was running away from the Peacekeeper and ran into Cotten. Cotton helped him elude his pursuer, but Pistol, the leader of the gang, found him and shot Cotten for trying to help Patch escape.

Reaped or Volunteered? If Volunteered, for who?: Volunteered. To get away from the gang and to get his revenge by telling the Capitol all about them.

Age: 15

Appearance: Patch is an average sized, man with lightly tanned skin. Patch also has chopped dark rust-colored hair, a bit of a scruff on his chin, and copper-colored eyes. Patch is also 5'3 and 89 pounds.Token (optional):

Anything else: None