User blog comment:Cloveismywife/374th Hunger Games/@comment-5591361-20130103054924

Ok so I know that she's been used before in one games, but don't think that her story's over, I am really curious to see how you will use her. I have really updated her details and changed her lunaii so that she's not exactly the same as before. If there's any issue with her being in a games that you participated in please let me know and I can give you a brand new tribute :)

Name: Arena Dallow

Age: 1 8

District: 7

Height: 6 0

Personality: Arena has a very cold and vengeful personality. She does not understand emotion and so sometimes has trouble relating to people. She has always been around death so she can be incredibly brutal. She always remembers when she has been wronged, no matter how slight or how long ago it was. Arena does not know how to relate to emotional people, as she has never really cried and has never mourned since she was 5 she doesn’t understand crying.

Backstory:   Arena was born into a middle class district 7 family. Her family were sawdust makers. They ground up all the inferior wood into sawdust and woodchips for various uses. They also made a lot of carvings to sell in the District 7 market. Arena’s sister, Helena died before Arena was born. She died by inhaling sawdust accidentally and choking on it. Ever since then Arena’s parents were overly protective of the young Arena. However, Arena's parents died when Arena was just 5, in a freak woodchipping accident. Arena watched them as they screamed and their bodies were turned to shreds, for the neighbourhood dogs, cats and hawks to feed on. Arena gathered a vial of their blood to remember them by and even to this day she carries it faithfully around her neck. Her parent’s death flipped a switch in Arena's head and she became bloodthirsty, violent and bordering on psychopathic, even as a 5 year old. She began torturing animals as sacrifices to "help her parents in heaven eat." She caught them by stalking, either on the ground, or jumping on their backs from a tree. She never believed that she was animalistic; she was just a human hunter. She continued to live alone in her house, which became more and more decrepit because she never repaired it. She became more and more delusional until she snapped and killed a neighbour, 17 year old Alex Moore, with a home-made wooden throwing knife, only because he looked at her in a way she didn’t like. No one ever suspected anything because she made it seem like his death was an accident. But she has never forgotten it and now believes that in order to help her family in heaven she needs to kill her way there and she will be purged of all her wrongdoings. She avidly studied the Hunger Games each year and particularly liked the feast twist in the 373rd. Arena admired the girl who managed to kill her mutt and laughed at the Capitol idiot who got eaten by hers. She now believes that it is the right time for her to enter the hunger games, a tournament that was simply made to satiate her bloodthirstyness and get her parents the help she believes they need. She has never accepted the loss of her parents and thinks that she will see them again one day, as well as meet Helena. If she wins she would use the money to set up an abattoir in district 7, as a way to help her parents. However should the capitol psychiatrists cure her, then she would become a normal person, and accept the loss of her parents. Arena does have it in her to throw off her bloodlust, not that she knows that, all she needs is for someone to draw it out of her.

Weapons: axe, throwing knife. She is equally competent with them.

Strengths: Arena’s greatest strength is her ability to switch her mind off and just give herself over to killing and bloodlust. This strength means that she doesn’t let what little emotion she does have affect her judgment or ability. Another strength is her ability with wood, coming from 7 she can carve anything she wants to out of it and the trees are her quickest mode of transportation.

<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2C2C2C">Weaknesses: Arena’s most significant weakness is her lack of compassion or emotion. Because she has been so alone for most of her life she does not understand human emotion that well. She vaguely remembers feeling sad when her parents died.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2C2C2C">Fears: Arena can’t swim very well, coming from 7, so she prefers to avoid it. She has even been known to cut down a tree simply so she can cross a river.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2C2C2C">Bloodbath: Kill savagely, except her alliance (if she has one.) Then run away with supplies.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2C2C2C">Interview Angle: Bloodthirsty killer. She will try and scratch the interviewer, just for fun of course. She won’t try and kill him, that would get her killed or imprisoned and she isn’t an idiot.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2C2C2C">Token: A vial of her parent’s blood that she wears around her neck.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#2C2C2C">Alliance: Arena is not opposed to working with an alliance to further her own goals, particularly with ambushes. However it would always be a case of her and them. She would never get emotionally attached to them. Arena does not really feel compassion so she would be very awkward should a tribute cry.