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Name: Layla Cypress

District: 12

Gender: Female.

Age: 16

Age-group: 15-16

Weapon:


 * Un-armed combat.
 * Will use knives if she has to.

Strength:


 * Observant, and capable of noticing this that others do not.
 * Good climber, since she spent a lot of time climbing the apple tree near her house, to get those better tasting apples.
 * Unarmed Combat Fighter, Layla has seven brothers, and all of them taught her to fight from a young age the hard way.
 * Can swim : Her neighbour's house was abandoned due to a fire, and no one else wanted to live there, so it was boarded up. There was a huge hole in the roof, and every time it rained, the house would fill up deeper and deeper until it became like a swimming pool. Layla and her brothers would swim in it, or try to drown each other.

Weaknesses: (Atleast two)


 * Surviving on her own : Even though she lived in the seem, Layla never needed to survive by herself. She depended on the apple tree, and both of her parents worked, along with three of her older brothers. They didn't have a great deal of money coming in, but they had enough to feed themselves.
 * Very little killer instinct : Layla even struggles in killing wild animals as food, let alone a human being. She will only kill if she absolutely has too.

Fears: (Atleast one)


 * Cats . She just sees one, and she tenses up. Though, as much as she hates it, cats are attracted to her, and rub themselves against her leg. Layla can remain cool when it's just one or two, but any more than that, and she could easily freak out. Her brother Darren once locked her in a shed with a particularly vicious cat, and she's been frightened of them since.

Appearence: Pale skinned, dark brown hair, grey eyes, average height. It is said, that despite her cold eyes, there is still some warmth in them.

Personality: Layla always has her eyes on the prize. She knows what she wants out of life, and exactly how to get it. When confronted with a problem, Layla looks beyond what she sees. Her own mind, why settle for just one apple on the ground, when you can climb up the tree and have a whole bushel? Though, she has a kind heart, and often gives that bushel to the hungry families. Leyla can be competitve with her brothers, but she'll protect them no matter what, except Darren, of whom she hates the most.

Backstory: Layla grew up in the seam, with her parents Kallen and Felicia Cypress, and her seven brothers, Logan, Darren, Sam, Lyle, Vaughn, Peter, Leon. Being one of the few families in the seam to have their own apple tree, they had some food. Not enough, but some.

Kallen worked in the coal mines, barely bringing in enough money. As soon as they were old enough not to be reaped, her three elder brothers, Logan, Darren and Sam went straight into work. Darren and Logan into the mines, Sam became a baker's apprentice.

They had some money coming in, not a lot, but enough so that their children didn't have to apply for extra oil or grains.

Every year, the day before the reaping, it is a Cypress family tradition, that all of the children go out into the backyard, and have a free for all brawl, to prepare them if they are reaped. Layla only started winning, since Logan, Darren and Sam stopped participating.

Kallen saves up all year, so that after the reaping, if none of his children are reaped, they can have a proper meal, to celebrate. If they are reaped, he puts the money away, so he can send his child a gift in the arena. So far, none of the Cypress children have been reaped, yet.

Reaction when reaped: She looks over to her parents, and sheds a tear. Slowly pulling an apple out of her pocket from their apple tree, she holds it up, and says "Why settle for one, when I can have the whole bushel?"

Private session: For her private training, Layla gets a training dummy, and does all the fighting moves she has learned from a lifetime of fights with her brothers, and fourteen years of Pre-Reaping Day Brawls.

Strategy for bloodbath/games:


 * Layla would just grab the first backpack she sees, and run. She would find a place to hide out, and stay there until she is sure everyone has calmed down.
 * Layla will wait until the careers have set up camp, and when they are asleep, steal what she needs from the supplies that they have claimed. She will hide away, letting all the other tributes to pick each other off, until it is just her and the last remaining tribute. Only then, will she stand up and fight. She will find away to disarm her appointment, and fight them in unarmed combat.

Token: A bracelet, made by her younger brother Vaughn, out of bits of string.