User blog comment:EvilhariboMadness/3rd Annual Dreaded Games/@comment-5521740-20130116124812

Name: Max Grain

Age: 23

Gender: Male

District: 9

Weapon: Scythe

Personality: Max is quiet, the odd one. He's interested in an old world, a world before Panem. But this kind of thinking earns him brutal beatings, so he's used to pain and fear is an old friend, probably his only friend.

Backstory: Until Max was 10, he lived a mostly happy life. But a little bit after his birthday, Max met a rebel lying close to death in a field. The rebel grabbed Max and started babbling about how there was a world before Panem, a world with no Games, with no great fear of death. Then the man closed his eyes and died. Max was suddenly caught up in this intriuging idea of a new world, where he envisioned everyone was free and no one was beat and no one went hungry and no one ever killed children. Max, unfortunately, couldn't kep his ideas to himself. Everywhere he went, Max made it his life's mission to tell people about this foreign land. Peacekeepers beat him every day, but much to the surprise of Max and his parents, that was all they did. They didn't kill him, or arrest him, or damage him beyond repair. But even so, every Reaping day the family got worried. They thought the Capitol might rig the Reaping, put Max into the Games. But when he turned 18, Max was gloriously safe. Or so everyone thought, until the third dreaded Games.

Strengths: Max is good at sneaking around, and he can withstand great amounts of pain.

Weaknesses: All things physical. He's a slow runner, he can't swim worth a wink, and he jumps lower than a tree can.

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