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Name: Ainsley Silverbead

Gender: Female

Age: 16

District: 8

Strengths: Ainsley is agile and physically strong, often excelling in hand-to-hand combat. She is pain resisant from the silver cheek method's medicine coarsing through her lungs

Weaknesses: Ainsley can be a bit too kind at times. She also isn't exactly proficient in long range weaponry and can't swim.

Fears: Ainsley fears being diseased and she is scared of spiders.

Personality: Ainsley, unlike other Silverbead kids, is actually nice and kind and explains her healing as an ordinary miracle. She used to be extremely selfish as a child, but outgrew that after her "miracle"

Weapons of Choice: Anisley prefers to use a machete or a serrated sword in combat. If desperate, she will use a javelin

Backstory:

'My eyes flash open as I wake up from the IV procedure. All I can remember is flashes of pain and screaming before I fainted on the table. The doctor walks up to me and says, "I sorry, but you have lung cancer."'

Ainsley Silverbead was born to two scientists that worked in the labs from the Capitol. They had been part of the scientific team that discover the Silver Cheek Cure. She played with the other Silverbead children and was friends with mainly Organza Silverbead, Esme Silverbead and Adeline Silverbead. Lots of the other little children that she attended school with often were jealous of her beauty. Her life was good, until the "day" arrived.

'My mother cried as she leaned her head into my shoulder, screaming "WHY? WHY?" while Papa cornered the doctor and took ahold of the doctor by is pullover, asking many questions, like why she got cancer and how come the silver cheek method didn't work, My family was in ruins.'

One day when Ainsley was about ten, she was outside during recess, playing with the other chidren when suddenly, she collapsed. Some people thought that she had an lung failure, others thought that she just had asthma. But, she was taken to the Capitol Hospital where she went under the IV procedure for testing, and it was revealed that she had received lung cancer.

'I remember collasping on the bed and having this pain in my chest, and feeling like I couldn't breathe. My airways were filling up with mucus and I was in pain for what seemed like forever. I screamed every hour on the hour, either waiting for hope or death to arrive at my doorstep.'

This pattern lasted for a year and a half. Over this time, the pain kept getting worse and worse, the screams were more torturous and Ainsley eventually fell into a coma with no guarantee with her waking up to live again. During the week that Ainsley was in a coma, her parents never left her bedside. Her "cousins" came to visit her day after day and everyone was pleading for a miracle to wake up little Ainsley.

'While in my coma, I heard the suffering of my family and their pleas for a miracle. I knew that I had to keep fighting, that I had to live for my family. Then one day, I heard a shimmering sound coarsing through my body like a shield. My eyes flew open and I saw the shocked looks of my parents that combined fear, happiness, excitement and relief.'

After Ainsley woke up, the doctors ran test on her and they miraculously found Ainsley cancer-free. The silver cheek method had saved her in the end, but with a cost. All the little cancer healing particles in her silver cheeks spread to her lungs and blew out all the cancer and stayed there like a shield. But, after this, Ainsley lost her silver cheeks.

Ainsley decided that she needed to rebuild all the physical strength that she had lost due to her cancer. For the two years before she left home, Ainsley trained under Max Haines and eventually regained her muscle and was in tip-top shape when she left home at age thirteen in order to pursue a life in the districts. She eventually made her way to District 8 and took up a job as a washing deliverer.

So Ainsley eventually adapted to her new everyday life. She would go do all her clothes delivering, then she would go out under the fence of the District and continue her training before going back to re-deliver the wash before heading back to the girl's home for bed. Eventually, this routine became normal.

While in District 8, Ainsley met a boy named Garrett Kingsley and the two of them became a couple, visiting each other on the street and stealing a quick kiss every now and then.

But one day, when Ainsley was fifteen, she was delivering the wash to the richest family's house in the District like any other day. Usually, it was the mother that answered the door, but instead, it was a girl that Ainsley immediately recognize. It was Organza Silverbead, one of her best friends in the family. Ainsley delivered the wash, but instead of leaving, she walked up to Organza and opened up her arms for a hug. Organza, a little reluctant at first, walked up to Ainsley and hugged her back, before stepping away, when Organza started to talk:

"Ainsley, Gods the last time I saw you, you were a eleven year old girl screaming her guts out in pain. But now you look fine. What happened?"

Ainsley smiled before replying "An ordinary miracle happened Organza. The silver cheek method saved after I fell under a coma. The medicine in my cheeks somehow spread to my lungs and cured them. The process though, cost me my silver cheeks."

Since that one encounter, Ainsley and Organza often visited and caught up on five years of life. When Ainsley was sixteen and Reaping Day came around, Organza was reaped. As her family friend walked up to the stage, Ainsley screamed out: "I VOLUNTEER!"

Organza turned to her before saying "Ainsley, are you sure about this?"

Ainsley turned and smiled at Organza: "110 percent sure. Just take care of Garrett while I'm gone".

And with those last words, Ainsley walked up the stage and was prepared to face any horror that came to her.