User blog:Ahalosniper/A piece in your Games

Hello there! I'm Ahalosniper, or shorter ASniper, a wikia drifter. Not to delve into myself too much, I'll say I'm usually found at Halo and Gears of War Fanon Wikis. I'm a hardcore sci-fi nut, so when I picked up a copy of Hunger Games by chance, it came as a great break from my usual alien apocolypses.

Though I don't plan to stay, I had to get my idea of a character out, and whoever is reading this, you are more than welcome to use this as a character in one of your own fan-created Hunger Games. Best of luck in your written endeavors, and may the odds be ever in your favor.

That Damn Sniper

Kyler Teak
In the time since the Annual Hunger Games commenced, each year has seen only one child survive the slaughter as the celebrated victor, with one unknown exception. Kyler Teak was born fifty-two years after the Dark Days in District 7, Panem’s lumber source. In the 6#th Hunger Games, he was selected as a tribute in the reaping, and sent to the Capitol briefly before being fielded with twenty-three other tributes. But during the Games themselves, a building collapsed on him and another Tribute, and Teak’s left arm was completely severed.

While this caused him no end of pain, it did result in him losing the tracking chip embedded in him, and lead the Gamemakers to believe he had died. Learning of their folly only strengthened his will to survive, and as crews were dismantling equipment and closing the ring on the other tributes, he was able to stow away and become possibly the only tribute to ever actually escape.

After regaining a measure of strength and fighting off the mental trauma caused by the losing of his arm, Teak became a resistance agent and assassin, keeping in touch with a number of Games winners seeking an end to the Capitol, particularly Haymitch Abernathy and (winner of his own Hunger Games).

Early Life
Born to the widow of a recently-killed logger in District Seven, Teak spent his early years helping logging crews by running tools and equipment back and forth, as he had no build of muscle to speak of and was unable to keep up with the cutting work. Through his early years, his family scraped a living out of helping gather wood for the Capitol’s paper. He was told once that most of the wood was used in the napkins of Capitol citizens at banquets, which sparked a growing dislike of the Capitol in him. By his early teens, Teak would often stay out hidden in the forests to avoid having to watch the reapings take place.

The Sixty-#th Hunger Games
"To remember that those rebels who opposed the Capitol inevitably turned on themselves in desperation, we remember their end this year by having our tributes battle in a place not unlike where they spent their final, futile hours fighting: in the streets of District Thirteen."

- President Snow announcing the 6#th Annual Hunger Games.

As far away as he distanced himself, Teak could not run nor hide when his name was called. Brought to the stage in partial shock alongside his fellow tribute, he wouldn’t speak to anyone for the next day. This did not have any effect on his mentor’s harsh instruction. His mentor was the District 7 winner of the previous year’s Hunger Games, Johanna Mason.

Training
"They can't kill what they can't catch."

- Teak's initial strategy.

Most of the communication between Mason and Teak involved her giving him difficult tasks and yelling at him when he failed. She was an inexperienced teacher, and backed against a wall by pressure from President Snow. But Teak was able to learn a few values from her, to be resourceful, to use an unfair advantage, and be remorseless as a killer.

When in the exercise rooms with other tributes, he was instructed to balance time between watching his competition and picking up new skills. The hours within his quarters were spent honing his few talents, primarily to run fast. Even through his stylists’ makeup, he appeared tired, even yawning when he was interviewed by Caesar Flickerman.

Parade and Interviews
When it was announced that the theme of this year would be the Capitol’s triumph over the rebels, the stylists for District 7 recreated the uniforms of the Capitol soldiers that fought in the evergreen forests of the District. This included faded green flak vests, black boots toned down by mud, and steel helmets that were purposefully a bit large for their heads. During the parade, they looked the part of scared soldiers because they were as most soldiers are: scared, confused, and hoping against hope they’d make it out alive.

In the official interview with Caesar Flickerman, they were clothed in the deep navy blues and gleaming brass buttons of a dress uniform, being trained to stand rigidly and walk with a sense of purpose. Teak did not act, had not been trained to, and appeared very sad and shocked despite Flickerman’s attempts to cheer him. Near the end of his three minutes, he asked Caesar how he could bear to sit with tributes and get to know them every year knowing that all would die. This was edited out of the broadcast, and his time was cut short.

Games
That year, the tributes were set loose in a recreation of what District Thirteen had supposedly looked like after being shelled for a week, and Teak escaped the bloodshed at the Cornucopia in the town square. The other survivors either hunted or were hunted in abandoned houses and underground bunkers filled with muttations and automated turrets. Teak wasn’t fortunate enough to get on weapons, but did snag a spyglass and was first to learn food and water was often hidden in refrigerators.

Twice, Teak nearly died from Gamemaker interference, once an Improvised Explosive Device blowing up a car next to him, and again when an automated truck bristling with machine guns passed his hiding spot. Another time he actually collided with another tribute, but both were too scared of each other and took off in opposite directions. As the second day ended, Teak began to create a plan. That night, he sought out a place where the tributes from technological District 3 had deactivated and moved a set of automated turrets, creating their own fortified bunker. He proposed an alliance, and told them he had a plan to find a way out of the Games altogether.

Ultimately, their march toward the edge drew the attention of the Career Pack. They fled for the edge, only to find themselves up against a barrier keeping them in and the Careers at their backs. Because he was fast and the arrival of the gun truck, Teak made it away with a kill to his name for pushing a Career beneath the truck’s wheels, but both tributes of District 3 were tortured and killed. He blamed himself for their deaths, the fact that one or both of them would have died anyway proved no consolation. When he next encountered a tribute, his will to escape was gone and the two attacked each other with intent to kill.

Escape
"What if it doesn’t work?"

- Female Tribute

"Then I hope they nail you first!"

- Teak

Ironically, his escape was nearer than ever. In their fight, he and the girl became pinned down by turrets, and were forced into sight of each other yet out of reach. Whenever something moved, the turrets would hit it with high-explosive anti-personnel rounds, to gory effect. After a few hours, they agreed to work together to escape. Each of them threw their open packs into the air, losing their supplies but confusing the targeting systems on the turrets. Amid so much movement, the two were able to slip by without any wounds.

Just when it seemed he had found an ally, a siren broke over the city. It was a warning for an artillery barrage, with the pair of tributes smack in the middle. As large-caliber guns obliterated blocks of the playing field, Teak entered a building just as a shell hit it, and the ceiling collapsed. Concrete slabs buried him, giving him a nasty blow to the head and knocking him unconscious. He awoke later, in the rubble, in pain. His left arm had been severed along the upper arm by a piece of falling concrete, the slab itself the only thing keeping him from bleeding out completely.

As he waited for death, he saw the hovercraft approach, and wondered if he was really dead and watching the world through dead eyes. Then he saw the craft lift his amputated arm and realized it had the tracking chip in it, and the Gamemakers must have thought his body was obliterated in the artillery strike. Still unable to move, he kept still as the forcefield constricted around a smaller playing field, leaving him outside it. Laughing hysterically, he managed to use the un-extinguished fires still burning to cauterize his arm despite the pain and smell of burning flesh, then stumbled away from the Games.

The same canons that had fired on him were being dismantled, and Teak stowed away inside one of the huge barrels until it reached District 1 where he was able to get medical attention under a false name. In a hospital bed, he was forced to watch the rest of the Hunger Games play out, his moods swinging erratically from anger to sadness and back to shock. He heard rumors that the artillery strike had been staged to kill him specifically to get to Johanna Mason, who had publicly disagreed with President Snow on a number of occasions. He also felt mixed emotions for the winner of that year’s Games. Finally, he rejected emotions altogether as something that clouded his vision, and started planning where his life would go next.

Resistance Agent
After recovering enough to sneak out of the hospital, Teak made a long journey on foot to District Four, and the home of previous winner Mags. She had long been an obstacle to President Snow, a political adversary he couldn’t quite get the upper hand on. He believed if anyone knew of a resistance, it would be her. Getting into the district was difficult, but soon he figured out the area where Mags took her personal boat out and boarded it as discreetly as possible, not an easy thing to do with one arm. The aging woman drew a knife on him as soon as she discovered him, still strong in her age. But as soon as Teak explained who he was, she showed interest in using him as an ally.

Before long, Teak was running messages between members of the resistance by posing as a train worker or just clinging to their undercarriages. In District Twelve when delivering messages to Haymitch Abernathy, he used the same loose point in their fence as Katniss Everdeen and Gale. Despite his disgust of alcohol, Teak and Abernathy shared a cynical humor when he was sober enough.

Another important event for him was when Mags suggested contacting Johanna Mason about joining their organization. Teak was against it for her own safety, feeling for her as not only a former mentor, but also a crush. Mason was a year younger than Teak, which had made it ever the slightest bit more awkward when they were training. But it was not his decision, and was forced to agree on one condition – that Johanna never know of his existence. Mags agreed, and Teak met another messenger partway that would deliver the letters to a prominent agent in District 7 that could convince her.

At other times, he served as a bodyguard for resistance members who might have been in trouble, twice single-handedly (no pun intended) killing would-be assassins.

Revolution
Haven't gotten the third book yet (dang!). Feel free to expand this and other sections as you wish!

Personality and Traits
"Fifty Seven-point-Six-Two millimeter rounds in the gun,

''Fifty Seven-point-Six-Two millimeter rounds,

''Fire one out, chamber a round,

''Forty-nine Seven-point-Six-Two millimeter rounds in the gun."

- A self-concocted song from Teak.

Teak had a perverse and sadistic sense of humor when it came to Capitol officials and personnel. The rebellion kept him on distant assassination missions, knowing his hatred for them would cause him to blow an undercover operation in no time. While he killed most of his assigned targets with a cool precision, anyone to do with his own year in the Hunger Games met an extremely gruesome end. This included having their limb joints shot out and being left to die in the wilderness, and tortured in the same ways they had artistically showcased the deaths of the tributes from District 3.

When his thoughts weren’t clouded by hate for the Capitol, he was outwardly very calm, with an analytical mind that was best put to use solving someone’s problem, and was a voice of reason for the winning tributes who worked against the Capitol when President Snow played with their emotions. But he couldn’t turn it over to his own problems. Being just older than his mentor, Johanna Mason, he felt an attraction to her that disappeared during her harsh training, but returned after he escaped the Games. For her safety and his instinctive avoidance of emotion that could make him weak, he kept watch on her from a distance until several years after the Capitol fell, and he was finally able to find some measure of happiness with her.

Physical Appearence
"Sometimes I can still feel it. It's called ghost limb syndrome. I start with the dream reliving when I lost it, buried under the rubble, and when I wake up I feel it there, aching sharply where it should be. But it isn't there."

- Teak on his missing arm

Teak had a set of forest-green eyes and long, wavy brown hair. His skin was pale from the shadows of District 7's forests, with a thin body at the time he was a tribute. After recovering from his ordeal, though, his remaining right arm grew very strong, as did the rest of his body while he trained to be an assassin. When not disguised as a Capitol worker, he commonly wore a dark green vest and