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Reed Bliss

Gender: Female

Age: 12

District: 11

Appearance: Long light brown hair, gray-green eyes, very small.

Skills: She has a very large knowledge on edible and non-edible plants. She is a very fast runner and very smart.

Strategies: Avoid the bloodbath at all costs, then find an ally. She is going to try to avoid killing but if it means winning, she will.

Personality: Reed is very sweet and nice, but she is cautious. She hates to be on her own. She is very trustworthy and care giving.

History: Reed lives a poor life on the farms. Her mother is dead and she has 3 siblings. 2 older brothers and an older sister. Her two older brother’s names are Shaun (16) and Sam (17). During the Reaping, her sister, Dawn who's 15, tried to volunteer, but their father wouldn't let her because they needed her at home. Dawn was devastated. She went to say goodbye to Reed and was sobbing and apologizing. Dawn hates her father for not letting her volunteer. Reed was trying to stay strong, but being 12 year old, she knows her chances of winning are slim. Her mother died of a disease that swept through the District. It was four years ago and Sam also got the sickness. He barely survived, but the family spent all of their money for the cure. They didn’t have enough to pay for a treatment for their mother. Reed find edible plants in the fields and sells them to the doctor and other people for money and food. This is how the family gets a lot of money. They all work on the farms, but the pay is small and without Reed gathering the plants, the family would probably starve to death.

Token: A small bracelet that Dawn gave her for her 10th birthday. It has her name woven into it.

Grain Follows

Gender: Male

Age: 17

District: 11

Appearance: dark skin, short black hair, tall, strong, dark brown eyes.

Skills: Great with knives, knows lots of edible plants. Strong.

Strategies: Grab something close and run. Don't ally. He will do anything to win and avenge his sister's death. He hates the Careers and will be happy to take out all of them

Personality: Very quiet, not many friends, usually nice, very smart, trustworthy.

History: Used to have a younger sister, Marie, who died 2 years ago in the Games when she was 12. He has barely ever smiled since then. He lives with his father, who is a drunk. He has to gather food and farm on his own. He volunteered in for a 12 year old boy and promised to avenge his sister's death. He volunteered because he didn’t want another 12 year old to die. His mother just disappeared when he was just 10. His sister died by being tortured to death by the Careers. His father probably won’t survive without Grain there to support him.

Token: His sister's token, which was an anklet from their mother, was given to him after she died. He is goignt o use it as his token. The anklet in yellow, brown and made of stiff twine. It doesn't look like much, but it's all Grain has left of his sister