Cinna



"It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman."

- Katniss Everdeen

Cinna was Katniss Everdeen's stylist during her campaigns through the 74th and 75th Hunger Games. He came from a place other than the Capitol and was not like his helpers, who, to Katniss Everdeen, were like "Colorful birds pecking at me."

Biography
The 74th Hunger Games announced Cinna's first year of being a stylist. Like most new stylists, Cinna was assigned to District 12, but not for the usual reason of district twelve being a lesser district, and him being a new stylist. In fact, Cinna had requested to design the outfits for the tributes of this district. He proved his worth extremely when he he amazes the Capitol audience with his unusual and breath-taking designs throughout the course of the series. It is he who created "the girl on fire". Cinna is beaten and taken away by Peacekeepers shortly before the start of the 75th Games to upset Katniss.

74th Hunger Games
Since District 12 is the coal mining district, he amazed the Capitol audiences by focusing on the fire more than the actual coal. To introduce the 74th Hunger Games' tributes, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, to the Capitol, he designs a outfit which literally can be set on fire. In this outfit, he portrayed the two as friends, directing them to ride holding hands into the waiting audience.

Cinna's design for Katniss' interview dress was just as elaborate. Completely studded with colorful jewels, she seemed to be set on fire when she twirled.

After the Games, he dressed her in a simple, gold dress which came to just above her knees. Although Katniss was now a co-victor in the bloody Games, he somehow captures her in a completely innocent and love-struck look. This outfit was designed to show pure innocence and total affection to her partner, Peeta, in order for them both to stay out of trouble with President Snow.

75th Hunger Games
Although by now Cinna could have easily moved up to a better district, he continued to loyally design for District 12 in the following Quarter Quell.

To introduce Katniss and Peeta, the selected tributes for the 75th Games, again to the Capitol audience, he put on an entirely different approach to them. Instead of creating the friendly, confident tributes of the year before, he dressed them as smoldering embers and portrayed them as unforgiving contestants.

His last and most dangerous design was what Katniss wore to her interview with Caeser Flickerman. The dress itself was a sight to see on its own. It was also extremely heavy, as Katniss noted. But when Katniss spun around for the audience, the dress caught on fire until the top layer had burned off. Underneath, the dress was similar in design to her original dress, but covered in black feathers, which made Katniss look like a mockingjay, the symbol of the rebellion. This was Cinna's last known design.

Personality
Cinna is very intelligent as evidenced by his designs, which completely win over the Capitol's people to Katniss's cause during the Hunger Games. He maintains a guarded control over his emotions and over his ideas so that he would be the only one to suffer from the consequences, showing his bravery and his disdain for the harshness with which the Capitol wants to rule every aspect of Panem. He does however show care for Katniss and a deep desire to oppose the Capitol through his knowledge of fashion.

Physical description
"I'm taken aback by how normal he looks."

~Katniss, The Hunger Games Most people who live in the Capitol follow very absurd fashion trends. This is not the case for Cinna, who normally wore simple black clothing. His one strange fashion choice was gold eyeliner, which brings out the color of his eyes. Other then that, Cinna looked very normal, with close cropped natural dark brown hair.