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[daisiesguardyou]

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Name: Tri
Age: 26
Contact: tricia868 at gmail or plurk, trichan868 (AIM), tri868 (skype)
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Character Basics:

Character Name: Rue
Journal: daisiesguardyou
Age: 12
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Canon Point: While running the fire ruse, shortly before her capture
Debt:

Class A: 7 counts of espionage
Class B: 0 class B crimes
Class C: 2190 counts of illegal foraging (a tiny bit every day for 6 years)

-I classed illegal foraging at the same level as poaching

GRAND TOTAL: 189 years, 6 months

Canon Character Section:

History: HERE

Personality:

Rue is very good at fading into the background. She's quiet, observant, and her small physical size admittedly may help a little. Life in the outer Districts makes people grow up fast. Even at age twelve, Rue knows that speaking or acting without thinking can carry lethal consequences. She isn't big or strong, so she relies on going unnoticed and keeping her eyes open to keep her safe.

Despite keeping as low a profile as possible, Rue isn't afraid to act decisively when the occasion calls for it. She enjoys having a plan and being able to actually do something about the injustices around her. Rue's adventurousness is tempered by caution, not snuffed out by it. In the Games, she crept close to its most dangerous players to scope out the situation and give Katniss a warning. She was eager to participate in the destruction of supplies. Rue knows how to be careful, but she is always ready to choose the opportune moment for taking risks.

As the oldest of six, Rue takes her responsibilities to her family very seriously. She's always been protective of her younger siblings. Rue would do anything to keep them safe and healthy. She'd even risk whippings or executions to get them enough food, willing to steal from the orchards and fields she worked. If her own name hadn't been called so young as a Hunger Games tribute, she would probably have volunteered to take the place of any of her siblings, were they ever in Prim's position at a Reaping. Katniss may have seen some of Prim in Rue, but Rue saw herself in Katniss. She liked Katniss right from the start because Katniss understood what it meant to stand up for her sister and was willing to make the sacrifice anyway.

In a different world, Rue would be eager, happy, open, and trusting. It's her natural state. She wants to like and trust people, and it's always tempting to let herself be protected. In Panem, she couldn't give in to that urge very often. Rue had to be the protector, and she had to watch everything she said in case it reached the wrong ears. She had to make sure no one caught her sneaking food home to feed her brothers and sisters, or she wouldn't be there to do it anymore.. Trust is frightening, because the cost of its betrayal has always been so very high. But when she gives her trust or her loyalty, Rue gives it completely.

Rue's favorite thing in the world is music. Her life so far has been very practical, full of work. Drudgery is a necessity, if she wants to keep herself and her family alive. She sings in the fields, and she teaches snippets of melody to the mockingjays there. Even with how difficult life is in District 11, Rue doesn't think it's frivolous to love something that isn't inherently useful. She values things because she loves them, and not because they can serve a purpose. For her, the useful things are a means to an end. If they keep her alive and well and able to provide for the people she loves, that's fine, but Rue appreciates beautiful things for their own sake. She looks for things in her life that make her happy, not just things to help her survive.

Powers/Abilities: Rue has no supernatural abilities. What she has are hard-won survival skills. She's used to harvesting in orchards, so small and lightweight that she can easily get to the tops of trees, even as the branches start to narrow and weaken. She can jump between tree limbs like a squirrel, never needing to return to ground. Growing up where food was scarce plus working in an agricultural setting mean she's very good at identifying plants and finding food. She can use a slingshot, but that's her only fighting skill.

Appearance:

CR AU

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Are they gaining any abilities from their time in game? Did the game setting take something from them? N/A

Samples:

Actionspam Sample:

[Rue isn't accustomed to asking for favors. And she's certainly never been in a position to ask them of strangers. People took care of their own in District 11, scrambling to manage even that.

This favor, though, is easy enough for anyone to grant that she doesn't feel bad asking. It would mean a lot to her if even one or two people replied.]

Does anyone have songs from home to share? I only know the ones I learned in the fields and the orchards, and there's people here from so many places... I'll trade you some of my songs if you want, or if there's anything else I can do for you.

[This next, related, request seems like a bigger one, but on the off chance anyone would agree, she asks anyway.]

I know there's a way to write down the notes as well as words, too, but I never learned how. I'd really like being able to read music.

Prose Sample:

...if she's feeling safe enough, you might hear her whistling.