The Fifth Annual Writer Games: The Fall

District Ten Female: Daintree Elowen [Jay_Loren]

Name: Daintree Elowen

Age: 17

District: District Ten, Livestock

Sex: Female

Physical Appearance: Like her name suggests, Daintree looks very much the picture of delicateness, with porcelain skin, feathered brown hair, and soft blue eyes. Her waifish frame paired with her looks makes her a popular girl in her part of District 10, though she generally doesn't pay too much attention to how she looks, usually opting for ill-fitting clothing and a simple braid.

Personality: Unlike her name and appearance, Daintree is very brash and aggressive in personality. In part due to being raised around her brothers and working in the livestock fields with like-minded men. She developed a penchant for cursing very early on, a habit quickly adapted by her younger brothers and is unapologetic for how others may take her. Having little interest for other people her age, many consider her to be a bit of an old soul, someone born in the wrong time. With a basic education and extensive work experience, Daintree is firm and determined in all of her endeavors.

Background: The Elowen family was a simple one, always out of trouble, and never one to jump headfirst when it did come around. Despite it being something her parents tried to instill in their eldest daughter, it was obvious that it's something that wouldn't take. From the moment she was born, Daintree was a determined baby, determined to walk earlier than expected, talk earlier than expected. Her parents were hardworking, also in an effort to give their children the things that they couldn't have, but unfortunately for Daintree, three more children would eventually come into the picture and the girl would have to join the working force earlier than expected. She would grin and bare it, after all, she had always been like that anyways and at that point it would be expected of her. She loves her brothers, much like a mother would love her children, but in the darkest corners of her heart, she resents them for having been born, their presence meaning she would have to leave school, be a provider, grow up sooner than she wanted. She lives with it though, the option to do otherwise having already been stripped from her. It would only make sense that her fate in the Reaping would be the same.

Reaped or Volunteered: Reaped

Weapon of Choice: Truth be told, Daintree is no slouch with a knife, having worked with butchering livestock, despite her preference for working in the fields. Asking for an actual butchering knife could be perceived as strange though, so a regular old knife would have to do.

Token: A stuffed cow, which she knows is a little on the nose, but her youngest brother had pushed it into her chest during their goodbyes and it's all she has from home now.