Katniss Everdeen - The Hunger Games
BASICS
Your name or nickname: Jenny
Your year of birth: 1985
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Character name: Katniss Everdeen
Character type: Fandom character
Fandom/Canon: The Hunger Games (books)
Character DW journal: stillplaying
Does this character have previous CR?: no
HISTORY
THG wiki link.
Katniss will be entering the game from Catching Fire, towards the end of the novel - after being thrown back and paralyzed from the force field explosion.
PERSONALITY OVERVIEW
Katniss Everdeen is a survivor through and through, rarely giving up in even the most extreme of circumstances. She often thinks of herself as selfish and purely motivated by what she needs to stay alive and Katniss easily tends to delude herself into believing the worst about her. But at the her personality that grows as the story progresses, as she learns more about love and being loved.
From even before the books begin, her father’s death highlights Katniss as a highly stubborn and motivated survivor. She easily gives up the rest of her childhood at age eleven to become the head of her family. She won’t let her family starve, won’t give in to self-pity or grief, however much she misses her father. She’ll do whatever she can for them, the rest of the District and Panem be damned. But a true self-centered survivor would only fend for themselves. Instead, everything she does is for her younger sister, Prim – easily one of the most important people in Katniss’ life, if not the most important in her eyes.
If it was in Katniss’ power, she would make sure Prim would want for nothing. And while there are various examples of this in the books – allowing Prim’s ugly cat to stay despite meaning it would be an extra mouth to feed, ensuring that Prim never has to take an extra tesserae in the Hunger Games to supply their family with grain and other supplies - nothing speaks more than her willingness to take Prim’s place in the 74th Hunger Games despite knowing full well it could easily mean Katniss’ own death. Her little sister must have every opportunity to live a fulfilling life that Katniss doesn’t have herself.
It’s with the 74th Hunger Games that Katniss learns that she’s so much more than a provider. She really is a survivor at heart. She doesn’t care what others think of her. She’s brash and self-centered, rude, rebellious, difficult to relate to. All Katniss wants is to do whatever she needs to in order to survive and make it back to Prim. And if it means killing all those in the arena with her, she will not think twice. Cold and calculating, maybe even scary in her ability to be a predator and not prey.
But at the same time, while Katniss keeps reminding herself of this, focusing on her own negative attributes, Peeta sees something different. The girl on fire, the girl who has no idea of the effect she can have on people. She’s proud and true to herself, noble in the way she fights for Prim and then to keep Peeta live, however selfish she claims her own actions are. And although Katniss never sees it, she’s far less heartless than she thinks. The nightmares she has after the Hunger Games attest to that. If she truly didn’t care about anyone but herself, then Katniss’ subconscious wouldn’t prey so easily on her guilt.
Katniss’ stunt with the poisoned berries in the arena of the 74th Hunger Games, her last ditch attempt to ensure both she and Peeta leave alive, is seen by most of Panem as the spark needed to ignite rebellion. Katniss is introspective enough to give thought to that, to see how easily others would see it as such. But she does it out of a selfish need to keep them alive. Because in the end of the games, she can’t bring herself to sacrifice this boy who would easily sacrifice himself for her. She has a selfish desire to keep alive his adoration – he doesn’t have to love her, but he does, and it’s something that Katniss doesn’t fully comprehend but does realize she needs. And in the end, she’s tired of being a pawn. Yet, she’s still cold enough to tell Peeta that she played up her love for him then as an act and a trick for the Games. It’s the lie she needs to survive at that point in her life, where she wants her best friend Gale (also in love with her) to be easy in her company. She wants her life to be simple.
For the Quarter Quell and the 75th Hunger Games, former victors are selected to return to the arena and once again fight to the death. This time, Katniss actually stops being a survivor in favor to a different mantra that she can never breaks: keep Peeta alive. It’s easy to dismiss as a result of her love for him, or her selfish desire to keep alive someone who cares so much for her, but in many ways, it’s also her way of clinging to morals and humanity. Time and time again, she points out that Peeta’s almost too good, shouldn’t be in the Hunger Games, is nothing like her when it comes to how easily she’ll take a life. It’s something knows she can never be like but, perhaps, in keeping Peeta alive, she can be good, too.
Like in the Games itself, she becomes a pawn in a much bigger game when the Districts rebel against the Capitol. The rebels use her as a sympathetic spokesperson to garner support and she knowingly lets herself be used, especially after Prim points out she can bargain for the other victors’ amnesty. But even then, she can’t stick to the rules and, although not necessarily on purpose, finds herself breaking them left and right. To do what’s right by her instead of others. It’s why she uses her position as a spokesperson to gain amnesty for the other victors or to allow Prim to keep Buttercup even though life in District 13 is a life of strict rations. And the way she runs into the heat of the attack during District 8 to help protect the hospital rather than hiding in safety as Haymitch wants her to do.
During these rebellions, she also finally does learn how to break. She falls into a deep depression a number of times due to various events and her inability to cope with them– Peeta’s kidnapping by President Snow, Prim’s death, etc. But these depressions also show that she’s become a far more empathetic character than she once was, even though she still can’t see it. She’s a young girl put into impossible events that would reduce any less stronger individual to pieces. But most importantly, though she survives as she always has, she learns that there are more important things to survival. That there could be political causes, that there could even be people that you must put ahead of her own self. It is this lesson in itself that motivates Katniss towards President Coin’s assassination. She will not let all her struggles and loses be in vain, allowing another power-hungry leader with little regard to human life to assume control. Katniss must be the one to do this because, by this point, she will not put anyone else she remotely cares about at risk.
In the end of the trilogy, what can be said most about Katniss is that she lives through. She goes through the motions, finds ways to distract herself, plays games to remind her that there is good in people. Even in herself. She’s not the monster that caused all these deaths. And she learns how to really love and let herself be loved.
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
What skills does your character bring to the situation?:
That Katniss is a survivor will serve her very well in this situation. She'll do everything in her power to stay alive and to keep those she considers her allies alive too. Because her life has never been easy, she isn't a stranger to adversity. She can hunt with a bow and also knows the basics of setting traps (that I headcanon can also be applied to fishing). She has a good knowledge of plants, specifically those edible or herbal in nature. And although she acts the leader with reluctance, Katniss is a persuasive force that often causes others to flock to her side.
Explain how your character would react to the following:
- Discovering that their memories may have been tampered with:
Terrified. Although Peeta being hijacked hasn't happened yet, Katniss has had some experience with tracker jacker stings causing her world to go hazy and full of hallucinations. She likes control. Knowing that someone's stripped that away will make her terrified. And furious.
- Having to do physical labor to survive:
That's no big deal. Katniss grew up in the Seam in District 12 and saw men going off to work in the mines every day - including her father. When he died and her mother went catatonic, Katniss inherited all responsibilities her father had. She had already spent some of her free time as a child learning how to hunt but that became a full time job in order to fend for herself, her sister, and her mother. She's used to long treks in the woods, carrying game on her own, etc. She's also had a lot of hard physical training because of the Hunger Games (and Peeta's determination they enter the Quarter Quell prepared).
- Having to share resources with others:
This will not go as smoothly. Katniss will have no problem sharing resources with Peeta. Coming from the arena, and still thinking she might be in an arena, keeping Peeta alive is her priority. She'll be a little more reluctant to share with her other canonmates because she doesn't know or trust them so well. But eventually, she will realize they're still allies and share. Strangers are a completely different story. Unless convinced otherwise, they're unimportant and not necessarily worth providing for.
- Being unable to leave the area:
She'll be frustrated with being unable to leave but also not so surprise. Thinking that she's in a Game, the area around her has to be an arena. It makes sense that there are boundaries that she'll be unable to cross.
- Doing without modern conveniences and technology and/or being around tech more advanced than they're used to:
Although Panem is, generally speaking, a futuristic and technological apt society, District 12 lacks many of the luxuries found in places like the Capitol. This is especially true in the Seam, which is the poorest of the poor areas in Panem. Not having modern conveniences and technology will not be such a big deal to Katniss. There are worse things to contend with.
- Being separated, possibly permanently, from loved ones and their previous life, including loss of powers, if applicable:
It will pain her to be separated from Prim. Everything she's done since the death of her father has been to protect her sister. That she won't be able to do so as long as she's here will drive her crazy. At the same time, Katniss will rationalize that being away from Prim means that President Snow can't use her sister against her anymore. Hopefully, this means that her sister will be safer now than ever before. This same logic will be applied to missing her best friend, Gale. Without her, he can fall in love with some other girl without all the complications that are in Katniss' life. And Snow can't use him, either.
(Loss of powers not applicable.)
WRITING SAMPLES
- on the tdm
- thread from teleios
- PSL thread
BASICS
Your name or nickname: Jenny
Your year of birth: 1985
A reliable DW account the mods can PM to reach you: hominidae
Link to your hold comment: here
Referral: none
Character name: Katniss Everdeen
Character type: Fandom character
Fandom/Canon: The Hunger Games (books)
Character DW journal: stillplaying
Does this character have previous CR?: no
HISTORY
THG wiki link.
Katniss will be entering the game from Catching Fire, towards the end of the novel - after being thrown back and paralyzed from the force field explosion.
PERSONALITY OVERVIEW
Katniss Everdeen is a survivor through and through, rarely giving up in even the most extreme of circumstances. She often thinks of herself as selfish and purely motivated by what she needs to stay alive and Katniss easily tends to delude herself into believing the worst about her. But at the her personality that grows as the story progresses, as she learns more about love and being loved.
From even before the books begin, her father’s death highlights Katniss as a highly stubborn and motivated survivor. She easily gives up the rest of her childhood at age eleven to become the head of her family. She won’t let her family starve, won’t give in to self-pity or grief, however much she misses her father. She’ll do whatever she can for them, the rest of the District and Panem be damned. But a true self-centered survivor would only fend for themselves. Instead, everything she does is for her younger sister, Prim – easily one of the most important people in Katniss’ life, if not the most important in her eyes.
If it was in Katniss’ power, she would make sure Prim would want for nothing. And while there are various examples of this in the books – allowing Prim’s ugly cat to stay despite meaning it would be an extra mouth to feed, ensuring that Prim never has to take an extra tesserae in the Hunger Games to supply their family with grain and other supplies - nothing speaks more than her willingness to take Prim’s place in the 74th Hunger Games despite knowing full well it could easily mean Katniss’ own death. Her little sister must have every opportunity to live a fulfilling life that Katniss doesn’t have herself.
It’s with the 74th Hunger Games that Katniss learns that she’s so much more than a provider. She really is a survivor at heart. She doesn’t care what others think of her. She’s brash and self-centered, rude, rebellious, difficult to relate to. All Katniss wants is to do whatever she needs to in order to survive and make it back to Prim. And if it means killing all those in the arena with her, she will not think twice. Cold and calculating, maybe even scary in her ability to be a predator and not prey.
But at the same time, while Katniss keeps reminding herself of this, focusing on her own negative attributes, Peeta sees something different. The girl on fire, the girl who has no idea of the effect she can have on people. She’s proud and true to herself, noble in the way she fights for Prim and then to keep Peeta live, however selfish she claims her own actions are. And although Katniss never sees it, she’s far less heartless than she thinks. The nightmares she has after the Hunger Games attest to that. If she truly didn’t care about anyone but herself, then Katniss’ subconscious wouldn’t prey so easily on her guilt.
Katniss’ stunt with the poisoned berries in the arena of the 74th Hunger Games, her last ditch attempt to ensure both she and Peeta leave alive, is seen by most of Panem as the spark needed to ignite rebellion. Katniss is introspective enough to give thought to that, to see how easily others would see it as such. But she does it out of a selfish need to keep them alive. Because in the end of the games, she can’t bring herself to sacrifice this boy who would easily sacrifice himself for her. She has a selfish desire to keep alive his adoration – he doesn’t have to love her, but he does, and it’s something that Katniss doesn’t fully comprehend but does realize she needs. And in the end, she’s tired of being a pawn. Yet, she’s still cold enough to tell Peeta that she played up her love for him then as an act and a trick for the Games. It’s the lie she needs to survive at that point in her life, where she wants her best friend Gale (also in love with her) to be easy in her company. She wants her life to be simple.
For the Quarter Quell and the 75th Hunger Games, former victors are selected to return to the arena and once again fight to the death. This time, Katniss actually stops being a survivor in favor to a different mantra that she can never breaks: keep Peeta alive. It’s easy to dismiss as a result of her love for him, or her selfish desire to keep alive someone who cares so much for her, but in many ways, it’s also her way of clinging to morals and humanity. Time and time again, she points out that Peeta’s almost too good, shouldn’t be in the Hunger Games, is nothing like her when it comes to how easily she’ll take a life. It’s something knows she can never be like but, perhaps, in keeping Peeta alive, she can be good, too.
Like in the Games itself, she becomes a pawn in a much bigger game when the Districts rebel against the Capitol. The rebels use her as a sympathetic spokesperson to garner support and she knowingly lets herself be used, especially after Prim points out she can bargain for the other victors’ amnesty. But even then, she can’t stick to the rules and, although not necessarily on purpose, finds herself breaking them left and right. To do what’s right by her instead of others. It’s why she uses her position as a spokesperson to gain amnesty for the other victors or to allow Prim to keep Buttercup even though life in District 13 is a life of strict rations. And the way she runs into the heat of the attack during District 8 to help protect the hospital rather than hiding in safety as Haymitch wants her to do.
During these rebellions, she also finally does learn how to break. She falls into a deep depression a number of times due to various events and her inability to cope with them– Peeta’s kidnapping by President Snow, Prim’s death, etc. But these depressions also show that she’s become a far more empathetic character than she once was, even though she still can’t see it. She’s a young girl put into impossible events that would reduce any less stronger individual to pieces. But most importantly, though she survives as she always has, she learns that there are more important things to survival. That there could be political causes, that there could even be people that you must put ahead of her own self. It is this lesson in itself that motivates Katniss towards President Coin’s assassination. She will not let all her struggles and loses be in vain, allowing another power-hungry leader with little regard to human life to assume control. Katniss must be the one to do this because, by this point, she will not put anyone else she remotely cares about at risk.
In the end of the trilogy, what can be said most about Katniss is that she lives through. She goes through the motions, finds ways to distract herself, plays games to remind her that there is good in people. Even in herself. She’s not the monster that caused all these deaths. And she learns how to really love and let herself be loved.
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
What skills does your character bring to the situation?:
That Katniss is a survivor will serve her very well in this situation. She'll do everything in her power to stay alive and to keep those she considers her allies alive too. Because her life has never been easy, she isn't a stranger to adversity. She can hunt with a bow and also knows the basics of setting traps (that I headcanon can also be applied to fishing). She has a good knowledge of plants, specifically those edible or herbal in nature. And although she acts the leader with reluctance, Katniss is a persuasive force that often causes others to flock to her side.
Explain how your character would react to the following:
- Discovering that their memories may have been tampered with:
Terrified. Although Peeta being hijacked hasn't happened yet, Katniss has had some experience with tracker jacker stings causing her world to go hazy and full of hallucinations. She likes control. Knowing that someone's stripped that away will make her terrified. And furious.
- Having to do physical labor to survive:
That's no big deal. Katniss grew up in the Seam in District 12 and saw men going off to work in the mines every day - including her father. When he died and her mother went catatonic, Katniss inherited all responsibilities her father had. She had already spent some of her free time as a child learning how to hunt but that became a full time job in order to fend for herself, her sister, and her mother. She's used to long treks in the woods, carrying game on her own, etc. She's also had a lot of hard physical training because of the Hunger Games (and Peeta's determination they enter the Quarter Quell prepared).
- Having to share resources with others:
This will not go as smoothly. Katniss will have no problem sharing resources with Peeta. Coming from the arena, and still thinking she might be in an arena, keeping Peeta alive is her priority. She'll be a little more reluctant to share with her other canonmates because she doesn't know or trust them so well. But eventually, she will realize they're still allies and share. Strangers are a completely different story. Unless convinced otherwise, they're unimportant and not necessarily worth providing for.
- Being unable to leave the area:
She'll be frustrated with being unable to leave but also not so surprise. Thinking that she's in a Game, the area around her has to be an arena. It makes sense that there are boundaries that she'll be unable to cross.
- Doing without modern conveniences and technology and/or being around tech more advanced than they're used to:
Although Panem is, generally speaking, a futuristic and technological apt society, District 12 lacks many of the luxuries found in places like the Capitol. This is especially true in the Seam, which is the poorest of the poor areas in Panem. Not having modern conveniences and technology will not be such a big deal to Katniss. There are worse things to contend with.
- Being separated, possibly permanently, from loved ones and their previous life, including loss of powers, if applicable:
It will pain her to be separated from Prim. Everything she's done since the death of her father has been to protect her sister. That she won't be able to do so as long as she's here will drive her crazy. At the same time, Katniss will rationalize that being away from Prim means that President Snow can't use her sister against her anymore. Hopefully, this means that her sister will be safer now than ever before. This same logic will be applied to missing her best friend, Gale. Without her, he can fall in love with some other girl without all the complications that are in Katniss' life. And Snow can't use him, either.
(Loss of powers not applicable.)
WRITING SAMPLES
- on the tdm
- thread from teleios
- PSL thread
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