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Character
Name: Katniss Everdeen
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Time Period: After returning to District 12 in "Mockingjay," a couple of week's after Peeta's return.
Wing Color: Black with white patches, like a mockingjay
History: http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Katniss_Everdeen
Personality: 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 same time, she can be very self-sacrificial, willing to give up anything for people she loves. It’s a part of 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.
Strengths: Katniss is a strong individual with so much backbone and determination within her. She’s the girl on fire, and not just because of the outfit she wears in her introduction to the Games. She literally has an unquenchable thirst to live her life – for herself and, by the end of her canon, for all those who died. And she will do whatever it takes to honor this promise.
Although slow to trust, she does make a steadfast and loyal friend once this trust is gained. She’s resourceful and skilled and self-reliant, a quick thinker on her feet. And in many ways, her own selfishness makes for her strength in keeping those she cares about alive. It’s easier for Katniss to see all the negatives in her personality, but at the same time, she adheres to them. She reacts without thinking and is next to impossible to mold – as both Haymitch and Coin find out during their time with her. Without a doubt, Katniss is first and foremost true to herself.
She is also an amazing hunter, especially with a bow and arrow, capable of killing squirrels and rats by shooting an arrow in their eye and not tarnishing the rest of the carcass. She can also sing beautifully, much like her father. It’s stated that when Katniss sings, even the birds fall silent to listen.
Weaknesses: In many ways, a lot of Katniss’ strengths are balanced by her weaknesses. She can be very socially inept: keeping to herself as a child, unaware of the friendships she’s made. Even Gale, her best friend, is someone she sees as a resource after their initial meeting and does not become a friend until much later on. Madge, the Mayor’s daughter, is another example of someone she’d spend time with without truly understanding the impact of that time. Prior to the Hunger Games, she considers Madge as the other lonely girl to sit with at lunch, not realizing that somehow, a friendship had developed. And with both Peeta and Gale, their romantic intentions towards her go unnoticed until the boys act upon them.
When Katniss does allow herself to feel, it often overwhelms her – a source of many of the breakdowns she eventually has after the 74th Hunger Games. It’s easier to be logical and to push aside feelings than to acknowledge them. But when she does, she feels everything - every single death that she’s caused, however indirectly, she takes responsibility for. And a lot of the times it’s too much. She would rather avoid than face problems of emotions, as seen when she initially ignores required phone sessions with her therapist at the end of Mockingjay.
Even then, she’s not very book smart and does not have a very good education. It’s not something she considers much of a fault, though she does acknowledge it, but it is pointed out again and again. Katniss has survival skills, but Katniss would never have won the Hunger Games based on wit alone. And while she comes across as very mature, at times she can be moody and prickly – a true teenager in many ways. Someone still learning much about the world she lives in, and how to be a part of it.
Samples
First Person: Q&A please.
Third Person: It's quiet in the forest. Quiet except for the rapid beating of wings. A mockingjay's wings. Her wings. Black with white spots and altogether too reminiscent of a dress she once wore. It feels as if she's spent a life time being the Mockingjay. A lifetime being someone's game piece, someone's pawn. Easy to manipulate, difficult to control. A lifetime that was supposed to end with her return to District 12.
She hates those wings. Hates their lack of functionality. Hates everything they represent, both here and back home.
It's quiet in the forest. Until a twig snaps and a small rabbit hops into the clearing. It nibbles at the ends of the grass, blissfully unaware of the predator in the trees. She pulls the string of her bow back, arrow ready to fly. Wings flutter in anticipation and from her perch, she watches the rabbit twitch its ears almost as if it hears her. No time to waste.
The arrow flies.
And in that moment, she sees another arrow. This other arrow also flies true but it's not the arrow of a predator capturing its prey. This other arrow is that of the prey sending one final message to those who sought to use her. President Coin never stood a chance.
Just like the rabbit lacks now.
Another death to add to her tally. But this one won't haunt her conscious.
The arrow pierces the rabbit's eye mid-bite. It falls to the ground and she scrambles down from her perch. A clean kill. She picks the rabbit up by the ears and walks over to a fallen log. She sits and works on carefully removing the shaft from the animal. The meat will provide a good dinner tonight. The pelt she can sell.
There are many kinds of survival. She knows that. And here, here trapped in a strange land with new Gamemakers making unwanted alterations to her body, using them for their own perverse games, she knows she has to survive again. For Rue. For Cinna. For anyone else that might show up here.
She clips the rabbit to her belt. She's survived other games. She'll survive this one, too.
Q&A:
1. Have you ever been cruel to someone? Do you regret it? If you haven't - would you be cruel, and would you regret?
[She has, hasn’t she? She’s been so very cruel and… and while it hasn’t always been on purpose, she knows it has hurt him. And she’s not thinking about all the people she’s killed, or all the deaths she’s been responsible for.]
Yes.
[She’s thinking of him. Think of the boy with the bread. The boy who she has hurt repeatedly by not knowing her own emotions, not understanding that it was never an act for him. Wasn’t that cruel? Leading him on when it was to her advantage, even leading Gale on, too. All because she could not understand.
But maybe, maybe if she had been crueler – maybe if she hadn’t been so desperate to keep up the façade and survive, maybe she could have pushed him away. And Snow never would have been able to use him against her. It doesn’t matter now but the regrets still haunt her.]
Sometimes I wonder if I wasn’t cruel enough.
2. What is more important: love or loyalty?
Love. [She speaks quietly, eyes downcast, avoiding his gaze. It’s something she’s thought about. Something she’s thought about a lot. But this question is easier to answer. It’s not as personal.] Loyalty doesn’t last. Love… it’s like a gift, isn’t it? Even when you don’t deserve it. And no one can ever take it away.
3. Describe your most beloved memory.
[She thinks on this question. It’s not one she wants to answer aloud, not one she wants to share. Beloved memories – she has so few of these. Happy memories. And to share them with a stranger seems almost… it’s like she’s back on that stage, talking with Caesar Flickerman, an audience of strangers hungry for information on her life.
And she remembers. She remembers him asking about Prim. It was easier back then to think she was talking to Cinna, to a friend. She remembers Peeta asking for a happy memory in that cave, something very much like the request of her now.
So she closes her eyes and pretends its Cinna that asked. Pretends its Peeta. And she smiles. It’s a sad smile, but a smile regardless.]
Did I tell you that Prim was going to become a doctor?
4. What's your opinion of the law? Does it make the lives of everyday people better or worse?
[That’d depend, wouldn’t it? What the law is. Who made it. Because it was a law that sent her into an arena not once but twice to fight to the death. But she knows… she knows that there are good laws out there, too. There have to be.]
I don’t care. [Cause that’s what it comes down to. She’s tired of politics and everything that goes with.] Just leave me out of it.
5. Do you value yourself? Do you think others around you value you? What would you say is your personal worth?
Peeta says that I have no idea the effect I can have. But I think I understand that now. I think I at least understand it a little bit better. If I wasn’t valued, President Snow wouldn’t have wanted me dead. President Coin wouldn’t have tried to use me for her own fight.
I value my life. I value living. [Because she has to live, has to survive for everyone who died for her. For every good deed she sees done.] Isn’t that enough?
Name: Jenny
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E-mail: pilot.jaina@gmail.com
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Current Characters at Luceti: N/A (but also apping Temperance Brennan)
Character
Name: Katniss Everdeen
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Time Period: After returning to District 12 in "Mockingjay," a couple of week's after Peeta's return.
Wing Color: Black with white patches, like a mockingjay
History: http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Katniss_Everdeen
Personality: 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 same time, she can be very self-sacrificial, willing to give up anything for people she loves. It’s a part of 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.
Strengths: Katniss is a strong individual with so much backbone and determination within her. She’s the girl on fire, and not just because of the outfit she wears in her introduction to the Games. She literally has an unquenchable thirst to live her life – for herself and, by the end of her canon, for all those who died. And she will do whatever it takes to honor this promise.
Although slow to trust, she does make a steadfast and loyal friend once this trust is gained. She’s resourceful and skilled and self-reliant, a quick thinker on her feet. And in many ways, her own selfishness makes for her strength in keeping those she cares about alive. It’s easier for Katniss to see all the negatives in her personality, but at the same time, she adheres to them. She reacts without thinking and is next to impossible to mold – as both Haymitch and Coin find out during their time with her. Without a doubt, Katniss is first and foremost true to herself.
She is also an amazing hunter, especially with a bow and arrow, capable of killing squirrels and rats by shooting an arrow in their eye and not tarnishing the rest of the carcass. She can also sing beautifully, much like her father. It’s stated that when Katniss sings, even the birds fall silent to listen.
Weaknesses: In many ways, a lot of Katniss’ strengths are balanced by her weaknesses. She can be very socially inept: keeping to herself as a child, unaware of the friendships she’s made. Even Gale, her best friend, is someone she sees as a resource after their initial meeting and does not become a friend until much later on. Madge, the Mayor’s daughter, is another example of someone she’d spend time with without truly understanding the impact of that time. Prior to the Hunger Games, she considers Madge as the other lonely girl to sit with at lunch, not realizing that somehow, a friendship had developed. And with both Peeta and Gale, their romantic intentions towards her go unnoticed until the boys act upon them.
When Katniss does allow herself to feel, it often overwhelms her – a source of many of the breakdowns she eventually has after the 74th Hunger Games. It’s easier to be logical and to push aside feelings than to acknowledge them. But when she does, she feels everything - every single death that she’s caused, however indirectly, she takes responsibility for. And a lot of the times it’s too much. She would rather avoid than face problems of emotions, as seen when she initially ignores required phone sessions with her therapist at the end of Mockingjay.
Even then, she’s not very book smart and does not have a very good education. It’s not something she considers much of a fault, though she does acknowledge it, but it is pointed out again and again. Katniss has survival skills, but Katniss would never have won the Hunger Games based on wit alone. And while she comes across as very mature, at times she can be moody and prickly – a true teenager in many ways. Someone still learning much about the world she lives in, and how to be a part of it.
Samples
First Person: Q&A please.
Third Person: It's quiet in the forest. Quiet except for the rapid beating of wings. A mockingjay's wings. Her wings. Black with white spots and altogether too reminiscent of a dress she once wore. It feels as if she's spent a life time being the Mockingjay. A lifetime being someone's game piece, someone's pawn. Easy to manipulate, difficult to control. A lifetime that was supposed to end with her return to District 12.
She hates those wings. Hates their lack of functionality. Hates everything they represent, both here and back home.
It's quiet in the forest. Until a twig snaps and a small rabbit hops into the clearing. It nibbles at the ends of the grass, blissfully unaware of the predator in the trees. She pulls the string of her bow back, arrow ready to fly. Wings flutter in anticipation and from her perch, she watches the rabbit twitch its ears almost as if it hears her. No time to waste.
The arrow flies.
And in that moment, she sees another arrow. This other arrow also flies true but it's not the arrow of a predator capturing its prey. This other arrow is that of the prey sending one final message to those who sought to use her. President Coin never stood a chance.
Just like the rabbit lacks now.
Another death to add to her tally. But this one won't haunt her conscious.
The arrow pierces the rabbit's eye mid-bite. It falls to the ground and she scrambles down from her perch. A clean kill. She picks the rabbit up by the ears and walks over to a fallen log. She sits and works on carefully removing the shaft from the animal. The meat will provide a good dinner tonight. The pelt she can sell.
There are many kinds of survival. She knows that. And here, here trapped in a strange land with new Gamemakers making unwanted alterations to her body, using them for their own perverse games, she knows she has to survive again. For Rue. For Cinna. For anyone else that might show up here.
She clips the rabbit to her belt. She's survived other games. She'll survive this one, too.
Q&A:
1. Have you ever been cruel to someone? Do you regret it? If you haven't - would you be cruel, and would you regret?
[She has, hasn’t she? She’s been so very cruel and… and while it hasn’t always been on purpose, she knows it has hurt him. And she’s not thinking about all the people she’s killed, or all the deaths she’s been responsible for.]
Yes.
[She’s thinking of him. Think of the boy with the bread. The boy who she has hurt repeatedly by not knowing her own emotions, not understanding that it was never an act for him. Wasn’t that cruel? Leading him on when it was to her advantage, even leading Gale on, too. All because she could not understand.
But maybe, maybe if she had been crueler – maybe if she hadn’t been so desperate to keep up the façade and survive, maybe she could have pushed him away. And Snow never would have been able to use him against her. It doesn’t matter now but the regrets still haunt her.]
Sometimes I wonder if I wasn’t cruel enough.
2. What is more important: love or loyalty?
Love. [She speaks quietly, eyes downcast, avoiding his gaze. It’s something she’s thought about. Something she’s thought about a lot. But this question is easier to answer. It’s not as personal.] Loyalty doesn’t last. Love… it’s like a gift, isn’t it? Even when you don’t deserve it. And no one can ever take it away.
3. Describe your most beloved memory.
[She thinks on this question. It’s not one she wants to answer aloud, not one she wants to share. Beloved memories – she has so few of these. Happy memories. And to share them with a stranger seems almost… it’s like she’s back on that stage, talking with Caesar Flickerman, an audience of strangers hungry for information on her life.
And she remembers. She remembers him asking about Prim. It was easier back then to think she was talking to Cinna, to a friend. She remembers Peeta asking for a happy memory in that cave, something very much like the request of her now.
So she closes her eyes and pretends its Cinna that asked. Pretends its Peeta. And she smiles. It’s a sad smile, but a smile regardless.]
Did I tell you that Prim was going to become a doctor?
4. What's your opinion of the law? Does it make the lives of everyday people better or worse?
[That’d depend, wouldn’t it? What the law is. Who made it. Because it was a law that sent her into an arena not once but twice to fight to the death. But she knows… she knows that there are good laws out there, too. There have to be.]
I don’t care. [Cause that’s what it comes down to. She’s tired of politics and everything that goes with.] Just leave me out of it.
5. Do you value yourself? Do you think others around you value you? What would you say is your personal worth?
Peeta says that I have no idea the effect I can have. But I think I understand that now. I think I at least understand it a little bit better. If I wasn’t valued, President Snow wouldn’t have wanted me dead. President Coin wouldn’t have tried to use me for her own fight.
I value my life. I value living. [Because she has to live, has to survive for everyone who died for her. For every good deed she sees done.] Isn’t that enough?