Sanctum Application
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littlecatnipName: Manda
Contact Information: topsecretgirly @ plurk, topsecretgirly @ skype, topsecretgirly@gmail.com @ AIM
Personal Journal: shinyget
Age: 24
Characters Played: April Ludgate and Agent Texas
Name: Katniss Everdeen
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Age: 17
Canon Point: Late Mockingjay (end of chapter 24)
Original Universe or Alternate Universe? OU
Personality: Growing up under the watchful eyes of the Peacekeepers, Katniss has learned to keep her mouth shut and expression carefully masked lest someone get the wrong impression. When she was younger, she was more outspoken about the lavish lifestyles of those in Capitol and more importantly the poor life those in her home District of 12 lived despite all their hard work. But her mother was quick to hush her and as she grew older and saw what ill or questioning words brought, learned it was best not to draw attention to one’s self or those around her. While she sees the injustices around her, she tries not to react with rage when there’s little she can do to change things and instead focus on what it necessary to live in such harsh conditions.
Survival is paramount in Katniss’ life. Many of her decisions revolve around what will best allow herself and her family, especially her younger sister Prim, to live the best they can within their means. The death of her father at a young age placed the security and survival of her family on her shoulders. This has made her loyal to her family’s safety first and foremost, although there is tension and bitterness towards her mother for the way she fell apart when Katniss and her sister needed her most.
Since Katniss could not rely on her mother for help, she’s had to depend on herself those around her. She’s learned from a young age how to be resourceful and cautious around others. To an extent, she trusts the community within her district, particularly those she does black market trades and dealings with, but she keeps her interactions even with them fairly guarded. Her people skills are lacking, though she can make polite conversation and avoids taboo subjects, but she lacks the charm and likability of her sister. Where her sister is sweet and kind, Katniss is wary and brisk and slow to forgive, if ever. She doesn’t give out her trust easily to those outside the black market community easily lest word get to those that are actually interested in punishing and upholding the rules.
The unpredictability of her mother’s stability leaves her fearful and paranoid that her potential disappearance could put her younger sister in danger. Her sister’s well-being will be the driving force to many of her actions and she often places the well-being of others above her own, notably Prim’s and later on, Peeta’s. She’s had an eye and hatred for injustice and the unfairness of the world she’s lived in, spurred on by her father before his death, but was quelled due to the consequences of such actions and opinions. It’s led her to regret her inability to help people even in situations where she was unable to do anything.
Due to her guarded nature and preoccupation with survival for much of her life, many of her fiery actions taken as rebellion are spontaneous and heat of the moment affairs. While mature for her age because of her upbringing, she still has moments of acting first and coming to regret her actions when the potential consequences begin to weigh on her mind. She’s not one for a script and at the heart of it, she does what feels right. At home in District 12, that centers around keeping her family alive and well. Within the scope of the rebellion, it takes on new meaning as she hates the brutality of the Capitol against the revolting districts and aims to help save who she can.
Throughout her experiences with the Games and rebellion, she’s learned even more how crucial it is to survive (even if at times, she wonders if she wants to) and that situations are never as clear-cut as they appear. She’s learned to look for ulterior motives rather than take all actions at face-value, occasionally leading her to gauge acts of kindness and help through a harsher lens than necessary as she waits for the other shoe to drop. Nothing in Katniss’ life has been handed to her and often she’s found herself in difficult situations that is forced to navigate and survive through.
Addendum: The Hunger Games kicked her survival instincts into overdrive as each time she came to the realization that everyone she went into the arena with, she might have to kill. This has made her selective about having allies, even going so far as to sabotage any potential alliances. The harsh reality before her made her reluctant to seek any allies, but if forced to choose or the opportunity arose in the arena itself, she was prone to picking underdogs in hopes of increasing their chances of survival and feeling that they were at least more trustworthy than the blood thirsty tributes. While she was able to bring herself to kill in the arena, she was unable to treat it simply as another ‘hunt’ as her friend Gale had suggested. Life under the thumb of the Capitol already had her wary of positions of authority, but the Games worsened it as she became a pawn both during and after them. Even her time in District 13 left her wondering who was truly in control of her life and how much choice she had in matters.
Her actions in the arena still haunt her and bring her nightmares that plague her sleep and waking time. It forced her to seek comfort in Peeta, the only other person besides Haymitch that survived the arena in her district, especially once she learned she was to return for the Quarter Quell. Their shared torment, his attempts to help her survive that first time through, and her knowledge that Haymitch and others placed more stock and preference on her survival in the 74th Game led to her determination to ensure he made it out of this second round. Despite Peeta’s attempts to get her to realize she needs to go home, she will hold fast to the idea that out of the two of them, he should be the one to make it out of the Quarter Quell.
His image as the boy with the bread that helped her survive in her youth and then the young man that played up the star-crossed lovers story in the 74th Games caused her to have mixed feelings about him bordering on romantic during their team-up in the Games. These feelings will quickly die off and fall far off to the wayside as other matters take priority in the lull between the games and the reality of being sent back into the arena for a second time. While she cares for Peeta (and her childhood friend Gale), romance and boys do not fit into her daily life no matter where she is as her focus lies elsewhere. The effects of the horrors she faced in the arenas and Snow’s threats and demands make it even more difficult on her to trust others to that extent and cemented the feeling that she will always be a pawn in someone’s game. A feeling that continues even into District 13 when she feels as if she’s navigating Coin and Plutarch’s chessboard for a different cause as the Mockingjay.
When he’s taken by the Capitol, she places the burden of ensuring that his rescue and safety are a top priority of District 13 due to the guilt she feels about being the one rescued and not him. Their relationship shifts once Peeta returns, altered by the Capitol to view her as a constant threat to his life, and she gets a closer look at the damage done. Further guilt at his condition plagues her as while she attempted to distance herself at various points, she cares deeply for Peeta. She felt that if anyone should have been tormented in that way, it should have been her, the true object of the Capitol’s hatred. There’s strong feelings of guilt associated with the thought of others being harmed due to her acts of rebellion or to get back at her, especially where Peeta is concerned. Nothing speaks more to her feelings on this than Haymitch’s words that no matter what she did in a thousand lifetimes, she’d never deserve Peeta. Their relationship is strained after this as she struggles with her feelings of guilt and doing what she can to help ground Peeta back in reality despite her very presence being a trigger for him.
The symbol of the Mockingjay represents her life coming full circle almost. At first, she is reluctant to be tossed into the limelight, to become another pawn in someone else’s (this time District 13’s) game and only accepts in the interest of guaranteeing Peeta and the other tributes safety. It isn’t until she sees first-hand the damage done by the Capitol in the rebelling districts and her own that she realizes the full gravity and burden that rest on her shoulders. Her father’s words from her childhood about The Hanging Tree and the injustices she’s noticed come to have new meaning. Surviving isn’t enough sometimes, despite the struggle that is for her some days, and she realized that now she could make real change and had set in motion something greater than herself.
Katniss has aged considerably in her short life. She still wrestles with the demons of the Games that lurk in the shadows of her daily life and feels as if she is always precariously walking on eggshells. Even as the Mockingjay, there are limits to what she is capable of and she longs for the day when life can become peaceful. Without the Capitol or District 13 breathing down her neck and with her family by her side. Unfortunately, even the rebellion takes that away from her as she witnesses her a device her childhood friend Gale had a hand in creating kill her younger sister. At the point she awakens from in Sanctum, she’s not sure who she can even trust nor who came out on top of the raid on the Capitol. Katniss will have a hard time not viewing the domed city through the lens of the Games and wondering if Snow or even President Coin had some elaborate hand in this.
Is this character immune? No
Background: http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Katniss_Everdeen
Other Notables: She shoots good with a bow, has some military training courtesy of District 13, and
Inventory: The Mockingjay armor/outfit designed by Cinna, the Mockingjay pin, the pearl that Peeta gave her in the Quarter Quell, and a bow and arrows designed by Beetee for the propos
NETWORK SAMPLE: Using the TDM prompt memory glitch.
[She's been going through the motions since she arrived. A job was obtained out of necessity, one that didn't require guns or explosions or anything when the memories were still too fresh. A simple, mundane job that she never would have had if she remained in the Seam. She had hoped it would bring her comfort, but instead it brings only a routine, another thing she desperately needs as she struggles with being thrown in a new place after everything she's seen and been through.
Part of her thinks this is some kind of game done by either Coin or Snow, somehow. The thought gains further traction when she shows up at the storefront and is told she doesn't work there and they've never seen her before, was she looking to buy something, perhaps?
She excuses herself and her glasses are immediately pulled out of her pocket so she can search the network. Nothing of her is there, from her time of being here, and she wonders - was that all a dream? Is this all made up while she rests on a hospital bed in wherever they've dragged her this time?
She turns on the audio recording to record a brief message on the network as she walks down the street towards where she remembers her residence being. She's speaking as if this is an affirmation she has given herself many times before.]
My name is Katniss Everdeen. I have been here for seven days and two hours. I live in district 2, in one of the houses there. I work in a small shop. Why does no one remember me?
LOG SAMPLE: PSL type thread with Katniss and Peeta, TDM thread with Prim
