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[madannie]

Out of Character Information

player name: Lettie
player journal: lettie
playing here: None so far!
where did you find us? From Finnick's player (on Plurk)
are you 16 years of age or older?: You betcha!

In Character Information

character name: Annie Odair (formerly Annie Cresta)
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Timeline: Mid Mockingjay, after Finnick's death.
character's age: 22

powers, skills, pets and equipment: Annie's weapon in her Hunger Games that allowed her to survive was her ability to hide completely from the rest of the tributes. Accordingly, when she arrives in Anatole, she'll quickly find that once she starts willing someone to be unable to see her, she won't be anywhere to be found. She'll be invisible. At first, she won't be able to control this – but once she realizes how the power works, she'll be able to come and go at will. She also possesses basic survival skills.

As far as equipment, she'll have her standard 'mentally unstable' bracelet attached to her wrist when she arrives. She'll be in her standard District 13 grey uniform.

canon history: http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Annie_Cresta

Note: Annie is coming in from just before the end of that history section – she'll know Finnick has been killed, but she won't have seen Katniss shoot and kill President Coin yet, nor will she have moved back to District 4.

personality: Despite whatever hardships have come upon her during her life, Annie is fundamentally a nice girl. When she had the opportunity to kill others in her Hunger Games, she chose instead to hide and avoid conflict. Her winning, she knows, was more of a fluke than anything else. She isn't particularly strong or capable of doing much physically, and mentally she doesn't have all her facilities running at 100%. The extreme distress that the Hunger Games caused her, particularly when she witnessed her male counterpart being decapitated in front of her, has made it difficult for her to be all right with paying attention to the real world completely. It is too harsh for her to face, and it's heavily implied in the books that Finnick is one of the only people who can really get through to her. She's happiest and calmest when he's at her side.

When Annie is captured by the Capitol and tortured about information regarding the rebels, she doesn't have any information to give them. She doesn't feed them false information, though, nor does she reveal anything that Finnick might've inadverently let slip. This shows her to be loyal, fiercely so, even under pressure. She is Finnick's one true love, and they act quite literally as each others' anchors. She isn't violent despite her mental instability, instead withdrawing into herself and becoming quiet, covering her ears and closing her eyes to block out the nightmare of seeing someone die in front of her.

Because she's coming in after Finnick's death, when she sees him in Anatole, she's going to simply decide that she's gone completely and utterly mad. It might take her a few weeks to realize this might not be the case.

why do you feel this character would be appropriate to the setting? Annie has a strange way of surviving even if it's against all odds, but living in District 4 (and then District 13) has made her used to constant struggle. I'd like to see her trying to work through some of the issue that she gained by surviving her Hunger Games if possible, since trained psychiatrists were in short supply in District 4. It will be interesting to see her try and interact with the rest of the people in Anatole who are her age, since she will need to learn some way to integrate. She's also going to arrive knowing Finnick is dead, so working through the fact that he's alive and isn't just a figment of her imagination will be interesting to play out.

Writing Samples

Network Post Sample: [Hopefully whoever is watching this feed doesn't have a weak stomach, because the Forge is turning over and over in someone's hands – a clean, neatly trimmed thumbnail in flashes as the thing rolls around in her hands, showing a grey uniform and a shock of green eyes intermittently. Eventually, Annie stops fidgeting with the device and looks into the screen.

Not for food, then.]

My name is Annie Odair. My home is District 4. I am currently residing in District 13, where I will be safe while the resistance cleans up what is left of the Capitol's forces.

[The words sound hollow and rehearsed – it's what the special doctors in District 13 told her to say whenever she was confused or distressed. It isn't helping melt the strange room around her into the more familiar, but no less unfriendly, walls of the underground dwellings. She takes a deep breath and sighs.]

I am the widow of Finnick Odair. He was killed by muttations during the final push to defeat President Snow, and I should be thankful that he did not survive. He would only have suffered.

[She bites her lip hard enough to well blood up on the pale skin and brings her hands up to her ears, speaking quietly.]

I would just like to go home. Can someone help me do that?

[Because the last thing she trusts herself to do is to find her way out of some strange hallucination. Maybe she's back at the Capitol, being injected with tracker jacker venom – but they have no reason to use her now that Finnick is gone. The rest of the victors barely knew she existed, after all.]

Third Person Sample: It was funny to think that just before arriving here, she'd actually entertained the idea that her life could end up remotely happy. She might've been from District 4, but she'd always been aware of hardships – they had their bounty from the sea, but she had still been taken in the Reaping to the Games when she was in her final year of qualification. She'd survived beyond all odds, but her life had not been as glamorous and full of riches as President Snow assured the Capitol citizens the Victors' lives would be. She'd had her brief moment of joy in being married to Finnick without having to hide it from his Capitol 'friends', and then he'd been taken away from her again and she'd been devastated.

Why would they bring her to this place like this? What use was she to whoever wanted her here, whatever it was they planned to use her for? No matter how many times she turned the idea over in her mind, it didn't make sense. She glanced over to the pouch of what she assumed was currency that she'd dropped on the bed, dumping out the contents on the sheets. Her eyes lit up immediately – they were lovely, and they looked like they'd come from the ocean. If this place had the sea, she'd be reminded of Finnick perhaps more than when she'd been in District 13, but at least she'd be able to find somewhere peaceful. When the water washed over her, the screams of all the other Tributes she'd watched die quelled to a tolerable level. Shielding her ears on land only gave temporary relief, so if she was going to be trapped in this place...she would at least be able to find some quiet. She rubbed her fingers over the pearly shapes on the bed and then gathered them up in her hand, heading out of the room she'd found herself in for the first time since she'd arrived.

Maybe she could pay someone to tell her which way it was to the sea. Better yet, maybe she'd get lucky and be able to find it herself by smell.

Anything else? Annie is considered 'mentally unstable' before her husband's death, so one can imagine that the news of it didn't help with that. She's going to come to Anatole dispondent, but aware of her surroundings. She is pregnant, but the pregnancy will be 'frozen' when she passes through the mist.