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Your Nickname: Kota
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Under 18? No
Email/IM: waningsunflower@gmail.com
Characters Played at Singularity: None
Character Information
Name: Gale Hawthorne
Name of Canon: The Hunger Games
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: Canon
Reference: The Hunger Games Site
Wiki on Gale
Hunger Games Wiki
The Hunger Games on Wikipedia
Canon Point: In Mockingjay, while out in the Capitol to assassinate President Snow, Gale and the rest hide in an apartment after they’ve been declared dead. It’s then that Gale arrives.
Setting: The world Gale lives in is a bleak one. The timing is many years after the End of the World, some unspecified event that raised waters and changed landmasses. North America, now called Panem, is divided up into 12 Districts, plus the Capitol, each with their own sort of culture and personality. The sole purpose of the Districts is to serve the Capitol in different ways by providing different services or products. For example, District 12 provides coal and District 4 with fishing. The Capitol is the seat of all the power in the country, as well as the beginning of corruption, and is situated somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. The Capitol forced the remaining 12 districts to pay for a previous rebellion, in a time referred to as the Dark Days, by having the annual Hunger Games. For the past 75 years, one boy and one girl had been chosen from each District to compete in the games. They were paraded in front of all the Districts, while televised interviews and beauty makeovers made this event out to be a twisted sort of reality show. The truth is that the children are all headed for the same fate. At the end of it all, twenty three children would be dead and one would remain. Whether they die by the hand of another child or by the whims of the gamemakers didn’t matter. All that mattered was that the Capitol got a good show.
The Games were also another way to divide the Districts. The Districts closer to the Capitol, called “Career Districts,” had volunteers. These were teenagers who have spent their lives training for the Games and, consequently, they are the usual winners. This means that the other Districts, like District 12, had children torn from them every year unwillingly. As a poorer district, they didn’t have the time or the money to devote to training proper participants. Instead, they watched their children suffer and die on television. This almost ensured that the Districts would never be able to truly unite.
Panem is a dystopian society that operates under the same physical rules as a modern day Earth would. Fashion, to those who care about the sort of thing, revolves around how artificial you can make your body with tattoos, piercings and permanent physical alterations. Muttations, or “mutts,” are animals that live in the wild or in captivity that are the product of genetic testing. Technology has increased to the point of making sophisticated weapons that seem to be a blend of biological, chemical and technological. Bows and arrows are used alongside guns for defense and attack. Arrows, however, are tipped with fire or explosives, something that gives them an edge over guns, especially in the hands of someone who is fairly accurate. Hovercrafts can be used for transportation as well as for war and fighting and are a common sight in the Capitol, though not so much around it. Medically, the Capitol relies on technology, but the outlying Districts still use herbs and other ways of healing. There is such a strict divide between the Capitol and the Districts and such a large gap between what the Capitol has access to and what the people of the Districts do. They are two completely different worlds, but President Snow and, indeed, all of the Presidents before him, have tried to increase this gap as much as possible, if only to keep the Districts in line. There is no real mention made of other countries or any other places outside of the Districts and the Capitol, as the Districts are made to be very self-contained and aware mostly of themselves and the Capitol. They don’t normally get to see other Districts, though they are vaguely knowledgeable about what the other Districts provide. The people are kept ignorant, especially in the outlying Districts, where they work more with their hands. Those Districts are also the ones who go hungry first.
Poverty runs rampant in the poorer Districts, making the people angry and bitter towards the Capitol, but compliant as they rely on them for food. A district that devotes itself to mining, for example, doesn’t have the means to provide much else without the Capitol’s support and importation of supplies. Instead, people rely on the tesserae, which is a year’s worth of oil and grain for one person. Children can apply for it, but it means that they will have their name entered in the drawing for the Hunger Games one more time. Additionally, each District is under military rule by Peacekeepers, giving the places each a mini dictatorship from the distant rule of the Capitol. President Snow keeps an uneasy order from the Capitol and the Peacekeepers maintain that order in the rest of Panem. Illegal incidents, such as hunting outside the fences, is punishable by lashings or even death by hanging.
Because of the Hunger Games and the general attitude towards Snow’s people, an inevitable rebellion is in effect. The districts, as predicted, fight with each other, vying for power either for or against the Capitol. It’s discovered that District 13, originally thought destroyed in the rebellion, had been hiding away from the Capitol, though that does little to keep the Career Districts from siding with President Snow. Under the flag of the Mockingjay, a former participant and winner of the Hunger Games, the rebellion is starting to sweep across the Districts. Some haven’t fared well. District 12, for example, has been completely destroyed, leaving behind only a memory of the homes and mines that had been there before. But the people in the Districts are starting to choose sides and beginning either to fight or to hide. The Capitol has only been touched by this rebellion by occasional propos which are broadcasted when someone can hack into the networks, and by shortages caused by Districts fighting rather than producing.
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Personality: Gale has always been the leader of the pack. Since he was a child and his father was killed in a mining accident, he’s been the one to take care of his family and everyone else. He would sneak through the fence to hunt game, take out tesserae for his family to eat, and helped out Katniss’ family whenever he could. He was the head of his five person household- his mother and three siblings- and he actually liked it that way. Gale is not one to shirk his responsibilities, even if those responsibilities get tough. He has always had a strong sense of determination, which has served him well growing up poverty stricken in the Seam. He understands sacrifices, though, and is willing to give up everything for the people he loves and takes care of. He thought of nothing more than the survivors when District 12 was bombed. It was so very natural for him to jump in and take charge, yanking down the fence and establishing a safe place in the Meadow for those who were injured.
This loyalty is often his downfall. Because he feels such great devotion for his family and takes so much responsibility as his own, he understands that things are not as they should be. He hates the Capitol for what it has done to the people of District 12. Of any Districts, really, and he if often more outspoken about that hatred than he should be. His relationship with Katniss is compromised on more than one occasion because of that blind fury. She seemed to understand his bitterness, letting him vent on their hunting trips to save him from saying something openly rebellious in the town. Inequality is a subject that he just can’t tolerate, though that isn’t just directed towards the people in the Capitol. By the time he’s 18, he has 42 entries in the Hunger Games because he’s had to take out entries for himself and his family. While he did it because it was his duty, because he loves his family and is fiercely loyal to them, he still finds it unfair and holds a lot of anger towards people in town. Those children never had to know poverty like he did. They never had to experience it. He just wants to be free and he wants to see an end to the suffering of those around him, even if it means his own anguish. He would gladly sacrifice his life to further his cause, or to have a chance to take out the Capitol and those who support it.
However, these plans he makes to stop the government are not usually so well thought out. They’re rash and impulsive, from the mouth of a man who knows what he wants but doesn’t quite know how to get it. His anger is sometimes blinding it its ferocity, too. The strategies he uses and suggests against the Capitol borders on cruel. The weapons he creates with Beetee almost cross him over a line into the kind of person that they are fighting against. He’s a patient person in some regards, as he will wait for days for his traps to catch game. However, when it comes to people, to doing things to aid his family or friends, he wants things done as quickly as possible. He wants to make their lives better or he wants to leave or whatever little plan that comes into his head. When people don’t follow his trail of thought or when they don’t instantly fall into line, he gets frustrated and annoyed.
His intelligence and cunning contribute to his ability to create those weapons in a way that will create the most damage, though that’s not, as stated before, countered with rationality. He is a smart man and is quite capable of having a discussion on matters he feels strongly about, but it’s difficult for him to keep his temper.
Despite the temper and the rebellious nature, though, Gale is a good person to be around. He’s charming and charismatic and knows how to talk to people. While not particularly subtle about it, his passion and enthusiasm for whatever it is that he’s doing gives him a great leadership skill. He puts other people before himself so much that he often makes poor decisions. He has lied in order to try and save Katniss’ feelings, which resulted in her calling him out on it. He was angry at her, yes, but only because she couldn’t see that he was trying to help. He was angry because he wanted her to see his side of things. Because he knew what he was doing was right- even though she didn’t believe it. And Gale knows what people like and what they need. He was able to see that Katniss only truly felt what she did when he was hurt…or when she thought that she could help him.
Gale’s vision of the future is an idealistic one and it’s one in which things are fair and just and right. He blames the Capitol completely and the rest of the world falls into “for the Capitol” and “against the Capitol.” He had a very black and white view of the world, simply because he doesn’t allow himself to see any gray areas. Gray areas would diminish the intensity of his anger and, to him, that’s unacceptable. He is fueled by that anger. And Gale always has some sort of cause to fight for. Whether it’s something larg, like defeating the Capitol, or something small, like fighting against the rules of the District in order to hunt, Gale doesn’t feel right unless there is something he’s actively fighting for. Not just working, but fighting. He’s a passionate sort of person, full of fire and drive, but he has to put that towards something or he feels very displaced. For him, there is always something to rebel against. For Gale, the world is never as right as it should be.
Abilities, Weaknesses, and Power Limitation Suggestions: Gale is a skilled hunter and some of those skills, like his training in archery and bombs, have translated into fighting abilities. Others, like his ability to create elaborate and effective snares, simply make him a formidable opponent. He has a mind for strategy, but he’s often impulsive, which sets him back.
Inventory: His military bow, but none of the arrows. He also has his standard military uniform along with a length of rope for traps.
Appearance: His appearance is made very specific in the novels. He has olive skin, straight black hair, gray eyes and, even as an early teenager, already looked the part of a man. He bears a curious resemblance to Katniss, though that’s the way it is with most people from the Seam. He has numerous scars on his back from a lashing he received and is already weathered and worn from his time working in the mines.
Age: 19
Samples
Log Sample: It took him as long as the tour to realize that something had gone terribly wrong. With words droning in his ears that didn’t really make it to his brain, Gale tried to make sense of what was going on around him. This wasn’t the Capitol. This wasn’t District 12. In fact, he was quite sure that this wasn’t any place in Panem that he had ever known.
His arrival had been, he suspected, fairly typical. A snap of a broken bone. Bruising on his face that had hurt when he touched it. He was fairly certain that there had been blood on his fingertips when he touched his forehead. But all that was a haze compared to the brilliance of what he saw on the tour. The words continued, but his mind could only take in the information he was getting from his eyes. This couldn’t be real. Nothing in his life had prepared him for this. Instinctively, he clutched the bow he had somehow managed to keep with him, as if that would help him keep his feet on the ground and his mind out of the clouds.
It didn’t help too much.
What he finally understood was that he wasn’t home. Either the mission had failed or Katniss and the rest would go on. Katniss and her Holo. But he had to find out how to help them. He had to find…something. To do something. This place seemed too much like a cage. Another District. Or worse…another Capitol. Escape seemed unlikely and the sorts of people that populated it might not be as intimidating. There was plenty of room and, if what he was told was accurate, there was enough to go around.
But, for whatever reason, he felt the weight of panic settling in his chest. This wasn’t where he was supposed to be.
Network Sample:
[Gale’s voice is rough, as if he’s been staying silent for hours and has just now decided to speak.] I’ve been in enough propos to know how this works. Say a few impassioned speeches. Make the people happy. Let them see that you’re not going to budge. Maybe here it’s different. Maybe here, all you have to do is say what you’re really feeling. Mutter a few words about your day. Pretend that there’s someone out there who might validate your words and tell you that it’s going to be alright.
It’s not.
Not yet.
Your Nickname: Kota
OOC Journal: N/A
Under 18? No
Email/IM: waningsunflower@gmail.com
Characters Played at Singularity: None
Character Information
Name: Gale Hawthorne
Name of Canon: The Hunger Games
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: Canon
Reference: The Hunger Games Site
Wiki on Gale
Hunger Games Wiki
The Hunger Games on Wikipedia
Canon Point: In Mockingjay, while out in the Capitol to assassinate President Snow, Gale and the rest hide in an apartment after they’ve been declared dead. It’s then that Gale arrives.
Setting: The world Gale lives in is a bleak one. The timing is many years after the End of the World, some unspecified event that raised waters and changed landmasses. North America, now called Panem, is divided up into 12 Districts, plus the Capitol, each with their own sort of culture and personality. The sole purpose of the Districts is to serve the Capitol in different ways by providing different services or products. For example, District 12 provides coal and District 4 with fishing. The Capitol is the seat of all the power in the country, as well as the beginning of corruption, and is situated somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. The Capitol forced the remaining 12 districts to pay for a previous rebellion, in a time referred to as the Dark Days, by having the annual Hunger Games. For the past 75 years, one boy and one girl had been chosen from each District to compete in the games. They were paraded in front of all the Districts, while televised interviews and beauty makeovers made this event out to be a twisted sort of reality show. The truth is that the children are all headed for the same fate. At the end of it all, twenty three children would be dead and one would remain. Whether they die by the hand of another child or by the whims of the gamemakers didn’t matter. All that mattered was that the Capitol got a good show.
The Games were also another way to divide the Districts. The Districts closer to the Capitol, called “Career Districts,” had volunteers. These were teenagers who have spent their lives training for the Games and, consequently, they are the usual winners. This means that the other Districts, like District 12, had children torn from them every year unwillingly. As a poorer district, they didn’t have the time or the money to devote to training proper participants. Instead, they watched their children suffer and die on television. This almost ensured that the Districts would never be able to truly unite.
Panem is a dystopian society that operates under the same physical rules as a modern day Earth would. Fashion, to those who care about the sort of thing, revolves around how artificial you can make your body with tattoos, piercings and permanent physical alterations. Muttations, or “mutts,” are animals that live in the wild or in captivity that are the product of genetic testing. Technology has increased to the point of making sophisticated weapons that seem to be a blend of biological, chemical and technological. Bows and arrows are used alongside guns for defense and attack. Arrows, however, are tipped with fire or explosives, something that gives them an edge over guns, especially in the hands of someone who is fairly accurate. Hovercrafts can be used for transportation as well as for war and fighting and are a common sight in the Capitol, though not so much around it. Medically, the Capitol relies on technology, but the outlying Districts still use herbs and other ways of healing. There is such a strict divide between the Capitol and the Districts and such a large gap between what the Capitol has access to and what the people of the Districts do. They are two completely different worlds, but President Snow and, indeed, all of the Presidents before him, have tried to increase this gap as much as possible, if only to keep the Districts in line. There is no real mention made of other countries or any other places outside of the Districts and the Capitol, as the Districts are made to be very self-contained and aware mostly of themselves and the Capitol. They don’t normally get to see other Districts, though they are vaguely knowledgeable about what the other Districts provide. The people are kept ignorant, especially in the outlying Districts, where they work more with their hands. Those Districts are also the ones who go hungry first.
Poverty runs rampant in the poorer Districts, making the people angry and bitter towards the Capitol, but compliant as they rely on them for food. A district that devotes itself to mining, for example, doesn’t have the means to provide much else without the Capitol’s support and importation of supplies. Instead, people rely on the tesserae, which is a year’s worth of oil and grain for one person. Children can apply for it, but it means that they will have their name entered in the drawing for the Hunger Games one more time. Additionally, each District is under military rule by Peacekeepers, giving the places each a mini dictatorship from the distant rule of the Capitol. President Snow keeps an uneasy order from the Capitol and the Peacekeepers maintain that order in the rest of Panem. Illegal incidents, such as hunting outside the fences, is punishable by lashings or even death by hanging.
Because of the Hunger Games and the general attitude towards Snow’s people, an inevitable rebellion is in effect. The districts, as predicted, fight with each other, vying for power either for or against the Capitol. It’s discovered that District 13, originally thought destroyed in the rebellion, had been hiding away from the Capitol, though that does little to keep the Career Districts from siding with President Snow. Under the flag of the Mockingjay, a former participant and winner of the Hunger Games, the rebellion is starting to sweep across the Districts. Some haven’t fared well. District 12, for example, has been completely destroyed, leaving behind only a memory of the homes and mines that had been there before. But the people in the Districts are starting to choose sides and beginning either to fight or to hide. The Capitol has only been touched by this rebellion by occasional propos which are broadcasted when someone can hack into the networks, and by shortages caused by Districts fighting rather than producing.
.
Personality: Gale has always been the leader of the pack. Since he was a child and his father was killed in a mining accident, he’s been the one to take care of his family and everyone else. He would sneak through the fence to hunt game, take out tesserae for his family to eat, and helped out Katniss’ family whenever he could. He was the head of his five person household- his mother and three siblings- and he actually liked it that way. Gale is not one to shirk his responsibilities, even if those responsibilities get tough. He has always had a strong sense of determination, which has served him well growing up poverty stricken in the Seam. He understands sacrifices, though, and is willing to give up everything for the people he loves and takes care of. He thought of nothing more than the survivors when District 12 was bombed. It was so very natural for him to jump in and take charge, yanking down the fence and establishing a safe place in the Meadow for those who were injured.
This loyalty is often his downfall. Because he feels such great devotion for his family and takes so much responsibility as his own, he understands that things are not as they should be. He hates the Capitol for what it has done to the people of District 12. Of any Districts, really, and he if often more outspoken about that hatred than he should be. His relationship with Katniss is compromised on more than one occasion because of that blind fury. She seemed to understand his bitterness, letting him vent on their hunting trips to save him from saying something openly rebellious in the town. Inequality is a subject that he just can’t tolerate, though that isn’t just directed towards the people in the Capitol. By the time he’s 18, he has 42 entries in the Hunger Games because he’s had to take out entries for himself and his family. While he did it because it was his duty, because he loves his family and is fiercely loyal to them, he still finds it unfair and holds a lot of anger towards people in town. Those children never had to know poverty like he did. They never had to experience it. He just wants to be free and he wants to see an end to the suffering of those around him, even if it means his own anguish. He would gladly sacrifice his life to further his cause, or to have a chance to take out the Capitol and those who support it.
However, these plans he makes to stop the government are not usually so well thought out. They’re rash and impulsive, from the mouth of a man who knows what he wants but doesn’t quite know how to get it. His anger is sometimes blinding it its ferocity, too. The strategies he uses and suggests against the Capitol borders on cruel. The weapons he creates with Beetee almost cross him over a line into the kind of person that they are fighting against. He’s a patient person in some regards, as he will wait for days for his traps to catch game. However, when it comes to people, to doing things to aid his family or friends, he wants things done as quickly as possible. He wants to make their lives better or he wants to leave or whatever little plan that comes into his head. When people don’t follow his trail of thought or when they don’t instantly fall into line, he gets frustrated and annoyed.
His intelligence and cunning contribute to his ability to create those weapons in a way that will create the most damage, though that’s not, as stated before, countered with rationality. He is a smart man and is quite capable of having a discussion on matters he feels strongly about, but it’s difficult for him to keep his temper.
Despite the temper and the rebellious nature, though, Gale is a good person to be around. He’s charming and charismatic and knows how to talk to people. While not particularly subtle about it, his passion and enthusiasm for whatever it is that he’s doing gives him a great leadership skill. He puts other people before himself so much that he often makes poor decisions. He has lied in order to try and save Katniss’ feelings, which resulted in her calling him out on it. He was angry at her, yes, but only because she couldn’t see that he was trying to help. He was angry because he wanted her to see his side of things. Because he knew what he was doing was right- even though she didn’t believe it. And Gale knows what people like and what they need. He was able to see that Katniss only truly felt what she did when he was hurt…or when she thought that she could help him.
Gale’s vision of the future is an idealistic one and it’s one in which things are fair and just and right. He blames the Capitol completely and the rest of the world falls into “for the Capitol” and “against the Capitol.” He had a very black and white view of the world, simply because he doesn’t allow himself to see any gray areas. Gray areas would diminish the intensity of his anger and, to him, that’s unacceptable. He is fueled by that anger. And Gale always has some sort of cause to fight for. Whether it’s something larg, like defeating the Capitol, or something small, like fighting against the rules of the District in order to hunt, Gale doesn’t feel right unless there is something he’s actively fighting for. Not just working, but fighting. He’s a passionate sort of person, full of fire and drive, but he has to put that towards something or he feels very displaced. For him, there is always something to rebel against. For Gale, the world is never as right as it should be.
Abilities, Weaknesses, and Power Limitation Suggestions: Gale is a skilled hunter and some of those skills, like his training in archery and bombs, have translated into fighting abilities. Others, like his ability to create elaborate and effective snares, simply make him a formidable opponent. He has a mind for strategy, but he’s often impulsive, which sets him back.
Inventory: His military bow, but none of the arrows. He also has his standard military uniform along with a length of rope for traps.
Appearance: His appearance is made very specific in the novels. He has olive skin, straight black hair, gray eyes and, even as an early teenager, already looked the part of a man. He bears a curious resemblance to Katniss, though that’s the way it is with most people from the Seam. He has numerous scars on his back from a lashing he received and is already weathered and worn from his time working in the mines.
Age: 19
Samples
Log Sample: It took him as long as the tour to realize that something had gone terribly wrong. With words droning in his ears that didn’t really make it to his brain, Gale tried to make sense of what was going on around him. This wasn’t the Capitol. This wasn’t District 12. In fact, he was quite sure that this wasn’t any place in Panem that he had ever known.
His arrival had been, he suspected, fairly typical. A snap of a broken bone. Bruising on his face that had hurt when he touched it. He was fairly certain that there had been blood on his fingertips when he touched his forehead. But all that was a haze compared to the brilliance of what he saw on the tour. The words continued, but his mind could only take in the information he was getting from his eyes. This couldn’t be real. Nothing in his life had prepared him for this. Instinctively, he clutched the bow he had somehow managed to keep with him, as if that would help him keep his feet on the ground and his mind out of the clouds.
It didn’t help too much.
What he finally understood was that he wasn’t home. Either the mission had failed or Katniss and the rest would go on. Katniss and her Holo. But he had to find out how to help them. He had to find…something. To do something. This place seemed too much like a cage. Another District. Or worse…another Capitol. Escape seemed unlikely and the sorts of people that populated it might not be as intimidating. There was plenty of room and, if what he was told was accurate, there was enough to go around.
But, for whatever reason, he felt the weight of panic settling in his chest. This wasn’t where he was supposed to be.
Network Sample:
[Gale’s voice is rough, as if he’s been staying silent for hours and has just now decided to speak.] I’ve been in enough propos to know how this works. Say a few impassioned speeches. Make the people happy. Let them see that you’re not going to budge. Maybe here it’s different. Maybe here, all you have to do is say what you’re really feeling. Mutter a few words about your day. Pretend that there’s someone out there who might validate your words and tell you that it’s going to be alright.
It’s not.
Not yet.
