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Character

Name: Katniss Everdeen
Fandom: The Hunger Games (book canon, NOT movie canon)
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Canonpoint: Mid Mockingly, before infiltrating the Capitol
Character Journal: agirlonfire
Permissions Post: Here.
Character Inventory:
Weapon: one gun blade that is almost too heavy for her.
Useless item: Mockingjay costume designed by Cinna. (She can be wearing this already if that’s easiest.)

Abilities: Katniss is a very skilled archer, having had years of practice hunting in the woods near her home. She's also been taught how to use guns effectively, and her aim with those is almost as good as her aim with arrows. Given the choice, she prefers her bow. 

Katniss is also trained in survival skills, from hunting to trapping to sleeping in trees. She's good at adapting and at living on much less than most people are used to. She's in very good physical condition despite being too thin for her size. 

Even though she wouldn’t describe it herself, once she gets riled up she’s very good at getting others riled up and/or inspired. She doesn’t do this on purpose, it’s just something about her.

She has no supernatural abilities and has normal human weaknesses. 
Background Information: here

Personality Description:  Katniss doesn't come off as very likable right off the bat. She has a tendency to be blunt, and to not understand or conform to social customs. Since her father died, she's had to grow up very quickly. She distances herself from others, claiming that they don't like her or that she doesn't know how to get along with them. In reality, she doesn't like having close attachments to people. She also is often far more concerned with the wellbeing of her mother and sister, and putting food in all their mouths, than she is with relationships with other people (the only arguable exception to this for a long time was Gale, who she is very close to, and often hunts with). She comes from a place where people often die or are taken away from her, and she protects her heart fiercely because of that. She also protects the people she IS closest too - particularly her younger sister, Prim. While Katniss has a tendency to be a very selfish person, when it comes to Prim she'll do whatever it takes to protect her. She volunteered for the 74th Hunger Games to save her sister from certainly dying in the Games, and she fought hard to get back to her. Even after the Games, Prim's safety was always on her mind (as was the safety of her mother and the others she had come to care about - Gale, Madge, Peeta).
 
Katniss will do whatever it takes to keep anyone safe, if she feels responsible for them. She will put herself in danger and she will stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves. This can make her a bit reckless, however, with little to no regard for her own personal safety. She tends to be self-reliant to a fault, feeling that she knows best and will make her own decisions without input from others. She's incredibly stubborn, and generally refuses to listen to authority figures. She doesn't have much of a filter on what she says, and she will say whatever she wants to to whoever she wants to in most circumstances. She has managed to temper her problems with authority somewhat, or she would never have passed the test in District 13 allowing her to join their fighting forces, but she still considers her own judgment to be more reliable than that of other people.
 
Katniss is a very independent person, and she is very strong. She's the reason her family didn't actually starve after her father died, and her dedication kept them all going for a long time. Although she's small and underweight, she's physically pretty strong, having worked at being an efficient hunter for several years. She also trained really hard before the 75th Games, so that she would be in as top condition as she could manage before going back in the arena. In District 13, she also underwent military training, so she's in very good physical condition. Her mental state, however, is still a bit rattled. She spent a long time medicated, daydreaming, wandering. There is a part of her that can never escape or forget the events in the arena, and she blames herself heavily for the deaths of those around her in the 75th Games. She also carries a lot of guilt for what happened to Peeta and Johanna, and she doesn't let that go.
 
Katniss has a temper, and it flares up when she feels ignored or talked down to. She has a tendency to lash out at people, and she's not quick to apologize for it. The way she grew up in District 12 has left her emotionally detached, and she can be very cold to people. She does have a warm side (mostly only Gale and her family sees this, though Peeta does as well), but it isn't something she shows often. She's terrible at acting, and she can't convince people she's feeling things she isn't - at least, not very well. Her best successes on camera before the 74th Games were when she was simply being honest - being herself. That held true when she became the Mockingay - a symbol of resistance throughout the Districts. Her best appearances on camera are always uncoached. Unlike Peeta, she feels uncomfortable in social situations, and avoids them as much as she can. She doesn't like to have to dress pretty and smile for the camera. She'd rather fade into the background and do her own thing than be in any sort of spotlight. Becoming the Mockingjay was hard for her. While she can be protective, she doesn't consider herself a leader and she doesn't really see herself as valuable enough to other people. Despite hearing it from Peeta, she doesn't see what other people could possibly find to admire or like about her.
 
Katniss is a survivor. She adapts well to surroundings, having been trained by her father and then further training herself to survinve in the poverty-stricken District 12. She also learned all she could before the 74th Games, and continued to learn more later on, in any way she could find to. (At first, in District 13, she sunk into a state of depression and spent too much time wilfully detached from reality to learn, but once she made up her mind to do it, she learned quickly.) She's good at using weapons, and she's become more accustomed to fighting other humans than anyone her age really ought to be. She doesn't enjoy killing people for the most part, however, and she will avoid killing people weaker than her as much as she can. She will kill another person to survive, but there is no joy in it for her; she views it as a necessity in the harsh world she lives in (which it often has been for her). She is good at emotionally detaching from things like that if she has to, but she would never kill a child (younger than her, anyway) or someone weak or sick - not willfully. She wouldn't be able to handle it.
 
Katniss tends to be emotionally very selfish and self-centered. She’s also manipulative, though it’s not always a calculated thing so much as part of her “me first” survival instinct. She doesn't realize the effect it has to refuse to choose between Peeta and Gale, and she never really apologizes for hurting either of them - not entirely. She knows that she's selfish, but that doesn't change much of anything. She's more concerned with her own emotional attachments (or lack thereof) and needs to be good at placing someone else's emotional state abover her own. This extends to people she loves very much, too (for instance, when her mother was stricken by grief after her father's death, Katniss couldn't deal with it or handle it and ended up feeling bitter anger towards her mother instead of empathy or sympathy). It isn't that she cares nothing for other people's emotions, so much as she has no real idea how to understand them. Her ability to empathize with others is pretty lacking. She does care for both Peeta and Gale, in different ways, but her own emotional detachment gets in the way of being able to show it the way a "normal" person would.

Third Person Sample:
No matter how much schedule adherence or how much training they forced on her, Katniss still found time (or, rather, demanded time) to go out and hunt. It was really the only part of the day she could enjoy, though there were times she wished she could turn and see Gale there. But things were different now. These weren't District 12's woods, and Gale was busy strategizing or whatever else he was doing. Prim and her mother were helping in the hospital. Even in the past few months, Prim had grown so fast. Not physically, but...there was something about her. She had such a gift for healing that it made perfect sense, but it meant they saw less of each other. Peeta was...well, she wasn't entirely sure how Peeta was. Better? Probably not much. He wasn't how he'd been when he got back, but...he wasn't exactly Peeta, either, was he? Not the boy with the bread that she'd known from the beginning of the Games. He was different. They were all different.
 
The only one still clinging on to the things that had been, the facts and habits of the past...was her.
 
Stubbornly, she pushed those thoughts out of her mind as she slipped through the forest. She knew they didn't really want her out here, but she wasn't going to just roll over and do as she was told blindly and without any sort of compensation. She had never asked to be the head of their rebellion; all she'd really wanted to do was protect Prim. Now, she wanted to protect more than that, even if she was messed up and not any good at it. That's why she'd finally agreed to their damn schedules and their damn training and following their damned orders and doing their damned videos. But she wasn't letting them take this away from her, whether it was childish or not. She had to hold on to something, while everything familiar changed and faded and ran through her grasping fingers.
 
She stopped at a tree that had become somewhat familiar in the past weeks that she'd been coming out here. She took a breath, then started climbing. Luckily, it still came as second nature to her, and before she knew it, she was high off the ground, looking down at the forest floor. It was only then that she actually prepared the bow. She hadn't really come out here to hunt so much as she'd come out here to be alone, but she didn't want to go back with nothing either way. So she sat, and waited. She didn't think much about anything, just about finding a target. She'd chosen to come up here so that, even if she were distracted by her spinning thoughts, her steps wouldn't alert any of the lurking wildlife.
 
She tensed as a sound from below caught her attention. She readied the bow, looking along the shaft of the arrow as she found her mark. She pulled it back, her breath shallow but even as she waited, wanting to make as little noise as possible. Even from above, she could alert the animal if she wasn't careful. The world narrowed to the pinpoint of vision at the end of an arrow. The noise continued, and the animal in question darted into view.
 
At the last second, she managed enough thought process to jerk her arm up, sending the arrow flying wild.
 
"Stupid cat!" she yelled down, almost screaming the words into the empty woods. The animal in question looked up at her and yowled, then ran off again. "I ought to shoot you!" she continued, as if the cat could understand her, or would care either way. She had a moment of considering chasing him down and shooting his tail off, just to teach him, but Prim would be devastated.
 
Stupid cat, she thought again, drawing another arrow. If he came back, maybe she really would shoot him.

First Person Sample:
[ audio]
[ Her voice sounds uncertain when she starts - not soft, just hesitant, as if she isn’t sure of what to say. Or maybe as if she isn’t sure who might hear. ]

My name…is Katniss Everdeen. I woke up here, I followed…

This screen told me to pick a number. I picked two. I don’t know why, I just figured one was way too obvious. And now I’m somewhere else.

I don’t remember falling asleep.

I have to get out of here. I won’t let anyone hold me captive. It’s probably stupid talking into this like it’s actually going to help, but I know someone has to be listening. Give me back my regular clothes and let me go now.

[ There’s an edge to her voice by the end, like maybe she might have started believing her own bravado. Maybe. ]