Starling Heights

Starling Heights was the female District Ten Tribute for the Twenty-Eighth Hunger Games.
== Pre-Games Life ==
Starling was orphaned at a young age when her father committed a family annihilation, killing himself, his wife, Starling's sister, and Starling's brother-in-law. Only Starling and her brother Cash survived. After that they lived in an orphanage. At twelve years old Starling became pregnant with a daughter fathered by her boyfriend Croix. At Croix's insistence Starling gave the child away and had no contact with her after she was adopted. Croix was a violent and unpredictable young man and later smothered Starling's infant niece to get the child to stop crying. Starling was accused of the crime and was only cleared at the last moment before she would have been imprisoned. Rumors continued to abound and Starling was shunned by most people in Ten. She took solace in the company of her brother Cash, who was autistic and responded only to Starling.
== Games Description ==
Arena: Tropical archipelago
Starling fled the Bloodbath without taking any supplies and survived the first night by licking moisture off leaves. Her only plan was the hope that she might talk the Careers out of killing her by eliciting sympathy for Cash.
On the second night Starling was sponsored a water bottle, a can of corned beef, crackers, and a cleaver.
On the third night Starling was sponsored two armbands and a note from her mentor Cornflower Fields telling her to move.
When Chantal Ivingin of District One discovered Starling on the fourth day of the Games Starling pleaded with her to stop the violence and let her go. Chantal ignored her plea and fatally speared her.
== Placing ==
11th
== Personality ==
It is impossible to extricate Starling's personality from her past. Her traumatic childhood of abuse and murder left her cautious of relationships and socially distant. She suffered from vulnerability brought about by low self-esteem and the constant taunts from her countrymen left her lonely and anchorless. She was only herself with her brother Cash, with whom she displayed enough patience and compassion that the formerly nonverbal boy spoke only with her.
== Trivia ==
* Starling's token was a wooden bird carved by Cash
* Cash was placed with a nurturing live-in nurse paid for by Cornflower
* In an unexpected break from cows, Starling was dressed in leather lingerie
* Starling's heterochromia was not genetic but stemmed from ocular damage caused by Starling's father
Category:District 10 Tributes