Basil

> "You knew that this would happen. You knew that either you would die or your friends would die or you and your friends would die. There is no happy ending to the Hunger Games. There is no happy ending to the life of any cat who lives in this stupid... *Panem*." - Basil to Cloud
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## Biographical

### Family

Cypress (Father), Rosemary (Mother), Myrtle (Little sister), Cinnamon (Little brother)

### Looks

Large, fluffy, grey tabby maine coon with white patches on her fur and mint-green eyes. She also wears a purple flower behind her ear.

## Looks

Basil is a grey classic tabby cat, but the thing that sets her apart from others is the white splotches that cover her fur. Her pattern is complicated, but considered pretty by most, and she has kind, mint-green eyes. She is a very large cat, being a maine coon, but has a big heart. She's also super fluffy and has rounded, friendly features.

## Personality

Basil is an extremely kind-hearted cat, which is, surprisingly, her greatest weakness in the Hunger Games. She dislikes fighting, but after she was chosen for the Hunger Games, she knew that her own kindness would be the death of her if she didn't toughen up. So, she's trying her best not to freeze at the sight of blood or hate herself for killing someone, if it were to happen. She's intelligent, though, and will probably end up trying to set traps for cats instead of killing them with her own claws. Her greatest strength is her brains, and also knows how to take care of herself because of her past. As stated before, her kindness is going to be a major weakness for her in the Hunger Games. She's not exactly a pushover, but fighting or killing other cats is not something she ever thought she'd have to do, and managing to deal with the knowledge that she's killed or wounded a cat (which is inevitable unless she's the first one out) will be her biggest challenge.

## Background

### Backstory

Basil was a single kit for the first 13 years of her life. However, when she was 13 years old, her mother, Rosemary had two more kits; Cinnamon and Myrtle. She died a few months after having them, and not long after that, Cypress ran away, leaving Basil to take care of her two small siblings alone. Basil took care of them for 5 years, and they loved her. She managed to take care of them well, until she was pulled into the Hunger Games at the age of 18. Her two little siblings gave her a purple flower before she left, as a farewell gift, and she promised them that she'd be back, and she'd bring the flower back with her. Now she knows that, as much as it may pain her to harm any cat, she needs to do whatever she can to get back to her siblings- even if it means killing her way out.

### The Reaping

Before she was taken away by the Peacekeepers, her two little siblings gave her a purple flower, as a farewell gift, and she promised them that she'd be back, and she'd bring the flower back with her. Now she knows that, as much as it may pain her to harm any cat, she needs to do whatever she can to get back to her siblings- even if it means killing her way out.

## Before The Games

### Tribute Parade

During the Tribute Parade, Basil was dressed in a deep purple cape, with golden patterns along the edges. The fabric was tied around her neck, and on the piece around her neck, fake purple flowers rimmed with gold covered it. She had her real flower, the one that her siblings had given her, behind her ear the whole time. She was very, very nervous going into the Tribute Parade, but forced herself to act calm, cool, and collected. She tried to act confident, and she ended up scoring a 4/5 sponsor score at the Tribute Parade.

### The Trainings

During training, the major interactions that Basil had included meeting Cloud, Pebble, and Hawk and aligning with them, and the most important part, when Fennec taught her how to fight. Fennec told her that in order to win, she couldn't lose herself. If she thought about her kills, she would lose herself, and Basil would carry this information with her throughout her time in the Games. Fennec taught her how to fight, advising her to not be afraid to use "dishonorable" moves, to just do what she needed to in order to survive. She showed Basil multiple key moves that she should use, including faking cats out when she was pinned and pretending to be dead or injured, and that when she pinned down a cat, she should hold them down with three paws and use one paw to claw at their neck and try to give a killing blow. She learned many other tips and tricks as well while training with Fennec.

### Gamemaker Session

During her Gamemaker Session, Basil scored at 6/12 by sorting herbs. She got most of the herbs correct, and showed skill in the way that she narrowed down which herbs must be which. She is very skilled with herbs.

### Interview

During her interview, Basil scored a 2. Her interview outfit was a deep purple tunic, with golden trim and golden roses around the collar of the tunic. She wore golden earrings and a golden bracelet as well.

## The Games

### Being Sent In

As Basil was being sent in, she tied her purple flower around her wrist with a spare piece of rope, to prevent it from falling off during the chaos of the Cornucopia. She was then launched down into the Arena, where she waited for the gong to sound.

### The Games Begin

I'll just take the big ol' paragraph I wrote when the games began because I'm too lazy to rewrite it:

10. 9. 8. Basil's heart was pounding in her chest as she stared into the arena. She stood on her plate, her claws unsheathed, terror written all over her face. 7. 6. 5. She had spotted the slot canyon and was certain that that must be where the Cornucopia was located. 4. 3. 2. Her fur bristling, Basil tensed her muscles, ready to run. 1. 0. The gong sounded, loud and clear, and Basil lunged forward, straight toward the cornucopia. She collided with another cat on the way, but being large, managed to keep her balance and instead, the other cat was the one who was knocked over. She reached the edge of the slot canyon and turned, then began to descend into the canyon. Her claws dug into the grooves in the wall of the canyon, watching as the top grew farther and farther away from her, until, finally, she had neared the bottom. She hopped down the last few feet to see multiple cats charging toward the cornucopia. Basil bounded toward the giant golden cornucopia, snagging her claws into the first few things she saw before leaping up and crawling back to the top of the canyon, where she immediately fled in a random direction. ((She got a small red backpack with sunglasses, a few bandaids and a tarp inside))

### The Final Battle

Basil's final battle occurred 8 (irl) days after the Games begun. She was attempting to break a prickly pear when Ivy attacked her. Ivy was going for her throat over and over, and Basil realized that she would have to try to kill Ivy in response- but she realized this too late. Before long, she was too fatigued to dodge anymore, and Ivy's throat attack landed, ending Basil's life in one swift blow. This battle occurred the day after Basil received sponsor gifts. After her death, she lead her ally, Cloud, to her body, and told Cloud to loot everything from her backpack, as well as take the purple flower. She told her that if she won, she should bring the flower to her siblings and tell them that their sister died, but she died a good cat. And as Fennec told her- *"No good cat will win the Games."*

## Other

### Relationships

Cypress - Deceased, Father

Rosemary - Deceased, Mother

Myrtle - Living, Little Sister

Cinnamon - Living, Little Brother

Cloud - Living, Ally

Morsus Mihi - Living, Ally

Moss - Living, Ally

Pebble - Deceased, Ally

Hawk - Deceased, Ally

Fennec - Living, Friend (sort-of)