Meenah Turbine

Meenah Turbine is the Victor of the Fifty-Seventh Hunger Games

## Pre-Games Life

Meenah led a fast-talking and free-wheeling life in Five, working as a salesman. She rescued discarded items from garbage cans or other opportune places and used her boundless improvisation and charisma to spin tales that tempted people to buy them. Her business was lucrative enough that she could afford to live in a run-down apartment. She also enjoyed eating frozen food and decorating herself with mismatched accessories.

## Games Description

Arena: Cave system

Meenah declined to form alliances in the Pre-Games, though she certainly could have. She naturally experienced a great deal of anxiety and uncertainty. She channeled this by narrating her doubts into a tape recorder she dubbed "Tapey". Her intent was that this record could survive her in the likely event she died. In lieu of training skills she wouldn't be able to learn in a few days she focused on attending Capitolite parties and successfully fished for multiple sponsors.

Meenah escaped the massacre on the first night of the Games by wriggling into a tiny tunnel. It narrowed in size until she was pulling herself along with her fingers and toes. After a segment so tiny she had to exhale in order to fit and another so angled that she tore fingernails free, she broke through into a slightly larger vertical tunnel she could sit in. There she remained for the most of the Games.

Victory did not come cheaply to Meenah. Her first victim came when Atticus Scipio of District Four chased her into her hole and got stuck, as she intended. Meenah listened to him scream in anger and then fear until he begged for mercy as he slowly starved to death. Afraid he would attack her if she got near, she listened in agony until he finally died. Then she crawled down her tunnel and removed the night-vision goggles from his body along with some energy bars. This was the first of many visits she made to Atticus' rotting body, later returning when extreme starvation drove her to pick off the cave spiders that were eating his flesh and eat then. Meenah continued to relate her fracturing sanity

   into Tapey.

Far into the Games Meenah ventured from her tunnel to get water. When she was surprised by Elissa Angelo of District One she desperately swung the heavy metal flashlight she'd been sponsored and hit her in the head. Elissa fell and fatally injured her head.

In the final two Meenah devised a last-ditch plan. She tore strips from Atticus' nearly skeletonized body and braided them into a noose. She rigged the noose around the larger tunnel that led to the top of her lair and drew the attention of lone opponent Caio Sagres of District Two. When he chased her into the tunnel she pulled the noose just as he entered the chamber and leaped into the chasm, strangling Caio with her weight as he struggled to escape.

## Post-Games Life

Meenah has enjoyed the riches her victory has brought her. She enjoys the large house she now lives in and the opulent jewelry and clothing she is able to buy. She pursued therapy that has greatly helped with her PTSD and anxiety that largely surrounds Atticus' body and her close proximity to it.

## Relationships

### Caio Sagres

A most unlikely friendship bloomed between two Tributes who had tried to kill each other, one more successfully than the other. When Caio was resurrection for another Games he swallowed his pride and asked Meenah how she had beaten him. She began an impromptu mentorship that remained into the Games. Meenah sent gifts and subtle images that reminded Caio to be patient and humble. He took her lessons to heart and beat nearly 100 other Tributes to win the Games. They joyfully reunited and have begun a romance.

## Trivia

* Meenah scored a 7 in her private session after gaining attention by stripping naked and making an outfit out of hides while narrating the tanning process
* Despite her horrible costume Meenah won the Laurel for Best in Show with her grandiose performance. She won it in tandem with Caio
* Like Seeder, Meenah has food insecurity and always carries food with her
* Post-Victor therapy also allowed Meenah to be diagnosed with ADHD