Root Terrace

Root Terrace is one of the main protagonists of The 78th Hunger Games, The Avox Escape, and a protagonist of the 3rd Rebellion

## Biography

### Early Life

Root was once a normal kid until the games. His parents were infected by a deadly forest disease and are sick in bed all day, he had two siblings, Oakley and Hazel. Oakley and Hazel had to work to make money for food so Oakley joined a lumberjack team and Hazel started using extra bits of wood to make carpentry, they both taught Root their skills. Oakley sadly died in a lumber mill explosion and Hazel was left alone supporting. The poor girl started getting grain and oil in exchange for her name going in the bowl more and more times. During the events of the Redeemment Games(one of the special named games) she placed second losing to Dollar a smug rich boy from district 1(his brother went on to compete in the 78TH games and Cash was killed by Root) Roots name was picked. He was chosen with Holly an orphaned girl who's brother was dragged away from the reaping square for disrupting the procedure.

### Before the games

On the train to the captol Holly and Root discussed their lives and met their mentor Asha Seetle, a somewhat eccentric woman. In the capitol the tributes were introduced to the expensive lifestyles of the makeup covered citizens. During training Root proved himself by showing off his axe skills and earned a good score of 8 during his individual assessment, during the interviews he made a strong impression also speaking of his goal to get the money back to 7 so he could get proper healers to heal his parents.

### During the games

During the games he killed 3 tributes through a sculpture trap, a planned scheme to kill the careers and a good use of an axe for revenge.

### After the Win

After his win he always remembered Holly who was brutally killed and his siblings who both tragically died. He later became part of a scandals involving the freedom of hundreds of avox slaves, saving an orphan supposed to be an avox and joining a group of victims fighting for the districts rights.

### Death

During a raid of the capital after the capitol executed Digito Harper a prominent victor from district 3 and a recent protestor in 3. After his win his younger sister was chosen and died in the games, he joined the victims, yet he joined at a bad time and was caught trying to hide in a bunker like the other victors. He was killed on live television and district 3 were punished badly for his actions. During the raid Dollar Crusoe the killer of Root's sister who had pretended to join the group for the capitol and telling Root he had to get money to his parents and had to kill Hazel. These were all lies and he informed the peacekeepers of the raids. The peacekeepers found the group. Linnet and a few others survived whilst Root was captured. Dollar was awarded with millions. Root was tortured brutally but during one torture event on live tv he said, 'The rebels will continue and death is better than torture. Continue rebels', he said this into the camera before attacking a peacekeeper and grabbing her gun. The peacekeepers attempted to stop him but he was too quick and shot himself in the head 13 times insuring he couldn't be saved. After 3 minutes of trying to get him back he was announced dead and the rebels fought harder after his speech to avenge him.