Link Cache

# Link Embed Cache

## Early life

Link grew up in a middle class lifestyle (For District Three). Her parents had good jobs, but they worked long hours to afford the two bedroom apartment their five-person family lived in. Link's twin siblings, younger, were left to her care after school, and they all shared a room at night. But their house was so full of love that it never felt like a burden.

because of her parents's status, Link was able to stay in school up until she was reaped. she was popular, a good student, and hoped to one day become a factory floor supervisor, just like her mother.

## 124

When Link was 17, she volunteered for her little brother, who had been reaped at 12. She was still among the youngest there. With a mediocre training score, an average interview, and nothing particularly special about her, she was quickly written off as cannon fodder.

The arena was a Pyramid of puzzles, hallways and traps. Even the bloodbath wasn't just useful items. Every gift was sealed in an urn, but not all urns contained gifts. some held snakes or flesh-eating scarabs. Link, who was from three with a quick wit and good at puzzles, could navigate the horrors, though. She only killed two people, spending most of those six days avoiding tributes and breezing past puzzles. one of those kills during a plot drop where tributes were paired up and made to solve a puzzle together, where only one person could leave. Link trapped Hades Serpentine in that room and he suffocated hours later due to asphyxiation.

The finale led them back to the tomb of a cornucopia, which promptly started collapsing. Walls pinned and killed everyone but Link and the girl from four, who avoided the debris, sustaining only a Gash on she shoulder. Link was still pinned by falling rubble, and had to play dead for several hours while the tribute from four searched for her final kill. Eventually, Four succumbed to blood loss, and Link was crowned victor of 124.

The hours under rubble gave her a major injury in her back. It was unfixable. Link now uses a wheelchair full-time.

## Post-Victory

Link returned home to her family, who now live together in the victory home. They're very close, and enjoy several activities together. notably, they are all into puzzles, board game nights, repairing or building tech for their smart home, retrofitting their home to have accessible technology, etc. They call their chores *commitments* because nobody gets assigned them, they only hold conversations and commit to what they can do.

Link is a diligent mentor, although she wasn't a very good one at first. she takes a lot of ownership over her tributes, feeling as though they are her sole responsibility. She was written off, she never wants anyone under her care to feel like they don't have a chance. She keeps a list of the names of tributes she's failed under her bed, and semi-regularly visits the hunger games graveyard at home.

## Played-Out Time

* Link's first tribute she brought home was Nano Byte in 132. Her parents quickly took him in after they realized he couldn't cope with victory alone. He lives in their home now, one of the family.
* shortly after 132's victory ball, Link was asked to participate in anti-rebel propaganda to combat the rebel's zine and radio show. She did this. She was also asked to stop a cyber attack on the capitol's gossip magazine. Link realized (but kept private) that Cat Miller and Nano Byte were the ones doing the hacking.
* in the six months between 133 and 134, Slate Skylar, Nano's friend and notable Vox Papouli member, visited her home. He was there to hang out but also work with Nano on the rebellion. He left Link's brother, Zip, with a few copies of TH3 T0MMYKN0CK3R, which where found by a peacekeeper. To save her brother's life, Link outed Slate as Meta Morphic, leading to him being imprisoned and sent into the hunger games. (PARA HERE)
* Link immediately told Slate when she saw him reaped in 134. She is working hard to get him out, especially once her tributes died, although she lost a lot of friends due to the betrayal, which is common knowledge from a mix of her telling on herself and the capitol rumor mill. Slate won 134, so at least she wasn't the reason he died.
* after 134, Nano needed to go to rehab following a fight with slate. Link's parents weren't allowed to visit him (immediate family only), so they officially adopted him for next of kin rights. Now, Nano is Link's legal brother.

## The Cache Family

* **Mom Cache.** 47. (she/her) Organized person, Factory Floor Supervisor in D3. Look, taking care of four teenagers and 20'somethings (two being victors) ain't easy. She's practically a saint.
* **Dad Cache.** 48. (he/him) Patient, Gentle. No longer works since link's victory, very much a homemaker and emotional touchpoint for the family. Can always be found reading a book, reviewing upper level math homework, or having just the right thing to say for any given situation.
* **Tag Cache.** 17. (she/her) Very hands-on. Likes to go rummaging for spare parts around the district, and build or fix computers and tvs with them. Will install anything. quote from link: "could probably hotwire a car if you asked her to... Please don't ask her to". Loves the eccentricities of the capitol now that she's more intimate with it.
* **Zip Cache.** 17. (he/him). Quiet, sensitive, and intuitive. He's big on rendering, on making beautiful things with code and images. He wanted to join the rebellion with Nano, to ghostwrite articles for the paper. he's seen how victory hurts victors, and he knows how badly it hurts those who don't make it. Good kid. Reaped (and saved by link) in 124. Accused of being Meta Morphic (and saved by link) in 133's off season.
* **Mouse Cache.** (He/him) Family cat. Tuxedo. Stray they took in.
* **Pad Cache.** (she/her) Family Frog. Poison Dart, blue. Gift from the capitol shortly after link won, Tag took to her and kept her.