Fulvia Stone

Mother: Beryl Flint (estranged/unknown)

Grandmother: Athena Stone

Grandfather: Nikolas Stone

Half-Brother (Mother's Side/Unknown): Slate Skylar

## History/Bio

*Fulvia Stone (she/her). Student. Twenty-Three. Taissa Farmiga.*

The Stone family is one well-known in District 2, one which many have hailed as one of the richest families the district has ever seen. They have held the relationship with the capitol for many years, having been placed in power generations before to replace a family that had been producing unsatisfactory results. Thus, the Stone family became what the other family could not, as rigid and cold as their namesake. They took everything seriously, the world revolving around their own productivity and image, obsessed with maintaining the status that they had been granted.

Lucius Stone was no exception to the rules placed upon the Stone family. He was expected to model the perfection that his parents pushed upon him. When he was a teenager, as all of the Stone family members before him, he was sent to the capitol for his education. The boy was not nearly as good at school as his family would have liked him to be, and he had a mind for kindness and empathy - which would not suit him if he should take over the Stone empire. Due to his mother’s barren womb, he was the only child his family produced, thus his father became strict and placed the burden of the entire family upon his shoulders. He was told over and over that should he fail, so would everyone and everything they held up.

Lucius was sent to peacekeeper training after graduating from general school, pushed towards this as his only option due to his poor marks. He excelled as a peacekeeper and did well enough to be let from school somewhat early. It was then that he was sent to District 12 to serve time there before moving along (his status allowed him to move up in the ranks much faster than others who did not have the same connections). For a while, he lived up to his father’s expectations, exceeding them even, but those who rise shall always fall. Fall he did, but not because of his actions in his career, but rather actions led by the heart. He fell in love with a woman in 12 and began a relationship with her.

Their relationship lasted for some time, of course in secret, as his status and position would never allow him to marry someone with so little to offer. But she was beautiful, lovely, and everything he had ever dreamed of until she wasn’t. She could not cope with the things around her, her heart too large for a world that threatened constantly to shrink it. But she tried so hard to be better, to be a woman that he could love, that he could feel proud of and show to his parents as a prize rather than a fault. It was when she fell pregnant that Lucius began to panic, as he knew there would be no hope for their future. He tried to tell her as much, but she refused to believe him and wrote a letter begging his parents to allow them to be wed.

Lucius’ parents never returned her letter, but rather, wrote one to him, outlining what was to be done. Once the child was born, he was to take it away with him and immediately return to District 2, where there would be a suitable high-society woman waiting for him to wed her. His parents had arranged the marriage out of desperation, afraid the world would learn of their son’s indiscretion. Lucius did exactly as they said, taking the child from the arms of his lover soon after it was born under the guise of caring for it, he left during the night, boarding a train that only harbored him and his new daughter.

When he arrived in District 2, no one was the wiser. His new wife and he took an extended honeymoon and when they returned with a baby, others merely assumed they had been wed much earlier than they had realized and the scandal his parents had feared had been avoided.

Fulvia, the bubbling babe stolen in the night grew healthy and quickly. To her grandparent’s delight, she harbored a sharp wit and a countenance that greatly resembled her father’s. She was primarily raised by her grandparents, as during her younger years, her father was busy attempting his own advancement in society. With his good name and a wife with capitol status, his rise through the peacekeeper ranks seemed far too easy. But to Fulvia, it was difficult. She loved her grandparents, but felt separated from her parents - they were more an idea to her rather than a reality. Besides, when she saw them, her mother was colder to her than she would have liked, but she did her best to please her despite that.

She did well in school, surpassing most of her classmates in their tests, and excelling at almost anything she applied herself to. Having been born in District 2, where most tributes volunteered for the games, she did not pay much attention to them when she was young. There was no worry for her that one day she may have to fight for her life, her only worry being that she would form a bond with someone her age only for them to be ripped away from her. Thus, she kept to herself for most of her life, having only polite conversations with others but not really revealing anything of substance to them.

When she became of the correct age, she was sent to live with her parents in the capitol where she would attend school. Even there, she did well, and her father began to harbor slight resentment towards her for her abilities in academia. Though, he still loved her and doted on her as much as she would allow. Past his jealousy of her mind, he decided she would be a great proponent for his advancement and began to push her to train herself in the manners and ways of the capitol. He had her don the finest dresses from the most famous designers and often paraded her around parties in some attempt to attract a family with higher status to make a marriage offer.

His pestering did not suit their relationship, however, as Fulvia began to resent him for his lust for power. She did not see a man who wished to change the world in any meaningful capacity, nor did she see someone capable of wielding the power he so badly desired. All she saw was a desperate man, clawing at the bottom of a well, his fingernails bleeding against the bricks that had been stacked high by generations of members of the Stone family. She despised him for this, thought him weak despite his accomplishments, and took the life he provided her for granted.

Fulvia, basking in her discontent, made the decision to become something different than what was expected of her. She had no desire to run the family empire in 2, nor the desire to marry a high-ranking official in the capitol. Thus, she began to study to become a capitol doctor, one which would help those around her and spread something better than what her father had.

At 18, her mind had been made up and she began to study biology and the sciences. Her teachers urged her to become a game maker, but they could not convince her to stray from her path any more than her father could. On a stormy night, she wandered into her father’s study in search of a writing instrument to replace the one that had just broken moments before. It was late, and the light provided by the candle on her father’s desk barely lit the contents of the drawer. She dug around, her fingers desperately searching for a pen of some sort so that she might get back to her studies, but they found a piece of wood that was slightly raised at the bottom of the drawer instead. Surprise and intrigue crossed over her, and when she lifted it, there was an image of what looked to be a district woman. Upon holding it to the light, Fulvia saw a woman who reflected her own face back to her, the woman’s dark eyes staring past her as though she stood before her. Fulvia gasped and almost released the photo, turning it over to see if there was any hint as to who this woman could be. The image simply stated “my love Beryl” and the date of her birth.

After finding out about this woman, she was perplexed, yet convinced that the woman had been her mother. The simple fact that her father had been lying to her her entire life tore them apart completely, though her father would never know why. She began to withdraw from her family, separating herself in every way that she possibly could without them becoming too suspicious. She claimed she was merely engrossed in difficult studies, but instead was researching the woman in the photo, to no avail.

Fulvia continued her studies and was placed in an advanced program where she was allowed to study the latest and greatest technology, even that which was used in the games to create mutations. She allowed herself to melt into these studies, but something pulled her out. The most recent games had a tribute from District 12 who intrigued her. He mentioned offhandedly the name of the woman that was printed on the back of the photo she found. She rushed back to her apartment, pulled the image of the woman from her pocket, and realized that this boy - whoever he was - knew something about the woman in the photo.

Fulvia religiously consumed the media before the games in hopes he would allow something to slip, and thus he did, unwittingly confirming her suspicions that the woman was her mother. But if the woman in the photo was her mother, then who was he to her?

PENNED BY: Kat

## Hunger Games

### 134th Games

   In place of her father, Fulvia began attending the games for the first time. She had never witnessed them prior to this, only viewing them as something that must always happen to preserve the state of living she enjoyed within her lifetime. However, upon seeing the carnage of the games, she has found herself confused on where she stands. She is unimpressed with them, her empathy overtaking the ideals which were ingrained in her by her elders.

After the bombing of District 12, Fulvia was left completely devastated as her father was the one to lead the charge. She was reeling after the events and began to harbor feelings of resentment towards her family and everything they stood for. Though her relationship with her father had never been perfect, she could never have fathomed him committing such heinous acts. Her world was shattered as she realized that her family were not good people, that they were not helping the world to become a better place, and were instead the monsters who were upholding disgusting traditions and societal values.