Caspian Hadala

**Caspain Hadala** was the male tribute for District 4 during the 61st Hunger Games. He was trained at the Hunger Games Training School until he was 15, when he was naturally reaped for the Games and not volunteered for. Along with his district partner Clarisse, he was a rival to the tributes from District 9, Barley Mayes and Dagan Starche.

## Biography

### Early life

Caspian was born in 46 ATT. He attended the Hunger Games Training School in District 4 as early as 5 along with his district partner, Clarisse. There, he became adept with a katana, but not with many other types of swords (for example, he could never beat Clarisse with a longsword). One time, when one of his classmates at HGTS insulted him, Caspian held him captive in a janitor's closet and injured him until he was begging for mercy.

### 61 ATT

#### Opening ceremonies

Although Caspian was training to become a Pack member, he was reaped three years before he planned to volunteer. This made him nervous, but he approached the surprise with excitement. While rewatching the Reaping, Barley described him as seeming "to stare into [her] soul through the camera." Clarisse, having volunteered, gave a speech to the district thanking them for getting her where she was. On the train bound for the Capitol, he reintroduced himself to his mentor, Elsie, whom he'd seen give speeches at HGTS before. His escort was Allie Cicero.

While in the lobby for the Remake Center for the first time, he threatened Trevor of District 8 for allegedly looking at him the wrong way. Clarisse joined him in this. His stylist was Livia. During the tribute parade, he was dressed up as a fisherman.

#### Before the Games

Elsie told him that he was the 8th most bet on tribute in the Games, which was impressive, though disappointing to him as it was the least high of the whole Pack. She advised him to show the other tributes what he was made of by intimidating them, which he continued on with Barley, to the point where he genuinely convinced himself to hate her. He also terrorized the two tributes from District 5, Torque and Moti.

Along with the other Careers, he spent most of his time at the weapons during the training stations. He cheered for Jade when he demonstrated his abilities with a throwing axe. He and Clarisse stopped cheering when they noticed Barley, Dagan, and Rhonda looking at them, and they started glaring back at them menacingly.

When Barley went over to the machete station, she pretended that the dummy she was slashing up was Caspian. She started taunting it and heard the Careers coming behind her. Caspian insulted her on her height, and she insulted him on his insult. Twinkle tried to get him back to focusing on training, so Caspian threatened her, then left. That night, Barley had a dream that involved a bloodthirsty Caspian shooting glances at her from the forests of District 9, then miraculously held up her decapitated head. He lit a match and threw it into the barley field, causing it to go up in flames.

On the second day of training, he decided to form closer bons with his allies. He learned that Jade and Twinkle were a couple and the Pack discussed if there was anybody else they were considering allying with. Maximus suggested that they ally with Dagan, which Caspian vehemently rejected. He also learned about Perdita's district token, an emerald ring, and recounted the story of how he had tried to use his fishhook as a token, but it got rejected as it could be use violently.

Once the Pack spilt up to train separately, Caspian went over to intimidate Barley. He overheard her calling the dummy she was slashing was a machete a "pompous waste of oxygen", which he teased her for. He threatened to kill her in the arena and aggressively shoved her into the wall. After walking away, he got a trainer's permission to spar with Clarisse. He was very cocky, so even though he was agile, she was able to deke him out.

Elsie met up with Caspian at the mentor's stand to ask him how training went, and they discussed it. That evening, he ordered many lamb and plum soups from his Avox servants and watched recordings of the most recent Hunger Games, starting with the 2nd Quarter Quell. He found himself getting very angry towards Haymitch Abernathy for becoming withdrawn and sullen as a mentor instead of using the genius he demonstrated in his Games to train tributes. He chalked it up to being because he was from District 12.

The next morning, Clarisse and Caspian fought again, this time with katanas, and Caspian won this time, making him proud. After watching the growing alliance between Dagan, Barley, Milo, and Rhonda, Maximus came behind him, ruffled his hair, and jokingly teased him. Caspian worried that Maximus would start bragging to him and became bitter towards him, though Maximus was really just playing around with his ally. They talked about the upcoming private sessions with the gamemakers, then Caspian went off to attempt the gauntlets. He ran across them and his end time was 23.96 seconds. He was initially impressed, however, he then realized that it was only the #2 place and Maximus was at the top of the leaderboard, extending his rage towards him.

During his private session, Caspian impressively attacked many yellow hologram ninjas using a katana. He received a score of 9 for this.

#### 61st Hunger Games

##### The Bloodbath

Caspian's plate was located in the sandy side of the Cornucopia field, and it was directly to the right of Barley's plate. She was disgruntled to see him as the tribute next to her. Moti was two spaces to the left of Caspian, and Barley managed to escape, but Moti was fatally wounded by a knife wielded by Caspian and left to die for several minutes before he came back to finish her off.

After attacking Moti, he went to the Cornucopia to formulate a plan with the other Careers. He specifically requested to the others to target any tributes from Nine or Twelve. After Maximus killed Rhonda, he went inside of the Cornucopia to inform Clarisse that the first tribute had been killed. He returned to finish off Moti in the sand. He slashed Milo's neck with his katana by chasing him around the circle of platforms, and Rhonda was killed by Maximus, but Barley ran away from the Bloodbath and Dagan managed to escape.

Caspian stayed behind after the Bloodbath alone to be helpful and make sure nobody tried to steal any more supplies. After he took the last load of supplies back, Emmer of District 11 snuck up to the battlefield and retrieved throwing knives from the corpse of his district partner, Olive. Caspian arrived at the Pack base later than his other allies due to him staying behind. He helped pack the food away in the cupboards, and the group worked together to estimate how long their food supply would last. At sunset, he climbed onto the roof with Clarisse because the horizon of the ocean gave them nostalgia about the beaches of District 4. They talked about home and about winning the Games, then went over their kills for the first day. When she held her head in pain after the cannons sounded, he was concerned for her. Caspian was disappointed that Dagan and Barley's alliance wasn't completely dismantled when he watched The Fallen. Throughout the course of the Games, he slept in a closet in the back of the restaurant on the nights where he wasn't on watch duty.

##### Day four

On the fourth day, Caspian aided Jade, Twinkle, Maximus, and Perdita in the attack on Sarahva Boor. She tried to run towards the corner of the boardwalk, but he blocked her path. Maximus blocked her escape from the other side. When Barley and Dagan revealed themselves in order to protect Sarahva, Caspian chopped Sarahva's ear off with his katana, leading to Barley stabbing him in the back with her machete. He was mostly unfazed by her attack, but furious. He turned around and defended himself from another stabbing. Dagan jumped in front of Barley with his shield to protect her from getting stabbed in the head by Caspian.

He was too weak to chase Barley, Dagan, and Sarahva into the forest. He received medication for his wounds from sponsors and stayed in the base to heal for the next few days.

## Relationships

* Clarisse (ally, friend)
* Jade, Twinkle, Perdita (allies)
* Maximus (ally, rival, enemy)
* Barley Mayes, Dagan Starche, Rhonda, Milo (opponents, enemies)
* Torque, Moti (rivals)
* Elsie (mentor)
* Livia (stylist)
* Allie Cicero (escort)

## Victims

During the Cornucopia Bloodbath of the 61st Hunger Games, Caspian killed Moti and Milo.

## Appearance

Caspian was over 6 feet tall (6'3, to be specific). He had short light brown hair and menacing blue-green eyes. He had slightly tanned skin.

During the tribute parade, he was dressed up as a fisherman.

## Personality

He was determined to win his Games and decided he would do anything to emerge victorious. When he was 15, he was confident enough to consider himself strong enough to compete. His instructors always told him that he was excellent at fighting. He wasn't very good at understanding complicated graphs or charts. He had a tendency towards being unhealthily competitive and had no qualms about killing.

He was not completely unsympathetic, as he cared greatly for Clarisse and was very concerned about her when she suffered migraines after being attacked by Freida. His ego could be greatly hurt by minor failures.

## Abilities

* Katana proficiency
* Intimidation