Hlenn Rambutan

Hlenn Rambutan is the Victor of the Fifty-First Hunger Games.

## Pre-Games Life

When she was old enough to walk Hlenn began work as a fruit picker. She spent most of her time in the orchards alongside her friend Nakia Peck. Hlenn enjoyed composing little free verse poems and interacting with the animals of Eleven.

## Games Description

Arena: African Savannah

In the Capitol Hlenn allied with her District partner Mak Jonson, Adira Baelyn of District Six, and Theodosia "Theo" Mulroy of District Twelve. When lions burst out of the Cornucopia the Bloodbath turned into a free-for-all as outliers grabbed supplies while the Careers were trying to get to the weapons behind the lions. Mak was fatally mauled by the lions but the rest of the alliance was able to secure various supplies, such as a water bottle Hlenn grabbed. Hlenn and her allies walked until they found a watering hole and used the iodine they'd taken from the Bloodbath to treat the water. The girls survived without food until the third day in the Arena, when Adira was sponsored protein gel and sunscreen. The next day Adira was stolen and fatally mauled by a leopard before her allies could find her.

The Games continued largely at a distance from Hlenn and remaining ally Theo. Eight days into the Games Hlenn had a narrow escape when she set her foot down inside the coils of a sleeping boomslang. She carefully retreated and the reptile did not attack.

Hlenn and Theo remained in hiding until the final three, when Theo was fatally shot by Rose O'Durren of District One. Hlenn fled the Career and was able to escape due to the tall grass that covered much of the Arena. Rose continued to hunt her for another three days before they crossed paths again. During that time Rose began to feel the effects of her earlier dousing when she'd fallen into a river- coldlike symptoms and aches.

Hlenn climbed a baobab to hide from Rose in its thick foliage and take shelter in a place most Careers were not trained to climb. Rose found Hlenn the next day and set up camp at the foot of the tree, settling for siege warfare when she proved unable to climb the tree. As Hlenn looked down at the arrow Rose had shot into the tree, wondering if suicide was less painful than death by dehydration, she noticed the arrow was damp and realized the baobab tree was full of water. Rose waited for three more days, growing more and more impatient as Hlenn did not die and her own condition grew worse. Then as Hlenn looked down at Rose, who was peering up into the tree at her, Rose fell and began to convulse. Hlenn realized she was having a seizure and watched in shock and horror as Rose slowly died from the brain-eating amoeba neither of them knew had infected her. Hlenn climbed down and stood over Rose in morbid fascination as the life left her.

## Personality

Hlenn was largely unchanged by the Games because she was from early childhood fascinated by death and metaphysical matters. She enjoyed reading about legends and supernatural tales of totem animals and creatures linked to death or rebirth or other spiritual matters. She and her allies had numerous conversations about heavy matters like the souls of Careers, the genesis of the Hunger Games, and whether moral corruption was from nature or nurture. Hlenn disagreed with her more traumatized ally Theo and spoke out in sympathy for the Careers, stating she pitied their upbringing and wished they hadn't been born instead of being saddled with the lives they led. This continued on to her time as a mentor, where she guided her Tributes to the best of her ability but took comfort from knowing that their destiny was not in her hands and everyone had their own path.

## Trivia

* Hlenn is fond of all animals except house centipedes
* Hlenn does not belong to a culture with spirit animals but thinks that if she did she would have a cicada totem
* Hlenn's poetry novel *From a Seed Grown* debuted with modest success and was praised by critics for its ethereality