Sage Hopewell

district two female for luke's games should the limit of characters per user be raised

update: nick reserved this spot so i will most likely rework her into a male from one named burnish able

UPDATE: tyler swooped in and that character was scrapped so sage might be completed one day who knows

**Name**: Sage Hopewell

**Age**: 18

**District**: Two

**Gender**: Female

**Personality**:

**Backstory**:

* Born to quite the demanding parents, both of which happened to be avid supporters of the Capitol.

* Was encouraged to watch the Hunger Games from a very young age.

* She grew accustomed to the brutality overtime, but never quite cared for the spectacle in the way her parents did.
* Her performance in an academic setting was plain disastrous, which her parents brought up in order to put her down quite often.

* She showed no signs of improvement overtime, which led to a great deal of insecurity with the addition of her parents' vitriol.

* Learned she was dyslexic from one of her teachers, quite possibly the first one to ever care to try and actually help her out in any way.

* Assuming there was no way she would succeed when it came to school, her parents were quick to suggest she veer off her present course and put some thought into becoming part of one of the many training academies scattered around the District.

* Eager to please her parents and believing there was nothing else she could excel at due to the insecurities that had come to plague her during the past years of her life, she agreed without much deliberation and started her journey as a Career at the age of eleven.

* Her first year at the academy was brutal, but she was whipped into prime shape quite quickly and showed a great deal of promise in the eyes of many of her instructors.

* Content with her newfound confidence and the positive feedback she had been receiving for the first time ever in her life, she broke protocol and tried to volunteer at twelve, being passed up by the escort in favor of the academy's pick, an eighteen year old girl.

* Quite content with the newfound confidence the positive feedback had given her, something she was not at all used to, she broke protocol and attempted to volunteer during her first Reaping ceremony, being passed up by the escort in favor of an older girl that had been handpicked by her academy.

* She was beaten up pretty bad by a group of girls the following morning at the academy, they had claimed she had been mistaken for thinking she was special and needed to be taught a lesson so as to learn she's no better than the other trainees.

* Rather than reverting back to her old ways of insecurity following the incident, she used the anger that filled her as motivation and put her all into training. She turned quite obsessive, practicing overtime and even surpassing a bunch of the older kids in ranks. The anger clouded her judgment, however, and she never really lost sight of the beating.

* This proved to be very bad, for during a fit of rage, she accidentally murdered one of the girls that had jumped her during a culling match.

* Accidents of this nature were not uncommon at the academy, and she got away without any consequences more grave than the vitriol of some of the kids the girl had been friends with in life. Nonetheless, the toll the incident took on her was far more severe than any of the words directed at her, and for the first time she was truly faced with what awaited her should she keep walking down this path.

* This troubled her to an alarming degree, but alas she could not bring herself to quit as she cared too much about the approval of her parents and the possible repercussions of her stepping down. At the end of the day, no amount of praise could convince her that she was good for anything other than killing, if anything the compliments she received at the academy just reinforced this belief. In line with this, she continued training as though nothing had happened, though she was deeply regretful of what she had done.

* Turned quite robotic when it came to the fashion in which she trained, trying to distance herself as far as she could from her own emotions in order to achieve good results. She maintained a record winning streak in her next culling matches, growing to be the star pupil of the academy and pegged as an emotionless killing machine, something that was not completely true.

* Nonetheless, she mastered all one possibly could with the limited resources of the academy throughout the seven years she spent there, and ranked first within the females by the time she was sixteen.

* She was able to defend her position and not fall more than once or twice for the next two years, being picked by the academy to volunteer at the age of eighteen, which she did along with a couple of girls from other academies. Nonetheless, she was the one picked.

* Looking forward to winning and proving that she is indeed good for something, she will stop at nothing in order to emerge from the arena victorious, although her newfound distance from her parents and the expectations that weighed down on her at the academy could influence quite the eventful journey of growth for Sage as she comes into her own and realizes that her real desires and aspirations may not exactly line up with the expectations of those she had been mindlessly trying to please, all with the Hunger Games as backdrop for her internal turmoil.

**Mannerisms**: Beneath her inexpressive exterior, Sage is quite an intricate individual. Truth to be told, when she is not pushing herself to the limit at the academy, she rather enjoys poetry. Being unable to read and write, she has one of her few friends recite off a book for her, something that seems to calm her more than anything else. She can even be heard mumbling some of her own creations to herself when unable to fall asleep, and should she emerge as the winner during the Games, one of her first investments would be private tutoring tailored to her dyslexia, which would hopefully allow her to overcome her illiteracy, which is not only a source of embarrassment for her but also keeps her from documenting her own craft and seeking out the works of other poets. One of the biggest sources of fear for Sage is that, even though she has all her treasured works memorized, her inability to lay them down on paper and reluctance to relay them to her friends due to a deep-rooted fear of criticism means that all her creations die with her in the arena. Her passion of poetry is one very few people know about, however. True to character, Sage perceives it as another thing to be embarrassed over.

When it comes to her habitual gestures or way of speaking and behaving, Sage has been known to trail off from time to time, not being quite certain of what words she should choose to express herself. Furthermore, she is not at all expressive. When she is to react to something, there is a high probability of there being a two second delay, as she would be merely mimicking those around her in order to blend in. While she does feel things very intensely, the criticism she received from her parents as a child motivated her to bottle up her emotions at all times, and even though she has long since relegated those harsh words to the back of her mind, they still dictate her behavior more than she would care to admit, one of these ways manifesting as the way in which she has grown accustomed to not allowing others to catch a glimpse at how she is truly feeling.

**Height**: 5'9

**Dominant Hand**: Right-handed.

**Other Information**: Her birthday falls on the 12th of September.

**Weaponry**: Bare hands, dagger [EXPAND]

**Strengths**:

**Weaknesses**:

**Fears**: Sage is terrified of failure, a fear that would manifest in a very desperate manner should she come close to losing the Games somewhere down the line.

**Token**: Sage owns no token.