Tourmaline

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**TOURMALINE**

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* Broadsword (Sponsored item)
* Throwing knives (x8, stolen from Venus)
 Fate

General Knowledge regarding Tourmaline

> "You have no idea how good it feels to be a winner. And you never will."
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> - Tourmaline to Imogen. The Finale

**Tourmaline** is the main antagonist of *The Seventieth Hunger Games*. She was the female tribute from District 1 in the 70th Hunger Games, Tourmaline purposefully appears incompetent and then brutally butchers her opponents near the Games' end. She was the deadliest tribute in the arena, and Imogen Cressfall's primary adversary.

## Biography

### Early life

> "She's just as beautiful as she was on Interview Night with her pulled golden hair and fierce emerald eyes."
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> - Imogen's first impression of Tourmaline, Part One: The Arena. Chapter 1. Pg 1

Tourmaline lived in District 1 prior to the 70th Hunger Games and likely trained for the Hunger Games alongside her fellow district members. In a brief scene, Tourmaline is seen having a nightmare about the academy, strongly alluding to sexual abuse within the training grounds.

### Interview

> "-Only pulled off her Interview because the Capital was too smitten to care what came out of her mouth."
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> - Salton's thoughts on Tourmaline, Part One: The Arena. Chapter 1. Pg 1

In the novel, Imogen describes Tourmaline as playing up the angle of a "clueless sex icon". Because of her physical attributes, it can be inferred that Tourmaline seduced the Capital audiences with great success during the Interview Night.

### Cornucopia bloodbath

Tourmaline is not mentioned in the bloodbath. In fact, Salton is led to believe that Tourmaline garnered no kills within the bloodbath. She manages to secure a large, chrome-black hatchet and fastens it to her belt. She also gathers multiple water bottles once the opening carnage was over. Judging by her later displays of extreme violence, her refusal to participate in the bloodbath was most likely an act to appear less deadly than her peers.

#### Alliance

> "I know the Career Tributes, the vicious pack that'll roam the arena tonight-- I know they'll have sponsors. It'll be the tributes from Districts 1,2, and 4. Who've trained for this."
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> - Imogen's thoughts during the early stages of the Games

As is traditional in the Hunger Games, the tributes from Districts 1, 2, and 4 form an alliance before the Games even begin. This consisted of Tourmaline and Flourish from District 1, Venus and Nero from District 2, and Salton from District 4. The District 4 female, Lola, had been killed surprisingly early in the bloodbath, after fighting Agatha, the girl from District 10. However, Tourmaline later kills both Nero and Venus, as well as indirectly killing Flourish, permanently severing the alliance for the remaining duration of the Games.

#### First night

> "You know, I have to say they set us up with quite a treat this year. All the weapons… Real nice, don't you think?"
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> - Tourmaline to Salton

On the first night of the Games, the Careers, as well as the other competitors, are greeted with a heavy downpour. This rain stops the Careers from engaging in their usual nightly hunts and affords everyone within the arena one night of pure sleep. Tourmaline uses this time to get close to Salton, who is at first hesitant to talk to her, but later opens up after seeing his district partner (Lola) in that night's death tally.

#### The Forest Trap

**Tourmaline**: *"Let me have her! It's only fair!"*
**Venus**: *"In your dreams, One! She's all mine."*
*—Tourmaline and Venus having found a trapped Imogen.*

Two days into the Games, after first killing the District Six boy in the early hours of the morning, the Careers decide to split up. Salton, Venus, and Tourmaline construct a trap which eventually seizes Imogen. She manages to cut free just as the 3 Careers find her. After a short chase, Salton severely wounds imogen but fails to kill her. Rather, after watching her tumble down into the river, he and the two girls decide the river's strong current will kill Imogen. When the nightly toll comes up, the Careers realize Imogen survived. They promise one another to never bring it up, as their failure to kill a comparatively weak tribute may anger Nero and Flourish enough to kill them.

#### Venus

> "The girl from 10 is still out there. I know we're stronger together. But once the field is narrowed down, I kill her."
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> - Venus on Tourmaline

From the onset of the Games, it's very clear that Tourmaline is resented by her alliance for her seeming inability to fight competently. Venus, however, appears to loathe Tourmaline, even going as far as to threaten her life on multiple occasions. Tourmaline exploits this hatred, playing further into Venus's false perception of her. This culminates on day 3, when Venus pulls a large knife on Tourmaline, threatening to rip her throat out. It takes Nero, Flourish, and Salton to diffuse the situation. Later on, Venus swears to kill Tourmaline when the time is right, and is insistent that she do it. No one else.

#### Salton

> "You- You make this place not so bad, y'know?"
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> - Salton to Tourmaline

Despite insisting on keeping Tourmaline at an arm's length from himself, Salton finds himself growing closer to her. It is unclear if romantic emotions for Salton developed within Tourmaline, but she's observed being genuine with him on many occasions. On Day 5, before the Careers attacked Agatha, Tourmaline made a meal for Salton of bread, cheese, and fish. Despite being famished, Salton insisted she eat a portion of the food she made him. On day 7, Tourmaline wakes up after a nightmare about her time within the academy. Salton is on watch, and allows her to sit beside him until she manages to doze off again. Salton repeatedly rejects Tourmaline's sexual advances, despite clearly being physically attracted to her, so it is unclear if he was romantically interested in her or perhaps even wanting love beyond the physical body. Tourmaline spares Salton's life once she kills the other remaining Careers, and later suffers a mental breakdown at the thought of killing him to go home.

#### The Feast

> "And soon, the whole world is ablaze."
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> - Salton's thoughts during the feast

During the feast, the Careers return to the Cornucopia to retrieve the feast's gifts. Unbeknownst to them, Kyberia and Faraday, the tributes from District 3, have booby trapped the entrance of the Cornucopia. As they predict, the Careers walk right into the trap and are all blown back with various states of bodily harm. The residual shocks ignite the grasses around them, turning the Cornucopia crater into a bowl of fire. Tourmaline is the least affected, having only sustained easily quelled burns on her legs. Because of this, she chases and kills Kyberia and Faraday within the fiery Cornucopia. She is readying to kill Imogen and Eden, but she's tackled to the ground by Agatha. Agatha very nearly kills Tourmaline, but she's saved by Nero, who wrestles with Agatha and eventually kills her by throwing her into the fire.

By this time, Imogen and Eden have gotten their backpacks and rush through a gap in the fire, sustaining bad burns but keeping their lives. The Careers are in a bad shape after this, especially Flourish, who's arm was seared almost to the muscle tissue. They decide to rest, being in no shape to chase down their adversaries.

#### Ending The Alliance

**Nero:** *"Yeah. The Jewel-Staff?"*
**Flourish:** *"Jewel-Staff? I've never seen such a thing."*
*—Nero to Flourish, seconds before his death*
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While on the nightly watch, Tourmaline receives a sponsored item. It looks to be a strangely decorated staff about 3 feet long. When questioned by Venus, Tourmaline states that the item is a "jewel-staff", and that it was a customary item at home (District 1). Near early morning, when the rest of the Career tributes are awake, Nero asks Tourmaline if he can see her staff. This causes Flourish to inquire about the staff, saying he's never once seen or heard about a jewel-staff before. Before Nero can piece it together, he's impaled and killed by Tourmaline, who's staff was in fact a broadsword in a disguised sheath. The rest of the Careers (Flourish, Venus, and Salton), realize that Tourmaline was far deadlier than she let on. This causes a brief but violent fight in which Tourmaline throws Flourish off of a cliff. Unbeknownst to her (or perhaps she didn't care), Flourish wasn't yet dead, instead crippled at the base of the cliff. Venus and Salton fight Tourmaline, but Venus is killed soon after this decision (decapitation). Tourmaline spares Salton's life due to him having been nice to her in the past and leaves to hunt the remaining tributes.

#### Death

"*No tribute ever had a better ally.*"
- Eden to Imogen.
On the last day of the Games, ram-like muttations appear out of nowhere, chasing a bloodied and beaten Tourmaline out of the woods. From the state of her, she would've been already fighting and killing many of the monsters for hours. Imogen and Eden were being chased by their own ram-mutts during this time, and see Tourmaline running too.

The 3 run together, in clear view of the other, and scale the mountains. The three tributes are all visibly tired and battered, though Tourmaline more-so than Eden and Imogen. By the time they make it up to relative safety, Tourmaline holds up.a hand, calling for a moment of breath. The 3 tributes collapse on their backs or sides, trying to nurse themselves back into fighting one another.

   Imogen notices Tourmaline's breath stabilizing, and when she's turned around, Tourmaline has begun to charge at her. She's tackled by Eden, affording Imogen time to get up. The battle becomes a 2 v 1 fight, in which Eden and Imogen wield a machete and knife respectively. Tourmaline, despite only having a dull machete, displays the clear gap in skill by fighting both tributes for over an hour. Because of the riot vest she was given at the feast, Imogen and Eden both have trouble scoring lethal hits on Tourmaline.

Eventually, Tourmaline throws Imogen the same way she threw Flourish days before. She nearly careens off the mountain but is caught at the knick of time by Eden. He manages to pull her up, but when he turns, he's struck in the chest by the machete Tourmaline threw. Imogen screams and he tries to shield her from Tourmaline, walking towards her with his knife drawn. Tourmaline picks up another machete (the one Eden dropped to save Imogen), and throws it at Eden. This one finally makes him kneel. Imogen, so beyond caring about the danger Tourmaline poses, runs to try and help Eden. She sobs and begs him to stay alive, but after a few heartfelt words, he dies.

Imogen's grief turns to anger, and all of it is directed at Tourmaline. She throws Eden's corpse off of the mountain so both machetes are gone. The two girls fight barehanded. Tourmaline is stronger and more skilled, but she's losing blood from her run-in with the mutts. Imogen is weaker but she's fueled almost entirely by bloodlust. The girls wrestle each-other off the mountain, falling several feet to land painfully on another, far thinner ledge. Tourmaline manages to break Imogen's leg, but Imogen bites off many of Tourmaline's fingers in the process.

Tourmaline chucks Imogen off of the ledge, but Imogen manages to cling on and grab Tourmaline by the ankle, tossing her off. Due to the lacking fingers, Tourmaline is unable to find purchase on the ledge and she falls several meters, hitting sharp rocks on the way down, until she finally tumbles down the mountain and into the jaws of the ram-mutts. Tourmaline screams and begins to cry as the mutts close in and subsequently attack. As Imogen watches the mutts rip Tourmaline apart, her anger fades and she realizes that Tourmaline most definitely has a family watching their daughter die one of the worst deaths known to mankind.

The rams purposefully avoid vitals, instead gnawing off her limbs. Tourmaline is by now too weak to scream, instead staring blankly into the sky as she's chewed to pieces. Imogen uses her remaining strength to roll a stone off the ledge. It misses Tourmaline but scares off the mutts briefly. She rolls a second stone and it tumbles down fast, crushing Tourmaline's skull, killing her instantly.

Tourmaline placed Second out of 24 tributes.

## Physical appearance

> "Maybe it was that Tourmaline was our best bet at a sponsor. With her flowing sea of golden hair and lush hips."
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> - Salton's thoughts on Tourmaline's physical appearance

Tourmaline is considered by many, both tribute and Capital alike, to be the most attractive girl for that year. She's described as tall, with emerald green eyes and curly blond hair. Her body is described, most extensively by Salton, as athletic and powerful but curvy as well. Tourmaline was well aware of the effect she had on her peers, and often used her body to get sponsors during the Games.

## Personality and traits

Having been raised in District 1, a district with strong ties to the Capitol and general enthusiasm for the Hunger Games, Tourmaline is lethal, bloodthirsty, and extremely violent. She displays excellent battle-prowess, more-so than the average Career (seen when she kills Nero, Flourish, and Venus with relative ease), and a sadistic, maniacal nature with her victims (taunting the District 8 girl. Destroying Venus's morale before killing her). However, she's also far smarter than the average Career, having kept up the 'pretty and useless' act for nearly the entirety of the Games.

## Possessions

> "A jewel-staff. Just a gift from home."
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> - Tourmaline to Salton

At the onset of the Games, Tourmaline has access to almost every resource, as Careers traditionally hold control over the Cornucopia supplies. Known possessions of the Careers include food, water, medicine, night vision glasses, and weapons of all sorts. Tourmaline specifically carries a hatchet with her for most of the Hunger Games. While not nearly as good with it as a sword, Tourmaline is still reasonably deadly with the weapon and uses it to kill both tributes from District 3.

Tourmaline is later awarded a bullet-proof vest at the feast. It covered her entire torso in hard-packed, durable material that could stand many punctures and slashes, even when hit with rather large blades. Additionally, the vest sported shoulder cups, thereby allowing Tourmaline additional strength during a hand-to-hand fight. Later on, Tourmaline is given a sponsored broadsword, the weapon she is best with wielding, and uses it to kill off her allies, with the only exception being Salton.

## Victims

"*You were nice to me. Don't ever let me see you again.*"
- Tourmaline to Salton
#### Tributes

Tourmaline makes 5 confirmed kills: Kyberia (3), Faraday (3), Venus (2), Nero (2), and Eden (10).

#### Methods

Tourmaline is extremely well versed in swordsmanship and displays this most presently when she battles Venus. Despite her slight frame, Tourmaline houses immense physical power. She uses this strength to kill Kyberia and Faraday, however it is clearest in the finale, when Tourmaline beats Imogen within an inch of her life.

Tourmaline uses a variety of weapons to dispose of her enemies. The most notable are the hatchet she got from the cornucopia and the sponsored broadsword.

## Trivia

* Tourmaline survived 20 days in the arena.
* Tourmaline's full name is Tourmaline Paris CruLaveen
* Tourmaline is 5'7" and weighs 155lbs.
* In the beginning of the Games, Tourmaline's odds of winning are 30-1. After she kills her allies, they become 4-1.
* Tourmaline had 4 younger sisters. She volunteered to show them that they could win the Hunger Games too.
* Tourmaline's family wasn't financially secure. When Salton asks, it is revealed that Tourmaline's family couldn't pay their way into the Career Training Academy the way Flourish's family could. This implies Tourmaline may have used the money earned from winning the Hunger Games to help her family.
* Tourmaline's favorite flowers were carnations.