Amarana Flynn

Dr. Amarana Flynn, commonly known as Amy, is one of the Original Gamemakers and Director of Internal Affairs. She is also in charge of much of the laboratory and science research that goes into the Games, such as the genetic components of Muttations and various medicines.

## Personality and Appearance

Amarana has a small, short body as a result of her three years at Downhill, despite the lavish Capitol diet she has become accustomed to. She has shoulder-length copper hair and hazel eyes. She has a scar over her right eye from a beaker she shattered finding out about Cheese Cake’s death.

Anyone who talks to her at first would not be able to tell that she turned into one of the fiercest Gamemakers. She keeps a warm, open appearance and is caring despite the hard face she has to show on the job. No one knows the mad ideas that go on in her head to do what she does with the Mutts, but it happens.

## History

### Before and During the Dark Days

Amarana Flynn was born eight years before the Dark Days in a small town just west of what used to be called the Appalachian Mountains to basic, working class parents. As soon as she could read, she spent whatever free time she could looking through books from the library and school. She spent her childhood watching stories play out colorfully around her. As she got older, she switched to non-fiction books, and would spend countless hours learning about whatever she could. It was her safe place as the Dark Days slowly crept into her little corner. For the first two years, she was blissfully ignorant to the war outside her town.

During a clash between the Capitol and rebel forces, her town was burned to the ground. While she tried to pull her smoke-dazed parents from her house, it collapsed, killing them and burning much of her lower body. A man by which she only knew as "Sir" who ran a home for the girls, called Downhill, found her body and brought her to the home in District 6. After a few weeks of recovery, she was subjected to the abusive household with two other girls, Raelynn and Annalise, and a German Shepherd, Blu. For the next three years, she was stripped of almost everything that made Flynn herself. As the war began to slow down, and District 13 was destroyed, what little mentally intact part she still had made the decision to get to the Capitol before the outside world got any different.

On a day that President Casca Highbottom was to be in District 6, Flynn decided to get his attention by burning Downhill to the ground. It was a stupid decision, but she thought that she could spin it into a desirable trait of being ruthless. After telling Raelynn and Annalise her plan, Flynn dropped the lit match into the furnace. The plan, however, went awry, causing Raelynn, Annalise, and Blu to die along with Sir as the building went up in flames. She did catch the eye of the President, but, instead of seeing a strong fighter like she intended, he saw a poster child for the harm of rebellion, thinking that angry rebels burned the house down instead of her, explaining her incessant sobbing. He had some of his advisors arrange for her to be sent to the Capitol to work as a bookkeeper in the weapons department.

### During the Year of Martial Law

While President Highbottom worked on fully bringing the Districts under Capitol rule, Flynn organized, counted, and ordered weapons for the droves of Peacekeeper forces being drafted. She took mental note of everything that was being used and wrote ideas of how to improve the weapons and make them more efficient. She snuck into her supervisor’s office and routinely sent anonymous reports to the manufacturing division. When they stopped following her ideas, she began to send them straight to the President. The incoming details for weapons that outgunned the current Peacekeeper forces were a huge security threat in his eyes, so he immediately had the situation investigated, ultimately finding Flynn as the culprit. She was given two hours to persuade him that she was not a rebel and that her ideas were valuable to him. Only the President, Flynn, and three Avoxed guards were in the room where it happened. No one knows what Flynn presented. It is only known that she walked out of the room with her life and a “in-training” title.