Rosemary Edith

### Allies

Baron Rickshaw, Techna Electrabrook, Fawn Daytide, Twyla Venusare, Pandora Moonside, Ivy Starvale, Visio Lowrock, Cane Speck, Devin Lennox, Mel Holstein, Opal Essents

### Enemies

Dylan Redlake, Cora Redlake, Raven Galloperith, Garrison Ashcreek, Silver Lockwater, Amethyst Steelpetal

## Relationships

### Family

* Maine Edith (Father) †
* Samantha Edith (Mother) †
* Lucinda Edith (Older Sister) †
* Vinnie Edith (Younger Sister) †
* Rye Edith (Younger Brother) †
* Devin Lennox (Husband)
* Damien Lennox (Son) †
* Jenny Lennox (Daughter)
* Waverly Lennox (Daughter)
* Derrick Lennox (Father-in-Law) †
* April Lennox (Mother-in-Law) †
* Lacey Lennox (Sister-in-Law) †
* Lucy Lennox (Sister-in-Law) †
* Harvey Lennox (Brother-in-Law) †
* Lily Lennox (Sister-in-Law)
* Hannah Lennox (Sister-in-Law) †

### Love Interests

* Devin Lennox (Husband/In-Love With)
* Baron Rickshaw (Romantic Interest/Kissed; Former)

## Appearance

### Hair Color

* Dark Brown (Natural; Former)
* White (Dyed; Current)

### Skin Color

* Brown (Natural; Former)
* Dark Olive (Bleached; Current)

**Rosemary Lennox (née Edith)** was a girl from district 10, who won the 53rd Hunger Games at 16 years old. Due to her good looks, charisma, and her brutal kills in the games, she quickly became a Capital favorite after the fact. Her success after the games was also due to her highly publicized relationship and subsequent marriage to her mentor and fellow district 10 winner, Devin Lennox. After the games, she served as a mentor with her husband, and eventually mentored her own daughter, Waverly, when she was reaped into the 72nd Hunger Games, later winning.

In the 75th Hunger Games, Rosemary volunteered as tribute in place of her daughter, Waverly, and was sent back into the games with her husband. The two were the only husband and wife pairing in the Games. Rosemary and Devin escaped the arena and were rescued by district 13, and later survived the Second Rebellion with two of their three children.

## Biography

### Life Before the Games

Rosemary Edith was born in district 10, to the upper-middle class Edith family. She lived on a small ranch with her parents, Maine and Samantha, and her three siblings; Lucinda, Vinnie, and Rye. Her mother, Samantha, came from a wealthy background, and she had some connection to the district 10 mayor and his family. The family owned and operated the Edith Family Ranch, as well as the slaughterhouse, of which many people in town worked at.

From a young age, Rosemary worked with her siblings and other district 10 children on the ranch, and she was often tasked with milking cows and goats, and also with churning milk and butter, a task that she often described as hard and painful. However, the hard work gave her a lot of muscle and strength, and from a young age she could carry the equipment and supplies very easily, for long periods of walking.

Starting when she was around 12, her father had her begin work at the slaughterhouse. At first, she hated this new line of work, as the cows and pigs she slaughtered were raised and cared for by her family, and her and her siblings were the ones tasked with feeding and caring for them. However, she soon became apathetic to the line of work, due to struggles with her personal and home life. That same year, she was traumatized after witnessing the aftermath of one of her coworkers, who was her age, stealing a slab of meat to feed his family. The boy was caught and shot by peacekeepers, which was witnessed by Rosemary. She later suffered nightmares and was traumatized by the incident.

Rosemary didn't have many friends, in spite of her cheerful, bubbly, and likable personality. She was described as friendly and easygoing, and was good at training new employees, a characteristic similar to her father, Maine, with whom she was very close to. Her home life was rough due to the financial hardships her family faced as she got older. Her parents would argue about not having enough to eat, and also struggled to care for her older sister, Lucinda, who had odd behavior and was extremely lacking in social skills.

As they got older, Rosemary frequently accompanied her younger sister, Bovina (nicknamed Vinnie) to the marketplace every Sunday. During these frequent market trips, Vinnie would make a habit to flirt with both the sellers and the customers that came to her mother's stand. This habit annoyed and entertained Rosemary, who, despite being flirted with, was rather awkward and insecure. One of the boys that would frequently flirt with both Rosemary and Vinnie was a boy named Baron, whose sister was friends with Vinnie. Rosemary thought Baron was cute, but was also repulsed by his flirtatious and carefree nature.

#### The 50th Hunger Games

When Rosemary was 13 years old, it was the Second Quarter Quell, during which twice the number of tributes were reaped. Since the family were well-off enough to not need to take out any tesserae, she was not particularly worried about her chances of being reaped. However, of course, this all changed when, to her horror, Lucinda was reaped. Lucinda's best and only real friend, Henrietta Romney, became the first volunteer of district 10, when she volunteered in her place.

During the games, Henrietta did significantly better than anyone originally thought she would have done, since she came from one of the poorer, less athletic districts. However, this all changed on the sixth day, when the District 1 female, Eveline Starfire, speared her directly through the neck, for the entire nation to see. Her brutal death and the equally brutal aftermath of it was witnessed by everyone, including Lucinda. Following Henrietta's death, Lucinda was traumatized. She alternated between having very uncontrollable meltdowns and tantrums, to being in a near-catatonic state, sitting by the window and not speaking or acting like she was aware of her surroundings.

Rosemary's mental state was further deteriorated after the Games. The stress she was under was made worse, as her father had to work later hours due to her mother having to abandon the marketplace post to care for Lucinda all the time. Rosemary had to pick up more shifts at the slaughterhouse, and also had to spend her off-time working more at her mother's old post, with Vinnie. When she was able to go home, it was often tense, as Samantha seemed to only care about Lucinda and her well-being, and put a lot of pressure on Rosemary to work for both her and her sister. Maine wasn't home as much to comfort or care for his children, and this eventually led to Rosemary having to babysit her brother and sister, needing to get them ready for school, get them ready for bed, and otherwise care for them since their parents weren't able to anymore.

## The 53rd Hunger Games

### Before the Games

##### The Reaping

Rosemary was indifferent to the reaping, as she had been every year. She was not particularly worried, as she did not have much tesserae taken out in her name, and also had a lot of strength from working in the slaughterhouse and the ranch. Still, Rosemary tried to comfort Vinnie and Rye, due to their obvious fear. She was also tasked with getting them dressed and making sure they all made it to the town square on time.

During the reaping, Lucinda was reaped, at 18 years old, for the second time. In that moment, all of her pent-up anger and bitterness to her sister and to her parents dissipated, as she knew there was no chance Lucinda would ever survive or not get murdered instantly. "Without thinking" Rosemary volunteered in place of her sister, which caused her to suffer a very public meltdown and required her parents having to drag her home. This action made Rosemary the second volunteer for District 10, and also made Lucinda the only known person to be reaped twice (before the Second Quarter Quell).

Rosemary said goodbye to just Vinnie and Rye. When she asked her siblings where their parents were, they informed them that they had to take Lucinda home. Not wanting to cry in front of her brother and sister, after the two left, Rosemary broke down in tears and felt emotion for the first time about the whole thing, angry and depressed that her parents might not ever see her again, because of Lucinda's mental illness.

##### Arrival in the Capital and Chariot Parade

Rosemary was generally annoyed and indifferent by the attitude of Opal Essents, the district 10 Capital escort, and found her lack of understanding and compassion to be off-putting. She was instantly turned on to Devin, hearing him tell her off during the train ride. Rosemary liked both Devin and Melissa "Mel" Holstein, her other mentor. Rosemary was also slightly put off by Baron, whom was her district partner. She found his arrogance and never-ending flirtatious attitude to be annoying. Devin liked Rosemary from the beginning, and watched some of the reaping highlights with her, during the night when she couldn't sleep.

After arriving in the Capital, Rosemary was introduced to her stylist, Antoni, who had her styled in the typical "cowgirl" styled costume. Before she was sent to Antoni, Rosemary's stylist team made the controversial decision to forcibly bleach her black, curly hair, turning it white. They also bleached her skin, lightening her complexion, to make her complexion more "ambiguous" to the Capital, and to apparently get people talking about her. Her hair was styled in cornrows and then in braids, two styles she would use for the remainder of her time in the Capital. She felt stupid and commented on this, and several tributes, especially Amethyst Steelpetal, the district 1 female, Cora Redlake, the district 4 female, and Raven Galloperith, the district 6 female, who all laughed at her and were seen gossiping about her tacky-looking costume. After arriving in the Capital, Rosemary seemed to grow even closer to Devin. He seemed to be her voice of reason, and she would vent all of her pent-up frustrations to him.

##### Training and Interviews

During training, Rosemary reluctantly tried to stick with Baron, sensing that he was being genuine about his desire to be friends. Rosemary mostly focused on training with knife-throwing, though she secretly hoped that there would be a sickle in the arena, as she was very familiar with the instrument due to her job as a slaughterer back home.

Rosemary and Baron were approached by Techna Electrabrook, the district 3 female, during the third day of training, and she asked the two to form an alliance, explaining she was already in an alliance with her district partner, Visio Lowrock, and several others; Fawn Daytide, the district 2 female, and the two district 7 tributes, Ivy Starvale and Cane Speck. On the fourth day, the group also added Twyla Venusare, the district 8 female, and her partner, Lee Reneburg. Baron was more eager to join, while Rosemary was hesitant, only starting to trust them more when she was informed that they weren't the "blood-lusting" type.

During her private session, Rosemary impressed the gamemakers by hitting targets from all the way across the room, with a knife. She further impressed the, by explaining how easy it could be to kill something with a sickle. Afterwards, her odds of winning were a somewhat promising 9-1, and she was given a good score of 8. Despite doing well, this led to her and Devin getting into an extremely loud argument, which subsequently led to him angrily confessing his feelings for her and kissing her. This interaction was interrupted by Opal informing them that they needed to leave to prepare for the interviews.

Rosemary was dressed in a red rose-petal dress, and this time no one laughed at her look, and her hair was styled in very intricate waves. During her interview with Caesar Flickerman, she garnered a lot of sympathy by the Capital citizens and the other districts, due to how candidly she talked about her homelife and her mentally disabled sister. As her interview progressed, Caesar caught her off guard by asking about her relationship with Devin. Looking to him from the sidelines, she realized she would have an angle and be remembered more, and so she spoke candidly about how her and Devin had fallen in love during her time in the Capital. While this wasn't entirely true (yet) she was unknowingly being honest about her feelings for him.

Backstage, after the interviews, it was rather tense. Opal, Baron, and Mel later left and went back to their floor first, allowing the two time to talk it out. However, after the elevator doors closed, Devin couldn't keep his hands off of her and the two made out in the elevator. Once they arrived back to their floor, the group had dinner, and Rosemary spoke candidly with Devin, promising to try her hardest for him.

### The Games

During the Cornucopia Bloodbath, Rosemary managed to grab a backpack. She saw a sickle inside the cornucopia, but didn't try to obtain it. As she saw some of her allies escape quickly into the forest, she began to run as well, before witnessing Cora and her twin brother and district partner, Dylan Redlake, torturing the young district 5 female, Pandora Moonside, with a knife. Feeling sudden rage, she managed to push the two away from her, rescuing Pandora and almost losing her life in the process. After this, this cemented Dylan and Cora's hatred for Rosemary, and led to a bitter rivalry between their alliance and Rosemary's.

Rosemary and Pandora reunited later that day with Techna, Visio, Fawn, Ivy, Cane, Twyla, and Baron. They were informed of Lee's death at the hands of a knife. Baron was extremely happy to find out that Rosemary was alive, and was worried when he saw her go after Dylan and Cora. Twyla, Lee's district partner, was crying and clearly shaken up, as she explained that his death came out of nowhere, while he was standing next to her. She then explained it was done by the district 4 male (Dylan). At that moment, Rosemary promised they would get revenge. Rosemary also comforted Pandora, and she, Fawn, and Cane helped clean the wounds from Dylan's knife, on her face.

The next day, while out hunting and scavenging, the group, split up, was alerted by Ivy's screams. Following the noise, they found that Cane was dead with an arrow through his neck, which indicated it came from Dylan or Cora. Ivy ran away, and was eventually found, hiding in a cave, by Techna and Rosemary. That night, the group bonded, telling stories from back home, mostly about their lives and their families, and obviously several of them were intrigued by Rosemary's relationship with Lucinda. Rosemary, knowing her family would see the tape, lied about her love for Lucinda, but spoke candidly about the feeling that she wasn't good enough and that her parents had replaced her with her sister.

## Relationships

### Maine and Samantha Edith (Parents)

Rosemary was the second child and second oldest daughter of Maine and Samantha Edith. From her early childhood, her relationship with her parents, especially her mother, was not in the best place, due to her parents having to constantly care for her disabled sister, Lucinda, instead of her.

### Lucinda Edith (Older Sister)

Rosemary and Lucinda had a complicated relationship when they were younger. As a child living in terrible life circumstances, Rosemary was ill-informed of why Lucinda was so “weird”. For a while, she believed her sister was just shy and weird and was even embarassed of her lack of social skills.

Following the 50th Hunger Games, during which Lucinda was traumatized by the death of her best friend, Henrietta, Lucinda’s “weird” behavior got worse. Rosemary rotated between feeling apathetic to her sister, to feeling angry and embarassed and extremely stressed out.

A big reason for Rosemary’s supposed “hatred” of her sister was obviously because she was stressed out and not educated on her disabilities. Rosemary’s parents made a point to shelter Lucinda’s condition and the severity of it from Rosemary and her siblings when they were kids, and this only led to more confusion and more belief that Lucinda was exaggerating on purpose. Lucinda was also coddled by their parents, and this obviously hurt Rosemary as she both had to be a caregiver and provider for her siblings when she herself was a young child, and also meant her parents, especially her mother, out high expectations on her to work harder and took their frustrations out on her as she was considered the oldest child (despite the actual oldest being Lucinda). Rosemary, as a child does, took her resentment and frustration from this situation and directed it at the wrong person (Lucinda).

Rosemary often tried to downplay her love for her sister, both before and during the Games. She often faced inner turmoil over these feelings, and was almost embarassed whenever someone would point out that, she could say she didn’t love Lucinda, but her actions spoke the truth. This is seen in how Rosemary apparently got beaten severely by a group of bullies after she stood up for her sister, knowing they were stronger than she was. This love is also seen in how she volunteered for Lucinda, and did so “without thinking.”

During her time before and during the Games, Rosemary realizes how much she does love and miss her sister, and hates herself for taking all of her aggression out on her. She makes a mental note early on to survive for Lucinda, saying she doesn’t have a choice, and that she “doesn’t want [Lucinda] to lose another person.”