Zella Vale

black market ringleader (while in thirteen)

idk about the capitol come back later

Rowan Vale (father, deceased)

Originally from District Nine, Zella Vale was the daughter of two wheat farmers, and older sister to June Vale. After losing her parents to disease and her sister to the Hunger Games, she joins the rebellion in District Thirteen, only to leave them a few years later for the glitz and schedule-less glamour of the Capitol.

## Early Life

### Marilla and Rowan Vale

Marilla Aegis had big ambitions. She attended the Academy, but never wanted to volunteer for the Hunger Games. She didn't want the fame or attention that came with being a career. She wanted to protect Panem, so she went on to become a Peacekeeper. She was assigned first to District Nine, and though she had plans of proving herself and getting a coveted spot as head Peacekeeper, that all changed when she met Rowan.

Rowan Vale grew up in a large family, farming wheat. He shared the chores with his parents, three older brothers, older sister, as well as two younger siblings- a sister and a brother. They made enough to get by without wanting for much, which was more to say than much of the district's citizens. However, after a harsh winter, their family of nine dwindled to a family of seven. He lost both younger siblings to pneumonia. As they grew older, he lost more- his parents to old age, his sister married and moved away, one older brother in a farming accident, the other to disease. But, after all that loss, he also found Marilla.

After several months of seeing each other in secret, Rowan proposed, and the two were married in the Vale family's farm. Using Marilla's earnings as a peacekeeper, they bought their own house near the market. Rowan continued to work on the family's farm, which had since been inherited by his living brother. Marilla returned to her work as a peacekeeper, until finding out she was pregnant with their first child.

Marilla had drifted apart from the Capitol and their ideals considerably since moving away. After seeing and living among the citizens, and seeing how they suffered, she decided she could no longer support or work for them. With her pregnancy and maternity leave as an excuse, she puts in a leave of absence- one she never returns from. She has Zella, and three years later, she has another baby girl, June. Now a family of four, the Vales continue on with typical life as citizens of District Nine.

### Childhood

Zella and June had a normal, happy childhood, filled with stories and laughter, and parents who made sure they were always well fed and tucked in to bed with a kiss goodnight. They were too young to realize the sacrifices their parents made to keep them contented, like Marilla eventually taking a job on the Vale farm, or how tensions grew between Marilla and the Peacekeepers she used to work with as the years went on.

The sisters were extremely close as children, and it was rare to find one without the other far behind. Zella was often dragged into June's games, and June was frequently found listening to Zella read or begging her to style her hair. Their parents taught them everything they knew- how to plant, harvest, and cook. Her mother taught them what she had learned in training in District Two, including first aid, survival skills, and how to shoot, but only in the privacy of their own home. Their father passed on skills learned from running a farm. Both ingrained just a little rebellion, in their girls, stressing just how wrong what the Capitol did was.

Their happy childhood came abruptly to halt, when a fire destroyed the Vale's farm, killing Rowan's brother and sister-in-law in the destruction. Though it was ruled accidental, the Vales suspected it was retaliation Marilla's suspected ties to the rebellion. Winter came again, and with it came sickness, one that infected all of Zella's family, besides her. With no income to support them, they could hardly get the medical care they needed, and both Rowan and Marilla passed away.

At the age of fourteen, Zella buried their mother and father, and became the sole guardian of her sister.

### Adolescence

Following her parent's deaths, Zella dropped out of school, and took an available position at a grain processing plant. While not particularly worried about their living situation, she knew food and medicine were expensive, and they wouldn't make it through the winter without a source of income. In the process of trying to care for and keep some sense of normalcy for her sister, she found herself more and more isolated from her friends.

Keeping the family afloat proved harder than anticipated, and a year after their parents deaths, Zella found herself struggling in the same way her parents had. With no other choice, she picked up her mother’s bow and arrow, re-familiarized herself with the weapon, and began to hunt illegally near her family’s former farm. When she hunted more than she needed, she learned about the thriving black market, and began trading extra meat, in addition to grain stolen from her workplace there.

Because of the black market, they were able to survive winters when work wasn’t abundant. Even that occasionally failed to pull enough, especially in times when peacekeepers were more thorough with their work. June dropped out for a farmhand job at the age of fifteen, despite Zella’s protests. The two of them found their footing, working, trading, and saving what they could, in hopes that they could make enough to leave District Nine, and find the rebellion their mother whispered stories of.

During this time, Zella was extremely lonely and many of her bad coping mechanisms and habits she developed to deal carried on into adulthood. She discovered her parents liquor cabinet, and relied on alcohol when things became too overwhelming to deal with. She also began to repress her emotions, refuse to ask for help, and took on an over-confidant attitude to keep up the facade that she was keeping things entirely under control.

### June's Death

Zella was nineteen, just barely out of eligibility for the sixty-eighth Hunger Games, when June was reaped. With no volunteers, and little training, both sisters knew the train station would be the last time they saw each other. During their tearful goodbyes, June gives Zella their mother's ring, and they head separate ways.

While Zella watched from home, June goes through the games, dressed in gold for the tribute parade and the interviews. The Capitol seemed to like her, and she scores a six in her training, but Zella refused to hope for anything. In the games, June formed an alliance with her district partner, a tribute from Seven and both from Eleven. She made it four days, before being killed by the pack of career tributes. After that, she rooted for the boy from their district, hoping one of June's friends would return if she couldn't, but he is eventually killed as well.

Zella did not deal with the loss well. She turned to drinking the first night of the games, and further isolated herself from anyone who wanted to check on her, only making an exception for Cora Cane. She skipped the entire week of work, and after, when she did return, she was often hungover, drunk, or extremely late. She spent both her and her sister's savings on alcohol, gave up any hope of ever leaving District Nine, and did the bare minimum to keep herself alive. She stopped hunting and selling on the black market, as her wages were now enough to afford food and liquor, which she felt was all she needed. From that day foreword, she hardly talked about June or her death, and she probably hasn't cried either.

When June's body is returned, Zella buried her next to their parents, on the land outside where the Vale farm had once stood.

## The Rebellion

idk she goes to the rebellion with Cora come back l8r

Once given a room and getting settled in, Zella began to realize how miserable she was underground. Going from drinking and doing what she wanted to having a schedule printed on her arm was a big adjustment, and not one she took extremely well. Though she was assigned to the medical wing, she missed several shifts and assigned activities, replaced alcohol with pointless hookups, and probably tried to make moonshine in her room. Eventually, someone tells her about morphling, and its usage by former tributes to keep themselves in a state of bliss.

While she does try, Zella decides the drug isn't for her- she doesn't want to feel sedated. However, she found a use for her stolen stash, and starts an entire black market. Queen shit, she's the plug come to her for ur drugs!

## Her Betrayal

### Attack on District Seven

Hearing about the attack on District Nine, and what happened there was the kick in the pants that Zella needed. She realized that in order to ever be able to return to her parents and sister's gravesites, or live in a world where kids didn't suffer the same fate as her sister, the Rebellion would need to win the war. Despite her history of slacking off and getting in trouble in District Thirteen, she was allowed to go (though she figured it was mostly because they needed fighters). For the first time in a long time, she picked up a bow and arrow, and left the underground confines of the district.

She was sent to the factories, where her group encounters a group of Capitol citizens, including Aella. After arguing with Mika, Zella is sick and tired of her talking so she shoots her. And then she gets beat up I guess and decides to fight on the other side of the war. I don't rly know luvs.

## The Aftermath

After the war, Zella is arrested, and placed on trial for her crimes against the Rebellion. Would be kinda spicy if she killed a rebel and it was serious so rebels hmu if u wanna die or be severely wounded that might be hot. Under Cora's insistence, she claims the Capitol was holding her against her will, and it was not her decision to abandon the Rebellion. real sexy of her. Cockroach shit.

## Relationships

### Marilla and Rowan Vale

Her parents and they're hoes who just died on her. Rude

### June Vale

Her sister. Also dead. There's a theme here.

### Cora Blair

Basically her little sister love that for her. She said June is gone ur the replacement sister

### Alberta Edenwood

FRAND who she tries to push away but it doesn't work and secretly :) she's very glad :) she needs friends.

### Beau Mandrake

they train together n then sleep together because they're dumb. almost friends wow.

## Skills & Abilities

doing things and not thinking about the consequences

## Possessions

### June's Ring

Originally a wedding gift from their father to their mother, June was given the ring before Marilla's death.

## Quotes

"Bring it, bitch" - to Aella Rogue (before getting her ass handed to her)