Alethea Ninette

**Alethea Ninette** is a female citizen of District 10. She is a Victor, as she won the 53rd Hunger Games. She was also reaped as a tribute in the 75th Hunger Games representing District 10. Her District partner is Artemis Sampson.

## Personality

Alethea is a cold-hearted murderer with incredible social skills. She is a skilled liar and strategist, feigning friendship and loyalty if she believes it will be beneficial. Her plans throughout the Games (such as dividing her alliance, placing blame on other tributes, etc.) are meticulously developed and performed, and she's always prepared for last-minute changes if something happens. Although she's able to read people with ease, she rarely (if ever) shows genuine emotions. She shows no remorse towards others and no guilt for her actions. Yet, she doesn't display pleasure or joy from killing. She is an indifferent person to the core, willing to do whatever it takes to survive. After the Games, she embraced this deceitful and manipulative persona, thus earning the nickname of "The Great Deceiver." It is heavily suspected she is the reason the Careers became more strict over the years of accepting tributes from outlying districts.

## Fears

**Failure**. Despite her cold and uncaring exterior, Alethea strives for greatness. Her fear of failure is personal, not related to failing her parents or other people.
**Death**. If there's one thing Alethea hates, it's uncertainty. Nobody knows what happens when you die (because nobody can tell you what it's like after you die), so Alethea fears it.

## Strengths

**Murder**. After being raised by a butcher, Alethea learned the quickest manner to kill someone (as mentioned above). This was further displayed by her kill count, as she murdered the most people in her Games.
**Deception**. Alethea is skilled at manipulating others for her own personal gains. She is able to turn ally against ally, friend against friend. This was displayed by her keeping the Careers fractured, which allowed her to become a "shadow" in their eyes. As such, they never recognized her deadliness until she turned on them.

**Athleticism**. Although it's been over twenty years since her Games, Alethea has maintained her athletic state through a rigorous exercise regime. Her agility and strength are remarkable for someone her age, nearly rivaling that of her eighteen-year-old self.

## Weaknesses

**Swimming**. Alethea never learned to swim. It wasn't essential in District Ten and it wasn't essential in the arena. If she ever encountered a large body of water in the arena, she simply avoided it.
**Relationships**. In her initial Hunger Games, Alethea was able to convince her allies she was friends with them. However, since everyone knows about her deceitful nature, Alethea is not expecting to form any friendship in the arena. As such, she will be unable to create allies.

**Survivability**. In her initial Hunger Games, Alethea never had to hunt for food nor identify edible plants/insects since she was a member of the Careers. As such, she has limited knowledge about nature. Alethea may be athletic and calculating, but this does not prepare her for living in the wilderness

## 53rd Hunger Games

Alethea volunteered for the 53rd Hunger Games. During the interviews, she claimed she volunteered for "her father who has struggled to earn revenue from his butcher shop." However, others speculate she had darker reasons for volunteering, such as having to do so for a treasonous crime. She earned an astounding training score of ten, and she was accepted into the Career alliance (which consisted of its typical tributes from One, Two, and Four). Within the alliance, she was exceptionally at keeping it fractured into three groups: (1.) the tributes from One, (2.) the boy from Two and the girl from Four, and (3.) the girl from Two and the boy from Four. She served as the mediator of all conversations, thus creating an essential role for herself.

Due to her upbringing as a butcher's daughter, Alethea knew the quickest ways to kill others (by bleeding from an arteriol source, such as severing their carotid artery). In the bloodbath, she earned two kills from the girl from Five and the boy from Twelve. With twelve tributes gone (involving both tributes from One), the remaining Careers spent the following nights prowling the arena for loners. They managed to kill three other tributes during this time, and another one died from unknown causes. When a feast was announced, the Careers decided to split into two groups in order to lure the tributes out hiding. Alethea was sent into a group with the boy from Two and the girl from Four. Before the feast started, Alethea quickly turned on the two, slitting their throats before they could even scream for help. The other group killing one tribute during the feast. In order to cover her betrayal, Alethea stabbed herself in the stomach before returning to her allies. She blamed the eighteen-year-old boy from Six. The Careers hunted down the boy and Alethea murdered him (citing vengeance for trying to kill her). The following day, the boy from Four abandonned Alethea and the girl from Two. However, he was later killed by the girl from Eleven. During the finale, Alethea stabbed her ally's leg as they were running from bear mutations, thus killing her. In the final showdown, Alethea was stabbed in the side and feigned excrusiating pain. When the girl from Eleven bent forward to finish her with a stab to the heart, Alethea severed her carotid artery and she was dead within seconds.

Kill Count: 6 (girl from 5, boy from 12, boy from 2, girl from 4, boy from 6, girl from 11) (she indirectly killed the girl from 2, but this is not included in her kill count)