Nettle Berry

### Family

Wife- Bramble BerryFather in Law- Joeseph AppleseedBiological Parents- Unnamed, Alive10 biological siblings- Nutmeg, Acorn, Brook, June, Logan, Strawberry, Blu, Fig, Crisp

## Early Life

Nettle Gooseberry was born in outer eleven, where her whole family worked on a farm and was housed in a small, shedlike house nearby. She was the third child of what would be eleven siblings. Their farm picked blueberries. She never attended school, needing to pick blueberries as soon as she could walk. Her early life was marked by hunger, but mostly spent with her older two brothers, who made moonshine occasionally in their small yard with her. She named her parent's sixth child Strawberry.

## Life with The Truckers

When her mother was pregnant (porgant? pergantate?) with Baby number 10, a girl who would be named Fig, Nettle realized they couldn't afford to feed another child. so when blueberries were being loaded to ship out, Nettle snuck into the back of the truck, and when it stopped at the truck depot, she asked who was in charge and begged for a job. Truckers made better money than most in eleven, and it was the only way off the farm.

Joseph Appleseed, or Joe, as she knew him, was the head of the truckers. He paired her with another girl her age, Bramble Berrybush, to drive the truck together. She didn't like Nettle much, and was a driver's seat hog who rarely spoke to her new navigator. Joe taught nettle to drive, though, and eventually the proximity brought Nettle and Bramble closer. Much closer. after about a year, shared trust, and Bramble recruiting Nettle to the vox, they were dating. a few months before the reaping for the 124th, they got engaged.

## The Rebellion

Nettle and Bramble, under the shared codename Cherry, were smugglers for the Vox.

They started smuggling weed and other drugs for Joe, because as his girls, he could trust them. as the rebellion kicked up, it became less drugs and more guns. and then, as multiple disparate encampments sprouted, it became less guns and more people who needed shuttles in and out of vox outposts. some needed to get out of Fucked Eleven into Free Eleven. occasionally, They would take children. young, nearing reaping age, kids who fled to the wilds or to Free Eleven just to escape the reapings. they saved 23 kids this way.

After 133, several victors and other tower residents came to free eleven to assist in the cause. Nettle and Bramble shuttled them in utmost secrecy, and befriended them, only to be reaped months later.

## 134 || Played out

* Nettle, along with Bramble and Mercuria, go to a secret tower meeting with all the rebels from 11 on the first night post-reaping. They agree slate needs to win, as the face of the revolution. Nettle agrees to the plan to get slate out, because she can't imagine coming back to 11 alone, without Bramble.
* Nettle spent pregames planning her wedding, wishing goodbyes to her closest friends, and desperately trying to improve skills that might bring Slate home.
* SKILLS PRESENTATION || Score of Three
* INTERVIEW PARA || PART 2 Nettle and Bramble get married during their interview.
* during the bloodbath, Slate made the decision to go to the abandoned shipwreck in the arena. Nettle communicated this to their whole alliance, saved Mercuria from drowning, and met the group on the ship. Slate and her went exploring, and found a gun. They learned together it couldn't aim for shit, but she still kept it on her. The alliance watched the faces in the sky together, and Nettle tried to name a kind thing about each fallen tribute. Slate asked her to stop when they got to the pair from ten, and Nettle and Bramble headed off to bed.