Sheen Lux

## Early Life

Sheen was the pride and joy of his district and of his parents but only as an extension of themselves, especially when he turned 15 and it was expected of him to volunteer for the games. Looking at his childhood from the outside, he looked like he had everything one could want, his family was wealthy, he never knew hunger, he was gifted with classical good looks, but really he was an affection starved, perfectionist who deep down only wanted his parents to love him. His parents however wanted him to be as prepared for the games as possible, making sure that even when not at the career academy he was training for the games. This was at the expense of any type of affection from them, his social life, and figuring out who he actually was and what he actually wanted. It also meant emotionally he became stunted, as his parents told him any major emotional displays were a weakness. Sheen came to see winning the games as his path to winning his parents unconditional love, and escaping the hyper critical home they had raised him in. He believed that if he won the games, they would finally let him figure out who he actually was and would support him in such endeveors. However, internally because of the home he was raised in Sheen was incredibly self conscious and overthought everything he did, afraid of failing and only wanting to be the best possible son his parents could ask for. Though it was also that hypercritical nature that lead to him burying ever sharing those feelings with anyone, because that would make him look weak in the home that his parents had built. While Sheen was capable of making friends because of his social status, and gifts within the Career Academy, he didn’t actually know what real warm, friendship was like.

## 113th Hunger Game

The arena that Sheen found themself in the 113th Hunger Games was a tropical archipelago, the cornucopia was on the center and largest island. The island that housed the cornucopia however was the most dangerous, as it housed anaconda, monkey and jaguar mutts that were incredibly lethal. The water to get to the other islands had boats in it, but you needed to swim faster than the sharks put within the water. Besides the cornucopia and the mutts, the center island housed nothing the tributes to use to survive and if you wanted water, food or weapons you either needed to brave the mutts on the island, or go to each of the three auxiliary islands where one stored food, one stored water, and the other stored weapons. Sheen was lucky in the sense that the Bloodbath was just that, a massive bloodbath. Between the animals on the island, the tributes and the sharks in the water as tributes tried to get to the boats, by the end of the first day out of the 24 tributes, only 12 remained. The Careers having decided to abandon the cornucopia simply because the mutts were too much of a threat chose to take the island with all the weapons, in the process it brought tribute count down to 10. Knowing that the arena’s environment gave an edge to the two tributes from Four and because so few tributes were already left, Sheen, his District Partner and the two Careers from Two decided to kill them once they finished sending them to collect food and water from the group, bringing it to the final 8, and ensuring that half the tributes left were Careers.

This was when the games came to all but a standstill, it was hard to hunt tributes when there were four different islands that they could be on, and the only way to reach the other islands was small boats through shark infested waters. The other problem was the Careers had decided to take over the island with weapons, which meant while they were safe from any possible deadly attacks besides any weapons that may have somehow escaped the cornucopia, the other tributes had access to water and food and could not be starved out. The Careers meanwhile would have to eventually voyage out to get more food and water. Sheen and his allies used Day 3 of the games to scout out the weapon island, and find any possible hideouts, or tributes that may also be with them, Day 4 they rested catching their breath, and restoring their energy used to survive the Bloodbath and the mutts and get to this island, and the energy used Day 2 to kill their former allies from District Four. Day 5 & 6 were also uneventful for the Careers. Their efforts of find the other tributes on the food and water islands were unsuccessful. Day 7, Sheen would later find out at his Victor Ball was when the Capitol was starting to get bored, and so the three smaller islands began to sink. Earlier than the Gamemakers had planned, but it proved to sky rocket interest in the games. During the sinking of the island, three tributes were unable to escape and fell to the sharks, two of them were the district 2 tributes, as Sheen and his partner had decided it was time to end the Career Pack.. The final five tribtues were now all forced onto the main island, and though the mutts remained around the cornucopia it meant that they only had the supplies they had been able to grab before the islands sunk.

When they had made landfall, Sheen and his district partner decided it was time to split up, they wished each other well and told the other to try not to make it to the final two. The final five tributes were Sheen, and his district parter, a girl from 5, a boy from 12, and a boy from 10. Sheen did not think the the girl from 5 or the boy from 12 actually proved a threat, and was more worried about his district partner and the boy from 10. He remembered he had actually been a rather large, and burly butcher. Clearly he was strong and knew his way around a blade. His parter he knew was a fellow Career, maybe they would kill each other, and he could kill the other two left behind. Day 8 was uneventful, save for the boy from 12 being killed, by what, Sheen would later find out was the boy from 10. Apparently an alliance turned bad at the end. Day 9 appeared to be uneventful but in actuality it was the beginning of the water levels rising on the main island, which by midday Day 10 would force all the tributes near the cornicopia. The girl from 12 would not make it, and only Sheen, his district partner, and the boy from 10 would be left when they were all forced into a confrintation at the cornicopia. The only mutts left now where a pair of jaguars, and the sharks to ensure they couldn’t try and escape each other in the water.

In the final fight the boy from 10 ended up killing Sheen’s partner, Sheen meanwhile was clawed in the back from one of the jaguars when he tried to fend off an attack from the boy from 10. Knowing he had to act fast due to his wounds, Sheen, shortly after killing the Jaguar that wounded him,  lured the boy from 10 close to the waters edge, watching as the last jaguar moved in behind him, when the boy lunged to attack him he dove out of the way, right as the Jaguar pounced onto District 10’s last tribute, both of them went into the water, where the sharks finished the job for Sheen, as he knew he would not have had the strength to kill him. There then he laid until he was removed from the arena as the victor of the 113th Hunger Games after 10 days in the arena.

## Life as a Victor

Physically, Sheen still has the scars on his back from the Jaguar attack. While he attempted to have the wounds covered up, they proved too difficult even for the Capitol’s doctors and the markings, though not as severe, still remain. Emotionally, and mentally the impacts of the games have been much deeper. He now has a fear of deep bodies of water, and of cats, though he refuses to admit it. He also now keeps people at arm length, and is cold and distant. The boy from 10 betraying his partner left that distrust, and even worse when he got home, he didn’t receive that love or affection he had been craving. Rather, he was scolded for allowing himself to be injured and relying on the arena to win rather than his own strength. Sheen wasted no time in cutting his parents out of his life, unsure if he will ever work on attempting to have a relationship with them. Though he would not consider himself a rebel, after the things he witnessed in person in the arena, he can no longer see the games as just a part of life, and thinks they’re abhorrent, but now that he cannot be reaped again as he is past the age limit he turns a blind eye to it all rather than put himself at risk again.

Shortly after the 125th Hunger Games, Sheen opened his home to a Beagle he named Shimmer after his District Partner, and finally let something into his life as a family member.