<hr/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Other Characters</span><br/><hr/><br/><hr/>Seneca<hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://oi43.tinypic.com/t7h8is.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Seneca Crane<br/><strong>Player:</strong>Lurking<br/><strong>Age:</strong>35<br/><strong>Rank:</strong>Head Gamemaker<br/><strong>Gender and Sexual Orientation:</strong>Male, Heterosexual<br/><strong>On &amp; Offs:</strong>O/Os (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173200)<br/><strong>District Number:</strong>The Capitol<br/><strong>Appearance:</strong>Seneca has a scar going across his chest just under his right nipple. No one knows how he got it, and he’s not telling.<br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Cold and calculating, Seneca watches the games with a cruel detachment from the tributes. He feels no pain that they feel, only working out what will entertain the audience in the capitol. However he does have an interest in every tribute that walks into the arena, in particular he enjoys tributes with a bit of back bone. These make for an interesting game. He prefers to see strong tributes, loosing interest quickly in weak looking tributes. In fact Seneca gets bored very easily. Those tributes who are too strong bore him as well as those who are too weak. He loves an underdog. The careers are conditioned to the hunger games and, in his eyes, this takes all the fun out of it. But when a tribute from a lower district comes forth with some guts, well, then they’ve caught his attention.<br/><strong>History:</strong>Who really knows what made Seneca Crane the man he is today, or how he got to the position he now finds himself in. All that needs to be known about Seneca is that he’s the man pulling the strings inside the arena.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><hr/>Atala<hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120208235032/thehungergames/images/c/c8/Atala.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Atala<br/><strong>Player:</strong>persephone325<br/><strong>Age:</strong>Mid 20s<br/><strong>Rank:</strong>Head Trainer<br/><strong>Gender and Sexual Orientation:</strong>Straight female<br/><strong>On &amp; Offs:</strong><br/><strong>District Number:</strong>The Capitol<br/><strong>Appearance:</strong>Dark skinned female, short black hair, 5' 9"<br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Atala is a no-nonsense type of woman. She takes her job very seriously, and because of that none of the tributes get to see any other side of her. She believes that any tribute who doesn't take their training seriously will be one of the first to perish in the game. Therefore, she can be harder on those types of tributes.<br/><strong>History:</strong>Atala was born and raised in The Capitol. Though one would never know by looking at her. She does not dress as flamboyantly like most Capitol citizens. She has not competed in The Hunger Games. She was chosen as Head Trainer for her skill and "take no crap" attitude.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><hr/>Zack<hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://i41.tinypic.com/atx76h.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Zack<br/><strong>Player:</strong>Lurking<br/><strong>Age:</strong>25<br/><strong>Rank:</strong>Trainer<br/><strong>Gender and Sexual Orientation:</strong>Male, Homosexual<br/><strong>On &amp; Offs:</strong>O/Os (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173200)<br/><strong>District Number:</strong>The Capitol<br/><strong>Appearance:</strong>Zack has a gold hoop in his left ear, with gold studs running up the side of the same ear.  He also has gold eyeshadow on with black mascara on his eyelashes. Although this may seem excessive to the tributes, compared to other members of the capitol Zack’s appearance is very toned down.<br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Kind and gentle, but firm and focused when he needs to be. Although he feels sorry for the tributes that are about to enter the arena, there’s nothing he can do to prevent their fate. The best thing he can do for them is to teach them the skills that may aid their survival. He can be a quiet sort of guy, often described as the strong silent type. He’s good at listening, preferring to hear what others have to say then speak himself. It’s safer that way too, working so closely with the gamemakers is dangerous if you don’t watch your tongue.<br/><strong>History:</strong>Zack grew up with his father and two older brothers in the capitol. He was always fascinated by the games, the true fact that people were being sent to their deaths didn’t occur to him at first. As a boy he watched the action with baited breath, arguing with his brothers as to which tribute would win. The three boys would often play ‘Hunger Games’ with wooden swords when they were young. As they grew up the older boys grew bored of these childish games, but Zack was always interested in learning how to handle a weapon. He found he had a natural talent with a bow and arrow, and soon he caught the eye of the scouts for the gamemakers. He was offered a job as a trainer for the Hunger Games when he was eighteen, he has been working there ever since.<br/>At first he bounded into his job head first, chatting with the tributes and training them up. On his first Hunger Games he watched as his new friends slaughtered each other. Since then he had become more guarded as he trains the tributes. He is not unkind but he is careful to remind himself that they will most likely die. Those who have won though he regards with some affection, he always likes chatting with the past winners and other trainers.<br/><br/><hr/>Valeria<hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://images.askmen.com/photos/saffron-burrows/63054.jpg)<br/></div><strong>Name:</strong>Valeria Birchall<br/><strong>Player:</strong>ChaNeko<br/><strong>Age:</strong>39<br/><strong>Rank:</strong>Trainer<br/><strong>Gender and Sexual Orientation:</strong>Female, heterosexual.<br/><strong>On &amp; Offs:</strong>Ons: Fairness, honest competition, feeling valuable to Panem and the Capitol. Offs: Dissension from the political norm, disloyalty to the Capitol, not pulling one’s weight.<br/><strong>District Number:</strong>The Capitol<br/><strong>Hunger Games won:</strong>The 59th Hunger Games.<br/><br/><strong>Appearance:</strong>Valeria was served well by her family and circumstances, trained to make a formidable warrior while growing up in District 2. Six feet tall and nearly as slender as in her youth, she has remained strong due to her continuing regimen of training – as an instructor at the same academy she attended. She also returns to the Capitol every year for the Hunger Games.<br/>Whatever the confectionary colors preferred in the Capitol, she keeps her appearance clean and natural when training the reaped tributes. Once the Games are on, she indulges for the viewing days/weeks, attending the parties and rooting privately for her favorites. Not being allowed to bet, neither does she give away sensitive information about the tributes to others. That would be unsportsmanlike conduct and give unfair advantage to those who might profit.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>One of the oldest to compete in the Games, Valeria never seemed arrogant or cocky. She was simply effective. This appears to be her guiding tenant through life, especially as she has devoted herself to serving Panem loyally, listening for dissenters. Being a willing part of the system, she does not make friends with many. Training tributes at the Games every year, she is always watching out for what will energize and involve the audience to watch. She believes that it is to the citizenry’s benefit to come together in watching the Games for their distraction and education as a whole – distract them from the strangling control that is woven into their lives, educate them in the ways of the Capitol and their leaders so that all of the districts can gain from their wisdom.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Raised in the household of more than one Peacekeeper, Valeria’s family was centered on blacksmithing. She had several siblings, none of whom she connected with closely. While never admitting any wrong doing on their part, it is assumed that the special academy she and her siblings attended focused heavily on strategy, physical acumen and building a warrior mindset for their future use to Panem as good citizens. When it was made clear to her that her gender would keep her from becoming a Peacekeeper herself, Valeria simmered with stung pride. Shocked that her own family would fail to support her in her efforts to reach her dream, she plotted to volunteer for her last eligible Game if she was not naturally selected.<br/>As she offered to become District 2’s female tribute, her family panicked, realizing that she might die or worse – establish her own identity without them to guide and mold her. A permanent rift was sliced through their relationships with Valeria, sending her into the Games with a deep sense of relief.<br/>Valeria refused to consider manipulating the male tributes with sexual favors, confusing her district’s counterpart who assumed that the females should be expected to do so. When she spurned his personal advances during their train ride into the Capitol by acting as a chaste and dignified warrior, he mocked her privately, explaining that she and the other ‘useless cunts’ would need his protection eventually. She may have harbored a grudge as evidenced by the gender-specific team forming that later occurred in the Games.<br/>Her strategy? Pure and simple, Valeria was an excellent athlete and took her trainers’ advice to heart. She used every advantage she had and made up a few along the way. While not listed as the top ranking training score, she was the socially adept diplomat of the careers pack, allowing her male counterpart to direct their actions while cultivating a sisterhood. She developed a repartee with each individual female career, delegating their involvement while the group hunted the lower district tributes together.<br/>As attrition took foe and ally alike, she slowly pulled away from her district’s counterpart. She encouraged the females of the pack to stick together, arranging for the District 2 male tribute’s insulting misogynist character to show through. Once the other females were incensed, she suggested that practical application of javelins might improve his attitude. Two javelins later, he was dying on the ground, Valeria never having moved. It wouldn’t do to have her district mourn their son if their daughter had been the one to lift a hand against him.<br/>It was easy to eliminate the weak with the help of her ‘furies’ as she’d named the group. Only when the Gamemakers introduced swarms of killer insects did the female pack divide and give up their tenuous alliance. Then it was kill or be killed. And Valeria was the victor.<br/>Since taking up her residence in the victor’s village of District 2, she has not welcomed her family to live with her. They seem to enjoy a strained relationship of holiday gatherings and general politeness. Valeria insisted on being a part of the very academy that she attended, adding her experience for instruction. Additionally, she has encouraged the young girls of her hometown to learn and train for whatever they would wish to, ensuring them at least one sympathetic ear. She is not coddling but fosters girls to make their own decisions and become successes in their own rights.<br/><br/><br/><hr/>Kate<hr/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://evapilot.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/heterochromia.jpg?w=225&amp;h=300)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Katsumi "Kat" Ito<br/><br/><strong>Player:</strong>persephone325<br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong>18<br/><br/><strong>Gender and Sexual Orientation:</strong>Straight female<br/><br/><strong>Rank:</strong>Trainer<br/><br/><strong>On &amp; Offs:</strong>Here (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148017.0)<br/><br/><strong>District Number:</strong>District 12<br/><br/><strong>Hunger Games won:</strong>72nd Hunger Games<br/><br/><strong>Appearance:</strong>After winning, she got a tattoo of a butterfly over her heart, and angel wings on her back, she has heterochromia.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Katsumi was a happy and carefree girl until she was chosen to represent her district for the 72nd Hunger Games. Even during the game, she still had a bit of her old self inside her. She's still a happy girl, but only around those she is close to. Around others, she can appear very withdrawn. But deep down, she is constantly sad and hurt because of participating in the games.<br/><br/><strong>How they won their Hunger Games:</strong>Katsumi won through, what she believes to be, sheer luck. She had such limited survival skills, that she was sure she would die before the first day ended. But everything, miraculously, seemed to go her way. Competitors were fighting each other, people were dying left and right, and all she had to do was keep on the move and hide. She won when the last participant attacked her, and she was forced to kill him in self defense. She had no idea he was the last competitor.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Never one in bad spirits, Katsumi lived happily with her family in district 12. They didn't have much, but they always had each other. They taught Katsumi to value family and friendship above all, and always be honest. That was something she took to heart when she was chosen for the games. That trait made it so that she didn't actively engage in any combat until the end of the game. After the game, she no longer appears to be the happy girl she once was.