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[succorer]

Warning that this will have Mockingjay spoilers, and some of the things he does/wishes could be considered trigger-worthy.

player information.

name: KJ
are you over 18?: Yes.
personal dw: the_betrayer
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc: aim: harkness said
characters in abax: Captain Jack Harkness.


in character information.

series: The Hunger Games
name: Peeta Mellark
age: 17.
sex: Male.
race: human.
weight: 154
height: 5'10"
[OPTIONAL] cause of death: n/a
canon point: Mockingjay ( just after Katniss kills Coin )
previous cr: n/a.

history: link.

personality:
To put it simply - Peeta is good. Too good, in fact. Haymitch tells Katniss that she essentially does not deserve him. He's a self-sacrificing, clever, charming person. He has very vivid memories, is passionate, and caring. He truly is just a good, likeable person - to a fault. At this point, though Peeta is highly disoriented due to the things he has endured thanks to the best torture the Capitol has to offer. He's become slightly suicidal, homicidal, and -- well, crazy thanks to them. His core, though, still exists, though it is definitely damaged.

While he seems to care about people in general, Katniss is surely at the top of his list. He definitely loves her more than anyone as the series progresses, and often sticks her neck out for her in order to keep her alive. The first real time he did something for her was when they were eleven. He saw that she was starving outside - and therefore he burned bread, got hit/beaten by his mother, so that he would have an opportunity to toss it to her. This is not where his list of good deeds ends, either. In the 74th games (his first time participating), he made a deal with Haymitch that they would do what they needed to do in order to keep Katniss alive. That his needs (regardless of what they were) were to be dismissed.

During his interview with Caesar, he admits that he has feelings for Katniss (which Haymitch says has made her desirable). This was another of his tricks to make her get a bit of a head start in the games. Once they are in the arena, he teams up with the Career tributes. He does this as a way of misleading them and taking them off of Katniss' path. When she drops the Trackerjackers on the sleeping group beneath the tree, he comes back to make sure that she is able to run from Cato. He risks his own leg to do this, taking serious damage to just below his thigh (which later ends up being removed, and he has a mostly-false leg). They find out that there are able to be two victors from the same district, and team up again, but he often tells her to leave him behind because he is just slowing her down. He's willing to let himself be left behind and die in order to have her live.

Towards the end of their first games (the 74th in total), after Cato dies and there is only the two of them, the rules are changed again to only one victor. He offers to have her kill him so that she can return home to her family. Obviously, this is overcome by a suicide threat on both of their parts, but the fact that he was willing to do it says a lot. Even though he is very hurt thanks to her after their first time at the games, he comes back and continues on their game of being 'star-crossed lovers', able to sacrifice his own feelings in order to play the game and make sure that no one gets hurt as a result (at least for the time being).

His playing doesn't stop in the 75th games (their second time), and he easily figures out that Katniss is trying to keep him alive throughout. The games, though, are abruptly ended, and he is taken by the capitol. He is displayed on camera several times and one time he warns about a bombing in thirteen. Whether or not he did this to save Katniss or just because he was influenced to, it was hard to tell. But one can be certain he endured a beating for it.

There is a long time where he believes Katniss to be a threat, thanks to the Capitol hijacking him, but even then when he is wading through the real and not real memories, he insists that he should die in order to protect her. That he should be left behind. That when she tries to kill herself after shooting Coin, he tells her that he can't let her. While I did use his specific examples for Katniss, it would apply to nearly anyone. This self-sacrificing part of him is probably the most important part of him. Also, these show how passionate he is and how he behaves when he truly cares about something/someone.

Peeta is clever in that he knows how to play the game. He knows how to charm an audience and how to make them go in the direction he wants to. His humor is a bit self-deprecating and it makes him appeal to the audience. When he is interviewing with Caesar, he has a good back and forth going. It was his idea to tell them that he loved Katniss (74th game), tell them they were married (75th games), and that Katniss was expecting (75th games). Although they were all lies, people bought into them because of the sort of lovable face he has. Obviously, he has to be relatively clever for the career tributes to buy into him wanting an alliance with them and for him to be able to deceive them away from Katniss for an extended period of time. People love him nearly as much as he likes them, and even Haymitch admits that he likes Peeta more (but he was helping Katniss win because that was what Peeta wanted). Both of these characteristics assist him in getting what he wants from people.

Although his humor is very self-depricating and it may seem like a show, Peeta has shown examples that he doesn't believe that highly in himself otherwise. He has a hard time admitting to his strengths (when asked by Haymitch). In fact, he says early on that his mother told them that there might be a victor from their District - and she meant Katniss. He buries this lack of confidence pretty deeply within himself and it is not brought up terribly often.

His memory is extremely vivid. He is able to recall things from when he is very young. Specific details from age five, like when he heard Katniss' father sing the song about The Hanging Man and heard her sing and the birds stopping. These are details that most people probably wouldn't remember. (Basically, he followed Katniss with stalker-level skills.) This may also be things he chooses to remember due to his infatuation with her.

He does not believe that fighting solves anything. When he is hijacked by the capitol, he calls for an end to the fighting. Additionally, when he is asked if the Capitol children should participate in one last games - for the sake of peace - he says no because he does not believe it would help anything. I wouldn't call him a pacifist (he acknowledges that it is sometimes necessary), but I certainly think he would prefer to not get involved in a fight.

Despite all the goodness and passion that resides within Peeta, when it gets placed in the wrong hands, it is incredibly easy to twist. As a result of the disruption of the 75th games, he is picked up by the Capitol. They do something that is called 'hijacking'. Essentially, it is turning all those nice memories of Katniss into threatening ones and made unpleasant.

When he first sees her, all he does is reach up to strangle her. He sees Katniss as a threat now, and because of the Capitol's influence he wants to kill her. They have basically convinced him that Katniss is not human. Any mention of her, or things associated with her start off by sending him into a violent rage. They start to progressively work to undo the damage that they have done, but it is irreversible. Despite that, they want to help him cope with it. Baking cakes and decorating them seems to be very therapeutic for him.

In the end it is up to him to distinguish which memories are real and are not. He gets a lot of help. Although he is deemed unsafe for others, because he is definitely homicidal, they attempt bringing him out more and more. This version of Peeta is much colder and way more distant, though deep down is the one that he was before the Capitol. By the time he goes to the Capitol with Katniss (for what is essentially their last mission to getting rid of Snow), he seems to be a lot more docile (although still very disoriented).

During this time, Finnick suggests that they develop something which is 'Real or not real?', which he can recite memories and someone will tell him whether or not they are real or not real. While on this mission to take the Capitol and get rid of Snow, he does figure out that those false memories have a slight haze over them that his real memories do not have.

Despite this, he definitely finds himself unstable. He frequently wishes for people to leave him behind, and is constantly requesting methods to kill himself. He says 'just in case', but he was honestly so willing to die to just end all of the confusion. He insists that he remains handcuffed so that he wouldn't be able to harm anyone. He finds himself to be a danger to others, and thinks it is a perfectly logical request to no longer want to be a part of the team.

It is important to know that while he may seem to have a grip on things, he is still disoriented. He's still figuring out what memories are real and what are not. It is possible for him to freak out about things, become violent, and aggressive, if one of those painful memories is brought back up. He is working (very hard) to suppress the false memories. If I am putting it simply: this boy is a bit crazy still.

In summary - he still a very good guy, but because he's unstable and sometimes that makes his goodness hard to see. He has freakouts, but he's working hard to keep all of that from surfacing.
abilities/powers:
☼ Peeta makes a mean loaf of bread. He's a skilled baker, and is able to decorate cakes. He just likes bread, mmkay.
☼ He is great at camouflaging himself in the arena. He credits this to his cake decorating.
☼ He can paint! Very well.
☼ He is physically very strong (it makes up for his lack of speed) and trained. By the time he entered the arena for the 75th games, he was behaving as a career tribute.
☼ He is good with knives.
☼ He has decent survival skills (limited knowledge of edible plants, and tying knots).

first person sample:
[ He's sitting on the ground of the morgue, and there's a video feed that is immediately on. He seems to realize that whatever the device is - it is recording him - maybe someone will hear him. He just has no motivation to stand up from where he is sitting. He leaned against a wall in the morgue. He's holding up his tag in front of himself and seems to be talking to himself. ]

Is this Thirteen? It kind of feels like it. It's pretty dark like it is down there. Interesting toe tag, though.

[ He doesn't move, he just blinks and sinks back into where he's sitting. ]

There's no cause of death at least. I've slept in worst places, I guess. It looks like someone stole all my things, though.

[ He sucks in his breath and looks around the room. There's a sudden realization, and his tone becomes immediately urgent. ]

This is really important. I'm looking for someone. Her name's Katniss. She has dark hair, usually braided. She's a bit difficult to get along with, too. It's really important if I find out if she's alive and alright.

third person sample:
Peeta was disoriented. He didn't want to remove himself from this cold place where he had found himself. The thin pajamas were a shock - they were so clean. Usually, when he woke up in strange places, he was a bit bloody and very dirty. He held the device he woke up with near to himself for several minutes. He thought over the moments that led him there. Katniss aiming at the new President Coin - shooting her. Then he saw her fall to the ground. He remembered Katniss being dragged away, wanting to kill herself to prevent torture, and telling her that he couldn't let her. Was it real? There was no silver haze. There was no odd feelings associate with it. It had to be real. He knew it was real.

Katniss!

It was the name that brought him back to life, and pulled him from his thoughts. It was then that he started to slam his good foot on the door. When it finally popped open, he carefully pulled himself out. He stumbled around the room for a moment. "Katniss," he said. He needed to apologize for that last selfish act. He couldn't let her kill herself - especially since there was a chance that she would be fine when it was all over.

This place where he had woken up - it wasn't like anywhere he had ever been. He had done quite a bit of traveling, too, but he doubted it was outside of Panem. It couldn't be outside of Panem. He was supposed to be with others and he couldn't have been knocked out long enough to get him out.

He started to create scenarios as to how he had gotten there. Someone had picked him up after he had watched Katniss be dragged away. They placed him there in order to disorient him. He was going to be tortured because of how he had helped Katniss defy orders. She assassinated the new president. Surely he would be accused of conspiring when someone new took power.

None of that seemed right, though. Those scenarios he had created, he quickly figured out were not real. He had a lot to figure out regarding how he had gotten here. But first, he needed to figure out what he was going to do now that he was here.

First - he had to find Katniss. He had to know she was alive, and let her know his reasoning for what he had done.

Second - he had to find out where he was exactly. He still held onto the possibility of it being District Thirteen. After all, it wasn't as though he had seen every part of it.

Third - he had to find out how he had gotten here. If he knew how he had gotten here, he could completely dispel any of his own disorienting thoughts.

Peeta took another look around before he shuffled to prop himself against a wall. He leaned against it and shifted to sit down, picking up his device and toying with it for a few moments. If it was given to him - it had to be useful - at least somehow. He wouldn't stay there long, though. If he wanted to find Katniss, he would have to continue looking.

case no: 12-02-74