Cordelia Murphy

Cordelia_Murphy is a tribute who belongs to El_Funk. Please refrain from using this tribute without permission. If you do wish to use this tribute, you can leave a message asking. Cordelia lives in District Four.

Basic Information
Name: Cordelia Murphy

Age: Sixteen

District: District 4

Gender: Female

Personality: She comes across as Confident and Charismatic, her cocky self sure attitude and natural beauty makes her a very telegenic tribute and a favourite of the capitol. She's sexy and flirty and uses it to help her cause. However a lot of this is for show, and at her confidence isn’t complete, there’s a pressure there to replicate the success of her parents. When not under tutorship with her parents, where she was driven and determined,  the competitive nature of the career academy was the only social interaction she had known. There she was popular, self confident and provocative. She had a group of male admirers who she would, under her mothers guidance, manipulate and lead on, but despite their infatuation with her and desire to impress her, and the flirty affection she would give them each in turn, she had no one she could truly call a friend. Only people to toy with and tease. Cordelia has never known real companionship, and attachment will be hard to come by in the games.

Weapons: Trident

Appearance: Asian-Caucasian with shoulder length brown and blond hair. Cordelia has inherited her mother’s famed looks but also boasts a lean figure as a result of extensive training and a life without wanting for anything with the substantial winnings taken by her parents.

Backstory:

Cordelia has never known any misfortune; hers has always been a life of expectation and due to her parent’s wealth. Cordelia is already known in the capitol by name if not by deed as the daughter of not 1 but two of Districts Fours prized victors, the powerful classic Career, Beck Murphy and his wife, the seductive Talise Mizuko, winners in consecutive years who got to know each other as mentors to the next generation. Cordelia has training beyond that of any other career with guidance from both Hunger Games survivors. In a twist of fate that had many suspecting tampering by the Capitol, Cordelia goes into the ring as her parents before her, a hunger games prodigy but with a heap of expectancy.

Strengths and Weaknesses: Popular with the Capitol and would be heavily desired by the Career group. She has a strategic advantage in hunger games having studied past games at length. But she has hidden depths to her personality, while she is an excellent and lethal fighter she is also worried she won't live up to her parent’s almost legendary status. Her pampered lifestyle also hasn’t prepared her well for the conditions of an arena, while she is well versed in survival methods; she’s never faced the hunger or starvation of the poor in District 4. Cordelia has never known trust, it would take something major to make her open up to someone about her insecuties.

Training Strategy & Session: Flirt with the male careers, convince them of their trust, play onto leader's good side. Their tutelage has give you leeway in training, you have been trained in survival techniques and knowledge of arena survival, you can disregard the other stations and focus on combat, train with the careers so you fight in tandem. A ruthless synchronised career attack. For the private session this is your moment. With encircling holograms simulating an outnumbered scenario, take the trident and in a single fluid movement with grace and ferocity, block, parry, slash and stab till your opponents lie dead.

Bloodbath Strategy: On the way to cornucopia there any knives can be thrown to kill the unarmed or at least drive back other runners. Your main part to play comes once the trident is secured. There will be no need to reacquaint yourself, seconds that count in the bloodbath. Its now where most tributes are nervous and overwhelmed that they are vulnerable. Rely on other careers cut off retreat and take out as many as possible, without hesitation or sadistic pleasure, just cold efficiency. Skill and training alone should be enough, outnumbered odds is precisely what you perfected. There's nothing to be gained from a 50-50, 1 on 1 with a similarly skilled opponent so that should be avoided except, however that being said before fatigue, injuries or other factors can come into play later in the games, if there's an opportunity to kill a high value target, where there's an overbalance of skill in your favour then take it. Agility, precision and skill will beat raw strength.

Typical Alliance: Prefers to ally with another, strong female, preferably sixteen or older.

Career Angle: Seductive and Confident.

Height: Five Feet, Two Inches

Fear: She has hidden depths to her personality; while she is an excellent and lethal fighter she is also worried she won't live up to her parent’s almost legendary status

Token: Silver necklace. Rowan actually gave Marcella the necklace, telling her that it was going to be her token if she was brought into the Hunger Games. Marcella treasures the necklace and uses it to remind her why she wants to get home.

Enraptured Misfit's The 377th Annual Hunger Games
Date Created: November 23, 2015

Placing:

Alliance: Career

Training Score: 11

Odds: N/A

Kills: Pompeii Vulcan (2) Sword in chest, Breeze Sylvani (7) Snapped Neck

Status: Ongoing, Post-Bloodbath Only

Summary: Marcella earned the highest training score, a perfect twelve, so many people targetted her during the bloodbath, most notably the Careers. At the start of the Hunger Games, her district partner, Twix Juniper, was brutally killed only seconds into the bloodbath, and Marcella saw with disgust. As she made it to the cornucopia, she grabbed managed to grab a belt with a water canteen and a katana, before Shyvana Feuer threw an axe right towards her face. The axe only nicked her ear, but Marcella was still enraged. As Shyvana prepared to throw another axe, Marcella pinned the girl to the ground. Although Shyvana was strong and throwing punches, Marcella was able to shove a knife into her throat, killing her. Soon after, she fled, grabbing a white bag as she ran away.

Since the arena was in a parking garage building, Marcella found her way on the twelfth floor, only five floors above the cornucopia. As she was leaning against a wall, trying to relax, Lyssander Ghan attacked her, throwing a sword in her direction. The sword digs into her left arm, and she ends up falling on the ground, clutching her injured limb. While she was bracing herself to die, she hears a cannon and looks up to see Lyssander dead, and Lightning Duodecim standing over her, his hand outstretched to help her up. He asks her for an alliance, but Marcella refused, and instead proposes a truce. The two agree to the truce and take their separate ways, Lightning finding his way to the floor above Marcella.

Etymology
In American and Celtic the meaning of the name Cordelia is: Heart/ Daughter Of the Sea.

In Shakespearean the meaning of the name Cordelia is: Tragedy of King Lear' Daughter to King Lear. Homage to her status as daughter of victors or 'kings & queens"

It also has links to the Welsh name Creiddylad, allegedly meaning "jewel of the sea", but it may derive from the French coeur de lion "heart of a lion". The character herself being brave under confrontation.

Trivia
"well.......they're all victims, she didnt kill with sadistic pleasure just ruthlessly and calculated. There are some real psycho's out there,  career doesn't mean villain, careering is just a strategy to win in the  games, I mean don't get me wrong Cato, Clove, Enobaria...they were psycho's. But Brutus just wanted to win he didn't care for the games and  as for Mags and Finnick, they were careers but look how genuine they turned out to be. Anti-careers vs Careers shouldn't be good vs evil, in fact scenarios can cause good people to go bad and bad people to go good. Its not black and white everythings grey. You could argue Manta was more innocent than Kasumi because he had no choice in the killing but Kasumi kills even thought she dislikes it, making her a hypocrit. Leera hates the career system of killing but once that chance was there...well Manta lost his head. Are anti-careers protagonists? Maybe, some are likable and sympathetic. I've written Austin into that category but even then he's not innocent, his intervention cost his brother his life, so there's a guilt there. But a lot of anti-careers want to kill careers because they resent a system the careers aint responsible for. But a career is the closest thing to the capitol I suppose.".
 * In response to "Cordelia is an antagonist", mentions tributes of the 377th Hunger Games;

To quote Peeta ""I don’t know how to say it exactly. Only…I want to die as myself. Does that make any sense?” he asks. I shake my head. How could he die as anyone but himself? “I don’t want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I’m not."