Zane Onyebuchi

- Zane Onyebuchi, 665th Hunger Games

Zane Onyebuchi is a citizen representing District Five in the Hunger Games. They belong to Tehblakdeath. Please do not utilize this tribute in your Hunger Games without his permission. If you wish to use this tribute, leave the owner a message, either on his message wall or in the comments section.

Information
Name: Zane Onyebuchi

District: Five

Gender: Male

Age: Seventeen

Alignment: True Neutral

Personality: Generally speaking, Zane is a team player. No matter what side of the conflict he finds himself on, he's always looking to help as many people as he can in life. However, when faced with confrontation, he's not the type to sit back and take it: rather, he's aggressive, unafraid to throw down. Zane has a bit of a temper, but it's able to be cooled down so long as he gets some distance from whoever or whatever is causing it to flare up.

Height: 6'1"

Weight: 185 lbs.

Weapon(s): Zane primarily uses the greatsword, as he finds it the most comparable to a goaltending stick for his own purposes. The weight is generally bearable by an athlete of his physique, and thus it is not entirely unfamiliar nor unusable for him.

History:

Backstory=lmfao no go check the guidelines Guidelines/Condensed Version=
 * Born and raised in District 5 as a fan of the local District 5 Blues, playing in the Panem Hockey League.
 * Decided to follow this fandom in his heart, and advanced in his career as a goaltender in the junior leagues of Panem.
 * As he came towards the age where he'd move up to the Bravo League, i.e. 14 years old, his family ran into a stroke of bad luck: a workplace injury suffered by his father, the death of his grandmother, and the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in his mother.
 * The Onyebuchis fell from the middle class into the lower class, and Zane's career came into jeopardy.
 * However, Zane was given a grant by a sponsor who saw the talent within the young man, and this sponsorship eventually allowed his family to rise back to where they previously were.
 * Zane developed into a generational talent with the District 0 Blacktips, and won the Rookie of the Year award and the Best Goaltender award at the age of 16, followed by another Best Goaltender award at the age of 17.
 * His ceiling was so high, in fact, that he was given the prestige of being drafted first overall by the District 1 Lions in the Panem Hockey League.
 * Preparations were made for the goaltender to move to District 1. However, before that, he would have to attend one final reaping in his home District, before District 1's bountiful Career volunteers would guarantee his safety during his 18 year-old reaping.
 * Luck was not on Zane's side, and he was reaped. Despite a few cries of volunteers in the crowd, a rarity for anyone in District 5, Zane declined being replaced.
 * The youngest Onyebuchi and the next face of the franchise for the Lions would have to face his destiny head-on.

Strengths: Zane's biggest strengths come from his time training as an athlete. He is strong, fast, and has some serious endurance. This has come from many years of training under some of the best coaches and trainers Panem has to offer.

Weaknesses: Zane is cocky, has a bit of a hotheaded and tempestuous nature with those he sees as his rivals (usually other athletic tributes), and his eagerness to help others also applies to his enemies in the Games. Though he sees the world as having shades of grey, he's aware that others can see it in only black-and-white; this does not stop his efforts to assist those that he believes need help.

Fears: Zane has globophobia, a fear of balloons. This is due to a sensory overload disorder from contact with rubber and styrofoam, more specifically the sounds that both of these surfaces make when in contact with another surface. Exposure to the sounds from these elements causes Zane to have a visceral reaction of panic and anxiety, usually leading to him eventually vomiting to "get it out of the system".

Reaping reaction: Zane walked to the stage calmly and with an air of disappointment, as if he was disinterested by the Games: naturally, he didn't find them as entertaining as hockey, so he was upset he'd be wasting his athletic potential on a death game.

Group Training: Zane will spend his time trying to work on his gameplan, whether he's with the Careers, another alliance, or alone. Zane is essentially biding his time to try and figure out the optimal strategy for his own survival.

Individual Sessions in Training: Zane will hack and slash training dummies using the greatsword.

Interview Angle: Zane plays it cool and quiet, being a calm presence among the more "out there" personalities of his fellow tributes.

Alliance: As a professional athlete, Zane tries out for the Careers, hoping to succeed with their squad as much as he knows his home District will hate him for it.

Token: Zane's token is a "Young Guns" trading card featuring him on it, made specifically in promotion of the Bravo League.

Mentor Advice: You're a face; naturally, you have to keep on your toes. That makes you a threat to people.

Inspiration and Etymology
Zane is inspired from my love of hockey.

Zane is a Hebrew name that can be translated as "God's grace" or "God is gracious". Onyebuchi is an Igbo name that combines three words; "onye", meaning who; "buka", meaning greater or greatest; and "chi", meaning God.

Trivia

 * Zane's junior team and PHL team both derive from my Panem Hockey League project. This attribute is shared with Archaic tribute Matiss Ferrum, Aether tributes Otto Lecavalier and Parker Kelly, and Nether tributes Oakley Wiesblatt, Brax Bailey, and Darkerr Blackvale.
 * Zane's RL is taken from an Instagram image posted by my favourite junior goaltender of all time, and hometown legend, Carl Tetachuk.
 * Zane's name is taken from combining the names of two Kamloops Blazers players, Zane Franklin and Montana Onyebuchi.