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Carista Alton - Calgary Female

I've edited her backstory.

Carista was the product of a drunken one-night stand between a former mechanic from New York City, who later moved to Calgary, and a former police officer from Florida, who also moved to Calgary.

However, the former mechanic didn't want to be a mother, after realizing what had happened. But she didn't want to kill the baby, so she remained pregnant. She promised the former police officer that she'd give him the baby once it was born.

After the nine months, Carista was born. Days later, she was handed over to her father and the former mechanic, Carista's mother, was never heard from again. The former officer was now a single father.

He loved his daughter and raised her up to be a happy little girl. They loved playing in the snow together and reading stories.

Life was simple, until one fateful day, when Carista was nine.

Like always, father and daughter were playing in the snow. They were having a funny snowball fight with one another until two officers grabbed Carista's father from behind and dragged him through the area.

Carista followed her father in panic, but was not prepared for what would happen next.

The officers turned out to be two corrupt and rogue men who were on a mission to track down and find Carista's father. They had been the officers who had given the inhumane instructions that led to him being branded a traitor.

What happened that day was that back in District 14, the officers had executed somebody who they thought was traitorous. That somebody was a fellow officer who had been stealing food to give to an impoverished and starving family.

The officers didn't like this and considered this to be an unlawful act. Once the officer had been executed in the square, Carista's father had been given the instruction to kill the family.

But Carista's father refused to do so. He informed the family that he was not going to hurt them, before escaping to Calgary.

Before she could intervene, her father shared a similar fate to the Peacekeeper from all those years ago and was executed.

Devastated, Carista ran away and bumped into somebody who was at least ten years older than her. They were clad in black clothing, so Carista assumed that the person she had bumped into was a criminal.

She was scared but the person reassured her, telling her that he wasn't going to hurt her. He then asked Carista about the loud gunshot.

Carista explained to the person everything that had happened and how because her father had been classed as a traitor and was now executed, the officers were going to track her down too to kill her. The elder person calmed a crying Carista, telling her that this was not going to happen because he was going to take her to a safe place, where a new chapter of her life would begin. He was going to teach her how to eventually become a stronger person and how to avenge her father.

Carista was confused, but the circumstances were eventually clear. The person who she had been talking to was a member of an anti-government union. The organisation, as the name suggested, despised the government and those in authority.

The union recruited mainly those who had been victims of the government/authority, specifically corrupt members of the government and authority.

Carista became a member of the union and was placed into the division that was filled with child victims of corrupt officers. It was during this period of time when she met a male who was the same age as her. He was called Kai.

Kai had a similar story to Carista and was also like her in a lot of ways. The pair became close friends.

For the six years, Kai and Carista, as well as the rest of the division, were trained physically and mentally. Although she became more aware and determined, she couldn't break through her emotional barrier. Kai, on the other hand, had become 'hardened' and protective. He was protective of Carista, in particular, as he had grown fond of her.

Carista, now 15, knew about this and felt the same way about him. But she couldn't do anything about this as she was distracted by her determination to avenge her father.

Eventually, Kai, Carista and the rest of the division were given a 'task'. This task was to eliminate any officers.

This task was easy for Kai, but not so easy for Carista. Her emotions prevented her from being violent.

And it was her emotions that led to her capture by the corrupt officers. Kai had been too distracted to notice Carista's capture, where she would remain until reaping day.

The reaping bowls were rigged so that several slips contained Carista's name, giving her a higher chance of getting reaped.