Tessa Griffin

"you have one chance in life, i will not waste it"

- Tessa Griffin

Basic Info
Tessa Griffin

District: 4

Age: 16

Weapon: Tessa likes to use spears and she has very good aim, she worked with these when she trained back in district 1, she almost has a centimental connection with them, like they are good luck charms. Tessa also likes to use hand-to-hand combat, she is a very skilled fighter and she is much stronger than she looks, often a suprise to people, usually in martial arts she has an area of skill, as a weapon of last resort she would use a knife, though she is not very good at them, she doesn't know how to use anything else.

Personality: Tessa has a reckless personality and she just loves to make others think she is insane, she herself calls herself a normal girl, however, she is really not normal. Tessa is like electricity, she is fast and always seems to have too much energy, she is always twitching and her eyes are always darting around her face, she likes to make wierd jokes and she always laughs out loud, it is not for attention, she is really not normal like most girls, she just loves to get her hands dirty and she feels happy when she is tired and can't go on, she feels like she has done something worth while, like she is worth something. Tessa is a very optimistic person, she always likes to enjoy the little things If there is a days food left she will be the one to say, at least we have another day to live and she will make a toothy smile. Tessa is also one of those people who will say the wrong thing at the wrong time, usually based off her optimistic personality and her bright attitude to a bunch of sad or angry people does not help her. Tessa is a very active person, always eager to do something, sitting around makes her feel like she is trapped in the arena even longer and her only aim is to go home. Tessa may seem ditzy, that would be anyones first impressions of her, no one would suspect she is actually quite smart, though she will not show it, usually she will just know what she needs to do and she knows wierd facts. Tessa is usually a loud girl, she does possess arrogance about her skill because she is from a career district, but she knows it is all true, Tessa does not really like to talk to people who are not her friends, she thinks of it like she is in a farm, don't get attached for pigs to the slaughter, but, she likes to be around company, she would love to be with a stranger than be alone, she does have alot of confidence and she loves to voice out her opinion, don't think she will go soft when telling you what she thinks of you, especially if you are someone she does not like. Tessa will be seen as a rose without a thorn when she is not angry but if she is angry she will become a rose with a thorn, she will turn around from that nice girl to something differant, she will still be happy but she will seem manipulative and smart, trying to make others lives a living hell if they anger her or hurt her friends, she will always be crying but laughing about it, seeing the fresh oppertunity to make others who made her feel bad, she will be like a nightmare who is a dream. The only thing that can fuel her anger is if she is hungry for revenge, if someone kills a friend or lies to her she will become like that, she will use her weird attitude to her advantage and she will torment her target, she will not make their deaths fast, she will make them suffer for what they have done to her or/and others, the target may be walking and she will appear on a hill and a few seconds later she is gone, you will realise she has a dark side and when she is in the middle of it you want to be on her good side, she will be normal tp her friends, well, her opinion of normal. But, Tessa is usually a good and trusted ally and someone you would want to be on the good side of. Tessa is very social, and her positive outlook on life is all she needs to keep going on and she keeps her allies going on, she is a very good supporter. Tessa is very determined to do what she wants to do and she is very sure of herself, not really one to regret something because she puts her past behind her, she is a yolo girl, not really caring about what others say behind her beck, becuase she knows what she can do to them, and they will be the ones who will regret what they do, if there is anything she does wrong she will replace it with a big and wierd smile. When it comes to killing Tessa is fine for it, being trained in the art of it, and her no regret style personality does help her with it. Tessa would kill depending on the situation, since she tries to not make friends outside her alliance she has no attachments to anyone, she would not kill a young tribute, since she is still a nice person and if she wins she still wants to keep her humanity, still be able to call herself human when she leaves, she is sensitive towards that, if anyone is a threat or they have hurt her or her friends she will kill them, sometimes using her strange "torture"(stalking and creeping them out). Tessa does not handle loss well, sometimes she refuses to admit a dead friend and she will become violent and angry when someone tells her they are gone, and because of her reckless attitude she may do something stupid and leave her alliance, still seeing her dead friend and she will use her dark side to hunt down the killer, she would tell them when she has finally got the killer "you think i am insane, well, guess what, i am" overall, if you are a close friend she is the perfect person to be with she is a happy, optimistic and strong but if you get on your bad side you wish you would be dead rather than face the anger of this wierd and twisted girl. The truth is, Tessa never wants to hurt anyone but she feels the need to, so she may seem happy about them being dead but deep down she is breaking apart, she never wanted to hurt anyone, but she has been "forced" to by her strong personality.

Skills- Tessa is very powerful with fighting and is much stronger than she looks, this will come as a suprise to people. Tessa is very strange, very sly and creepy, she will jump out at you when you least expect it. Tessa is also driven by her own optimism, she is always so happy nothing seems to get her down, when someone angers her she is happy to get them dead or torment them with her creepy self and she pretends her friend is still with her, she may become angry if people tell her her friend is dead because she thinks they are trying to make her negative so is she makes it to the finale she will see her dead friends waiting behind her, giving her a reason to win. Tessa is also reckless, so she can do things without thinking and she does not have much regret, anything she does she puts it behind her, another way to make her optimistic.

Weaknesses- Tessa wants revenge, if someone dies she will be obsessed with killing the killer, it is becuase she feels the friend has died in vain and if she kills the killer she will theink they can rest, she will become a bit evil and her allies may debate if they can really trust her. Tessa is also very reckless, this is an advantage and a disadvantage, she does do stupid things that could put her in harms way. Tessa is also very strange, people may think of her ad insane becuase she is always doing weird things and you can tell she is wierd when you meet her, it is obvious. Tessa is also useless in water, it is her mortal weakness.

Fears- Tessa does fear loss, loss of a friends, someone she has formed an attachment to, she can't handle it, if someone she likes does she will still be optimistic but in her mind all she will want to do is see the killer suffer for taking away something that was important to her, if the killer is dead her friend has not died in vain, she thinks "an eye for an eye" is the perfect way to solve things, you will see her perky and nice attitude drop when she is on a missonn of revenge for a friend, she will make the killer suffer and regret hurting her friends. This is the only time Tessa could lose her kind attitude and she likes to see her dead friends as ghosts, so she will never be alone, she will never be the last one left, that is one of her biggest fears, the only thing that can replace her optimism with anger.

Reasons For Winning- Tessa volunteered for a reason, she volunteered to show everyone that she could win, that she was a fighter. Tessa has lost everything and she only has her small sister left, Tessa will go in the games and protect her sister from them, she has made the ultimate sacrifice for her and she will not let her sister die, it is something she could never think of. Tessa knows she only has one chance at this and she is not going to waste it, she wants to show the world they can take away her family but they can't take away her hope, in the games she wants to be a warrior who is fighting for something worth fighting for, family and life, she does not want to go in the games to kill a bunch of kids, she is not that evil, she enterd the games for family and love and she needs to win so she can keep her sister safe, the only important thing left to her in the world.

Token- A small stone from her district she picked up after volunteering

Alliance- Careers

Apperance
Tessa has tanned blonde hair that is usually tied up. Tessa has a dark golden eyes that are always moving around, she is not one to focus on one thing for a cartain amount of time, eye contact is rare from her. Tessa has lightly tanned skin and she is average height at 5,9. Tessa is quite beautiful becuase of her district 1 roots, but she will not use her looks to her advantage becuase she sees that as weakness and she wants to be seen as a strong willed girl who can fight for herself and is just as strong as anyone else without extra help. Tessa is always smiling unless someone she likes has died, then she will turn over to her dark side. She is always twitching and fidgeting like twirling her hair, chewing her nails and always blinking because of her strange personality, people will notice that.

Backstory
I was born in the common district 1 family, our lives meant nothing, but, back then we were full of hope, someday something would happen that would change everything, i still think everything will be changed, a world of no fear or death, i don't really hope it will happen, i know it will happen. Like i mean, how can you go on without hope, i feel sorry for the people who give up, have nothing to keep them going, i always have something to keep me going on. I guess even though what has happend to me i still have hope. You never realise what losing hope is until you sunnenly realise you have none left, like a hard punch to the face, how you react, that is really what counts.

I guess my family had a decent amount of money, i would usually go to traning for the hunger games, i really did not want to go, i had no need to kill other kids and unlike many others i wanted to remain human, not be a puppet to the devil or not be who i am, lose all my innocence. So, both my parents were alive, Winston and Felica, both common workers at a diamond factory, always hoping that something better would come, that everything would change for them. I guess everything did change for then, that was good, every cloud has a silver lining but it didn't really turn out great for them.

I also had a sister, Maggie, she was the most important thing to me in the world, we did have the sister relationship and she was just like me, well, when i was my happy and fun self, which i usually am. We were young and reckless and would do things together that would make our relationship grow, i guess she was my shoulder to cry on, same with her and me, she turned out to be much more important than a sister, something that really made me have a reason to survive, have a reason to fight.

So, things started to go bad, you could say. I was walking down the street with my family, they were on the way to work, they always were. I saw people shouting and getting to a fight, district 1 is a brutal district so a fight was always bloody, and alot of people got into it. I was 11 and i saw my dad run into the fight, blood was splattering on the floor and cries of pain were coming from the large group of people, i guess my dad had too much pride and he wanted to be the center of it. I now know he wanted to be more than a worker at a foctory, someone known for something and i realise when i die, i want to be known for doing something good, not another dead body, something someone will miss. To be worth something, i knew i would not be working at a diamond factory when i grow up, i wanted to be something greater.

I then saw my dad explode from the crowd, alog with another man. I saw something sticking from his torso and realised it was a knife, i was optimistic about what was goin g to happen, i told my crying mom that "at least no one was dead" and i gave her a big smile, that is what i always did, it was theeasy way to do things, just don't worry and stay calm. I screamed as i saw my dad and he stumbled towards us and fell to the ground. I realised i was crying, something i really did not do much, even when i was bleeding out with a large cut i did not cry, becuase i knew i could be saved. Now, as i see my fathers lying body before my, blood becoming a pool around him i run for the killer, i feel a new sense of my father dying in vain as the killer runs away, i realised, that very second the string that kept me from breaking had been cut, i needed to avenge my dad, i was not going to let my own father die in vain.

I never wanted to hurt anyone, never. I guess i snapped at my fathers death, i had never been sad or angry before so it was a massive shock to me at my thirst of blood for getting the man. I closed my eyes and felt harmony, i realised my dad was next to me, smiling, a ghost of my memory, anything was real in my mind, that helped. I then realised i wanted to my my dads ghost be free, i needed to kill the killer, l was like a rose garden that was growing deadly sharp thorns, something inncoent and sweet turn to something of danger that you would never suspect. I was also powerd on my the tears of my mom and sister, i was determined to make everyone happy, good intentions mixed with bad intentions. It was a bit wierd.

So, i reached the mans house after stalking him, i was armed with a knife, times were not safe, we have been told by the capitol something was going on with rebels so i decided to carry around a knife, i would never think of using it anyone but know i found a reason to. I broke into the mans house and i realised, did i really want him to die fast? I knew what i was doing was so so very wrong, i don't have one of those minds thinking it was fine to do what i did but rage took me, sometimes being as nice as i am can contribute to rage attacks. I decided to open the door of his room, as he slep i realised i'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream, or that is what he would think, if i did what i was doing to myself i would laugh, but, most people are not like me, afraid of how creepy and dramatic i make things, i am good at that.

So, i started to hit windows and the doors, i was sly and fast, skills i learnt in traning. The man was afraid but i did not feel sorry for him, i was always afraid of what i could become, but, now i realised the evil things i was doing were for revenge and good intentions, i was being human, i was insane, the man knew i was and i knew i was, sometimes i wish he had just never hurt my dad, i never wanted to hurt anyone. I then killed the man from behind and i cried, some of the tears were sadabout what i was doing but then my face became twisted with a large smile and an insane smile at what i had done for my dad, i watched my memory of him vanish away to a greater world. I felt empty, even though the maniac smile on my face was screaming the opposite, i just knew from then on i needed to be optimistic to survive and to this day i have managed that, always saying everything was good, i guess i kept myself going becuase i know i have a strong personality.

I arrived home with my fathers body in a small box, i move towards it and press my hands to his heart, i did it becuase i knew he was gone but he was free becuase of what i did, i smiled to my mom, avenging my dad had kinda helped me get over it, pretending i could see his "memory ghost" and whatching it become free with his killer dead. I was a wreak an hour ago but know everything was fine, i was giving large smiles towards everyone and telling them he was free, he wanted to die being worth something and he died protecting someone, his life wish had been gained, and that is all that matters, it is what you do in life that counts, here is some advice, don't spend it sobbing, get up and smell the flowers and everything will be fine.

Then, when i turned 12 it was my first reaping, i was not as excited as everyone else, eager to volunteer for a high chance to kill myself, i mean, c'mon, i am not that stupid. I knew if i was reaped i would noot be scared, i would fight with all my power and if i did i would be rememberd as a great person, or someone would volunteer for my place, i have never seen a person really reaped in ages, it just dosen't happen. I watched as people screamed, they had no idea what they were doing, i never thought i would volunteer but in the end i did. I watched as people died over and over again and they never seemed to learn, but, i guess it was not my problem, unless it was a member of my family or a close friend. I guess everything was fine, but, people say in this new world nothing will ever be fine, i still have the hope making me think everything is going to turn around, i have not lost it.

The next 3 years were kinda a blur, boring, me getting a job at the diamond factory to support my family, i guess i had broke my promise, but, i knew i was not going to spend my life working at a diamond factory, i was not like everyone else. I knew someday i would escape the factory and become something special, i just knew it, it was written in the stars for me. I was 15 when my mom died of a wierd illness, i was heart-broken but i was kinda glad she died at peace, and that i would not feel the need to avenge her, i just turned my head and tried to see the bright side, pretending she was still near me, not letting anyone tell me she was gone, no one will ever be gone, as long as they are a part of you they are basically alive, so really, my parents are still alive as a part of me, there is no need to be sad.

I realised my sister has become sort of a rebel, my parents death damaged her, i once thought we were the same but i don't break like others do, i don't snap like she did. Me and her were running out of food and with the reapings around the corner i knew she wanted to go in the games and win for mom and dad, but, i would not let her do that. She was becoming more distant, trying to make her departure less emotional. She was traning for ages like i was. I also knew i wanted to go into the games, i was growing the district 1 pride, i wanted to show everyone i was not a stupid girl who worked in a diamond facotry but a fighter who was loved by everyone, that was what my dad passed down to me and now i know why he went into the fight, i now know i would go into the fight. I then realised that i volunteered for the games for glory and i decided to make the ultimate sacrifice for my sister, to love and protect her, i was her gaurdian angel and i have spread my wings.