Eleanor-Rose Cartier

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Name: Eleanor-Rose Cartier

District: 1

Gender: Female

Age: 17

Personality: As a resident of a career district, Eleanor is a hard working girl who is resistant to turmoil and pain. She always tries her best to do the most she can. An opportunist at heart, if she has a goal and there is an unexpected-yet-useful path to get her closer to it, she will absolutely take the shot. She is willing to experiment and try new things if it meant she could progress further. In addition to this, she has a strong level of perception, making her aware and observant of her environment. However, she defies career expectations by being a selfless soul who tries to shy away from self-absorbed and selfish actions, unless being selfish would help her for her goals. She does her best to help others in need, although this will change slightly whilst she’s in the Capitol: She’ll refuse to help the non-career tributes. She is also different from other career wannabes in how calm she is in most situations: She’s not excited about killing tributes, battling or winning. However, her steady composure allows her to make rational decisions if she’s in a good mindset.

Despite all this Eleanor is often tired, which can negate her levels of perception. On the contrary, she can also be restless and constantly on the go. Her tiredness and restlessness can lead to her getting easily distracted. A self-conscious girl, she is also obsessive about her appearance: She’ll constantly look in mirrors to make sure she looks flattering and not overweight. Due to her lack of self-confidence, Eleanor has a tendency to criticise everything she does, which isn’t helped by her perfectionism. Apart from issues with her image, Eleanor is also submissive in terms of raising ideas: If someone raises a debate, she is likely to bounce across both sides often as she is easily swayed. Overall, whilst Eleanor is ambitious enough and kind for a career, she has a lot of issues with herself as an aftermath of what her life has led her to.

Height: 5’6

Weight: 90 Ibs (Underweight)

Appearance: Eleanor could almost be compared to a porcelain doll in terms of appearance. She has wavy chocolate brown hair that falls just above her waist, almost always immaculately groomed. However, her hair is damaged and considerably thinner than what it would've been. Her tired and weary eyes are also chocolate brown. Her skin tone is lightly tanned and akin to butterscotch. Her frame is slim and petite, although the slimness seems to be and is on the unhealthy side. Overall, she is a beautiful doll that appears too fragile to touch.

Dominant hand: Left-handed

Weapon(s): Throwing knives, bow and arrows

Strengths: A protégée of long-distance weapons, Eleanor is very accurate with her weapon, even with moving targets. This is partly boosted by her acute perception, whether it’s that of her environment or of other people. Her perception abilities allow her to predict how a tribute will move or if there’s someone hiding nearby. Her other strength is her hunger tolerance: As a victim of anorexia, she has gone days without eating before. Therefore she has learnt to ignore hunger for the most part.

Weaknesses: Eleanor is constantly tired and sluggish as a result of her eating disorder. Therefore, she may not be fully present when it’s time to fight. Her physical strength is also lacking as she is primarily a long-distance fighter as opposed to a melee one. The other major weakness Eleanor has is that she is easy to distract: Because of her unfocused nature, she would be more susceptible to surprise attacks and may even falter in a battle.

Fear(s): Gaining lots of weight, losing control of herself, lipophobia, arachnophobia

Reaction to Fears:

Gaining lots of weight: This fear would be triggered by teasing/taunting comments about Eleanor’s appearance, or by a warping mirror making Eleanor appear wider. The one thing Eleanor regrets is her past: She was bigger than other girls her age but not by a landslide. Ever since she was teased, Eleanor resented herself for letting her body get to that stage. If Eleanor returns to thinking she is overweight, she would hide away from everybody else so that no one else could taunt her over her size. She’ll become obsessive with what she looks like and zone out looking at her reflection. Panic attacks would haunt her dreams and, after enough time worrying about herself, Eleanor’s mental health could regress back to where she was months and years ago. This fear stems from the teasing and jokes people made about Eleanor, as well as an incident in which her mum said she could do with losing weight.

Losing control of herself: If anything or anyone reminds Eleanor of her disorder, she will start to grow paranoid about losing her self-control and regressing back to her anorexic stage. She may end up having a panic attack and isolate herself to calm herself down. By calming herself down, Eleanor wants to ensure that she can get back in control of her thoughts and rationality. It’s possible, if pushed far enough, that she’ll eventually give in and go back to her old state of mind, and that’s why she’s so worried about losing control. It can take 15-30 mins for Eleanor to calm down again. This fear stems from Eleanor’s revelation about how dangerous her disorder was and how she wasn’t in complete control of her mind after all.

Lipophobia: The fear of fatty foods, it’s only triggered if Eleanor is offered to eat a decent portion of fatty foods. She is, however, capable of eating small chunks of fatty foods in moderation. If presented with fatty foods, Eleanor will sweat and become uncomfortable. She’ll make excuses to avoid eating a moderate portion of it. Otherwise, she doesn’t react too much. This fear stems from an incident where Eleanor choked on a pork chop. Whilst her anorexic battles may have amplified her fear of fats to a fair extent, she is slowly recovering from this fear.

Arachnophobia: All spiders of all sizes terrify Eleanor. If she sees a spider, whether close or far away, she will scream bloody murder and back as far from it as possible. She won’t calm down until the spider dies or is moved elsewhere. This fear stems from an incident in which her sister Penny accidentally caused a nest of spider slings to fall into Eleanor’s hair.

Allergies: Insect stings

Training Strategy: In training, Eleanor will get to know her fellow careers whilst brushing up on her weaponry and agility skills. If there are other tributes she can observe, she will try and analyse which tributes are good at which skill, which tributes are faking weakness etc. As for survival skills, she won’t neglect those stations: She just won’t give them as much attention as the ‘physical’ stations.

Private Training Strategy: In private training, Eleanor will start by showing off her long-range skills with stationary targets. Afterwards, she will show off her abilities with moving targets. At the end, she will bow to the gamemakers and leave them a parting gift of a smile.

Bloodbath Strategy: Eleanor will head straight towards the closest long-distance weapons she can. If she has throwing knives, she will stay on the ground and eliminate the closest tributes to her and stop them taking any supplies. If she gains a bow and arrows, she will climb on top of the Cornucopia and snipe down any tributes within range.

Games Strategy: Throughout the games, Eleanor will remain loyal to the careers unless there is an opportunity to better herself. In terms of hunt vs defend, she does mind as long as she is not alone in doing so. If she is defending, she will camp on top of the Cornucopia to keep an eye out. She’s also likely to sleep on top of the Cornucopia for her own protection: Unless in deep sleep, she’d be able to hear someone climbing up.

If there is a split in the alliance, Eleanor will side with whoever is the strongest side regardless of her own views. However, if the alliance is showing signs of a rift and it’s still large, she will try to kill off one of the careers in their sleep to spread mistrust and gain more opportunities.

Alliance: Careers

Token: A piece of red yarn. Eleanor did an exercise involving yarn to help her distinguish from her perceived body proportions and actual body proportions. Every now and then she uses it to reduce the impact of her body dysmorphia.

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Showmance: Maybe/One-sided: If Eleanor is involved in a showmance, it would be one-sided where she rejects her love interest.

Other quirks: N/A

Family/Associates: Lustro Cartier (Father), Styletta Cartier (Mother), Penny Cartier (Younger sister), Tourma Gryffon (Crush)

Backstory
TBA

Backstory Summary

 * Born into a middle class family.
 * Spoiled with food from a young age.
 * Grew up slightly chubbier than most girls her age, but not overwhelmingly overweight.
 * Some of the trainees joked about her weight if she didn’t do things perfectly. Though she tried to smile along it bothered her. Even when the training helped her lose weight, she was still made fun of. It didn’t help that she had hearty portions during lunch, as they fuelled the teasing even more.
 * On one occasion, her friends and their parents visited her house. She overheard the adults saying she could do with losing weight.
 * After that she locked herself in her room and stared at herself in the mirror. She could only see herself as overwhelmingly obese. The more she stared, the more she wanted to take back control of her body.


 * One day, she saw a homeless person loitering outside the academy. She gave him her entire trayful of food. This gave her the idea to starve herself and eat very little, whilst at the same time doing some good for other people.
 * At first, she had a hard time adjusting to and committing to her new diet. Eventually she got into the swing of things
 * To begin with, she was happy with her results. Later on she grew tired and kept shaking all the time. She and her family assumed she was cold
 * At the academy, she only ever took small portions. Some of the other trainees noticed this, but Eleanor brushed them off claiming she ate earlier.
 * The cycle continued. Even though she got to an average weight, she could only see herself as overweight. Her body dysmorphia would only worsen.
 * She was even more determined to lose weight after the teasing about her weight stopped.
 * As her weight decreased, Eleanor thought she was still overweight. Looking at the scales and mirror didn’t change her perception.
 * Eventually she was noticeably underweight. Her fellow trainees expressed concern, but Eleanor kept claiming she was fine.
 * Though her other mates gave up on her, somebody called Tourma didn’t believe her. Locking her in a room, he demanded the truth. Eleanor eventually cracked and broke down, worrying about how fat she was.
 * Tourma tried to assure her that she was nowhere near large and never was. She couldn’t believe him. Though Tourma insisted on her getting help, this only made her more reluctant to change her ways. In the end, all Tourma could do was offer his support to Eleanor if she wanted it.
 * A few days passed and she hadn’t changed anything. She was in the career academy when she felt light-headed. Tourma noticed this and dashed over to her, catching her just as she fell to the ground and blacked out.
 * When she woke up, she was in the academy infirmary. Tourma was there and begged her to tell the nurse about what she was doing. Reluctantly she agreed: She was finally admitting to herself that she had a problem, but she was lost on how to handle it.
 * When she was talking to the nurse, details of her diet came out. She was then referred to a psychiatrist.
 * Eleanor was made to do several activities, the most noticeable one being a string test. She used the string to estimate how large she thought her body parts were. The nurse then got another piece of string to measure how small those same body parts were. This finally proved to Eleanor that she had a problem.
 * At home, her parents heard of the news and tried to force her to eat lots of food. She threw up after being forced to eat very rich food in large quantities. This pushed her away from getting help as she didn’t think anyone would understand.
 * Tourma personally escorted her to the psychiatrist, who offered her leaflets to take to her parents.
 * It took a while for Eleanor to show improvements. However, when she was told she looked better at the academy, she freaked out and hid in the toilets. Tourma rushed in to find her tracing her face in the mirror.
 * Tourma kept comforting Eleanor. It was then she realised just how much she appreciated and cared for him. Following this revelation, she would gradually develop a crush on him.
 * In the months leading up to the reaping, Eleanor made an almost complete discovery. There were a couple of days where she ate very little or threw up her food, but they didn’t happen often.
 * She kept offering little gifts to Tourma to show her appreciation. He would do the same for her. Eleanor knew there was some sort of chemistry, but she never spoke up about it as she thought she didn’t deserve Tourma.
 * Those feelings of not deserving her crush would convince Eleanor to volunteer for the games in order to be good for him. He was, after all, one of the most eager for the games.
 * At the reaping, Eleanor volunteered. She tried to spot Tourma in the crowd, but it was too hard to spot him. She was, however, relieved that Tourma wasn’t picked as the male tribute.
 * During the farewells, her family were the first to wish her luck, followed by a couple of her friends, then Tourma. She wished everyone a warm farewell… for now.

Inspiration
'Empty' by Jaiden/Boyinaband

Trivia

 * Cartier comes from the luxury brand of the same name