Dessa Ackley ~ District 7

Name: Dessa Ackley

Gender: Female

District: 7

Age: 18.

Weapon: Axes.

Appearance: Tall and willowy, with a slight frame, long, amazingly curly ginger hair that tumbles down to her waist, and is often either worn loose or put into two plaits, sometimes even a high ponytail, if she can get it to stay put under the sheer weight of her hair. She also possesses, wide, crystalline forest green eyes framed by a fringe that is longer at the sides than at the front, and lightly tanned skin, with a ski slope nose and freckles across it that spill out right across her pale pink cheeks. She also has a mole under her left eye.

Strengths/skills: Hardworking and focused, as well as skilled with axes. Also fairly organized and a logical thinker, and can often tell if someone is trustworthy or not. Fairly brave, though often she wonders if she's brave or just extremely foolish. She's convinced herself it's definitely the former, as it's got her out of quite a few sticky situations before.

Weakness(es): Naive when it comes to the opposite gender, and sometimes quite selfish and cold hearted too, though tries as best she can to curb this. Also quite short tempered, and can fly off the handle at the slightest thing if put under stress, as well as her forwardness, which isn't exactly a weakness but tends to put peoples backs up, and it's also fairly easy to get on the wrong side of her.

Personality: Outspoken, stubborn, bold and fiery, with a short temper, and a sarcastic, dry sense of humour. Quite sweet if you don't get on the wrong side of her, which is fairly easily done, and kind, usually being able to spot a trustworthy person out of a crowd. However, she is also quite naive in some respects, such as she can easily have the wool pulled over her eyes by a member of the opposite gender, especially if he shows any romantic interest in her, which has led to her having several failed relationships before. She's also a quite anxious person, and almost always blunt, which often puts peoples backs up.

Backstory/History: Has led a relatively quiet life in the district with her family, training as much as she can with her older brother from around the age of 6, though had been working with axes since she was but a toddler, as is normal in district 7.

As soon as she reached 14 years old she got her first job, deciding to be a lead climber in the forests, due to her slight frame, and strangely enough she quite enjoys it, though the pay is pitifully low, but it's what most district 7 jobs pay, unfortunately.

In her spare time she looks after Echo, her 5 year old sister, and is teaching her how to handle axes and climb trees too, for which she has displayed quite a knack for, shooting up a tall tree faster than even Dessa can.

Because of her parents working such long hours as well, her father as a lumberjack and her mother as a carpenter, Dessa and Evan (Her twin brother, who works as a lumberjack too) run the house between them, doing most of the cooking, cleaning, and looking after Echo, who they take turns to take to their respective jobs with them during the day.

Interview Angle: Sweet, playing up that side of her.

Bloodbath Strategy: Avoid the initial bloodbath at any cost, if there is a backpack very close to her, she might make a dash for it, if not she'd run away, and keep running until she was far, far away, as far away from there as was humanly possible.

Games Strategy: Her tactic would probably be to find suitable shelter for the first night, and a safe water source, even food if she's lucky, and just keep moving and evading the other tributes as much as she can for the entirety of the games. :)Token: A silver ring with a heart shaped piece of grey stone atop it, set into the silver, given to her by her Mother on her 15th birthday.

Height: 5'10

Fears: Small spaces, spiders, and death.

Alliance: She's fairly open to allies as long as she trusts them enough not to kill her in her sleep or something, just as long as they're not the careers.