Saito Keitaro

- Saito Keitaro, Oppressive Wrath

Saito Keitaro is a citizen representing District Three 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: Saito Keitaro

District: Three

Gender: Male

Age: Sixteen

Alignment: Lawful Good

Personality: Many things can be said of Saito Keitaro, but at the very least you'll find out he's daring and punctual. Of course, he's also charismatic, clever and caring, but they're in shorter supply, especially considering they're mixed with vindictive aspects as well. His daring nature, though, is what he's kind of cherished for. On many occasions people will count on this and his hardworking attitude whenever they need cheering up. Nobody's truly perfect, of course, and Saito has a fair share of lesser days too. His craziness and coldness are far from ideal, and reach all around. Fortunately, however, his punctuality shines brighter on most days.

Height: 5'11"

Weight: 148 lbs

Weapon(s): Saito is extremely skilled at reprogramming things, and in the late-game he'll try to get his hands on the mines at the cornucopia to rebuild into hand grenades. Until then, however, he'd likely find himself at home with a Bowie knife.

History:

Backstory=Saito was initially born to a wealthy family, where he had every chance to get whatever he really wanted in life. He found himself soon becoming spoiled rotten, with every person within the house swooning for his charming personality, or laughing at his well-timed jokes. It soon began to grate on him little by little. He wasn't a massive fan of being spoiled like he was, and thus always used every chance he could to compliment the subservients to him and to hear them out when they needed someone to talk to.

Eventually, he began to find true indulgence in something: The Hunger Games. He was appalled, not by their premise, but more by how every victor was always so brutal and bloodthirsty. This was until he was 13, when a sweet girl from his very District, Mitsuki Kyouka, won. They were the same age, and she had so much potential as a figurehead of hope, that Saito quickly began to love her. He cherished her very presence, and began to use his contacts to discuss matters with her.

The duo quickly began to fall in love, and began dating relatively soon afterwards. They were reliant on one another to help with whatever they needed at the time. Their relationship was able to be described purely as wholesome. They had began to truly develop a real sentiment of passion for one another, and their minds soon became one, when tragedy struck.

When they were 15, Mitsuki's younger sister, Omura, was reaped, and was brutally murdered by the eventual victor, a savage, brutal, Career recruit from District 11. This fueled Saito's drive to avenge Omura so much that he decided that he was going to enter the Hunger Games. After a discussion with Mitsuki, he revealed that he wasn't planning on making it home if someone with so much more hope and potential could win over him.

He'd rather die to let the torch of hope live on than to snuff that light himself. If the worst-case happened, however, Saito was perfectly fine with winning if it meant he would be taking down a brute like Omura's killer to win. Guidelines/Condensed Version=
 * Born in a wealthy family and was spoiled rotten.
 * Felt like he didn't deserve this special treatment when many other citizens in his District were suffering.
 * His first steps towards mending this gap was by going out of his way to make sure his family's caretakers were taken care of, and felt like they had someone to rely on in him.
 * Eventually became indulged in the Hunger Games: he was appalled by the common result of victors being bloodthirsty monsters.
 * When he was 13, the District 3 girl, Mitsuki Kyouka, came out as the victor. She was the opposite of the typical victor archetype.
 * Saito saw her as a figurehead for hope, and he developed a close bond with her, eventually blossoming into a fruitful romantic relationship.
 * When he was 15, the younger Kyouka daughter, Omura, was reaped. She was murdered by a Career recruit from District 11.
 * Saito was driven into anguish and a repressed rage. He wanted to avenge her badly enough that he was willing to volunteer for the Games.

Strengths: Saito is completely morally good, and he finds himself always fighting for what he sees as the greater good. He also is incredibly intelligent, due to his experience in development.

Weaknesses: Saito has no real will to win. He wants to find someone with greater potential and hope within them to allow them to win over him. This can cause some serious friction if someone else wants him to win over them, if he finds that they're a better person.

Fears: Saito fears letting someone with no real hope in them win the Games.

Reaping reaction: Saito volunteered, and thus has no reaction to being reaped.

Group Training: Saito will try to get to know as many people as possible, in order to gauge how much hope they have within them.

Individual Sessions in Training: Saito will try to not show too much, and end his training session early (about four-fifths through the time he's allotted), saying that he doesn't want to reveal all his secrets yet.

Interview Angle: Saito would generally try to be a good person, trying his best to show off his best qualities.

Alliance: Saito would join up with the Anti-Careers, especially if they have young tributes.

Token: Saito's token is a heart-shaped locket with a picture of him at a ball with Mitsuki.

Mentor Advice: You're able to win if you want, but if you want to sacrifice yourself for someone with "greater hope and potential", then go for it, I guess? For what it's worth, I think that's incredibly stupid, but sure.

Inspiration and Etymology
Saito's main inspiration was Nagito Komaeda from Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.

Saito has no true etymology, with his name having been randomly generated. I could always look for one, but...y'know, lazy.

Trivia

 * Saito is rather unfortunately named backwards: according to nomenclature in Japan, his name (in a Western order) would actually be Keitaro Saito, with Saito as the family name, and Keitaro as his proper name. Unfortunately once more, I am too lazy to change this.