Dolly Mentalium

Dolly Mentalium is a tribute made by Cait. Please do not use her without permission.

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Name: Dolly Mentalium

District: Any, but she's more likely to be entered in 3.

Gender: Female

Age: 14

Personality: Being a ragdoll, Dolly may seem like she’s emotionless most of the time. Nothing can be read on her face or picked up in her voice. She keeps the same monotonous voice for everything, leaving everybody confused on whether or not she was joking. But there is another side to her, one that shows her in another light. Secretly, Dolly is depressed. She never had to be what she is now, yet fate was especially cruel to her in ways no one could imagine. Because of this, Dolly is very lonesome. The only friends she had abandoned her, meaning that she is used to the horrors of solitaire. Despite any harsh intentions of her, she is actually thoughtful and means well. All Dolly has ever wanted was someone who truly understands her – A friend. However, any arguments or disagreements that emerge will remind her of the dark times. Thus she will become furious at everyone in sight, including herself and any possible allies. Then her killer and fatal version of her arrives. Her soulless black eyes will change in size, her left pupil shrinking whilst her right one enlarges itself. She will induce mental sanity in anyone who provokes her, just by allowing them to stare into her eyes.

Height: 5'4

Appearance: When one first glances at her, they can immediately tell what she’s supposed to be. Her pale and almost white skin (ignore the RL for this) is made entirely from cloth. Due to this, there are many thread stitches all over her body where each quadrilateral piece overlapped one another. Some of the stitches have loosened, but Dolly can easily stitch them up with one of the many needles found and stuck in her body. This also gives her a better chance of using one to break free in case she’s been tied up. Her hair is a light shade of brown, usually tied into twin ponytails or pigtails. Despite this, it is not her actual hair. It’s just a wig that’s been attached to her bald scalp. It wasn’t always bald, but a certain event in her past made it that way. But her most noticeable features are her eyes – They are a pure soulless jet black colour. It’s almost as if her pupils consumed her irises. Nobody could ignore that, not even for one second. Depending on Dolly’s personality, they change size as well. Whilst her left pupil shrinks, her right one will increase in size, almost filling the white of her eyes. Anybody who sees this will be freaked out at the very least, but most who stare into her eyes at this moment will all of a sudden gain hallucinations that haunt them. However, there is a way to escape this (mentioned in strengths).

Weapon(s): Dolly’s main physical weapon is a poisoned needle. Many are already stuck in her body, giving her a small advantage. However, they’re hidden under secret folds so that it isn’t obvious at first glance. Each sharp point would then be dipped in poison, ensuring a better chance of Dolly's victim dying. Dolly has used this to her advantage a few times, yet she doesn’t seem too keen on using them. Instead she would rather use her eyes'''. They may not seem much at first glance, but just wait until Dolly''' undergoes a negative event that disturbs or angers her. When her right eye grows larger, it depicts a mutilated corpse of the person looking in it. If her soon-to-be victim looks at it for long enough, the scenery will induce the person with hallucinations after going insane. But this will not happen if they look away before 5 seconds pass. Depending on their mental strength, they may or may not have a few nightmares in the night. This will not happen, however, if Dolly is in a positive mood.

Strengths: The biggest strength of Dolly is that fact that it’s very difficult to be rid of her'''. She’s almost literally heartless, yet she somehow''' lives. It’s located elsewhere, meaning that she can surprise opponents with news of her survival. They would also be shocked at the fact that Dolly can run quite fast. Her legs are just like the rest of her body, only the cloth is stitched onto actual legs from a human being. Most would suspect that the human legs would rot away into nothing but bones, but this is not the case. Scientists injected a chemical into them so that they would never decompose. Most people would also reckon that Dolly is as harmless as a butterfly from her stature and her looks, yet she can easily prove herself to be a threat. She uses her alleged weak stature to her advantage, pouncing on those who don’t suspect a thing.

Weaknesses: Dolly has a big lack of upper body strength. She may be able to run like the wind, but she cannot lift up moderately heavy objects like swords and anything else of the kind. Were she to try, her arms would probably pop out of their sockets. This also means that she can’t climb up or down anything for her life (although falling can’t kill her unless she lands on the wrong place). But Dolly has one major weakness – If somebody was to strike her brain, Dolly would die almost instantly. Her heart has been conjoined with her brain, but a blow to her brain/heart will put her out for good. She’s always expecting something to strike her there, so if somebody was to get close to her head area she would freak out and go psycho on them. It’s not her fault she wants to live.

Fears: Fears can claim even the darkest of hearts like that of Dolly’s. This is shown whenever somebody or something touches her head. She will shriek like a banshee before her pupils dilate. She’s smart and knows that she has to protect that area no matter what. She also fears losing both of her arms, because she cannot stitch them back onto her body unless someone else was to help out. And even then, they would need to handle one of her needles with precaution. She doesn’t want to be responsible for the death of a friend, which is why she fears losing them. As mentioned in her personality, Dolly wants somebody who she can care for and vice versa. After possibly discovering them, she doesn’t want them to leave the world. But she can handle it herself… eventually.

Training Strategy: Training with the other tributes will make Dolly go crazy… but in a good way. She will scour the competition and stalk any of the tributes who she’s interested in joining with. She may then reveal herself and try to speak to them, wanting to ally with them. If they accept, Dolly will then give them warnings for what could happen if things go awry between her and them. But if they decline, Dolly will try the same thing with the other groups and tributes until she either a) Finds a trusting group, or b) is left on her own. When she knows who she’s with and who she’s against, she will start training at the survival stations.

Private Training Strategy: Dolly doesn’t care at all what score she gets, but she does want to tick off the Capitol in some way. The Gamemakers already know what Dolly is capable of, so they will likely have extra protection in case Dolly goes ape and tries to lure their line of sight to her eyes. Instead, she will brutally slice and dice a few dummies here and there with her needles. Then she will do some creepy ragdoll tricks to freak out the Gamemakers a little bit. At the end, Dolly will simply walk out. Nothing fancy, just plain and simple.

Interview Angle: Dolly will likely have a blindfold on and be led to the interview in case she accidentally makes someone mentally insane. When she answers the questions, she will try to seem too innocent to be a threat. If there any questions that seem personal or could expose her, Dolly will have to lie no matter what.

Bloodbath Strategy: Even though Dolly knows it will be hard to bump her off, she wants to be on the safe side. She will run out of the bloodbath immediately if she's in an alliance with someone else. But as a loner, she will grab a backpack for herself whilst trying to stay away from smart tributes or tributes with an axe/sword/anything that could be used to decapitate her.

Games Strategy: Dolly will literally play the entire games safe, always hiding out of sight if she's alone. However, if a tribute passes she will try to sneak up on them before trying to kill them with her needles. With an alliance though, she will follow all instructions in fear of not being accepted.

If she reaches the finale, Dolly will more of her colours show. She will flee from her alliance and go off on a tribute killing spree. She will try to trick the other tributes by pretending that she's dead/dying, so that they get closer. Dolly will then strike will a needle, almost cackling as the blood shows. If she misses, Dolly will force the tribute to look into her eyes. This will continue until only her and/or her allies are left. She will likely kill herself if she sees that the rest of the competition are her allies/ally. But as a liner, Dolly will try to overcome all competition.

Alliance: She will literally accept anybody as her ally.

Token: A locket from her childhood showing who her parents were. (This will make more sense in the backstory, trust me. c:)

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Song Inspiration
(Note: The songs that will be used are 'Carousel' by Melanie Martinez and 'Storm the Sorrow' by Epica)

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