Name: James Jackson
Age: 16
Member of: District 1
If you’re from the Capitol what profession are you?: N/A
Appearance: James is an average guy for his age in most ways- his sandy brown hair that is usually combed down attests to that. He keeps it short because he once had it long, and it was a pain to keep up with. His eyes are caramel brown, flecked with specks of hazel, the only unique thing about his whole appearance. Some have told him that they seem “soulful,” but he has never thought that of his eyes. His height is rather abnormal, as he stands at 6 feet exactly. If he was ever drafted into the Hunger Games, this could be considered an advantage, but he has never considered the possibility of that horror. Despite that fact that he looks down upon those who train for the Hunger Games and doesn’t do that himself, James is still in very good shape because he is very into track, football, wrestling, and baseball. He’s the normal all-around jock and even has the cockiness to prove it. He’s not fat, just very well-built. If something actually got the chance to feel his chest, arms, or legs, they would only be able to feel a layer of hard muscle as a result of being addicted to playing sports. James has a small scar on his ankle from when Blake pushed him and broke his ankle. When it gets cold, his old limp sometimes flares up, but that doesn’t happen very often, to James’s relief. James has one other scar, this one a small faint line on his left hand, but he got that scar in a much more innocent way than how he got the scar on his ankle. He and Tony were playing tag when they were young by an abandoned house where there was still debris. James tripped and cut his hand on a piece of glass lying on the ground. It was a big deal at the time, but James barely notices it nowadays ten years later. James is usually seen wearing a t-shirt and shorts, ready to play sports at all times.
Personality: James, to put it simply, is a jock. He tends to think he’s God’s gift to girls, which he sometimes can be. He’s been in several relationships(none currently), and he tends to become more considerate and a good boyfriend to the girl he asked out because he’s a romantic guy when he’s actually dating. Even though he would never admit it, he likes imagining fairytale endings between couples and even imagining one for himself, even though he’s had such a tumultuous past. When he’s not dating however, he’s a total flirt, leading girls on and not continuing anything. James can be cruel to those who cross him, but he’s a completely loyal person to those on his good side. He likes to crack jokes to alleviate tension in his life, and some people consider him a goofball. As a result, his grades are not the best, but he’s not an idiot. He just never pays attention in class. He does, however, always do his homework, because he has a goal to be someone in life, to actually go somewhere outside of his family’s pathetic shack. He’s never told anyone, but part of the reason he plays sports(besides the obvious factor that he loves playing them) is that he hates being at home because it can be depressing there , and James is a generally happy person. His parents and Tony are still angered over Blake. James stopped being as close a brother to Tony after Tony became somewhat depressed after Blake’s betrayal, so Aiden, a happy kid, is the only reason James comes home at all.
History: James was born into a life of poverty and hardship. He was born into a large family, three children before him. His oldest sibling, Lucy, was ten years old and was already a major troublemaker in District 1. All of the Peacekeepers knew her name by heart. Blake, who was nine years old, was really quiet, rarely opening his mouth, partly because he was intimidated by his outgoing, boisterous older sister. However, unlike Lucy with her barely passing grades, Blake was one of the smartest kids in the district and wowed even the mayor with his smartness. Tony, aged 5 when James was born, was not loud or quiet, smart or stupid. He was more of the perfectly average kid, balancing out his two older siblings. The drama of his siblings had already invaded James’ life when he was born. James’s parents were struggling to make ends meet. Having a fourth child just made a bad situation worse. James’s dad considered James the reason they were so poor and lived in the slums of such a rich district and made him feel unwelcome and hated, mocking him from birth. This angered James from the time he began to understand his father’s hateful words, but it also made him a stronger person overall, learning to deal with mockery. Despite having a rocky relationship with his dad, James grew up a happy child because of the love from the rest of his family. Tony became his role model and his best friend, while Blake, who was usually quiet, doted upon James. His mother loved him and was the parent he could actually trust, while Lucy became his assistant for when he needed to just add some more trouble to their already chaotic world. Then, something happened when James was only five that rocked the family to its core- Aiden was born. If the family had been struggling before in finances before, they were now drowning in it, forced to support five kids and two full-grown adults. Because of this, Blake(14) and Lucy(15) put their names in for tesserae for the first time, something their parents had been hoping to prevent. They hadn’t wanted to risk their kids’ lives even more than they were already risked. Tony(10) and James(5) were both too young to put their names in for tesserae yet, so they weren’t risked even more yet.
The Jackson family struggled along for four more years, each year bringing them closer and closer to starvation. Aiden was a sickly child and needed constant care and medicine. This cost the family any surplus money they earned and more. Because of the money drain from Aiden, James’s father switched his anger from James to Aiden, since James was a normal kid, and Aiden was always so sick. Lucy moved out the day she turned eighteen, angering her mom because she had hoped for an adult kid to help support them. Lucy refused, though, saying she didn’t want anything to do with them. Lucy rampaged on about how much she hated the family for a good hour before storming out. Only a week later, Lucy was arrested for drunken vandalism. She begged their parents to bail her out, but they refused, saying that they were just as done with her as she had been with them a week later. When Lucy was released from jail a few months later, she never spoke to the family again, instead marrying a poor man from across town. Then, a few weeks after Lucy’s release from jail, on Blake’s eighteenth birthday, when James was nine, Blake did something no one ever thought he would do considering how quiet he was- he went to the Capitol to begin to train as a Peacekeeper. This shocked the whole family, especially Tony, who had been very close to Blake. James’s parents had outright hated the Capitol because of some incident in their past involving a close friend of theirs, a story James was dying to hear but one his parents refused to tell him for some reason unknown to him. Their parents considered Blake becoming a Peacekeeper a betrayal to the Jackson family name and shunned the second of the five children. The hole left in their home was dramatic. Even though Blake had barely talked, even to his family, he had been the one constant for all of them, something that would never change. Then, almost a year later, a few weeks after James’s tenth birthday, Blake returned, different from before. When James was walking to a friends’ house to hang out, he got into a playful fight with a girl for school. A Peacekeeper walked up to break up the “fight.” It took until the Peacekeeper spoke to tell them to shut up and go home that James recognized Blake. Blake had changed in so many ways. Instead of long brown hair and a thoughtful expression on his face, Blake now had short black hair cut in buzz cut and a seemingly permanent scowl on his face. He was no longer the happy, quiet brother James had once known- he was now a monster.
James refused to go home, confronting his brother and telling him to go away and change back into his brother. Blake shoved James to the ground. When he stood back up, Blake shoved him down yet again. This happened a few times until James fell at an awkward angle on his ankle and sprained it. That’s when Blake walked away, leaving James in pain to wonder what had happened to his brother in the Capitol to change him like that, curious and feeling a burning desire to find out. When he went to the doctor with the help of the people who had seen the incident, his family was shocked to James hobbling home on crutches and even more surprised to hear how that injury had occurred. A general hate against Peacekeepers and specifically Blake came into the family. When Lucy, who had been living her own life for two years now, heard what had happened, she called a truce with the Jackson family in order to ruminate over this new change in the whole entire structure of the family. Because of his crutches and the resulting having to keep inside, James had a lot of time to think over what had happened with Blake and decided that the cause must have been the Capitol’s teachings. He also wanted to know why his brother had become a Peacekeeper in the first place. He supposed that those were questions he’d never find out the answers to. He recovered quickly physically and was soon able to run around again like the ten year old her was. The next two years passed rather quickly for James, no big family drama issues occurring. When he turned twelve, though, he was forced to put his name in for tesserae in order to support his family. It wasn’t like he wanted to be in the Hunger Games or anything; he considered wants like that to be completely idiotic and a death wish. He actually came to secretly dislike those who were Careers, since they were all for a “game” that twenty-three out of twenty-four people didn’t get out of alive. He still hung out with people who were Careers, but his closest friends were those who kept out of stuff like that. James, unlike a lot of people in his district, didn’t really train for the Hunger Games. He did have the right build for it, and he was one of the best sports players at his school, but he wasn’t into going into a game of death. When James was thirteen, everyone in his family, including himself, anxiously awaited Tony’s eighteenth birthday. On both Lucy and Blake’s birthday, there had been lots of drama, and no one wanted a repeat of that. Tony, luckily, turned eighteen without incident and decided to stay at home for a year or two while he found a house and possibly a wife, if he wanted to. James, meanwhile, was quickly making a name for himself as one of the school jocks, playing several sports at once while still keeping a good amount of popularity and average grades. He had never been a genius like Blake, and he didn’t plan to be. Time passed quickly, and before James knew it, he had turned sixteen years old. His home was rather depressing because of Blake’s betrayal, so he wasn’t home often. Even so, life seemed to be getting better as the years passed, and he prayed that it stayed that way. He was becoming even more of a jock as he continued playing sports and increasing his popularity.
Subject: James Jackson 
Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:48 pm
Buuut I came up with some anyways. Good luck~
