PART I: CHARACTER BASICS
Faceclaim: Vanessa Morgan. Name: Portia Lux Age: 28 Gender: Cis Female Home: The Capitol Role: District 12 Stylist Personality: Determined, Ambitious, Opinionated, dedicated and self-confident Song: The Man - Taylor Swift
PART II: CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY
Portia had always been interested in fashion. Whilst most children from the Capitol enjoyed watching the games for the actual games, Portia from a young age, always enjoyed watching for what outfits the stylists would put people in. She really couldn't care less about the districts or the actual people. What she cared about was the pretty clothes that they were put in. Of course, she did watch the actual games. Who didn't? And she wasn't going to alienate herself away from her peers by actually not caring about the actual games. But, it was a well known fact that she was in it for the outfits.
Her family were always quite middle class. They rarely got invited to any parties, and they watched a lot of the games in the public galleries. This was where she spent most of her time when the games were on. Of course they could have watched at home, but what was more interesting than watching with others? And that was where Portia found her pack.
Portia had spent most of her childhood at a sewing machine, altering anything and everything that she could get her hands on. Portia absolutely hated most of the clothing that her parents go her. And so she spent a lot of time in her room creating her own things. This created quite a unique style of Portia, and she liked that. She liked being unique. Her family might not have had loads of money to spare. But, Portia did what she could to at least look as good as some of her other peers.
Portia knew that there was only one job for her. That was to be a stylist. And Portia had always had huge dreams. And so Portia set her sights on being a stylist for the Hunger Games. She knew it was a big dream. But she never let anything stop her getting what she wanted. She knew how to work hard, and she was determined to achieve her dream. And so, she carried on working hard. She knew she wasn't going to get anywhere near the games straight away, but she could get experience, and expand her sewing.
And so Portia got a job. At 16 she started working in one of the fashion shops in the Capitol. It was some retail work, with some design. But it was the start that she needed. It gave Portia the much needed experience she needed in order to achieve her goal. And each year, when the games were on, she made notes and she watched carefully. She watched the outfits, all the glitz and the glam. She was going to be prepared because one day she was determined to be there.
Slowly but surely Portia worked her way up in the fashion world, and when it rolled around to the 74th Hunger Games she was finally given her shot. Of course, it was with District 12. But Portia could honestly not care. It was her dream to work on the Games, and here she was. And she knew that if she did a good job, she could find herself styling one of the other, better, districts like One or Two. And with that thought in her head, she went into Styling Peeta Mellark with a smile on her face.
What she didn't expect was the actually develop a friendship with the other members of the District 12 team, and with Peeta himself. She'd gone into it in a mostly transactional way. It was supposed to be a stepping stone for getting a better District. But then, District 12 won. They had two Victors. Two victors at the same time. And suddenly, she was the stylist for one of the "better" districts, one of the "famous" Districts. And she loved it.
And of course, she had no intentions of not being Peeta's stylist now. She's famous now after all. And she's exactly where she always dreamt of being.
