hunter twill // 50 // mentor for District Eight

Hunter’s personality didn’t age one day, through marriage, through the birth of three sons, through the loss of one, through a collapsing marriage, through a divorce, through over twenty years of mentoring, through good and through bad. Although he wasn’t as actively caustic as he used to be, he grew into a bitter man, rather than spicy, although his humor was still the everyday mask glued to his face that he couldn’t take off no matter what. Having a family meant the world to him, as little as he was showing it, and his children were the center of the circle - there was nothing he would deny them and he was living to ensure them a safe future that lacked nothing, material or emotional.

That was until Jean died in the arena and something cracked. The death of his middle child threw him between walls of ice and let nothing get to him anymore, even his own family that he claimed he would move mountains for. Nothing was the same and he distanced himself from everything, but mentoring, although it was supposed to be what didn’t bring Jean home safely, since he was the one to send him sponsor gifts and guide his arena route the best he could. 

Everything bad followed instantly. No matter how much he would have once tried to keep the marriage from falling apart, he became disinterested in it and his wife, somehow still resenting her of all people, when it was as difficult for him as it was for her. Although Hunter did love Hadley and what she represented, she wasn’t his Bella anymore, and his life suddenly took a turn where she was no longer welcome. Although he was the one to initiate the break, she is the one blamed for it, at least in Hunter’s book, and he would never miss a chance to expose his teeth in a cruel grin and laugh at her through a filter of bitterness that showed clearly, even in the dark.

connections

Jason Twill (son)

Jean Twill (son, deceased in the 141th Games)

Jager Twill (son, estranged)

Hadley Twill (ex-wife, bitter about)

Surya Mirga (mentor of the same district, good sort of friend)

Savana Steel (much younger fling; purely physical)

open (mentee, in the non-Games meaning of it, somebody else’s child he loves more than his own children, preferably a victor)