Name: Mailey Cabern
Age: 28
Sex: Female
Family:
Mailey lives with her mother and father who own a farm as well as a few chickens. She has two older brothers who are both married while she is still single.
She is a fast runner and is very good at hiding. She also has a large stamina and can run for awhile.
She has no strength whatsoever and cannot fight well at all.
Mailey grew up on a farm in District 10 with her parents and two brothers, River and Benjamin-Lee also known as Benji. River was six years older than her while Benji was only three. While her brothers did most of the grunt work, taking care of the corn and such, Mailey was tasked with taking care of the chickens. However, Mailey was never diligent in her work and the chickens got out often. As punishment, her father forced Mailey to run out in the fields and catch every chicken one by one; she was only allowed to bring one chicken back at a time to up the difficulty.
Now, chickens are hard to catch. They run faster than one would think and the only way to trap them was to sneak up and corner them. Mailey used a simple technique for this: she would run until she was a couple feet from them and then she would crouch low in the corn stalks – a personal favorite of the chickens – to launch a surprise attack on the unsuspecting birds. This helped her improve her running and hiding skills for which she would pull on when she was reaped.
She was only thirteen years old when she had been selected for the Hunger Games. She had been dressed in her favorite polka-dotted skirt and a pretty blouse the day of the Reaping. She had been adamant that she would not be picked – this was only her second year, after all – and was more worried about her older brother. River had thankfully grown too old and was no longer eligible for the Hunger Games, but Benji was sixteen at the time. So it was quite the shock to her when her name was called out by the purple-clad woman on stage whose name always escaped her. Mailey was never one for responsibility at the time and still clung on to her adolescence as most thirteen year old girls do. No one expected her to make it, not even her brothers who always supported her. She knew this, and they knew she knew, but they never said a word.
Mailey was neither strong nor skilled with any weapon set; try as she might, she never got the hang of a sword or a bow – not even a dagger! Dejected, Mailey was resigned to her fate. She had scored a two when she was judged by the gamemakers. She had been decided as easy pickings.
In the 60th Hunger Games, however, she had been successful! During the blood bath of the Cornucopia, Mailey had immediately run to the forest, only picking up a sickle for defense. She took to hiding anywhere she could, and devised a method of surprise attacks similar to how she caught chickens. She would hide in trees and wait for people to amble by her tree, before swooping down quickly and killing them with her sickle. It was a fast attack that relied on killing the opponent before they could react. This plan is what ultimately crowned her the winner.
Mailey came from a poor family and could never afford beautiful jewelry like the children in the richer districts. She had started to throw a tantrum about it, demanding a necklace. She didn’t care if it was pretty or not, she just wanted one. So, to get her to shut up, River had found a rock and wrapped a string around it. He presented it to her and she has been wearing it ever since.
I hope she's okay. I tried to stick with themes often found in the south for names. Names like Bailey and River are very popular. They also like the name lee and adding two names together. (I met a girl once named Anna-Michael who was from the south.)
