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Name: Donovan Benoit
Age: 23
Games they won: 77th Hunger Games
Appearance: Donovan is tall and lean, with a
muscular form. He has got darkish hair and light blue eyes. He isn't that
tanned, due to spending a lot of time in doors, but he isn't very pale either.
Donovan doesn't dress with complicated clothes, he usually just settles for a
t-shirt, some jeans and his boots for the Academy. He isn't someone that is
able to be serious for too long, he prefers to walk around with a smile on his
face, since he thinks that it will probably help him have a better day.
Personality: Donovan is as stubborn as anyone
can get. The boy will never change his mind or course of action, despite
pressure to do so. He thinks that he has the right of keeping his own ideas and
thoughts, no matter what the others think. He is very stubborn and will follow
his way of thinking into the grave, if he has to. Same with any idea. He never,
ever gives up. It was his own idea, so why not follow it? He will stick with
his plans, and even if it doesn't work out, he will keep trying until it works
or he realizes that it's completely impossible. He can be considered as a
frivolous person, since Donovan is almost never serious in anything that he
says or does. He doesn't take anything serious, either, even insults that come
from other people, even people that he cares about. Of course, that is a bit of
lie, since it is impossible for him not to take everything seriously. There are
some thing that he can't just ignore, and somethings that he'll have to fight
back against, no matter what the consequences. Someone once told him to always
act a little better than what he truly was, so that's what Donovan does, even
if the face that he puts up is not what he is usually feeling. He knows that a
smile every day can make the difference, and that's part of why he acts like he
does, because he knows that his personality might give someone a good
opportunity to laugh, whenever they want. Deep down, he's scared. He's scared that
he doesn't have it in him to be enough, or to even be a good father to his
unborn child, but he knows he has to try. He has to find that courage, but deep
down, he's not sure if he'll be able to do it. Having come in and out of the
Games made Donovan realize how much his life mattered and since then, he has
done evrything in his power to keep it. It's precious, and only going to to the
Games made him realize that it could all end in one second, which made him
fight or it even harder and do everything while he still could, and while it
wasn't too late. Basically, what comes up of Donovan's mouth doesn't have a
filter. He can say literally anything else and talk about anything else,
because he likes to please people, so he'll just go down and talk about anything
that they wanna talk about. Since he was raised in a small house, Donovan
literally has no sense of shame or embarrasement. He used to ran around naked
with his brother when was a younger kid, so he literally lost any sense of
shame that he used to have. Donovan tries to hide his insecurities most of the
times, behind his brazen personality and whatever he does, but he doesn't have
much sucess, much of the times. He just drows his sorrows in drinking and sex (
girls and most of the times, even other boys) and tries not to think about it
everyday. He tries to help people but most times, he is only doing it because
he wants something from them too. Donovan only does things for himself and not
for anyone else, even if that might seem like it manipulates people for his own
good, and his personality is only what he uses to make sure that they trust him
enough or his manipulation won't work. He doesn't care if an act is morally
right or wrong, he'll just do it and then face the consequences with his head held
up high. He is a clingy person to those that he loves, like he doesn't do it on
purpose but once he really starts to like someone, he'll become very clingy
around them and usually be by their side. Not always, though, he isn't that
much of annoying person and he knows when people start to think that he is
annoying and he'll back of by then. He knows that when it's enough, it's enough
and that he needs to stop. When he was younger, particulary after he left the
Games, Donovan didn't know when to stop. He liked to annoy people, or to make
them laugh, depending on his mood. Growing up, and being a father to be, made
him grow up ans realize when he needed to stop. However, he still likes a
little joke from time to time, even more if it makes someone laugh. There might
be something behind, Donovan being as manipulative as he is, but there are
still a few people that he only wants to make laugh.
Strategy for mentoring: He plans on letting
his tributes know exactly what they're in for. He believes that those mentors
who don't tell their tributes what the arena is, and what they will face after
they win, are not being real mentors. The tributes deserved to know what they
will face after they win, but most of all, they deserved to know what they will
face in the arena. He's supportive of every choice they make, if he agrees with
it, and gives them the best advice that he can think of. Once they are in the
arena, Donovan is no person to waste sponsor money. He knows that every single
bit is needed for the future, so he'll save it, and hope that his tributes can
hold on until he can send them what they really need.
Relation to tribute: He doesn't get to
attached to them, since he knows that it's more than likely that they will die,
but he's still human. He trained them, and watched them grow from children to
warriors, and it won't hurt any less when they die. With each passing year, it
gets better, but not much.
Opinion on being a Victor: Once he managed to
volunteer, and once he got to the Games, Donovan's way of looking at life
changed completely. He realized that he hadn't done half of what he wanted to
do and if he died right there, he would have know what those things would feel
like. The Games changed him, yes, but Donovan would like to think that it was
for the best. When he was there, he realized how much it he wanted to life, and
the big mistake that he had made. The Games weren't worth his life, not really,
that was all bullshit. He realized that he wasn't willing to give up his life
for someone that wasn't himself, and that was what made him get to the end. The
way he wanted lto live made him stronger, because he wasn't willing to die
before he had tasted everything that life had to offer. He realized how much
his life meant to him, and that if he didn't make the mostout of every second
that he had, then it would have all been in vain.
Opinion on the Capitol: Donovan, like every
other young male Career, used to love the Capitol and what it stood for. Glory,
happiness, and the feeling of finally having everything that he ever wanted.
But once he stepped foot on that arena, once he had to kill for the first time,
Donovan saw that it was all a lie. There was no happiness in killing, and he
was the one that would have to live with it, for the rest of his life. He has
no love for them, but for the sake of his wife and unborn child, he keeps in
line, and does everything that the President requests him to. Still, Donovan
hopes that one day, it will change.
Opinion of escort:
Annoying. Donovan knows that they're necessary, to get sponsors and to help his
tributes through the Capitol, but he can't help it but hate them. People like
his escort were the ones that bought him, every night, and threatened to hurt
his family if he didn't do what he wanted. He has no love for the Capitol
people, so at the best side, he tolerates them.
Philosophy/Winning Advice: He signed up as a
trainer in the Academy, as most Victors did, and dedicated his time to training
children that wanted to be Victors. However, before accepting to train them,
Donovan always made sure that they knew what they were giving up and what would
be at stake if they didn't win. He didn't want people to make the same mistake
that he did, and come as close to losing their life as he was.
