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[rivolted]

he  was  the  best  of  boys,  he  was  the  worst  of  boys,

[ TOMMY MARTINEZ, CIS MALE, HE/HIM. ]    introducing mateo silvinus, TRIBUTE of the 74th hunger games, representing district one. my sources say that they are twenty five years old, & that they’re pretty handy with spear-throwing & knowledge of edible plants. wonder if that will do any good in the arena ? anyways, caesar says you can’t miss them, because they remind everyone of always looking ahead, smiles that never quite reach the eyes, the wishes upon stars that never came true & the ones that did, & the warmth of dawnlight against your cheeks. 

CHARACTER INSPO   :   prince zuko  (  atla  ),   roma montagov  (  these violent delights  ),   yin nezha  (  poppy war  ),   orpheus  (  hadestown  )

i     know     you     would     like     a     god     to     come     down     and     feed     you     .     𝖆𝖓𝖉     𝖕𝖚𝖓𝖎𝖘𝖍     𝖞𝖔𝖚     .     /     there     are     no     angels     but     the     angels     of     𝙃𝙐𝙉𝙂𝙀𝙍     .

name   :   mateo silvinus

age   :   twenty five

gender & pronouns   :   cismale & he / him

district   :   one

occupation   :   tribute.

moral alignment   :   true neutral.

wcs at the end  !

when asmodeus silvinus and pearl blueleaf came together in marriage, they had only one goal in mind : to produce a victor. pearl had once been picked for the games, but someone else had volunteered, and asmodeus just wanted the bragging rights honor of having a child he could call a winner. 

mateo was born exactly a year after his brother, kaleb. from that moment, he was made to be a killer. a monster. a winner. kaleb was the prized child, though. the one who his parents put all their faith in. mateo was only second best; the backup.

no matter how much he tried, in the academy his brother was always better. quicker. stronger. smarter. mateo would train twice as hard and somehow come out worse than before. and when the moment of truth came, it was kaleb who graduated top of the class, kaleb who volunteered for the games. kaleb who would become a victor.

and then, live, mateo watched his brother’s skull get pummeled in by another tribute. not even a career, just some frightened district 7 boy who was just a little quicker. a little stronger. a little smarter. it was the first time he’d ever felt something like horror while watching the games.

now, it’s mateo with the weight of victory on his shoulders. top of his class, just like his brother. next year he won’t be eligible to volunteer, so he knows what he has to do. how could he face his parents if he doesn’t ? how could he face his brother’s grave ?

mateo struggles a lot. after his brother’s death, he’s begun to doubt the games as something that’s needed, but he’d never voice this. he’s equally troubled when he thinks about the upcoming games; he has so much on his plate. his parent’s legacies. his brother’s. dying seems like less of an abstract horror and more of a punishment, a retaliation of what he’s long since known to be true: he’s just not good enough. but equally terrifying is this: the thought of him becoming so cold, so cruel, a monster that would gleefully bash someone’s head in. most chilling of all: the lingering voice in the corners of his mind that whispers, you already are.

mateo is, uh, kind of scary ? not just because he’s a career - he’s just scary in general, with his permanent scowl and quiet demeanor. 

he’s also. very much good at Everything, at least everything he was trained for, because. well. he had to be, if he wanted to live up to his brother. mateo definitely thinks less of his skills and thus downplays them. maybe some will see this as an attempt to throw people off, but he genuinely doesn’t feel like he’s good at Anything. 

physical combat comes easy to him, but because, As Mentioned, he’s scary, he likes to use long-range weapons like spears since nobody really wants to get close to him. 

he’s also very....... .. . . . .. Mysterious. apollo is someone who feigns being the Dark Mysterious Boy, but mateo embodies it: it’s not an act, it’s a self-defense mechanism. why would he be vulnerable to a group of people who will be dead in the blink of an eye ?

RANDOM TIDBIT THAT WILL. EVENTUALLY BECOME IMPORTANT. WINK WINK. ever since he was a child, he’s wished on stars for good luck. every time he does it he feels ridiculous, but they haven’t steered him wrong yet - and hey, sometimes it’s good to have hope.

OKAY WCS !

i desperately want him to ally with other careers & very much be an outsider even within them. they keep him around because he’s Terrifying and he could be incredibly Useful in the games, but it’s like having a panther around at all times. just a lot of him skulking and grunting and being emo. also i just like the frenemy dynamic of career alliances.

someone, somewhere in the capitol, who either knows about the rebellion or has rebellious sentiments & they somehow meet and just. before he goes into the games i want my boy to realize this is Wrong once and for all. and, u know, if he lives, it’s a nice way of having a connection to the rebellion.

literally anythign. please. this is My Son even though i threw him to the wolves.