Jan. 23rd, 2025 10:06 am
[HISTORY] canon and otherwise
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channelmyemotionsDue to the fact that Cinna is an established character with very little established backstory, a good deal of how I play him is based on headcanon. The following is Cinna's history, with my headcanons in italics and facts I made up outright in bold.
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A child of the Capitol, Cinna was raised like any other Capitol citizen...more or less. Working his way up in the fashion world, he was recruited as a stylist for the 74th Hunger Games. Traditionally, new stylists are given the least desirable districts to work with, however Cinna requested District 12 specifically for reasons unknown.
It is those unknown reasons that are what makes him so different from any other Capitol citizen.
Though born in the Capitol, Cinna can trace his family to District 11. One of the earliest victors of the Hunger Games, prior to the 10th Hunger Games, was the reason that for many of those early years 11 was considered a serious contender in the competition. Like Finnick Odair, 8th Annual Hunger Games victor, a boy named Harv, soon made his rounds in the beds of the Capitol's women during the annual Hunger Games in exchange for extra tessarae for his district that would not incur additional entries into the Reaping. One of these women would become very special to Harv, and soon during his annual visits he would come not just to see her, but the child she gave birth to.
This child, a daughter, became Cinna's grandmother. It was this history that Cinna carried with him as he grew up, the story of loving parents who could only be a ghost of a family--one that was only able to exist so long as Harv continued to make his rounds once a year in the Capitol and in that be allowed to see his daughter--and the tales of life in District 11. Subsequently, when he followed his passions and became prominent in the fashion scene, he chose to work with one of the lesser districts for his first Hunger Games as a stylist, selecting District 12 for its lack of previous victors.
Though his choice was an organic one, his continued participation was not. Approached by gamesmaker Plutarch Heavensbee very shortly after the dual victory of District 12, he accepted his part in the Rebellion without fear or regret. Knowing well the fates that could befall a victor, he wanted to protect Katniss through his support, and knowing Katniss as he did--having grown to love her--he wanted to make sure that not even the Rebellion took advantage of her.
So he played his part. He agreed to keep her in the dark for her safety as they planned to extract her from the Games. He did the work, he lifted Katniss up--and as he would tell her himself, when it all got to be too much made sure that when he finally pushed his luck too far with her interview dress, no one but himself would suffer the ultimate price.
He prepared her designs. He created the uniform of the Mockingjay--and should he fall, he left behind a message with the words he knew would remind her what really mattered in the end.
Panem doesn't matter. The Rebellion doesn't even matter--what's important is who loves you, who has your back, and not even death itself could stop Cinna from continuing to bet on his Girl On Fire.
A child of the Capitol, Cinna was raised like any other Capitol citizen...more or less. Working his way up in the fashion world, he was recruited as a stylist for the 74th Hunger Games. Traditionally, new stylists are given the least desirable districts to work with, however Cinna requested District 12 specifically for reasons unknown.
It is those unknown reasons that are what makes him so different from any other Capitol citizen.
Though born in the Capitol, Cinna can trace his family to District 11. One of the earliest victors of the Hunger Games, prior to the 10th Hunger Games, was the reason that for many of those early years 11 was considered a serious contender in the competition. Like Finnick Odair, 8th Annual Hunger Games victor, a boy named Harv, soon made his rounds in the beds of the Capitol's women during the annual Hunger Games in exchange for extra tessarae for his district that would not incur additional entries into the Reaping. One of these women would become very special to Harv, and soon during his annual visits he would come not just to see her, but the child she gave birth to.
This child, a daughter, became Cinna's grandmother. It was this history that Cinna carried with him as he grew up, the story of loving parents who could only be a ghost of a family--one that was only able to exist so long as Harv continued to make his rounds once a year in the Capitol and in that be allowed to see his daughter--and the tales of life in District 11. Subsequently, when he followed his passions and became prominent in the fashion scene, he chose to work with one of the lesser districts for his first Hunger Games as a stylist, selecting District 12 for its lack of previous victors.
Though his choice was an organic one, his continued participation was not. Approached by gamesmaker Plutarch Heavensbee very shortly after the dual victory of District 12, he accepted his part in the Rebellion without fear or regret. Knowing well the fates that could befall a victor, he wanted to protect Katniss through his support, and knowing Katniss as he did--having grown to love her--he wanted to make sure that not even the Rebellion took advantage of her.
So he played his part. He agreed to keep her in the dark for her safety as they planned to extract her from the Games. He did the work, he lifted Katniss up--and as he would tell her himself, when it all got to be too much made sure that when he finally pushed his luck too far with her interview dress, no one but himself would suffer the ultimate price.
He prepared her designs. He created the uniform of the Mockingjay--and should he fall, he left behind a message with the words he knew would remind her what really mattered in the end.
Panem doesn't matter. The Rebellion doesn't even matter--what's important is who loves you, who has your back, and not even death itself could stop Cinna from continuing to bet on his Girl On Fire.
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