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Post by Linna Rails on Sept 13, 2017 8:31:41 GMT -7
Linna Merry Rails
NICKNAMES: Linna, AGE: 21 GENDER: Female RESIDENCE: District 6 OCCUPATION: Actress SPECIAL INFO: N/A FACE CLAIM: Melissa Rauch PLAYER ALIAS: Rebecca
Personality At her heart, Linna is a storyteller. Despite some of the horrors this gift has led to in the past, it is also her one escape. Whether through singing or words, she feels most free in the middle of some story.
Linna can be seem very happy and sweet to most people. She has a sort of happiness that has not been entirely broken by her past, but some of it does have to be forced. Her will is not as strong as it once was, and she often lets herself be used for the sake of getting through whatever is going on.
History Mother: Erissa Rails (deceased) Father: Jordan Rails (deceased) Siblings: Jessa (19), Demetri (deceased), Jonah (14), Lucas (12)
Linna Merry Rails was born the first child of Erissa and Jordan Rails. The couple was never wealthy, but always had a lot of hope and happiness. Erissa designed train cars, and Jordan worked on maintaining the rails and setting new ones. It meant that he was often away, but the times they were together were wonderful. The little family continued to grow, and Erissa and Jordan grew a bit poorer but a bit happier with each child. They had a comfortable home life.
From a young age, Linna showed a passion for music and stories, often keeping her parents up late at night while she asked them to read her just one more story. She would sing constantly. When she was a little older, she took to learning instruments too. She could only learn and play at the school, since her parents couldn't afford to buy anything that expensive for her. But one year, on her 9th birthday, she was given a guitar, which she named Harvey. It was the best present she'd ever received.
Linna was ten when the war broke out. It wasn't until about a year later that she found out her parents were rebels, fighting to make a better Panem. There were times when her parents would be gone for days, and Linna and Jessa tried their best to feed their younger brothers and keep them safe. Mother lost her job and had to resort to manual labor like her father, and she was not good at it. War was not easy for them, but at least they still had each other.
At 14, she and Jonah, then 7, were arrested for taking scrap metal from the trainyard to sell for food. They were thrown into a large cell with other "criminal" children. Many of the children were worse off than her own family, and so hopeless. Linna often tried to cheer them up with stories or with songs. A month later, an emissary from her parents came to get Jonah but she wasn't set free with him. It would be a long time before she found out why: they'd more than trippled Jonah's freedom price for her, and there just wasn't enough money.
A day after Jonah's release, Linna was moved as well. She was sent to District 2 and given a guitar. She lived in the Nut and had two full time tasks to carry out: keeping the Nut clean and entertaining the Peacekeepers. Morale was important for the Peacekeepers, she was told, especially four years into the war. Her stories and songs were meant to give them courage or take their minds off the haunting memories of battles. There was a small pocket of other people like her, children taken from their home districts because of their talent for entertaining. It was with them that she found a home in this terrible and unfamiliar place, and they traded their own songs and stories amongst each other.
For a while, despite the exhausting work she was set to, Linna was relatively safe. No one harmed her or the other entertainers, as the high-ranking Peacekeepers forbid it. While she heard no good news from home, she also heard no bad. But the war continued to drag on and people got even more restless. Peacekeepers would occasionally touch her or flirt when she was singing or telling a story, and there came a time when no one was there to stop them from doing more. She was 16 when someone tried to bed her, and while she left him with an awful scar across his neck, he left her bruised and bloody. While she healed, those marks were like a shield from the others, but she did eventually heal, and someone tried again.
Linna stayed in District 2 through the end of the war. It was a hard place to live for her and the other entertainers, but at least she had them. Sometimes, they could keep each other safe, and sometimes they could simply console one another. When the war ended, the Capitol decided that all the entertainers, and the other servants pulled from their districts, would be sent back to their home districts as an act of good faith. Suddenly, the family she had known for six years was split apart, and only one of them - a boy a little older than she - was originally from the same district.
Back home in District 6, Linna's reunion with her family was bittersweet. Both of her parents had died fighting for the cause, as had Demetri. Jessa had been crippled during an awful explosion and confined to a wheelchair. She'd learned from her siblings that her mother and father had tried to get her back, had even raised enough money for her release, but had been told she'd died. Linna was devastated at all she had missed and lost, and while she should be overjoyed at least to be back home, she found it hard to find her place. Her siblings were practically strangers after six long, war-torn years apart. It was months before she could sing or tell stories again, and initially it was only to her siblings. She didn't know the residents of District 6 anymore, and was afraid to trust them.
One day, she heard of upcoming auditions for a Dark Days musical. The very idea of it initially seemed absurd and disgusting, but she kept passing the flyers in the town square. She would often think about it, and its promises to take performers all around the country. She remembered her entertaining family back in District 2 and longed for that sense of safety again. She hated the idea of leaving her family again, but Jessa knew how to take care of their younger brothers well despite her condition. Maybe the money could be good for her family too, and she'd send home what she could - if she could make it in. She had to make it in.
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