[ti]Finished[/ti]Delilah "Delly" Cartwright

Delilah Aglet Cartwright

Basic Information

NICKNAMES: Delly
AGE: 18
GENDER: Female
RESIDENCE: District 12
OCCUPATION: Shoemaker
ALLEGIANCE:Neutral
GAME INFO: N/A
PLAY-BY: Jeannette McCurdy
PLAYER ALIAS: Rebecca

Freestyle

Personality
Delly is known for being one of the friendliest people you'll ever meet. To her, no one is a stranger for long. She is outgoing and often smiling. She sometimes sings when she's in a pleasant mood, and while her voice isn't the best, it's pleasant and she isn't afraid of singing in public.

Delly feels things deeply - everything from sadness to joy. She is incredibly empathetic, which can sometimes be more of a fault than a benefit. She aims to please others where she can. It is only with those she knows well, and who know her well, that Delly is able to speak her mind about certain difficult things.

History
Mother: Arina Cartwright
Father: Brannock Cartwright
Siblings: Denier Cartwright (male, 13)

Delilah Aglet Carwright is the first child of Arina and Brannock Cartwright, two well-off shoemakers in the merchant section of District 12. It's a rare person who calls her Delilah though - she has been "Delly" since before she could talk. The nickname always seemed to fit her happy, lovable personality so much better than her longer, formal birthname.

Delly had a fairly average childhood, at least for those children lucky enough to be born to parents in the merchant section. She made friends easily, and one of the earliest friends she made was Peeta Mellark. His family worked in the bakery only a few shops down from her family shop, and the two had an easy friendship. Delly would often call him her brother. When she was five, she got a blood brother with the birth of Denier. Often called "Denny", Delly welcomed her new sibling and took her parents seriously when they told her to look out for him. Denny is pretty accident-prone, and was especially as a young child, which gave Delly plenty to do. 

When she was ten, Denny brought home a little girl from his class whom he claimed was starving. Delly took pity on her as well after hearing her story - the fifth of five kids, her Mama worked in the mines in an attempt to take care of all of them. Their parents weren't home, so Delly and Denny filled the girl with food from their kitchen and even sent her home with some extra food for her family. When their parents came home, they had to explain to their children that they couldn't do that for every child, and might even be hurting that girl's family. Giving blindly to families like that would just make them beggers, and leave nothing for the Cartwrights. "You can teach a person how to better themselves, but you can't do it for them," their father said.

When Delly was 16, Peeta was reaped for the 74th Hunger Games. Of course, no one seemed as upset about this as Minnie Avalon, another of Peeta's friends who Delly had long suspected had a crush on him. Delly tried to comfort the girl, but it was no use. Minnie...well, Minnie was mean, and claimed Delly just wanted to steal Peeta away too. So Delly did something she would forever after regret - she left Minnie alone. Peeta didn't make it out of the arena, and Delly couldn't watch those last few moments when the fire consumed him. For a little bit, she felt consumed with grief, losing weight and staying home from school. It was only her parents and Denny that were able to help her through it. A year later, Minnie committed suicide, and Delly deeply regretted that she had done nothing, a feeling that again brought up all the pain from Peeta's death.

Since then, Delly has come back to herself and finished school with average grades. Now, she works in the family shoe shop, a business that has been passed down through the Cartwright family for many generations. She is sure this is where she'll spend the rest of her life, and she is mostly okay with that - just mostly. 

(Eileen , hope the information including your characters is okay! Let me know if you want me to change anything!)