Wren Meda-Flutter

" Victory will be that bird's only cry " - Wren to The Capitol Audience

Personality
Wren is someone who likes calmness. Peace and solitude are their friends, meanwhile loud ruckus and too much of a crowd seem to inconvenience or annoy them. They like blunt people, not really enjoying the whole process behind dancing with words and creating lies. Though, they may do it at times. Also if necessary, and only if they feel like it's needed, they are brutal. Cutthroat. And all of that lies behind the seemingly harmless smile of someone who looks like they wouldn’t hurt a fly.

Backstory
Wren was once a lot more excitable, as a child anyways. They had few worries other than well, the well known situation with the capitol, along with the fact their father disappeared soon after their 5 years younger sister, Lark, was born. When Wren turned 10, their mother was killed by peacekeepers for treason and they were forced to leave all their friends and everyone they knew to live with their Aunt Starling on the other side of District 11. This was also around the time they began work in the fields, knowing they had to help their family make money.

Wren and Lark had, in a few weeks, discovered something their mother hadn't told them before. The reason their father had disappeared was, much to especially Wren's shock, to become a peacekeeper the second he was given the oppertunity. At this news, they stomped out of their horse crying and slept outside, until their family found them and convinced them to go back home. It was soon after this event, that they met Malachite and eventually joined her gang.

The gang tended to cause deaths of peacekeepers, in fact, that was one of Wren's favorite thing about it. The satisfaction they felt when they could feel like they were avenging their mothers death, although, it eventually became a hobby. After a while, the gang began to feel like a second family to Wren, for with them was one of the only places where they truly felt like they belonged. It was often late at night when they snuck out of their house to meet the gang, for they didn't wish for their family to get involved and knew they would dissaprove regardless.

Eventually, Malachite was reaped into the Hunger Games, Wren didn't think much of it, since they believed the reaping was truly randomized and that it was a mere coincidence Malachite was chosen. Despite one of their most notable members was in the Hunger Games, Wren and the rest of the gang carried on as normal during this time period. This was when Wren got into poetry, studing books on it and such. One day, a cat caught them writing poetry outside their house. The cat introduced himself as Sparrow. Little did Wren know that this would begin a friendship that would influence so much of Wren's future desicions.

Wren began doing more research on fighting and survival skills, especially after they believed that they had more or less mastered poetry. Sparrow helped to teach Wren some of these skills. Wren was thinking of inviting Sparrow to the gang when he began speaking of starting his own rebellion. Wren didn't believe he truly would, so they carried on as normal, sometimes amusing themselves with treasonous conversations of the capitol, It wasn't long before Oleander, another member of Malachite's gang had gotten reaped. This event convinced Wren that the capitol was out to get the gang for treasonous acts, such as the death of peacekeepers. That the capitol was rigging the reaping against them. Then again, who would think otherwise after two rounds in a row? They were still getting over, what they believed to be (and wasn't really) Malachite's death and their family began to get suspicous, why would Wren begin greiving so hard over two cats they believed they had never met?

Wren began to take their usual strategizing, training, and studying a lot more seriously. There also came a point where they began speaking in poetry casually. After this third round of the Hunger Games, Sparrow finally decided he should take his supposed rebellion to the next level. An actual attack against the District 11 peacekeeper's base. Wren warned him, tried to stop him, but it wasn't enough, he simply responded with, "Someone had to do this eventually." to Wren. After that, they went their seperate ways, Sparrow believing that Wren didn't believe in him. On the planned attack day, Wren decided to make one final attempt to stop Sparrow, going to the peacekeeper base and hoping to arrive before him. It was too late however, when Wren arrived, they had only made it in time to witness Sparrow's last breath as he fell to the ground, killed by the peacekeepers he was so confident he could defeat. At their final meeting, Sparrow had given Wren a maple leaf necklace while keeping a lightning one for himself. Wren, without thinking, had now snatched the lightning necklace before fleeing the scene, however, in the process, they tripped into a fire and had burned their paw.

The next week was spent allowing the burn to heal more, and immediately afterwards, Wren had gone back to the work fields, overworking themself. They even skipped meal times on days to earn enough money for not only a new reaping outfit, but for their family to survive, on these days, Wren often snuck some of the ready to harvest fruit to eat, only getting caught and punished a select number of times. Three years in a row, someone they had cared about had died and they still weren't finished grieving. The only way it may seem like that was because they had learned to hide their emotions and were often distracting themself with training.

The day before the reaping, Wren had spent all too much of their saved money on a dress coated in wren feathers, symbolic of their name, had had finished any of their few non treasonous poems they planned to present to the capitol in any events. That next reaping, just as expected, Wren had been chosen. They said goodbyes to their family, and took their maple leaf necklace, and what used to be Sparrow's lightning necklace, as their token in the arena.

Training
Wren had many strategies by the time training began, what they didn't expect was to become close with another cat from District 11 on the train, Freya, bonding over a rare understanding of each other. Freya became the only cat Wren was comfortable showing all their true emotions with. However, their bond with Latte, a district 11 cat, while still not equal to that with Freya, was also increasingly getting stronger, Latte's even becoming one of Wren's real favorite drinks after a flirting attempt.

Wren got along with most cats, especially with their manipulative skills and nicer facade, however, there is one tribute Wren had failed to get along with. A tribute Wren grew to fear after only one conversation. A cat who's manipulative skills could indeed compare to Wren's, who was equally observant and good with words. The District 5 tribute known as Argentum. However, it was this encounter that made Wren up their game. They became more manipulative and more flirty. This also showed other emotions from them, such as jealousy and anger, though.

Wren confessed to Freya, giving her Sparrow's necklace and telling her a love poem they titled Willow Tree, Freya, however, was flustered and didn't know how to feel, so Wren was left with no answer. They also eventually became allies with Croissance, sympathizing with them for Agentum and her friends had been lately bulling him. With each passing day, they became more nervous about how Freya felt, until one day, Latte came into Wren's room with flowers and a confession. Wren wanted to accept, but they'd confessed to Freya, and if she did say yes...well, cheating was one of the few things actually below Wren. So, instead, with a heavy heart, Wren turned him away. Latte's trust melted, he felt like he was betrayed by everyone, so, he attacked Wren, stealing their necklace, and giving information about them to Argentum (which Wren didn't know about). It wasn't long, however, until Freya and Latte fought, Freya taking back the necklace.

Freya gave Wren back the necklace as soon as she saw them, however, thanks to Latte, she had a few questions. Wren was willing to answer them but a few of the answers were lies for fear of the other's reaction It wasn't long before tribute prom, the theme was gemstones and Wren wore a nice ruby inspired outfit. Freya almost thought she wasn't going to have a date, due to Wren's last minute promposal, but she did in the end. On the elevator on the way to prom, Freya and Wren asked each other questions about their past, to which mostly honest answers were given. However, the questions were emotionally painful for the both of them. The second Wren separated from Freya, however, they were found by Latte, who they danced with and then fought with using items from the food table.

Arena
In the arena, the items Wren received in the cornucopia was a pole, which they eventually deemed as useless, a large net, and a package of dried fruit. They ran into Ren, an ally from training who they thought of as an apprentice figure and comforted them about the arena and the possibility of who the victor may emerge to be, suggesting that it was possible for the two of them to both win.

Their first battle they had won with a cat named Foxglove, though they had let the cat go alive as a simple act of mercy. Not long after this, they found Freya, though it wasn't exactly the happy reunion you might expect, for this was the moment Wren told Freya everything. The good, and some of the bad.

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Relationships
Thrush Flutter - Mother - At birth, Through family

Lark Flutter - Younger sister - When Lark was born, Through family

Starling Flutter - Aunt - Soon after mother's death, moved to live with her

Malachite Shard - Friend, Fellow gang member - Unknown, soon after news of father's position

Oleander - Friend, Fellow gang member - Unknown, through gang

Sparrow Deirdre - Friend - Outside house while writing poetry

Freya - Crush - On the Distict 11 train

Latte Pumpkin - Minor crush - During training

Venus - Ally - During training

Odin - Ally - During training

Argentum - Enemy - During training

Croissance - Ally - During training

Ren - Apprentice figure - During training

Trivia
- Wren learned sign language from Sparrow, he was their deaf friend.

- Wren's mother's side of the family has a tradition of naming their decendants after birds.

- Wren has unusually sensitive hearing, not a sensitive as a blind cat, however, they lack sleep due to picking up many noises and it's near impossible to sneak up on them.

- Wren's favorite color is red

Design notes
- Wren's left paw is burnt and covered in bandages

- Wren has a black necklace with a silver, outlined with teal, maple leaf charm hanging off it

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