Name: Amaranth Iota Pypin
Nicknames: Pip
Age: 16
Sexuality: Bisexual
Birthday: May 3rd
District: 9 - Grain
Weapon of choice: Throwing Knives
Talent: General Survival, especially good at climbing
Weaknesses: Can sleep through practically anything (which could easily be her demise).
Hobbies: Eating! Anything and everything! Pip also really enjoys laughing and having a good time. She never really had to work hard, having grown up in a rather rich family. Pip really enjoys telling jokes and making people laugh. She's obsessed with how unique each person's laugh and smile is and made it her life goal at a young age to be very funny. She really enjoys bad jokes. She surprisingly really enjoys sewing, however "boring" it may seem to others. She's also big on cooking and cleaning, Pip maintains it's the only time her mind is ever really calm.
Likes:
~Chocolate!
~Hugs
~Laughter
~Puns
~Being Naked
~Sleep
~Boys
~Awkward Situations
~Cooking
Dislikes:
~Outdoors
~Muttations
~Alarm Clocks
~Buzzing Insects
~Clothes
~Boring People
~Being Treated Like a Child
Fears: Buzzing insects terrify Pip, as does deep water when she can't see the bottom. She is convinced there are muttations around every turn outdoors as well.
Token: A small, antique ring that was her mother's wedding ring.
Personality: Amaranth Iota Pypin doesn't do anything half-assed. She laughs hard, loves hard, hates hard, plays hard, lives hard, cries hard. Extremely outgoing and bubbly, most people would describe Pip as a breath of fresh air. She walks into a room and it generally lights up. If it doesn't, she makes it. She thrives on awkward situations and tends to coerce such awkwardness out of any encounter she's in. She loves a good pun, and never lets one pass her by. Pip will flutter from one conversation to the next with ease and leaves most people she's talked to wanting more. She loves life and enjoys all the thrills that come with it. Not fond of hard labor, she was always more content to be indoors. While she's an extremely social butterfly, she also has her quiet moments where she can be found sewing or cross-stitching. She's very talented at it and has made grand murals before that she has sold through her father at market. She also has a love of cleaning and cooking. It calms her ever-running mind down, which she is extremely grateful for. It's when she does her thinking. Besides, she loves eating, so may as well make a hobby out of it! Otherwise, she's constantly a-buzz with energy and exuberance. She is also fiercely loyal. It's not hard to become her friend, but to become her ally is a whole other task. Once you are, though, she's thick as a thief and won't ever let go. Beneath the surface, she's quite intelligent and thoughtful, but mostly she's quirky, witty, clever and just plain fun!
History: Pip was born to Parker Pypin and Isabelle Graintin. Their only child, she was showered with love and devotion. She wasn't spoiled though, she was taught how to save money and spend it wisely. Her family was very well-off, yes, but it was because of good money management skills. Due to Paker Pypin's high standing with the Capitol, he had known about The Games before they had officially begun. He hadn't had a hand in them, but he hadn't done anything to stop them either. After Pip had been born, the true horror of the games sank into him, and he began her training as soon as her mother deemed she was old enough. Pip began her training in throwing knives when she was only 6 years old, but quickly excelled. Her father had turned it into a game of it's own to be able to hit the target's bulls-eye, and Pip had queued in on the fun of it immediately. Every afternoon you could find her with her father, giggling and chucking knives like it was nothing. She became very good at it and developed a very keen, sharp eye.
In school, Pip was a joy to have in class. She constantly participated, even if she didn't have the right answer. Sometimes because she didn't have the right answer. Enjoying being in the spotlight, she grew to become a type of class clown. It brought her great pleasure to make others laugh, especially as times grew harder and the Capitol became more feared than when it was in it's younger ages. She made many friends, but only two extremely close ones: Jesh and Lua. Pip didn't care one bit that Jesh was poor and Lua would have been considered middle-class. She could make them laugh, and their laughs warmed her, so she decided to get to know them and did. The three became inseparable, an unholy trinity, they constantly played pranks on one another and on other people in the school. They loved each other as brother and sisters. Pip would make massive feasts and the three of them would sit and shoot the shit for hours, generally leading way to more introspective conversations about life and the world they lived in. They came up with new governments, old governments, ways to beat the government, ways to join the government, but all in theories. Regardless, Pip felt so strongly for her friends that she couldn't imagine a world without them. The Pypin's eventually became very close friends with Jesh and Lua's families, and great family 'reunion'-type get togethers eventually started happening bi-annually, the discrepancies between income brackets ignored.
Jesh and Pip would hold hands at every reaping, Lua standing as near to them on the "boys" side as possible. Each year, they'd celebrate not being taken by holding a memorial for their district, in private. There was yet to be a winner from 9, and they didn't see one coming any time soon. When the three of them were 15, Jesh's name was called into the Games. Pip had felt her blood run cold as Jesh squeezed her hand, kissed her cheek, then moved to the platform. Pip looked to Lua, who silently shook his head at her. They had all agreed, at a very young age, that if they had ever been called, they would go with pride and do the best they could. They would make sure that someone worthy of winning would win, whether it would be themselves or not, and they would make their families and one another proud. Lua and Pip had watched the Games in earnest that year as Jesh had made it through to the final 4. It was obvious that she had decided to favor the District 5 Male Tribute that year, and with good reason. He had been honest, caring, and had a large family waiting for him to come home. In the end, she took an arrow to the temple for him. Lua had held Pip as she cried until her eyes had swollen shut. It was the single hardest moment in her life.
With extra resolve, Pip had thrown herself at life. It now hit home how easy it was to lose. Making her father have Lua begin to train with her on throwing knives, she has become extremely honed in on her skill, and Lua has started to do well too. Late one night, she forced her father to promise he would continue to help Lua learn the skill if she would ever be taken into the games and not make it back herself. She has since thrown all caution to the wind, fully giving herself over to the person she chooses to be: the happy-go-lucky, "no sense in crying over spilled milk" type who loves passionately and lives fiercely.
Your reaction to being chosen for the Hunger Games: Expressionand then. Wait, what? Pip had actually begun to turn around and leave, confident she wouldn't be called. Just as she was leaving her name was called and she turned around, slightly confused. Then smiled, blew a kiss at the camera, and moved to the platform. It wasn't until, when saying goodbye to Lua in the private room, that Pip lost it. They talked it through, and while neither are 100% sure whether she can win The Games or not, they're both confident in her skills with throwing knives. She is excited about the idea of the Quarter Quell. She didn't tell Lua, but she's determined to keep whoever she feels deserves to win alive, whether it's her or not, staying true to the pact her trifecta made when they were 11. What better way to find out who it should be than 9 months living with your opponents?
Stylist:Matt Crow
