Tribute: Odd Della Robbia

District Six: Transportation

The 47th Hunger Games Victor

Odd is what people call a nonstarter. That is people take one look at him and immediately write him off, either for being too short or too loud or too scrawny or whatever excuse they design on using that day.

It didn't really bother him except for when they started harassing him about it then he got really mad. After all, how the heck was he supposed to grow up all healthy like the careers did when he lived in a family of seven.

When the hostess calls his name, Odd grins and smirks and waves and makes a big show of being afraid, much to the crowd's amusement.

During the chariot ride, Odd is hilarious, winking and posing and flexing for the cameras, blowing kisses. He's totally got this in the bag.

He makes the career's laugh, ignoring the hurt look in his partner's face, sorry Tamiya. Gaining a spot with them provided he can prove himself, worth it. Unknown to anyone else in the room, Odd is pretty damn good at throwing stars, and arrows and darts and well pretty much anything that is aimed with accuracy. Once he realized his chances of being entered in the games are pretty damn high, well he figured it couldn't hurt.

At training Odd is tempted to get a low score, and surprise the viewers, but he remembers that he needs the careers until they turn on themselves, and they're least likely to let him in their group with a low score, even with the high score they're more likely to deal with each other first and view him as an easier target to go after later.

So it's with that plan in mind that Odd goes into training and tries his absolute best to his utter surprise he gets a nine. It isn't as good as District Two's, 11s and 12s or District One's 10s or 11s, but a nine is pretty up there.

It even has the added bonus of making him just that memorable and hopefully that will help him win.

"Tell us about yourself Odd!"

And Odd does, he tells them about his huge family, his many sisters, his hopes and dreams. He jokes and laughs with them, they never get a chance to catch their breath, if there's one thing Odd's good at, it's making people laugh, and he doesn't let up. Even when it's time to go, he accidentally trips over himself and takes a bow, leaving them in stitches.

It has the added benefit of further cementing his role as goofball in the career pack. Everyone more or less forgets about his nine and sure up against a career's twelve or eleven it's nothing, but a nine is pretty good for a district six boy that doesn't deal with anything that would require a significant amount of body strength. Still acting oblivious works in his favor.

When the arena comes into view Odd immediately curses under his breath. He fucking hates the cold. He's in a frozen tundra of sorts with various icy beams and ledges and Odd makes a decision to end this as soon as possible one way or another, he really doesn't like the cold.

The countdown goes off and Odd hangs back, dodging various weapons and other tributes, he's supposed to be a career which means he's suppose to do his best killing other children but when he sees the look on Tamiya's face he just can't.

That makes him as bottom of the barrel when it comes to the pack, and Odd much to his delight gets thrown the bow and arrow, the rest of them having better luck with their swords and daggers.

Honestly he manages to stay with the career pack for a good amount of time, when everything starts to go to shit, there's only about nine kids left.

It goes like this, he's with the group when they find Tamyia and how she manage to survive the long, he'll never know.

He's the first one who see her from a distance, in the trees, it's his job, surveying from the trees and when he sees her, he just sighs, already knowing that his alliance has come to an end, not that he would've lasted much longer, he'd heard the district four girl bringing up taking him out.

Still, Odd doesn't want to necessarily make them an outright enemy, but he's got no choice. He pitches a bow and arrow, shooting district two and district one's boys in the stomach.

"Run Tamiya!"

"Fucking traitor!"

Odd dodges the throwing knives, most of them, one gets his arm and that makes it extremely hard to leap from ledge to ledge. Still he manages to get away and not look back when he hears Tamiya scream, he tried his best he really did.

Odd spends the rest of the time, jumping from ice ledge to ledge, shooting random tributes down. At some point it comes down to a full out brawl between him and the girl from district four and isn't that embarrassing. Not that he thinks girls can't fight it's just the principal.

Still, he manages to get the upper hand and just sorta drive the arrow through her face, he spends twenty minutes throwing up before passing out from blood loss and waking up in the capital.

When X.A.N.A tells him the expectations, Odd keeps the smile on his face though he's screaming on the inside, but apparently everyone wants a chance to hang out with the funny victor from six, ignoring the fact that he's just fourteen, but he loves his family, he really really does.

He wants to cry, he gave them all the information they needed during his interviews. At least the other victors are kind enough to guide him as to what's to be expected. All this means, is that when Jeremie Belpois says he has a plan to get rid of X.A.N.A once and for all, Odd's in.

Odd isn't as proud as Yumi, stuff she wouldn't do or she thinks her family wouldn't want her to do, she won't whereas Odd will.