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Tribute Profile
Margaret 'Mags' Tyler
Age: 81
District: 4
First Hunger Games: 11th, aged 17
Mentored By: Adrienne Martins (11th Games), Auriel Hope (75th Games)
Kills in the Arena: 6
Mentoring Record: 14 Games/1 Victor - Natalie Blackman (17th Games)
Training Score: 3
Preferred Weapons: Knife, Awl, Fire
Stylist: Octavian Stonehouse
As I'm sure you all know, the tributes of Districts 1, 2 and 4 often ally once in the arena to form the notorious Career Alliance; the group of highly skilled tributes that offer us most of our greatest victors. Very few tributes from these districts have survived the arena without the alliance. However, Mags is one of very few to have done so successfully.
For most of us, Mags' Games are gone from living memory, having taken place over sixty years ago. In fact, she's the oldest of the twenty-four victors in the Quarter Quell, and one of the oldest living victors in all of Panem.
For those of you (and I presume that there are a lot of you) who don't remember Mags' Games from the first time round, here's what you missed. In all honesty, one of the greatest solo performances from a victor in all of Hunger Games history. Defensive, territorial and a tactical mastermind, Mags was able to defy the odds and defeat the Careers, utilising the arena around her to outsmart her opponents, burning down a whole forest to destroy most of her allies, and the supplies of those who survived it. What she lacked in strength, she made up with due to her mental capability.
Since the Games, Mags has mentored for District 4 on multiple occasions, claiming one victor shortly after her own Games. For the first few years after her victory, Mags regularly appeared in the Capitol, although in recent years, she's spent more and more time in the peace of District 4, having last mentored in the 66th Games, nine years ago. At home in District 4, she is known to have a positive relationship with Finnick Odair, and many see Mags as being the guiding light to Odair's stunning victory a decade ago, despite not actually being his mentor.
But now, Odair and Tyler must face the arena side by side, and this time I feel that the younger tribute will be caring for the older one. I'm not sure if we'll see a regular Career Alliance in this year's Games, but you can expect the tributes of Four to be allied, not matter what. With Finnick's physical prowess and Mags' experience, I wouldn't count District 4 out of the running yet. Not by a long shot. Whether one of the two will emerge from the arena at the end of the Games, I don't know. What I do know is that they'll give it their best shot.
That much, I'm certain of.
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