Specialties: (Athletics: Climbing, Athletics: Throwing, Larceny: Sleight of Hand, Athletics: Archery)

Appearance and Personality:

Jasmine is a lithe girl. Light and nimble, she was used at the top of the orchard trees to gather the hardest to reach bits of fruit. She's in possession of long, strong limbs, something akin to a monkey that's made her a natural climber.

Long hours in the sun at the tiptop of trees has tanned her skin into a soft brown, and done work to bleach the darkness of her hair to a muted brunette from its once dark brown, nearly black, color. She wears her hair, most frequently, in a high and tight ponytail that keeps it away from her face and fails to hide piercing emerald green eyes.

For all the tomboyishness that she is known for, when she does clean up, her natural beauty is hard to deny. Even without makeup, and with the handful of scars that have come with climbing quickly through the trees, her high cheekbones (accentuated by a poor diet and hard physical labor) lend a sort of royal or noble look to her that is matched by the fact she carries herself, most of the time, as though she owns everything around her.

For someone who comes from somewhere with so little, she sure can act like she owns a lot, though that's mostly a facade to cover up her other inadequacies. The snooty attitude hides the girl who was whipped for taking a mostly rotten apple.

Background:

Jasmine Coverfield comes from a family of climbers. Her father was a climber, her brothers (of which she has 3, 1 elder and 2 younger) are climbers. Her mother was a climber until a fall rendered her earthbound. The woman now mends the meager clothing of the family, patching trousers and shirts, repairing gloves and boots.

Jasmine took to the trees at the early age of 7. She learned to climb with her elder brother and father and was soon swinging through the upper branches of the orchard. She was welcomed among those lofty heights as her light body and strong limbs meant she could reach the hard-to-reach sections of the trees. From there, she learned to throw as it was faster to toss fruit down to carriers than carry it in a cumbersome basket or backpacks.

Now, being a part of a poor and underfed District surrounded by luscious fruits and delightful smells can be mighty tiresome and testing for a young girl unaccustomed to the tastes of a good fruit. Jasmine learned the taste of a lash when she pilfered a honeycrisp apple. Thirty lashes left its mark on her back, and after three weeks loss of climbing, she'd learned her lesson: If you're going to take something, do it without anyone noticing. She was simply lucky the lashes were to her backside and didn't mar her beautiful features as she grew toward womanhood.

Her first reaping was lucky, as she didn't need to put her name in more than once. In her second reaping, her elder brother, Nomad, was reaped for the Hunger Games and, unfortunately, didn't survive to the end. Facing a bad harvest the following year, for the family and not District 11 as a whole, led to Jasmine entering for more tesserae for the family. Jasmine beat the odds that year, but the following proved, as she put in for extra tesserae again, that her family did not carry such a lucky streak.

Experience Expenditures
Archery FS Dot 1 (2xp)
Archery FS Dot 2 (4xp)
Archery Spec (3xp)
Merit Striking Looks 2->4 (8xp)