History Characters / TheHungerGamesLiteratureOtherDistrict12Residents

* CrapsackWorld: To put it simply, District 12 isn't a great place to live. Practically everyone is poor as dirt (unless you're lucky enough to be born into the merchant class) and the only industry is the highly dangerous coal mines, where you work 12 hours a day for your entire adult life, starting from the age of 18. Food is so scarce that people regularly starve to death in the streets, including children and the elderly.

!! The Covey

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The Covey are the family of musicians Lucy Gray Baird comes from. They were originally nomads who travelled around the country to entertain, but by the time of ''The Ballad Of Songbirds and Snakes'', they are stranded in District 12 due to the Capitol's polices. It's implied that Katniss Everdeen from the main trilogy is related to the Covey on her father's side.
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* ColourfulThemeNaming: Members of the Covey all have two given names, one of which is taken from a traditional ballad while the other is a colour. They are always referred to by both names.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Covey seem to be inspired by the UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}, being a group of itinerants who feel that they don't belong to any single regional border and provide musical entertainment to make a living.
* MeaningfulName: A covey is a group of quails, tying in with Lucy Gray's avian theme.
* MusicalThemeNaming: All members of the Covey are named after real-life ballads and poems. The most prominent, of course, is Lucy Gray (named after the poem by Creator/WilliamWordsworth; this is even pointed out in-universe). Another is Barb Azure (named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Allen_(song) Barbara Allen]]).
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[[folder:Maude Ivory]]
The 9 year old cousin of Lucy Gray Baird. She can remember a song after only hearing it once.
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* AmbiguouslyRelated: The book heavily implied that Katniss is related to someone in the Covey but never makes it clear who exactly it is. However, she’s the strongest candidate of the bunch. Lucy Gray says that she can remember a song after only hearing it once. The hanging tree song is only sung once but somehow Katniss knows it, implying she was the one who passed it down.
* BeautifulSingingVoice: As a member of the Covey, this is a given.
%%* ChildrenAreInnocent
* TheCutie: Is a sweet child who loves to sing.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She loves butter. Tam Amber fashions a butter churn for her birthday.
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[[folder:Barb Azure]]
The bass player of the Covey. She is a cousin of Lucy Gray Baird.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Lucy Gray mentions she's "seeing a gal down the road."
* TeamMom: From what little we see of her, it's pretty clear that she's the one taking responsibility for the rest of the Covey.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Wears an ankle-length, checkered blue dress.
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[[folder:Clerk Carmine]]
The fiddle player of the Covey and brother of Billy Taupe. His nickname is "CC".
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* AlliterativeName: '''C'''lerk '''C'''armine.
* IHaveNoSon: He seems a bit troubled by it but stands by those who kicked out his brother.
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[[folder:Tam Amber]]
The mandolin player of the Covey. He was found abandoned in a cardboard box as a baby and was taken in by the Covey.
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* TheQuietOne: Doesn't talk a lot, it's hard to find a single line of him in the book. Whether or not he ''can't'' speak or if [[ElectiveMute he chooses not to]] is unclear.
* ParentalAbandonment: Was found abandoned on the side of the road by the Covey when he was a baby.
* TheVoiceless: He rarely speaks.
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[[folder:Billy Taupe]]
The brother of Clerk Carmine and a former member of the Covey. Dated Lucy Gray Baird until Lucy Gray found out he was cheating on her with Mayfair Lipp and broke up with him.
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* DomesticAbuser: To Lucy Gray, he cheated on her and continues to pursue her, even though she made clear that she wants nothing to do with him.
* InterClassRomance: Billy, who comes from the Seam, is in a relationship with [[UptownGirl Mayfair Lipp, the Mayor's daughter]].
* MoralityPet: He actually seems to care about Mayfair to the point of [[spoiler:Turning on his fellow Rebels when they shoot her.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: The only member of the Covey to be antagonistic, and he was kicked out because he cheated on Lucy Gray.
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!!Other Past Residents:

[[folder:Arlo Chance]]
A District 12 rebel who tried to shut down the mines using explosives. He was one half of the couple "The Hanging Tree" was written about.
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* LaResistance: [[spoiler:Gets hung for his involvement in a botched rebel plot to stop coal production at the District 12 coal mines]].
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[[folder:Lil]]
The lover of Arlo Chance. She was one half of the couple "The Hanging Tree" was written about. [[spoiler:Ends up executed, along with Sejanus]].
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[[folder:Spruce]]
A District 12 rebel who wants to escape Panem.
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* GunNut: He has a large cache of firearms.
* NiceGuy: He's cordial to Snow, feeling that it's pointless to hate someone because of their ancestry.
* RunForTheBorder: He was already planning to get out of there but really lights out of there after being forced to shoot [[spoiler:Billy Taupe.]]
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[[folder:Commander Hoff]]
The Head Peacekeeper in District 12 during Coriolanus Snow's and Sejanus Plinth's time working there.
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* PunchClockVillain: Hoff is generally pleasant with his men but quick to order executions.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Commander Hoff is good-tempered and decent to the Peacekeepers he commands.
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[[folder:Smiley]]
A roommate of Coriolanus Snow and Sejanus Plinth during their time as Peacekeepers.
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* CategoryTraitor: Smiley was born in District 8 but helps the Capitol oppress the District's so he can have a better life.
* TheNicknamer: Smiley gives nicknames to everybody who rooms with him. Snow gains the nickname "Gent" because of his excellent table manners, and Sejanus is given the nickname "Bulls-Eye" because he's a crack shot with a gun.
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[[folder:Beanpole]]
One of Snow's roommates during his time as a Peacekeeper. His real name is Junius, but he's rarely called that.
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* IronicNickname: 'Beanpole' is a nickname usually given to tall people. Junius is short.
* NervousWreck: Beanpole is constantly worried, even panicking that he would be executed for treason just for being roommates with [[spoiler:Sejanus Plinth]], despite having no involvement at all in the rebel plot and not even having a motive due to being from the Capitol.
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[[folder:Cookie]]
The Peacekeeper cook.
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* CampCook: He cooks at the Peacekeeper barracks.
* EarAche: He lost an ear in the first rebellion.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Its unlikely that Cookie is his real name.
* OldSoldier: He is an aging combat veteran.
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[[folder:Mayfair Lipp]]
The daughter of Mayor Lipp. Has a personal vendetta against Lucy Gray due to Lucy Gray being the ex-girlfriend of Mayfair's boyfriend, Billy Taupe.
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* AssholeVictim: She was a horrible person, so there isn't much sympathy for her when [[spoiler: she's shot to death by Snow]].
* EvilCounterpart: To Madge Undersee from the original series. Madge is SpoiledSweet and a close friend of Katniss, Mayfair is a SpoiledBrat and hates Lucy Gray. The only thing they have in common is that they are both the mayor's daughter.
* RichBitch: She's the mayor's daughter and uses her wealth and status for her advantage, like [[spoiler:[[MurderTheHypotenuse getting rid of Lucy Gray]] by sending her off to the Hunger Games]].
* UptownGirl: Is the Mayor's daughter, and is dating Billy Taupe, a boy from the Seam.
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[[folder:Mayor Lipp]]
The Mayor of District 12 during President Snow's youth and father of Mayfair Lipp.
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* CorruptPolitician: Uses his power to try and get the innocent Lucy Gray killed, all because his daughter has her eyes on Lucy Gray's boyfriend and wants her out of the way.
* MayorPain: He's the evil variety. He sends Lucy off to what he thinks is her death, and assaults her.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring:[[spoiler:Mayfair, his only known child, dies in the book.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: Hits Lucy Gray, leaving a purple bruise.
* WouldHurtAChild: Sends at least nineteen kids, some of whom may have been as young as twelve years old, to their deaths.
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* BornUnlucky: She’s born into extreme poverty, is drafted into the [[GladiatorGames Hunger Games]] on her first year of eligibility despite her having minimal odds of being chosen, [[spoiler: and ends up being killed brutally in a FalseFlagOperation.]]

* NoNameGiven: His first name is never mentioned.

* NoNameGiven: Her first name is never mentioned.

* NoNameGiven: Their first names are never stated.

* NoNameGiven: Their first names are never revealed.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:They all die in the bombing of District 12.]]

* WidowWoman: Her husband and Mr. Everdeen were killed in the same mine explosion, forcing her to single-handedly provide for her three children while pregnant.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Her condition is never defined. She's described as "not quite right" and "living in her own world", and is treated as a sort of pet by the District 12 residents.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: 11-year-old Katniss didn't try offering herself to Cray when her family was starving, implying that he at least isn't a pedophile.

* DirtyOldMan: Cray takes advantage of poor, starving young women of District 12 to get them to sleep with him. Katniss says that if she didn't know how to hunt, she'd have been forced to go to Cray.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Cray' whereabouts are unknown after [[spoiler:Romulus arrives to 12]]

* BastardBoyfriend: To Lucy Gray, he cheated on her and continues to pursue her, even though she made clear that she wants nothing to do with him.

* CategoryTraitor: Smiley was born in District 8.

* OldSoldier: an aging combat veteran.

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: Is never mentioned whether she made it to the woods and away from firebombing. Considering that she is usually with Thom and yet he isn't shown to with HER after District 12 is resettled, she probably died.]]

* AnArmAndALeg: She lost an arm in a mining accident, surviving through resourcefulness.
* HillbillyMoonshiner: Vaguely comes across as one, selling alcohol to Haymitch and Cray.

The loving, hardworking mother of Gale and his siblings, Rory, Vick, and Posy.

Gale's two brothers and sister.

* BigBrotherInstict: For all of Gale's other flaws, he takes his PromotionToParent very seriously and is absolutely dedicated to helping his mother take care of the kids. He and Katniss first meet illegally hunting to provide for them and it's implied said hunting is what kept the five of them from starving. He also puts his name in for the tesserae, even though it puts his name in to be reaped more times, to get the extra food. Katniss says several times that she has no doubt he'd have volunteered like she did if Rory was reaped. In ''Catching Fire'', he's aged out of being eligible but Katniss says that he and Hazelle are determined for the boys to not have to take the tesserae. He's very upset when Rory does after he gets publicly whipped for hunting and dries up their mom's clientele. He also works six days in a week in the mine to provide for them. We only see him briefly interact with Posy very briefly but it's implied the three of them see him as their father figure when Katniss explicitly tells Leevy to only fetch Hazelle after he gets whipped because the kids seeing him like that would upset them too much.

* {{Determinator}}: Not in the fighting way like Katniss, but she works hard to provide for her four children, even with Gale bringing home fresh meat from the woods and the money from selling his kills.

* BusCrash: [[spoiler:After not being seen for the better part of two books, Madge is killed in the District 12 bombing]].

* TakingUpTheMantle: {{Subverted}}. In Catching Fire, she is trained by Katniss in the woods to hunt in case Katniss is gone and can't provide for her family. [[spoiler:But since she is killed in a bombing, this turns out to be pointless.]]

* AdultFear: Their youngest son is taken away to participate and almost certainly die in the Hunger Games.

* OutnumberedSibling: Posy is the only girl in her family, with three brothers.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:Of course the all-loving adorable little sister wouldn't make it to the end of the story...]]

* CynicismCatalyst: Not that Katniss wasn't already on her way there, but [[spoiler:Prim's death]] ''breaks'' her.

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:In the end, Gale gets what he wanted -- to secure victory for the rebellion and overthrow the tyrannical Capitol. However, it cost the life of his surrogate "little sister," Prim, who was killed by a double-exploding bomb that he invented, and this would lose him the love and friendship of her big sister Katniss forever.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Wants revenge more than anything on the Capitol after it carpet-bombed District 12, screaming at how he was forced to watch the District 12 children burn to death. However, he sees nothing wrong in killing Capitol children out of revenge, as he considers them just as guilty as every other Capitol citizen for the atrocities committed against the districts.

* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:He helped create the bombs that killed Prim, which leads him and Katniss to feel guilty about it. This is likely the biggest cause of the shattering of he and Katniss' already fractured relationship as neither feels they could face each other with what happen to Prim]].

* TheLancer: Becomes Katiniss' most trusted ally in Mockingjay. He's even given the CodeName Mockingjay-1. [[spoiler:Unfortunately it gradually falls apart as the story goes on, and by the end the two of them sever ties with each other over what happened to Prim.]]
* LeaveNoSurvivors: When besieging the Nut, Gale suggests causing an avalanche to destroy the fort, a plan ended up killing thousands. He wanted to bomb the entrance to ensure nobody could escape from the Nut, but the others would not agree to this part of the plan. See "WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide" below.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Surrogate big brother to Prim. Katniss thinks of him this way in the first book as well, but by the second book it starts getting...complicated.

* NobleMaleRoguishMale: The roguish male to Peeta's noble male. Gale is hot blooded and passionate, believes that the ends justify the means, eager to go out and fight, and became his family's main provider at age thirteen when he began poaching.

* StealthExpert: Part of his skillset as a hunter is being able to sneak up on prey in the woods without making a single sound. Katniss remarks on it when she compares him to [[CityMouse Peeta,]] who can't seem to get around in the wilderness without making a ton of noise.

* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Appears to be the case for one chapter of ''Catching Fire'', however it is far more likely to be Katniss' fear of losing him in general after he was flogged rather than any genuine romantic interest. She may appear to have chosen him in that chapter, but when she leaves his side to go to bed her first thought is that she wishes Peeta would come to bed with her...

* CorruptPolitician: Uses his power to try and get the innocent Lucy Gray killed, all because his daughter doesn't like her.

* WouldHurtAChild: Tries to have a 16 year old killed.