Strengths: Brave, determined, serious, independent, extremely practical, observant, cunning, strategic, physically fit, honest, cares for her family and would risk her life for them, a born survivor.
Weaknesses: PTSD, depression, suppresses her emotions, cynical, impulsive, in crisis and desperation she puts instinct and emotion ahead of thought, lacking in understanding other people, lacking in academic education and is naive about life outside of her gutter of a poverty district, naive about presenting herself in the spotlight for a survival not involving sneaking and hunting, inexperienced in politics, extremely cold to her enemies and to animals.
Powers/Abilities: Archery for hunting, running, trapping, climbing trees, searching for food and safe spots; anything to do with surviving in primitive conditions she is an expert at. She is also a good, soothing singer.
Will: Strong.
Home/Place of Origin: District 12, Appalachia, Panem, North America.
Occupation: 74th Hunger Games winner/victor (alongside Peeta Mellark), a hunter, a rebel fighter (if against her will, however she does understand too well the importance of the cause to take down the Capitol), the Mockingjay symbol for rebellion.
Social Standing: Introvert.
Ethnicity: Described as olive-skinned in the books. Caucasian in the films.
Sexuality: Heterosexual.
Other Trivia: Also known as the Mockingjay or "The Girl On Fire", and "Katnip" to her childhood friend Gale Hawthorne. A major heroine in a genre that crucially needed a positive one: Young Adult. Also an influential dystopian heroine. Very strong and yet very vulnerable at the same time. Tragic yet hopeful for a loving, peaceful world not far on the horizon. Her dire surroundings and circumstances, entirely manipulated by the adults around her, and how she reacts to them in instinctive, human desperation, make her utterly sympathetic. Not always likable but that is one of her strengths as a female character - as unconventional; a rebel. She is a young fighter and survivor in every sense - including in nightmares and various traumas unfathomable for a teenager - but she is not heartless. She cares for people but is afraid of getting close to them for fear of endangering them to her enemies at the Capitol; meaning President Snow. She is so strong in character, so human, and so respected by her author Suzanne Collins, that even being involved in a love triangle doesn't diminish her, for it is a detail in the background and does not overshadow the importance of destroying the dystopian government of her world. Through all her hardship, multiple breakdowns, being forced into the Mockingjay role against the Capitol, and all the destruction and death (including those of her family she had risked everything for and spent all her resources trying to protect) happening in her name, at the end of her story of survival she eventually marries fellow (equally traumatized) Hunger Games tribute Peeta Mellark, and they have two children. She is a girl who has been through so much, and will settle for trying to live for a better future.
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