#* 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄 : philosophies of an oath | thg

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" she's old enough to be his mother ... " she grimaces, chin resting in palm as she takes another sip out of her gin martini. these parties suck. people are going to die in a few more hours — what is there to celebrate? but when @alyafae approaches, addison straightens herself and realizes she might've been a little careless ( damn, alcohol removing her filter & inhibitions ). quick! she needs to divert the conversation. " you uh ... want a drink? " / sc !

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she had the urge to deny, to feign ignorance but what the other said proved to be too tantalizing for the doctor to ignore. a curious brow raised, glancing at the direction of the socialite with a twenty-something-looking tribute in her arms. " it is a nice dress. " she spoke sincerely, straightening her back. one hand extended out, addison presented the other with a cordial smile. " i'm addison. "

there was a smirk on her face, hearing what addison had just said. a bit too loud maybe, but then again valeria had never cared about being subtle either. "oh, she is. i made the dress she's wearing, i had to listen for hours how she was looking forward to this." she commented quickly as she stopped in front of the other woman. "i never say no to a drink from a pretty woman. especially not one that's so entertaining."

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* 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄 : philosophies of an oath | thg

name: addison adrianne forbes montgomery age: 38 - 40 (thg to mj) born: the capitol of panem occupation: obstetrician, surgeon, geneticist affiliation : plutarch heavensbee (childhood friends)

backstory (some spoilers for tbosas):

born to a family that has old money ties — her mother, the sister of vipsania sickle; her father, a family of pharmaceutical giants — she and her older brother archer lived a life of privilege. despite that, she's never quite fit in.

since childhood, she couldn't stomach watching the annual hunger games despite all her friends, peers, parents, etc would huddle around and discuss it with glee. the girl could never understand how her father — a doctor, too — who's taken an oath to do no harm endorse this and every time he'd explain to her it would never make sense.

some nights she'd be left with her aunt because her parents were busy. auntie always told weird bed time stories — stories about how she should've been the winning mentor of the 10th games, how she almost had it all but instead of left to be 3rd. the games described painted a type of grotesque the little girl wasn't sure was even possible compared to the games she's witnessed growing up — let's say addie didn't sleep much when auntie would reminisce. addison's learned how to be tightlipped since a young age — after all, her father was having an affair ... multiple affairs and no one but addison was the keeper of these secrets. what's another secret?

when she was 16, her aunt passed away. being the only family who still kept in some sort of connection with her, she and the young plutarch decided to organize her belongings ( after all, the heavensbee and the sickles were old friends ). the two come across a dusty, old, unlabelled tape and out of their young morbid curiosity the two of them played it in a sequester quarters — thinking it would be some random collage of her aunt's youth.

little did they know these were the tapings of the 10th hunger games.

traumatized by their newfound obtained information, the two of them vowed to never speak of what they've seen. addison took custody of them and concealed them within a section of her thick "history of panem" glossary. now she lives with this knowledge, and the thought of the games existing only further disgust her. but what's another secret to carry? what's another unpalatable emotion for her to swallow?

so while her family continues to sponsor the games, she slowly pulls away from them during her studies — then, once she became of the best doctors panem has to offer she was too busy to speak to them. eventually she becomes numb. the only salvation was the prospect of bringing in new life and the unadulterated innocence of newborns.

brief mentioning of sex trafficking. after she delivered president snow's granddaughter, he bestowed upon her many "presents". gloss, they told her — here she thought it was going to be a luxury lipgloss but instead it was a ... boy. disgusted at what the president "given" her and stuck in a predicament of knowing certain death awaits her should she "return" him ... she allows the boy to stay in her apartment and left him alone for the duration of the evening. later on, she discovers what the popularity polls for the tributes were for, which further disgusted her ... resulting in her developing a reputation for being salacious amongst the socialites, but the truth is she wanted to keep these young victors away from danger as best as she could — even if some of them might want her dead

eventually word got out to some people within plutarch's network and that was when she learned that there's a secret rebellion in the making — a coup d'etat in the planning. albeit she disagreed with the cruelty, she was hesitant to agree to join plutarch and company.

that is, until the 3rd quarter quell. she knew some of these victors. and that was when she confronted the new gamemaster, yelling in a sequestered space for him to find a way to cancel the game — which, of course, was unreasonable in so many ways for her to ask of him. that was when she realized that this system ... needed to be crushed and finally, agreed to officially be apart of plutarch's network. she opts to stay within the capitol and eventually, is one of the key informants and figures to secure peeta and johanna as she too, was granted high enough clearance due to her family's background and her own professional background.

after the second rebellion (the death of snow and coin), she mostly travels around providing training to midwives and other doctors in the districts on how to provide good neonatal and maternal care whilst providing them with ample supplies.