trinkett: (she's gone to the other side)
Effie Trinket ([personal profile] trinkett) wrote2013-03-15 09:30 pm

First Dispatch. How Utterly Dreadful. Voice.

[Anyone who meets Effie in this post will meet her in full Capitol fashion and makeup. She landed in the shop, you see. A stiff turquoise-blue structured gown, fortunately, landed beside her.

And the wig -- thank the Senate! There were plenty of wigs and there was HER wig, tight and blond and curled and fabulous -- and the new violet wings sprouting from her shoulders were quite irregular but one never drew attention to one's irregularities. If anyone asked, they were Fashion. With any luck everyone who was anyone in the Capitol would be wearing similar ones, soon.

The makeup took a bit longer. Effie finally settled on green because green is one of her Power Colors and it IS almost spring, after all. She drew her lips in a pursed bow to reflect her dissatisfaction with everything.

It had only taken a quick readthrough of the Guide for Effie to grasp somewhat what was going on. It wasn't terribly shocking, but it was highly disappointing. She'd wanted to be in the Capitol for Katniss and Peeta, not transferred to a new post just at the height of a possible professional and personal triumph. Her charges were brilliant! Cinna had shown their fire to everyone. The sensation had been rampant and her promotion near-assured. Effie Trinket's star had been rising in the Capitol, the heart of Panem and civilization.

And then Someone had Bumped her. It was the only explanation for all of this business of waking up in a clothing store in what was obviously a cheap, outlying serfdom of Panem. A lesser woman would have called that Bumping Someone a dirty word, but Effie had dignity and would find other ways to trample that usurper into dust once she got back on her feet and back to the Capitol.]


Attention, Attention:

[Her usual rather chirpy voice is a bit tempered by the fact that she has only recently awakened in a clothing shop in a strange town.]

Would any available Peacekeepers in District Luceti please report to the Clothing Emporium? I repeat: any available Peacekeepers. The Diplomatic Escort for the Tributes requires a full compliment of Security. [Yes: she was still clinging to what she assumed was her now-stripped title and position.]



Thank you.

[[[[IMPORTANT NOTE: While Effie WILL be in full Capitol couture clothing and makeup for this post, some of my icons are simply those of her PB, Elizabeth Banks. I will probably try to MOSTLY use the icons from the Hunger Games movie but just assume she's all made up and dressed to the very weird nines even if you get a plain Elizabeth Banks icon! THANKS.]]]]]
inyourfavor: (for Kruschev and Kennedy)

[personal profile] inyourfavor 2013-03-24 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Unfazed: "Not in the eyes of her would-be sponsors, now, is she? Tell me this, Major Sharpe: if Katniss should be mortally injured in the Arena -- if fire, for example, scorches the skin from her body, or a fellow Tribute lodges a dagger in her breast -- whom do you think will be there to deliver her?


Sponsors.

She must shine brightest."
greenjacketed: (♖ who do they think they are?)

[personal profile] greenjacketed 2013-03-24 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
...He was shocked by how much these threats -- as latent and as indirect as they were -- troubled him. Particularly the one about daggers and breasts, for he remembers what Katniss told him about Clove. About a murder. About a suicide. Sharpe channelled his unease into a brief, breath-like laugh. A nervous habit; a way to hide his emotional response.

"You're late, Miss Trinket. Our Katniss has already outshone the lot of'em."
greenjacketed: (♖ but your soul you must keep)

[personal profile] greenjacketed 2013-03-24 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Speaking as an unpolished person: "Wonderful, woman. She's wonderful just how she is. Doesn't need any bloody polish."

Just...company, he suspected. And camaraderie. Perhaps a fine young lad to hold her through the nightmares, but Sharpe hadn't identified anyone he approved of yet.
greenjacketed: (♖ nothing gained truth be told)

[personal profile] greenjacketed 2013-03-24 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Over my shredded corpse."
greenjacketed: (♖ unpolished buttons)

[personal profile] greenjacketed 2013-03-24 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"...I look forward to it, ma'am."

Heels clicked. His shoulders inclined again in yet another slight mockery of a real bow, and then Sharpe about-faced as if to march his way straight to the door. Let the bloody daft New Feather find her own way to the truth.