Katniss Everdeen

Katniss Everdeen is the main protagonist of the Hunger Games series and serves as the audience's perspective into the world.

"'My real name is Katniss, but when I first told him, I had barely whispered it. So he thought I'd said Catnip. Then when this crazy lynx started following me around the woods looking for handouts, it became his official nickname for me. I finally had to kill the lynx because he scared off game. I almost regretted it because he wasn't bad company. But I got a fair price for his pelt.'"

Katniss is a sixteen year old girl living in District 12. The daughter of a late coal miner and an apothecary suffering from depression, Katniss begins the series as the primary provider for her mother and twelve year old sister Primrose. As such, Katniss spends her days illegally hunting and foraging with her friend/partner Gale Hawthorne in the forest outside the Seam and trading her findings to a multitude of residents of her district.