Hey guys, I'm Anna, CDJ at hansolo. I originally intro'ed here by accident. And I'm bringing you Luke Cage, bartender at a shitty watering hole and Victor of the 58th Hunger Games from District 2. (I know, it's weird, but bear with me.)
Luke came from a family of poor stonemasons, which is pretty much the bottom of the D2 totem pole. When he was a kid, his parents enlisted as peacekeepers for a shot at social mobility, and he hasn't seen them in almost 30 years (the duration of their enlistment). He was raised by his grandparents, who really couldn't afford to take care of three children, so he started working at the quarry and training as a peacekeeper. But when his grandfather died, he decided that the only way to really take care of his family was to win the Hunger Games.
In the games, he was known for being quiet, powerful, effective and ruthless in the pursuit of survival. But being that Luke was also a decent and caring human being, what he had to do in the games really messed him up. He swore off of using his strength to hurt people. Which has been hard, since that's really not what the capitol wants for him. After he won, he was subjected to a number of different steroids and medical procedures in an attempt to exaggerate the physique that he was known for in the games. For a while, the capital sort of rented him out as an armed guard (etc) for wealthy Capitol residents, and when he refused, his wife was killed in an "accident."
In recent years, he's kind of dropped off the public radar because he's not new and shiny anymore, and he doesn't really do anything interesting. He's quiet and boring and he runs a shitty bar in a lousy neighborhood that his name isn't attached to, and people leave him alone most of the year. He's usually keyed into questionable Capitol gossip because his bar puts him just on the fringe of all the wrong networks. But as far as he's concerned, he's not the revolutionary type.