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Twenty Four Victors, Twenty Four Tributes by aimmyarrowshigh (M)
I'm moving halfway up the East Coast (of the U.S.) the week after next, so this is my attempt to get as many recs out as possible before I start forgetting about things in the shuffle.
Fandom: THE HUNGER GAMES
Pairing: Mostly gen with references to Katniss/Peeta, Finnick/Annie, Haymitch/Chaff
Length: ~5k words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aimmyarrowshigh
Author Website: Twitter | Tumblr | FFN
Why this must be read: This fic creates and explores bits of truths and backstories for the two dozen Victors chosen for the Quarter Quell in Catching Fire. Some are barely a sentence long, others are nearly one-shots of their own, but each item will give you pause. Many will make you reconsider how little you cared about the unnamed or more brutal Victor-Tributes, or those less sympathetic to the rebellion--not to mention what the Capitol is capable of. The author writes with a cool detachment, recounting facts without passing judgement, and the overall effect is excellent.
018. Antonia
After she decapitated that boy, her own identical twin could hardly recognize her.
019. Chattle & 020. Dromeda
They competed in back-to-back years, and Chattle has been in love with Dromeda since the moment they met sixty years ago. He mentored her thirteen years later and indebted himself into ruin sending her silver parachutes of medicinal salves, fresh food, clean water, burn ointment, and a feather-light bandsaw. When she slowly and meticulously tortured the Career boy who killed her District partner until even the Gamemakers turned the cameras away and all of the rest of the mentors were retching, Chattle was just glad that Dromeda would be the one to survive. When she was airlifted from the arena, Chattle was there waiting for her, embracing her tight and ignoring the boy's blood on her hands, on her face, covering her like she'd bathed in it. She was alive. He was alive. They lived side-by-side in the Victor's Village and became living ghost stories in District 10, the red lady and her bloody benefactor.
It occurs to them as they slay the District 9 tributes together, holding hands in the Cornucopia bloodbath of the 75th Hunger Games, that if they had competed in the same year when they were young, they could have been Katniss and Peeta instead.
Twenty Four Victors, Twenty Four Tributes
Fandom: THE HUNGER GAMES
Pairing: Mostly gen with references to Katniss/Peeta, Finnick/Annie, Haymitch/Chaff
Length: ~5k words
Author on LJ:
aimmyarrowshighAuthor Website: Twitter | Tumblr | FFN
Why this must be read: This fic creates and explores bits of truths and backstories for the two dozen Victors chosen for the Quarter Quell in Catching Fire. Some are barely a sentence long, others are nearly one-shots of their own, but each item will give you pause. Many will make you reconsider how little you cared about the unnamed or more brutal Victor-Tributes, or those less sympathetic to the rebellion--not to mention what the Capitol is capable of. The author writes with a cool detachment, recounting facts without passing judgement, and the overall effect is excellent.
018. Antonia
After she decapitated that boy, her own identical twin could hardly recognize her.
019. Chattle & 020. Dromeda
They competed in back-to-back years, and Chattle has been in love with Dromeda since the moment they met sixty years ago. He mentored her thirteen years later and indebted himself into ruin sending her silver parachutes of medicinal salves, fresh food, clean water, burn ointment, and a feather-light bandsaw. When she slowly and meticulously tortured the Career boy who killed her District partner until even the Gamemakers turned the cameras away and all of the rest of the mentors were retching, Chattle was just glad that Dromeda would be the one to survive. When she was airlifted from the arena, Chattle was there waiting for her, embracing her tight and ignoring the boy's blood on her hands, on her face, covering her like she'd bathed in it. She was alive. He was alive. They lived side-by-side in the Victor's Village and became living ghost stories in District 10, the red lady and her bloody benefactor.
It occurs to them as they slay the District 9 tributes together, holding hands in the Cornucopia bloodbath of the 75th Hunger Games, that if they had competed in the same year when they were young, they could have been Katniss and Peeta instead.
Twenty Four Victors, Twenty Four Tributes