History Fanfic / TheEndOfTheWorldFernWithy

* BolivianArmyEnding: One of the one-shots is a WhatIf story where Haymitch went into the Quell instead of Peeta. While initial somewhat more positive (more tributes apparently survive the opening bloodbath) the ending has Katniss wandering into the sector of the arena that the tidal wave strikes, right as the wave aims back and prepares to launch, with her ultimate fate being unrevealed.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: While Plutarch Heavensbee remains a heroic character into adulthood, he is introduced as a determined dreamer who doesn't display the same proneness to being InnocentlyInsensitive or justifying morally dubious actions with arguments about TheNeedsOfTheMany as he does as an adult.

* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Philo killed his surviving allies for mocking his District partner after she died saving his life.
* StealingTheCredit: During Wiress's Games, a boy back in District 3 talks about how she "helped" him with a patent in a way that makes Haymitch realize it was her invention and he stole it. He tells Beetee and they send a model of that invention as a sponsor gift to Wiress as a PublicSecretMessage to tell her not to trust one of her allies.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Katniss was a CheerfulChild before becoming the broken cynic that she is in the main trilogy.

** There have been attempts to rename at least the towns and villages: Four apparently has continuous and periodic arguments about names, Nine has villages named after elders, Ten's main town is apparently [[FutureImperfect named 'Dalla' after what it used to be called before the Catastrophes]], and Twelve's town is nicknamed "Resurrection City" (by people not from there, who just refer to "the Seam" as per canon).

--> '' "I used to hate the Games because they could take me. But I'm nothing compared to him." He kisses the baby's head. "I don't just want to hope he doesn't get picked. I want to do everything that I can do to make sure no one's baby gets picked again."''

-->'''Ed:''' They hurt my baby brother. They left him in a pile of mud for days, then made Katniss gamble with his life. Then they tried to get her to murder him because they thought it would be great entertainment to watch two kids who love each other fight to the death. They're rabid and they need to be put down.

* HeroismMotiveSpeech: When Haymitch asks Ed Mellark about his newfound involvement in the Rebellion, he has an excellent BigBrotherInstinct-based speech about why he is taking these chances.

''The End of the World'' series (alternately referred to as ''The Narrow Path'' series) by the author [=FernWithy=] is a ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' series scattered across Website/FanFictionDotNet [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5615/FernWithy here]], Website/LiveJournal [[https://fernwithy.livejournal.com here (deleted and purged)]], and Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/61184 here]]. The series follows the author's version of the Hunger Games through a series of stories, most of which revolve around Haymitch. The stories in the series (all of them told in the first person besides a few one-shots) consist of (in approximate reading order):

# ''Challenges/Stops on the Way to the End of the World'': A series of mostly uncollected [=LiveJournal=] and Archive of Our Own vignettes, mostly prompted by requests from the reviewers. They cover a variety of topics ranging from the backgrounds of characters like Lyme and Coin, to alternate universe scenarios like Haymitch going into the 3rd Quarter Quell instead of Peeta or an alternate 3rd Quarter Quell twist denying the Rebellion its spark, or at least delaying it (where District partners are forced to kill each other at the start of the Games), to the perspectives of people like Enobaria throughout the Rebellion. Most of these stories may be lost though, as the author's [=LiveJournal=] account is inactive and has since been deleted and purged.

''The End of the World'' series (alternately referred to as ''The Narrow Path'' series) by the author [=FernWithy=] is a ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' series scattered across Website/FanFictionDotNet [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5615/FernWithy here]], Website/LiveJournal [[https://fernwithy.livejournal.com here]], and Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/61184 here]]. The series follows the author's version of the Hunger Games through a series of stories, most of which revolve around Haymitch. The stories in the series (all of them told in the first person besides a few one-shots) consist of (in approximate reading order):

# ''Challenges/Stops on the Way to the End of the World'': A series of mostly uncollected [=LiveJournal=] and Archive of Our Own vignettes, mostly prompted by requests from the reviewers. They cover a variety of topics ranging from the backgrounds of characters like Lyme and Coin, to alternate universe scenarios like Haymitch going into the 3rd Quarter Quell instead of Peeta or an alternate 3rd Quarter Quell twist denying the Rebellion its spark, or at least delaying it (where District partners are forced to kill each other at the start of the Games), to the perspectives of people like Enobaria throughout the Rebellion. Most of these stories may be lost though, as the author's [=LiveJournal=] account is inactive.

I didn't mean to. But Gia -- Carolyn -- talked me into trying my hand at writing the kind of brainless mystery that I've always read, and my heroine (an absurdly plucky girl from District Twelve who's moved to the Capitol to work for a forensic investigation team) needed a support system. I wrote her an older brother from home who was always there for her, no matter what nonsensical trouble she got herself into. I didn't make him a baker, or even a merchant, but Peeta spotted Danny on his first glance, and when he pointed it out, I saw him, too. At first, I tried to "fix" it, but I couldn't. Instead, I brought him into the main action, and now when I sit down to write, it's like having an old friend at my side.

-->''Ed:''' They hurt my baby brother. They left him in a pile of mud for days, then made Katniss gamble with his life. Then they tried to get her to murder him because they thought it would be great entertainment to watch two kids who love each other fight to the death. They're rabid and they need to be put down.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When Caesar first appears, an assistant of his is double checking the tribute names to make sure he doesn't get any of them wrong, stating he cares about those details.

--> '''Jack Anderson:''' Me and Haymitch just got through about a million Peacekeepers, using a tie and a piece of broken plastic.

* ReformedBully: Gale's mother Hazelle Hawthorne (née Purdy) used to be an AlphaBitch who made fun of Haymitch during their school days, but TookALevelInKindness in the years afterward.

''The End of the World'' series (alternately referred to as ''The Narrow Path'' series) by the author [=FernWithy=] is a ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' series scattered across Website/FanFictionDotNet [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5615/FernWithy here]] as well as Website/LiveJournal [[https://fernwithy.livejournal.com here]] and Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/61184 here]]. The series follows the author's version of the Hunger Games through a series of stories, most of which revolve around Haymitch. The stories in the series (all of them told in the first person besides a few one-shots) consist of (in approximate reading order):

# ''Challenges/Stops on the Way to the End of the World'': A series of mostly uncollected live journal and Archive of Our Own vignettes, mostly prompted by requests from the reviewers. They cover a variety of topics ranging from the backgrounds of characters like Lyme and Coin, to alternate universe scenarios like Haymitch going into the 3rd Quarter Quell instead of Peeta or an alternate 3rd Quarter Quell twist denying the Rebellion its spark, or at least delaying it (where District partners are forced to kill each other at the start of the Games), to the perspectives of people like Enobaria throughout the Rebellion. Most of these stories may be lost though, as the author's [=LiveJournal=] account is inactive.

* SpannerInTheWorks: In ''The Golden Mean'', Finnick sadly laments that many of the victor-tributes who died in the arena, the mentors who died when Peacekeepers came to arrest the rebels, and many people killed in Districts 4 and 12 when the Rebellion broke out might have survived if not for an oblivious Capitol worker spotting the hovercraft meant for the escape and kicking things off early in a desperate scramble,
-->'''Finnick:''' We had everything so well planned. We were so clever. Secret messages. Bread codes. And we got tripped up by a malfunctioning shield and a worker on a coffee break.

** Otho Magro is a Rebel (albeit one who never advertised the fact to Haymitch) who slashes his way through the Peacekeepers trying to arrest the Rebel Victors, goes into hiding within the Capitol, and according to one of the one-shot stories, almost made it to District 3 before the Peacekeepers caught up with him, entirely off-screen (with Haymitch not even noticing him during that fight and only learning Otho is at large as Plutarch describes the statuses of the Victors a bit later).

* MotiveRant: When Haymitch asks Ed Mallark about his newfound involvement in the Rebellion, he has an excellent BigBrotherInstinct-based speech about why he is taking these chances.
-->''Ed:''' They hurt my baby brother. They left him in a pile of mud for days, then made Katniss gamble with his life. Then they tried to get her to murder him because they thought it would be great entertainment to watch two kids who love each other fight to the death. They're rabid and they need to be put down.

* SpannerInTheWorks: In ''The Golden Mean'', Finnick sadly laments that many of the victor-tributes who died in the arena, the mentors who died when Peacekeepers came to arrest the rebels, and many people killed in Districts 4 and 12 when the Rebellion broke out might have survived if not for an oblivious Capitol worker spotting the hovercraft meant for the escape and kicking things off early in a desperate scramble,

* ScarsAreForever: District 2 Victor Philo Anderson takes several disfiguring stab wounds to the face during his final battle, and chooses to keep the scars, because [[UnluckilyLucky they make him too ugly to be sold as a]] SexSlave.

''The End of the World'' series (alternately referred to as ''The Narrow Path'' series) by the author [=FernWithy=] is a ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' series scattered across Website/FanFictionDotNet [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5615/FernWithy here]] as well as Website/LiveJournal [[https://fernwithy.livejournal.com here]] and Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/61184 here]]. The series follows the author's version of the Hunger Games through a series of stories, most of which revolve around Haymitch. The stories in the series (all of them told in the first person besides a few one-shots) consist of:

* RewatchBonus: Happens with lots of the major subplots. A notable example is the SanitySlippage and DrivenToSuicide behavior of Haymitch's Capitol girlfriend Mimi Meadowbrook (although the poor mental health treatment of her brother didn't help) after their last phone call when she calls and asks if he loves her. According to one of the ''Challenges'' one-shots (a FixFic where he says yes and goes to see her), she'd just found out she was pregnant (and with a child who, with a District parent, would be subject to the reapings) and is implied to have had an abortion in the main story.

** Three of the six District 5 victors (the ones besides Faraday Sykes, Charlie Flynn, and, to a lesser extent, Thalis Dorgan), are never shown interacting with a [=POV=] character. Their final victor, Tanager Lowe, wins during the TimeSkip between ''The Hanging Tree'' and ''These are the Names'', and is only shown or mentioned two or three times afterward. It isn't even clear whether any of them besides Tanager are still alive during the 3rd Quarter Quell[[note]] Tesla Corven is already very old during the 2nd Quarter Quell, and Gia says that one District 5 died before Haymitch's victory tour, but later on, no one from District 5 is mentioned when Haymitch goes over all of the victors who predeceased Albinus Drake[[/note]], where the only direct mention of the District 5 mentor or mentors is Haymitch mentions seeing the District 5 and 9 mentors playing cards together as he glances across the room.

--> ''Ed''': They hurt my baby brother. They left him in a pile of mud for days, then made Katniss gamble with his life. Then they tried to get her to murder him because they thought it would be great entertainment to watch two kids who love each other fight to the death. They're rabid and they need to be put down.

** In ''The Golden Mean'', after meeting the crowds of District 12 survivors, Haymitch comments that he doesn't see any of the families of his past tributes except for [[spoiler:the Everdeens and River Bloodwood's sister]], indicating that most to all of them died in the bombing of District 12. However, he could have easily missed several faces in a crowd of nine hundred people (some in injured or disheveled states), and it's mentioned that Haymitch avoids at least some of the families of kids he can't save (many of whom have kids who might look different all grown up), so his not spotting the relatives of any other tributes doesn't mean that none survived.

** Many of Peeta and Delly's friends are confirmed dead when Delly says that none of the other merchant kids her and Peeta's age survived the District 12 bombing and few of the merchant survivors of other ages really know Peeta. However, that does leave the fates of a few {{Bit Character}}s slightly ambiguous due to them either being several years younger than Delly and Peeta and not super close with Peeta (such as Suza Pike), not explicitly being stated to be merchant kids despite that class status being implied (like Jemina Kimberly), or both (like Dianner Teets).

* UncertainDoom: In ''The Golden Mean'', after meeting the crowds of District 12 survivors, Haymitch comments that he doesn't see any of the families of his past tributes except for [[spoiler:the Everdeens and River Bloodwood's sister]], indicating that most to all of them died in the bombing of District 12. However, he could have easily missed several faces in a crowd of nine hundred people (some in injured or disheveled states), and it's mentioned that Haymitch avoids at least some of the families of kids he can't save (many of whom have kids who might look different all grown up), so his not spotting the relatives of any other tributes doesn't mean that none survived.

--> '''Finnick''': We had everything so well planned. We were so clever. Secret messages. Bread codes. And we got tripped up by a malfunctioning shield and a worker on a coffee break.